Parable

should keep in mind. The second piece of data is characterization. There are many question surrounding character. Questions like, Who is the character?, what role do they play?, how are they connected to God?, and what decision do they make? Likewise parables are almost similar to narratives and simple to understand.…

word of God, Paul only hopes to guide the Corinth church in their journey through the the way he structures and styles his words and sentences poetically, whereas John aspires to rekindle the reader’s faith in Jesus Christ through storytelling with parables thrown in. Through many differences and similarities, 2 Corinthians and the Gospel of John manage to to achieve the same mutual goal, to share the word of Gods. One is not more important than the other, but they are equal by creating the…

which they come to the knowledge of the most sublime truths. Thus, spiritual communion with God is granted to them, which constitutes eternal life, fullness, supreme good, perfect salvation. John strives to relate the unpublished things: miracles, parables, actions, speeches, prayers. The purpose of the gospel is to demonstrate that Jesus is the Son of…

Who is Jesus the Christ? As my seven and five year old children would say, Jesus is God’s son. Oh, if only it were that simple of an answer. This is a question that every Christian, when they are being honest, struggles to answer their entire life. I have experienced moments of certainty when faced with this question, only to succumb to insecurity once more. For instance, my first experience of rejecting Jesus came to me after reading Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code in the early 2000’s. My sudden…

Michael Crichton stated, “If you don’t know history, then you are a leaf that doesn’t know it’s a part of a tree.” But then again, learning the correct history has never been easy, especially for black people all over the world. Over the years, history has been altered, switched, and reduced. The African-American’s written history has never been one hundred percent accurate, and based off previous occurrences, it never will be. However, one thing that will always be sound, is the African griot’s…

The House of Evil is a narration of true crime story involving persistent torture, hunger of love, and killing of an innocent fifteen year old girl named Sylvia Likens. It reveals destruction as a source of fun, using words like “sex party,” enforcing abominable acts, blaming Sylvia for a fake pregnancy of sins, acting deaf and blind to the excruciating pain of the sufferer and not realizing what the sufferer is going through. She is said to have a “career of human ashtray.” The psychology…

6. Some points for crucified Christ as the liberative homiletic: 6.1. Voice for the voiceless: The voice of the crucified Christ means defending the rights of the poor, having mercy on humble, unimportant people, protecting the weak, and liberating the oppressed. The kingdom in Christ’s name, filled with his Spirit, has to mean caring the rights of the poor, having compassion on the humble, and liberating the oppressed. The transformation of the image of the king into the image of the messiah is…

objects known as tjuringas. These sacred objects carry each story and these stories and the full meaning behind them is forwarded on to each aboriginal person at a time of initiation and these stories contain the laws of the land. They are similar to parables in the bible where each story has a moral behind it but as people grow up they become more knowledgeable as they pass through their rites of passage, hence why aboriginal ancestors are considered wise men because they understand a lot of…

Literary Analysis: Lord of the Flies “When a man is compelled to choose between two evils, no one will choose the greater when he could have the less.” This is not the case for Jack in William Golding’s parable Lord of the Flies. When encountering this choice Jack chooses that of the greater evil. As a group of once civilized British schoolboys crash on a tropical island with no presence of adult authority, they are forced to take order into their own hands. In their attempt of survival they…

An Analysis of Three Upside-Down features by Jesus Christ Jesus reveals the kingdom of God in a new direction that appears upside-down in the lessons of love, social interactions, and social ladder from chapters nine, ten, and eleven in The Upside-Down Kingdom, by Donald Kraybill. The idea of the upside-down kingdom derived from a student of Kraybill, who reacted enthusiastically to Jesus’ teachings as, “Everything here is so upside down!” (Kraybill, 2011, p. 9). This statement stimulated…