LESSON 5 -- The Creation and the Fall of Man
... Amen, amen, I say to you that whosoever commiteth sin is the servant of sin. (John 8:34) 64. What is actual sin? Actual sin is any willful thought, desire, word, action, or omission forbidden by the law of God. 65. How many kinds of actual sin are there? There are two kinds of actual sin: mortal sin ...
... Amen, amen, I say to you that whosoever commiteth sin is the servant of sin. (John 8:34) 64. What is actual sin? Actual sin is any willful thought, desire, word, action, or omission forbidden by the law of God. 65. How many kinds of actual sin are there? There are two kinds of actual sin: mortal sin ...
Origen De Principiis
... within our own power. But with respect to the soul, whether it is derived from the seed by a process of traducianism, so that the reason or substance of it may be considered as placed in the seminal particles of the body themselves, or whether it has any other beginning; and this beginning, itself, ...
... within our own power. But with respect to the soul, whether it is derived from the seed by a process of traducianism, so that the reason or substance of it may be considered as placed in the seminal particles of the body themselves, or whether it has any other beginning; and this beginning, itself, ...
Introduction “…in Christ, all things hold together.”
... was perfectly clear to God, but because God in his essence is hidden to humans, humans may not be able to grasp how what they perceive as random could be part of God’s direction of the universe. The opposing view was maintained by the Franciscan priest and philosopher, Duns Scotus, who was a younger ...
... was perfectly clear to God, but because God in his essence is hidden to humans, humans may not be able to grasp how what they perceive as random could be part of God’s direction of the universe. The opposing view was maintained by the Franciscan priest and philosopher, Duns Scotus, who was a younger ...
Science, Faith and a Distinctly Christian Humanism
... Yet how is this the case, the reader might ask, and what if anything does it have to do with the reading I have been doing? Allow me to answer the first question and then I will get to the second as promised. Central, of course, to the Christian faith is the Incarnation: In the one person Jesus Chri ...
... Yet how is this the case, the reader might ask, and what if anything does it have to do with the reading I have been doing? Allow me to answer the first question and then I will get to the second as promised. Central, of course, to the Christian faith is the Incarnation: In the one person Jesus Chri ...
EVERYONE A THEOLOGIAN September 15
... play, because 'never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation... There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior…to the whole mire and muck of Jewry." That's bad theology, which had destructive consequences. For better or worse, ...
... play, because 'never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation... There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior…to the whole mire and muck of Jewry." That's bad theology, which had destructive consequences. For better or worse, ...
Volume 19, Number 21, May 21 to May 27, 2017 Thoughts on
... Church has adopted to advance these objects. You must give more than you have done. It is a shame to think how small a portion of their gains some professors devote to the Lord. Instead of being a tithe, it is hardly equal to the single sheaf of first fruits. If you have nothing to give, labor to ge ...
... Church has adopted to advance these objects. You must give more than you have done. It is a shame to think how small a portion of their gains some professors devote to the Lord. Instead of being a tithe, it is hardly equal to the single sheaf of first fruits. If you have nothing to give, labor to ge ...
The Messiah - the Gloriavale Christian Community
... and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). The 16th Century English reformer and Bible translator, William Tyndale, penned this vivid description of man's sinful nature in his book, A Pathway to the Holy Scripture: By nature through the fall of Adam we are the children of wrath, heirs of the ...
... and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). The 16th Century English reformer and Bible translator, William Tyndale, penned this vivid description of man's sinful nature in his book, A Pathway to the Holy Scripture: By nature through the fall of Adam we are the children of wrath, heirs of the ...
Medieval Church History
... Christian revelation….[For example] Philosophically the universe might be eternal. But the Christian believes from revelation that creation is an act of God” (NIDCC, “Thomas Aquinas”, 60). In Thomas’ thinking, the ultimate goal of theology was to reason in order to grasp the truth of God and to expe ...
... Christian revelation….[For example] Philosophically the universe might be eternal. But the Christian believes from revelation that creation is an act of God” (NIDCC, “Thomas Aquinas”, 60). In Thomas’ thinking, the ultimate goal of theology was to reason in order to grasp the truth of God and to expe ...
MERE CHRISTIANITY Notes and Complete Outline of the Book, by
... CS Lewis first broadcast this book in a series of radio broadcasts. The material was published in three separate parts as The Case for C hristianity (1943), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1945). The book was clearly not intended to advocate for one Christian denomination. In fac ...
... CS Lewis first broadcast this book in a series of radio broadcasts. The material was published in three separate parts as The Case for C hristianity (1943), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1945). The book was clearly not intended to advocate for one Christian denomination. In fac ...
Psalm32
... any human life. It is the entire experience of being forgiven by God, others and self. The psalmist here gets to the heart of the matter, which is not so much sins a person has committed, but the state of sin that blocks a person from even recognizing those sins within him/herself. In other words, t ...
... any human life. It is the entire experience of being forgiven by God, others and self. The psalmist here gets to the heart of the matter, which is not so much sins a person has committed, but the state of sin that blocks a person from even recognizing those sins within him/herself. In other words, t ...
Lesson 9 - Great Commission Bible College
... It's sad but true that many of our churches have developed sin consciousness by preaching sin instead of destroying sin consciousness with the truth. If they would preach the cure for sin consciousness, if they would make clear the fact that man received eternal life and that eternal life was the na ...
... It's sad but true that many of our churches have developed sin consciousness by preaching sin instead of destroying sin consciousness with the truth. If they would preach the cure for sin consciousness, if they would make clear the fact that man received eternal life and that eternal life was the na ...
Therefore God is not fair, but… - Living Waters Methodist Church
... way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God. What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judg ...
... way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God. What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judg ...
The Transcendentalists
... be filtered through clergy or government •people should be self-reliant •God’s presence reveals itself primarily through the Bible, but also through signs in the physical world •human salvation is reserved for a few “elect” people— the majority of humanity is destined to damnation ...
... be filtered through clergy or government •people should be self-reliant •God’s presence reveals itself primarily through the Bible, but also through signs in the physical world •human salvation is reserved for a few “elect” people— the majority of humanity is destined to damnation ...
The Festival of Ash Wednesday. Sermon (Vespers I)
... dust shalt thou return.” Genesis 3:19. Hence, we read in The Order for the Burial of the Dead, “FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God, in His wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our departed brother, we therefore commit his body to the ground (to God’s acre); earth to earth, a ...
... dust shalt thou return.” Genesis 3:19. Hence, we read in The Order for the Burial of the Dead, “FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God, in His wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our departed brother, we therefore commit his body to the ground (to God’s acre); earth to earth, a ...
The GOSPEL MYSTERY OF SANCTIFICATION
... to us; and so do to them in all things, that concern their honour, life, chastity, worldly wealth, credit and content, whatever we would that men should do to us in the like condition (Matt. 7:12). This spiritual universal obedience is the great end to the attainment of which I am directing you. And ...
... to us; and so do to them in all things, that concern their honour, life, chastity, worldly wealth, credit and content, whatever we would that men should do to us in the like condition (Matt. 7:12). This spiritual universal obedience is the great end to the attainment of which I am directing you. And ...
The Failure of Humanism - Biblical Studies.org.uk
... they might well have pointed out that nations, whether small or great, were not likely by some mysterious miracle to escape the virus of that avarice against which even the redeemed individual is called to constant battle. But here we reach what is for us the most important aspect of the whole quest ...
... they might well have pointed out that nations, whether small or great, were not likely by some mysterious miracle to escape the virus of that avarice against which even the redeemed individual is called to constant battle. But here we reach what is for us the most important aspect of the whole quest ...
growing up into christ in all things
... that spiritual simplicity and godly sincerity of which He is the author. We must become simple as little children. Again, the child is inexperienced, ignorant of many things which it has afterwards to learn, and the innate consciousness of this renders it teachable. So the child of God is teachable ...
... that spiritual simplicity and godly sincerity of which He is the author. We must become simple as little children. Again, the child is inexperienced, ignorant of many things which it has afterwards to learn, and the innate consciousness of this renders it teachable. So the child of God is teachable ...
PowerPoint - Sugar Land Bible Church
... pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let everyone seriously set him ...
... pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let everyone seriously set him ...
File - Southwest church of Christ
... doctrines today is the false teaching of Premillennialism. This doctrine believes most of the prophecies made by those of old are yet to be fulfilled. It also states that the prophets of the Old Testament knew absolutely nothing about the church Christ established at His death on the cross. In expla ...
... doctrines today is the false teaching of Premillennialism. This doctrine believes most of the prophecies made by those of old are yet to be fulfilled. It also states that the prophets of the Old Testament knew absolutely nothing about the church Christ established at His death on the cross. In expla ...
The Free Gift.
... spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, (3) among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. And now look at the twelfth verse of the same chapter, “that ...
... spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, (3) among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. And now look at the twelfth verse of the same chapter, “that ...
Faith and Reason in the Theology of St. Thomas
... the kernel of truth even in the midst of error. Scripture and Tradition, were for the Angelic Doctor an open book, which he had studied, meditated upon and thoroughly assimilated. He knew the Scriptures practically by heart and there is scarcely an article in his immortal Summa Theologica which does ...
... the kernel of truth even in the midst of error. Scripture and Tradition, were for the Angelic Doctor an open book, which he had studied, meditated upon and thoroughly assimilated. He knew the Scriptures practically by heart and there is scarcely an article in his immortal Summa Theologica which does ...
Slide 1
... The argument from Motion (the First Way): 1) The cosmos is in motion (known by sense experience) 2) Whatever is in motion is put in motion by another (nothing can move itself) a) Motion is the reduction from potency to act (known by definition) ex. Fire makes wood (potentially hot) into a bonfire ( ...
... The argument from Motion (the First Way): 1) The cosmos is in motion (known by sense experience) 2) Whatever is in motion is put in motion by another (nothing can move itself) a) Motion is the reduction from potency to act (known by definition) ex. Fire makes wood (potentially hot) into a bonfire ( ...
- Our Shepherd
... discourse that starts with sin and ends with God’s grace we see the Apostle Paul deal with more than just a problem or two, but rather he covers all of God’s work of salvation in a way that leaves no questions unanswered. In many ways we can consider Paul’s letter to the Romans as a condensed versio ...
... discourse that starts with sin and ends with God’s grace we see the Apostle Paul deal with more than just a problem or two, but rather he covers all of God’s work of salvation in a way that leaves no questions unanswered. In many ways we can consider Paul’s letter to the Romans as a condensed versio ...
The Cosmological (First Cause) Argument
... atheists do not claim to know what was there, believers in God do… therefore they need to prove it, so where is the proof?! 2. Why make an assumption of a being (i.e. God)? 3. Why is there so much nothing from something? Is this really a good design? ...
... atheists do not claim to know what was there, believers in God do… therefore they need to prove it, so where is the proof?! 2. Why make an assumption of a being (i.e. God)? 3. Why is there so much nothing from something? Is this really a good design? ...
Wednesday: We Must Choose to Either Follow Sin or Serve God
... our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending his Son to be an offering to pay for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin. 4 He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly w ...
... our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending his Son to be an offering to pay for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin. 4 He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly w ...
Summa Theologica
The Summa Theologiae (written 1265–1274 and also known as the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274). Although unfinished, the Summa is ""one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature."" It was intended as an instructional guide for theology students, including seminarians and the literate laity. It was a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God.Among non-scholars, the Summa is perhaps most famous for its five arguments for the existence of God, which are known as the ""five ways"" (Latin: quinque viae). The five ways, however, occupy under two pages of the Summa's approximately 3,500 pages.Throughout the Summa, Aquinas cites Christian, Muslim, Hebrew, and Pagan sources including but not limited to Christian Sacred Scripture, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Boethius, John of Damascus, Paul the Apostle, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maimonides, Anselm, Plato, Cicero, and Eriugena.The Summa is a more structured and expanded version of Aquinas's earlier Summa contra Gentiles, though these works were written for different purposes, the Summa Theologiae to explain the Christian faith to beginning theology students, and the Summa contra Gentiles to explain the Christian faith and defend it in hostile situations, with arguments adapted to the intended circumstances of its use, each article refuting a certain belief or a specific heresy.Aquinas conceived the Summa specifically as a work suited to beginning students: ""Because a doctor of catholic truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but to him pertains also to instruct beginners. As the Apostle says in 1 Corinthians 3: 1–2, as to infants in Christ, I gave you milk to drink, not meat, our proposed intention in this work is to convey those things that pertain to the Christian religion, in a way that is fitting to the instruction of beginners.""It was while teaching at the Santa Sabina studium provinciale, the forerunner of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva studium generale and College of Saint Thomas, which in the 20th century would become the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, that Aquinas began to compose the Summa. He completed the Prima Pars (first part) in its entirety and circulated it in Italy before departing to take up his second regency as professor at the University of Paris (1269–1272).