Benchmark Assignment: Gospel Essentials
The Christian worldview is a complex idea that covers several topics and splits off into various subcategories. The foremost viewpoints of Christians are their belief in God, Jesus, and the Trinity. Christians believe that human nature plays a significant role in their lives and the struggles all humans have. Jesus was trying to accomplish the restoration of the fallen world, and Christians draw on the teachings of Jesus today. This reflects a large portion of Christian worldview beliefs. This paper will attempt to explain Jesus, God, Humanity and the Restoration from the perspective of the Christian worldview, as well as analyzes the writer’s thoughts and reflect on her own beliefs.
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Jesus was also God. Matthew 1:21 states that Mary would have a child she was to call Jesus “because he will save his people from their sins.” He was a prophet and a teacher and he performed miracles. These miracles consisted of raising the dead. This fact shows he was also God since only God can raise the dead. Jesus’ other miracles included making blind people see, curing people with leprosy, turning water into wine, and several others. Jesus taught people to adhere to the commandments and to love one another no matter if they were a sinner or a righteous man. Jesus preached the word of God to his people in the form of parables. He gathered his disciples together to help him preach the word of God and convert people to Christianity. Jesus is different from other humans for the reason that he never sinned. He never sinned because he was God’s son sent to sacrifice himself for the sins of humans. During Jesus’ life, non-Christians became upset with him for preaching that he was the Messiah. Pilate charged Jesus with blasphemy and sentenced him to hang on the cross until death. The Romans whipped and tortured Jesus and he had to carry his cross to Golgotha (Renan, 1864), where he was nailed down to it and then it was raised. After he died, the Romans removed Jesus’ body from the cross and allowed the Jews to bury him in a tomb. After three days, his body had vanished and he appeared before his disciples as proof of his resurrection. Jesus’ …show more content…
They believe in God as the creator of earth and humans, and God’s forgiveness of humans through the death of His son Jesus Christ. They believe in the Messiah Jesus Christ who died for their sins and through him, all will be become right with God. Humanity’s downfall was when Adam and Eve chose to defy God therefore bringing evil into the world. Finally yet importantly, they believe in The Restoration, which will bring people to the kingdom of Heaven, if they believe in Jesus and ask for forgiveness of their sins, upon their
Finally, it means that God is a human being. They believe that God sent his son to earth to die for the sins of civilization. His son would return to heaven as a spirit. He would rule the world as God the Father or in other words God the
His refusal to give in to a lie that would make him look as if he was a saint allowed him to die with a clean
When it comes to knowing and learning the religions of the world one must approach them with a critical mind. One cannot simply just believe every religion and know have their own view points. David Van Biema presents his ideas about Christianity and Jesus in “The Gospel Truth?”. Van Biema’s main point is about how “Matthew, Mark, Luke and John… is notoriously unreliable,” . Van Biema writes about how one cannot be completely sure about whether to believe if Jesus actually said what is written in the bible, he continues to say that Jesus may even be an “imaginative theological construct” .
The audience this short essay is meant for would be Christians and people debating their worldview. It does not really attack other worldviews or cultures, but merely boosts up Christianity. Worldviews in Conflict was published on April 02, 2011. It quickly grew very popular to evangelical
Basic Christianity is a crucial foundation that must be deeply entrenched within the hearts and minds of believers. The essential and basic principles aid every Christian by showing and teaching them how great God’s love is for us. In John Stott’s Book, “Basic Christianity,” he reveals insight on what it is to be a Christian. He also dispels many erroneous teachings that have been brought into the Christian community. Stott states in the beginning of his book that many have held the assumption that God sits on His throne, aloof, distant, and unconcerned for our needs and problems (Stott, pg. 17).
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.
Therefore, Christ in us, is the only hope for this world and He is the Kingdom of God. Christ is as much God and Holy Spirit as he is Christ. This means there is one God who infinitely exists as three persons (1 John 5:7), each having entirely the fullness of the Godhead, and entirely the intrinsic nature of God. The three, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are one, in complete unison and
They believed that there will be a messiah who will save them from the suffering. They believed that Jesus was the messiah and the son of God. Jesus was a Jew who lived in a period of human suffering. He heal the sick and spread his teachings about God. Jesus believed that the cause of human suffering is due to one's sin, and people can earn salvation through faith in God.
Although motivating factors for individuals are different, the Biblical worldview is the same whether the person is a manager or an employee. While there are a number of questions that determine a person’s worldview such as identity and origin, people tend to discover (or think they discover) their purpose or meaning at work. With this in mind, Christians recognize that their purpose is to know and worship God. Additionally, Followers of Christ know that they should respect and serve (within reason) their managers as they serve Christ. On the other hand, managers should treat their subordinates in the same manner, since the Lord is the Master of both (Ephesians 6: 5-9, New International Version).
It is important to understand the history and culture of these two societies, as well as some important factors that went into the creation of this religion. Also this paper will explain what Christianity really is and where it came from. People played a valuable role that went into shaping this religion as well. Within these societies, there were small groups of those who helped the religion survive, despite the struggles they faced and had to overcome. There was different types of leaders throughout this process who each had their own effect on the religion as a whole.
Benchmark Assignment: Ethical Dilemmas Ethics are a key component of one’s worldview, and they guide moral behavior. (Hiles & Smith, 2014) For some worldviews, ethics are a matter of personal interpretations. However, for those who have a Christian Worldview, what is determined as ethical has been set by God and are not up for personal interpretation. (Stefan, 2008)
The author describes his own reflections and explorations that give the view of a certain religion from the inside. 3. Topic Sentence: The Christianity is a unitary phenomenon that spans vast geography.
Incorporation of elements of the modern or postmodern worldview is not compatible with the Christian worldview. Modern and postmodern worldviews are based on human ideas and rejection of God. The loss of the single story holding a community together has led to allowing everyone to create their own story (Sire, p. 216). This process was notated within the time frame of the Greco- Romans when Plato started to explain the order of the world without recourse to myth or divine authority (Goheen & Bartholomew, p. 72). Cultural acceptance of the belief there can be multiple perspectives allows for the
A god teacher is someone who is selfless. When asked what qualities made Jesus a god teacher, Kathleen said, “...and he is also completely selfless.” (Schuyler). The follow up question was; how did he display this quality?
There are serious flaws with the idea that religion and morality are linked. Theists would argue that the idea of morality being independent to religion is ridiculous or even blasphemous. However atheists would argue that there is no consensus on moral principles by all religion therefore morality is independent to religion. The first issue with morality being independent to religion is is that people are moral in order to be rewarded in the afterlife they give charity because one God has said this is good and two because they want to be rewarded in the hereafter for this generous act. '