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Gospel Of Valentine

Gospel Of Valentine The Gospel Of Valentine is compiled of verses from the Old and New Testament along with wise words. The Gospel of Truth is joy for those who have received from the Father of truth the gift of recognizing° him, thru the power of the meaning who comes...

The Gospel of Philip

The Gospel Of Philip

The Gospel Of Philip The Gospel of Philip is one of the Gnostic Gospels, a text of New Testament apocrypha, dated to around the 3rd century but lost in modern times until an Egyptian man red is covered it by accident, buried in a cave near Nag Hammadi, in 1945. Main Article:...

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Four Gospels Included In The Bible

Four Gospels Included In The Bible There are four Gospels included in the Bible (the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). They were composed between forty and hundred years after the departure of Jesus on the basis of some earlier documents which are now lost. Biblical scholars have...

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Form Criticism

What Is Form Criticism? Form criticism as a method of biblical criticism classifies units of scripture by literary pattern and then attempts to trace each type to its period of oral transmission. Form criticism seeks to determine a unit’s original form and the historical context of the literary tradition. Hermann...

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Documentary Hypothesis

Documentary Hypothesis The documentary hypothesis (DH) is a model used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). Others are the supplementary hypothesis and the fragmentary hypothesis; all agree that the Torah is not...

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Divine Trinity

Divine Trinity This article covers the Divine Trinity. One of the first things that a Catholic mother teaches her young child in the way of prayer is the sign of the cross. She shows the young one how to bless himself, while at the same time pronouncing the names of...

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Divine Sonship Of Jesus

Divine Sonship Of Jesus The third Christian dogma is that Jesus Christ was the Son of God in a special and exclusive sense. The dogma of Divine Sonship of Jesus, also is not in conformity with the sayings and teachings of Jesus. In the Bible this expression has been used...

Athanasian Creed

Definition Of Trinity Athanasian Creed

Definition Of Trinity Athanasian Creed In the early centuries of its existence, the Catholic Church, in order to codify and crystallize all of the biblical data on the Holy Trinity, and to counter various heresies, produced Creeds. The most famous of these are the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds, recited in...

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Dating The Bible

Dating The Bible This article covers Dating The Bible. The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts—including the Dead Sea Scrolls—date to about the 2nd century BCE (fragmentary) and some are stored at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The oldest extant complete text survives in a Greek translation called the Septuagint, dating...

The Gospel Of Matthew

Critics Of Gospel Of Matthew

Critics Of Gospel Of Matthew This article covers the Critics of Gospel of Matthew. Of the four canonized Gospels, it is my opinion that the Gospel of Matthew is the most reliable and accurate, describing Jesus as a Prophet. Although one item stands out when compared to the remainder of...

The Gospel Of Mark

Critics Of Gospel Of Mark

Critics Of Gospel Of Mark This article covers the Critics of Gospel of Mark. In scholarly circles, Mark 16:9-20 is known as the “Marcan Appendix,” because there are sound reasons for believing that the author of Mark did not write this passage. Textual evidence indicates that as far as original...

Christ's Agony At Gethsemane

Agony In the Garden

Christ’s Agony In The Garden Of Gethsemane Christ’s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane is a passage in the Gospel of Luke (22:43–44), describing a prayer of Jesus, after which he receives strength from an angel, on the Mount of Olives prior to his betrayal and arrest. It is one of several passages which...

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Books Of The Bible

Books Of The Bible Different religious groups include different books in their biblical canons, in varying orders, and sometimes divide or combine books. The Jewish Tanakh (sometimes called the Hebrew Bible) contains 24 books divided into three parts: the five books of the Torah (“teaching”); the eight books of the Nevi’im (“prophets”); and the eleven books of Ketuvim...

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Biblical Canon

Biblical Canon A biblical canon or canon of scripture is a set of texts (or “books”) which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as authoritative scripture. The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών, meaning “rule” or “measuring stick”. Christians were the first to use the term in reference to scripture, but Eugene Ulrich regards the notion as Jewish....

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Biblical Criticism

Biblical Criticism Biblical criticism is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible. During the eighteenth century, when it began as historical-biblical criticism, it was based on two distinguishing characteristics: (1) the scientific concern to avoid dogma and bias by applying a neutral, non-sectarian, reason-based judgment to the study of the Bible, and (2) the belief...

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Bible Let Me To Islam

Bible Let Me To Islam This article covers the journey of a truth seeker from Christianity to Islam called “Bible Let Me To Islam“. During my Christian days there were many verses in the Bible that made me question the religion I was following (Christianity). There was one particular verse, 1...

King James Version

Authorized King James Version

Authorized King James Version The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed as well as published in 1611 under the sponsorship of James VI and I. The books of the King James Version include...

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What Is A Miracle?

What Is A Miracle? A miracle is an extraordinary accomplishment, which God Almighty brings about at the hands of a Messenger in order to prove his Messengerhood, strengthen the faith of believers, and break the obstinacy of unbelievers. The universe operates according to fixed laws that God has determined. But...

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Dialogue In The Muhammadan Spirit And Meaning

Dialogue In The Muhammadan Spirit And Meaning This article is about the interfaith dialog in the Muhammadan Spirit and Meaning. I do not like to make claims and I have a poor memory, but in spite of this, I can recite tens of verses, one after the other, that is...

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Who Are Eve’s Parents?

Who Are Eve’s Parents? This article covers the answer to the question: “Who Are Eve’s Parents?“ Biblical records Main article: Genesis creation narrative According to the second chapter of Genesis, Eve was created by God (Yahweh) by taking her from the rib of Adam, to be Adam’s companion. She succumbs to...