Answer the following questions

1. Discuss two points of difference between our obedience to God and towards someone
in authority.

2. How Schliermacher present his view in understanding of the divinity of Jesus? Identify
one problem with Schliermacher’s approached in understanding the divinity of Jesus?

3. Discuss the relationship between pain and sin.

4. Discuss the three lessons from the story of resurrection.

5. Create one slogan of your learnings from the videos

1. We must unquestionably obey God even if it seems confusing nor not making sense to
us as compared to a person who is in power. Secondly, humans in authority tend to
have flawed decisions especially when sins are motivated. Obedience is not one of our
big virtues, but we must comply with whatever God has commanded as it is our very
duties as Christians.

2. Schliermacher reached out to a more skeptical and modern audience to make it more
accessible to them. It inaugurates the consciousness or relational or psychological
approach to understanding the divinity of Jesus. His approach triumph of the imminent
approach as that when the stress is on our own consciousness of God. So it is a point
where's the obligation is very much on the human equation to know and be aware of
God which we can never accomplish on our own power.

3. Jordan Peterson, a psychologist, stated that in many philosophical and religious

traditions, pain is metaphysically basic which means it is unavoidable fact of life. Even
Rene Descartes cannot deny that pain exists in life. People do not behave well when in a
lot of pain, as much of our life, we try to avoid pain. Even Jesus experienced it, as
someone at the extreme limit of pain in his crucifixion. Sin was dealt with on the cross,
this is because He became sin on the cross. Sin comes from our own pain.

4. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the be-all and the end-all of Christian faith. St.
Paul said if Jesus has not been raised, our faith is in vain. But because he has been raised
from the dead, He becomes the absolute center of our lives. First lesson is that, this
world, though good, is not the final horizon of what is being taught to us in the bible. It
is supported by the resurrection of Christ, to raise up, transfigure this world as there is
 more eternal life than this material life that we live in. Secondly, the people who oppose
God’s teachings will be properly sanctioned. The tyranny we all experienced will be
sanctioned under the ultimate authority of God’s judgment. Third, the way of hope
opens to everybody. God sent out his Son all the way to the extent of being crucified
and died on cross, which is the worst way any one can imagine dying, God sent His Son
all the way out to the very limits of human suffering. The Holy Trinity, as a collective, is
extending and stretching out arms widely to welcome us and assure us that even in the
darkest times, there is hope. We just have to believe.
5. “As Christians, we must always hold on to hope. We must put
our hope in God and His eternal promises.”