The Poisonwood Bible

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the similarities and differences between criminal and civil law versus Mosaic Law. According to Plait, P. (2010), “People seem to accept that our laws are based on the morals of the Old Testament laid out in the Commandments.” To begin we must get a clear understanding about what each of them actually mean prior to going into specific details. In the United States, there are two types of cases: criminal and civil. Criminal cases refer to illegal actions…

Stephen Greenblatt examines the renaissance art that gives depth to the protagonists in the origin story Adam and Eve. The major visual artists of the renaissance depict Adam and Eve as being complex beings with physical bodies and attributes of genuine humans. As they should, Adam and Eve, having been the bellwether of an entire species, figuratively. They partake in what they are not to, an irresistible part of the human experience, curiosity, in the face of great consequence none the less.…

Section A: 1. There are many things that separate Christians from the bible. With all of the translations and different versions of the bible, it is very easy to become distant from the bible. A few of the things that create this distance for modern day Christians is the language that the Israelites used and the culture that they had. Over the years, culture has changed so much, and if one were to look at how culture has changed over the last few thousand years, they could see the hundreds of…

Within the Bible, the purpose of life is never outright specified. Yet, as a Christian, the Holy Text does provide clues to how a person should live his or her life. It is stated that mankind must “rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth". (Genesis 1:26-28) Also, within The Ten Commandments, which is basically the Christian rulebook, one must never steal, murder, commit adultery, etc. Even though some rules and suggestions…

away from religion as a whole until his senior year of high school when he went to a Younglife camp and committed his life to Christ. My mother grew up in a very different household. Her family went to and evangelical church every Sunday and held bible studies at their house on Wednesday nights. My parents met each other after graduating from Arizona State and the family they created reflects that of my mothers more than my fathers. We are basically just the stereotypical white Christian family,…

“The Study of God.” Knowing God systematically spells out who God is and how we can know him in a biblical framework. The idea of doctrine is key, but not the core; the core is Christ, as intermediated to us predominantly through reflection on the Bible and attention to the Holy…

states the Bible is God’s self-revelation and its best interpreter with the guidance of the Holy Spirit…

liberated the Hebrew slaves from Egypt. Moses is the most highly regarded human in the Torah, as Jesus is in the New Testament (Deslippe 2011). By celebrating Passover, Christians recognize the miracles and revelations through other figures in the Bible. Likewise, Shavuot, the Jewish celebration of the giving of the Torah by Moses, can help Christians recognize the Old Covenant between God, Moses, and the Hebrews. The Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, and became the Law that Jews and…

religion it still the same transcendent that is beyond our ability to comprehend, the creator and the sustainer of the universe, and that speaks through prophet …as sacred texts called holly book which differ for each of three religions: Torah for Jew, Bible for Christian, and Quran for Muslims, the holly book is very significant for them, it sets their beliefs and instructs their practices and way of life. In addition all of the three religions believe in after life where each person will be…

reasons for studying the book of Revelation, this paper will focus on what I believe to be the three most significant and important of those reasons. The first reason that Revelation is worthy of our study and efforts is a simple one: it is part of the Bible! As part of God’s word, the book of Revelation is “given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16 [NKJV]), literally meaning that it is “God-breathed”. Since Revelation is among the words given to man by God Himself, what right do we have to…