He tells him that, by the gospel, “A person can be drawn into the Faith, not forced into it.” (Document 3) Instead of forcing the people to convert to Christianity, the gospel should be taught to everyone, as they will not obtain salvation if they do not decide for themselves whether to accept it as the truth and live by it. This is the way that God intended for the gospel to be spread throughout the world. It has no impact on a person if they do not make the decision of their own accord to accept God into their
Jesus meant what he said when he instructed us to, “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27). It’s easier to love someone that we are comfortable around, someone that looks, smells, acts, and talks like us. However, Jesus’ ministry was about being uncomfortable, and getting outside of our comfort
CB- Final Paper- P&P The Church is a diverse body of persons professing the Christian faith. The people called Christians are those that understand and witness the birth and death of Jesus Christ. This conveys that they believe Jesus Christ to be the begotten son of God, the Creator of this world.
“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises. -Fancis Chan” (Reader’s Digest) Starting in around 30CE, Christianity spread throughout the ancient Roman Empire. As the religion grew, Christianity became one of the most prominent religions in the Roman Empire.
In the article, “Alcohol Use and Abuse Statistics” states, “thirty-five percent of offenders were under the influence of alcohol in a case of an abuse” (Alcohol Use and Abuse Statistics - Alcoholism - Addictions). The abuser’s violent action affects the relationship between the family and the abuser’s significant other. The actions of the abuser affect their victim physical and mental state through control and victim blaming. A Step from Heaven by An Na depicts a Korean family experiences the life of an American immigrant. The adolescent narrator, Young Joon, describes the difficulty of the family migrating to the United States in hope of a better life.
Christianity stands on the idea that Jesus is the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; that his life on earth, his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension into heaven are proof of God 's love for humanity and God 's forgiveness of human sins; and that by faith in Jesus one may attain salvation and eternal life. This teaching is embodied in the Bible, specifically in the New Testament, but Christians accept also the Old Testament as sacred and authoritative Scripture. Christians is a monotheistic religion, meaning they only believe in one god. Christian believe that we are all born sinners due to Adam and Eve, but we can all reach salvation by faith in God and good works. In the
Although his people sin and stray away from him, he still allows them to come back into his grace. By doing this, he gives them another chance to have eternal life through him and live a life following God's rules. This shows how truly merciful god is even when people turn his their backs on him. 2.
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekial 36:26. God can change a man. In the book “Born Again” the way a man changes when he accepts God can be seen through many men such as Charles Colson. Accepting Christ can change a man's actions, friendships, and perspective.
My teenage age years of fornication, idolatry, alcohol consumption, and partying left and His peace and fullness filled me with His love and forgiveness! My life before knowing Jesus Christ was without purpose, full of dissatisfaction and emptiness. When I didn’t knew Christ, I remember when Christian people said to me: "Christ loves you.", but I thought people say it to other people who had serious problems. Indeed, I did had the most serious problem of all: eternal separation from God.
Christianity began with Jesus, a member of a small Jewish sect, going on a mission to Jerusalem to spread the word of God’s love for humanity. While gaining a reputation for miracles and healing,
1. What is your definition of a Christian? A Christian is a person who believes in God and recognizes that Jesus came as a man, but was also fully God, as a sacrifice to die for man’s sin. A Christian recognizes that he or she is a sinner, and through this sin is separated from God and needs to accept Jesus’s death as a substitute for their sin. Beyond accepting the gift of salvation through Jesus’s death, a Christian has a personal relationship with God and continue to grow in this relationship and recognizes that living life requires a reliance on the guiding of the Holy Spirit.
Christianity of exclusivism is the belief that Jesus is our only savior from sins and our only salvation from harm. Jesus is the only way to Gods and through him we will be able to please God. As described in John 14:6, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (NIV). To get to heaven you must follow Jesus words, teachings and lessons, for he is Lord.
“Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” [28] So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly
Various religions across the world employ several different concepts that non-believers often find very strange or difficult to grasp. There is however a concept that is universally understood and somewhat accepted by the vast majority of our contemporary society. This is of course the concept of an afterlife. The afterlife can be defined as a sort of state of being where the consciousness of an individual persists even after the physical death of the body. This concept plays a central role in nearly all religions that employ it and is sometimes dependent on the existence of a God.
An individual who is well acquainted in the belief of following a specific religion, lives their life according to a set of principles and guidelines in carrying out certain actions and assisting in the decision making of what will seem acceptable and ethical in both the corporate sector and in society as a whole. Each religious group is just as significant and important as the next. Each group follows a specific holy book, in which they can reference their beliefs and practices. According to Christianity, Christians believe in the 'Holy Bible ' together with the 'Ten Commandments '.
