Derived from Gregg Allison's magisterial Historical Theology, this digital short provides a concise but thorough history of how both New Testament and Old Testament books were identified as Scripture and incorporated into the final canon. Attention is paid to differences between the Catholic and Protes...
How the Bible Came to Be wins Catholic Press awardSouder, Eugene K
Personally, my favorite Bible translation is the New International Version (NIV). I personally own a REALLY old version ofthis NIV Study Bible that I use for my everyday Bible. The NIV is one the most popular Bible translations out there, and it’s what I grew up with and am most comf...
How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father.” Douay-Rheims Bible For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father. Treasury of S...
Your lips are crimson cords, your mouth is shapely; behind your veil are hidden beautiful rosy cheeks. New American BibleLike a scarlet strand, your lips, and your mouth—lovely! Like pomegranate halves, your cheeks behind your veil.
How many speeches are there in the Book of Deuteronomy? Who was the Book of Ruth written to? In the Bible, how many chapters are in 1 Timothy? How old is Boaz in the Book of Ruth? How old was Ruth in the Bible? Why is the Book of Ruth included in the Bible?
Concentrate on the New Testament, though not to the exclusion of the Old. There’s no need to memorize multiple passages of the Bible the way Fundamentalists do, but you need to acquire a basic knowledge of the whole of Scripture. You should be especially familiar, though, with the Gospels...
When he’s handed isn’t the entire Old Testament, what he’s handed is just Isaiah, why doesn’t he get handed the entire Old Testament? Well, it’s hidden here in the Greek. So when it says that he’s handed the book Bion, that’s a conjugation of the word biblios, which is...
The church should stop taking its cues from the state.Christianity Today August, 2005 issue Share Share The Protestant reformers named three “marks by which the true church is known”: the preaching of the pure doctrine of the gospel, the pure administration of the sacraments, and the ...
the old world is shaking on its social foundations. For in strategically sited towns and cities a new species of human is making its entrée. While the divine dramatis personae included only clergy, nobles and peasants, enterprising citizens are now elbowing their way on to th...