Contemporary Appretation Of Contemporary Interpretations Of Sacred Scripture

For years people have had a hard time distinguishing the difference between Christians and Jews. Even when reading about these two religions, they are very similar. There are two main differences that stand out the most amongst these religions. One of them is that Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah while Jews believe He was a prophet. The other difference is their opinions on sacred text. Jewish people and Christians both have sacred text; however, Christians believe that the Bible is meant to be read as a text as a whole.

The sin stories in the Book of Genesis address theological, cosmic, social, and ethical questions. These sin stories, The Fall of Man, Cain and Abel, and Noah and the Flood, and The Tower of Babel show the functions of myths and demonstrate man's likeliness to sin. These myths let the readers learn of the culture, beliefs, and foundation of the time.

Over the centuries, Christianity has organised its beliefs into a systematic theology that draws from its sacred writing and tradition. While the main beliefs of Christianity are shared by all Christian variants, there are degrees of different in the interpretation of these beliefs and how they are lived out in everyday life. This can be seen in the important of sacred text, principle belief of the concept of salvation in John 3:16, principle belief of divine and humanity in ‘John 1:14’, principle belief of resurrection in ‘Mark 16:1-8’, principle belief of revelation in ‘1 corinthians14:6’, and beliefs through the Trinity in ‘2 Corinthians 13:14’. This essay will explain the important of the sacred text and the principal beliefs of Christianity.

The presence of fundamental storytelling methods across the globe establishes a universal connection between societies. Contrasting cultures influence variation among symbolism and moral values, however collective literary essentials exist. For instance, an abundance of flood stories that expand across the world verifies a connection among the traditions of mankind. The strong resemblance between the flood accounts in the ancient Mesopotamian myth The Epic of Gilgamesh and the biblical narrative of Noah’s Ark in The Genesis propose a closer relationship that encourages further analysis. The major plot points are echoed in both texts despite differentiation of detail, however the crucial distinctions are observed through the contrasting religious themes. In contrast to Gilgamesh, the Genesis is a religious narrative that promotes monotheistic ideals. Both texts articulate nearly identical scenarios, however the Genesis adaptation provides a Christian perspective by offering moral interpretation. Further exploration of both assists in the determination of significance between the differences.

As told by infamous author Carlos Fuentes, “There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation of the past.” (Fuentes 1) This idea is expertly shown through F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s persistent use of Christian allusions within their respective novels, The Great Gatsby and The Old Man and the Sea. In these two classic novels, the authors intertwine the fictional stories and characters with that of Christian symbolism and allusions, as a reflection of their own religious faith. This is demonstrated through the authors’ shared religious beliefs which influenced their individual writing styles and plots, the hidden Christian allusions and motifs shown through the

While Hollywood’s prominent objective is to create a mockery through the portrayal of the “Black church”, Tyler Perry reinforces the religious views through his works by producing and broadcasting African American church culture in an authentic manner. Prior to Perry building a multimillion dollar empire within the entertainment industry, he was once an outcast to the Hollywood mainstream and dealt with personal experiences that only his faith got him through. Perry’s poor lifestyle before such a remarkable success in marketing movies, has allowed him to develop and share meaningful messages through his films.

While reading the novel “Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes” one might’ve found the same following points and given a summary about the misreading’s and hidden points in the bible. “Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes” gives the reader well enlightened concepts to the bible that before might have been obscured, but now have been broken down into terms that people from the western part of the world can comprehend “such as ice bergs.” The author uses many a resemblances to the bible and how other supportive countries of our world see it inversely. The author uses these metaphors to build an understanding for the reader so that they can make comparisons themselves.

There are times when a movie is made that is said to have themes that are parallel to themes in various religious cultures; the Matrix, written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, is one of those movies. The Matrix series eventually ended in a Trilogy with fans stating that there were various religious connections throughout all three movies. For the purpose of this reflection I will be focusing on the original Matrix movie. I will also focus mostly on the Christian religious ties that are sprinkled throughout the first movie. Finally, I will explore the idea that Neo, is represented as a savior of sorts and how this can tie into saviors of any religion.

WALL-E is a robot who was left on Earth when it was too polluted for even people to live on it. Only one was left, and his everyday job is to go around and get trash off the ground to build these towards that look like buildings. His reason for doing this is to clean up the Earth, hopefully making it safe for humans to emigrate back to Earth. One day, WALL-E is out and about just doing his job, and he sees a red dot. Of course, he goes and follows it. It ends up leading him to a ship that came down from space, and Eve pops out. Eve, a robot sent from Earth to see if there is any plant life still on Earth. WALL-E and Eve end up becoming great friends, so great of friends that they fall in love. WALL-E is a very caring robot.

On December 23rd, 2016 a movie directed by Martin Scorsese was released in theaters. Since the movie premiere, there has been a whopping uproar in the religious community on the movie. One Christian believes that the movie portrayed Christianity as weakness (Roys, 6). While another person felt as though, “Silence transcends any simple definition and ascends to the realm of masterful beauty” (Goble, 6). The movie “Silence” is based on the 17th century Portuguese missionaries who traveled to Japan, to witness that Christianity was forbidden and people had to go underground if they wanted to praise their Lord and Savior (Peterson, 1).

Art was very important in the Judaism, Christianity and Islam religion, and it was incorporated in different forms. According to the text about religions, one example of art was music. They had a close relationship because of music and prayer, since music for all of the three religions was only meant for prayers. They were also passed orally from generation to generation.

The topic I chose for this research paper is “In what ways does the life of Christ, his death burial and resurrection for the sins of the world give justification to discriminate or practice prejudice? I plan to examine how the life of Christ his death and resurrection for the sins of the world gave people justification to discriminate and practice prejudice against one another. I will critique two sources that roughly address this question. Leo D. Lefebure, “Violence in the New Testament and the History of Interpretation” and “Christianity and Violence” written by Miroslav Volf are the two sources I will examine and using for my analytical research.

After the formation of the Christian Church, many people disagreed on the interpretation of the Bible, which ended in the branching out of different Christian beliefs. The Orthodox Christians hated these changes and called these new views on the Bible “heresies”. Heresies are any opinion that went against the original or normal way of thinking. Arianism, Bogomil, and Tri Theists are three of those challenged beliefs.

Wall-E a suffered damage when chased by inter AUTO, brought by EVE to Earth for repairs, damage to the memory Wall-E-Wall-E lead to losing her memory about what was experienced by him over the past 700 years. However, as the story of cartoons, there is always a happy ending. Wall-E again conscious and can remember remember what he experienced. The House of humans back to Earth and restore it while Wall-E get thinking angannya, i.e., holding the hand of EVE, as a sign of love.

Biblical Interpretation is important and necessary so that we can understand what the text is saying, what the intended theological message is, and how to personally apply and teach these Scriptural truths to carry forward the Gospel in rescuing others from despair and death to hope and life, thus displaying His glory and growing His Kingdom. It is about finding what God is revealing about Himself and His Son Jesus Christ. Moreover, it is for us to know that God desires to have a relationship with us and for us to be set apart in a covenant relationship with Him to display holy lives that bring Him glory. Interpretation, using hermeneutical principles, help guide us in proper boundaries for interpreting Scripture so that we can reveal the intended meaning of the text. Without this, we run the risk of imposing our own ideas on the text, therefore misinterpreting. Misinterpreting can cause us to miss theological truths, administer the wrong application, and neglect or overlook the meaning of the text which weakens the impact of God’s truth in our personal lives as well as others we are teaching.