The Letter to the Hebrews
By: Emily Maiers, Sarah Meyer, Grace Natoli, Maggie Sanders, Amara Voss
Among one of the most favored letters in the Bible, both by Christians and Mr. Tahany, is the Letter to the Hebrews. The letter to the Hebrews was written by Paul the Apostle (1 of the 12) in 80 AD. Paul wrote it to the Jewish Christian community in Jerusalem, the letter to the Hebrews is one of the most important in the New Testament. They are followed by the Universal Letters in the New Testament, it emphasizes the everlasting priesthood of Christ a the fulfillment of the Old Testament.
Themes? Like all books in the Bible, the Letter to the Hebrews has a unique history. It all started at the end of the second century.
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The first of these themes is faith. “In Heb 11:1-12:2 faith may be defined as an attitude of trust by which the believer sees the unseen and thereby sets his hope on the divine promise” (Miller 134). The unseen is Jesus. The letter is written so that the Hebrews can understand how to have faith in Jesus and what that faith can help them to do. The leaders in the Hebrew community had faith that God would bring them to heaven in the end. They looked to Jesus and His perfection to lead them there (Miller 132-134). The next theme is perfection. Jesus is the Son of God, and he is as perfect as God. Jesus’s perfection leads others to perfection and heaven. The first few chapters focus on Jesus leading believers to maturity. The middle section focuses on perfecting the ministry of Christ, something that the priesthood could not do. The last two chapters are about people looking towards Jesus’ perfection and His promise to lead them to heaven (Miller 134-135). The next theme is promise. The Bible is one of the first places where gods, specifically God, ever made promises. Previous polytheistic religions did not have gods who made promises. In the Hebrew Scriptures, God made a promise to Abraham that he would have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews connects the meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures covenant with the promise that God makes …show more content…
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