The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape its own identity. InThe Jewish Jesus, Peter Sch盲fer reveals the crucial ways in which various Jewish heresies, including ...
Jewish practitioners entered this room to study the scrolls of the Torah, or the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.犹太教信徒进入这个房间，学习《托拉》卷轴，也就是希伯来圣经的前五本书。And the synagogue's walls were almost completely covered with detailed paintings that tell stories from the...
If you do not own a copy ofAdobe Acrobat Reader,click on the icon to download a free copy. After downloading the file at a location on your hard drive, double click to install. The Last Four World Powers How will we know when the return of Jesus Christ is about to occur? Section I...
Perhaps the first genetic blueprint was something other than DNA. These examples do simplify the requirements for the "original cell," but it is still a long way to spontaneous generation of life. Perhaps the first living cells were completely different from what we see today, and no one has...
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples...
Note: this is not to deny the special place in history that Israel and the Jewish people have. They were the recipients of the Mosaic Covenant, Jesus Christ was a Jew, and I believe God has a specific plan for the nation of Israel in the future. But this is not the same as saying...
so that you can do it.” Biblically, to have words in your mouth is to have memorized them by saying them over and over. Also, the wordTorahis being used in the broad sense of meaning all of God’s teaching – throughout the Bible and in Jewish religious study down through the ages...
As Easter Sunday approaches and Christians everywhere remember Jesus’ journey to the cross, we can’t help but wonder about his mother who stuck by His side till the bitter end. How old was she when he died on the cross, and when did she realize what route her son's life was going ...
“They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,” she said, “and we do not know where they have put Him!”John 19:25Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.Luke 24:10It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the ...
And so to to say to people, well, the only way to have faith is to say that medically, you know, Jesus was dead and then three days later he was alive. You know, it's like way to drain all of the meaning and mystery and power out of what faith really is. Is to say that's...