The On The Gospel And Baptism

Centuries ago, the Bible was written when God gave his only son who died on the cross for our sins. “Our” is standing for everyone in the world that God calls his children. Jesus Christ died on the cross with active and passive obedience. This means Jesus actively kept Gods Law for us, which we live by today. Jesus passively took away all of our sins, he died on the cross to take them away and we receive righteousness. Even if we are un-deserving, when Jesus died on the cross for everyone, it gives everyone the opportunity to have everlasting life with God. Baptism is one of the few things that God asks of everyone. The purpose of Baptism is to cleanse your sins and you will be forgiven. With the blessing of God, the Holy Water cleanses the person’s sins and they are given everlasting life.

The Gospel of Matthew historically was thought to be the first Gospel written, followed by the Gospel of St. Mark. Early church historians believed that Matthew was one of the twelve Apostles. Gospel of Matthew according to biblical historians came from the Gospel of Mark. Gospels of Matthew written before the destruction of Temple in Jerusalem in seventy AD.

A central point of the reading is that Christianity created race. The author explains how Natives and Africans both understood and took advantage of the meanings of baptism to build their own communities and gain status in English communities. However, throughout time, laws were created to stop African slaves from gaining their freedom by stopping baptism and by not putting emphasis on English language proficiency. The author states that while law makers were committed to their spirituality they also, “recognized that the act of baptism depleted their captive workforce” (p. 99). Additionally, the author states that religion, and not physical appearance, was a more powerful way of categorizing people and moving between slavery and freedom. However,

The film The Nativity Story shares many similarities with the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew was writing for the Jews, so his Gospel focuses primarily on Jesus being the messiah because he fulfills the prophecies. His Gospel also focuses on the paternal side of Jesus’s birth, since Joseph being from the line of David connects Jesus to the Old Testament Covenant with David. In the film, Joseph’s perception of the events at had is often portrayed. Showing the story through his eyes. We also get insight into is his thoughts on occasions, which furthers the films parallels to the Gospel of Matthew. Within Matthew’s Gospel, there are five key details used to connect the birth of Jesus to the Old Testament prophecies, all of which appear in the film.

A baptismal font represents the river that Christ was baptised in. The baptismal font is used in the Catholic Church is to sign people under the name of God.

I really liked the part of the reading that said that the baptized are to live as lights in the darkness. To me I think it's saying that because we have the gift of being baptized, we should share it. Go out and spread goodness and love to others. Share your light on the world and on people in the darkness. I feel that being baptized helps get me through many struggles. Knowing that God is always there if I need anything and he is always with me through good and bad times, that just shows how he is working with us and for us. I also really enjoyed the section on Baptism calls us to live in the world, seeking the Kingdom in our daily lives. To me, this section made everything clear again. We have Baptism to help bring

The Gospels, are possibly one of the most sacred, and the most divine things we have in this world. For it is through the Gospels that God speaks and reveals his truth to us. However the Gospels were not always accessible as they are in today’s world, in fact there was a time that they didn’t exist. It is believed the first Gospel to be wrote was Luke, somewhere around the year 70. The other Gospels were started shortly after sometime in the 80’s. All together there are a total of four Gospels that are in the Roman Catholic Bible. There names are as followed, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in that order they are found in the Bible. These Gospel writers are believed to be what could be described as God’s pen and ink. These

Lutherans and Baptists are both Christians who are also Protestants. They share many beliefs and have more similarities than differences. Both happen to be reformists within the fold of Christianity. However, there are many different branches of Baptists with differences between them too. In Lutheran, baptism is seen as a work of God and so even infants are baptized. On the other hand, baptism is only for believers among Baptists, and this is the reason why infants are not baptized in Baptists.

The “Water Baptism and the Lord’s Supper” are the two fundamental ordinances in the Bible that the church should observe, because they profoundly depict the faith, values, and beliefs of Christians through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These ordinances have a cohesive significance pertaining to human forgiveness of sins and the salvation of those, who believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior. However, it is never intended to imply that either of these two is necessary for a person to be saved. Therefore, the “Water Baptism and the Lord’s Supper” should be practiced in the church in obedience to the command of Jesus in order that the redeemed people of God may be reminded of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Hrist.

Scholarly methods used to study the Gospels include using analytical methods and tools of biblical criticism to better comprehend the nature and reason of the early Christian written works (Harris, 2014, p.122). Specifically, historical, criticism, form criticism, literary criticism, and narrative criticism are literary methods used to study the Gospels. Historical criticism analyzes a document by using a combination of vital procedures to explain the historical process related to the creation and the end results of that evolution. Scholars and historians use various testing methods to test the accuracy, authorship, composition date, composition place, social and cultural influences, and intended audience (Harris, 2014, p.123). Form criticism

Introduction Jesus Christ taught his disciples in many ways. He taught them by sermons, miracles, and parables. In the Gospel of Matthew chapter 25 verses 14-30 Jesus tells the parable of the talents to his disciples. This parable is the story of a man that goes on a trip and before he leaves he delegate talents (money) to three of his slaves. He hands out 8 talents in total.

The world is no longer the place it once was when Jesus was living his ministry and preparing the world for what was to come. Almost every thing is different. The people, the countries, the cultures have all changed vastly. Even Christianity has been molded and changed along with the times. Even with the enormous amount of changes that have taken place in the last two thousand years the Bible and the Gospel still remain true and relevant. Sharing the Gospel is still a call that God has given Christians and one that needs to be lived out. There are different ways to share the Gospel including lifestyle evangelism and sharing the Gospel verbally and there are different methods used that are modern or postmodern. Technology has made a vast difference

When we speak of the cross of Christ and the death that He accomplished on Golgotha, many of us look or focus at the physical beatings, whips, humiliation, and death that Jesus had suffered on the cross. However, although the physical death of Jesus was a necessity the essence of it all was what happened spiritually. Because God is holy, He demonstrates His holiness on the cross of Christ by opposing with divine wrath against which the sin that He hates through propitiation.

For Believers in the early church baptism was not optional, it was simply the first

We believe in two ordinances: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Baptism is when a believer is fully submerged in water, acting as a visible testimony to Christ redeeming that individual. Baptism also shows an individual’s identification with Christ. Baptism, in and of itself, has no saving power; however, is done out of obedience to God. Examples of baptism are found in Acts 2 and 8 and we see it commanded in Matthew 28:19-20.