Jesus 1-10 Research Paper

During my high school career I was able to make lots of friendships, but had few close friendships. I was unable to have a large amount of girlfriends, because I did not feel a good connection with them. Instead, I hung out with a group of guys and had two girlfriends who had similar life stories. When I was sixteen I started working and that was something I enjoyed doing to make money. Once high school was over I felt like I had so much to look forward to. When college came around I didn’t see the same people every day and had to make new friends here at Anderson. This was challenging for me, because the dorms are full of females which was something that I have not been used to.

The prophets are difficult to interpret mainly due to misunderstandings about their function and form (Fee/Stuart p182). Most dictionaries define the word “prophecy”as ‘foretelling or prediction of what is to come. Using the prophets in this way is highly discerning, for less than 2% of OT prophecy is messianic; less than 5% describes the new covenant age and less than 1% concerns future events (Fee/Stuart p182). The prophets usually announced the immediate future of Judah, Israel and the surrounding nations, rather than our future. Those events were forthcoming for them but past for us (Fee/Stuart p182). The primary function of prophets as a spokesperson was to speak for God to their own contemporaries. Of the hundreds of prophets in

Prophets declared Gods word as His spokesmen, he did not serve himself, he served the Lord “I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him” (Deut. 18:18). God chose certain people to be able to speak His Word not by their

Our relationships with other people give a strong sense of what our relationship with God is like. How we interact with people on a daily basis and the relationships that we build goes a long way in showing just how we feel about them. In Romans 1:10 we see that Paul wanted desperately to come to Rome to teach, to interact, to fellowship, and build relationships with the Christians that were there. Just as God wants a personal relationship with His creation we all feel a deep need for relationships with each other. It was not meant for man to go through life on his own without being able to interact with each other. We see the genuine love that Paul displayed toward the people and churches throughout his epistles and it should make us want to have an even stronger relationship with our Creator.

While Aelred does believe that friendship does exist in monastic culture, as well as all cultures, he seeks to find an appropriate version of friendship. Aelred explains, "Now the spiritual, which we call true friendship, is desired not with an eye to any worldly profit or for any extraneous reason, but for its own natural worth and for the emotion of the human heart, so that its fruit and reward is nothing but itself"(Aelred, 64). In this passage, Aelred explains how spiritual friendship is the purest and only acceptable form of friendship for monastic culture. He describes that friendship should be for no other purpose than for the use of human connection, expecting nothing material in return from a friend. When introducing this concept, Aelred seeks to provide a new type of friendship, for monks, that is separate from the aristocratic, carnal and worldly, friendships that are not virtuous and thus unacceptable in monastic culture.

Just because God’s blessed you where you are doesn’t mean you can just sit back and settle there, you have to stay open to what God is doing now. What worked five years ago may not work today, if you’re going to be successful you have to be willing to change, every blessing is not supposed to be permanent, every provision is not supposed to last forever. We should constantly evaluate our friendships, who’s speaking into your life? Who are you depending on? Make sure they're not dragging you down limiting you from blossoming, everybody is not supposed to be in our life forever, if you don't get rid of the wrong friends you will never meet the right

As we look back to the definition of Theology being the study of the nature of God and religious belief I can see it being applied to each area of life listed in this week’s Discussion Board instructions. For me, I see it very vital to apply this study to that of friendship. I think each of us can relate as we all have had or have friends in our lives. As Professor Josh Chatraw said, everything for Christians should be thought about theologically I think about the topic of friendship theologically in that I constantly seek approval from my friends. Many people find their identity in their friends. They believe if they do what the crowd is doing then people would accept them. They feel their uniqueness is determined by what their friends are

There is no room in God’s House for the buddy system that is running rampant in His House today. God has created His Church to function as one body with many different parts – men, women and children who are gifted according to the will of the Father as

The context of Gen. 15:6 is also important. Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

If you were to ask Jesus Christ whether he has friends, he would most likely say of course I do, I am certainly friends with all of God’s children. However, after reading Aristotle, the question becomes, ‘If Jesus has friends, of which sort are they?’. Aristotle defines friendship as, “Any association of people who spend time and do things together, share in pains and pleasure, and wish for each other’s good,” (Nicomachean Ethics 1166a 1-10). Addressing each aspect of this definition, with the twelve disciples in mind, the reader concludes that they certainly spend time together, share in pains and pleasure, but the sticking point is whether they wish for each other’s good. The answer to that question determines if in fact Jesus has friends what sort they are.

Dennis Bratcher provides insight on the ethics of the prophets in his article entitled Social Ethics in the Prophets. In this article Bratcher gives the reader some general information regarding the prophets before discussing in greater detail the theological foundation of the prophets and social ethics as it pertains to the prophets. Today, we understand that the torah and the prophetic traditions existed side by side in Israel’s religious life. They were both expressions of what the people had come to understand about God and how they should respond to God.

Abraham sojourned in faith as God led him on his journey through the land of Canaan. He demonstrated a pattern of reliance on and fellowship with God during his trek by building altars at stops along the way. Genesis 12:7 points out that God spoke to Abraham in Shechem, promising the land to his descendants and Abraham constructed an altar. Genesis 12:8 shows that Abraham communed with God after moving from Shechem to Bethel by erecting an altar. Abraham’s movements through Canaan appear to be at God’s leading and as a result of their communion, but God does not yet give him possession of the land. The land through which he and his family are traveling is occupied by other inhabitants. A key point here is that while Abraham and his family are traveling as

There are billions of friendships in the world, but how many of them are centered around God? According to Augustine, a friendship without God is not a true friendship. That is not to say that all such relationships don’t fulfill some aspects of friendship, but the absence of God leads these relationships to be nothing more than companionship, a lower form of friendship. Augustine’s theory of true friendship is that it must bring one closer to God, an idea that matches up with the ideals of the Christian faith. In order to make this idea clear, one must explore the difference between true friendship and companionship. As Augustine’s book is filled with confessions, he spoke extensively about mistakes he made with regards to his early friendships.

Friendships are special relationships that begin the development of social skills in each human person. Every time we open the door to form new friendships it begins with an experimental and holistic practice of philosophy and science. Whether we recognize the use of philosophy and science or not it’s being applied to shape friendships. The formation and bond of friendships has been studied for many years through science, philosophy, and theology. The point of this paper is to give the point of view and purpose of friendship according to science, philosophy, and theology and how it is applied to our everyday life.

     Abraham stands as one of the most important figures in the Hebrew Bible, and is central to the understanding of God’s solution to the problem of mankind. Man, the mysterious creature that God wraught as a semi-experiment, is constantly prone to believe he is self-sufficient and capable of survival without God, the central problem God must deal with in the Hebrew Bible. To solve this problem, God decides to strike fear in the heart of man and to revolutionise his lifestyle by creating laws and empowering a chosen group of people, who will spread the word of God by example. These people are the Hebrews, and Abraham is the father of their race, the man from whom all