Pontius Pilate

begotten, not made, of one essence with the Father, by whom all things were made, who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, and suf¬fered and was buried; and the third day He rose again from the dead, according to the Scriptures; and as¬cended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again with glory to judge the living and…

How does Harriet Beecher Stowe use the characters in her book to individually affect all of her readers across the demographically diverse United States to ultimately expose the fundamental wrongs of slavery? Freedom. Every human being on Earth has a deep and fundamental necessity and craving to freedom. It’s our natural right. The pursuit of freedom has spanned countless generations and goes back to the very beginnings of mankind. Humans have always fought for their freedom. Examples of this…

Audience To determine the audience of the Gospel of John, it is easier to determine what the purpose of John was first. The author of John is blunt about what the purpose of writing his gospel was, and John 20:31 most clearly states that “But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.” This verse can further be supported by John 8:24 and John 3:16, all of which collectively describe the…

together, to entice others to join the SS. The group dynamic also alleviated the personal responsibility that the officers felt. Eichmann, reflecting on a 1942 conference to coordinate the Final Solution, explained “‘at that moment I sensed a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling, for I felt free of all guilt… [who was I] to have my own thoughts in this matter’” (Arendt, 40). Not many of the soldiers were fanatical anti-Semitists, rather they were normal, average citizens who…

Kyle Kufrin Mr. Nicola Honors CP10 September 27, 2015 Relating My Piece of Literature to Foster Written about the daily lives of those inside a 1960s psychiatric ward, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest paints a picture in the reader’s head of the ongoing escape patients pursue from their reality inside their ward. Author Ken Kesey uses symbolism to portray psychiatric patient Randle McMurphy’s escape from misery. Religious imagery, coupled…

Then, in Chapter 26, we witness an scene in which we can make a comparison between Jaggers and Pip: ‘I embrace this opportunity of remarking that he washed his clients off, as if it were a surgeon or a dentist. He had a closet in his room, fitted up for the purpose, which smelt of the scented soap like a perfumer’s shop. It had an unusually large jack-towel on a roller insude the door, and he would wash his hands, and wipe them and dry them all over this towel, whenever he came in from a…

From a historical point of view, Mark, being the oldest of the Gospels, not merely closer in point of time to the events that it records but also concerns the meaning of these events with less interpretation (Telford, 1999). The Gospel of Mark records the main events of the life and teachings of Jesus, which kind furnished evidence to support the belief that Jesus was the true Messiah; by believing in Jesus, people could obtain salvation. While the mysterious Sermon in Parables responds to…

Martin Luther Martin Luther is a name you have undoubtedly heard before. He was a German Reformer who effectively started the Reformation (though he was not the first reformer). He is primarily well known for teaching the true Christian doctrine of justification by faith alone in opposition to the Catholic church, who said faith and works where the path of salvation. He was persecuted and essentially on the run his entire life after starting the Reformation, but he did not recant and instead…

We were assigned to read the book Case for Christ for this class and write a five page paper about it. I wasn’t very enthusiastic about reading as I don’t read books at all even books I might be interested in. This book however got me rethinking a few books. This book makes you think and grabs your attention with a few major points. The book also gets you to think more about Christ and makes you want to connect more with Him. This book was written by Lee Strobel. Strobel is an ex-investigative…

Turn on the television and there likely will be news reports of Islamic radicals attacking and killing groups of people for some reason or another. Countless reports of extremists who carry out their massacres in the name of God make it difficult for some to see and to understand how Christianity and Islam share many of the same values. God gives Moses the ten commandments in Exodus 20:3-17, making clear the values of Christianity. Likewise, the Quran includes a version of the ten…