Arminianism Essays

The value of earthly treasures versus eternal treasures is a key theme in Anne Bradstreet’s “Upon the Burning of Our House.” Throughout the poem, Bradstreet uses the following three examples to discover her feelings about losing her earthly treasures in the house fire and moving toward eternal treasures: her earthly possessions, her position in society, and her ultimate choice to focus on eternity. Anne Bradstreet is a woman who was the first English colonial poet. while she resided in the Massachusetts

Speech Outline Title: The 5-points of Calvinism General Purpose: Inform Specific Purpose: After listening to my speech my audience will understand what the five points of Calvinism are. Introduction I. Attention grabber: When my boyfriend and I began dating, I waited several weeks before telling him my secret. I told him one day after church that I had something really important to tell him about me. With a slightly startled look in his eyes he asked “What is it?” I answered, “I’m a Calvinist

“Had the department been able to get up close to the church, water could have been thrown on the roof, but as it was, they were unable to get within striking distance and there were no ladders of sufficient length available.” There have been so many fires it is hard to count them all. To start out with, the fire that took the Baptist church is one. Next, there is the Methodist church, which the same fire took a livery barn also. Lastly, there is the Mental Health Institute, in which the fire destroyed

This journal, “Of Plymouth Plantation”, which was from Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1, written by William Bradford between 1630 and 1651, and edited by Samuel Eliot Morison in 1953, describes the story of the pilgrims who sailed from Southampton, England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Those pilgrims were English Christians in the 16th and 17th centuries and religious separatists who saw no hope of reforming the Church of England from within; therefore

Calvinism vs Arminianism Calvinism and Arminianism is a topic that has been discussed in the church since the 1600 's when the Arminian Clergy published their "Great Remonstrance" that dealt with the 5 points of Arminianism. A popular theologian, John Calvin said “God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation

their ideas. Jacob Arminius is a part of that elite group that has a theology to their name. Arminianism was ultimately the result of Arminius’ life works, beliefs, and teachings. Growing up, Jacob Arminius began to question much of his beliefs and what was taught to him, so he decided to create his own views based on his individual understanding and interpretation of the Bible. With the emergence of Arminianism in the 17th century, a massive impact on the church was created. The addition of a competing

The decline of Calvinism during the First Great Awakening yielded a more individualistic view of salvation and religion as a whole, inevitably resulting in new interpretations of Puritanism. Before the First Great Awakening began, the Massachusetts Bay Colony experienced a decline in religion between 1700 and 1725. The colonists viewed the ministers as too formal and lacking religion of the heart. However, beginning around the 1730s, the revival brought a new style of emotional, oratory preaching

Salvation is found in no one, but Christ Jesus; however, how does this salvation come to an individual. Or even more, does an individual have a role to play within the process of salvation? These questions have circulated within the church for centuries and at times, have divided the body of Christ greatly. However, one consensus has remained; salvation is both a gift and a task.1 This means that God fully accomplished salvation for humanity in the past (gift), but also his salvation continues to

In the 15th chapter of his Systematic Theology, Michael Horton speaks about the topic of Christ’s threefold office of prophet, priest and king, all speaking on his life, death and resurrection. At the very end of the chapter Horton brings up the question of the extent of the atonement. This is an important question that Evangelical Christians differ on and so it is necessary to discuss. Horton begins by summarizing the 3 main positions on the topic. The first is universal atonement that is that

The Puritans were a group of religious people from England who deeply believed in the foundations of the Bible and knew that God had commissioned them to do something great. They were to be trail blazers in a sense. They were a part of the Church of England but thought that the church practiced too many Catholic behaviors. The Puritans sought to “purify” the church of all those Catholic influences and rituals. Did the Puritans succeed in purifying the Church of their “evil” behavior? King Henry

Chapter 5 JESUS OUR ONLY SAVIOUR Look at whom we worship and to whom we owe our salvation. This is Jesus or Jesus Christ. He is real, alive and now in heaven, acting as our high priest in a similar way to how the line of Aaron acted as high priests for over a thousand years for the Israelites until AD 70 when Judaism proper was overthrown by the Roman General Titus. Its tagline was ‘past its use by date’. Jerusalem was smashed up and rebuilt but not the Temple. It represented Jewish worship in all

Punishing individuals for wrongdoing is an ethical issue that is still current in modern day society. It can be argued that we need punishment for various different reasons. Without punishment, crimes would not be illegal and it would be hard to differ between what is right and what is morally wrong. Punishment highlights the need to focus on the consequences of our actions and show us what could happen if we go against the law. Punishment has the ability to make criminals better individuals through