What are the main characteristics of apocalyptic writing? 414-416 a. Universality, Cosmic Dualism, Chronologic Dualism, Ethical Dualism, Predestination, Exclusivism, Limited Theology, Portrait of a Violent God, Eschatological Preoccupations, The Use of Symbols and code words. 3. Who is the author and what is the date of the book of Revelation? 416-417 The apostle John, the same person who wrote the Gospel and letters of John. Other think another John, known only as the “Elder” and official of the late-first-century Ephesian church.
Liberty University The Pelagian Controversy A research paper submitted to Dr. Carl Diemer, ThD. In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the course CHHI 520 Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary By Brian Harvey Lynchburg, Virginia Thursday, November 17, 2011 Table of Contents Introduction1 Historical Background of the Controversy1 Injustice Exposed6 Influence of Position7 False Accusations9 Rational Choice11 Pelagian Support12 John of Jerusalem12 Julian of Eclanum 13 Conclusion14 Bibliography15 Introduction Scarcely can one in the religious academic realm go long without hearing the name Pelagius and it is usually not in a good context. The Pelagian Controversy of the
But all along has been another God.” This “another God” was the good God that was separate from the creator God. This was the father of Jesus Christ who had nothing to do with law, wrath, or judgment, but was instead only a God of grace, love, and acceptance. This dualistic view is taught and believed in many Gnostic cults, including many modern “secret societies” such as the Freemasons. Excommunicated from the church and disenchanted from his father, Marcion needed to escape from Sinop. He traveled throughout Asia Minor desperately seeking recognition for his Paulinist theology.
What does this second Chapter of Colossians provide us in the way of identifying false religions? 14. What is the theme of this second Chapter of Colossians? Describe the theme using a single sentence. Read the Book of Colossians, Chapter 3 In Chapter 3 we learn of the New Man and the Christian family.
Christian Smith March 1, 2011 ENGL 2123-04 Allison Barker Of Giving the Lie: All Lies are Wrong Section 1 After hundreds of years in slavery at the hands of the Egyptians, and after crossing the Red Sea, God summoned Moses to Mount Sinai where he bestowed upon him his Ten Commandments, the ninth of which stated “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” ie one should not lie. Thousands of years later in France, Michael de Montaigne examined this idea and how it pertained to his extremely religious French society. In his writing titled “Of Giving the Lie” Montaigne denounces the idea of lies, even small ones. This can be most plainly seen when he writes, “Lying is an ugly vice, which an ancient paints in most shameful colors when he says that it is giving evidence of contempt for God, and at the same time of fear of men. It is not possible to represent more vividly the horror, the vileness, and the profligacy of it.
A) Explain Augustine’s theodicy (25marks) St Augustine (ad 354-430), both Augustine’s theodicy and his argument concerning evil were both originally based on the bible. Augustine himself had many beliefs, one of his main beliefs was that god had made the world and when making the world he had made it free from flaws. He believed very strongly that god is good, omnipotent and omniscience. As he believed for god to be these things he had a problem which was, if god is good and omnipotent and it was god that created the world why is there evil in the world? He solved this problem by saying that god is responsible for the evil in the world by defining evil as “privation”.
To be more precise, Pope Innocent III in 1201 declared that the punishment for the original sin is the exclusion of the God''s beatific vision. (Sullivan, 2011, p.4) Apparently, from the thirteenth century the belief of limbo, a state of infants having died unbaptized, became widespread by the Catholic theologians. Such a belief was based on the arguments that the infants may be freed from the original sin by baptism and the exclusion of the beatific vision is a penalty itself. However, the Vatican II emphasizes the “universality of the salvific will of God”, in accordance with which, God will save every human being, including unbaptized infants. (Sullivan, 2011, p. 7).
For instance in Genesis it says that ‘God breathed the breath of man into Adam’s nostrils’ and from this Roman Catholics can argue that as God has given life, only he can take it away so things such as abortion, euthanasia and murder are absolute wrongs. As the bible, the source of authority for Christians was written by Jewish people: Christian ethics has its roots in Judaism. The Ten Commandments from the bible exist as the basis of absolute moral rules which teach Christians that acts such as stealing and adultery are absolute wrongs. Although Christian ethics comes from Judaism it
Paul in his concourses wrote about how fellow Christians should be portrayed. He tells us in Romans 1:18-3:20, that we are all sinners. Another idea mention by Paul was how God made a way for salvation to mankind. The Jews, at that point, was deeply interwoven with their faith, their whole individuality was bound in their belief structure whereas the Gentiles had multiple gods. Their personality was bound in the natural.
One major work was the justification, in which both the Jewish and Gentile Christians have got it for free. This work of justification was the theme of Romans Chapter 5. And on the way of explaining the work of justification, Paul told them it was a gift and hence no one can boast about it. Then in chapter 5 which is the focus of this paper, he started to address the problem by explaining how one man (Adam) has trespassed the word of God in Genesis 3: 6 and brought sin to himself and the world he represents. It is through this sin that death has come.