Eduardo de Jesus, a 10-year-old Brazilian boy, was fatally shot seven months ago by a police officer outside his home. As family, friends, and others protested in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, authorities vowed to seek justice to Eduardo’s parents [1].…
The title of Nash’s book is fitting for the content in which it contains. One will not find the traditional arguments that come with Soteriology. Initially, the author thought that he would be reading a book that covers a topic that had been written numerous times and so pleasantly surprised with its content. Nash begins his book with an introduction to three main philosophical views when it comes to the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Nash does a great job in succinctly defining each of the three main philosophical views. Those views are pluralism, inclusivism, and exclusivism.…
[ 19 ]. Elwell A. Walter, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001), 940.…
Our experiences shape our understanding of our strengths and weaknesses. Conflict has the potential to lead an individual to self-discovery of an intellectual, emotional or spiritual level. It has the ability to provoke an understanding of an individuals strengths and weaknesses through its confronting and proactive nature which can lead us to new values, stimulate new ideas, and enable us to speculate about future possibilities. The consequences of conflict can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of our self and others. A comparative study of Louis Nowra’s Cosi and Kayne West’s Jesus Walks can offer an increased understanding of the ideas of conflict and their power to provoke an understanding of an individual’s strengths and…
quarrel. Their frequent Sunday morning arguments about religion are a result of Gabriel’s Saturday night drinking. María is a devout Catholic, but Gabriel’s vaquero mindset causes him to distrust priests because to him they stand for order and civilization. Antonio knows that Gabriel’s father once dragged a priest from church and beat him after the priest preached against something that Antonio’s grandfather had done. At last Antonio goes downstairs, and María scolds Antonio for not being properly formal when greeting Ultima. Ultima requests that María not scold Antonio, as the night was hard on all the men in town. María protests that Antonio is still a baby. She says that she thinks it is a sin for boys to become men. Gabriel hotly declares that it is not a sin, only the way of the world, and María argues that life corrupts the innocence and purity that God bequeaths to children. She says bitterly that if Antonio becomes a priest, he will be spard Ultima are the only grown-ups he knows who eat or drink before taking Communion on Sundays.…
The U.S- Mexican War has two very different stories depending on whom you ask. The war officially started when the president of the United States at the time (James K. Polk) sent troops to the region between Rio Grande and Nueces River, Texans believed that its border was the Rio Grande. Mexicans did not acknowledge the Rio Grande as the border; they believed it was the Nueces River. The troops thought they were on Texan soil. Mexicans thought that the Americans had invaded their soil. So Mexican troops attacked The American troops, which gives birth to the widely conceived rumor of the Mexicans killed Americans on American territory. Jesus thought it was important to point out that this was not entirely true because the land was rightfully the Mexicans and they truly believed they were just defending their land. It was important to him to tell how the Mexicans were not just attacking American soldiers in cold blood.…
As the dream progresses, Antonio’s dad starts to describe the holy water as the “salt water of the sea” (120). In contrast to María, Antonio’s dad doesn’t have a deity to believe in and wants Antonio to be a vaquero instead of a priest like how his mom wants him to be. This use of metaphor compares the holy water to the “salt water of the sea”. This shows Antonio’s dad's identity, indicating that Antonio has vaquero resemblance…
When His ministry was beginning in earnest, He was going against the norm and His family tried to "rescue" Him, although it really seems as though His behavior was an embarrassment to the family. Jesus was not following tradition by becoming a carpenter as Joseph was. In order to begin His true mission and ministry, He had to separate from His family. He accomplished this in a matter-of-fact way, without creating animosity, while at the same time presenting a spiritual truth – He considered everyone to be His brother…
Jesus Christ is considered the Son, the Father, the Holy Ghost, and the Messiah, to millions of Christians around the world, but the debate still continues on whether or not Jesus is a rebel. A rebel is a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance to change the existing ideas or government. During his time, Jesus was a rebel, because he threatened the High Priest financial powers, and he challenged the upper class on how they treated the lower class and the social outcasts.…
“He said he talked to Jesus all the time, even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him more shifts.” (Page 17)…
Keeping in mind the claims that Jesus made in His life, he would either be a human manifestation of the Lord, a liar, or a lunatic. In chapter three McDowell opens the dialogue by looking at the different scenarios in which Christ would either be a liar or a lunatic. most non-Christians will acknowledge that if nothing else Christ was a great moral teacher but if he were a great moral teacher how could he also be a hypocrite at the same time? McDowell concludes that for this case to be…
Look at Jesus’ arms outstretched on the cross saying, “I Love you this much, that I would rather die than live without you.” Jesus is God in human form and God is Omniscient, meaning He sees and knows everything, so that would also mean Jesus knows everything too. While He was being beaten, ridiculed, and whipped to where bone and flesh were being ripped…
Aunt Nicey believed Jesus was looking over him, protecting him, “because he was born in a caul” (Hurst 158). A caul is said to give protection for its owner as it was made from…
“What would Jesus do?” That was the question that still haunted Jasper Chase today and five years later after leaving the small town of Raymond. While sitting at the little cafe, he remembered a time in his life when a preacher, Henry Maxwell, asked for people to make a pledge that for one year, before everything they did to ask themselves, “What Would Jesus Do?”, and to live their lives based on that question.…
MOST FILIPINOS will recognize the Latin phrase “Noli me Tangere” as the title of Jose Rizal’s first novel, rather than as a biblical line from the gospel of St. John (20:17). In English, it is usually rendered as “Touch me not.” This was what the risen Jesus told the startled Mary Magdalene when she tried to approach him after he had called her name. The meaning of this utterance has been the subject of much dispute, not least because it appears only in John and not in the other gospels.…