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Dean Flemming main idea is to explore a robust understanding of the mission of God through examining the articulation of mission throughout the entirety of the Bible. Speaking into the argument of the mission of the church, as one being between proclamation or faithful presence, Flemming tries to reframe the mission of God beyond words verses deeds. He specifically seeks to answer the question, “How should the verbal and nonverbal dimensions of our mission as God’s people connect?” Flemming’s argues that throughout the biblical narrative the concepts of being, doing and telling are interwoven into an inseparable tapestry that displays the mission of God for the church today.

The subject of the book, author’s purpose and intended audience: The history of Christian thought in the modern era was a quest of today’s Christian. Faith in a multi-denominational society decreases a sense of belonging. Since the Enlightenment some

The third section dissects the formation of the New Testament with more historical context and views of other writings defined as Gnostic writing. Bruce explains the spoken words of the apostles carried as much authority as their written words and gives an in depth explanation how the Gospels and Pauline writings were viewed by the Church Fathers. The rest of the section demonstrates the Church Fathers and their views of what was to be considered scripture and the councils that affirmed the inspired scripture.

During interrogation, police are allowed to make accusations, lie about or make up evidence, yell at the suspects or get in their faces. According to the law, police are allowed to use the tactic trickery or lying to receive a confession from the suspect. The assumption the police officers make is that no matter how many lies told, a person will not state they are guilty if they truly did not commit the crime. In the case shown in the video, Confession, the police told one of the men that he had failed a polygraph (lie detector) test, even though he had passed it. I believe this tactic is unjust. I admit, I tend to do this to people because I want to know if they are telling me the truth. However, when it comes to a person potentially being convicted and receiving the death penalty or time in jail, I believe the tactic that was used was not right. Joe Dick was interrogated for eight hours. He claimed that he was told every thirty seconds that he was lying and he was going to be sentenced to the death penalty. In Confession, Richard Leo made a valid point stating that people who are tortured will say anything to make the pain stop. Also, people who have the torture mechanism waved in their face will state that they are guilty to avoid being tortured. Joe had the death penalty waved in his face. He was given an ultimatum of the death penalty or tell the truth? In addition, the police officers repeated told Joe that he was lying and the lie detector proved this. What other

In St. Augustine’s Confessions, the tension between knowledge of God and the habitual life, and by extension the struggle between continence and incontinence, are central to St. Augustine’s evolution as a faithful servant of God. These tensions are evident in several episodes of weeping throughout the text, as the true reason for his weeping stems from a disruption in the habitual life or from his inability to change his habits. St. Augustine’s weeping as a youth over the death of Dido, his weeping before his conversion, and his mourning of the death of his mother, Monica, all stem from the tensions between knowledge and habit, continence and incontinence, and help to illustrate St. Augustine’s development over time.

Machen stated that the New Testament books “are regarded by all serious historians as genuine products of the first Christian generation.” (PAGE 18) The statement merely could be false without Machen’s willingness to terminate as un-serious all historians who ignore the validity and authority of the New Testament. The argument of the New Testament authenticity is still conflicted between in liberalism and typical denominations. A weakness in Machen’s argument on Doctrine was while Machen indicates that the New testament could be understood through the perspective of the “primitive Jerusalem church” (PAGE 22), no supportive agreement was found what the primitive church looked

Faith operates in a unique way by providing the average, the noble, or the distasteful with a means to understand the world we inhabit. However, our worldly experiences also operate as a means to understanding the complexities of our faith. For St. Augustine, faith provides more questions than answers, but consequently leads to his life as a bishop and eventually sainthood. For some, however, the Bible provides the answers to all the questions that go unanswered by common sense. In St. Augustine’s Confessions, Augustine is able to further understand himself and his faith in Christ by reflecting on anecdotes of his past. Conversely, the Bible’s use of etiology provides spiritual justification for physical realities.

This paper addresses the similarities and differences between the sermons of Jonathan Edwards and my own pastor, Pastor Leigh.

Christians overwhelmingly attest that monotheism is key to the Christian confidence, as the Nicene Creed (and others), which gives the customary Christian meaning of the Trinity, starts: "I have faith in one God". From sooner than the seasons of the Nicene Creed, 325 CE, different Christian figures pushed the triune secret nature of God as a standardizing calling of confidence. As per Roger E. Olson and Christopher Hall, through supplication, contemplation, study and practice, the Christian people group finished up "that God must exist as both a solidarity and trinity", arranging this in ecumenical chamber toward the finish of the fourth century.

Next, McMinn (2007) acknowledges the Christian Theology perspective on confession. According to the author (2007), there are two kinds of relations to confession and Christian Theology, which are confession and the sacrament of penance and confession and Scripture. McMinn (2007) points out that the Christian church has constantly been engrossed in confession, but the way of confession has altered during the past two millennia (p 221). According to the author (2007), numerous Spiritual leaders, such as Saint Augustine and Saint Patrick writing of their confessions of faith and sin have severed as a partial foundation for scholasticism, which is a crusade that attempted to examine faith academically (211-212). As scholasticism grew thought out time it birth the doctrine and sacrament

In fact, three heresies were condemned at the council of Constantinople (381); then, the council of Ephesus (431) which meet to resolve the controversy between Cyril and Nestorius; then, the council of Chalcedon (451), which condemned four ancient heresies: “In Jesus Christ, true deity (against Arius) and full humanity (against Apollinaris) are indivisibly united in the one person (against Nesorius), without being confused (against Eutyches).” This led to the creation of the basic creed for Christianity. True Christianity is knowing who Jesus Christ is in relationship to God, the Holy Spirit and

Faith, it is the complete trust or confidence in someone or something. We as humans can only define it as that because we cannot tangibly grasp faith, or even understand it as we do our emotions. It can be as overwhelming as love and yet there may not be a reason or an understanding to why we have it or put our faith into someone or something. The only way to describe it is through the claim faith and reason are compatible. This claim is examined in the stories, Genesis, as God creates human beings to live amongst his other creations but to have free reign over the land, the Romans & Corinthians, as even Jesus’ faith was to put to the test, and it is deeply explored in St. Augustine’s Confessions. Furthermore, the compatibility of faith and reason is seen in The Book of Matthew as Jesus travels the lands of Israel blessing them with his own faith. Faith and reason would not be attainable if it weren’t for our triune God subtly giving us the knowledge we need to make decisions on our own.

The doctrine of Trinity has been taking shape over the centuries, beginning from the early church fathers. To discuss the development of the doctrine, I will use Reading the Early Church Fathers, a recommended text for this course and Trinity 101, a required text, by Dr. Jim Papandrea. The paper will focus on the Christology and ways through which the doctrines began to develop over the centuries, especially during the second and third centuries.

For example, Paul’s letters place emphasis upon the idea of “justification by faith” (Romans 3:21-8; Galatians 2:16). In Acts however, such justification by faith is never addressed in his speeches (as Paul’s message in Acts is comparably more aligned with the Jewish mission of Peter) (Acts 2, 1-7; Acts 13, 1-5). Pertaining to such discrepancies it is best to employ Knox’s tactics of critical examination and prioritization of the letters over that of Acts. The justification for such is that a first person account, written by the apostle is more likely to be aligned with Paul’s teachings (even acknowledging the possibility of

On the same token, when churches recite creeds, they are respecting the history of the early Christians. I believe that reciting creeds is a favorable way of honoring the traditions of