Essays on Bible

The text described in the bible in Matthew 5:1-2 – Matthew 8:1 titled “The Sermon on the Mount” was written in 1-300 century BCE. It describes a series of Jesus’s teachings, which he delivered from a mountain, called after the blessings given there, The Mount…

Introduction The Sermon on the Mount is one of three major discourses spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ in the discharge of His prophetic office while engaged in His ministry on earth. Concerning the Upper Room Discourse and the Olivet Discourse there is little divergence…

The book of Mathew is known as one of the four canonical gospels in the Bible. Canon refers to the historical writings chosen by the church to serve as sacred scripture. Mathew is one of the books known as the “Synoptic Gospels,” because it tells…

The introduction to Malcolm Gladwell’s book is aptly titled “Goliath”. That is to say, the author retells the famous legend in his own way here, mixing the biblical facts with nuggets of historically accurate facts to show that the moral of the story is not…

In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, an epic about a family’s tragic undoing and their subsequent rebuilding in postcolonial Africa, Kingsolver explores the theme of an inevitable power struggle between preservation native religion and the spread of Christianity. Through the voice of Ruth May, the…

Introduction The story of Adam and Eve is one of the most well-known stories from the Bible. Despite being a popular story, the bible doesn’t give readers deeper insights about how the characters felt before and after the fall. Paradise Lost fills in the details…

Introduction The passage from the Bible tells how Adam and Eve came to be. They both became manifestations and representatives of God, who will oversee and protect His creations. From there on, they became responsible on everything around them. They ruled over all creations and…

Introduction Creation is something people do naturally on the day to day bases such as writing a paper, drawing, play music, etc. As soon as a human is born they start to pick up on basic concepts of creation when they begin to think and…

Introduction Octavia Butler concludes Parable of the Sower with the namesake Bible excerpt: what are the parallels between Lauren’s journey to spread Earthseed and the parabolic farmer’s journey to sow his seed? More specifically, what were the underlying causes for the compact, rocky, thorny, and…

A biblical perspective presupposes that God created man with a conscience and our conscience can and should be educated. Guilt is not a new problem. It is a result of sin or what we percieve to be sin. It is the consequences of wrong doing….