Essays on Sin

Analysis of the beatitudes INTRODUCTION             The Sermon on the Mount, also known as the Beatitudes is one of the many teachings of Jesus that made Him famous and dear to the believers but consequently caused Him to be persecuted. This paper aims to navigate the spiritual lessons behind the Beatitudes and how will these…

Loving God and Other Sins As Friedrich Nietzsche, the revolutionary existentialist once said, “The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly has made the world evil and ugly.” William H. Faulkner’s Light in August, a novel in which the various protagonists’ struggles with Christianity soil their relationships with the people around them and…

Paul E. LittleBook CritiqueThis book was a very well balanced look at one of the greatest problems with the Church today; the fact that most Christians know that they believe… but they don’t know why they believe. It covered topics such as is there a God? Did Christ really rise from the dead? Is the…

Read the assigned readings in Topic 3 ( textbook chapter 4, Lecture 3, “The Mystery of Original Sin” article, and Bible transitions ) and turn to the undermentioned inquiries with a entire word count ( including inquiries ) of 500-750 words. Cite all of the resources used with in-text commendations, utilizing at least two beginnings…

An Essay on True Worship“True worship is a dangerous thing because in it we are required to bring our personal failings face-to-face with a holy, righteous, and just God” (Williams, 2003). This particular statement from the book They Spoke from God: A Survey of the Old Testament by William C. Williams, expresses the power of…

The following passage from 1Corinthians 10:31 has several different areas that explain the meaning such as: The setting of the passage, the historical context and date of the writings, the major theological theme or themes, to whom the passage was historically written, the characters in the passage, and after reading, my own opinions about the…

The Parable of the Beatitudes The beatitudes are simple statements yet they impart a profound meaning.  These simple statements serve as a guide to a Christ-like way of life.  They direct as the same time as they teach the way towards righteousness. They communicate the values worthy to a Christian life.  In following such values,…

These writings were introduced by Jonathan Edwards and Nathaniel Hawthorne these novo writers as devoted Christians pinpointed the ills of iniquity inside imperfect humans to help cure their sinful ways in the works of a sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Edwards and an allegory: “The Ministers Black Veil by Hawthorne”,…

The Council Nicaea For more than two centuries, the Christian church suffered persecution under the Roman Empire particularly those in Rome. With the rise of Constantine the Great to the throne, the persecution stopped as he was sympathetic with Christianity in view of his famous Christian vision just before the battle at Melvian Bridge against…

Religions – Christianity & Buddhism Christianity is a transcendent religion as it holds it beliefs in a divine power beyond the human dimension. The followers of Christianity believe in one god who exists beyond the human world but guides humanity throughout existence. Buddhism is an immanent religion as they believe in a divine being or…