cornerstone and foundation for Christianity. He is what separates Christianity from all other religions‚ without Him there would be no such thing as Christianity. Jesus has always been‚ and is eternal. His entrance into the world was not elaborate or a flashy coming fit for a king‚ but rather a humble miracle that could not ever be duplicated. Christ’s humanity and deity were perfectly put together to give the world a Savior. He was fully human‚ but did not sin‚ and fully God‚ but was able to feel humanly
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The Doctrine of the Incarnation is at the centre of biblical Christianity. The Book of John reads‚ “I and the Father are one” as Jesus says to detail his relationship with God. Furthermore‚ John 14:11 goes on to reiterate this when he declares “Believe me when i say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” This brings forth the idea that Jesus and God are shown in the bible to be one- equal and of the same substance. In his work‚ Homoousios With The Father‚ Heron discusses the truth behind
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and Earth along with how God’s love and essence is physically here on Earth. Jesus Christ is the essence of God on Earth in human form. He preaches the ideas and serves as the son of God to his kingdom. When people preach‚ serve‚ and worship‚ God’s power is present and the people remember what Jesus was all about when he was on Earth and therefore what God was all about. The concept of God is spread through ideas like the Pentecost‚ Paul and his conversion‚ and even in the catacombs of Rome. The
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the group. Christian / youth department/ social group A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity‚ an Abrahamic‚ monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Social group or organization Describe the function of the social group. The central teachings of traditional Christianity are that Jesus is the Son of God‚ the second person of the Trinity of God the Father‚ the Son‚ and the Holy Spirit; that his life on earth‚ his crucifixion‚ resurrection‚ and
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that man survives only through the protection of God‚ that all earthly gifts flow from God‚ and that the proper bearing of man is to be humble and unselfish (csis.edu‚ 2011). While many pagan influences appear in the poem‚ Christian overtones are more prevalent‚ exhibiting many elements of Christian heroism in the poem. An example is when Beowulf says “God must decide who will be given to death’s cold grip” (Norton‚ lines 174-175). He knows that God has already created an ending to this battle with
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comes from a Latin word Mitto which means I send. God’s purpose is to make Himself known and to achieve this purpose‚ He sends certain people on Missions. Those whom God sends are called Missionaries meaning sent ones. Although the bible does not have the words “Missions” or “Missionary”‚ it does however have much to say about God sending people into the world (Chichetu 2014). The Great Commission: Tells us what we are to do and where More than two thousand years ago‚ Jesus told us to take the
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phrase has come to mean stop looking down upon someone else‚ or thinking that you are better or smarter than someone else. Our Scripture Reading from Acts found a man named Saul on the high horse of religious arrogance. Saul assumed he was serving God by violently persecuting those with different religious views (Acts 9:1-19). Getting on a religious high-horse‚ and thinking it is God’s will to persecute any human being is a grave misunderstanding: Be it the persecution of a pagan‚ a witch‚ a gay
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dialogue between he and his father‚ Edward Boyd. Edward lives in Florida and worked for 35 years in sales management. He has six kids‚ 15 grandchildren‚ and nine great-grandchildren. Gregory attempted for years to try and convert his father to Christianity without any success. About the time he felt like giving up on his father‚ he felt the Holy Spirit leading him to go one more mile. That last mile ended up in his father accepting Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior‚ and thus resulted in the
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returning god Quetzalcoatl‚ and by making this mistake based on his flawed belief system brought about the destruction of the empire and his people. The text tells us that Montezuma and Cortes take many walks together. On one such walk Montezuma begins to question Cortes about Christianity. At this point Cortes has obviously explained the concept of the Father‚ the Son‚ and the Holy Ghost. Montezuma then asked the question of “where is the mother?” Montezuma is intrigued by concepts of one god three
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1843 and attempts to understand the anxiety present in Abraham when God called him to sacrifice his son‚ Isaac. There are said to be two main ideas or levels in Fear and Trembling. The first idea is that sometimes the things we see as moral or right (e.g. do not murder) have to
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