Salvation

Langston Hughes “Salvation” Langston Hughes narrative, “Salvation” is a story about Hughes when he was twelve and experiencing deceit and disappointment for the first time during a church service. The main point of Hughes narrative is having beliefs in Jesus, and how something so spiritual can be forced so hard and deeply into children who can’t and don’t fully understand the whole concept of having a belief and faith in something. Hughes became saddened and abandoned after enduring the…

The Puritans were a group of very religious people. The term Puritan were applied to two groups of people who believed they should separate themselves from the corrupt Church of England. They also believed that God has selected a certain few for salvation, but unlike other christians they thought faith was just not enough. Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet about some of the puritans ways and beliefs. Bradstreet wrote a poem named “Upon The Burning of Our House.” Edwards wrote a sermon…

The term salvation is the deliverance from sin and its consequences. It is believed by Christians that salvation is to be brought about by the faith in Christ. Salvation is known for its meaning of being saved from harm, ruin, or loss but mostly form preventing to go to hell after death (Collins, 1989, pg 76). However, theologians have disputed on how salvation in theology of religions is more about how and who than about what and why: How is salvation brought about and who can be saved?…

fulfilling a morally virtuous, Christian-belief enduring lifespan. Circle I, Limbo, is a valley filled with souls who allegedly never did anything morally wrong, but were not baptized and therefore not allowed into heaven. Dante’s beliefs in Inferno upon salvation, the afterlife and sinful nature contradict the Biblical perspective, while agreeing with the Bible on contrapasso and just judgment. First, it is critical to be aware of what the Bible adheres about mankind. The Bible delineates,…

“Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” was a sermon delivered by Jonathan Edwards on July 8 1741. It is wreath noting that this sermon has become the most remembered to have ever been preached in America. Today it appears in almost every anthology of American literature and stands alone as the only sermon included. It is an amazing text to the any ear, even those who obverse graphic imagery and language on regular bases, to a point where it becomes as a second nature, are disturbed with terror…

perfect union with the coming King. III. Both Jew and Gentile have the same way to salvation - (Romans 10:9-15) A. Paul is telling the simple truth of believe and be saved (born again). In saying this, Paul is placing both Jew and Gentile on the same standard of righteousness. As Paul had already set the premises that everyone is under the same wrath and…

this book for the Romans because their society was in a lot of corruption. The Romans began to take on false gods and worshipped them engaging in unnatural sexual immoralities. These passages that Paul wrote covers the basics of what salvation is, who can receive salvation, and what God expects from those who are saved. Although Paul wrote Romans as a message to the Romans it is a message for everyone. Sins that were committed during his time are still committed today, so Romans is a reminder.…

The Romans theme was the revelation of God’s righteousness in His plan for salvation. It showed how humans began to lack God’s righteousness because of their sin (Romans, 1:3), receive God’s righteousness when God justifies them by their faith (Romans, 4:5), demonstrate God’s righteousness by being transformed from rebels to followers (Romans, 6:8), confirm His righteousness when God saves the Jews (Romans, 9:11), and apply His righteousness in practical ways throughout their lives (Romans,…

God on our own merits we are deceived. The other assumption is that if we cannot see the good in suffering then there must not be any. This leads to the next section of Salvifici Doloris, how Jesus brings good out of suffering. The message of salvation is clear; Jesus suffered and dies to save us from Sin. Jesus suffering saved us from Hell an enabled those who repent to gain eternal life. This is an obvious case of God being able to bring the greatest good out of the greatest suffering.…

The recent disasters in Rome in 410, is reflected in Saint Augustine works from the City of God. These works will be discussed and analysis in order to gain a clearer picture of Augustine’s response to the Pagans, who suggest that the Christian faith had caused the recent disasters in Rome. However, Augustine does not go into too much detail of the recent disaster itself, but he does use Rome’s disaster as an example of the sins committed by the Romans Empire from the past, in order to make his…