Continuing Revelation Summary

The unspeakable word, made Equality an individual person. The council had worked so hard in their life to make sure that no one person could be an individual. Everyone must be equal.

The use of a particular character can alter the way we perceive a story. Dynamic characters are usually the main characters in a story and the traits they have are usually what the entire story is based upon. They also bring most of the action in a reading.

In the article, Baptists and the Ecumenical Movement by John Briggs, the role and history of Baptists in their engagement with the Ecumenical Movement is discussed. This article critique will summarize the main points of the article, as well as look at the strengths and weaknesses. The conclusion of this critique will determine the overall effectiveness of the article itself.

The book of Hebrews was written by a Christian scholar and not by one of the Gospels. I knew that many authors made up the New Testament but I did not know scholars wrote some books a well. Hebrews writer was someone who linked the Hebrew Bible along with Greek philosophy. The writer never identifies himself but his views on the end times were very strong. He assumes that there is an existence of two parallel worlds: the eternal and the perfect realm of spirits. This is something that I have never heard before. This writer is the only person to speak of Jesus as the mediator between God and humanity. He has so much insight on what was happening or what was to happen but we do not know who this person was. Hebrew is written very differently and some of the

This issue was doctrinal. In chapters 4 and 5, Smith takes boundless lengths to show that historically Baptists have detained that the Bible is the inspired Word of God and it alone stands as the principal authority in all substances of doctrine. This did not refute the use of confessions. Baptist associations did use confessions to express their views and differentiate themselves from other denominations. Though Baptists also contributed to the notion of soul liberty, this was not seen as a chance to advance from confessional ethics. (Pp. 11-12)

He laments, “In some seminaries today pastors are not trained to use the Bible for ministry decisions.” (12) He argues that the contrasting errors of adding human rules to God’s Word and ignoring it all together, both reject the authority and the sufficiency of Scripture. Rienow maintains that Scripture is not relegated to the realm of ‘religion,’ but is sufficient for issues that we face day to day including family, marriage, education and government. He warns that taking a stand on the sufficiency of Scripture can be dangerous. He points out that Scriptural authority has been replaced outside and inside the church. He states, “We have become twisted and governed by a bizarre mix of feelings, personal experience, human wisdom and pragmatism, rather than the Scriptures.”

The poem Revelation, by Liz Lochead, is a gripping story about a chance encounter that leads the reader into a deeper understanding of the poem’s underlying theme. The poem focuses on a girl who is visiting a farm and is given the opportunity to see a bull that is kept out of sight. Lochhead manages to grasp the reader’s imagination by the use of word choice, sentence structure, imagery and personification. This allows the reader to visualize the recurring theme of sexual awakening within the poem. Liz Lochhead, creates a deeper understanding of the poem’s theme by her word choice, which helps explain the events leading up to the young girl’s encounter with the bull. She uses the word ‘threshold’, which describes the girl standing at the opening of the barn. The word has connotations of a crossover from innocence to experience. At this point in time the girl is standing at the edge of purity, about to step over to the other side revealing something unknown to her. This describes to the reader that she has reached the stage in her life where she is ready to be exposed to her sexual awakening and the evil that is prominent in the world. The writer then builds on this motif by the way she structures the poem in the lead up to the girl meeting the bull. In stanza one she adds ‘the hot reek of him. Then he was immense’. The use of the caesura adds a dramatic effect to the poem causing the reader to pause, instilling fear. It makes the reader realise that this isn’t just a chance encounter after all, as it has a great impact on the young girl. From this one encounter the girl remembers the bull’s overwhelming smell & body heat.

George concludes his admonishment of the clergy, “By all means let us be kind, generous and helpful to Negroes and all men, but let us rid ourselves of the delusion that Christianity requires us to sacrifice our children and our children’s children to the cause of integration.” [Contrary to the teachings of the integrationist clergy, God does not demand the sacrifice of our children. He abhors such sacrifice.]

“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone un-der.” This would go on to be one of President Ronald Reagan’s most famous quotes spoken at the Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas. However, this was not the first time Reagan made God the heart of the discussion. A year earlier Reagan gave a speech that while criticized would become widely commemorated as it caused the fall of the “Evil Empire.” The “Evil Em-pire” speech was given on March 8th, 1983 at the annual National Association of Evangelicals Conference in Orlando, Florida. The purpose of him giving this speech was to promote his poli-cies and legislation. He wanted the audience on his side in all aspects including anti-abortion leg-islation,

Flannery O’Connor’s cultural background influenced the development of “Revelation” and helps establish a sense of understanding among her readers. O’Connor’s Southern upbringing is a critical factor rooted deeply within the conflicts throughout this story. During her lifetime, the social structure’s rigidity in the South was based on lifestyle and race and dictated an individual’s treatment in society; those less fortunate were considered inferior and were therefore subject to lower standards. This prejudice environment focused mainly on an individual’s physical characteristics and his or her race that helped influence her characters’ relative categories in “Revelation.” The protagonist, Mrs. Turpin, characterizes higher-class women as “well-dressed

Protecting the rights and dignity of the poor and oppressed is the most important moral duty of the church.’ Critically evaluate this statement with reference to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King.

Church history reveals that a number of serious biblical doctrinal controversies occurred during the late 1800s and early 1900s that gave occasion for the formulation of certain fundamentalist principals to be implemented as a clarification and remedy against unbiblical manifestations. The authority of the Bible was brought into serious question.

In Baptist history there has always been differences in doctrine. This has unfortunately resulted, at times, to separate believers from one another. This can be evident from comparing two American Baptist confessions. The most notable difference in doctrine between The Philadelphia Confession of 1742 and A Treatise on the Faith of the Free Will Baptists, 1834 and 1948 is the doctrine of Calvinism versus free-will. The Philadelphia Confession supported Calvinism and the Free Will Baptists supported Arminianism. A closer look at these two confessions show that throughout Baptist history certain doctrines remain constant while others are debated and cause separation of believers. However, this has not stopped the Gospel message to be preached

To start this off, I don’t know much about the New Testament but I can name a few specifics. For instance, the first four books of the New Testament are all the same story just different perspectives. I know that the book of Revelation is a story of the end of times, written by John. However, Jesus was speaking through John, as he wrote the book. I know that Jesus was born of a virgin, named Mary. Jesus, before his time, had performed his first miracle of turning water into wine. By the age of thirteen, John the Baptist had baptized him. From that moment on, Jesus was now the man he was called to be, our Savior. I know that Jesus traveled through the Middle East, to more place than we know, performing miracles, such as, healing a leper, making

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.