The Controversy Of Paul's Discipleship

A man is lurking around the dark alleys. Searching for the address that he was told to go to. He is hesitant to enter hoping it is the right place. For if he is caught there is a chance he would executed. To be a Christian during the Roman Empire you had to go through many obstacles thanks to their beliefs compared the Roman’s religion, what the Emperor’s believed, and the persecution of Christians.

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. These people were tremendously diverse, but each one had unique way of making a difference. Some of these people include Constantine the Great, who was the emperor of the Romans. Another person who helped construct and aid in the expansion of the religion was the Apostle Paul, a Roman born missionary who preached his ideas amongst others. Paul was one of the most important people in the history of Christianity. This was due to the fact that he was one of the original missionaries and it was said that Jesus had came to

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.

In Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor, the protagonist who is named Paul Fisher undergoes conflict throughout the story. He is emotionally tested throughout the book. He has to constantly compete for attention from his parents, mostly his dad, with his older brother Erik. Throughout, Paul often wonders if he is good enough and if he can ever match up to the expectations set by his revered brother, Erik. His father is so caught up in praising Erik that he leaves reasonable doubt in Paul’s mind that he will never measure up to his esteem. Paul is experiencing internal conflict throughout his emotional journey and he must discover that it isn’t necessary for him to receive approval from others

While Alexander the Great was spreading Greek culture and capturing lands, Apostle Paul was spreading Christianity. While both had separate missions for different reasons, they both would indeed create their own legacy over time. Alexander the Great focused on the implementation of the Greek culture and language. Alexander the Great was the conqueror of the Mediterranean world.

“His teachers felt this afternoon that his whole attitude was symbolized by his shrug and his flippantly red carnation flower, and they fell upon him without mercy . . .” (Cather 92). Paul is a character in the short story “Paul’s Case,” which was written by Willa Cather, who was not living a life that he wanted to. Cather did give me the impression that we should view Paul in an unsympathetic way in the beginning of the story, but by the end of it, my whole view on him changed. Throughout the story, Paul is someone who the readers need to take time to think about to fully understand him. He is a character who people should feel sympathetic for, and even though the author first portrayed Paul as an unsympathetic character in the beginning, towards the end of the story she portrayed him as a sympathetic character through the use of narration, dialogue, and description.

Carson explained what it takes to become an apostle and showed how Jesus impacted Paul’s life. Paul understood when he became saved he was transformed by the blood of Jesus; however, he understood the need to be flexible for winning souls. Paul realized the need to be like others to gain access to people for the sake of evangelism. Paul understood

In the novel The kingdom of Matthias by Paul E. Johnson & Sean Wilentz, captures the importance of the Evolution in early American history and the second Great Awakening. The reason this book is important is because it highlights the start of America going from rural to urban during the 19th century and the influence that religion had on America during this time period from the action of prophet Matthias and other like him.

Glaser speaks of the annihilation of entire groups of Messianic Jews during the Holocaust, even making the proclamation that “An entire generation of Messianic Jews was, in fact, wiped out in the concentration camps” (Kindle, loc 2600). In spite of the horror of this statement, a few paragraphs later he mentions that the anti-Semitic state of Europe actually resulted in many Jewish people turning to Yeshua. While this is encouraging, it does not erase the atrocities of the historic record. Glaser addresses the success experienced in the first fifty years of the twentieth century in Jewish evangelism, noting that denominational acceptance of the Jewish people at the local church level. Jewish evangelists proved to be more effective in being sensitive to the needs of the Jewish people. This was an exciting portion of the reading because it resonates with my personal belief that while the church can and should be reaching out to the Jewish community, there is potentially an inherent advantage in the Messianic Jewish community of reaching unbelieving Jews. The Jewish identity is complex, yet there is potentially a deeper rapport between those who are Jews because of shared experiences and

On October 1st, 2015, there was a mass shooting on a community college campus in Roseburg, Oregon, in which several people were injured and killed by a shooter named Chris Harper Mercer. At 10:30 am, Mercer entered a writing class and started asking all of the students to stand and state their religion. Regardless of their answer, the person was shot. If the student responded saying they were Christian, they were shot in the head. If they responded with anything else, they were shot in the foot. He was accounted by his peers to be “a lonely man who seethed with disdain for religion and had an interest in guns” (Frosch et al.). Although the events that take place in the short story “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather are not identical to the events

The realist short story, Paul’s case: a study in temperament, written by Willa Sibert Cather, carries a distant tone as it reviews Paul’s case of suspension. Paul was a tall skinny lad who lived a normal life, although he himself thought it to be too banal. To escape from this reality paul would enclose himself in the Theatre and Arts, where he found comfort in being “important”. Paul strived to be viewed as such, so much he felt to lie to himself and others to make his life seem more momentous in nature. While Paul’s case is not a tale of romance, paul is characterized as delusional as well as a romantic through the use of diction.

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.

Have you ever wonder about your future as kids? When I was little, I imagine the life of being a photographer who travel to remarkable places to take stunning pictures, a successful artist who paint astonishing images and living a lavish lifestyle or an astrophysicist who get to experienced the vastness of the universe. Many of us don't achieve or give up our dreams due to the environment or change in personal interest. Based on the research, there's only 23 percent of people ends up with their dream job and Paul Kalanithi is one of them. Paul Kalanithi is both the protagonist and the author of When Breath Becomes Air. Not only was he a talented neurosurgeon, an intelligent litterateur but also a thoughtful and empathic man. Paul wrote his memoir When Breath Becomes Air to share his passion and journey of fighting back and dealing with cancer. The story shows the fortitude and intelligence in one's life.

He would go to unbelievers and people like prostitute and wicked people and tell them Gods word. He understood that everyone needed to hear the word and especially the ones that were sinning and not repenting. Jesus traveled telling parables and preforming miracle. Jesus would heal sick people, restoring there vision or ability to walk and healed them from sickness witch made his fallowing grow. Jesus gave a sermon where he talked about love, humanity, and compassion to a large number of people and this is called the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus went around teaching about the kingdom of God and was fulfilling prophecies of the Old Testament. This was making so of the high Jewish leaders very upset and they began to conspire against him. Jesus took three of his disciples on to a large mountain to pry. While they were on the mountain Jesus became transfigured and was joined by the prophets Elijah and Moses and a voice spoke to them proclaiming that Jesus was the song of God. This is a pivotal moment because it supports that Jesus is really the son of

Samuel is another person who was called to prophetic office at the tender age by God, and he was placed under the care of Eli the priest. His loveliness and character drew forth the warm affection of the old man Eli as the priest. As a youth, Samuel was willing to learn and get more instruction how to work in the tabernacle of God.