Trinity

Chapter 16 of the Matthean gospel provides the first instance the word church is used in Scripture. There, Peter gave the revelation of Jesus in verse 16, in response to the question found in verse 15. That revelation prompted Jesus’ declaration in verse 18, “… I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The word “church” in the Greek is “ekklesia”, which conventionally can be interpreted, “called out ones.” For over 2000 years, Christ’s Church has been existed;…

ghost like to the wind like appearance yet unseen by the human eye. The Holy Spirit has the ability to be able to deliver faith to us. These are my mental images of God, not necessarily, how I interpret God. My preferred image of God therefore is the Trinity with God the Father as a cloud like presence, Jesus in human form and the Holy Spirit as the unseen entity that delivers God’s messages to…

The last theme found in this story has to do with the third day. Jesus preformed the water into wine miracle on the third day at the wedding, “On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee…” (John 2: 1-12). Now the third day is mentioned a lot in the bible and many very significant events occurred on the third day as well. One of the biggest events that occurred on the third mention in the bible was Jesus’s resurrection from the dead. This is obviously one of the most important events…

Methodist church camp. Both of my parents were raised Baptist so obviously raised my younger sister and I Baptist. When I was about the age of ten my parents heard about a new pastor in the town that was supposed to be amazing. One morning we went to the Trinity United Methodist church to listen to his service and never went back to the Baptist church. When I got to college I found it hard to the time to go to church every Sunday. When I come home on the holidays my family and I try to go at…

This paper motioned about three reasons that the strategic mistakes happened: first, misunderstanding about the operational environment. Second, trinity was unbalance in the United States. Third, media become powerful elements for success to the war. If the U.S understood about the operational environment in Vietnam, the government of the U.S. would not have decided to conduct the war easily. This decision to conduct the war against North Vietnam was one kind of the tragedy during the Cold War…

Introduction And He Dwelt Among Us: Teachings from the Gospel of John, by Pastor A.W. Tozer, was compiled from a series of sermons on the Gospel of John he had given over a year. These sermons were compiled and edited by James L. Snyder. Snyder notes, that “Tozer believed that John represented the best of the ‘mystical’ thinkers and along with the doctrinal emphasis of the apostle Paul these two provided the kind of spiritual experience that was healthy for maturing Christians.” Tozer, who…

In the Western world, due to the power of the church and the holy trinity, three has always meant something beyond the realm of numbers. Shakespeare uses the familiarity of this number, and all the good usually associated with it, to turn it upside down and inside out. How is it that one number can exist with so many different interpretations and understandings? How is it that three simultaneously associates itself with luck and good fortune but also with loss? Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606)…

This councils main directory was to condemn the heretical teaching of Arius; to conclude the controversy regarding the Trinity and to bring unity to the Church. The main confrontation was based around the words "homoiousias" and "homoousias." (Bingham, D. Jeffrey. Pocket History of the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002. Print). Arius, who supported the theological…

is a sharing in the life of the Three Persons that baptism communicates, when it is given ‘the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’” (Danielou, 194). When a person is reborn they are given a power to communicate through the Trinity. This can also be very mystical to Christians because there are not three people standing in front of you talking to you. Also, the symbols of saying ‘in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’ can mean different things to…

Christians believe in the Holy Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They believe that Jesus is the son of God who came to spread the word of the Lord and die for our sins. To them, Hell is “a place of everlasting punishment for the unrighteous” (Matthew 25:46), and salvation…