Essays on Gospel

Luke, Gentile Physician and companion of Paul wrote this Gospel in the mid 60’s A.D. Luke wrote both the Gospel of Luke and Acts making him the largest contributor to the New Testament. These writings both begin with dedications to Theophilus, perhaps a potential or recent convert or patron who sponsored the circulation of Luke…

In the Gospel According to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, repentance and forgiveness are discussed explicitly. These acts serve as our attempt to become better Christians. Only in repenting our sins and working for their forgiveness are we able to embrace the workings of God. Additionally, it is only through the word of…

Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Problem Most everyone who reads the Synoptic Gospels observes similarities that exist among them; their passages are very similar in content and structure which would make one think the authors borrowed material from each other or perhaps at all the same sources. However they are equally different in content…

St John the Evangelist, the beloved Apostle of Jesus, was the son of Zebedee and brother of St. James the Great. John was the youngest of the apostles, and he defined himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved. According to tradition, in 49 AD, John settled at Ephesus, where the witnessed the assumption of the…

All of the miracles can be broken down in lactation’s of three categories, controlling nature, healing people, and raising the dead. The vast majority of his miracles were in accord with healing individuals, which seem to be his specialty. The purpose of the essay is to propose three pros and cons of why people should…

Thomas A. Dorsey and the Gospel Sound Gospel music, the infusion of traditional spirituals and hymns with the rhythms of jazz and blues, was born in the early 20th century with the African American church as its birthplace.  It is a musical genre which varies in flavor as well as style and differs according to social…

The Didache’s authenticity, since its inception, has been a centre of controversy and debate among religious and philosophical scholars.  This is in large part, brought about by the timelines of authorship among Jewish and Christian literature.  Likewise, more specific examples are contained within recent theories, publications, and journals which connote a connection between the Didache…

In the beginning stood four men. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the Synoptics of the Bible. Men with a vision, to conceive a living testimony of their Lord and Savior Jesus. But today many followers of Christ as well as scholars are skeptical about the origins of the Gospels and the true authors of the…

The gospel of Matthew and MarkThe term gospel, in Christianity translates as good news.   A gospel is one of the four canonical books in the New Testament that describes the life, ministry, teachings and the death of Jesus (Achtemeier, Green & Thompson, 2001).  Four gospels are officially recognized by the New Testament out of…

esus is true and not just made up?There are several ways in which we can be assured that what we are taught about Jesus is true and not just made up. These are called our faith sources. These sources, like the Bible and other sources of information about Jesus have accounts of Jesus life. The…