05. English Scripture for the common people.

The very first English translation of the Bible was written by the faithful servant of Christ. He was John Wycliffe. It was a great contribution to the people that this translation is for the first time available to the English speaking people. The struggle John met and his endurance is the best example of the great man of God.

 Today there are many translation of the Scripture in every tongue in every tribes. This is th4e desire for every evangelical and God himself to translate the Bible to the common people.

 I have this desire to translate one that is faithful to the original text. This dreams drives me to study more, and build a school. I dreamed that this can be one of my curriculum in the school.

04. The Conflicting Evangelical Theology.

There was a war of understanding or perhaps the misunderstanding of the God’s revelation. The Calvinist are strongly believe that Christ only died for the elect, while Armenians believe that Christ died for all. The two Evangelicals both believe in the Biblical inerrancy and proclaimers of the Gospel. This is the starting point of the division of the evangelicals.

Today, this reality still do exist. One saved always saved versus man has a part of salvation by freewill. It was a terrible misunderstanding of the Scripture by basing their theologies on their pre-conceptual philosophy. The sad thing is that the principle of love and unity is no longer used in the churches today because of this conflict.

As for me, the best evidence of the Christianity is by helping others to learn God and helping the poor. Because of the conflict, both parties are not so effective because of the religious philosophy the bring to the people. 

3. The Term Trinity and the Divergence of Christianity

At the beginning of the Edict of Milan held by one man emperor Constantine, the development of Christian doctrine was very productive, The term Trinity formulated by the Council in Nicea in the year 325. This was the time of religious revolution whereby Arius who did not like the idea fought against the idea. For the first time, the Body of Christ was divided not only for the political issues but also for the religious teachings. It was the time when the One body of Christ the so called Church converge its path.

It seems to me that this issue is still existing today. I was once on the side of Arius before I came to know the Lord Jesus as God in flesh, and a savior of my soul. It is not easy to pursue concept that is theological at the same time philosophical to meet my divine hunger for God. I found not satisfaction when someone uses the an analogy which is empirical rather than metaphysical yet practical. I have been thinking that all humanities are huger for divine relationship as I am. It seems to me that church history after church history, the pursuit of the people involve in them has been asking the question how can a man be right with just and loving God? An so this was it, the body of Christ was diverge in its own way to find it. For me, it is the Love and Communication are vital in unifying the Body of Christ because they are the expression in the community of the godhead. The analogy of love and communication, for me, is the most practical explanation about the concept of the Godhead. For, we know that God is love and God speaks, then we are assured that God is not monodic, selfish, and wrathful kind of God, but a loving community of three Persons before the world was created..

Now, this is the reason why God always emphasized the Christian love. God wants us to love one another as the body of Christ. It is for to know that Jesus came to unite all things, especially the church, in him. To say that "our church is better that the others" is tantamount of saying that I love the Lord and hates my brothers. Let us love one another. Let's converge ourselves as one Body of Christianity as we properly understood it form the Scripture. If the trinity or the Godhead is a community, then we are also the community of Christ in Him. Remember, we are called to dance with the community of the Trinity.

2. ENTANGLEMENT from the Age of Toletarion

Toleration comes when a person or people indulge on what is agreed as a whole. The time of Edict of Milan was the most turning point of early Christianity whereby the emperor who audaciously claimed to be Christian did the edict of toleration of Christian faith. It was the age of Christian Roman Empire shaped the wholeness of faith. The council called Nicaea held by Emperor Constantine became the basis of the Trinitarian faith.

            It seems to me and have learned that this was the time where people were taking advantage the Christianity and sacrilege became more grown. I have seen that this was the time when the Christian religion was used for political privilege. This was the sad thing we know in the history. The Emperor became the head of Christianity now in the expression of the prestigious empire and cathedrals, and declaring that the Rome was the most holy city in the entire Europe or in the world.

            Today I can see many traditional inflicted from the Roman kind of leading. People uses powers to be best in the church sand seems more holy that those who are none. Hypocrisy is expressed in the heart of the institutional kind of church, as much as the emperor did in 4^th century AD. Those who are involving in the political game buy the integrity of the church for their fame. How sad it is when we are not think clearly and not aware what is the entanglement between our modern days Christianity from the time of toleration in 4^th century AD.

            As a Christian, I see the most important factors in this time especially the formulation of the deity and person of Christ and the trinity. The great mind was used by God to reveal the truth of God. However, the misleading kind of leadership was not coherent to the teaching and to the formulation of the doctrine of Christ and Trinity. I see the modern institutional churches as a whole  are more concern on the buildings and anything rather than the person. Pride for prestige is what drives humanity to do so, and this not new though because it was already happened in 4^th century AD. 

Audacity for Christ

1. AUDACITY FOR CHRIST

The History of Christianity lies in the work and the Person of Christ. Without him, there will be neither church history, nor salvation to those who believe in him. The promise of salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ is absolutely indispensable until today. The earlly apostles who did witness the works and persons of the Lord Jesus were bold  of what they had seen, and  their message is progressively unstoppable. Nevertheless, the history of Christianity is faded and poeple does give  significant the events and the nobles for Christ the First century church.

One thing I have learned from the history of the church. It is that the earlly church are very confident in their belief. They are so certain to the promise of Jesus. These believers had witnessed the signs and wonders that the God of the Bible and how he had shown his goodness to his people. This events in the past leads me to ask why were they so bold in proclaiming the Gospel? And my answer is very simple. They were so audacious because they knew that there is a command to preach Christ, and there is a promised that Jesus is with them until the end of time (Matt. 28:19-20). 

Indeed, this truth is irrepressible to the life of Christians because Jesus himself is the same and cannot be changed. Today we are still living in the ironic situation like what the early believers had into. The indespesivland word of God is still living in the life of every Christians. The hostility of  the post modern is getting away from from the truth. People are fucusing on the something that is unnecessary some believers conform the pattern of the world like toleration, not to mentioned the materialistic way of teaching. Well, the early church father and the radical followers had hope to Jesus thAn to the certain world. They understood Paul's teaching to ashamed of the Gospel of Christ (Rom. 1:16), not to conform to the patern of this world (Rom. 12:2) and to preached the Gospel in the hostile world (Rom. 15: 20). This passage not only applicable for them, but also for today's post modern Christians who are really in at war against the spirit.