Thematic Anyalysis of the Book of Acts Part 1

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The book of Acts contains three different accounts of the conversion of Paul, which makes this part of the story in the New Testament redundant. Each narratives conflict with one another that is presented. It seems that the contentions of the narratives are false. So, the question is why are there three accounts for the conversion of Paul?

Acts 8:26-40 teaches us a variety of things about mission as well as evangelism’s role within it. It reminds us whose mission it is, that radical inclusion is anticipated, that evangelism is an important aspect of but is not in itself mission, and that the Holy Spirit plays a fundamental and essential role in mission and effective evangelism.

The Drama of Scripture frames the biblical narrative as a work of drama, with six acts. These acts are Creation, Fall, Israel, Jesus, Church, and New Creation (Drama pp. 23-24, 2014). The first three acts come from the Old Testament, and the final three come from the New Testament. In many ways, I feel that this Six Act Drama plays itself out in my life as well. As a Catholic man of faith, this makes a great deal of sense to me. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, hence CCC, states that, “God is the author of Sacred Scripture. ‘The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit’” (CCC 105, 2000). Additionally, it states “The inspired books teach the truth…” (CCC 107, 2000). These two quotes point to the primacy of Scripture in how I find my life playing itself out. Since Scripture is how God narrates His will, and since we are made in the image and likeness of God, it follows that patterns present in Scripture would manifest themselves in my life. Each act of the drama represents a phase of my life which has either happened, is currently happening, or one for which I still await.

The book of Acts is known as 'the birth of the church'. Acts recounts the story of

I love the passages of comfort because its telling you where you can look on the bible vesicle’s that will help you manage any situation you might be going thru at the moment. Not only sad or bad situations but happy and thankful emotions you might be experiencing at the time. Having God as our main priority in our life it’s a blessing because when we follow his path things will fall into place. At least for me that’s how it works.

Although it seems that Acts 15 and Galatians 2 record the same event, that is not the case. In the book of Acts, specifically Acts 15, Peter is in Jerusalem at the Jerusalem council. In Galatians 2, Paul speaks about his second journey to Jerusalem. The events that occurred in Galatians also relates to the events in Acts. The main question while analyzing both chapters is: Does it record the same event? There has been speculation that it is the same event told in both chapters, but it is evident that in Acts and Galatians, it tells the stories of different events. Both of these chapters detail similar happenings, but it is not the same event.

In this book the characters relationship change throughout the story there are two main characters in this book Philip and Timothy at the beginning of the story Philip never liked Timothy because he was black and they were fighting all the time at middle of the story they were still fighting a bit and Philip ends up blind at end of story they became good friends and Timothy ends up dying to just protect the mean, Philip. First, At the beginning of the story, Philip didn’t like Timothy because her Mom told him that they are different and live different Philip still didn’t why her Mom is acting that way on black people. When they were in the raft Philip barely talked to Timothy he just asked what's “what's your name?” and “ where you are from.” One morning Philip ended up being blind then he started talking to Timothy because needed to know more information where they are and how everything is going, for instance, the raft, food.

The concept of analytics-based decision marking takes into consideration industry knowledge and business analytics which includes four acts (Bartlett, 2013). The four acts help prepare analytics to support an anticipated decision and illustrate a process for analytics-based decision making. As a result, the role of statistical thinking, the interaction, and relationship between industry knowledge and analytics, as well as where things can go wrong in a real business problem can be revealed (Bartlett, 2013). In addition, moving from one act to another seamlessly, jumping back from and forth from one act to another or simply following some other route is easy to do in a real business problem. This annotated bibliography will examine articles that contain resources that support the concepts contained in the four acts.

It seems that in this chapter, Moss explained how early Christians faced persecution and suffering as the Romans wanted them to get executed. Going back to the past, it's hard to trust people merely because of the possibilities of traitors constantly looking over their shoulders.

In reading Howard I. Marshall, “Acts”, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. He implied, the most significant for studying and interpreting the book of Acts is how a reader gets out of what he is reading and how he approaches it (Marshall, 17). He states that, “an average reader studies the books of Acts as a history book of the early church” (Marshall, 17). Readers should use critical thinking to seek a deeper revelation. For example: recognizing the authorship to the Gospel of Luke. And seek for what the author’s purpose of writing Luke-Acts (Marshall, 19). Accurate information gives better understanding. In fact, if a reader did not know the culture or customs of the first-century Christian writers of the early church. They would not know the first-century Christian writers were only known to write Letters and Gospels, and not large history literature, as the author did in the book of Acts (Marshall, 18). Who was the author addressing with his literature (Marshall, 18)? With these considerations, it is most significant to have accurate information to be able to study and interpret the true of the book of Acts.

In the beginning, God spoke all of creation into existence. From the dust of the ground He formed man, and from the man, He formed woman. After creating man, He looked at all of His creation and said that it was very good (Genesis 1:31). Adam and Eve lived and worked in the beautiful garden of Eden, enjoying all of God’s creations and fellowship with Him. That is, until one day Adam and Even sinned before the Lord by eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Their decision, impacted by Satan himself, was in direct conflict with God’s directions for them. For He had told them that they could eat of any tree of the garden, except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Their actions introduced sin into the human

Traveling from the church in Antioch to Jerusalem, Barnabas, Paul and Mark set out to spread the Gospel. "Both Acts 15 and Galatians 2:1-10 detail a meeting in Jerusalem. Although they are not identical, the overwhelming similarities suggest that both passages are indeed descriptions of the same event."

Saint Paul continues to write to Timothy instructing him in matters that encompasses the church. The two main ideas of the chapter is to inform the church about the practice of prayer and to present instructions for women. He begins his chapter with a call to prayer, defining why we should pray and to whom we should pray; men should pray everywhere and anywhere. The chapter convey that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving are made for all men in order to lead a quiet, peaceful, and godly life in reverence. Also, he instructed that they are ought to pray for kings and all who are in authority.

Created by Johannes Gutenberg, The Gutenberg Bible was the first mass produced book through the use of a moveable printer. Known for its artistic Latin writing, the Bible only has forty-nine copies remaining, one residing at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The Gutenberg Bible exhibits religious qualities from the message, directly from God, and the original purpose of the creation of the Bible.