Tamara, Ana and Jessica's 3rd part of the assignment

Written by Jessica in her house though.

1. Why did a divine figure as Jesus get crucified by the human race?
2. Why do humans have sins? Why do they sin?
3. What happened to those who claim to be Christians but do not follow the God's law?
4. How do you know heaven and hell exist?
5. If God watches over his people, why are there Christians that suffer and live in agony?

Maggie, Felipe, and Jimena

1. People have many different meanings of the word salvation, including: the act of delivering from sin or saving from people; a means from preserving from harm or unpleasantness; the state of being saved or preserved from harm; saving someone or something from harm or form an unpleasant situation, but in my opinion I think that salvation is the act of believing in God and always trying our best to make the right decision in order to be saved from sin.
2. Paul's presentation of salvation includes: The Human Dilemma; The Divine Solution through Christ's Death; The Gospel Message Is Rooted in the Scripture; Christ's Death and Resurrection Bring Freedom from the Powers Opposed to God; The Gospel Message Is Consistent with God's Dealings with Israel and Represents a Fulfillment of His Promises; The Law-Free Gospel Does Not Lead to Lawless Behavior; Close of the Letter.  Paul presents two perspectives on Salvation: The Judicial Model and The Participationist Model.  The Judicial Model presents three different defenitions: 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 Participationist Model also presents three different defenitions: Sin-a cosmic power that enslaves people; Jesus' Death-defeat of the power of sin; Appropriation-participation in Christ's victory through baptism.
3. Dear Lucrious, I've heard that you are from Bulgaria and that you don't know anything of faith.  I want to tell you that to me, salvation is when someone believes in God, someone who has a lot of faith, and that repents their sins, that when judgement time comes he is saved from all kind of sin.  I think that if you have faith in God, and you repent from your sins, you will be saved.  I hope that you make a wise decision.  Hoping to hear from you soon, sincerely, MFJ.

Jessica, Tamara, and Ana... SALVATION!!!!

sal⋅va⋅tion [sal-vey-shuhn]–noun

1.	the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.

2.	the state of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.

3.	a source, cause, or means of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.

4.

Theology. deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption. According to Paul, God's salvation comes to those who have faith and that salvation comes first to the jew and then to the Gentiles. He also claims that all sinners are to get salvation through Christ's death [the divine solution.]

questions...Gaby

Salvation---the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.

Paul's salvation way---he believed that they would be saved. 

Catholicism to a buddhist---catholicism is a religion that worships one god, jesus. Salvation in catholicism is when you believe in a god that he will save you. Like the israelites they waited to be saved. 

Carmen

1. Salvation:the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
2. Paul's  concept of salvation:is the culmination of a long evolutionary history in biblical times.The nature of the "law" moved from an unspecified kind of faithfulness, through rather rigid and increasingly elaborate apodictic,ritual formulations, to common wisdom and finally an open kind of motivational renewal "in the Spirit".

3. Christianity is at least three things:

   • A set of beliefs
   • A way of life
   • a community of people

   • Christianity separated from the main body of Judaism for two major reasons:

     1. Christianity came to regard Jesus as in some sense God's presence in human form. This was unacceptable to most Jews.
     2. Judaism is defined by a covenant made between God and the Jewish people. Part of this covenant is the Law, a set of religious and ethical rules and principles. Most Christians came to regard both this covenant and Law as in some sense superseded by Jesus' teaching and the community that he established. On the night he died, Jesus talked about establishing a "new covenant" based on his death and resurrection.

Salvation by Gabriel and Ricky

1. In our opinion salvation is the opportunity of going to heaven through faith and good works.

Faith is believing in the Holy Trinity which is God the father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus the son.  And believing that Jesus died for our sins.

2.  Paul presents two main models for salvation in the book of Romans, the judicial model and the participationist model.  The judicial model is easier for us to wrap our heads around and therefore it will be the only one mentioned.  The judicial model is based upon the idea that God is the lawmaker and the judge.  God has made the laws and everybody in the world, not just the Jews, have broken these laws.  The punishment for breaking these laws is death, but the solution for this punishment is the death of someone who does not deserve death.  Jesus was this someone and God brought him back from the death because he was satisfied with the punishment.  Through this model humans can be saved by trusting that God will find it acceptable, it was not by earning or deserving it, it was by someone else's sacrifice for us. 

3. Christianity is the belief that God's son, Jesus Christ, came down to Earth to die for our sins and save us from eternal death.  Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected three days later.  People can be saved through belief in the one true God and that his son Jesus Christ died for our sins.  God loves us all.

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.