Isaiah 53

What happened way before Jesus was put to death and what happened just before he was put to death, tie very closely into why he was killed. Like every other person who ever lived and died on this Earth, Jesus had a past, a family, and a birth place. The story of Jesus’ birth, according to the Bible, is quite humbling and is a bit like this: There was a young girl who lived in Nazareth named Mary. It never says her actual age in the Bible, but girls could get betrothed, which was like getting…

Four Views of Jesus The New Testament integrates four gospels, each having been written during different time periods and by different minds. When different thought processes and personalities converge into one Bible, it is indisputable that there will be a degree of variation in the presentation of Jesus across the four gospels. The Gospel of Mark portrayed Jesus’ Messiahship through his suffering as a reparation for the sins of his followers. On the other hand, the Gospel of Matthew…

exact precision down to the letters on a page. Scribes could not copy from memory and had to match word for word and word and letter counts were in play. These texts were the oldest to 1947 and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The manuscript of Isaiah from the oldest 980 CE manuscript had a 95% accuracy rate compared…

Isaiah Hill Professor Zozula SOC 370 11/30/17 Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk’s book, “Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility” examines the lived experiences of women who have struggled with sexual abuse, poverty, homelessness and incarceration. Throughout the reading, they introduce women that have been raised in abusive, impoverished homes and attempt to understand the ways different social factors have influenced their lives. Sered and…

I sat at my breakfast room table finding found myself in a puddle of discouragement; something I had waited so very long for and placed my hope in wasn 't there. All my expectation had been dashed in to what seemed a million pieces and I was left feeling absolutely hopeless! With my mother by my side compassionately consoling me yet at the same time exhorting me, she encouraged me to "Move forward with JOYFUL EXPECTATION"! I wiped the tears that were beginning to form from my eyes and gave a…

Sin is an unnatural trait humans inherited from the Original Sin. Sin is the reason how our world functions where suffering, hatred, vain, sexual thoughts, and death has birth in the hearts of humanity. God despises sin, and sin cannot be measured. Each human shares a humanistic characteristic of sin with his friend or relative. As a result, bad things happen to us, no matter how good or bad we are. Moreover, sin reminds that we are fallen, but God guides us through our tedious journeys to find…

The study of religious missions and the methods and their purposes are being revealed in the Christianity of the early church. As I was studying this subject the words of Isaiah 53:7-8 began to resonate in my heart. In this we see Jesus’ sacrifice and the martyrdom of the disciples of Jesus Christ that reveals the missiology of Christianity in the early church. Opened not His mouth speaks of the Servant’s willingness to die for sinners; it also marks His dignity and authority as a lamb to the…

Introduction Matthew 17:15-16 states, “Lord, have mercy on my son. He has seizures and suffers terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him” (NLT). Epilepsy is a lifelong disorder that causes seizures. It affects approximately sixty-five million people across the world. Of that sixty-five million, three million people reside in the United States. Epilepsy is the fourth most prevalent neurologic disorder in the world…

Final Paper Many people would agree that there appears to be a contradiction between a loving God and the reality of evil. The attempt to answer these difficult contradictions is referred to as a theodicy. The great Christian thinker of our time, C. S. Lewis, wrote as an atheist after his beloved wife died, “meanwhile where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms… But to go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is in vain, and what do you find? A door slammed…

The Pure Simplicity of Deep Meaning This poem begins with a question addressing a lamb by a child asking about its creator in “The Lamb”. The poem starts off with the question “little lamb, who made thee?” William Blake does not hesitate to bring the title into place. The lamb represents purity and innocence; children are innocent as well which makes the lamb and the narrator have a connection. Later we learn that the lamb and the narrator have the same creator. This goes along the same context…