Isaiah 44:6 states: “I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.” James 2:19 states, “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:” In the book of John, we can read John quote Jesus saying,” I and the Father are one.” Jesus also preached the Holy Spirit of being part of the Godhead, “"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you." ... "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him." (John 14:16-17, 23). In the above paragraph, you can clearly see how the God is the one and only, and that the one and only God is actually pieced together by three main characteristics. In the Mormon dogma.
Christians believe that there is only one God. They never really call “God” by any name other then God but Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jehovah is the actual name of God. They believe that the word God is a title much like lord, president, general, king or creator. The name Jehovah is more of a personal name given to the almighty God and Creator of the universe. They refer to the scripture Psalm 83:18, according to the King James Version of the Bible: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth."
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.
This man credit God with Abraham victory battle and he also declares God’s sovereignty over heaven and earth. Heb. 7:3 approaches with an uncertainty about the identity of Melchizedek it reads: he is “without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually. Since there was no beginning or ending for him many may have taken on to identify him as God, this text was probably considered as a problem text. The general purpose may be that Melchizedek may have been a human being sent by God to deliver (messenger) and test the faith of those who considered themselves as Christians.
It gives great emphasis to the chronological order of the words of God and takes the written words as a whole, using each and every word literally to support your walk with God. Wesleyan theology, on the other hand, focuses on a more abstract interpretation of the bible. Wesleyans see the bible as an enhancement to the Christian faith. They are more into having great confidence in their faith and using the bible as a reference in order to follow God in a more abstract way. They focus on their relationship with God as a whole and don’t see the bible as a step-by-step manual as Fundamentalists do.
Martin Oderinde Religion 1310:39 September 12, 2012 Christian Scriptures Essay In Placher's analytical essay "Is the Bible True?" he challenges the view of biblical authority that is used by many American Protestants which he defined as "biblical literalism." He strengthens his argument by stating, "We need to understand the genre to understand a text. Reading a text literally is not always reading it faithfully (pg924)." This statement bring us back to the original question, which is the title of his essay, "Is the bible true?".
In general, there are similar ethical beliefs amongst Christians due to Judaism being the only root of Christian ethics. In general Christian ethics is deontological and authoritarian and what is deemed right or wrong is based on belief in God. The ethics of Christianity is based on the holy bible, which is a library of books that expresses Christian faith. As the bible was written over a long period of time and includes many different teachings and morals, there is no overall biblical morality that can be chosen therefore different denominations choose different parts of the bible to support their beliefs. 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.
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.
Alan Torrance, in his article titled ‘Being of One Substance with the Father,’ discuses a very important topic concerning Jesus and God the Father. Through his article he hits on many theological points that have very heavy meanings. There are three points that seem to come through throughout the paper; Jesus being one with the father, the Athanasius and Arius debate, and Jesus fully human yet fully divine. The very first sentence of this article describes the first point Alan is trying to make in his article, “At the very heart of the Nicene Creed stand the affirmation that Jesus Christ is ‘God from God, Light from Light, true God form true God, … God came not merely in a human being but as a human.’ This is a resounding topic that Alan keeps driving home throughout this paper; Jesus is fully human and fully divine. We see examples of Jesus being fully human and fully divine all over the New Testament, but we find out that some people only regard the New Testament as “functional” rather than “ontological.” Alan then goes on to tell us that this claim has been shaped differently in the last thirty years so as to say that homoousion exemplifies forms of Christianity that are
For example: * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recognizes four canonized scriptures: the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. Many Mormons consider them to be inerrant in their original form: However, the Church does not teach that the Bible is the Will of God. It teaches that the Bible contains the Will of God. "...the Bible makes no claim to absolute inerrancy, and in fact specifically repudiates this notion." Since the religious texts of various religions and denominations differ greatly from one another, only one of them (at most) can be truly inerrant and infallible.