Christian Security
The Christian Doctrine of Eternal Security

Christian faith is driven by the underlying notion that doctrinal adherence will lead to salvation. However, just exactly how one effectively adheres and achieves that salvation is a matter very much up for dispute. In fact, this is the dispute at the center of this discussion, which considers what some consider to be among the most divisive matters in the Christian faith. The question of eternal security drives not only this discussion but also a great many scholarly debates among clergy and theologians in the Church. Specifically, a long-standing disagreement divides paths of adherence between those who believe in either conditional security or eternal (or, by counterpoint, unconditional) security. The account hereafter will offer some explanations for the distinctions is these two orientations of faith as well as a final position on the subject as drawn from relevant scripture and commentary.

Eternal Security:

The commentary by…...

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Freedom Quest Ministries (FQM). (2010). Is 'Unconditional Eternal Security' Taught in the Bible. Eternal-security.org.

Brandenberg, K. (2013). The Bible Teaches Permanent Justification, Eternal Security, Unconditional Security and Once Saved, Always Saved. What is Truth.

Oodort, B. (2012). Does Paul Teach Unconditional Eternal Security in Romans 8:35-39.

Kowalski, D. (2013). Is Eternal Security Conditional or Unconditional. Apologetics Index.

Christians and the Legal System
Christian Relationship to the Legal System

As many individuals understand, despite any religious affiliation, the legal system is set in place in order to foster the creation and continuation of a good society. This good society can then be achieved by promoting the good and eliminating the bad. It is in this elimination of the bad, that societies and their legal systems begin to differ. hile certain legal systems enforce the law through right and just ways, other legal systems are deemed cruel and unnecessary. In viewing the American legal system and its relationship to Christianity, one can better understand which portions of the legal system are represented within Christianity within the Bible and its religious teachings. Further, one can understand the beliefs of the Christian legal system, which exists to focus on human equality before God along with a Christian duty to serve God by serving…...

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Got Questions? 2012. What does the Bible say about the death penalty and capital punishment? Web. Retrieved from:   [Accessed on 6 April 2012].http://www.gotquestions.org/death-penalty.html 

Samuelian, Thomas. 2008. Christianity and the Legal System. Web. Retrieved from:

  [Accessed on 6 April 2012].http://www.ev.am/media/documents/Brainwork/Values/Christianity_and_the_Legal_System.pdf 

Worldview. 2012. Christianity and Law, and Introduction. Web. Retrieved from:

Christian Toulmin
The Politics of Christian Environmentalism

ithout a doubt, one of the greatest challenges before us as a civilization in the 21st century is the protection and repair of our environment. This is an ambition that cuts across ideologies, scriptures and traditions of faith, dictating a collective responsibility to an admittedly enormous task. For Christians in particular, the onus of responsibility to protect God's Earth should be seen as second to nothing in terms of its importance and its consistency with the Christian value system. Ironically, in the United States, sharp political lines of allegiance undermine what should be an inextricable link between the Christian faith and the environmental movement.

Indeed, Christian values have long instructed us to reach out to the hungry, poor and oppressed and to bring them ease, to improve their conditions and to help them feel the love of God. But the connection between the environmental abuses wrought…...

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BBC News. (2003). What is the Kyoto Treaty. BBC.co.uk. Online at  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2233897.stm 

Beisner, E.C. (2012). Gospel Confusion in Christian Environmentalism. World Magazine.

Booth, K. (2005). Environmentalism causes Third World Deaths. The Yale Herald, 39(4).

Peritore, N.P. (1999). Third World Environmentalism. University Press of Florida.

Christian iotechnology: Not a Contradiction in Terms
Presented with the idea of "ioethics" most people in the scientific community today immediately get the impression of repressive, Luddite forces wishing to stifle research and advancement in the name of morality and God. Unfortunately, this stereotype too often holds true. If one looks over the many independent sites on the Internet regarding bioethics, reads popular magazines and publications, or browses library shelves for books on bioethics, the message seems quite frequently negative. Many Christians --and particularly those in conservative camps-- seem to have a deep seated fear of many elements of biotechnology. While this is slightly less problematic with such advances as genetically modified plants and animals (which are targeted more by liberal neo-pagans and primitivists), it is certainly very true in the field of medical experimentation and especially stem cell and embryonic research. In many ways, this dedication to an anti-technology stance…...

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Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. New York: Vintage, 1997.

Aldridge, Susan. "Ethical Dilemmas" Inside Science, 17 Oct 98.

Bailey, Ronald. "Intimations of Immortality" Reason Online, 6 March 1999. Internet Online.   March 2004]http://reason.com/opeds/rb030600.shtml [29

Bedford-Strohm, Heinrich. "Sacred body? Stem cell research and human cloning." The Ecumenical Review, July, 2002. Internet Online.   March 2004]http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2065/3_54/92136470/print.jhtml [29

" So there is common ground for starters. Now, to avoid more generations and centuries of killing and hatred, Christians and Muslims must indeed find common ground. And for the Christian hoping to convert the Muslim, common ground is just the launching pad.
Another way of bringing the discussion down to familiar territory for the Muslim is to point out that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Muslims may believe that Christians worship "three Gods, and are therefore polytheists," Pratt explains, and Christians may think that "Allah" is different than "God." Getting past this point and explaining that the prophet Jesus Christ was the Son of God (and that it has been made clear in the prophecies through the Holy Bible) and that the "Holy Ghost" or "Holy Spirit" is not a God but rather a divine spirit that is ever-present and never-ending will likely bring about good dialogue…...

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International Students, Inc. "Secularism / Is Jesus the Only Way to God? / How Can We Know

The Bible is the World of God? / World Religions Overview."

Pratt, Douglas. "Islam: A Challenge to Christianity." The New Zealand Journal of Christian

Thought & Practice 15.2 (2007), 2-9.

Thus, the ecological teaching of the Bible is of stewardship, so that rather than being "spiritual at the earth's expense [….] it means exactly the opposite: do not desecrate or depreciate these gifts […] by turning them into worldly 'treasure'; do not reduce life to money or to any other mere quantity" (Berry 526). This biblical ecology would seem in direct opposition to the engagement with capitalism Benne and illiams support, as capitalism by definition reduces everything to money or mere quantity, but a more nuanced reflection of the theological implications of either essay actually reveals both to be in harmony with each other.
In order to understand how one might embody a biblical ecological stewardship while simultaneously engaging in capitalist discourse, the concepts under discussion must be clarified, in order to distinguish between the ends of capitalism and the ends of Christian ethics and theology. One must necessarily begin…...

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Benne, Robert & Preston Williams. "Responses to 'A Postcommunist Manifesto': Ethics,

Economics, and the Corporate Life." ed. Boulton, Wayne, Thomas Kennedy, and Alan

Verchey. From Christ to the world: introductory readings in Christian ethics . Grand

Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994. Print. 489-492

Christian Ethic
This report is an attempt to explain the concept of the Christian Ethic. As the world becomes a smaller place through new technologies such as computerization and the internet, a daunting question of present-day life lingers -- can the Christian philosophies and teachings of Jesus survive globalization? Affecting a common good is difficult for a single national or ethnic community so the idea of a global Christian Ethic seems almost impossible to secure. Christianity is a philosophy that was supposed to represent the common good by all of mankind should be touched. Christians throughout history have tried to understand what God was requiring his people to be and maybe more importantly what those people need to do. The answer to these two questions seems as though they would be easy to answer, but the bible and other documented scriptures do not provide a single answer that applies to all…...

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Christian View of Ethics. Ed. CIM. CIM Technical Papers. 20 Apr. 2004  http://www.fni.com/cim/technicals/ethics_t.html .

Macbeath, A. Experiments in Living: A Study of the Nature and Foundation of Ethics or Morals in the Light of Recent Work in Social Anthropology. London: Macmillan, 1952.

Pellegrino, Edmund D. "Managed Care: An Ethical Reflection." The Christian Century, Vol. 115 August 12, 1998.

Unknown. "We Hold These Truths: A Statement of Christian Conscience and Citizenship." First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life No. 76, October (1997).

Christian Beliefs and Abortion
Abortion is a highly controversial issue with the pro-life and pro-choice supporters professing diametrically opposite view-points on the ethical, legal and medical aspects of the issue. The Christian beliefs regarding abortion have generally been against abortion, although in the middle period (5th to 17th century AD), the Christian church had softened its stance on abortion. Presently, most Christian organizations and churches are against abortion but the intensity of opposition varies among different Christian religious groups. In this paper I shall outline the Christian beliefs on abortion from the biblical times to the present, focusing on the anti-abortion arguments.

The Basis of the Christian Belief about Abortion: Biblical Foundation

Christians believe that life starts from the moment of conception, i.e., as soon as the sperm cell fertilizes an egg; the bible prescribes in the Fifth Commandment "thou shalt not kill"; abortion constitutes taking of an innocent life; therefore abortion is…...

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Jelen, Ted G. "The Clergy and Abortion." Review of Religious Research. 34.2 (1992): 132-151

"Presbyterians and Abortion: Historical Christian Perspectives." Presbyterians Pro-Life. N.d. January 4, 2005.  http://www.ppl.org/hist_xn.html 

Robinson, B.A. "Abortion: Ancient Christian Beliefs." Religious Tolerence.org. March 07, 2004. January 4, 2005.  http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_hist.htm 

Terwilliger, M. "Sex, Abortion, Birth Control, and Christianity." June 12, 2003. January 4, 2005.  http://www.epigee.org/guide/foreword.html

From a practical standpoint, one must also realize that being overly vociferous in either arena will alienate the very people who are the intended targets of the message. Hence, the best approach to engaging Christian ethics in politics is to engage in worthy issues, remember the reason for involvement is to promote the good of the community and not the goals of an individual and to modulate one's delivery of ideas so as to not chase of the audience.
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Dayton, Donald. Discovering an Evangelical History. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson

Publishers, 1988. Print.

Hays, Richard. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New

Creation; A contemporary introduction to New Testament Ethics. San Francisco:

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Collins Publishing, 1996.

Lovin, Robin, . Becoming Responsible in Christian Ethics. Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol. 22, 4 (2009) pp. 389-398.

Miles, Rebekah L. The Pastor as a Moral Guide. Minneapolis: Augsberg Fortress,

1999. Print.

Methodism and Charity

Methodist founders, including John esley, made charity…...

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Dayton, Donald. Discovering an Evangelical History. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson

Publishers, 1988. Print.

Meeks, M. Douglas (Ed.) The Portion of the Poor: Good news to the poor in the Weslyan

Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995. Print

Christian Resistance to the Third Reich
In March 1933, less than two months after being sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler made his private opinion of Christianity and its place in his Germany very clear. Nothing would stop him, he declared, 'eradicating Christianity from Germany root and branch. You are either a Christian or a German. You can't be both.'

This was in accord with Hitler's determination to incorporate all elements of the nation into a single body under Nazi leadership. Hitler was concerned with the churches as political agents and organized bodies; he had no interest in questions of religion or faith. Nazism, with its vision of the thousand-year German Reich, was a substitute church that demanded unquestioning adherence to its own dogmas, and would tolerate no rival. Hitler's aim 'was to capture the souls and minds of the German people. Hitler demanded not only obedience but a kind…...

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Barnett, Victoria. For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bergen, Doris L. Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Chandler, Andrew, ed. The Moral Imperative: New Essays on the Ethics of Resistance in National Socialist Germany, 1933-1945. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.

Cornwell, John. Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. New York: Viking, 1999.

Christian Counseling According to McMinn
Counseling others through difficult time, challenging personal crises or the simple complexities of everyday life requires patience, compassion and selflessness. These are also all features of a good Christian life devoted to fellowship and the scriptures. These are the ideas at the crux of Mark McMinn's 1996 text Psychology, Theology and Spirituality in Christian Counseling. At its most basic, the text is an outline of the roles, responsibilities and pitfalls that come with Christian counseling. But taken with greater scrutiny, the text can be seen as a blueprint for counseling through a Christian perspective in a modern world with this perspective is often overshadowed. The text is organized according to eight primary sections, each of which details an aspect of Christian life as filtered through a counselor's perspective. Each section of the McMinn text is designed to address an issue area such as Prayer, Sin and…...

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Works Cited:

McMinn, M.R. (1996). Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Individual Christians must accept the teachings of others or make up their own minds.
For Christians, God is the judge of right and wrong and scripture represents the accepted body of legal precedent (Cosgrove, pp. 38-40). The Golden ule, the ultimate statement of Christian ethics, is grounded on "the law of Moses" (Luke 10:25) and "taught in the law and the prophets" (Matthew 7:12), and its universal applicability likewise hinges on accepting the word of Jesus that the "neighborhood" of love theoretically extends to all humanity (Luke 10:36-37).

In fact, given the absence of compelling evidence, even the historical existence of Jesus or any of the other foundational Christian figures must be taken "by faith" or interpreted in metaphorical terms (Strobel, 2002, pp. 96-97). However individual Christians struggle with (or resolve) this dilemma in their own lives, the very fact that the dilemma is meaningful to them at all reveals the…...

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References

Cosgrove, M. (2006). Foundations of Christian thought: Faith, learning, and the Christian worldview. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel.

Strobel, L. (2002). The case for faith: A journalist investigates the toughest objections to Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

The most significant issue that could pose a problem for individuals that choose to attend a Christian college is the concern that, while all of the students are Christian, there are many different 'branches' of Christianity, and they do not all agree. For example, Catholics and Protestants often disagree about some minor matters and a few more significant matters, and even within the Protestant area of Christianity there are many different 'sub-sets' that often view things very differently. Because of this, Christianity is a very multi-faceted religion and there can be differences and disagreements among many of its followers.

Going to a Christian college will eliminate being 'required' (at least by the student's perception) to hide his or her religion, but does not guarantee that the student will not be persecuted in some way for the beliefs that he or she has. In other words, a Protestant student may still not…...

The Christian Socialist movement traces its origins in the middle of the nineteenth century when a large movement of the middle class population appeared against the huge social problems that the industrial revolution provoked. Modern industrial life of the nineteenth century, as well as modern financial life of today, require the social principles of Christianity as to decrease inequality and increase mass productivity.

Anglican theologian Frederick Denison Maurice is believed to be the main promoter of these principles when in 1838 put forward the main principles of the Kingdom of Christ where competition which is the essence of capitalism is evil and lies at the basis of all wrongs that were to be found in society. Cooperation is therefore the key and socialism should promote that more and more.

The main economic ideas that Christian Socialism argues for are cooperative societies which can be traced back to the original Christian communes which…...

Injustice Martin Luther King, Jr., likened himself to the “prophets of the eighth century” in his letter from a Birmingham Jail (King, 1963). Since Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which institutionalized the separate but equal clause, the South had been plagued by Jim Crow, and blacks were being treated unfairly. King had arrived in Birmingham to protest the injustices there. Some of his fellow clergymen objected to his protests, arguing that he was disrupting the peace and that it was un-Christian of him to insert himself into matters that did not pertain to him. However, he argued that not only had he been invited by that he was like the prophets of old who left their home towns to call other people to repent lest God punish them for their wickedness. He argued that “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded…...

You can find information to create this thesis statement by using several different types of sources. In addition to the standard Google search for websites about the topic, there are online and offline books and magazines that deal with religious subjects. Ministry Magazine is a good source to consider, along with Enrichment Journal and Christian Standard. Liberty University's Digital Commons also provides a lot of good insight into growing small churches. Any church can be successful in a small city, as long as it provides the community with what the people need in order to feel their lives are being....

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