“Windows To Spirituality”
Prayers Of Praise From The Bible We have collected some of the best Prayers Of Praise From The Bible to use in request to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith. The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía,...
Thanksgiving In The Bible This article covers Thanksgiving In The Bible. Thanksgiving contains a sincere belief and a genuine declaration of God’s Unity. For the one who has eaten an apple and then uttered, All praise and thanks be to God, proclaims through that thanksgiving that that apple is a...
Historical Background Of The New Testament This article covers Historical Background Of The New Testament. Most scholars who study the historical Jesus and early Christianity believe that the canonical gospels and life of Jesus must be viewed within his historical and cultural context, rather than purely in terms of Christian...
Prayer In The New Testament Prayer in the New Testament is presented as a positive command (Colossians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:17). The People of God are challenged to include Christian prayer in their everyday life, even in the busy struggles of marriage (1 Corinthians 7:5) as it brings people closer...
Soul In The Bible This article covers the soul in the Bible. The traditional concept of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body was not found in Judaism before the Babylonian exile, but developed as a result of interaction with Persian and Hellenistic philosophies. Accordingly, the Hebrew word נֶ֫פֶשׁ, nephesh, although translated as “soul” in some...
Old Testament Wisdom This article covers Old Testament Wisdom. The didactic books constitute the third group of writings in the Old Testament. They teach man to organize his personal, earthly life in such a way that it will be blessed by God and by men, and may give him prosperity...
Wisdom Of The Bible Preface I originally started this project as a way to teach some of the Bible’s wisdom to my two sons, Stephen and Andrew. Along the way, I decided to expand it into a form that could be shared, hoping that others may find it useful, too....
Christianity’s Religious Text Christianity‘s Religious Text combines the Jewish Old Testament with the New Testament to form the Christian Bible, which followers refer to as the Holy Scriptures. There are many noncanonical texts in the Christian religion as well. Some Christian denominations have additional or alternate holy scriptures, with authoritativeness...
What Is Biblical Inspiration? Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology that “the human authors and editors of canonical scripture were led or influenced by the Deity with the result that their writings many be designated in some sense the word of God” (B.M. Metzger & M.D. Coogan, “The Oxford...
Christian Religious Texts Christian Religious Texts form the cornerstone of a religion, instilling law, character, and spirituality in its people; some are narratives of historical figures in the faith. A text might be viewed as the unchanging “Word of God;” other texts are revised and expanded by later generations. Texts...
Qur’anic And Biblical Narrations Of The Exodus This article compares Qur’anic And Biblical Narrations Of The Exodus. With the Exodus from Egypt of Moses and his followers, (the first stage of their move to Canaan), we come to an event of great importance. It is an established historical event which...
Qur’anic And Biblical Narrations Of The Flood This article compares the Qur’anic And Biblical Narrations Of The Flood. The Biblical Narration of the Flood and the Criticism Leveled at It – A Reminder The examination of the Old Testament description of the Flood in the first part of this book...
The Gospels: Contradictions and Improbabilities in the Descriptions Each of the four Gospels contains a large number of descriptions of events that may be unique to one single Gospel or common to several if not all of them. When they are unique to one Gospel, they sometimes raise serious problems....
History Of The Gospels – Texts This article covers the History Of The Gospels – Texts. One would be mistaken in thinking that once the Gospels were written they constituted the basic Scriptures of the newly born Christianity and that people referred to them the same way they referred to...
Sources Of The Gospels The latest studies in textual criticism on the sources of the Gospels have clearly shown an even more complicated formation process of the texts. The general outline that has been given here of the Gospels and which emerges from a critical examination of the texts tends...
The Gospel According To John John’s Gospel is radically different from the three others; to such an extent indeed that Father Roguet in his book Initiation to the Gospel (Initiation à l’Evangile), having commented on the other three, immediately evokes a startling image for the fourth. He calls it, the...
The Gospel According To Luke The date of Luke’s Gospel can be estimated according to several factors: Luke used Mark’s and Matthew’s Gospels. For O. Culmann, Luke is a ‘chronicler’, and for Father Kannengiesser he is a ‘true novelist’. In his prologue to Theophilus, Luke warns us that he, in...
The Gospel According To Mark Mark’s Gospel as a whole is officially recognised as being canonic. All the same, the final section of Mark’s Gospel (16,1920) is considered by modem authors to have been tacked on to the basic work: the Ecumenical Translation is quite explicit about this. This is...
The Gospel According To Matthew On the basis of these observations alone, the origins of Matthew’s Gospel may be placed in the tradition of a Judeo-Christian community. Matthew’s is the first of the four Gospels as they appear in the New Testament. This position is perfectly justified by the fact...
The Four Gospels – Sources and History This article covers The Four Gospels – Sources and History. In the writings that come from the early stages of Christianity, the Gospels are not mentioned until long after the works of Paul. It was not until the middle of the Second century...
