Legalism

12 Faith Faith to me is the ability to trust through experience the word of the creator the belief in something much greater and more powerful than we can ever imagine, the ability to trust. In the power of the spirit as we came to see the visible manifestation of our trust in the invisible without doubt. It is blood that gives life to our body, faith is said to be the only emotion that pleases the creator. The Holy Spirit helps us to increase our faith when we rust without doubt that what we…

The Qin rulers managed to conquer all neighboring regions and states, but their dynasty was the shortest in Chinese history (221-206 BC.) The empire collapsed after only fifteen years. In only nine years, the Qin succeeded to conquer all regions that comprised the former Zhou Empire through successive wars that lasted between 230 and 231 BC. The Qin dynasty also managed to capture all distant areas toward the southern and northern sides. The society was immensely centralized, and any slight…

The courts are an essential piece of the American political system created by the Framers of the Constitution, despite the fact that the Framers originally considered the judicial branch to be the “least dangerous branch” of government because it lacked the power “of the sword and of the purse” (Hamilton 1778). However, the Supreme Court has proved itself to be a powerful political actor with the capability to make a profound impact on policy when conditions are ripe for it to do so. Nearly all…

In Angels and Ages, Adam Gopnik recounts the narrative of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, who where born on the same day and have impacted our present day society. Adam Gopnik, is a prominent American writer who became well known through his writing on arts and culture. He's won numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. Gopnik analysis Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, although have many differences have on common thing, and that it is they have shaped…

practices seemed to contradict what they claimed about grace (57). Also, the Pharisees didn’t particularly like Jesus because they felt that he went too easy on “sinners”. Finally, Jesus didn’t accept what the Pharisees were doing because, “...their legalism, their hypocrisy, and their unwillingness to accept the Kingdom of God as represented in himself ” (Encountering the New Testament, Chapter 2, pg.…

Love is a concept everybody want to have in their life from all. And from the Greeks have Agape love that is mostly an unconditional love, someone is able to give and get. Everyone want to get love from god or feel loved. God and Jesus gave love to all, even if they did believe of not. And as human, one of propose here is to love all in the world and beyond that too. It was all about the love that god gave and how able to forgive all our sins and help us in our time of need. And for that reason…

The reign of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, in the third century BCE is known for its unprecedented unity of Chinese lands and for the establishment of the Chinese imperial system. While the 221 BCE unification of the Warring States into a single Chinese state may seem like the natural progression of events in hindsight, it and the subsequent unity in the Qin dynasty was not an inevitable outcome and required active effort to accomplish. Qin Shi Huangdi had to take many measures beyond…

Our reflection today is based on Romans Chapter 5 which is one of the chapters in the Bible that is full of theological significance since the concept of Justification is dealt with and as history will show it was this subject – Justification by Faith – more than any other which tore the church apart and ushered in the Reformation. However we are not dealing with Justification by Faith in this article. In Romans 5:6-11 on which we shall reflect, the Apostle Paul is detailing the benefits and…

• Sanctification gap is a gap of knowledge, teaching, and practices of spiritual transformation between the real spiritual life and ideal spiritual life. The five typical responses to the sanctification gap are pretense, despair, programmatic and personal solutions, moral formation, and ministry activism. Pretense is pretending that one’s spiritual life is going smoothly, even though one feels the emptiness due to sanctification gap. Despair is the feeling that results from the sanctification…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about Hester Prynne who has committed the great sin of adultery, and her bearing an improper child has cast her out of society. For people in the twenty-first century, it is hard to understand the punishment Hester was given. She had to live and work with the people in her town, interact with them on a daily basis, yet never forget her enormous sin. To emphasize this, she was obligated to wear the letter “A” on her chest at all times. This may seem…