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...
Scientific Error In The Biblical Texts This article covers the Position of Christian Authors With Regard to Scientific Error in The Biblical Texts. A Critical Examination. One is struck by the diverse nature of Christian commentators’ reactions to the existence of these accumulated errors, improbabilities and contradictions. Certain commentators acknowledge...
The Old Testament And Science Findings This article covers The Old Testament And Science Findings. Few of the subjects dealt within the Old Testament, and likewise the Gospels, give rise to a confrontation with the data of modern knowledge. When an incompatibility does occur between the Biblical text and science,...
The Books Of The Old Testament This article covers and compares The Books Of The Old Testament. The Old Testament is a collection of works of greatly differing lengths and many different genres. They were written in several languages over a period of more than nine hundred years, based on...
The Bible The Bible (tà biblía, “the books“) is a collection of religious texts or scriptures sacred to Christians, Jews, Samaritans, Rastafari, and others. It appears in the form of an anthology, a compilation of texts of a variety of forms that are all linked by the belief that they are collectively...
Prophet Adam’s Prayer This article covers Prophet Adam’s Prayer. Adam (אָדָם, ʼAdam, Āḏām, آدَم, Ādam) is the name used in the opening chapters of the biblical Book of Genesis for the first man created by God; the word adam is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as “a human” and in a...
The Lord’s Prayer The Lord’s Prayer, also called the Our Father (Latin: Pater Noster), is a central Christian prayer which, according to the New Testament, Jesus taught as the way to pray: Pray then in this way … (Matthew 6:9 NRSV) When you pray, say … (Luke 11:2 NRSV) Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form...
The Consequences Of Sin In Christianity This article covers the consequences of sin in Christianity in the Bible. There are three separate aspects of the consequences of sin which will be explained here: 1). The penalty of sin which describes the very real moral debt that every person now carries as...
Sins Origin And Nature In The Bible This article covers sins origin and Nature in the Bible. We have looked at a biblical definition of sin which can be best described as the breaking of God’s laws and commandments along with the rejection of His plans and purposes for our...
The Torah And The Prophet Muhammad This article covers The Torah And The Prophet Muhammad‘s Sunnah. Practices In The Torah Compatible With The Sunnah of The Prophet Muhammad Through their superior virtues all the prophets sent ever since the time of the Prophet Adam (pbuh) have lived in a way...
Historical Reliability Of The Gospels The historical reliability of the Gospels refers to the reliability and historic character of the four New Testament gospels as historical documents. Some believe that all four canonical gospels meet the five criteria for historical reliability; and others say that little in the gospels is considered to be historically reliable....
Gospels Contradict Each Other One of the important points to indicate that the Gospels have little to do with the Original Bible revealed to Jesus is that they contradict one another in many ways. This point becomes more significant especially when we take into consideration that the verses of the...
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 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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...