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.
According to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church , the Didache is a collection of short teachings on morality and on the practises of the Church. The word itself, which is Greek, means “teaching”, for the Didache teaches us about ideas of the Twelve Apostles, and its full title is thought to be ‘The Lord’s Instruction to the Gentiles through the Twelve Apostles’ . It is one of the oldest patriarchal writings in the Christian Church. It consists of sixteen chapters, and the date, the author, and the place of origin are not fully known, although many scholars believe it was written in the first century. It is thought that it may have been written by a group of Jewish Christians, similar to Jesus, who were interested in building a network of Christian communities.
Secondly, the transformation of their hearts to accept Christianity fully. Therefore, Paul took many pains in clarifying any doubts that arose in the minds of his listeners after each sermon. He also took much care in guarding his message reflective of Christ against evil forces. Pattern of Paul’s sermon: By taking a close look at the details of each of Paul’s Sermon we can come to an overall conclusion of a pattern. We must further realize that some of the sermons do not speak directly of the exact pattern mentioned in the points below, however, the overall intension and conclusion of his message was the same.
According to hard determinism we are not free in the sense required for moral responsibility, and therefore, what happens cannot be affected by choices that are free in the sense. But what happens may nevertheless be caused by the decisions we chose and the choices we make. A reaction to hard determinism is that if it were true, we would have no reason to attempt to accomplish anything, to try and improve our lives because our decisions and choices would make no difference. If everything we do is pre determined then why try hard to achieve anything, if you are meant to do a certain something, it will happen, it is already determined for you, so the hard determinist would say. In the hard determinist’s judgement, this feeling of freedom is an illusion.
Goal Statement I have been exposed to Christian theism therefore I consider myself to be a Christian. When I realized I was only a Christian from exposure was disturbing, therefore I decided I must expand my knowledge of worldviews. Therefore, I can say that I have started a journey towards an unknown world to learn whether the foundation I stand upon is stable or not. Being a Christian I believe that after death, a human’s soul goes to God for its judgment. God judges and decides whether a soul may stay in heaven or sends it to hell, this decision is eternal.
BOOK OF JAMES The book I chose to write about is the book of James, which is present in the New Testament of the Christian bible. The book of James was written around 45 A.D., which would make it the first book written in the New Testament. There are four different James’ that occur throughout the bible, but though the process of elimination most people believe it was James the brother of Jesus who wrote the book of James. The process of elimination that people use is not a complicated one. They eliminate James the son of Zebedee because he died in 44 A.D. so if the book of James was written in 45 A.D. it would be impossible for this James to have written the book.
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?".
They warn the hearer of the consequences of not persevering in the Christian faith. One such passage is given in full length at the beginning of this document so that it will not have to be mentioned in full detail again. The passage reads: Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the
This book is much like what most Christians use called the Holy Bible. They both contain scriptures that are believed to be actually sent from God and is God’s word and will. Jehovah’s Witnesses also Use and distribute a publication called the Watchtower. They use the Watchtower to go over certain subjects such as avoiding premarital sex and the grieving process when losing a loved one. Christians believe that there is only one God.
And for the Christian believer, Remembrance Sunday has an especial and deeper significance. In remembering those who laid down their lives for our earthly freedom, our minds fly naturally to the One who laid down his life for an even greater freedom - freedom from the condemnation of sin - and freedom for Christian believers to live with God as members of his family for all eternity. When Christ died on the cross, he was paying the price of sin. He was setting the Christian believer free from the consequences of sin, the righteous judgement of God. As