Jesus Camp: Brainwashing the Nonbeliever In today’s society those unfamiliar with Christianity occasionally believe it to be some type of cult. These nonbelievers do not understand why someone would devote their lives to such a faith. The Christian faith has many followers around the globe, they worship in many different ways, and they often share the same truths. Christians anticipate the coming of Jesus Christ and his ability to save His people from the evil of this world. The movie Jesus Camp portrays the culture of the Christian faith and its followers, but people who are non-Christians will view a one-sided, negative, manipulated depiction of young Christ followers as indoctrination into a cult.
Wells states; “This book [No Place for Truth] produced only half the picture I wanted to present, however. It offers an explanation of the cultural factors that have diminished the place and importance of theology in the church, but it offers no suggestions for a remedy of the problem.” He attempts to provide solutions, from a theological perspective, to the problem presented in his first book where modernism, technology, culture, and pastors bear a significant part of the blame in the changes the modern believers are facing in our churches today. Dr. Wells premise that Christianity has experienced,
Christian Thoughts and Apologetics Anna Thompson Project one Christian Thoughts and Apologetics Anna Thompson Project one Jesus Camp Charles Swindoll once wrote, “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” Though we would hope to give all of our children fond memories to hold on to, the main character of Jesus Camp instills emotional distress in the lives of children. Jesus Camp is a documentary intended to shed light upon an evangelistic camp known as "Kids on Fire School of Ministry", lead by Becky Fisher, and questions the beliefs that are taught and how they impact the lives of the children there. The film makes you question the intentions of Becky as she preaches on subjects that may be inappropriate for young children. The question is posed as to why parents would allow their children to be under the leadership of such an eccentric woman who seems to only have selfish intentions for these kids. The children in this film seem to be terrorized into a belief rather than led as most religions might encourage.
Roland Ogunlade ANTH 299 Prof.Toth F 9/26/2009 First Essay Issues in Protestant Fundamentalism and Why Fundamentalists Believe the Way They do about These Issues Fundamentalism is popularly describe as adherence to Christian doctrines base on interpretation of bible. (living according to Gods plan) In 19th and 20th century Tran denominational protestant movement that opposed the accommodation of Christian doctrine to modern scientific theory and Philosophy .However, fundamentalism will be used here as political and social movement .A lot of Christian reject the intolerance and social politics of groups often affiliated with religious right. Fundamentalism is a reaction against modernism; it also adopted all kinds of new beliefs and practices. Most of these churches have been infiltrated by non-Christian modern theology. In the 18th century the Enlightenment and Evangelical revivals would moderate each other.
In 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, Paul specified that “believers are engaged in a spiritual battle against forces which stand against the knowledge of God (Anderson, 2000). Anderson also believed that before people received Christ into their lives, they were slaves to their sin, and because Christ hung on the cross and paid the price for our sin, sin no longer have dominion over them. He also believed that maturity and freedom are essential to a Christian’s life. Anderson stated that Satan has no right or ownership or authority over God’s children (Anderson, 2000, p. 11). Anderson also stated that “the Western world has experienced a massive paradigm shift in its worldview and voiced his concern about the influence of the “kingdom of darkness” (pp.
Elizabeth Perricone 397 Dan Churchwell-Introduction to Philosophy Research Paper 1 2/22/2013 Anti-Intellectualism among Evangelicals Philosophers have been opposing, contemplating, and defending the idea of God for centuries. The majority of philosophers in today’s day and age take the arrogant view of pushing the concept of “God” out of their philosophy. They do this by their prideful standing against submission or conceiving a being higher than themselves and seeing those who believe in such a being as, leaning on a mere crutch that humanity has surpassed long ago. The poor opinion America’s culture has on the Christian Church’s intelligence is not surprising. Movies and TV shows have been portraying Christians as judgmental, mindless, know-it-alls for years.
“Will to Power” is a section that is parallel to “Thoughts on Life” because is discusses an individuals will to become powerful and make a personal stand for themselves. In “On Interpretation” he shares his view that there is no fact in the world because everything is an interpretation. As you can see all of these sections have a possible relation to Christianity and their set of beliefs. A particular problem I notice with Nietzsche’s aphorisms is that it creates an image for the reader to portray a Christian to be a weak mined helpless being. He basically degrades the entire Bible by saying that there is no fact in the world and everything is an interpretation.
CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW Introduction Every individual has a worldview whether they realize it or not. A person’s worldview can be Christian, secular, or a combination of both. To fully understand Christian Worldview it is important to understand what worldview means in general and to also have an idea of what secular worldview means (Christianworldview.net). The Bible states, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24 KJV).
Redemptive Purpose: To persuade my audience that the pre-tribulation is true through facts and scripture. Introduction: Attention-getter: The hate and disgust for Christians is growing rapidly all over the world according to writer Michael Gryboski. The writer of a recent incident were a New York teacher was taking to court for having Christian items in her classroom. Motive for Listening: Steps that are leading to pre-tribulation is happening all around us but , few are listening or watching. Credibility Statement: I have gained an understanding on this topic through the careful studying of the holy bible within my family as well as instinsive research.
Keith Atkisson BUS303 Business for Nonprofits Essay-Week 3-Christian Stewardship and Ownership February 7, 2015 Biblical views of Christian Stewardship and Ownership To take care of, oversee, manage, and guard from harm. These four terms are a clear depiction of stewardship. On the other hand, dominion, control, and proprietorship are the terms of ownership, and if they are engaged in, they then become worldly behaviors, idols and stumbling blocks and as such are in direct opposition to God’s will and his purpose. Though stewardship is seen by most church-going members as consisting of tithing only, scripture paints an entirely different picture of what is to be expected of each believer in his life. Many believers do not count the cost of following Christ.