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Jesus Christ. These words identify the most significant person in human history. Who is this person Jesus? Christians may identify Jesus as the one Yahweh promised, the savior who came to rescue all people from sin and from death. The whole Christian religion rests on this person. However, doubts of his existence and teachings have been created and have been living among many people throughout the centuries since the time of his life. Thousands of people around the world may have different viewpoints and beliefs, but I personally have a strong faith and truly accept Jesus as my Savior, the Son of God.
In the seventeenth century, the success of the new scientific method through Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and others generated a confidence in human reason. When reason is exalted as the sole norm of truth, that is, when the Enlightenment becomes a rationalism, there is little room for Christianity in the traditional sense. For example, Locke had exhibited a desire to empty Christianity of that which reason cannot account for, the miraculous and the supernatural, and to build a religion within the ...
In my life on this planet I have come to question many things that many take on as blind faith. We all know that someday we will 'physically' die, Yet, we continuously deny the forces working inside ourselves which want to search out the true outcome of what may or may not come after death. It's far easier for humanity to accept that they will go o...
is one of the three major branches of Christianity, which "stands in today's society as one of the communities created by the apostles of Jesus in the region of the eastern Mediterranean, and which spread by missionary activity throughout Eastern Europe" (Meyendorff 5).The word orthodox comes from Greek, meaning right-believing. currently the orth...
SUMMARY History -reenacts the closing events of jesus' life -links past-present- future one ceremony -powerful, meaningful ritual -last of the 3 sacraments of initiation -prescribed by christ -have to see the as body, not bread celebrates -"a way of remembering" -daily reminder of Gods love - jesus shared bread at last supper/do this in memory...
The Puritans in the time of the Salem Witch trials showed that it was possible for humans to lose all 'rational' thought and blindly condemn people to death. Arthur Miller, a contemporary American playwright, dramatized these proceedings in the attempt to mirror the McCarthy investigations, and show how absurd they truly were. Arthur Miller says o...
I believe the Divine sacred is something more powerful than anything on earth. Not necessarily in a physical sense but more in a spiritual. I feel that the youth of today, more than any other time in the world's history, needs to know something about what their parents and ancestors have found in religion. As we look at today's youth we see a d...
