Jesus and history

at the constituting General Conference in Dallas, Texas. The new denomination was born with the words, “Lord of the Church, we are united in Thee, in Thy Church and now in the United Methodist Church.” The United Methodist Church shares a common history with other Methodist and Wesleyan bodies. The lives of John Wesley and his brother, Charles, mark the origin of their common roots. The two men, both Church of England missionaries at the time visited America in March 1736 on a missionary trip.…

Testament of the Bible which was recorded by prophets, Kings, Judges, and others of importance in Jewish history, along with the Talmud as their religious authority. Whereas, Christians use the whole Bible as the basis of their authority. The New Testament was recorded by followers of Jesus. Christians believe the Bible while written by man is the directly inspired Word of…

During the first century, the monotheistic religion of Christianity began. The teachings, based on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, spread throughout the empire, touching the outskirts of Palestine. Jesus preached in Israel during the time of Augustus, urging a purification of the Jewish religion that would free Israel and establish the kingdom of God on earth. He urged a moral code based on love, charity, and humility, and he asked the faithful to follow his lessons, abandoning worldly concern…

relational discipline used to express to God all the areas of one’s heart. This essay has been written to reflect on what I have come to understand about prayer as a spiritual discipline. I will briefly explore Teresa Avila, a significant Christian in history who has expressed the importance of prayer and take a look into how both Catholic and Pentecostal denominations pray. Summarise your original understanding of the discipline before the course started Previous to starting the Certificate IV…

Theologians divided the history up into two periods. Starting off we learn about the covenant of works and how it began when God created Adam. Through Adam the human population grew and through all of this God…

If you ask me my heart hasn't been broken so hard in my life as, when I found out that everything I knew was a lie. It destroyed me. I'm only 16 years old, but I'm very intelligent with the new knowledge I have of thyself. It's pretty cool to learn about all these new things and know where I really come from. The Bible and the Christian religion is a lie because it's similar to the stories in Egypt stealing the African Culture, The Bible is only an allegory, not meant to take literally by…

Prosperous Dinner Party Tonight was the night, I finally had caught three of my good friends on some off time and was treating them to a nice formal dinner at my house. First, I finally got a hold of Jesus Christ, a central figure of Christianity and the believed Son of God. After inviting Jesus, I of course had to extend an invitation to Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and the last prophet of God as known by the Muslims. Finally, Moses, largely considered the largest of the Jewish prophets,…

the other hand, they are called on to follow what Richard hays calls the “hermeneutics of mercy”. The problem could have easily been solved, if we were to know on which occasions should we show mercy and on which occasions should we punish people. Jesus makes it clear that in the case of an unrepentant sinner is a serious one, most likely result in a punishment because righteousness must be taken seriously. But he opts for the expulsion of the sinner and instructs the community to treat such…

on a cross so that we might one day live with God for eternity. Jesus spent His life on earth revealing Himself as the Savior of the world to both the Jews and the Gentiles. Jesus performed many miracles; healing the sick and diseased, raising the dead to life, casting out of demons, and controlling nature. By coming from the line of David, Jesus showed that He had control to be the king God had chosen to lead Israel. Through Jesus’ sacrifice, we are able to be reconnected with God in heaven…

Republic of Gilead could rise and women could be oppressed. Her story foretells what could be and yet at the end still gives hope for a reformed world. Yet, like Christ, her story can be hard to understand because, “[v]oices may reach us from [history]; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.” (The Handmaid’s Tale,…