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Definition of Parables Literally the word Parabole means a placing alongside of. It places a story alongside a spiritual truth in hopes of shedding light on its meaning. Some have defined it as an earthly story with a Heavenly Meaning. A parable is a comparison drawn from natural things or common l...

To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God; but those who are outside get everything in parables.—Mark 4:11, NIV (Jesus speaking) Why did Jesus teach in parables? From watching religious programs on television, I notice that most Christian teachers love to be admired for telling it like...

DefinitionLiterary StyleSynoptic GospelsSynoptic ProblemThe ProblemProposed SolutionsTheory of Mutual DependenceTheory of Documentary HypothesisTheory of Oral TraditionEclectic ViewWhy SimilaritiesWhy Diferences?Definition The Term Gospel comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word godespel meaning God's tid...

The Book of Secrets 1Q27, 4Q299-301 4Q301 F1 (...) I shall speak out freely, and I shall express my various sayings among you (...) (.. those who would understand parables and riddles, and those who would penetrate the origins of knowledge, along with those who hold fast to the wonderful mysteries ....

Jesus talks about the Church in the series of parables in Matthew 13:31-52. Most people think that the parables repeat the same lesson in different ways, but I disagree. In these parables, Jesus teaches His disciples the future history of the Church. I will send you out into all the world He set ano...

If you read Matthew, Mark, and Luke in a row, you get a “haven’t I read this before” feeling, because they are so similar to each other. In many places, they even have identical wording! For this reason, Bible scholars lump them together with the term “synoptic gospels.” The word “synoptic” means “t...

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”—John 8:34-36, NIV Notice that Jesus has the slave living in the house, albeit temporari...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi The Bible Author: Ryan Cameroon Many religions have a literature that serves as a foundation for belief and practice among their followers. For Judaism and Christianity such a literature is found in the Bible--a term derived from the Greek meaning...

A History Christianity Nearly all that is known about the life of Jesus, also called Jesus Christ, after whom Christianity is named, is contained in the four Gospels of the New Testament, particularly those of Mark, Matthew, and Luke. These accounts were written 60 to 100 or more years after the b...

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The Story Of Ahikar We have in The Story of Ahikar (Haiqar) one of the most ancient sources of human thought and wisdom. Its influence can be traced through the legends of many people, including the Koran, and the Old and New Testaments. Amosaic found in Treves, Germany, pictured among the wise men ...

Isaiah 5:1 Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 5:2 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield gr...

Epistle of Barnabas Lightfoot or, alternatively, the Ante-Nicene Christian Fathers translationLake's edition of the Greek Clement Clement to the Corinthians Lightfootor, alternatively, the Ante-Nicene Christian Fathers translationLake's edition of the Greek(Pseudo-)Clement to the Corinthians Lightfo...

Chapter Seven This chapter discusses prophecy and who warrants it, and explains the difference between the prophecy of Moses and that of the other Prophets. 1) One of the bases of religion is to know that God visits people in prophetic visions, which come only to exceedingly wise people of outstand...

Part I: New Evangelicalism - Its HistoryPart II: New Evangelicalism - Its ChracteristicsPart III: New Evangelicalism - Its FruitsThe following is part two of a three-part article, first published in 1995 under the title of Fundamentalism, Modernism, and New-Evangelicalism. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW ...

The recurrence of seven - or an exact multiple of seven - is found throughout the Bible and is widely recognized. The frequent occurrence of the number seven is conspicuous even to a casual reader. Here are many instances of the number seven's appearances in the Bible. God bless you! Seven days of c...

Timelines: the development of (Western) Christianity, the emergence of Christian Scriptures, and the history of Biblical manuscripts, interpretation, and authority Dr. Charles Ess, Drury University Approximate date/sEvent / PeriodBible reference / concept / source20's C.E.Jesus and his followers - "...

The fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is a vast subject. In fact, the Messianic prophecies alone have provided enough material for the publication of many books. Other books have been written solely about the Old Testament prophecies concerning certain cities or about certain world empires,...

From "The Apocryphal New Testament"M.R. James-Translation and NotesOxford: Clarendon Press, 1924Introduction The older testimonies about this book have been given already. I now present the three principal forms of it, as given by Tischendorf: two Greek texts, A and B, and one Latin. The few Greek m...

the written account of the life of Jesus Christ, preserved in its original greek byMarcion, son of Philologus, bishop of Sinope. 130 anno domine, Rome version 1.00 - contains five chapters of twenty-one. Last updated 6th December 1995. I In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, [Ponti ...

Many New Agers say that Jesus went to India as a child to learn from Hindu gurus. He allegedly later went to Israel and performed miracles learned from these gurus, and taught doctrines He derived from them. Such an idea is preposterous. To begin with, Jesus' teaching about God was not pantheistic (...

In Matthew 21 we find that Jesus was hungry and saw a fig tree by the side of the road. As He came close to it, He saw that it had no figs on it, so He cursed it and it withered (Matthew 21:19). It may appear that Jesus is just responding in anger to the tree, cursing it in tantrum-like behavior. Bu...

Prophecy, I note, is a gift and not the normal expectation of every believer. That is probably the clue to finding out how it is abused so much; all these people flocking to watch the skies for signs gave themselves the gift of what they imagine prophecy is. They were not given the gift by the Holy ...

Part Two in a Two-Part Series on New Age Christology by Ron Rhodes In her best-selling book, Out on a Limb, Shirley MacLaine recounts how a friend once said to her: "You know that nothing is recorded in the Bible about Christ from the time he was about twelve until he began to really teach at about ...

When Jesus said, "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness" (Matt. 6:33, NIV), was He teaching His disciples, as New Ager David Spangler argues, to seek "the state of identification with one's true individuality, the source within, the Divine center, that I AM THAT I AM?"[1]When Jesus said, "Tak...

Liberal Christians typically seek to adapt religious ideas to modern science. Their goal is to make Christianity "relevant" to modern man. By elevating science to supreme authority, they assume the Bible is a fallible human document, approach Scripture with an antisupernatural bias, and dismiss mira...

Identity of Adam Adam is from the Hebrew Adam. The word Adam has its Hebrew roots in adamah which means land or ground. The word refers to the rich reddish soil of the fertile crescent in contrast to the arid earth of the wilderness which cannot support life. Usually when it is used in the Old Testa...

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