Paul's View On Parousia

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.

Paul releases himself from the chains of his fear and has found the shining light that will lead him to greatness. For the longest time, Erik has controlled Paul with fear, chaining Paul’s emotions to the ground. Saying the truth was a simple statement. But that one simple statement has created a big difference in the community. On page 269, Antoine Thomas tells Paul, “The truth shall set you free”.

In her short story "Paul's Case," Willa Cather tells the tale of a young boy's struggle to separate himself from his common, everyday life and the people he shared it with. Paul admired the opulence of the theater, the wardrobe, the perfumes, the lights, the colors, the flowers, and the champagne. When he realized it wasn't possible to have these things, he threw his life away. Cather's purpose was to show that, by focusing on what he didn't have, Paul could not live at all.

1. Paul’s “impaired vision” is ironic because he can see what others cannot even though he is legally blind. First of all, Paul can see how Erik is a very dangerous kid. Paul sees Erik as a dangerous kid because Erik is always making fun of his friends. Erik is dangerous because he has anger problems and has been terrorizing Paul his whole life. When Erik is around adults however, he acts like a normal child. The side that his parents try to see in him. Furthermore, Paul can see the osprey. Most people besides Paul who live in Lake Windsor Downs see the Osprey as just birds. But, Paul sees them as the reason that all the koi fish in the lake are disappearing. Others think that the fish are being stolen. Paul sees it in a different way the everyone else. Finally, Paul can also see his father like know one else. Everyone around Paul sees Mr. Fisher as a hardworking man who supports his family. Paul sees his dad as a man who only cares about his older son, Erik and his football dream. Paul’s dad is so concerned about Erik that he doesn’t even know what position he plays in soccer.

I agree that Paul had a very diverse beliefs. I think this helped him connect within the community and ​shared the Gospel easily to people like him (converts). I understand that it's hard to accept how he changed his belief quickly from wanting to destroy Christianity to giving his life to preserve it. He didn't tell the readers how it happened so it's very hard to perceive such thing could happen. But I believe that it's possible because Paul showed how much he loved his converts and even considered them his children. I think the reason why Paul didn't include his story was because he didn't want the readers to divert their attention and focus from Jesus. But don't you think that his actions and relationship towards the religion and the converts

A critical element of the Paul and Elder elements of thought is the Point of View. Everyone has a bias toward their point of view. “Alternative and possibly unpopular ideas or points of view assist commanders in making the best possible decisions.” Alternate points of view also reduce the possibility of a paradigm, or group thought. How we see data, and how we interpret data determines our assumptions, and influences the inferences we make about a situation. To broaden our point of view, we must recognize that our viewpoint influences our assumptions, and strive to see all sides of a problem, ensures that the solution will be justified and produce the most positive result to the problem. Understanding the need to see a problem from all

As for the study done on the Embeddedness Theory, the participants were from a large, public, university in the Southeastern United States. Researchers asked professors of upper level STEM courses for recommendations of students to use for this study. They recommended 158 students, and of those the researchers used stratified purposeful sampling to get an even number of male and female respondents. Once this was done the respondents were broken up into four groups that had 21 juniors and seniors, each separated into male and female. The methods used for this study were qualitative.

In the book Ephesians,the author has a different view of the relationship between the Church and Christ (Harris,2014). This author's view focuses more on the unity of Jew and Gentile in one Church. Paul states that Christ is the head of the church, which acts as his body (Harris,2014). Christ now fills the church as wholly as God fills Christ. I believe the implication here is comparing marriage between a man and woman. The author of Ephesians reminds husbands to love and their wives as themselves,even though a hierarchy is recommended. For the husband is the head of the wife,as Christ is the head of the church, He Himself being the Saviour of the body. However, the church is subject to Christ,so also the wives ought to be to their husbands

Paul knew that not only he was being watched as the word spread but his actions and his representation of Christ and everything He stood for. Paul kept his eyes on his purpose, the ability to keep Jesus alive through his believe in knowing that what he was going through was nothing as to what he witnessed Jesus went through to save his soul. Paul kept writing to the church and it observed to me with even more conviction, passion and purpose. Paul when he once known as Saul was feared as far as one land to another but as Paul converted into a believer mad Saul seem like a puppy with just a pen and paper. The lives he saved through his ability to show Christ never left him even when man and religion seemed to have failed only lead more people

Paul talks about the natural world in a few ways. One being that, all of God’s people live on this earth and no one is perfect. As Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” He is saying that this world is not heaven. We are all human and we make mistakes. Much like the people in Romans 1:18-32. The people were so consumed by the nature of their sin and the satisfaction that it brought, that they would completely disobey Gods commands to continue living in this sin. This world is crawling with sin and Paul is telling them they need to come to God and confess their sins before the day of judgment or they will be justly punished as it says in Romans 2:6 “ God, will repay each person according to what they have done”.

The church that Paul had established in Corinth was all sorts of controversies and divisions such as division among themselves, lawsuits before unbelievers, moral disorders etc… Paul addressed the Corinthian believers but also it seems his letter is relevant to all followers of Christ up to this date. I therefore would like to choose one issue which is moral disorder—sexual immorality happened in Corinth. Besides other issues, Paul also had to deal with the problem of sexual immorality (1Cor. 6:12-20). Clearly that some of the Corinthians were going to prostitutes. It seems like the Corinthians wanted to justify themselves in saying, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food” (6:13)—or just simply say when you are hungry, you eat. However, in regarding to this, Paul addressed that the body is the members of Christ (6:15) and the temple of the Holy Spirit (6:19); not to be used for immorality, but for the Lord (6:13). He also argued that “For “the two,” it says, “will become one flesh (6:16). This implied to the human marriage where the love of husband and wife reflect the love of Christ for his Church. No one is allowing separating them. Also, he asserted that our bodies no longer belong to us but to Christ. Then we should not do anything to harm them for if we are united to prostitutes are actually harmful to the body.

In referring to celibacy, St. Paul says: "Indeed, I wish everyone to be as I am, but each has a particular gift from God . . .Now to the unmarried and to widows I say: it is a good thing for them to remain as they are, as I do" (1 Cor. 7:7-8). He goes on to say: "An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and he is divided" (1 Cor.

The arguments of apostle Paul in the book of Romans is foundational to the Biblical/Christian Worldview. He acknowledges what God is uncovering to the Christian World. Most Christians do not comprehend the results of not complying with the ethical laws and values. Often, Christians are prejudiced by different religions in view of the absence of understanding the desires and the reality of being responsible for what they do. Recognizing that the book of Romans does not contain all the basic truths that are applicable to a “Worldview” in essence, Paul explains truths that are foundational to the Biblical Worldview. These truths include the apostle Paul’s teaching about God, creation, sin, salvation, ethics, and eschatology. The purpose of this

In verse ten, Paul considers his sufferings and persecution in participation with the sufferings of Jesus Christ. Paul wrote in Philippians chapter three that he had shared in Christ’s sufferings and the power of the resurrection (Scott, 2003). In this verse, Paul summarized what he has stated in verses seven-nine. He said suffering is not just human pain, but the the death of Jesus is present in suffering (Lambrecht, 1999). Paul conveys that the life of Jesus directly correlates to the power of God. Christ shares himself within the suffering of those who serve and dedicate their lives to him. This suffering indicates the promise of life ready to be received. These trials occur so that Christ can manifest himself within the body of His believers

The terminology used in this scripture can lead you to believe that it is only about marriage, but marriage is not the focus here. God uses this scripture to show emphasis on the relationship between Christ and the church. God is showing the body of Christ as the church in this scripture. God is using the description of husband and wife to show Christ’s attitude about the church. A husband is used as a verb and not a noun. The husband is the care taker of the church and is meant to tend to it. Christ love for the church was the most sacrifical love in that he died for it. Christ’s role in regard to the church was to protect and covered it. The necessity of the church is shown through this scripture even as it relates to the Lord’s sacraments. We are not able to baptize ourselves or serve ourselves the Lord’s Supper. These are elements that must be done through the church’s distribution. We are also able to see Christ and the church are one flesh through this scripture. Paul doesn’t make any distinctions between the church and Christ. We learn that amazing things can happen through the church and that the revelation of God is given through the Church when God reveals his