Mere Christianity

mother…forced herself onto his father...begged for Gregor’s life.”(39) In this same example, the idea of Gregor as a useless version of Jesus Christ is supported. It is because of him that his mother has to intervene using her body, after fainting just mere moments before, and offer herself to his father -- a distraction, to stop his father from killing him! He also cannot do anything to help his mother - neither her impression on the family, nor her well-being because “Gregor’s sight went dim”…

Lota Agulue Mrs. Grone Theology 11 July 22, 2015 Mere Christianity Summary In the law of human nature fair play is expected of humans and differ from the laws of gravity or stop signs. Individuals arguing show that all people hold this “law” deep in their hearts. The law of nature is the difference between what is right and what is wrong. Which is mans variation between right and wrong. “This law was called the Law of Nature because people thought that everyone knew it and did not…

the way back to the early culture of Mesopotamia. Here it was found to be present on possessions of those that were at the time considered to be magical royalty. The pentagram can also be found in both Freemasonry and Christian culture. Up until Christianity evolved in the Medieval Ages, the pentagram was largely used to represent the five wounds of Christ. This is significant because even many modern day Pagans see the pentagram as corresponding to similar five points on the body – such as the…

Christ and God’s mission to redeem the world. He briefly overviewed Wright’s definition of a missional hermeneutic beginning his with negation of the misconceptions that: a missional hermeneutic is not based solely on the great commission, it is a mere proof of texting (i.e. ratifying preconceptions, picking pieces of the Bible that people want to follow and leaving other parts of it behind), it is simply a cultural perspective (arguing that there are many perspectives needing to be tethered…

Christianity Fundamentals and The War Against Evil My Christian beliefs after reading the book by C.S. Lewis are distinctly more complex than what I believed prior. It is not necessarily that they are different; they have just evolved. I need to understand and be able to explain why we believe what we do as Christians. As I learned Christian belief from my parents and others around me as a child, believing things on blind faith alone was acceptable, although there comes a point when one must…

The couple of classes on church history I took at King’s were informative and I found myself inspired from what I learned. One of these classes was called Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. The biggest thing that I learned in this class was that the Kingdom of God has never ceased from moving in the world through the gifts of the Holy Spirit and through miracles. In this class on charismatic church history we were able to trace the move of the Holy Spirit in the earth back to the book of…

My Christianity experience began from birth. I was baptized and confirmed as a Catholic. I practiced that faith until God called my husband, who had been in Protestant ministry, to a higher position in his church. I switched to be the “Helpmeet” I felt God wanted me to be. There are many similarities in practices and beliefs in both faiths so it was not a hard transition. The author of our text book begins the chapter on Christianity by saying “Christianity is basically a historical…

The work ‘sin’ has different meanings for different people. Most of the people believe that sin is a transgression of the law of God (The New Testament). There are people who do not feel strongly about the mere existence of such a divine power and, therefore, consider sin to be nothing more than an act that is not acceptable in a society regardless of the fact whether it goes against any religious views or not. Hence, I, to some extent, do not agree with Dante’s ranking of sins. This is mostly…

woman “woman where are they? Has no one condemned you? She replies no. Then Jesus finishes with this “neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more”. This is a very cute story, but what is the significates of it being put in John. Could it be just mere symbolism or could it be putting a bigger painting of Jesus. The symbolism of the adulteress woman could be of us. That we were once condemned by the law (the Pharisees), were Jesus is the only one that can save. I say that we are the adulterous…

suffered if they had committed a sin they had not repented for. In his sermon Edwards states “The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise of obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.” (line 38) The God he gives a depiction of is all powerful and judgemental unlike…