Diversity In The New Testament

scholarship. I feel that chapter four is more important than chapter three because the topic is

The evidence that exists to prove the diversity of the early Christian community is the many other writings which have been discovered by historians from the same time period (Harris 2014). In addition, the writings reveal that each separate group of Christians from this era had their own understanding of what Jesus was teaching His followers. The “fifth gospel” of Thomas paints the picture of Jesus as a guide towards His disciples by enlightening them with the message that God’s Kingdom already rules, but many people would not believe him. The portrait that Thomas provokes is an example of the diversity of the early writers and several of his ideas are similar to Matthew, Mark, and Luke (Harris 2014).

13) The Creation of the World; the Garden of Eden; Adam and Eve; Original Sin; the Fall

I live near Montrose, Colorado, an inconsequential city of a mere twenty thousand inhabitants. Within this reasonably small town, a total of thirty-six distinct churches serve those who profess to know Christ. The astounding variety of denominations in the United States certainly evidences itself in Montrose. In stark contrast, these divisions did not even exist among the Christians of the first century A.D. Many denominational splits occur because Christians clash over authority or disagree on doctrine. I believe that churches should, first and foremost, recognize Christ as the sole head, avoid petty man-made divisions over slight discrepancies in man's interpretation of the Bible, and yet not hesitate to disassociate

The first written accounts or evidence of diversity in early Christianity can be found in Paul’s first letters from about 50-62 CE. His letters explain that there were Christian communities throughout the Roman Empire before there were written Gospels and provide a look into the life of early Christian communities. Furthermore, first letters were written to non-Jewish congregations and advocated for Christian’s total freedom from the bondage of Mosaic Law (Harris, 2014; Borg, 2012). In the Gospel of Matthew, the opposite is proposed in that converted Jews should continue obedience to the Mosaic Law. There are also other documents decades after Jesus’ life that tell of his significance in their historical context.

During Part 3: From Jesus to Christ, I was challenged by the fact that the gospels were written many years after Jesus’s death, the diversity in perspectives of the in the New Testament and the mentioning that we may have been misinterpreting the Bible versus the Bible being written incorrectly. In the beginning of my Bible studies it never occurred to me to ask when the Gospels were written in relation to Jesus death. I assumed that the Gospels were written immediately after his death because of the great detail of the gospels, making me presume that they were firsthand accounts from those writing the Gospels. Professor White discussed that Jesus died and no written account in 30 CE was still made of his death.

In Acts13:1-4, While a couple of the prophets and teachers gat together to fast and worship the Lord. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them” (Paul, 2007, Acts 13:2). Every one had prayed for them and then Saul and Barnabas went on their way to Seleucia and then sailed to Cyprus. “When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. “John was with them as their helper” (Paul, 2007, Acts 13:5). Paul and Barnabas had left the church in Syria in answering God’s calling to proclaim Christ. The Plain that Paul and Barnabas had was to go to synagogues to evangelize and preach the gospel there. But many of the Jews rejected Christ. Later on the missionaries had come to recognize that God called them to witness to the Gentiles.

There are many central themes that are in the Old Testament, and many may say that there is only one theme of the Old Testament, which is Jesus, and even though that is true in a lot of ways due to the fact that a lot of the minor prophets actually talk about the coming of Jesus, His death and His resurrection. However, I have discovered five main themes of the Old Testament that I found quite interesting. And in this paper I will discuss two of them. I believe one of the most important themes of the Old Testament is Covenant.

There were at least 3 views of how the Old Testament was composed which include the critical view, the compositional view, and the common view. Each view was somewhat similar and different in the aspects that gave it it's own characteristics. The main point of this discussion is to focus on the similarities and differences of each view which are but not limited to how the bible was created, the process, and design.

My paper deals with the passage of the apostle Luke regarding Jesus instruction to the disciples. He, Luke, addressed the issue of remembering and believing the promises that need to be fulfill by the Messiah. He reported it this way: “And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory? Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.” (Luke 24: 25-27)(NASB) In the following paragraphs, I will consider the four senses of this passage, biblical typology, and the second narrative method of uncovering the whole story of the Bible.

Jesus had died, but his words continued to spread all over the world that helped the Church growth. Another important factor in the Spread of the Church was the New Testament Canon. The Canon teaches the life of Jesus and his journey all over the world to save lives. The Canon is a set of books of the Gospel, Revelation, Acts, and Letters that helped the Church expansion. The book of Acts, the expansion also consists of spiritual growth. Holy Spirit, loving relationship with the Father and Christ-centered in the Church helped the growth. The spreading of the gospel from the 12 disciples helped the Church grow. The Book of Acts talks about the life of Jesus and his ministry, death, and

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 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.

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 their congregation, the average person is white and age 60 or older. Chances are if you are a student at TCU or Brite, you will run into one or more of your professors. A lot of TCU and Brite professors attend and participate in the life of University Christian Church. Some could call the people of UCC a “high dollar” church based on how many scholarly people attend their services. Also a way to know that the church has money is looking at their youth. A majority of the youth attends some sort of private school. There is not a broad range of diversity in this community. The one advantage that this church community has is being right next to the University. They are able to be an active voice on the university campus and the location helps