Jesus of Nazareth has had more of an impact on world history than any other man to have walked the face of the Earth. In their 2013 book Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank (published by Cambridge University Press) Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward place Jesus of Nazareth...
communities of Jesus-followers sprang up from Egypt to Armenia, from Britain to India. As they met together, their lifestyle challenged local culture. Jew and Gentile, male and female, rich and poor,
Joseph lived in Nazareth of Galilee before the birth of Jesus, and he returned to Nazareth of Galilee after fleeing to Egypt after the birth of Jesus as well. This contradiction claim is based on a lot of assumptions read into the text. Matthew 2:1 says Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but...
the anointed one would be the Passover Lamb, whose blood once saved the people of Israel from death in Egypt and whose bones were not to be broken (Exodus). Jesus is called the Passover Lamb
18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have ...
The answer is found in the church’s majority position on Eternal Security. The first 600 years of church history, including the apostles’ age in the church after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, existed without any teaching on the Doctrine of Eternal Security. If you hold to Eternal...
Didache, the oldest surviving Christian church order, probably written in Egypt or Syria in the 2nd century. It is considered to be a work of patristic literature from an unknown Apostolic Father. Some early Christian writers treated it as canonical.
5But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: 6Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. 7Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. ...
Jesus said then, ``You would have no power at all over me, for evil of any kind or good, if another did not give it to you, any more than a jew who sinned by betraying me. when pilate heard that, he tried to set him free. yn-medh yesus y'n eur na maystri vydh ty ny...
3The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” 4Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’” 5The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6And he ...