Jesus Seminar

John Lennon of The Beatles once said, “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something found in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.” This quote can be picked apart and gone over time and time again, and every time we could say it means something completely different. I wholeheartedly agree with what John Lennon said in…

waiting till the priest has come and asked the god mother and father on behalf of the baby being baptised. The priest will ask the God mother and father “on behalf of the baby (name of the baby) do you reject Satan, do you believe Jesus is the son of God and do you follow Jesus teachings in life (commandments etc). Once that has been done the God Father and God mother will take the baby towards the priest. The God mother will undress the baby and the God father will hand the baby to the priest.…

Antonio’s family always believed it was his destiny to become a wise pastor. They wished that he would become a man of learning, and Antonio wanted to live up to their expectation and be pure, but not everything follows up to what he expected from God. In Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya uses parallelism, active voice, varieties of sentences, and rhythm of speech to illustrate the significant moment which is the foreshadowing of Antonio’s destiny. Anaya uses parallelism to show more meaning to…

people all over the world today. Paine talks about the bible how it is claimed to be written for the words of Jesus but it was also directed and written by another person, who could have shared false information of everything that was said, so in fact is was not solid evidence to say that Jesus had wrote the bible. It says that God sent Jesus to advertise a message to the world but Jesus only spoke one language and it was Hebrew. It is nearly impossible for someone to speak to the world in just…

no, not one;” Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” and follows with the consequenses of their uncorrected state through Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Continuing down the road it is shown…

Death is one of the hardest facts of life; it is inevitable one day we will all face it. To many this is just a part of the course of our lives. But to those who have religious beliefs, death not only takes us from this physical earth, but also brings us to face our creator, where we will receive our judgment based on our deeds. Everyman is a morality play written in the 15th century. The play was written by an unknown author who was believed to be a priest, based on the theological content and…

rebels and slaves” (Harrington, p. 41). The most tragic, and the most meaningful, crucifixion to Christians was the one of Jesus Christ. “Under the Roman governor or prefect Pontius Pilate, Jesus was executed by crucifixion as a rebel/insurgent and a religious troublemaker (Harrington, p. 4). This paper will explore the act of crucifixion as compared to the death of Jesus Christ and the results thereof. During crucifixion the victim’s hands, or wrists, and feet were bound and…

born on the same day as Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus Christ), gets confused for the Messiah when trying to hide from the Romans. The Romans try to hunt down Brian (and eventually succeed) because he is a member of The People’s Front of Judea, a group that aims to revolt against the Romans. Although the film is clearly fictional, it plays on many factual aspects of Christianity and, in particular, the life of Jesus. In developing a setting that resembles the time in which Jesus was born, the film…

Every Christian has to accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. How the acceptance comes about, is different for every believer. C. S. Lewis shares his viewpoints on how he embarked on his journey, from being a former atheist, to writing profoundly wisdom influencing books about Jesus Christ. We will discover the fundamentals of the Christian faith, division amongst God’s followers, worldview, alternatives for humanity, Christian beliefs, and God’s way of communicating Christ to us.…

Introduction - Human Will While reading Wilken, I was most touched by the chapter pertaining to human will. I found myself crying while reflecting about what the author stated in reference to Mary. “It is often said that the divine plan of salvation depended on Mary’s free assent to the word of the angel. The work of salvation is a work of God, but it could not be carried out without the cooperation of human beings.”(Loc 1447). I have never thought about it this way. How much do we hinder…