The Bible and history

Art in the Bible Is art in the bible? Would God understand our art or want us to create art? Francis Schaeffer explains all of this in the short book, Art and the Bible. There are many opinions and views on art in a Christian life, or from biblical point of view that argue if art and the bible is considered acceptable. Schaeffer goes in depth on; Art in the bible, different perspectives on art and the bible, and how we are as individuals linked to both art and the bible. When you look at the…

go with knowing the Bible. The fact of externalism and foundationalism are contradictory to what the true meaning of Christianity is.With the belief of externalism and foundationalism, they seemed to distance how to actually figure out the ways to become a part of God’s life. If we limited ourselves to only search for the evidence of the Scriptures instead of just meditating and focusing on God, then what is the point of even trying to relate and get closer to God? The Bible is for us to…

the President, required schools to use the Bible and the Watts Hymnal in their classrooms (An Outline History). Although many people say God should not be allowed in school, there are reasons why people should be allowed to worship God during school hours. When the Mayflower Compact was made it said “Having undertaken for the glory of God and the advancement of…

animals, a process that took millions of years. During 1920’s, change began to overtake the United States as new viewpoints of religion began to surface. It became a common practice for religious leaders to doubt the Bible in the new light of modern science and wondered if the Bible should be taken as literally true. In 1925, The Scopes trial attracted worldwide attention when a young biology teacher went neck and neck with the law because he wanted to teach evolution in his classroom, a topic…

picture of what the cultures and societies looked like in the biblical world. This does not only provide critical information to understand the history and to validate the accuracy of the given historical evidences but also helps believers to read and interpret the Bible in the contexts of the ancient times. One of the chapters in “The Archaeology of the Bible” written by Dr. Hoffmeier was particularly interesting and helpful to understand the historical and biblical settings of Exodus and the…

by the history of perception, “the age of fame.” This process involves not merely transmitting the message but establishing the values of the original text over time. Here, Benjamin highly emphasizes the role of history in translation. According to Benjamin, “languages are not strangers to one another, but are, a priori and apart from all historical relationships, interrelated in what they want to express” (Arendt and Benjamin 72). For Rosenzweig, on the other hand, the importance of history in…

religion is what has been passed on by verbal history, ancient clay tablets, papyrus scrolls and the translations or interpretations of what became the many books of the Holy Bible. The oldest part of the Holy Bible, is the Old Testament, which is based on the interpretations and comparisons of biblical manuscripts and citations by the different Judaic and Christian religious sects. What has become apparent is how little most of us really know about the history that was written in the Old…

The Bible is the most significant book in the history of humanity. The bible is a sacred book that has been around for many centuries. It is a collection of books based on the teachings, behaviors, and beliefs of God. The Bible has shaped the world we live in, if it was not for the Bible the world would be different. The bible teaches you many valuable things about life for example, the bible teaches you about God, which can help a person build a relationship with him. “The first obligation is…

In the article by Brueggemann, he reviews the history of Old Testament theology from the Reformation to modern times. His main insight, in the article covers the Reformation and The Critical Enterprise, is that, though the reformers freed the Bible from being read only under the teaching of Roman Catholic tradition, their ideas quickly hardened into theological systems and dogmas under which the Bible was read. The same became true of the various critical methods. One cannot fully escape one’s…

love in our history. Religion has given us hope over the centuries always something to turn to when our lives get too hard for us to handle. People being who they are, and human nature being what it is, we will find a way to misuse it. What can be used to be a focus for strength and hope now we’ll turn it to hatred and fear. For instance, when those using it to mask their cruelty towards others with what they believed their god had given them the right to do, many men throughout history have…