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In 301 a.d. Armenia became the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as state religion. Since then Christianity became the spiritual core of the Armenian people and the soul of their culture. Due to the efforts of the church, Armenian culture was formed and acquired its distinguishing features. The invention of the alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots was primarily dictated by the missionary objectives and the desire to bring the word of God to the heart of each Armenian. In addition, it…

(Confessions); De civitate dei (On the City of God); De trinitate (On the Trinity); and De libero arbitro (On Free choice of Will). His writings on the Confessions was a personal narrative of his life; On the City of God was written as encouragement to Christians due to the sack of Rome in A.D. 410, by the Visigoths. His Hippo Writings On Trinity (De trinitate) was written for Christians to understand the mysteries of the Trinity, and On Free choice of will, another Hippo book, was written…

Hello, thank you for having the trust in me to tell me that, and for asking for advice, you know you can always count on me. First of all, a worldview is a theory of the world, used for living in the world. A worldview is a mental model of reality, a framework of ideas and a system of beliefs. People all around the world have many different worldviews and you can´t go around and obligate them to think like you do. However, knowing and learning about those different worldviews is not always a…

The Trinity is an icon created by a Russian painter Andrei Rublev in the 15th century. The Trinity icon is also known as The Hospitality of Abraham. It is Rublev's most famous work, and the most famous of all Russian icons, regard as one of the highest achievements of Russian art. The prototype for this icon was the mysterious appearance of the Holy Trinity in the form of three travelers to Abraham and Sarah under the oak of Mamre. The Church has many different depictions of the Holy…

During the Reformation, people were taught they could buy their way out of sins with things called indulgences. Indulgences were grants given by the pope to forgive sins. They could forgive sins you have comminted or sins of your living or dead realtives. People back then really believed it; they thought they could but their way into salvation. As Luther puts it, Christians should be exhorted to be diligent in following Christ, their Head, through penalties, death and hell./And thus be confident…

Two Sisters and Acoma Origins is a story by the Acoma Pueblo Indian. In the story, the first women on Earth are sisters, who were sent by the Tsichtinako from underground to above. However, before they can leave the underground, they must learn how to plant, harvest, and cook the corn. When the sisters learned all the giving lessons taught by Tsichtinako, she told them to go out. She gave each of them a basket, which has “pollen and sacred corn meal”. Tsichtinako also gave them some directions…

Since Jesus has two natures, and those natures are within the person of Christ. Then, what is person? Based on his book, Berkhof (1949), person is in what exists in and for itself, the owner, possessor, and master of the nature, a completion of existence, sustaining, and determining the existence of a nature. The person is also the subject who lives, wills, and acts though nature with all its abundant context, by which nature becomes self-existent and is not an accident of another entity. The…

Upon reading the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist, many commonalities can be seen in the wording of the documents and the spirit in which they were written. In all three documents the Framers of the Constitution’s belief in a Biblical worldview is apparent. A Biblical worldview holds that God is the answer to the questions of: what is the origin, nature, and destiny of the cosmos and what is the origin nature, role,…

Between John Locke and Samuel Rutherford’s philosophy, what do these disparate arguments have in common? Where are they different? Which view prevails in America today, and is that ideal? John Locke and Samuel Rutherford’s philosophy both influenced the birth of an empire who would one day be the greatest nation in the world. Both men were sincere believers in Christ and His holy scriptures. John Locke firmly rested on the knowledge of the Bible. In his Two Treatises of Government, Locke…

The Importance of History and Why it Matters The History of the Church by Eusebius and Do Classics Have a Future? by Mary Beard both discuss the importance of history and why it matters through different lenses. The common ground between the two pieces is that: history is not simply the study of the past, but the careful and purposeful preservation of culture and lifestyle, facts, and the other miscellaneous details of life. It is important, not only because it provides valuable lessons for…