The purpose of this study is to describe, analyze, and evaluate Ted Peters's proleptic theory of the creation of humankind in God's image. To achieve this purpose, after the introduction, the study first reviews in ...

Following the collapse of Communism in the former Soviet Union and the new amendment to Russia's Religious Freedom Act in 1990, political barriers to the Christian mission vanished. With the crumbling of those barriers, ...

Forgiveness must be regarded as one of the most profound and essentlal of all human needs, because all human beings are sinners. Forgiveness transcends human understanding. The approach of this study to the topic ...

This thesis provides a description of interpretations of oopB<itov in Col 2:6-17 from 1837 to 1996. It is divided into two periods: 1837 to 1908, and 1909 to 1996. Chapter 1 presents the introduction of the study ...

The biblical significance and implications of the divine Father concept are explored in this study, through an exegetical investigation of the texts of the Hebrew Bible in which the term occurs. The purpose of this ...

Both Latter-day Saints and Seventh-day Adventist believe in Jesus Christ. The Latter-day Saints teach that Jesus Christ is the central figure of the church's doctrine and the seventh-day Adventists also express their ...

This project focuses on a guide of instruction for the lay leaders in the NPUM to rightly present the fundamental beliefs of SDAs in the context of righteousness by faith. This study shows that although the church members ...

Aside from the controversial issue on the temporal aspect of the millennium, the locus of the milennial reign of Christ and His saints in Rev 20:1-10 is an issue on which biblical scholars have not reached a consensus. ...

Three explanations have been offered to clarify the identity of the abyssal beast in Rev 17. The Vorlage text approach leads scholars to conclude that the sea beast in Rev 13:1 is the same with the abyssal beast in Rev ...