New Testament

Jesus must use characteristics of God as his evidence; coincidentally, the Bible gives explicit words to do this. The Bible shows that God will not “yield [His] glory to another or [His] praise to idols” (Isaiah 42:8, New International Version). Yet, throughout the New Testament, there are constant callings to praise Jesus. There is only one explanation for this, that “Jesus was the glory of God” (Macarthur, 2003). To add to this, God says in Isaiah that there is no other God or Savior, so…

For some, it is possible the Old and New Testament may be absent a treasure chest full of valuable sexual truths. A quantity of these somewhat obscure writings declared secret mystical knowledge; which a substantial number of these texts were developed around 70 B.C.-A.D. 150. Reportedly mystifying…

Source Notes Summary Source Criticism · In Christianity, the Kingdom of God, also known as Kingdom Of Heaven, is the spiritual realm where God reigns as king the hearts and lives of his people How do I know if this information is reliable? · It is a spiritual, invisible kingdom which has made its presence felt to a degree in the affairs of this earth, but only to a limited extent What does this information mean? · It is not confined to a particular geographical location, nor to a…

Jehovah’s Witness. My understanding of this religion was a bunch of people who are very strict on their religious values and not very accepting. Everyone always said that Jehovah’s Witness would try to turn everyone to their religion. I had never heard a good story about them; such as how they always went door to door, they were persuading (some would say harassing) people, due to this fact, it caused people to dislike their religion. This was one of the reasons why I decided to pursue this…

In the New Testament, baptism is a symbolic ritual where one is submerged under water after receiving Christ as their savior. The water symbolically washes away their sins and gives them a new birth in Christ (Acts 22:16). Near the end of Part One, John fishes Mary 1’s dead body out of the sea and carries her to the stage as water continues to pour out of her body (76). In this moment John symbolizes Jesus, who tries to fish Mary 1’s lost soul out from the seas of sin. The continuous flow of…

stories of Jesus are represented through the four New Testament Gospels: Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. Each Gospel emphasizes on particular principles that represent Jesus differently. Jesus is seen as the suffering Messiah in all four Gospels, but each Evangelist puts in his own intake, hence expanding on the original Markan portrait of Jesus. The writers of the Gospels give their own theological assertions, and understandings, which in effect creates a new portrait of Jesus for each Gospel.…

Summary Over ten chapters, Scot McKnight, in The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited, articulated the Gospel of King Jesus. In the first chapter, McKnight provided three scenarios that supported his argument, namely, that there is a need to answer the question of what is the Gospel. The next chapter distinguished a salvation culture from a Gospel culture. Unfortunately, most of evangelical churches today lean towards a salvation culture. To have a Gospel culture instead of a…

peace in my life as I think more deeply about the Lord’s teachings. I have been reading in the New Testament and the corresponding student manual recently. I have tried to consider how lessons Christ taught in His ministry relate to our time. People had different lifestyles in Christ’s time, but we face similar problems. Spiritually the world is in a great state of apostasy. When viewing the New Testament as a story we find many antagonists. We face similar antagonists in each of our lives, yet…

outreach of the church, because Luke writes how the church is being spread. Acts is the only New Testament book that has been classified as history. Luke used numerous sources and traditions that shaped a coherent, chronologically sequential account of events covering around three decades. This not only puts all of the events surrounding Jesus into a timeline, but makes Acts be a timeline for the New Testament. This passage fits with the whole of Acts as it describes what the early church was…

chosen whose blood would atone for the priest’s sins. John says that if we walk in the light as Jesus did we show that we are believers and the blood of Jesus acts like a cleaning agent form sin (1 John 1:7) just like the blood of animals in the Old Testament Jesus’ blood though has a lasting effect where animals’ blood does not. Salvation restores your relationship with God in two ways. Once you accept Jesus you become saved postionally. You are now in right standing with God. You also start…