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Christian Church Research Paper

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During my time at USD I have taken a few classes pertaining to the Christian community. While they all stressed the importance of Jesus; it never really explained in detail his influence upon the Christian church. I was born and raised in Atlanta, which you know is the bible belt. Growing up in rural Atlanta I attended a Baptist Church at least three times a week. While I learned about God through my personal reading and interpretation, my pastor taught a different explanation. He constructed a God that was feared in both the Old and New Testament beside a Jesus that was loving and caring. Pastors in my community would talk about Gods purposeful mishaps and mistakes while highlighting Jesus’s perfection. Even as an adult you see the Church …show more content…

My problem is we start to reflect God through human characteristics. We begin to tag more flaws on to God and sometimes only accept his perfection through his counterpart. As the JTC states, “Jesus was an innovator.” Why don’t we follow his lead in that way? If Jesus can be a rabbi, amen, messiah, and mar; then why can’t we take on multiple ways of viewing his role in Gods revealing. According to the Old Testament God revealed himself a long time ago and Christianity somehow created a living being though it’s religion. Paul (the church) manifested itself from the blessing of Jesus through God. My only fear is that we millennials loose foresight of the actual Glory of the living God. We wait for the Revelation as if the sun doesn’t raise and fall every day. I don’t get why we pause time in our minds through religion and teach other generations to do the same. I personally don’t see any progression, just repetition. I’m interested to see how Jesus’s monophysitism became the only way to understand God’s complexity. People normally ask WWJD and practice imitation Christi but WWGD. Are we too complexed by God’s methods that Jesus is now the only form of God, and everything else is just nature or a mere mystery. Like God created the world, participated a bit, came through Jesus and dipped. I think we respect both nurtures history and natures raft through the scope of our own understanding of humanity. We guess God through Jesus because that’s all people can hold on too because they may be scared to think that there may be other answers out in the world. Sorry, I’m starting to go on a philosophical tangent, so I will stop

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