New Testament view on Jesus' life

The film opens with a war sequence, in which a young Russian sailor is forced by a Nazi officer to shoot the skipper of his barge in exchange for his own life. Then the action moves to 1974, to the remote Orthodox monastery in the same area where the war episode happened. The former young sailor, now Father Anatolii, lives here as a monk. Apparently known as a holy man, he is visited by many people seeking spiritual and medical help. Father Anatolii deals with many different individuals…

“Kingdom of God”, “the day of the LORD”, “the end of the world”, “the last judgment” and “a new heaven and a new earth.” These words are the image of eschatology, and eschatology is an important subject in the Bible. Even Donald K. McKim says that the theme of the Bible is the kingdom of God (McKim, 167). In the Gospel, Jesus taught about the kingdom of God in his whole life and ministry, and the kingdom of God is represented as “already, but not yet” (McKim, 170). John Calvin, a 16th century…

will be the focus of our discussion, and they include: Native American, African, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Chinese, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These religions date back to as early as 2500BCE and over time new religions have been created. Zoroastrianism being the older of the religions studied date back to 1500BCE, Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity,…

Both Baxter and Witmer, in their books “The Reformed Pastor”,” The Shepherd Leader”, argue about how to be a good leader in a biblical way for Maturate Pastoral Ministry. While Baxter describes from his own point of view, Witmer harmonizes with Baxter including other points. Firstly, in this essay, we will be comparing and contrast, Timothy Witmer’s framework for leadership with his “old shepherd friend” Richard Baxter in The Reformed Pastor (1657) Secondly, we are going to Evaluate Witmer’s…

Metanarrative Summary Act 1 God and Creation: God created us in his image to spread the love and message of Jesus Christ, this topic relates to christian worldview because we have grown up knowing that we were created by God loved by God and chosen by God to be his hands and feet in a dying world. God created Adam in eve in the Garden of Eden as Act 2 sin enters the world: Sin enters the world when Adam and Eve disobey God by listening to Satan in the form of a snake and eat from the tree of…

because Christianity is a religion that we in America have a good understand of. On the contrary when we think of Islam many think of radical Islamic groups such as Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram because these are the only Islamic groups we hear of on the news here in America. However most Muslims do not follow the sharia law that these radical Islamic groups follow. Most Muslims do not follow the sharia law, they teach peace and understanding. The Quran says “(41:33-34) And good and evil deeds are…

The United States is a superpower that controls the world politics and religion. Their stand on pertinent issues is adopted by other nations either by will or imposed based on the strategic reasons only known to the government. This year, the whole world has been following the U.S. general election that saw Mr. Donald Trump being elected as the 43rd president of the United States. As it has always been the case since biblical times, the church and the state, collaborate on the governance matters…

situation that the women, and people in general, in this dystopian United States are put in was started by a group of people getting rid of the current government, clearly unhappy with the way things were being run. Offred remembers life before the inciting incident and life immediately after, as the events were not very far in the past. She recalls that “It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They…

The basis for Old Testament asceticism was to be set apart from the Gentile nations around Israel. Holiness would be found in the bodily actions of the people of God. In addition, the Church adopted many of the ascetical practices of Judaism. With the persecution of the Church ending, monastic life sprung up. Many sought to grow in their spirituality through bodily discipline. On the other hand, spiritual disciplines can occur without separating oneself from society or even depriving…

Evidently, religion is a core proponent of life, and a substantial percentage of the world 's population subscribes to a certain form of religious doctrine. For this reason, any doctrinal perspective held by a particular religion has a ripple effect on congregations for many subsequent years. The…