Deepen your faith while learning English Are you a Christian or interested in Christianity? Complex terms and ideas will be explained using basic English.
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19/05/2012
Eternal - [ɪˋtɝn!]
永恆的
Lasting forever, never ending.
When Christ died and rose to life again he defeated death. We are freed from death. Death can no longer hold us. When we join with Christ, we will live with Him for all time. This is our eternal life.
In answer to the question: When did LOVE begin? The ancient Christian answer is that it began between the three persons of the Holy Trinity. We can say that "God is Love" because he is the source of all love, and he shared that love with us when he created us. It's that same love we share with each other.
13/05/2012
Samaritan - [səˋmærətn]
撒馬利亞的
The Samaritans where a group of people who lived in Israel during the time of Jesus. They were related to the Jews, but they worshiped God on Mt. Gezim, and not in the temple in Jerusalem. Because of this, they were rejected and hated by the Jews. Jesus did not fear to travel among the Samaritans. In one story, he spoke with a Samaritan woman at a well (John 4:5-42). Early Christian tradition says this woman, whose name was Photini, became a missionary in the city of Carthage. Later, the Roman Emperor Nero ordered that she be killed. Today is the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman in the Orthodox Church.
tradition [trəˋdɪʃən]
傳統
1. passing customs or beliefs from generation to generation
Imagine you found a Bible, but you had no one to explain to you what it meant. How would you understand it? Tradition is important because it brings us the beliefs of the Christians faith through the centuries.
09/05/2012
Our last 4 words were wisdom, faith, hope, and love. These are also Christian names. In the days when the Romans were killing Christians, a woman named Sophia (wisdom) and her 3 daughters named Faith, Hope, and Love were killed in the year 137 AD. These 3 names were taken from the 3 virtues Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians 13.
wisdom - [ˋwɪzdəm]
智慧
1. a deep understanding of the world
Wisdom is an important idea in the Bible. Many time in the Old Testament, authors speak of wisdom like it is a person.
This led many early Christian writers to associate wisdom with Jesus Christ. Even in the Old Testament, we can see the work of Jesus.
Did you know?
The name Sophia is from the Greek word Σοφíα (sophia) meaning 'wisdom'.
hope [hop]
盼望; 希望
1. To believe or trust in what you cannot see.
For the Christian, God is our HOPE. We have hope that He will bring us closer to Him. We have hope he will come again.
Hope if a gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
faith - [feθ]
信念
1. to trust, to have confidence
Mat 9:22“Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.”
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Faith is our belief in God. No one has faith alone. Faith comes from the Holy Spirit working in us.
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Answer to the question: "Are worship and prayer the same?"
Answers 2 and 4 are both okay, but 4 is the best answer. Why? Prayer is what unites us to God. In worship we are 'meeting' with God to give him glory. All worship is prayer because it is directed to God. But often when we pray it is not worship, such as our private prayers.