Kingdom of God

numerous “many micro kingdoms, each ruled by a king in a fortified capital city,” which later inspired the idea of a Canaanite fortress city system (“The Meta-Narrative of the Old Testament”). These fortress cities were set up to where a fenced-in fortress was at the top of a hill, in which housed the ruling class who control those who lived outside the walls, which was…

History is filled with lost cultures. Victims of their own oral historical traditions, and without literature of their own these cultures suffer the mercy of neighbors and in many cases enemies. Obscured by half-truths and hateful rhetoric written by enemies, much of their heritage is lost in time. Historians and archeologists working with incomplete manuscripts, biased histories, and ancient graves are challenged to discover the true nature of these lost cultures. The subject of this effort is…

believers to carry out the work of Christ. Donald L. Griggs in his book, Teaching Today’s Teachers to Teach” purports that teaching must be given a high priority predominantly because it undergirds everything that the church endeavors to accomplish for God. This is not only accomplished in formal teaching opportunities but also in informal settings as well. He further states that teaching was Jesus’ first ministry and therefore it should be the church’s first ministry also. Griggs goes on to…

good thing. If god is the creator of all things, then who created him? Even though Satan was selfish and power hunger he was only challenging something that seemed like a dictatorship to him. Satan questioned why cant I be powerful or the ruler why are you the creator and where taking orders. God could be perceived as a dictator according to Satan “God can have his dictatorship and reign of tyranny up there”. Satan Challenging god to a battle got him knocked into hell. Questioning gods…

Is there one true religion? No one really knows considering all religions has its own path. And all of them have a different view of God, if they believe in one creator. Each one has its own interpretation of the saving a man’s soul from condemnation. Christianity and Judaism are the closest to each other. People who teach that every religion leads to the same fate have overlooked the fact that each religion claims to have its own truth. The bible of each of the religions differs from each other…

For He is the only one who has the great power because he is all knowing and all good. There is an existence of evil because of original sin, superiority of God, and absence of good. Free Will God lets us choose from good and evil in order for us to have free will. Free will is defined as the power of acting without constraint, because God lets us do this we are able to have our own definitions of good and evil. People have different views of good and evil because of what we have grown up to…

Biblical Poetic Readers: Learning How To Know God Can you live in the world, partake of the ways of the world, and yet please God? Psalm 1 is written by an anonymous psalmist, however, the reader can see the psalmist knows God, as well as understands that life without him is bleak. The Wisdom of the psalmist has shined through this Psalm to create this illustration of a wonderful wisdom psalm, perhaps through personal experience or sometime in his life, God revealed to him the importance of the…

of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition sets out an argument that almsgiving is a religious offering to God throughout the Jewish and Christian traditions and texts. He makes the statement that early Christians and Jews focused on almsgiving as revealing the character of God and created world. Anderson sets up almsgiving as a sacrament, where giving to the poor becomes a way to access the kingdom of heaven. This action has such power because through showing mercy to another, one meets Christ, a…

on it, to do "all things through Christ who strengthens" (Philippians. 4:13). Thus any failure to live a godly life is due to our weakness or folly and not to God's lack of supply. As has been suggested, this power is meted to us as our knowledge of God and Jesus increases. This is the third of the resources for godly living which Peter lists. 1:3 BY GLORY AND VIRTUE: These words suggest the means by which…

idea that good cannot exist without evil because suffering is essential to salvation. Throughout the work of literature, everyone suffers, including the innocent. This concept of innocent suffering leads many people to doubt the good of the world and God; however, people, such as Ivan Karamazov, fail to realize that one cannot experience good if they do not know evil. The idea that suffering leads to salvation is developed in the Brothers Karamazov because of Ivan’s conversation with the devil,…