Felipe-The Judicial Model

God is a lawmaker who has made laws for people to follow, everyone however had broken the laws. God is also the judge before whom people appear as lawbreakers. The divine solution to this problem is again conceived in judicial review. The problem was sin, which is understood to be a transgression of God's law.

Felipe-

Gabriel The Theme of the Epistle

Paul is not ashamed of the gospel.  Paul's gospel is God's powerful means of salvation.  This salvation comes to those who have faith.  Salvation comes first to the Jew and then to the Greek.  The gospel reveals the righteousness of God. The Scriptures proclaim the gospel. 

Ch. 21 Conclusion... Ana.

It isn't certain, but it's said that Paul succeeded in his Western mission and gained a following among Christians in Rome. Romans is the most closely reasoned letter that survived. In it, it's said that God's power that brings salvation for both Jew and Gentile.

Question: According to the book of Acts did Paul get arrested?

Answer: Yes.

Maggie

Box 21.2 The Beginnings of the Roman Church

In Rome, on 57 or 58 C.E., the Christian Church was already established, is probably the date for Paul's letter, although no one knows for sure.  Scholars say that writings of the Roman historian Suetonius, are evidence that Christianity already existed about a decade before Paul's letters.  By the 50s, Roman Christianity was mostly made of Gentiles.  But scholars, don't know who brought Christianity to Rome.

The Participationist Model Ch.21 - Jessica

There are two different models of Christian salvation: Judicial and Participationist.

The Participationist Model is a very similar one to Judicial, but it is different on that the sin is not simply a disobedient action that a person does against God, but it is a kind of comic power, an evil force that compels people to live in alienation from God. It relates the power of sin to the power of death, as it is seen that death is not only to stop breathing but it is to be overpowered by a cosmic power and to be permanently removed from the realm of God.

In this model, Jesus' death has a meaning as though the power of sin was defeated, while in the Judicial model is simply portrayed as the payment of the penalty of sin.

At last, the appropriation according to this model is the participation in Christ's victory through baptism. 

JP Box 21.1

In this box they are talking about how paul started his letter to romans in a weird way. Another indication that is a letter that pail spent some considerable care in constructing, giving thought to how he might win over this important church his gentile mission.

Pauline Models For Salvation...gaby

There are two models that paul uses for understanding the importance of Christ's death in the letter to the romans. The judicial and the participationist models. These models understand that human beings are somehow alienated from god and that Christ's death and resurrection work to resolve the problem. It talks about the two models that are the solution to the problem, for salvation. 

The Flow Of Paul's Argument by Tamara Torrez-Koll

Paul's flow has seven main points. The first point is that the Jewish scripture is the condemning scripture. The second is the solution to this problem, both for the Jews and Gentiles. This solution is through Christ. However, the Gospel message comes from Jewish scripture. The next argument follows and broadens on this one, by presenting Christ as the Jewish saviour, through who's death and resurrection, everyone is saved. So since Christ s death frees the people, God has kept his promise and fulfilled it. The Law is left behind, for it taught the people to sin, so a Gospel world without the Law no longer has sin and is therefore not lawless. Then Paul closes his letter, greeting many people which scholars think may not be part of the original.

Question: Who is God's mortal enemy?

Answer: Death

 

Box 21.5 Ricky

Paul explains Jesus' sacrifice as analogies.  In the analogies Jesus is a mediator between two people and by his sacrifice he restores his relationship.  Jesus' blood is the price that was payed, a sacrifice that was made, and a rescue from physical danger.

Hugo: Comparison and Contrast of the Two Models

Paul's gospel is not "Justification by faith" or "union with Christ." In both of them, the problem is "sin," but in one model, sin is an act of disobedience that a peron commits, whereas in the other it is a cosmic force that works to enslave people.

Who's Jesus Christ?

Jimena Marquez

Box 21.4

The Judicial Model

Sin-human disobedience that brings a death penalty

Jesus' Death- payment of the penalty of sin

Appropriation- acceptance of the payment through faith, apart from works of the law

The Participation Model 

Sin- a cosmic power that enslaves people

Jesus' Death- defeat of the power of sin

Appropriation- participation in Christ's victory through baptism

Box 20.4...gaby

2 corinthians...

This book seems to embody at least two of Paul's letters, of these letters they were taken and edited. You could trace Paul's relationship with his community with these books. After he wrote 1 corinthians, he visited corinth again and faced public humiliation. afterwards christian apostles arrived in town advocating a view that paul opposed. Paul was angry and responded with a letter that could be found in chapters 10-13, sent through a personal messenger, Titus. The letter had an affect on the community and wrote a conciliatory letter in response found in chapters 1-9. Some of the apocalyptic themes of 1 corinthians can be found in 2 corinthians. 

HUGO/JOSE BLOG

1 Corinthians is written to the church located in Corinth, in the Roman Province of Achaia.  Paul converted former pagans to faith in jesus.  Most of the pagans were poorly educated.  When Paul left the community disunity within the church began. Paul discuses the understanding of resurrection.

Maggie and Jimena

Box 20.11 Philippians

Philippians is written to Christians telling them how Paul had converted the Philippi city to Macedonia.  Many say that Paul wrote this letter from prison in a location that is unknown. Philippians is made up of two or more letters.  Paul, basically, wrote the letter of Philippians to all of the Philippian Christians who supported Paul during this time.  "Christ hymn," is said to represent a pre-Pauline tradition.  

Box 20.1... Tamari & Ana

The Corinthian concept of death differed from the Pauline concept of death. There were three different ways that death and life after death was portrayed.

The first, which was most common in the Roman world, was that death was the end of life. After death you would cease to exist.

The second was a Greek concept of soul. In this the soul or spirit was unattached to the human body. Therefor after you died you went on existing in a disembodied form. 

The third is now the most commonly held Christian one. This is the doctrine of the bodily resurrection. In this, the body is ultimately resurrected at the end of human existence and ascends into the afterlife. 

Gabriel and Skippy 20.12

Paul wrote the letter from prison, to a relatively wealthy Christian Philemon, about his runaway slave Onesimus, whom Paul had converted. The letter is an intervention on Onesimus's behalf, urging Philemon not to punish him. Paul may have wanted the letter to suggest that Philemon give him Onesimus for his own service.

Ricky and Felipe Box 20.8

The letter to the Galatians is written to a group of churches that Paul established in the Roman province of Galatia in Asia Minor.  After Paul left other missionaries came in and started insisting another version of the gospel.  They insisted that Gentiles had to become circumcised and keep the Jewish Law to be right with God. Paul's angry response with an autobiography sketch designed to show that his version of the gospel came directly from God through a version from christ. He then argues vehementaly  that salvation come to Gentiles by faith Christ alone. The letter concludes with ethical admonitions.

WHAT TO EXPECT -Jessica

In the books 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Phillipians, and Philemon, we can see diverse problems that the Church at the time was facing. When Paul faced the problems, he wrote letters to address different situations. The problems were quite diverse, from false teachers who considered themselves Christians but whom Paul thinks are cursed, to members of a Christian congregation who were sleeping with prostitutes and didn't understand why that should be a problem, to a run away slave Paul had met who was not eager to return to his owner.

In this chapter, we are going to study the Pauline letters that addressed those issues.

Blogging Assignments

Text Chapter 20, Page 316
Assignments: Read the assigned box and summarize in a blog. Summaries by team, not indivuals.

• Box "What to expect" : Jessica
• Box 20.1: Tamara, Ana Luisa
• Box 20.2: Hugo, Jose
• Box 20.4: Lu, Gaby
• Box 20.8: Ricky, Filipe
• Box 20.11: Jimena, Maggie
• Box 20.12: Skippy, Gabe

Paul in Thessalonia by Tamara Torrez-Koll

Paul's mission to spread the new Christianity around the Roman world was widespread. He traveled far and wide and worked to maintain the new converts. Thessalonia was no exception. Thessalonia's conversion, though was not the typical Pauline example. In Thessalonia it is hypothesized that Paul set some sort of shop. In this shop he came in contact with his costumers and began to convert people that way. Since most were pagans Paul's first task was to convince them that there was only one God. Another problem that later faced the Thessalonian church was the prominent idea that the world would soon come to an end. Paul did address this issue ad others in his epistles.  

Boys on 1st Thessalonians

Paul did not preach in a local synagogue, on a street corner, and he did not stage evangelistic rallies.  Paul actually started a business and talked and converted his customers, who were mostly pagan.  Paul appeared like a philosopher in the Greco-Roman world.  It is the oldest book in the New Testament. It has facts from a  different points of views. It will always be different. by the end, previously learned it is always a theory, like all the bible. the only thing we can do is have faith. 

How did Paul convert the people in Thessalonica - Jessica

We don't know for certain how Paul managed to convert the people in Thessalonica so the Thessalonians came to build a church on their own but we can suppose some certain things.

1. Paul was used to go speak with assembled Jews. For this reason, he may have convinced the Jews in Thessalonica first, and eventually they could have caused an influence to the Thessalonians.

2. It is said that Paul and his companions received attention in Thessalonica. Using this attention, Paul managed to preach in front of the people more easily.

3. Not everyone believed on what Paul preached, however he did not get discouraged.

4. Paul preached that Jesus is the Messiah and the Christ. He reinforced that Jesus is the King and focused on his suffering and resurrection.

5. Paul used the Sabbath days to preach as the people were free from work.

6. When there were people that did not understand or misunderstood his preach, Paul tried his best to reason the doubts they had.

Maggie, Jimena, Lu, Gaby

PAUL>>>>

Most people believed that paul was just passing by and that he was not going to stay. Paul converted a number of people over a period of three weeks after a group of jews wanted to run him out. he and his companions preached the gospel night and day. Like philosophers they exhorted, encouraged, and pleaded.