Testament of Youth

Bible Study Overall Series The Great Galatian Debate Galatians 1- On Defense (Paul’s Reason for Writing) Galatians 2- Real Talk (Holy Conferencing) Galatians 3- Believe or Be (Faith vs. Good Works) Galatians 4- Freedom to Live (Slavery vs. Freedom) Galatians 5- Lifestyle (Fruits of the Spirit) Galatians 6- Sharing is Caring (Instructions to the Community) Behind the Scenes This Study of Paul’s letter to the Galatians uses the style of a presidential political debate to better understand…

Angelina Grimke and George D. Armstrong stood on opposite ends of the slavery debate, despite both using Scripture for their respective arguments. Grimke argued slavery as thoroughly incompatible with Scripture, while Armstrong believed it was an institution rooted and upheld in the biblical witness. Despite using the same book for contrasting opinions, Grimke and Armstrong approach the text from fundamentally different viewpoints. Grimke seeks to expand the text, seeing beyond the letter of the…

The idea encapsulated by Grudem in Business for the Glory of God is that a business person can reflect the image of God through all aspects of their occupation. Grudem emphasizes that business is essentially good, not just a neutral activity. Business and trade are mentioned throughout the Bible as perfectly acceptable, and at their heart are godly activities. Simultaneously, he acknowledges that people can have and will continue to corrupt business as everything in the world is corrupted, and…

The Lost Letters of Pergamum, a book by Bruce W, Longenecker is a fictional book that gives multiple views of the culture of the first century Church. This book is described as fictional, but it is written in a narrative form. The letters in this novel are not made up letters but they were found and translated into English after being hidden in the city of Pergamum. They also belonged to Antipas, a Roman businessman at the time. These letters were written by Luke, Antipas and other essential…

Compare and contrast Christ as Good Shepard, mosaic Mausoleum of Galla , Placidia, Ravenna, Italy, ca 425: Saint Apollinare amid Sheep, apse mosaic, Ravenna Italy, ca.533-549: Christ as Pantokrator, dome mosaic, Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece, ca. 1090-1100 After the death of Jesus, early christians had difficulty spreading there teachings to the Hebrews of Israel. Frustrated by the lack of growth the Apostle Paul decided to expand Christianity beyond the borders of Israel. Paul…

Angels Heavenly angels have always intrigued humanity; nonetheless, little is known about them. However, there is one thing about which we can be certain concerning angels; God has revealed to us exactly what He wants us to know about His heavenly messengers. God created humanity perfect and sinless (Gen. 1:31); nonetheless, in time man sinned and became separated from God. (Gen. 3:14-19) But even in that early morning of time there is an indication that God already had a plan of salvation in…

In 2015, a group of New Testament scholars, Ben C. Blackwell, John K. Goodrich, and Jason Maston compiled a published book that presents the historical context of Romans through the literature that was present at the time of the composition of the Roman epistle, namely, the Second Temple Judaism era. Plenty of Bible scholars, such as John Piper, study the Bible by only using canonical Bible. Dr. Blackwell, Dr. Goodrich, and Dr. Maston, on the other hand, provided non-canonical literature to…

some freedom in crafting the letter. However, the “said” author would have read and “initialed” the letter before it was sent off. 2. Explain three reasons why authorship might have been questioned about a letter in the New Testament. When reading books in the New Testament, there can at times be “red flags” or indications of possible discrepancies. For example, when “known” history does not line up with what an author says, as a reader, we may question his authorship. This is considered…

gospels? Why are there four different re-tellings of the same story? One might think they could be simplified, condensed, edited into one concise book, instead of overlapping. The three gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke are the first books of the New Testament, and make up the synoptic gospel. These books give three different accounts of the same story, showing that the story of Jesus’ birth, life, death and resurrection has many levels. Some scholars think that they are contradictory, but despite…

The Saving Power The word save means to keep safe or rescue from harm or danger. The first recording of a person being saved was thousands of years ago, and this ad is trying to increase that number. There are three main points to this ad that appeals to the reader. These points are the blue sky, the scripture in the middle of the ad, and the cross. The entire page of this ad is a light blue. The color blue is said to sooth the brain. Even better, light blue is said to calm the mind,…