Old Testament Apocrypha

Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears Chapter Summaries Chapter One: Trinity: God Is Humans seek unconditional love for ourselves and for others as well as to live in a perfect world. We are designed by God to need him and his perfect love. We are made to worship and love Him. God is one person, but He has three separate identities: not three separate beings. The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are all one who is known as God. Jesus is also God, but we…

at first, but I skipped past all of it and went to chapters that I could pronounce. Matthew was the first, and then I read Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, Corinthians...and so on until I had a complete understanding of what was going on in the Old Testament that led up to those books in the bible, and then it was easy and actually interesting and incredibly…

A wonderful example, is he recognized all four Gospels, all be it he rewrote them to fit his theological beliefs. The next major players in history that played a part in developing the New Testament that we know of today is Clement of Alexandria (150-215 AD), and Tertullian (205-225 AD). Both Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian where affluent writers who wrote about scriptures, their philosophical writings where used as a reference to major…

Today was a day as any other day, as I sat on the bench at the park and read my daily reading of the Bible. Today I was approached by a lady she actually stopped and ask me what it was in the world that made me sit day after day on my bench and read the Bible? She also wanted to know why I considered it to be an authoritative instrument. I shared with her the views of so many before me: When we refer to the Bible as being authoritative, we mean that it is something that has been either written…

the reader to experience. Becoming familiar with several of the different genres and figures of speech within the Bible, a person’s understanding of it will increase. Genres Apodictic Law One of two major types of legal material present in the Old Testament, apodictic law deals in matters of moral and religious concerns, explicit in defining right and wrong. Referred to as the “absolute law,” it addresses the audience in second person using direct commands. Two well-known types of apodictic…

on the New Testament and live their lives based on the teachings of the New Testament, the completion of the Old Testament, which is the foundation of the Jewish faith (Tasman 2016). Many Christians find the Old Testament almost irrelevant, as it was before Jesus’ time. The Old Testament contains traditions that are meant to be followed by Christians and Jews alike. Jesus of Nazareth, the Christian Messiah, was a Jew who followed and fulfilled the laws of the Torah, the Old Testament, and never…

has compassed quite the questionable history of justice when the topic is performing abortions, cruel punishments and genocide, God has proven that He can evolve within His ways of dealing with justice. One can see the comparison of the old as well as the new testament…

The concept of a God created world is not just an Old Testament standard. When you read 1 John 1-3 the Disciples are explaining to us that the God of the Old Testament was present and visible to them as they describing Jesus Christ who had stood in their very midst. 1 John 1-3. 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with…

“Did Jesus have anything to do with the formation of the Christian church? And if he did, how did he shape its special character?” (Shelley 4). During the age of Jesus and the Apostles, the anti-institutional view of Christianity was so widespread that many questioned Jesus’ partaking in Christianity. In my opinion, I believe this was the most important event in church history between 6 B.C. and 1517. During the age of Jesus and the Apostles, Palestine was not a very pleasant place to live. In…

The author of the article, Reasons to Question the Reliability of Scripture, wrote on the basis of trying to disprove or question the reliability of the New Testament by providing multiple arguments against the idea that the oral history of Luke and the other NT authors could be accurate. While I have an answer for all, I’m going to focus on a few that I believe are the most important to help clear up a basis for historical evidence before ever going into faith or Christianity as a theology. The…