In his book, Paul Wegner (2004) first considers the doctrines of revelation and inspiration, the general contents of the Old and the New Testaments, and the relationship between the old and the new covenants. Then he discusses the historical processes behind the gathering of Biblical texts and the ...

Christianity: the religion of those people who believe in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world. Christians know little about Jesus. Paul's Letters, which are the earliest known written documents about Jesus, were written about ten years after his death. Thirty to fifty years after his dea...

In search of the truth, I found life. Researching this book has opened my eyes and my mind to understanding my faith. Through eyewitnesses and Biblical accounts, historical facts and archaeological findings, we can develop knowledge of our faith through substantial evidence. The historicity and...

Homosexuality within the Church: An Issue of Religious Liberty The Argument If one were to ask your stance on homosexuality within the Christian church and your reasoning behind your views, how would you answer them? I find that most Christians I have talked with take a rather conservativ...

Biblical historians have many different opinions on who is responsible for the authorship of the New Testament writings. Concentrating on 1 and 2 Peter, their different conclusions can be analyzed. Scholars approach the study of authorship by carefully going over the writings themselves. They d...

Revelation as a whole is often viewed as a very hard book to understand. However, if taken in small sections and really studied closely, the meaning of the text can come through. The first step to understand the book is to understand when it was written and the occasion and purpose for which it...

Does God Love You? Q. What kind of a question is that? Anyone who can read sees signs, tracts, booklets and bumper stickers saying, "God Loves You." Isn't that true? A. It's true that God offers His love to the whole world, as we read in one of the most quoted verses in the Bible: "For God so loved...

Religion is a very important part of most people's lives. Many of us think of ourselves as being religious, but how many of us actually study the basis of our beliefs? Before I took this course I never really thought about the importance of knowing more than was taught to us in church. As a you...

Being A Born Again Christian First lets start with a background of Christianity. What is a Christian? #The term "Christian" comes from the Greek word christianos which means Christ-man, or an adherent of Jesus Christ. In the Bible, this word was first used as a nickname, a term...

The Bible Teaches many truths about itself. 1. It claims God as its author All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. - 2 Timothy 3:16 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any p...

Martin Luther is responsible for the birth of the Protestant Reformation with the publication of his Ninety-Five Theses on October 31, 1517 in which he attacked the Church's sale of indulgences (Martin pp). Luther advocated a theology that rested on God's gracious activity in Jesus Christ,...