Explain how Christians make moral decisions. (25 marks) Christians have different ways of making moral decisions. Some rely on pure Biblical teaching, others on the Churches leadership, and others on their own conscience and others on Thomas Aquinas’ Natural Law. People of the Catholic Church believe Jesus gave His authority to Peter, and it has been passed down ever since, currently lying with Pope Benedict. The Catholic Church has a magisterium - its teachings have a God-given authority that is equal to the authority of scripture.
Liberty University | THE KINGDOM OF GOD | ONE THOUSAND YEAR MILLENIAL REIGN | A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO PROFESSORGEORGE SMITHIN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR BIBLE 450BY | SUSAN SMITH | 5/14/2011 | THE KINGDOM OF GOD This work will seek to examine the various views of the Millennial Kingdom, the literal teachings of its nature, government, inhabitants, and relationship to the ancient prophecies concerning Israel. A correct view of the Kingdom is, in this writer’s opinion, very significant because no other doctrine has had such a profound effect on the Christian mindset concerning the continuing role of Israel in prophecy. Many have thought to spiritualize
Liberty Theological Seminary Book Critique on Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ Submitted to Dr. Christopher Moody in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of this course THEO530- B02LUO Systematic Theology II June 26, 2015 Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………....3 Summary………………………………………………………………………………………….3 Critique ………………………………………………………………………………………..…4 Conclusion ………... ………………………………………………………………………….…7 Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………………..9 Introduction In their book, Believer’s Baptism, the authors Schreiner and Wright attempt to incorporate their views on why baptism is essential in the Christian church. Along with its importance they also go further by promoting the believer’s baptism over infant baptism. They begin by attacking the Christian claim found among many that baptism is a trivial issue. They quickly negate this statement with an alternate point of view, that Christians who suffered persecution and martyrdom did not believe it to be so. Summary Placing aside the foreword and introduction, there are ten chapters or sections to this book.
In essence, the two disciplines are autonomous. Finally, the Allies model serves to properly integrate the two by the proper admixture of the book of God’s Works and the book of God’s Word. This model sees that “all truth is God’s truth” and understands that each discipline operates under God’s sovereignty. Those who seek to apply the Allies model to their life must develop competency in both disciplines, and learn how to properly view the two books (Entwistle,
Diandra Suarez November 16, 2012 Luke/Acts Critical Book Review-Reading the Bible from the Margins De la Torre presents Reading the Bible from the Margins as a book that brings perspectives to the standard way of reading the Bible. He makes the point that only one interpretation of the Bible was considered due to the dominant culture’s power (Delatorre 8). Despite this power, Delatorre hopes to show how the marginalized are spiritually empowered. Although the Euroamericans, or people in power, are not racist, they all have a privilege which will dominate above the marginalized and therefore they must be educated on the disenfranchised. By viewing Scripture from those who are oppressed, readers can learn God's will for us with a better
LIBERTY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY “ATONEMENT” AN ESSAY SUBMITTED TO DOCTOR ABOGUNRIN IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE THEO 510 BY LYNDA L. DURRETT October 20, 2011 Atonement In comparison of Town’s treatment of the text and the article I found Town’s treatment the more favorable of the two. Atonement or the reconciliation between God and humans brought about by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus is addressed by Town’s, through careful explanation of requirements for the atonement and the various views of these requirements. Town’s provides the reader tangible and practical information on atonement. He provides an overview of the Calvinistic View or the Anselmian theory in the direction
Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Book Critique: Sharing Jesus without Fear A Paper Submitted to Professor Outhouse In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course Personal Evangelism EVAN 565 By Muna Haddad 07-24-2011 Bibliographical Entry Fay, William and Linda Evans Shepherd. Sharing Jesus without Fear. Nashville: B & H Publishing, 1999. Author Information William (Bill) Fay is as well-recognized evangelist who graduated from Denver Seminary in 1987. Fays no- argument approach to witnessing is shared globally throughout his series Share Jesus Without Fear as well as his notes in the Share Jesus without an argument (3.5 million copies of print).
Chris Hagan Theo 104 D93 Biblical Worldview Essay Introduction: In the first five weeks of Theology 104 we have discussed many interesting topics. The main focus of each week has been Jesus Christ and our relationship to Him. We have discussed His life, His death and His resurrection and the importance of each event to the Christian and to Christianity. In this paper I will discuss how my chosen major/program of study (psychology) will allow me to use my Christian beliefs with the people with whom I will be working. Example 1: We are all made in the image of God as the Bible tells us in Genesis 1: 26-27; Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
The two groups’ backgrounds both highly honor scripture. In the second chapter of Square Peg Robert Mulholland discloses the idea that fundamentalists believe the Bible has “comprehensive and rationally accessible inerrant divine truths or propositions.” Their idea of the Bible is that it becomes a collection of information given vocally or dictated to writers. On the contrary, Wesleyans have the belief that the Bible is the resource by which believers need to focus on the message of God. This message is most definitively given through Jesus Christ coming to earth. However, it appears that the shift in focus can drastically change the interpretations in the Bible.
They believe in total integration and know and respect the two books of God. Entwistle (2010) closes the book by focusing on Facncis Bacon's analogy of God's two books and the Ally model of integration. He informs the reader that the Ally model is the only correct way of integration because when science and faith do not match up, science is just proven wrong, but God always has an explanation. The author's final statement tells the reader to look at the "...road ahead, and how integrations must be a shared responsibility that