Prosperity theology

The genealogies of Seth and Cain seem pretty boring a first glance. However, you can actually pull a lot out of Chapter 4,5 in Genesis. I would like to compare and contrast details that I have found very intriguing. First, I would like to talk about a few things that we distant to Cain’s line like how the line started with cain and not God or Adam. Also why it mentions a city in his genealogy and what that could mean. As well as why what Lamech said is so important. Then I would like to show you…

"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive…" Maya Angelou. Becoming a person who forgives takes time, but once the quality of forgiveness is achieved, life becomes refined and anew-in three ways. As long as a person forgives, their mind will feel stress free and clear. In addition, the Christian virtue is to forgive those who persecute you. Lastly, once one grants themselves amnesty, new friendships will blossom since happiness will suddenly begin to radiate through them…

An usual takeaway from reading On the Free Choice of the Will by Augustine is that human sins through his or her own free will, which is granted by God and good. Nevertheless, it is tempting to leave the problem of evil just at this point, without considering the actual significance of the free will. For instance, can this human free will act independently of any restrains? Why is it designed the way it is right now? Therefore, this essay sets out to address the question how God frames human…

provides multiple definitions of what liturgical theology is. His preferred definition presented at the beginning of his book is similar to the definition we encountered earlier on in this course. He says, “the goal of liturgical theology… is to overcome the fateful divorce between theology, liturgy and piety.” (12) Liturgical theology can only come as a revelation as one liturgically experiences the life of the Church. This would happen when liturgy, theology and piety would come together and…

Since the fall of mankind from the Garden of Eden people have questioned the existence of God, and today that is still relevant and a highly debated topic. There are two types of people in this world; people who believe in God’s existence and people who do not believe there is an almighty God. The people who do not believe in god justify their beliefs by asking if God does exist why is there evil still in the world? Many of these questions will never be answered until we are faced to face with…

Albert M. Wolters begins his book Creation Regained by exploring the same foundational concept that has been the building blocks of our entire four year education at Dordt (and for those brought up in a Reformed educational system prior to Dordt, most of their adolescence as well). Wolters defines worldview as, “the comprehensive framework of one’s basic beliefs about thing” (2). He then goes on for a few pages expounding on this definition, explaining what he means by “beliefs” and what he…

Over a forty-year period of teaching and writing, he covered subjects including Apologetics, ethics, theology, and history from an evangelical Christian worldview. Across his career, he taught at several prestigious schools, including Western Kentucky University, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Upon his death, Russell Moore, Dean of the School of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote a memorial in which he stated that Nash…

In the article “Why being A Perfectionist May Not Be So Perfect” by Celestine Chau, explains how you can not always be perfect. She starts the article by asking a rhetorical question “Are you a perfectionist?”. She explains in the article how individuals find themselves perfect in his or her way and how our brain keeps telling us that everything has to be perfect. We tend to tell us that being perfectionist is actually a good thing which I actually thought but as they say for every advantage…

Jessie Long Mr. Tilghman TH1121 October 8, 2017 Position VS Practice Case Study Exercise Friend let me start by saying don’t fear that God no longer accepts you. Refer back to Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace. Jesus died for our sins so that we would be granted forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ. No one is perfect and God knows that, it is not about living a perfect sinless life,…

“There is sufficient reason to believe that God is the cause of the universe” The cosmological argument is a multitude of arguments that have been developed to modern day ideas. These arguments are based on natural theology; this is when someone has knowledge of God based on experiences. It is a philosophical argument that aims to prove the existence of God. The cosmological argument rejects the idea of infant regress because if that is the cause there is no need for God. The origins of the…