When this happens, he or she becomes a child of God, a new creature, the old things are passed away and the new things have come. (Ephesians 2:10) and (Corinthians 5:17). One may also recite a sinner’s prayer and most importantly keep his Commandments. He warns us not to be jealous, blaspheme, commit adultery, worship any other God, lie, steal, honor our father and mother and keep the Sabbath holy. One can never be free from sin.
Running head: EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY Evangelical Theology Dianna Barr 440-527-8677 Grand Canyon University Contemporary Theology - HTH 469 May 23, 2011 Evangelical Theology Stanley Grenz and Roger Olsen co-authored 20th Century Theology – God and the World in a Transitional Age (1992). The book gives their interpretation of the way religious theology developed in a modern age and how they saw divine transcendence and immanence, especially from the Evangelical viewpoint. Grenz & Olsen Chapter Ten – Evangelical Theology Evangelical theology had a tough assignment. It had to stay balanced between divine transcendence and divine immanence while discerning factual biblical truths. To do this it also had to stay within the
By observing and keeping the word of God. 27. How could Jesus speak with confidence of his weak disciples “in the perfect tense?” 17:10. Bruce, p. 331. He did this because it is God who had chosen them and they are his and Jesus had been glorified among them.
His sermon was typical of the era and can be assumed to be quite effective. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” paints a vivid picture of Hell and informs the audience that they are kept out of hell only by the “mere pleasure of God (p 426).” Puritans had a different view of Christianity and God then most people today. They believed we are all born sinners (depravity). Modern day Christians believe this to be partially true because of the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden where Eve eats a fruit from the Forbidden Tree and then persuades Adam to eat too. This was the first sin and is now a part of everyone thus creating the initial need for people to accept Jesus Christ and to repent for their sins.
Most Christians do not follow teachings of Jesus about non violence because they have good reasons. Turn the cheek has made Christians to act cowardly and support injustice. It is said not to refuse evil, but this makes Christians to be disobedient.Going the second mile, is a cliché that makes Christians to join the oppressors. Jesus described this issue as masochistic, impractical and suicidal. In Jesus teachings, he never told Christians to do all those negative actions however, it is said to be a misunderstanding.
As far as I can remember as a child I would always get a sensation of remorse whenever I was doing wrong, and that was before any explanation of doing wrong was. I believe that certain feeling is your soul, consciousness telling you that you are committing a sin. Life pointless or is there a purpose? Life is a journey full of obstacles and barriers; I also believe it’s a hallway with different choices of doors to creating your path, which the Lord has planned for you. As a Christian our lives are to serve and obey God’s Laws his commandments and the purpose is to get into heaven.
Various other "homosexual" practices in Greece and Rome were vehemently derided and stigmatized (e.g. male effeminacy, the sodomitical penetration of an adult Roman citizen by another citizen, or allowing oneself to be penetrated by a slave, etc.). Plutarch refers to "the intercourse of man with man" as "immorality or assault", adding: "we regard men who take pleasure in passive submission as practicing the lowest kind of vice. "[4] Classical antiquity thus bequeathed to nascent Christianity a pagan milieu in which many forms of "homosexual" behavior were regularly reviled and denounced. This cultural condemnation lent itself to a combination with the Judaic prohibitions found in Leviticus 18:22 (see also Leviticus 18) and 20:13, with the latter commanding: "And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
Through the belief in redemptive suffering, the adherents do not require euthanasia and the notion of euthanasia becomes redundant for true believers in Christ. Redemptive suffering in the case of Christ paying the price for sin by giving his life for others.
He traveled throughout Asia Minor desperately seeking recognition for his Paulinist theology. As he journeyed leaders from Epheasus, Smyrna, and Hierapolis chided his demonic doctrine. Polycarp responded with saying, “I recognize you as the first born of Satan.” Meeting all other roads, Marcion finally arrived in Rome. Like a sly fox, he infiltrated the Roman church but was excommunicated there as well in AD
Lincoln is instructive in how religion can become inclusive. “Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God,” he said, telling an audience angry at the deaths of so many sons that the South read the Bible as much as the North. Lincoln made a final move that also set him apart. Inaugural addresses can be exercises in self-congratulation, both of the candidate and the nation. In his second Inaugural Address Lincoln, quoting Matthew 18:7, lovingly scolded America.