Salvation Reflection Paper The doctrine of salvation is at the core of the Christian faith and is a the heart of the work of Jesus. This paper is going to summarize the doctrine of salvation from two authors that the author of this paper read and studied and then give his subjective view or opinion of what each author presented in their explanations of the doctrine of salvation. The first of these authors is Alister E. McGrath from his book Theology:The Basics. The second author is Dr French
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INTRODUCTION The death of Christ occupies a central position in Paul’s representation of the Gospel. According to Ladd‚ “the first thing to be said about the death of Christ it is the supreme revelation of the love of God.” Paul has some familiarity with and reminds his readers of the story of Jesus’ suffering and death; and he develops the importance of Christ’s passion in context related to all aspects of his apostolic message especially his soteriology and Christology‚ eschatology and ethics
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Due to the fact that we are debating over whether or not Finny is a Christ- like figure‚ we thought it best to make sure we know what a Christ-like figure really is. According to Wikipedia‚ a definition of a Christ-like figure is: “a literary technique used to draw allusions between characters and the biblical Jesus Christ. In general‚ a character should display more the=an one correspondence with Jesus Christ. For instance: manifestation of divine qualities displaying loving kindness and forgiveness
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Santiago as a Christ Figure In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway‚ there are many comparisons between the main character Santiago‚ who is often called the old man‚ and Jesus in the Bible. For someone who is familiar with the Bible and then reads this story‚ the similarities are easy to pick up on. Many debate if Hemingway did this intentionally of if it was weird similarities that just happened to be there. A few of these similarities include characteristics of Santiago and of Jesus‚ the Spanish
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The second piece that i have chosen to analyze is “The Taking of Christ” created in 1602 by Michelangelo Caravaggio. This 2-dimensional piece was created using oil on a canvas. What is happening in this piece is that soldiers seem to be trying to take Jesus Christ but two men are standing in the way trying to block the guards from reaching jesus while one of them even appears to be verbally objecting to the taking of christ. The most noticeable elements of art in this piece are space and color. I
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Underneath "Beware‚ Underlanders‚ time hangs by a thread. /The hunters are hunted‚ white water runs red. /The gnawers are sent to extinguish the rest. /The hope of the hopeless resides in a quest.” So begins the tale of Gregor‚ an 11-year-old boy who lives in New York. The book‚ Gregor the Overlander‚ was written by Suzanne Collins‚ the author the ever-popular series The Hunger Games. This 308 page book was published in September 1‚ 2003. It was voted for the Kansas William Allen White Children’s Book
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scene of “The Passion of the Christ”‚ director Mel Gibson establishes a foreshadowing of what this film encompasses. Notably‚ appearing on the black screen are white words‚ from Isaiah 53‚ “He was wounded for our transgressions‚ crushed for our iniquities; by His wounds we are healed” (Gibson‚ 2004‚ scene 1). Regarding this‚ Gibson alludes to Jesus being the “He” this passage is referring to and in so doing‚ Gibson establishes a message to his modern day audience of Jesus being the “one who suffers”
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Gregor Mendel Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk that came up with the idea of dominant and recessive traits. Gregor Mendel was born in 1822 in Heinzendorf bei Odrau‚ Austria. When Gregor Mendel grew up‚ he realized that if he joined a monastery and became a monk‚ he could get a good education for less money. Mendel began his experiments around 1856‚ and continued them until around 1863. Gregor Mendel started his study of heredity with mice‚ but his bishop (teacher) didn’t want him studying animal
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into the world‚ that we might live through Him. In this is love‚ not that we loved God‚ but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”1 Jesus was and is the perfect sacrifice for sin. “The word perfect is one of the keywords of the Epistle. It occurs thirteen times.”2 The book of Hebrews speaks of Jesus‚ the Son of God‚ not only as perfect‚ but as needing and achieving perfection. “For it was fitting for Him‚ for whom are all things and by whom are all things‚ in
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the apse of San Vitale in Ravenna depicts a younger version of Christ. This is iconologically significant because it shows a beardless Christ‚ signifying that he may be from the Mediterranean. His halo contains the Cross and he is wearing a purple robe. It is rather two-dimensional‚ because the draperies do not convey a sense of organic bodily movement. The figures are also mostly displayed in a frontal view. The globe on which Jesus sits also does not seem to be supporting him very well‚ adding
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