Bøger af Joseph Omoregbe

The book is about the relationship between Jesus and his followers(the Christians). Jesus himself describes this relationship with the analogy of a Vine and its branches. Jesus himself is the Vine while Christians are its branches. As the branches of a vine derive their lives from the vine and are kept alive by the vine so Christians derive their lives from Jesus and are kept alive by Jesus as long as they remain in union with him. As the vine and its branches are one, so Jesus and Christians are one. As the branches of a vine live in the vine, with the vine, and for the vine, so do Christians live in Jesus, with Jesus, and for Jesus. As any branch that is cut off from the vine will wither and die so will any Christian who cuts himself/herself off from Jesus by mortal sin die. Mortal sin kills because it cuts a person off from Jesus, the source of life, Hence to commit mortal sin is to commit spiritual suicide. The Divine Vine divinizes its branches by elevating them to the level of being able to share in the Divine life and the Divine nature, as Sacred Scripture says. What a wonderful privilege to be a Christian and live in union with Jesus as a branch lives in the Divine Vine.

This book is a Bible Study text for all Christians of all denominations. The Bible is the Word of God, the Christian Sacred Scriptures,and the common heritage of all Christians. In its over two thousand years history Christianity went through turbulent periods of division and separation, especially during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries. However, since the beginning of the 20th century Christianity entered a new phase in its history, the Ecumenical phase, a time when Christians are searching for unity, searching to come together again and put behind them the bitterness,of the past. It was this search for unity that led to the birth of the World Council of Churches in 1948, the world-wide umbrella Organization of all Christians who believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, himself God, Saviour of the world, Redeemer of mankind, and the only Mediator between God and Man. The Bible, God's Word, which all Christians have in common, and their faith in Jesus, are among the unifying factors bringing all Christians together. It is an inexhaustible source of spiritual nourishment, growth and strength for all Christians, an inexhaustible spiritual gold mine

All World religions have their principles of holiness and they have all produced holy men and women all over the world. This book however is on Judeo-Christian religion. It deals with the Biblical principles of holiness, contained in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. The book is divided into two parts; the first part deals with Biblical principles of holiness. The second part deals with holy men and women in both the Old and New Testaments. The book gives a brief biography of each of them. The New Testament saints are classified according to their states of life. Thus they are classified into different categories: saints who were married, who achieved holiness through marriage, saints who were clerics, who achieved holiness as clerics, saints who were religious, who achieved holiness in the religious life, young saints who achieved holiness in their youth, and saints who were killed for their faith (martyrs). The main thrust of the book is that holiness is achievable in all states of life, even in youth, as the young saints did. You too can be a saint, whatever be your state of life or your age. You can be a saint.

The manuscript is divided into two parts. In the first part the author examines religion from the social perspective, the common features of religion, various approaches to the study of religion, its role in society, in the cultural sector, in the political sector, in the economic sector, in confronting the problems of social evil, the problems of sickness and deaths, its relationship with morality, science and magic, the phenomenon of secularization, the philosophical and theological foundations of secularization, and its negative impact on religion. In the second part the author examines the role of religion in the socio-political ideologies of contemporary Africa.