Metanarrative of Bible

In “Judging by the Cover,” Bonny Gainley discusses the importance of appearance and describes how it impacts other’s perceptions. Ms. Gainley discusses the importance of appearance in a professional work environment. Ms. Gainley also describes how people project themselves with their appearance with tattoos, piercing, and exotic hairstyles. Everyone is free to dress as they wish, but people are free to react to their decision. Gainley is correct in stating that appearance is important in the…

Emma Neahusan is a sophomore at Grace College. She is also an athlete on the woman’s soccer team and a growth group leader for Westminster Hall. At the end of the first semester of Neahusan freshman year, she realized she wanted to be involved in a leadership position on campus. With Neahusan being a freshman just last year, she understands how difficult it is for young girls to transition into college. Nauhusan applied for a lot of leadership positions offered on campus, but felt as though God…

Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding makes several references that link the story and characters to the Bible. The main character, Simon is Christ like, his life and actions can be paralleled to Christ’s life. Golding often uses symbols and rituals similar to those in the Bible. Golding himself appears to be Christian, his knowledge of the Bible and religion are clearly incorporated in this novel. Simon is known as selfless and loves all people, just as Christ was. (Kruger) In his essay the…

The Ten Commandments helped to create standards for Jewish morality, rituals, and accountability. These commandments, that are still followed today, are the laws that God handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai (Ten Commandments 1). The Ten Commandments that people know are actually only the first ten, out of 613 commandments, that were handed down to the Jewish people (Rich 1). The commandments are all of equal importance, because we have no way of knowing which ones the creator meant to be the…

major concern that formed the basis for conservatism was the increase in insecurity and sexual immorality (Alexander p.126). As a result of this, one of the sources of conservatism sprouted from religion. A group of Christians who believed that the Bible was the word of God which condemned crime and sexual…

“Merit and success are great to achieve. Success coupled with humility and integrity is even better. Now when you combine your humility and integrity with your success, then you are on the ball” (Moorer, 49). From Failure to Promise: “360 Degrees” is a miraculous testimonial of its author, Dr. Cleamon Moorer, combining his life journey and pursuit of success to become an experienced, blessed professor. Although trials and tribulations occurred, he was able to experience restoration with God,…

poem known to man. Written in 2100 B.C.E and carved into 12 tablets, ‘Gilgamesh’, is one of most beautiful epics of all time. What is astounding is that there are several stories that the Bible and Gilgamesh share. Particularly, even considering the differences between the two cultures, Gilgamesh and the Bible share three stories in common. Both stories include a narrative of a flood wiping out all creation, a story about a plant that grants those everlasting…

By reading the bible and how Jesus went around and helped others in need or didn’t put himself first in different situations this really influences other Christians to do the same. Communities who may be struggling to keep up will be often reaching out by Christian originations…

Gorman Beauchamp makes commentary in his article Three Notes on Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God about three different facets of the novel. The first is about a widely criticized judgement by Richard Wright. Wright claimed that the novel had no theme, no message, and no thought. Beauchamp does not agree with that, but he does agree with one of Wright’s other points: Hurston’s characters were not serious enough. Beauchamp writes, “Hurston’s characters ought to be doing less laughing and…

Romans 8:18-27 is a critical passage in Paul’s argument in three ways. First, this passage serves as the the climax of the discussion in chapter 8. Paul parallels some of the earlier language in the chapter that elaboration of theme of liberation, not from this world, but from sin in anticipation of Christ return. James D. G. Dunn writes, “it picks up the earlier language of liberation from slavery (vv 2, 21), of resurrection (vv 11, 23), of sonship and adoption (vv 14-17, 19, 21, 23), and of…