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Submission To God In The Old Testament What does the Old Testament say about submission? We are all called to be in submission to God as addressed in many versus in the Bible. What does submission mean? Google’s dictionary defines submission as “the action or fact of accepting or yielding...
Obedience To God’s Commandments In The Old Testament This article covers Obedience To God’s Commandments In The Old Testament. So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in all the way that the Lord...
Destiny In The Old Testament This article covers destiny in the Old Testament. The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God. The...
The Importance Of Prayer In The Old Testament The following versus collected from the Old Testament to show the importance of prayer in the Old Testament. The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those...
Belief In Angels in The Old Testament This article covers Belief in Angels In The Old Testament. For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a...
Belief In The Hereafter According To The Old Testament This article covers Belief in the Hereafter According to The Old Testament. Resurrection Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. (Daniel, 12:2) “And you will know that...
Book Of Genesis The Book of Genesis (“Origin”, בְּרֵאשִׁית, “Bərēšīṯ“, “In [the] beginning”) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Old Testament. It is divisible into two parts, the Primeval history (chapters 1–11) and the Ancestral history (chapters 12–50). The primeval history sets out the...
New Testament Apocrypha The New Testament apocrypha (singular apocryphon) are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. Some of these writings have been cited as scripture by early Christians,...
The Gospel Of Luke The Gospel According to Luke, also called the Gospel of Luke, or simply Luke, is the third of the four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Luke is the longest of the four gospels and the longest book in...
What Is Catholic Bible? Catholicism, the Bible comprises the whole 73-book canon recognized by the Catholic Church, including the deuterocanonical books. It is sometimes referred to as the Catholic Bible. Books included Main article: CLICK TO READ Holy Bible Catholic Version The Catholic Bible is composed of the 46 books of...
The Gospel Of Mark The Gospel According to Mark is one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death and burial and the discovery of the empty tomb – there is no genealogy of Jesus or birth narrative, nor, in the original ending...
The Gospel Of Matthew The Gospel According to Matthew (the Gospel of Matthew or Matthew) is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells how the promised Messiah, Jesus, rejected by Israel, is killed, is raised from the dead, and finally sends the...
The Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message itself, but in the 2nd century it came to be used for the books in which the message was set out. The four canonical gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — were written between AD 70 and 100, building on older sources and traditions,...
Authorship Of the Bible This article is about modern scholarly approaches to the composition of the biblical texts and authorship of the Bible. Table I gives an overview of the periods and dates ascribed to the various books of the Bible. Tables II, III and IV outline the conclusions of...
Sodom And Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and in the deuterocanonical books, as well as in the Quran and the hadith. According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim, and Bela. These five...
Historical Reliability Of The Acts Of The Apostles The historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles, the principal historical source for the Apostolic Age, is of interest for biblical scholars and historians of Early Christianity as part of the debate over the historicity of the Bible. Archaeological inscriptions and other independent sources show that Acts...
John 18:38 John 18:38 of the Gospel of John, is often referred to as “jesting Pilate” or “What is truth?“, of Latin Quid est veritas? In it, Pontius Pilate questions Jesus’ claim that he is “witness to the truth” (John 18:37). Following this statement, Pilate proclaims to the masses (“the Jews” referring to the Jewish authorities) that...
Respect For God In The Old Testament This article covers respect for God In the Old Testament. Respect, also called esteem, is a positive feeling or action shown towards someone or something considered important or held in high esteem or regard. It conveys a sense of admiration for good or valuable qualities. It...
New Testament Places Associated with Jesus This article covers the New Testament Places Associated with Jesus. The New Testament narrative of the life of Jesus refers to a number of locations in the Holy Land and a Flight into Egypt. In these accounts, the principal locations for the ministry of Jesus were Galilee and Judea, with...
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Life Of Jesus In The New Testament This article covers the Life of Jesus in The New Testament. The four canonical gospels of the New Testament are the primary sources of information for the narrative of the life of Jesus. However, other parts of the New Testament, such as the...
