In the article “The Resurrection of Christ: Theological Implications” the argument is made that the bodily resurrection of Christ is one of the essential doctrines that the Christian faith must center around by Dr. Daniel Wallace. His case is built in both the Old Testament and New Testament. He examines sermons in Acts and the letters written by Paul to show the foundational necessity of the resurrection; he also show the hope the people in the Old Testament times had found in Daniel also, giving
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Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints", 2013). Mormonism originated in the 1820s, as described by the Church’s website, when Joseph Smith Jr. was confused and frustrated by the various Christian religions and was unable to choose one to follow. He turned to the Bible, which told him to ask God when he lacked wisdom. So he prayed to God, and was visited by the Heavenly Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. According to one of the members of the governing body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
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Classical Apologetics The classical approach to apologetics seeks to use philosophical arguments to reason and prove theism. While they whole heartedly seek to reach this conclusion, theism means that the reality of the personal God revealed in Jesus Christ cannot be approached through this method. If the end goal of apologetics is, “defending the Christian faith,” then one must seek to make the basic tenants of the faith evidenced in the apologetic method used. The classical approach fails to do this
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addresses the issue of the Christian worldview in his letter to a church in Rome. Paul clearly sets forth the foundations of the Christian belief. Through the truths Paul cites, he builds a solid basis for a biblical worldview: all people are sinful; Christ died to forgive sin; humankind is made right with God through faith; this begins a new life with a relationship with God. The Christian life is not abstract theology unconnected with life, but it has practical implications that will affect how choices
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Church, which took a strong anti-communist stance in Europe, grew alarmed at the seeming alliance between priests and Marxists in Latin America, and dismissed the priests’ claims that they were only doing as Christ would do in championing the interests of the poor. The priests hoped to make their case personally when Pope John Paul II visited Latin America in 1983. This site offers an eyewitness account by reform-minded Catholics of the pope’s meetings in Nicaragua in that year. HIST 410 WEEK 6 LATIN
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reception of the movie is widely polarized, the messages that are conveyed In the movie, Cooper, the protagonist of the movie Interstellar, is representative of Christ in his attributes, qualities, actions, and circumstances. In the beginning of the story, Cooper is introduced as a gifted individual in times of hardship. Just as Christ was born into a time of oppression under which his people, the Jews, were subject to unfair rule and maltreatment, Cooper is born into an oppressive futuristic environment
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This section examines three words related to counseling as a means of bringing clarity to Biblical counseling expectations. The words wisdom, counsel, and wicked were closely examined using Strong‟s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Vines Concise Dictionary of the Bible, as well as a variety of online bible dictionaries and commentaries. Additionally many different translations of the Bible were consulted. These included the New American Standard, King James Version, New International Version
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easier to deny them than to believe in the idea of a miraculous event. Most deny them out of fear and others deny them because they don’t understand, but whatever their reasons have been none have ever proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus Christ did not exist. Our history books are filled with facts that most people in this life time cannot confirm as fact or deny, but we believe in them and teach our children about them without hesitation. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec invented the
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faith as the marks, sores, or wounds related to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. specifically in same locations Christ was nailed to the cross. These wounds have been documented since the 13th century. From men of God, St. Francis of Assisi and Padre Pio, who have encountered the wounds of stigmata, to common day people, stigmata wounds are difficult to prove. Whether the wounds are psychological or truly an infliction from Christ is hard to dispel. While there have been numerous accounts of stigmata
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The argument/thesis/main idea of the book William Willimon’s primary argument is biblical case against the fear of the other. Willimon, in response to the fear mongering prevalent in American culture and politics, seeks to make the case that the Gospel is the drawing close to the other as means of drawing close to God. This short book address the themes of being saved by the other, when the other is an enemy, what Christian fear should look like, loving the other in Church and understanding Jesus
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