What Is The Blessings Of Disobeying God

These are poignant questions that deserve fair answers. In this document I will argue that in fact God provided a way for the Aztecs, and other pre-Columbian cultures to be saved, but it is unlikely that they responded favorably to God’s natural revelation given the similarity of their sin with that of the ancient Canaanites.

Christianity is a Theism worldview that focuses on the belief in one personal and relational God that created all that exists (Hiles, & Smith, 2015). God created man in his likeness to care for all that has been created, to know and worship God, and to love and obey God (Diffey, 2015). Man is to rule and have dominion over the earth, be fruitful and multiply, filling the earth (Genesis 1:28). Christians rely on the support of the Holy Bible to guide them in the word of God. The Bible consist of four basic acts, the Creation, the Fall of Humanity, Redemption, and Restoration (Diffey, 2015). Christians believe that God sent his only Son to die on the cross for their salvation. In this paper will be a focus on the Christian worldview discussing God, humanity, Jesus,

Enoch is a Hebrew name חֲנוֹך (Chanokh) meaning, “dedicated.” Apparently, the Bible does not provide a well-detailed account of Enoch’s faithful walked with God for 365 years of existence on earth. (Genesis 5: 24) However, since Enoch captured God’s heart with his impressive faith, love, and obedience, consequently, God took him away. Considerably, Enoch’s righteous life and devotion overwhelmingly pleased God, and noticeably, among God’s people, Enoch was God’s first human creation, who because of his blameless existence had not experienced death and decay. (Hebrew 11:15) Admiringly, he is the kind of believer whom people should emulate, next to Jesus. Suggestively, Christians, like Enoch, should painstakingly walk with God through strictly

Recognition of a failure to follow God’s commands brings about new capabilities. In violating God’s commandments, Adam and Eve come to learn that they can choose to live

A proper assessment from a biblical-anthropological perspective needs to take into account the image of God as part of human nature. The three dimensions of the image of God (relational, structural and functional) form the core of human nature. Humans are relational beings with the structural capacity to relate to others and fulfill their purpose in this life. These three dimensions were damaged or affected after the Fall. As discussed previously, normality and pathology are connected with the sinful human condition.

We have now come to the fourth and final book of Mere Christianity. In this book, the author takes us to the place in our Christian growth where we begin to rely more heavily on the power of God and less on ourselves to become the being that God originally intended for us to be — a son of God. He begins with an explanation of the difference between “making” and “begetting.”

There are many different opinions as to what is true when it comes to religion. All over the globe, many diverse cultures look up and pray to a variety of gods or perhaps none whatsoever. Yet, how does one define what is existent? What is truly divine and worthy of the utmost worship and praise? As humans, we are limited to fully comprehending and understanding exactly who God is and what the afterlife looks like. This paper will discuss the aspects of the Christian faith viewing God, humanity, Jesus, Restoration and the Christian Worldview, as well as, a reflection of what I believe in my own personal life.

A distinct factor between the sons of men and the sons of God. A distinct contrast between Cain's legacy and Seth’s legacy. Cain the nomad, Seth the settler. Cain the leader to destruction, Seth the patriarch. Cain capitulating to carnality and Seth clinging onto spirituality. There are ultimately two roads to take, two legacies to follow. God never intended to build a civilization and for us to get comfortable in this world, yet He wanted to build legacies that would prepare us and to essentially entwine humanity and God’s heavenly Kingdom. Ultimately the choice lies within the individual. The love and mercy that flows from the Creator is forever vacillating between the divine model and apartness of being, and the tugging of heart and allowing of decision. To and fro there is a constant pendulum that pervades reality. The throb of life which perpetually agitates the eminence of life. There are two roads, to follow God and to reflect His image, or to be like God without loving

Chalmers’ article present the importance of the Noahic covenant within biblical theology. This article gives the reader a clear understanding of the establishment of the covenant relationship between God and Noah. Chalmers goes further to suggest that God’s commitment to creation is within the lining of the covenant agreement between God and Noah. Throughout the text Chalmers provides insight on God's judgement on sin, salvation of the righteous, and renewal of creation within the Noahic covenant. The article brings to life the notion that the Noahic covenant is a story of redemption of mankind and God’s love for all creation including man, the birds of the air, beast of the field and the earth itself. As others have look upon the Noahic covenant as less significant, Chalmers provides a great foundation into the importance of the Noahic covenant and the pathway of a relationship between God and

This desire to be like others caused the Hebrews to stray away from God’s ideal social structure even though God’s structure was the more perfect one that promoted an efficient allocation of wealth and resources. This straying away from God becomes the main theme of the Bible as we read of many stories that involve God using various means from prophets and punishment to bring His people away from the customs of the world and back to His perfect will for the world. Halteman also stresses the need for a supporting community of faith in order to resist the ways of the secular world.

Any person’s worldview acts as a determinant factor from which people are able to come up with the truth as well as understand the purpose of the life. Worldview is just like lenses with different glasses where everyone puts it on, nevertheless, what people tent to observe through them differs from one another. This is how people view the world. All the beliefs as well as the decisions made are interpreted depending on the glasses one puts on. This is to say that each person has a worldview. Christianity is one of the worldviews which states that an individual has to commit himself to Jesus Christ. This essay will discuss some of the Gospel essentials in the Christian worldview.

God has brought us into the community and it is our responsibility to include God into the community He has given to us. Worship involved songs that all were relatively regarding God’s reign and community. The songs and Scriptures read/song had a meaning of how Christians will be saved if we continue to be followers if we love God and keep his commandment, and if we preach the Word we will be saved by grace. The covenant of grace has many significant meanings in the Christian Reformed Church, “the covenant of redemption may be defined as follows: “The agreement between the Father, giving the Son as Head and Redeemer of the elect, and the Son, voluntarily taking the place of those whom the Father had given him” (Hoekema 187). The value of keeping the covenant of grace is to preach the Holy Scripture but to also grow stronger in faith. The covenants made between man and God are meant to keep commandments and to join in fellowship with one another. The message of the importance of the covenant of grace in the reading of Perspectives in the Christian Reformed Church is that “the covenant of grace, further, does full justice to both the individual ad social aspects of Christianity. The covenant of grace requires man’s full-orbed service of God as God’s covenant partner” (Hoekema 200). God alone is all powerful, great, good, Creator, Redeemer, and the

John Calvin’s view of salvation was not optimistic. He was very strict in his belief that we are all inherently corrupt. He believed that there are only sinners and sinners who lie, which is why salvation was not determined by men but by God. I believe that his view of salvation is too harsh on humanity. In this paper, I will further explain and criticize Calvin’s view of salvation.

In biblical theology the difference between religious experiences and biblical truths are compared. Implications or insights are established from these findings and theological models are

In the case of Christianity, we first consider how the human condition appears in The Book of Job, an exemplary text in this instance which tells the story of Job, a pious, righteous man who is relentlessly tormented by God. In several rounds of discussion