Kamile Kupcinskaite Professor Bayens REL 200 April 28, 2014 Antipas’ Spiritual Journey: From the Man of Material to the Man of Faith "Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." - Luke 6:38 Antipas of Pergamon was known as a Roman businesses and believer of many gods rather than one God. He is most famously referred to as the “faithful martyr, where Satan dwells” in the book of Revelation (Revelation 2:13).
Just like in a motion picture, lighting is used to create a sense of evil, passion, hope, etc. Caravaggio uses the same to convey the emotion of being caught, put in the spotlight so to speak. It is as if Matthew had done something wrong, and Jesus is calling to him, as the painting is titled, to repent in a way. When looking at Jesus himself, he is not casted in the light. In most paintings including Jesus, he is more often than not the main subject of the piece and because Caravaggio wanted to included the man as well, however him not be the main thing viewers look at first.
James Lane New Testament History 04/29/12 Professor Gary New Testament History and Worldview It is hard to imagine that a Jew started the first Christian church. It began with the calling of his disciples, an unlikely group of men whom he gathered together and taught about the kingdom of God. Becoming a follower of Christ was costly. Besides leaving their professions, they had to leave behind everything in which they were accustomed. In Jesus’ day, Jews were under Roman authority.
In the beginning Poe uses “Prince Prospero” as an allusion to The Tempest and the Bible. According to Cheney Prince Prospero becomes an anti-hero, as an image of a man misusing his will as he attempts to shape reality; the “Red Death” becomes an anti-Christ,” and image of the cosmic force conspiring man’s failure. Charmingly Prince Prospero’s masquerade does not intimately unite earth to heaven, but intimately unites earth to “death” (Cheney). In the end the masquerade is not a new Eden, but a “valley of the shadow of death” (Cheney). Poe uses many things to describe symbolism in “The Masque of the Red Death”.
Another underlying cause to the reformation would be the abusive Church authority. Document 2 says " Fortunate pope, who can cheat Christ with his laws! Quite true, the remedy in such case is not a council" Document 5 says" But by their own invented service of God, holiness, external spiritual exhibition, founded upon human custom s and laws, they have gone astray.." and Document 11 states," Indeed, we declare, announce and define, that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human being to be subject to the Roman pontiff." These documents show the concern of the abusive Church authority and use different examples to prove it. The third underlying causes of the reformation is the straying from the Bible and or altering the scriptures.
In a perfect world the discrepancy between right and wrong would always be clear, rather than a matter of subjectivity. Throughout the decades we have been exposed to various imaginaries of heaven and hell. Within one of the most famous biblical stories, Adam and Eve, we are introduced to the idea of Satan and his ability to take on various shapes. Our devilish temptations are composed of various ideas, desires, addictions, habits, and the list goes on. To put it simply, even today the devil can tempt us, disguised in his various forms.
When Rebecca shows up, she says, “Oh, John-God send his mercy on you!”(Miller 121). Then Proctor signs the confession, and as Danforth reaches for it Proctor jerks it back. After that Danforth wants to take the confession and make it public, but Proctor finally realizes that he has goodness in his name and he has found his self-worth so he rips it up and crumples it. Even though Proctor found the value in his name, it was too late. In conclusion, John Proctor is a tragic hero described by Aristotle.
Paul calls out sexual immorality (v.8) and reminds his audience of the 23,000 (24,000 in the OT account) that died as a penalty of sexual immorality. Paul warns them not to put Christ to the test (v.9-10) as the Israelites who, in their impatience, began to complain about the Lord’s provision and direction which brought about the serpent epidemic that taught them how reliant they were on God (Num. 21:5). Paul explains the these accounts were recorded to serve as warnings to the people of God, of the consequences and outcome of those who hear God’s words and see God’s works but fail to live out true faith in Obedience to Him. Even those who had been recently delivered by God, who witnessed His presence in action, fell into sin and away from God.
Upon meeting his maker, Tyrell highlights Roy’s perfectness, “You were made as well as I could make you”. This acknowledgement however, is not satisfying as Roy confronts Tyrell with the question of prolonging life. When told, however, that this was not a possibility, Roy’s anger leads him to killing his ‘maker’ feeling unsatisfied and disappointed. The anger he feels towards Tyrell leads him to also murder J.R Sebastian, with no need of justification. Like ‘The Creature’, Roy is angry with his maker, though in Scott’s world, if Tyrell is a representation of God, there is an idea that we can ‘kill God’ represented as Roy kills Tyrell.
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.