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Introduction In Exodus 34, when YHWH reveals His name to Moses, He stresses that while He is “merciful and gracious,” He also, “Will by no means clear the guilty” (Ex. 34: 6-7, ESV). The mercy of God and the justice of God are both vital to God’s essence. If God loves righteousness and hates wickedness (Ps. 45:7), how, can God justify wicked humans? What does “justify” mean? What must happen for justification to occur? What do humans do to receive justification? What are the benefits of…

Gamache 1 Melissa Gamache Sonia Zylberberg Sex & Religion November 23rd The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago Catholicism is one of the most know religions around the world. It is meant to “learn to know, love, and serve God from Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who teaches us through the Catholic Church” (Online, Catholic. "Catholic Facts and General Knowledge”), yet people may have different beliefs and views on certain religions like catholicism. Accordingly, living in a…

My Nguyen THEO 202-C01 Theological Essay Statement of Topic Human was created by God at the beginning of time in his image (Genesis 1). Hence, it was natural for man to be good, and morally right. Nevertheless, because Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, humans are corrupted by sins. Hence, they were banished from heaven and had to live in a fallen world, as their offspring have continue to do so. Even though man was born inherently good because they are model after the virtuous God, they are…

The purpose of this essay is for the Writer to analyze and establish the guiding principles and relevant data that support a clear and compelling definition of death from the perspective of one educated in pastoral thanatology. With this said, the writer will analyze and establish supporting data from the perspective of thanatology to include: 1) Analyzing 1 Corinthians 15:26 and Romans 5: 15 regarding the origins of death; 2) Anderson’s view of death as a part of Creation; and 4) Erickson’s…

Throughout one's lifetime one has found discerning facilities and similarities between two stories that have been read, to take count of this statement some examples are the epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer, and the biblical narrative, In the Beginning by Mosses because these two significant historical praised illustrations mainly concentrated on the theme of temptation being dreadful for one with the main characters of the story. Furthermore, a temptation is directed in these two stories by the…

Topic Five-Gospel Essentials Essay For thousands of years humans have pondered life's big questions. How did we get here? What is our purpose? Who or what created our universe? Is there an afterlife? Can we ever escape the pain and suffering of the world or are we doomed to live unfulfilled lives? Many great thinkers across different disciplines have tried to answer these questions. Famous minds like Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine, Kant, Voltaire and even America's founding…

The important role that healthy interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships play is depicted in the model of the Trinity. According to Darrell Johnson’s Experiencing the Trinity, “we are created and redeemed to enter into the love each person of the Trinity has for the other” (64). This statement encompasses both intrapersonal and interpersonal interactions. The Trinity is one; thus the love that each person in the Trinity has towards another person in the Trinity is the love that the Trinity…

A sacred tree is all it takes to introduce sin to the pure. “the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.’” Why would god and the other believers allow these people to commit these forbidden sins? However, who could resist the temptation of knowledge and the desire for something you can’t have. Women play an immense role in both stories, for…

From the beginning of time, as seen in Christianity, sin has plagued the earth. From eve taking of the forbidden fruit and being cast from paradise to someone robbing an elderly woman down the street, sin is always present. The consequences of sin should have taught us to avoid it at all costs, yet we still fall victim to it. Sin is never the solution yet it is almost always the inevitable answer. Every person sins, and in turn they are judged and besieged with consequences. Never was this more…

In Genesis 3: 1-24, it is implied that the first sin was caused by temptation. The devil, or Satan, made himself appear as a serpent in the Garden of Eden; he informed Eve that the only reason why God did not want both her and Adam to eat from the tree with the forbidden fruit was because the fruit contained knowledge that only God had at the time. This portion of the bible expresses sin as any act that defies God’s command; God has certain expectations and rules for us that he provides us with…