Christianity: The New Testament

The Old Testament is the largest part of the bible nestled behind the leather binding in the front of the book. Unlike most books, told from one-person or even two this is comprised of multiple, some stories even having two different versions in another point of view; over time it has become a large collection of ancient texts written and re-written by different authors and editors over the many years. The stories show the ancient Israelites, they show the laws, and rituals, which make up their religion and the small embers, which will one day, turn to a flame that is Christianity. The Jewish people view these stories as collected in what they call the Torah, is the collection for what makes up their history and the promise that God gave to them, as well as their laws and what they worship today. For the Christians the Old Testament is still seen as sacred, but most place a stronger importance to the New Testament.

Student Answer: The Bible’s New Testament discusses the person of Jesus, His teachings and also events concerning the first century. The New Testament did assist and still helps in the spread of Christianity all over the world (Brown, 2015). It’s the theology of Christians as well as a manual that guides

To me this is like a very wicked Bible and History book all in one. Just like the Christian Bible it tells the people that there is only one god. The manual goes back to the past on how a group of people come over to their land and took over, by raping virgins, shaving women's hair and so on. When you start reading its confusing but not only does it confusing it tries to make the reader angry by telling them the history, but also make them sick because it tells them to do what happened to them, and do it to others in a kind of Pledger known as "O Sister" In our Christian Bible it states "how the lord will forgive your sins" and "only fear him". In the manual it tells the reader to not fear his creator and Allah will also forgive you as long

Have you ever wondered how Christianity was spread in the early stages? and what influenced it? Rome held a huge part in both of these things. The Roman emperors, culture, and the Roman religion all were things that influenced early Christianity very much.

Christianity has been a part of society for many generations and has always been interpreted, dissected, and taken apart and put back together again in many ways to understand the true meaning of Christianity, but in this awakening the Bible has been misinterpreted, and abused by both sides to gain more favor and power for themselves. This trend had happened for hundreds of years, from the early church, the Catholic Church and the reformation, to many empires and kingdoms, and some governments today. The question is though what can be Christianity be defined as? Liberal or Conservative?

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.

In the New Testament, the main figure Jesus Christ brings us the definitive truth about divine Revelation. In the New Testament the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the main witnesses to the life and teaching of Jesus, forms the heart of all writings and occupy a unique place in Church. It is a collection of 27 Books written in less than 100 years (51 to 105 A.D.) after Christ as a Missionary Handbook. In which proclaims the birth, growth and teachings of the Christian Church. The New Testament is a record of historical events, the ‘good news’ events of the saving life of the Lord Jesus Christ, His life, death, resurrection, ascension and how his work is continued in the world. This overall is explain and asserted by the apostles

While reading the text and the scripture this week I was enlightened as to how much Christianity and the church has changed from the it’s beginning. “At best all our versions of Christianity are inadequate; but we would be saved much inadequacy if we did not test them by our own prejudice and presuppositions or by agreement with this or that theologian but set them in light of the New Testament and above all the light of the cross.” What a thought provoking statement! Digging into the text and the scripture this week many things have been brought to my attention; the first and foremost is that Christianity has become a watered down version of what it was meant to be. The church has allowed the world to take the scripture out of context and twist it into something that conforms to the way of the world.

“In the beginning, God created the Heauen, and the Earth. And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darknesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.” (Genesis 1-3) So begins the first book of the Christian Old Testament, the Hebrew Torah, one of the most recognizable texts in history. At least, the text begins the King James Bible in 1611, itself arguably the most influential version or translation of the Bible today. But this is not the original text. Surprisingly, the original scripture was not written in Early Modern English in the 17th century in the British Isles, but in Hebrew and possibly Aramaic, while the New Testament was written in Koine Greek. In fact, the original Hebrew looked nothing like our Latin script of today. Hebrew is a Semitic language, and therefore an Afroasiatic one, while English is Indo-European, and you would be hard pressed to find someone who believes that the two fall into a larger, connected language family besides some Indian nationalists who believe that all languages are derived from Sanskrit, or Tamil. And although there is much borrowing and exchanging of roots and words, modern English speakers have no mutual intelligibility with Hebrew. As Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said in his Letters and Social Aims, “Language is a city to the building of which every human has brought a stone.” It’s a nice concept, and it would be hard

OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND: The New Testament Pilgrim is instructed to walk "in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called." (Eph. 4.1). This walk includes: humility, gentleness, patience, tolerance, love, unity of Spirit and faith (Eph. 4.2-3). The Christian Pilgrim is not to walk as the Gentiles (Pagans) walk, but walk by putting on the new self, which is in the likeness of God (Eph. 4.23-24). To do this we are to "lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" (Heb, 12.1). This is the sentiment of the remaining five Psalms of Ascent.

The doctrine or belief that God is actively involved with His creation plays a large role in the way in which people particularly members of the Christian Church and people in general interact with those within a chosen vocation. On a fundamental level, this notion implies a degree of deference, if not outright reverence, that people have for those within a certain vocation. Additionally, this doctrine helps to reinforce the feeling and manifestations of faith in the person participating in a certain vocation, which merely helps to magnify the faith that adherents have to a particular religion. Ultimately, the conception that God is involved with his creations helps to associate some of the beneficent qualities of God towards those of a particular vocation, such as a priest, which serves to provide a divine foundation upon which the various entities and components of the Christian church are based.

The Bible is the (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) to all who believes and followers of Christ Jesus. The Bible is consisted of sixty-six books written by nearly forty authors. In the Old Testament there are thirty-nine books and twenty-seven in the New Testament. The New Testament is the second half of God’s truth and instructions for the believers. The canonization process for the New Testament is easier to trace, even though some questions cannot be fully answered. The Pauline Epistles were collected and considered to be in authoritative in the half of the second century. The four gospels is the gateway of valuable information about Christ Jesus and sets everything in motion for Paul letters to the churches.

The first 39 books of the larger work called the Bible, is called the Old Testament. The Bible itself is arguably the best selling and most read book of all time, yet it’s well known to be quite challenging to read through and understand. The Old Testament portion of the Bible, notably the most difficult portion of the Bible for most to study and follow, yields 39 books from multiple authors, and spans over 4000 years of crucial world and church history. If that were not enough to take on, the Old Testament comes our way through multiple styles of authorship and formats, including but not limited to, books of history, law, proverbs, ethics,

The New Testament is a collection of books which contains the writings concerning the significant events in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. These books appeared after the physical death of Jesus Christ. In this regard, Jesus had left no records concerning him, and all that is written about him depends wholly on what other people have written about him. The first four books of the New Testament are part of the several biographies of Jesus which were written by the end of the first century of the era of Christianity. Then before any of these biographies have been drafted, there were Christian communities which were being instructed through epistles on how to live like Jesus and how to solve their problem like Christians. A good number of these letters were written by a man called Paul. After Paul death, some other new leaders of the Christian movement continued to write letters to the churches to encourage and strengthen them. As Christians grew in number persecution arose, and some letters have been drafted to support them and also to counter the false doctrines. These letters are part of the New Testament. The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were selected from the list of writings in that period (Bruce, 1988)

As a Christian we learn a lot about God, Jesus, people in the Bible, and life lessons. Sometimes, though, we forget about the basics of being a Christian or even a human being. In Romans, Paul helps us better understand the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and culture. Through a better understanding of these subjects, we gain a closer relationship with Jesus and the people around us. Romans gives us a base for our faith and a reason to appreciate God and Jesus.