New Teachings About The Church

The disciples are witnesses to the decent and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Then by their witness the are to proclaim the gospel to Jerusalem, Judea, Samar and to the all the ends of

The “Acts” represent at least four major genres, including the gospels, history, letter, and literature. The Acts of the Apostles

The story of the Tower of Babel is one of the well-known stories that can be found in the book of Genesis. This story explains why we encounter different languages around the world. As readers analyze this story, one can understand that it has a deeper meaning than just pertaining to be a simple story to be read out aloud. As a matter of fact, there happen to be many questions throughout the story that many raises to why God did that specific action in the story. If one sits down and carefully understand the moral lesson, one can figure out easily the main purpose of having this story in the Bible. To sum up, the story of the Tower of Babel contains numerous teachings and answers to the questions many readers arise while reading.

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There were group men who were dissatisfied with religious division they found themselves in the 1800’s. Men like Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone began to study the bible with two new goals in mind.

The primitive illiterate life of believers required an interdependence that few experience in North America today. Sharing homes, foods, water, and relying on one another for work was the structure of life at the time. The benefit of this life was the “forced” community it created. While today many believers are independently secure and provided for, the sense of community is less apparent. Reclaiming communal aspect of discipleship will be beneficial because it is the biblical design of discipleship as the Acts narrative and epistles

Then he said, ‘Here I am, I have to do your will. ‘He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all”(Hebrews 10:5-10) The Messiah would be a stone that would cause others to stumble. “Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, ‘A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.’ “They stumble because they disobey the message which is also what they were destined for.” (Peter 2:7-8) Christ’s ministry would begin in Galilee. “When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali to fulfill what was said through the

It was important that Paul was a Roman citizen; he was able to travel about the Empire freely. Paul argued that the message, the "good news" should not be limited to Jews, but that Jesus of Nazareth came to save all mankind and his death atoned for the sins of all humans and makes possible their salvation (another Pauline concept). After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., Christians spread throughout the Mediterranean, taking their religion with them. Since they believe that Judgment Day was any day now, it was important to convert as many people as possible so they could be saved.

“The right to water, as all human rights, finds its basis in human dignity and not in any kind of quantitative assessment that considers water as a merely economic good. Without water, life is threatened.” (Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church §485). Catholic social teaching articulates the understood principle in Catholicism that all members of the Church are called to provide for, care for, and protect the dignity and well-being of all creation, especially one's fellow man. This comes from the recognition of every individual as being unique and important in the eyes of God, due to being made in His image and likeness.

The reading this week covered a pretty expansive timeline, starting in 1534 with the founding of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, through the issuance of both The Doctrine of Papal Infallibility, established in 1870, and The Doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in 1950. Not to leave out one of the most significant happenings in Christian History, the eighteen years of The Council of Trent, we covered a span of more than 400 years of Church History. There were primarily two things that stood out for me. One being the absence of any presentation or even mention of the incredibly voice of the Church Magisterium condemning racial slavery throughout this time, especially in perspective to the challenged authority of the Roman Pontiff and the doctrinal teaching of papal infallibility and the second being the incredible amount of time that passed before the Roman Catholic Church responded to the disputes and claims of the now excommunicated Martin Luther and the growing Protestant movement.

These distinguished early followers became known as his disciples who spread the teachings of Jesus Christ and waited for his return. Philip spread the word that baptism was a command of salvation from

Miriam-Webster’s dictionary defines unity as the state of being in full agreement. When one reads the Bible it is clear that God’s will is for the church to be unified. In I Corinthians 1:10 the Apostle Paul instructs the church to be perfectly joined together in mind and speech and to have no divisions among them. Today we see various denominations, or as defined in Miriam-Webster’s dictionary, religious organizations united in their adherence to its beliefs and practices. This raises the question, where is this unified church that is described in the Bible?

The book of Acts is a remarkable work of history and theology. As Luke wrote to Theophilus and the early church, he highlighted the vital importance of spreading the gospel of the kingdom of God through their witness to the nations of the earth in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we apply these same lessons to our lives today, we too should dedicate ourselves to the kingdom of God, looking forward to the day that Christ will return with joyful

Paul’s conversion is thought to be one of the most significant events in the bible. It is so important because Paul is the author of 13 books in the New Testament. He also took a major part in ministering to the Gentiles and growing the early church. If it were not for Paul’s conversion, we would be missing a major part of biblical history (Osborne 1).

As evening came near, one of the apostles said, "This is a remote place, and it is already very late. You should send the crowds away and tell them to go to the villages to buy themselves some food."