Essays Tagged: "First Epistle to Timothy"
Is Money The Root Of All Evil?
l not that money itself is the root of all evil.If I may I shall now quote from the Bible reference first Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money placed before the love of God is the root of all kinds of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
The "One-woman Man" Qualification for an Elder. This essay is based on the qualifications for an elder set forth in the book of Timothy in the Bible.
THE "ONE-WOMAN MAN" QUALIFICATION OF AN ELDERIntroductionFirst Timothy is one of the three pastoral Epistles written to church leadership as opposed to the a ... hesian church. After Paul realized that it might take him longer to return to Ephesus, he wrote his first letter to Timothy to instruct him so that he "may fight the good fight, holding on to faith an ... e elder must be married. How could Paul require marriage for leadership if he was unmarried? In his first letter to the Corinthians, he told them that "it was good for a man not to marry" (7:1). Later ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Money The Root of all Evil...or not.
not that money itself is the root of all evil. If I may I shall now quote from the Bible reference first Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money placed before the love of God is the root of all kinds of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
1 timothy 3:1-13
is always so determinative on the well being and spiritual growth of the body of Christ, one of the first things the Apostle Paul saw to was the appointment of the elders in every church as under shep ... onest. So that is why Paul wrote the guidelines on what each church official should stand by. Paul first decribes the bishop, which literally means overseer. The bishop in the early church may also b ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity