...me a better understanding of the Bible and Christianity. My reflection for this paper I have chosen two topics that I have chosen to address for this paper. First, topic I have chosen will be Grace and secondly I will be focusing on Love. Grace Theological definition of “grace” as many scholar s of the bible will define this word as the unmerited favor of God toward man. Grace can also be defined as like forgiveness, repentance, regeneration and salvation to mean something as broad as describing the whole of God’s activity towards man or as narrow as describing one segment of activity (Baker’s Evangelical Bible Dictionary). Often times many would attribute grace toward s how women carry themselves and even in the bible grace can be defined through many scripture as action of one who are in high position. Biblical Foundation The first time Grace has been in mentioned was in Genesis chapter 8 because of Noah obedience to God and God was tired or as the bible scholar would state grieved by man’s wickedness and caused God to erase mankind. In all this, Noah found favor with God. Here the word favor and grace are interchangeable throughout the bible. Nevertheless, the subject of Grace can vary in many biblical views, Proverbs 1:9 states there would be a garland to grace your head…meaning the head is the focal point of knowledge and when God uses grace in this text he is instructing children to listen to their parents and be obedient. Also found in the New Testament; Roman 11:5-6...
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...Noah and The Great Flood The Great Flood is a story that is questioned by some people, historians, and theologians. There always will be a question of whether this event really happened. If someone really believes that the messages in the Bible are real and they are coming from God, then that someone would believe that this event really happened. The messages in the Bible are lessons from God, he tries to teach us and tell us how to conduct our lives. This story is one of his lessons; he is trying to tell us something through this story. God uses Noah to reward humankind with his grace and mercy; he wanted to give humankind another chance to redeem themselves. With the story of the Great Flood, God recreates the world. God had to destroy humankind because of what they have turned into, evil and disobedient. God could see that humankind was lost in sin. They forgot all about him, he who created them. He did not like what his creation had turned into. God then made a decision to destroy and eliminate humankind from earth. Humankind made God regret the fact that he created them. But there was a good man, which God wanted to save, because he was good and faithful servant to him. Noah had an unbelievable faith in his Lord, so God trusted Noah. Noah was the man that God loved and cared for because Noah had shown his faith to him (Moore, 2005). Noah was the tenth in line from Adam, having descended from the line of Seth. He was the son of Lamech, as well as the grandson...
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...Noah's Ark Article Evaluation Long ago, after Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin entered the world and from there on, evil was in the hearts of every human. God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and the Lord said he would destroy every living thing on earth with a massive flood. Noah was the only exception for Noah had found grace in the eyes of the Lord so the Lord instructed him to build an Ark and to bring his family and two of every kind of animal so the world could be reborn. Some people believe this story from the bible to be true while others claim it to be false, but there is evidence to back this story up. Firstly, we know that people have found fossils from all around the world including high mountains. The only way for a fossil to form is for immediate water, mud, and pressure. The best reason for there being fossils found all around the world would be a world wide flood because a catastrophe like this would best be able to form fossils. Also, fossils have been found on very high mountains, meaning that these mountains had to have been underwater...
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...The Bible is our source of information about God—who He is and what He has done for us. The Bible is an exposure of man—his character, history, and divine needs. The Bible also tells us about God’s plan of redemption, which provides forgiveness and renewal for man in his sinful situation. The Bible reveals what God’s standards of right and wrong are and what His will is for His men. Unlike other books, the Bible was written by about forty authors who lived during a 1,500-year period beginning with Moses in the fifteenth century B.C.E. The Bible was written in two major languages—Hebrew and Greek, with a few parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. No other book has ever been composed in quite the same way as the Bible. Moses, who wrote the first five books of the Old Testament, was probably the most educated man of his day, having studied under tutors in the royal palace of Egypt. The human authors also included those who were great leaders, such as Joshua, and those who were chosen of God to be prophets, such as Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. Some of the authors were like David, who began as a shepherd but became king of Israel. David wrote many of the Psalms, forming a rich poetic background for much of the biblical truth. Some of the writers were farmers, some were warriors, some were fishermen. There was little that tied them together except that they all wrote a portion of the biblical truth as said in the Bible. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible Gilgamesh...
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...with the Old Testament, which is where I derive my worldview from. Biblical Worldview Our worldview is the foundation for our values, morals, family structure, and life purpose. Worldview is defined by Merriam-Webster (2016) as “a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world.” Israel Wayne presents it as “a set of lenses which taint our vision or alter the way we perceive the world around us. Our worldview is formed by our education, our upbringing, the culture we live in, the books we read, the media and movies we absorb” (Wayne, 2016). I have a Biblical Christian worldview, which is based in The Bible’s book of Genesis. Let’s explore the book of Genesis, and find out what that means. You do not have to go far into The Bible to find where the Christians fundamental understanding of the natural world comes from. The book of Genesis chapter one, verse one, reads “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.” (Gen 1:1) Genesis goes on to tell us the earth was “without form and void”, that it was dark, and the Spirit was hovering over the water (Gen 1:2). In Genesis chapter one, verse three, everything begins to change. It states “Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light (Gen 1:3). Over the next five days our atmosphere, oceans, dry land, the universe,...
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...Genesis: The Effects Today Bible 105-B27 LUO: Old Testament Survey 201320 Spring 2013 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx L33333333 Liberty University January 21, 2013 Genesis: The Effects Today We must begin with the question: what is Genesis? Genesis is the beginning of everything we know today. It is what we research, study, and learn today about everything that exists around us. The first eleven chapters of Genesis cover the period from the time of creation to the time of Abraham (Hester, 1962). It is the truth of the beginning of the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization. These four areas are discussed in this essay in reference of how they affect my worldview. When I read the first two chapters of Genesis, I find God as the creator of everything that we know in regards to natural world. The first chapter summarizes the creation of the world and the second scrutinizes it (Hinson & Yates, 2012). In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). The teachings on how the natural world came to be, as we know it today, have never wavered from the depictions Genesis gives. Today we can watch as the concept of evolution self-destructs. Many have recognized the total inability of chance and random processes to produce the incredible complexity we see around us, especially in living systems (Morris, 2007). Statements such as these are easily found with the use of your computer. The fact is, none of the theories of how our...
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...worship the creator, thus the two sons of Adam and Eve brought the evidences of their worship to the Lord. According to later revelation, either form of worship was acceptable to God.” It wasn’t the offering that was important, but rather, the attitude in which is was presented [Heb 11:4]. “This incident clearly reveals that faith is the way of access to God and the means of entrance into the kingdom of God.” It also shows the individual responsibility of our worship and subjection to God. Rom 2:15, Paul writes, “In that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them [NASB95].” God reveals Himself in our hearts as well as through nature as found in Rom 1:20 where it says, “For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world [ESV].” It’s interesting to this author that some still doubt even though in our conscience we know. Robert Mounce said it best when he said, “To demand some sort of absolute proof of God’s existence is simply an indication of the recalcitrant nature of fallen humanity.” “God placed man under the law of conscience. In submitting themselves to the law, men were submitting themselves to God and showing themselves to be kingdom...
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...ultimately the one in control. He separated the light from darkness, water from land and day from night. He placed all living creatures on the land, in the sky and in the sea. The theory of evolution is disproved within the six days of creation when God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so.” (Genesis 1:11 NKJV). Every plant, animal and human were called to produce according to its own kind, therefore, not being able to evolve from a lower life form. The Bible teaches us that on the seventh day God rested. After speaking the world and all its inhabitants into existence, God looked at all He created and saw “it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31) At this point the principle of the Sabbath has been established and we learn how to pattern our week days. The bible states, “On the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified...
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...created me?” and “where did I come from?”. Through God and the bible it is revealed to us that God is our creator and it is God who created us in his original design. Through original design Adam was created and it is Adam who our fall of grace comes from. It is from Adam that original sin comes from. But, God sent his only son to die for us to cleanse sin. The Genesis accounts of creation in Gen 1-3 shed light on the mystery of human nature. They figuratively reveal our original design, our fall from grace, and hint at our salvation in Christ. The first person created through original design, holiness, and justice is Adam. From Adam...
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...grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:1, 6-8). And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was “Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar (Genesis 10:8-10). After God destroyed the earth with a great flood, the three sons of Noah who survived the flood “Japheth, Shem and Ham” began to reproduce and populate the earth (Genesis 9:1, 18-19; 10:1, 32). When the offspring’s of Noah’s three sons began to multiply, they...
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...events also found in the Bible. While the stories told in each book are generally comparable in most respects, important differences sometimes emerge. Anything in the Bible that agrees with the Qur'an is accepted by Muslims, and anything in the Bible that disagrees with the Qur'an is not accepted by Muslims. Many stories in the Bible are not mentioned at all in the Qur'an; with regard to such passages, Muslims are instructed to maintain neutral positions, but to read them and pass them on if they wish to do so. Often, stories related in the Qur'an tend to concentrate Islamic moral or spiritual significance of events rather than the details.[1] Western scholars tend to analyze similarities between Biblical and Quranic accounts of the same person or event as being evidence for the influence of pre-existing traditions on the composition of the Qur'an.[2] From a traditionalist Muslim perspective, such a discussion would make no sense; Muslims believe that the Qur'an was sent from God through the angel Gabriel to the prophet Muhammad in a series of revelations, and this divinely revealed text was then progressively dictated (word for word, and over and over again to make certain that there were no mistakes) by Muhammad to the followers of Islam. Moreover, Muslims believe that the Biblical tradition was corrupted over time. similarities between the bible and the qur’an By Stefan 55 Comments Categories: Article, Bible, Life, Quran and Religion The Qur’an and Bible possess many...
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...(Jewish) were exposed to that (Zoroastrian). But we will discuss about the similarities and the differences between Christianity and Zoroastrian. Similarities Zoroastrian worship one God to whom they believe the world was made and also the Christians too believe in one God, they (Zoroastrians) also believe that a Saviour will be born of a virgin who will defeat the devil and establish his kingdom when he returns just like Christians believe in Jesus Christ (www.metareligion.com) . Furthermore, both religions preaches about the existence of hell and heaven, both believed that hell is a place rewarded for righteous doing and hell is a place rewarded for un- righteous doing. Resurrecting at the end of the world and beginning a new life like the Bible states about in the book of Revelations 21:1- 4 which talk about the new heaven and earth after the first earth and sea varnished is also believed by both religions. Moreover, the two religions do belief in the Final Judgement. They both believe that everybody will have to be...
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...is any evil action or motive that is in opposition to God. Sin has very serious consequences when it comes to relationships between the sinner and God. Sin also has severe consequences that affect the individual sinner, causing the individual to have social implications. It is evident from both the Old Testament and the New Testament descriptions of sin, that sin is universal. Both testaments describe the extent and intensiveness of sin. Obtaining a contemporary view of the magnitude of sin incorporates a biblical perspective and the best elements of traditional view. Philosophical Foundation or Presupposition When studying the doctrine of sin, one should examine the material through a biblical view. If someone does not believe in the bible, explaining sin may sound like nonsense. Holding a certain philosophical viewpoint can cause tension when theologically analyzing in this area. Specifically, secular psychology clashes with the idea of sin. Psychology often teaches individuals to blame others for their failures in life. They teach that pressure from society, spouses, parents, and environments are the reason for life difficulties. Sure, other people can contribute to our errors and tempt us, or mistreat up, but they are not the cause of the issue itself. No matter how other people act, you can still do what is right and that is exactly what God wants you do to. Psychology often urges people to accept themselves as they are without changing their sinful conduct. Psychologist...
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... Richard Mount BIBL 105-B36 When the chapters in Genesis 1-11 assumes God as the creator of all things it lays the foundation of all Biblical truth. In these verses God is portrayed as Holy, just, grace, love, and wrath. We are taught how to understand how we are to view the world and how God has created and recreated the world. According to Genesis chapter 1 God created the world literally in six days. He created it with the power of His voice. After God created the world in six days He declared it was good and declared the seventh day Holy. According to the pattern God used to create our world, we pattern how we conduct our weeks, six days to work and earn our living and one day of rest to use to honor God and all He created. In Genesis 1:22 after God had created living creatures and nature. God blessed them and declared them to be good. He delighted in His work and valued it for Himself. All human beings especially believers should treat nature and its beauty and its animals as good things to be enjoyed and of great value. Human identity is found in Genesis 1:27 “so God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” God created us all in His image not just believers. Man has the ability to think and reason, look at ourselves and evaluate ourselves. In the whole of the universe, we are small, but we...
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