Paul At The Judgment Seat Of Christ

In conclusion, Paul teachings help us to understand how God views sin and its consequences. His message also reveals God’s righteousness and forgiveness through Christ. Our natural world, our human

Putting pen to paper, Paul pleas with the Corinthians to better themselves through Christ Jesus. While in discourse with the Corinthians, the polemic language of Paul becomes, at times, difficult to digest. While pursuing a better relationship with the believers in Corinth, the apostle often used terms such as ‘we,’ ‘our,’ and ‘us.’ These pronouns can be understood in multiple ways; however, the manner in which they are comprehended sheds light on Paul’s agenda. In the analysis of 2 Corinthians 4: 8-18, the pronouns are best understood as being inclusive in terms of Paul, his followers, and the believers in Corinth.

In Willa Cather’s short coming of age like story “Paul’s Case,” Paul, the protagonist, shows contempt for everyone in his dull life including family and teachers and he has no friends. As a way of escaping the life that he thinks is so dreary and boring he indulges himself in his obsessions which include art, theater, music, and his job where he is an usher at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh. His unrealistic ideas that the art world and world of ritzy first class people is like a fantasy like utopia leads him to become obsessed even more with observing others and eventually money. He sees it that being rich is is destiny. This selfishness also leads to his compulsive lying which he mostly uses to get attention from peers. Throughout Paul also becomes more self destructive in his habits and ideas. He imagines what it would be like for his dad to shoot him, he steals money from the bank his father makes him quit his job as an usher to work at to spend on a luxurious secret vacation where he also buys a gun from his thoughts of suicide. And eventually in the end, the money that he craved/desired and thought would bring him happiness lets him down and on the converge of ultimate sorrow, he takes his own life as he jumps in front of a train. But why does he act the way he does? Well, a psychoanalysis of Paul may reveal that the reason for his actions and for committing suicide might have stemmed from the fact that his psyche lies in the id realm and he is missing a superego.

Analyse the contribution that Paul of Tarsus had on the development and expression of Christianity.

In the first part of this letter, Paul has given instructions on how to get to heaven. Here, he tells us what we should be doing on our journey there: rescue the lost and help others with their burdens.

When Antonine tells Paul the truth shall set you free this may have motivated Paul to tell the truth already lots of bad things have happened like how Luis Cruz was murdered from Eric his friend Arthur. Right when Paul told the truth he was not scared of his brother any more. After he told the truth people saw Paul as a hero. People would have not died if Paul told the truth this is what happens when you are afraid and don't tell the

But even this maturity could not save him from the jaws of death. Before the war, Paul was a scholar who had ambitions and hopes for success in life. Unfortunately, war quenched that desire for success as revealed in the book when he returned home for a short stay. Paul's self confidence and sense of belonging in society was gone. He no longer shared any interest in his books, felt melancholic most of the time, and do not have the same outlook towards life as others did. Even though Paul tried very hard at concealing his inner emotions and to stage a bold front, it is not very difficult for the reader to see that a psychological battle was taking place inside him. "I ought to have never come here. Out there I was indifferent and often hopeless-I will never be able to be so again." Paul reveals that his trip home made him realize the destructive effects war had on his character and he regretted going home.

Paul is forced to kill his enemy with his bare hands in a shell hole. Consequently, Paul then must stay in the same hole while the soldier is taking his last breath. I think this impacted him even more because now he had to put an actual face with the enemy. He realized that the soldier was of the same generation, and that they could have had a lot in common. Paul and his comrades had spent so much time in the past dehumanizing the enemy. Paul says to himself, “This is the first time I have killed with my hands, whom I can see close at hand, whose death is my doing” (Remarque,221). Paul for the first time realizes just how human the enemy really is. Seeing and hearing him is more than Paul can take. In my opinion, this was the turning point and Paul would never be the same again. It wasn’t something that Paul had witnessed before. It’s easy to kill someone from afar. It doesn’t mess with your mind because there isn’t the physical connection. That’s why he feels he needs to help the soldier. In fact, he does as much as he can to help the dying soldier. First and foremost I think this helps clear his conscience. I thought it was interesting when he said, “In it is the book with his name. So long as I do not know his name perhaps I may still forget him, time will obliterate it, this picture” (Remarque,224). You can tell this event really messed with Paul’s mind. You sense this when Paul starts

Paul's father had abused him emotionally, and probably physically, throughout Paul's life. He did so much to Paul's flagging self-image that he had to boast to others to make himself feel big, when he felt tiny inside. When he finally achieved that "bigness" that he always wanted, the glamour of "the good life," his father found him out and took that away from him, or rather, made Paul give it up. This made Paul feel even smaller and made him feel that he would be better off dead. So Paul decided to make his life "better off" and

During the novel, Paul progresses a great deal emotionally. In the beginning of the book, Paul is “crammed with vague ideas which gave to life, and to the war also, an ideal and almost romantic character” (Remarque 10). This shows that he is happy and almost looking forward to the war. Later in the book, Paul says “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces” (Remarque 39). Paul has realized what war is, and is not satisfied with his situation in life, which can be attributed to the things he has seen. Towards the end of the story, Paul says “I know nothing of life but despair, death,

More importantly, Paul knows that as well and will have to live with his actions for the rest of his life. He has never claimed innocence to me, but he did not take full responsibility for his actions at first. I am a firm believer in actions speak louder than words. I have seen him change in the past 25 years. He has changed from a kid rebelling against his family, trying to fit in and get people to like him, to a man who takes full responsibility for all his actions and above all has a relationship with God. Paul is no longer trying to get people to like him. He is living his life for God and trying to be the best person, son, brother, nephew, friend, and fiancé he can be. He had tragedy in his childhood, but that does not justify his actions and he knows that. Paul has done everything possible to better himself while incarcerated and will continue to do so. He has grown up in prison and become a good man who I am lucky to have in my

Paul was not fighting against the Law of Moses – he knew the law, and that obeying the commandments would lead to happiness. But he also knew that Christ had come to fulfil the law as messiah, and to reconcile the world to himself (2 Corinthians 5:19). He did not interpose rejection of the law, but was polemical of Jewish Christians excluding Gentiles on grounds such as circumcision. As he was later to say of the event, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)

Even though this is good news, Paul knew that not everyone viewed this as good. Of those that choose to reject the saving message of salvation in Christ Jesus consistently, he tells them that God turns that person over to the fulfillment of the shameful inclinations of their own mind. This is shown in chapter 1, beginning at verse 18. Because of the rejection of God, the human situation only gets more and more depraved. We descend to fulfilling our carnal, base cravings, and that is get involved in everything that

His entire character, values, and purpose was altered. When he met Christ he became new. "[Paul was] an intolerant, bitter, persecuting, religious bigot — proud and temperamental. After his conversion it pictures him as patient, kind, enduring, and self-sacrificing” (McDowell, 119).When he met Christ he became new.

For some background information on Paul. His original name was Sual in Hebrews announced in the new testaments. He was yoked to a rabbi so he can become a rabbi him self. Paul converted to christianity when he saw the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the road of Damascus. During his life he created three big ministries to travel through the Roman Empire, and he did this because he was planting churches. His goal was to preach to the new Christians the word of God, and to give encouragement. Paul started his mission because the Lord asked of him to do so, and so the Lord provided him with wisdom and strength to for fill his journey.