The New Testament Study Guide

As we all know, New Testament is the second major part of Bible. The whole book discusses Jesus life and his contributions on spread of Christianity around the world. There are three lectures effective me a lot. As an international student from a non-Christian country where people are barely knowing Christianity, The New Testament opened a new world to me. From session 1 Bridges to the New Testament, I found that the reason why I should study The New testament is not just because it is required for my degree plan, there are more other reasons. For example, The New Testament has influenced Western world, and it also promote the development of global civilization. Before reading The New testament, I just like other non–believers treat it

However, according to what I’ve learned from this class so far, I found that the New Testament books have both human and divine aspects. One of the fun things to read the lecture is that the material would bring more information about the core knowledge of this chapter, not just telling us the definitions or what kind of questions will be showed on exam. In short, The New Testament is a book that are worthy for study. The second one that I have learned from class is The Conversion of Saul. Saul was persecuting Jesus. He used to breathe threats and murder against the disciples of Jesus. However, Saul became blind and couldn’t eat and drink for three days since Jesus had appeared when he was on the way to Damascus. After he arrived Damascus, Saul stay at Judas’s home and keep praying. Jesus ask Ananias to go to Saul and through prayer restore his sight, because Saul was chosen for a purpose. Saul baptized and become a believer eventually. Throughout

One of the question from lecture had dragged my attention, which is why did Jesus tell John the Baptist He wanted to be baptized? Jesus appeared and requested baptism by John at the beginning of John’s ministry in the Jordan River. Generally, Jesus is not necessary to be baptized because he have never commit any sins. On the contrary, he is the one that save people who committed sins and wanted to confess to have a new life. Jesus told John it was to fulfill all righteousness. He wanted to fulfill every aspect of the law and every aspect of the righteous demands of the kingdom. In my opinion, Jesus want to show to his followers or the people who are going to be his followers that there are no differences between him and themselves. They are all believe in God, commit sins happened in every human’s life. The way to fix it is keep praying and