Reading and applying the Christian story INT102

Running Head: ESSAY         1
ESSAY         11
NEW TESTAMENT: EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS
Table of Contents
Introduction    2
Historical Context    3
Literary Context    5
Biblical Context    6
Application of this text in today’s world    8
Conclusion    10
References    11
Introduction
In the current essay, the implication of the Psalm 102 in the New Testament has been discussed in details in order to explore the impact it had on the perspective that Bible presents and regulates Christianity. The New Testament is the holy book of the Christian and this holy book tells about Jesus Christ and his deeds. This is an epic of Christianity. This book holds a great value in the life of the Christians, as it contains the teachings of Jesus, which act as the fundamental ideologies of Christianity. The New Testament tells us about the life of Jesus Christ and what had been done in order to save the lives of other people. Jesus Christ addressed him as the Son of God. His entire life, how man came into the world, who was Satan and God all things are written in the Bible.
The New Testament is the second part of the Biblical canon. The first part was the Old Testament. The New Testament discusses the life of Jesus Christ, how was he as a person and the teachings of him. The New Testament also all tells about the events and occurrences from first-century Christianity (Finegan, 2019). Christianity started after the birth of Jesus Christ. In New Testament, also we come to know about the events that had happened after Jesus Christ's birth. Christians obey this book. They also regard The Old Testament and The New Testament as the holy books and sacred scripts. The language if this book is Greek. There are adaptations of this book. The adaptations of this book are named as The Passion of the Christ, the Son of God etc.
The New Testament is a collection of the early Christian century. It is also referred to as a collection of the early Christian literature. The life and the events of the early Christian century have been written on the New Testament book. For this context, the Old Testament and the New Testament books both together form the scariest book of the Christian churches. The New Testament also includes a book called, The Acts of the Apostles, which tells the story of the first Christian century (DeSilva, 2018). The first Christian and the story of life are written in the book. There is also a book, which tells the apocalyptic work of The Revelation of John.
    Christians see this New Testament book as the fulfilment of the promise of the Old Testament book. The Old Testament book tells us about the life of Jesus Christ so as the New Testament.
Historical Context
    The New Testament also relates, interprets and translates the new covenant from the Old Testament. It also tells the birth, life and death of Jesus Christ, the relationship between God and his followers, the lives of the followers of Jesus Christ. It contains a variety of writing on the topic of the events of the first century if Christianity and the Churches, houses, lifestyles of the people and the followers of Jesus Christ.
The Church of Colossae is one of those churches, which was founded in the city of Colossae in the first century AD. The Epistle to the Colossians is the evidence of the church. This early Christian context of the book initially was addressed to a boy, named Paul, who was also famous as Paul the Apostle. This letter was addressed to Paul to the church in Colossae. This city was very old. It is said that the city of Colossae was from 5th century BC inwards. It had importance from the time of Paul, the Apostle. However, it was mainly notable for the existence of the angels in the church. Paul's letter to the Colossians is strong evidence of the first-century community. Some people were in the city of Colossae from the time of Jesus, from early first century AD. There were people in the town of Colossae who are from different places. There were Jewish, Christian, Pagan and Gnostic influences in the city of Colossae and this influence affected the churches (Porter & Dyer, 2016). That influence was described as the angel cult in the church of Colossae. The Epistle of Paul addressed to the Colossians, which is referred to as the Colossians often. This is the twelfth book of the New Testament. It was written to according to the text of Paul and Timothy who lived in the church of Colossae. The church of Colossae was founded by Epaphras at Colossae who was a disciple of Paul from Ephesus. The main message of the Colossians was to give the substantial evidence of Jesus and his divinity to the early Christians who were followers of Jesus in the early first century AD.
The letter of Saint Paul to the Colossians was about the beliefs of Jesus. Saint Paul spread the religious faith and beliefs of Jesus to the people Colossae. They used to live in the church of Colossae. From the letters of Saint Paul to the people of Colossae gave the idea of the church of Colossae. The letters were all about the basic things if Christianity. From those letters, people of the modern age can get an idea about what Saint Paul had said to the people of Colossae. Saint Paul exhorted the entire Christian community to put away every sin from life. Saint Paul told the Christians to remove anger, malice, foul talk, revenge from life and instead of these; the people must show kindness, patience, love, modesty, meekness, forgiveness to other people as the imitation of Jesus Christ.
    When Paul passed through the city of Colossae as he was on his second missionary journey, he found a church in the city of Colossae. The church was founded by the Epaphras who the mentor of Saint Paul. Paul there lived there and spread the...