Resurrection of Jesus

The Jesus movement was spreading like wildfire throughout the Roman Empire in early years of the Common Era. Before the Jesus movement, women were being suppressed and had to submit to man 's authority. Women had no right to hold a higher position in life or in the church. Women had very little choices of what they really wanted to become in their later years. They were either to be a housewife or labeled as being whores. The Jesus movement was an important time for women to spring up and do…

(whether it is solely through faith or not). According to the historical Church’s doctrine, salvation is made even a possibility solely through the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is atonement for our sins granted…

explores the history of eschatology throughout the history of the Church. It is imperative that Christians not ignore the prior generations exegetical study. Early Church Fathers Irenaeus In studying the eschatology of Irenaeus (AD 125-202) he saw Jesus Christ as the key to all prophecy.…

ruler of Narnia, Aslan, who represents Jesus, and the conflict against…

the poor, build housing in third world countries, give comfort to the grieving, and such, but is this the primary mission of the church? “Without a clear understanding of mission, organizations, and churches alike suffer.” (p. 199) The Gospel of Jesus Christ Jim Lynn uses 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 as his passage…

Yes, I also agree Paul's tone is strong and angry. His upsetting with the Galatian believers reflects that he really cares about their faith and also the most important thing is that he cares about the pure faith in Christ not any other things. If he did not care about these people, he would not bother to write them the letter. And as our text book and prof. Jennings said, the whole point of Paul's argument is based on his sole focus on Christ alone, not something else. As prof. Jennings…

“mercy;” Pietá is a theme in Christian art that depicts Madonna holding Jesus in her lap and looking at him with lamentation after he has been crucified. This theme of art work became popular with paintings and sculptures in Northern Europe in the fourteenth century and lasted through the nineteenth century (Anthony, Maas). This format was the norm in France and Germany until the sixteenth century, when artists started to place Jesus at Mary’s feet with his head laying against her knees (Lewis,…

illustrates Jesus as an universal savior that came from the heaven as flesh. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus is the promised Messiah from the Old Testament, the human son of God, and the universal savior, respectively. To start, Matthew, one of the twelve disciples, wrote the Gospel of Matthew for Jewish Christian. Matthew wrote this book in order to proclaim that Jesus is truly the promised Messiah that is stated in the Old Testament. Matthew proves that Jesus is the Messiah because Jesus’…

“Justification”, as we have been saved, meaning that, Justification has been announced acceptable and righteous in the eyes of God, which is pretty much clear in Romans (5:1-2), “Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through Lord Jesus Christ” i.e. through his blood on the cross, the people were saved and therefore faith is the acknowledgment to it. God cannot just leave the…

The New Testament of the Bible touches on the idea of “resurrection” meaning that something that has once been lost, forgotten, replaced can be used or found again. Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus as he died for his children’s sins and then remarkably returned on the third day. What cannot be forgotten in the celebration of resurrection is the sacrifice Jesus made, the sacrifice that was needed to take place before any sort of rebirth could ever happen. A Tale Of Two Cities is…