Anthony's Explanation Of Scripture

The Book of Eli is the Bible. The worldview depicted in the movie is that of Theism. Eli held this worldview through his belief of Christianity in my opinion. Although the movie never actually states that Eli is a Christian, he was tasked with delivering the words of the Bible to the west. The bible is considered to be a written record of how God communicated with man. Although they are many different types of bibles, the common factor is this book is full of scriptures and text considered sacred. Eli is on a mission to head to the west, I feel it is God telling him to go west to complete this extraordinary task. Along the way he encounters Carnegie and his followers. You have heard the phrase knowledge is power, and power corrupts.

The movie “Pleasantville” (Produced and directed by Gary Ross in 1988) is more than just your ordinary film. Pleasantville sends a message within a message. Not only is it a great film, (made popular by New Line Cinema) it contains numerous biblical references. Some of the biblical references in this film may be easier to see and understand than others. But when asked to analyze this film and critique the biblical references you will understand just how many there are.

Therefore, one question remains: how does one endure suffering? How does the author of Hebrews expect a community, which has been ridiculed and rejected to the point they are tempted to abandon Christ, to endure suffering? The author claims that faith is the means by which the community will endure. The author spends the last section of the book of Hebrews (10:32-13:25) exhorting the readers to remain steadfast and faithful amidst their suffering (Thompson 200). A powerful rhetoric occurs in chapter 11 of Hebrews, as the author uses examples of faith and endurance to urge the audience towards faithfulness, beginning with the statement: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1), and thus setting the stage for an exposition depicting people, whom throughout history, remained faithful to God without seeing a world in subjection to Him. F.F. Bruce states that the people listed, in what is often referred to as the

In His faithfulness, the Lord as Divine Judge will judge His covenant people Israel after they disregard their covenant obligations and then offer them deliverance once they demonstrate repentance.

Many preachers within contemporary Christendom take license when dealing with Scriptures speaking of judgment and eternal damnation. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was no such preacher, for he unashamedly proclaimed the judgment of God upon unrepentant sinners. The “fire and brimstone” preaching Edwards demonstrates the sagacity of a true man of God; for he did not take exception to difficult passages of Scripture simply because they are uncomfortable, or might offend some of a more than holy opinion of themselves.

The Hebrew Bible contains contradictory and inadequate information, which impacts my views about what the Hebrew Bible, says and what the Bible means. It has multiple significances. It is evident that various scriptures in the Hebrew Bible do not say what it means, nor does it mean what it says. “Ultimately, it 's going to take some detective work in an effort to enhance interpretation further.”[pg. 6].

I can find realness, relevancy and meaning in each of the stories we read this week, as well as each of the stories we have read up to this point in our class because there were parts of each book that I can relate to. Looking at the Bible as a whole there will always be parts of each book that you can associate yourself with because ultimately it is like Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz explain in Knowing the Bible 101: A Guide to God’s Word in Plain Language “The whole Bible is the story of God’s plan of salvation for fallen man” (p. 120). In each of the books we have read you can read of pain, sorrow, triumph, knowledge and redemption, and each of these pieces are also found throughout our story.

A passage/theme that interest me the idea of being alive in Christ. Ephesians 2:4-5 speak about this concept in great detail. I think that this idea of being made alive is very important because it helps to understand one’s identity in Christ. Ephesians speak of many things that relates to who we are in Christ and the spiritual benefits to being in Christ. It is important to me that we as Christians live out our lives as people who are alive in Christ and not like those who are spiritually dead, who live in disobedience to God and delight in the things of the world.

It is here in these mountains that Anthony fought “...against the Devil, withstanding a series of temptations famous in Christian theology and iconography.” (“Saint Anthony of Egypt”). After spending time with God for almost 20 years in the mountains, Anthony started writing rules for monastic life. He wrote these rules “...in the Eastern Desert, between the Nile and the Red Sea, where the monastery Dayr Mārī Antonios still stands.” (Saint Anthony of Egypt).

Then those would be real assumptions that Sandy is actually using. As it now stands, Sandy is confusing reality with make believe. Sandy is confusing revelation with assumption. Now, let’s get back to the discussion:

Overall, there seems to be a very high Christology in the New Testament. However, due to the various authors of the books that comprise the anthology, there is an inherent variation of the level of Christology found between the different books. In order to examine the Christology of a religious text, one must first understand the notion of Christology. Christology refers to the level of divinity that Jesus is portrayed to have, and can be understood as a spectrum with an extremely high Christology at one end and an extremely low Christology at the other. The highest possible Christology refers to texts in which Jesus is described at being equal to God, while the lowest possible Christology refers to texts in which Jesus is described as being completely human. These extremes are typically never fully realized in the New Testament; a position on the spectrum between them is usually taken. When analyzing the Christology of the Gospel of Mark, the Book of Revelation, and the Pauline Epistles, it becomes apparent that there is in fact a difference in the Christology of the three. Mark seems to have a lower Christology than the Pauline Epistles, which have a lower Christology than the book of Revelation, which has a very high Christology.

I believe that scripture is the infallible Word of God, divinely inspired by God through human hands, for the teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training of Christians and forming the basis of the Christian life and guiding them on the path to Christ. I believe that scripture is infallible rather than inerrant, because human writers through which God spoke can still make mistakes. However, Matthew 24:35 reminds us that God’s word is true in all ages and places. 2 Timothy 3:16 gives reasons why it is import for believes to use the scripture such as teaching and correcting. Scripture guides us along the path we should as evidences by Psalms 119:105 comparing Scripture to a lamp to show us the way. I have also personal experienced the wisdom that the scriptures can offer to those who need guidance. I also believe that scripture should be the main point of guidance, which is something that my church has taught me such I was young. Matthew 7:24 instructs us to build our house on the rock (scripture) which is the most solid place to rest our life.

Throughout the description of St. Anthony’s life, he conformed himself to these models. To this end, this essay explores ways in which St. Anthony’s life conformed to these models. One of the first ways St. Anthony’s life conformed to St. Athanasius’ model was his first step into asceticism (Robert 26).

Anthony first taught in a friary in Bologna, which became a famous school. The theology book of the time was the Bible. In one extant sermon by the saint, there are at least 183 passages from Scripture. While none of his theological conferences and discussions were written down, we do have two volumes of his sermons: Sunday Sermons and Feastday Sermons. His method included much of allegory and symbolical explanation of

the formation of early Christendom. Born in Caesarea around 260c.e., he was mentored by Pamphilus,