Bible 105 Essay

In the Beginning: At the beginning of the universe. God created heaven and earth in six days and rested on the seventh. During those six days God spoke to the darkness and created the world, brought forth light, created the sky, land and animals and plants to inhabit them. However, even during this creation he was contemplating the creation of a being made in his own image.

From its first pages, the Holy Bible indicates that the most terrible events in the annals of space occur due to the human actions. From the theological point of view, the man is designated with such importance due to the fact of being the reason of war between God and Lucifer. Unfortunately, after the Fall of man, the evil was allowed into the world, and thus the world got secluded from God. God can speak to people, is able to remind them of His existence, but the whole tragedy of the pre-Christian world can be expressed in a simple and well-known phrase: “There was God, and there were people”, and they were apart. Between them, there was a kind of thin, invisible wall preventing the human heart from to connecting with God truly, and hindering God from staying with people forever. Appearing in the role of God’s servant, Christ comes to people with the aim of raising a revolt against the usurper inside their souls. When we carefully read the Bible, it becomes clear that Christ is not a sentimental preacher emphasizing on morals and ethics of the times; He is a warrior, and the Cross of Calvary is the price He had to pay for people’s fascination with the evil teachings. Jazzmon Brunson

The Bible follows an extremely logical and rational progression of events as God created the world in the seven days of creation. This rigid and systematic process in which God transforms and molds the world foreshadows the rigid and defined right and wrong that becomes an inherent and ubiquitous theme in the Bible such as the events of Adam and Eve and Cane and Abel. Furthermore, this theme is extended as “light is created and separated from darkness to designate day and night,” that there is only right and wrong and no moral ambiguity in between the two extremes of black and white. On the second day, this theme is again underscored when the “sky” was created to separate the water on earth from the water above.” This continual separation and dichotomies of the world demonstrates that God follows a systematic transformation of the creation of the world and this characteristic manifests itself later in his punishments towards Adam and Eve. This recurring theme continues to appear in Jesus’s Last Supper, Abel and Cane, and other biblical stories, further reinforcing the fact that ambiguity is nonexistent.

scholarship. I feel that chapter four is more important than chapter three because the topic is

Introduction: The term "image of God" occurs three times in the Bible. In Genesis 1:26-27 and 9:6, we find out that man is created in the image of God. In 2 Cor. 4:4 we see the phrase used in reference to Jesus who is the "image of God." There is no exact understanding of what the phrase means, but we can generalize. It would seem that the first two verses refer to God's character and attributes that are reflected in people. The term cannot be a reference to a physical appearance of God since Jesus says in John 4:24 that God is Spirit, and in Luke 24:39 Spirit does not have flesh and bones. Therefore, we can conclude that the image of God deals with humanity's reflection of

Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

Our relationships with other people give a strong sense of what our relationship with God is like. How we interact with people on a daily basis and the relationships that we build goes a long way in showing just how we feel about them. In Romans 1:10 we see that Paul wanted desperately to come to Rome to teach, to interact, to fellowship, and build relationships with the Christians that were there. Just as God wants a personal relationship with His creation we all feel a deep need for relationships with each other. It was not meant for man to go through life on his own without being able to interact with each other. We see the genuine love that Paul displayed toward the people and churches throughout his epistles and it should make us want to have an even stronger relationship with our Creator.

This paper will delve into a greater understanding of the following questions. What is the meaning of Worldview? What is meant by each of the four primary aspects of the Biblical worldview: creation, the fall, redemption and restoration? How does free enterprise comport with or reject creation, the fall, redemption, and restoration? How does socialism comport with or reject creation, the fall, redemption, and restoration? How does progressivism support or reject Biblical Worldview?

The important signs given in these passages that helped assure God’s people that they are to be restored in Ezekial 37:26-28 God’s promised a covenant of peace and an everlasting one. Israel would increase in numbers and God’s sanctuary, His dwelling place among the people forever. God to restore Israel by cleansing and renewing their hearts by His spirit. The signs in Exodus 40:34-38 the tabernacle was God’ home on earth, He filled this tent with His glory by a cover of cloud. In 1 Kings 8:1-21 Solomon states that God fulfilled His promise and kept His covenant of love. Solomon assembled the people at the temple to recommit to the Lord and led a prayer of dedication. The temple built by Solomon replaced the tabernacle, this signified the center place of worship and God’s continued presence. As it states in 1 Kings 8:12 “The Lord said that He would dwell in a dark cloud.”

The gospel writers of The Bible primarily portray Christianity as a universal religion and not a national religion. Still today, there exists a society that is thirsty for the goodness, mercy and truth that Jesus produces. The people of the early church faced many impossibilities and challenges that were not only overwhelming, but also unthinkable. The life-changing message of Christianity gave the early church hope that serving God was worthwhile. The message of Christ encouraged them to face their doubts and to put pressure on their faith, even if it meant losing their lives. There still exists today a society of people who are willing to give up their lives for the sake of the gospel of Christ. There are those who are willing to risk their lives in order to spread the gospel message. The early church was born as a result of the first century martyrs, in spite of emperors like Nero. They faced the challenge to allow transformation to take place regardless of the inevitable. Money and wealth no longer became important to them. However, serving God was the only thing that mattered to them and spreading the word about Jesus to allow it to change the lives of the people in their neighboring towns. Jews and Gentiles alike were delivered, and set

Genesis 1-3 offered the very first outline of societal norms and therein introduced interpretations of norms related to family, gender, and sex. In our now-progressive society, the constraints of indubitable religion are removed and the differing interpretations of gender, sex, and family within religion are freely debated. Since the text of creation is divine and human logic cannot fully interpret or understand God’s word, there are copious, varying interpretations of the text. An essential starting point for interpreting the Bible is the understanding that misinterpretations are bound to happen. The difference in time and context alone is causation, let alone the factors of translation and transcription. Susan T. Foh and Carol Meyers, both graduates of Wellesley College, have very differing strategies regarding how to interpret divine texts. Meyers, a professor at Duke, directed attention towards the context in which the text was written. Since our societies are constantly in flux, the context from when the text was written is often different from the context in which predominant and accepted interpretations were fabricated. Foh’s strategy of interpreting and understanding the text is to utilize latter parts of the text, which were written with more recent contexts, in order to understand the text. Both of these methodologies set up the text to be re-interpreted, however, Foh’s methodology is more complete because it allows the text to speak for itself rather than bring in

The creation of the Great Bible was entrusted to Miles Coverdale, who worked on the Matthew Bible instead of his own work. The printing took place in Paris, at the printing house of François Regnault, due to better conditions. The opposision made possible the seizure of certain parts of what had already been printed, together with stopping the printing alltogether. Therefore the printers, the staff, and any printed page that could be salvaged were taken back to England. Publishers, Grafton and Whitchurch, whose names appear on the title page, completed the work in London. It was the wish of Cromwell that every parish should have a copy of this Bible, which was the first to be authorized and the only one to have received official recognition. The revision process included the

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.

The basic story of the New Testament is that Jesus Christ is God incarnate as our Savior. All the Gospel authors, whether first-hand witnesses or faithful writers, described ways in which Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah to come. The death and resurrection of Jesus are pivotal to the story of the Old and New Testament, as the climax and fulfillment of the salvation hopes expressed from the beginning of recorded history. The Gospels not only describe the birth and death of Jesus of Nazareth, but detail his life and teaching including minutiae which parallel portions of the Old Testament - and one would think this truth would have been recognized by more of His contemporaries. The rejection that was

I find the academic biblical approach difficult and interesting. Studying the bible academically is different than being at church. In my opinion, I found taking the Old Testament class frustrating. In some ways academic and bible studying comes hand in hand. The academic approach is more of researching, literary, and discovering factual events for a better understanding. Most people are used to studying the Bible as they learned in church besides reading on a daily basis. Most bible studies are held at church; then you have those that conduct private devotions.