Arguments Against Petrine Authorship

Flatland, written by Edwin A. Abbott, is about a Square whose goes on a journey to the third dimension, Spaceland. Square is from the second dimension, Flatland. In this story Abbott incorporates many Christian principals into the book. All throughout the book there are references towards events in the Bible and biblical characters. The main character A. Square is similar to the biblical characters Paul and Thomas, also known as doubting Thomas.

Peter Beinart, in his article, America’s Most Prominent Anti-Muslim Activist I Welcome at the White House, talks about the positions Brigitte Gabrielle takes regarding Islam and her relationship with the members of the new administration.

In the book anthem by Ayn Rand starts off by saying that “Its is a sin to write this.” Why does he start the character by saying these words?

The character Peter plays a significant part throughout the novel. Peter’s goal is to rule the world and have power over it. Near the middle of the novel, Peter and Valentine, Ender’s brother and sister, create two characters on the web. They both work together writing articles on world conflict in order to express their opinions, and in result, they gain followers. In the end of the book, the reader learns that Peter finally gained power over the world through being Locke and writing the Locke proposal. Peter was 13 when he created Locke and 16 when his proposal was accepted. Card made it so that it took Peter 3 years as Locke to gain enough trust and followers in order to become the leader of the world. On page 176, two I.F. leaders are discussing Valentine and Demosthenes, and Peter and Locke. One soldier states, “They have influence, but no power,” the other soldier responds with, “In my experience, influence is power” (Card). This confirms that one theme Card developed was that leadership had to be earned over time. Peter didn’t just walk into his position, he earned it. He was able to influence others and according to Card’s writing, influence is power, and that is how Peter earned his position as a leader. Leadership isn’t just handed over, it is

While the book itself is written in a similar style to other books known to have been written by Paul, and some of the same principles and themes are repeated in Colossians, there are some notable discrepancies that lead many to question its authorship. If Paul were to have written the book, he would not have yet actually visited the city. In addition, Paul had an extremely close relationship with Philemon, yet he was not mentioned anywhere in Colossians. There are others reasons as well, which when all combined lead to the claim that Paul did not actually write the

Is the world manipulating you? In Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card presents his audience with the theme of manipulation which is still relevant today. Ender was faced with manipulation throughout the entire book, just as soldiers are brainwashed throughout their service.

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” . Van Biema presents several ideas that to him prove that those four gospels are unreliable and cannot be trusted. Van Biema presents a critical view point

Besides Jesus, Paul, who called himself as an Apostle, was influential in the beginning of Christianity. People even claimed him as the “founder of Christianity”. Paul was the one that brought Jesus’s message to the world. He went on three missionary journeys, and the fourth journey to Rome in order to spread Christian faith and the development of its various institutions. In addition of his responsible of geographically and culturally expanding Christian movement, he also extended it as well as ethnic lines. Because of his attribution to the New Testament as writing 13 books in the total of 27 books, Paul even considered himself “as little more than an ambassador or emissary for Jesus” (Powell, 231). Paul is the person who had oppressed the church. After that, on the road to Damascus, when he experienced a rendezvous with Jesus, he became a Christian missionary.

Everyone can agree that Peter is a brilliant child. Peter is so smart, in fact, that he does not learn from his teachers. He already knows what they are teaching when they teach it. So when he goes home he looks into whatever they are learning at school at a college level. Like when they dissected a frog in class, Peter went home to study “... the binding of cells into organisms through the philotic collation of DNA” (124). This takes a great deal of brilliance to understand. At this time Peter is twelve. He is in the seventh grade!

In the book of Philemon, many scholars differ in their opinion of why Paul wrote a personal letter to Philemon, the master to Onesimus. A couple of those reasons could be that Paul hoped that Philemon would release the slave so that he could work for him or that he wanted Onesimus to be treated better than before since slaves were treated harshly. Although, there were suspicions as to why Onesimus could have gotten himself into trouble. These reasons consist of him stealing property or money from his master, then accidentally running into Paul while he was in prison. The other reason consisted of him displeasing his master and leaving out to find Paul. We see in our textbook this week that Paul and Philemon were friends, which could lead

Peter l took the Russian throne in 1682 at the age of 10. However he didn’t take control of the government until 1689 at the age of 17. The country was poor and in ruins because it was going through the “ Times of Troubles”. This was a terrible period for Russia because it was a time that consisted of disorder and foreign invasions. The country had a weak military, bad education, a weak economy, and Russia was not progressing as much as it’s opposing countries. Under the institution of policies and the guidance of Peter l the country flourished, This is why Peter l received the nickname Peter the Great.

Peter the Great undoubtedly attempted to implement a heavy amount of Western culture into Russian society, so much so that it split Russia under his reign into two camps; the Slavophiles traditionalists who hated everything Peter was doing to ‘their’ Russia, known as the ‘Muscovites’, and those that supported the Westernization of Russia that Peter attempted to implement during his time in power, know as the Petrins. But how did Peter achieve these reforms or ‘Western ends’? And why have his methods doing so made historians claim that he achieved them through the traditional means any other Eastern ruler at the time would have used?

Well, to be clear, through the analysis of evidence in the form of documents, it’s clear that Peter more than likely did not usually have the betterment of Russia on his mind and even more clear that even if he did, it was greatly ineffective.

Paul’s pneumatology found in his writings has been a matter of interest in recent New Testament scholarship. Gordon Fee has been a great contributor in this area and in Paul, the Spirit and the People of God he outlines the various elements found in Pauline pneumatology giving us greater insight into this subject. In this paper I will highlight some of these elements that are unique to Paul and are not found in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts.

Mark whose full name was John Mark an associate with Simon Peter, one of the 12 apostles that followed Jesus throughout His public ministry on earth. Peter was the name given to Simon by Jesus Christ personally. He was very close to Jesus and after the crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, Peter was one of the founders of the early church. Although the book was written by Mark, the facts contained in it are thought to be the accounts of Peter during his ministry with Jesus. The consensus among scholars is that the book of Mark was written between 50 and 60 A.D. The author is referenced several times in the New Testament starting in the book of Acts and finally in the book of Mark was probably written in Italy, and perhaps even Rome. This book has 16 chapters and is the shortest book of the four gospels. However, the details of the events and miracles of Jesus in this book are