Christian Worship Christian worship is the act of attributing reverent honor and homage to God. In the New Testament, various words are used to refer to the term worship. One is proskuneo (“to worship”) which means to bow down to God or kings. Throughout most of Christianity’s history, corporate Christian worship has been liturgical,...
Wisdom In Christian Theology This article covers Wisdom In Christian Theology The paradigms of Israel‘s religion — law, prophecy, and wisdom were not exclusive to Israel but were shared by other ancient Near Eastern cultures. So it was not the form of Israel’s religion that made it distinctive, but its...
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....
True Wisdom (1 Cor. 2:1-16) True wisdom cannot be grasped by those who are unsaved, by those who do not have the Spirit of God dwelling within them illuminating the truth of the Scriptures so they can know the deep things of God. True wisdom speaks of things which pertain...
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...
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...
The Authenticity Of The Qur’an The authenticity of The Qur’an: How It Came To Be Written Thanks to its undisputed authenticity, the text of the Qur’an holds a unique place among the books of Revelation, shared neither by the Old nor the New Testament. In the first two sections of...
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....
The General Genealogies Of Jesus This article covers The General Genealogies of Jesus. The Gospels contain very few passages which give rise to a confrontation with modern scientific data. Firstly, however, there are many descriptions referring to miracles which hardly lend themselves to scientific comment. The miracles concern people-the healing...
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...
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,...
Prayers From New Testament We have collected some of the best Prayers From New Testament 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 New Testament (Ancient Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. Hē Kainḕ...
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...