Why does Jesus speak in parables? The very word itself has become inextricably linked to Jesus because of how much that rhetorical style dominates the first three Gospels. As a method of teaching, it is a bit eccentric, but the images it conveys are memorable. It is commonplace for Bible ...
let alone believed in and been obedient and faithful to the contents and provisions of these two Documents combined together as One single Scroll. This is something similar to what Jesus said, when he said that “to eat” is to come unto him (understanding the “bread” of the teachings)...
to the animal sacrifices of Judaism and the elaborate human sacrifices of Canaanite and Olmec worship. Later, especially in Christianity, a table was substituted, often called a Communion Table, because here were placed the elements of the communion meal, which celebrated the sacrifice of Jesus. ...
St. Simon the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He may have been one of the group of Zealots, the Jewish nationalistic party before becoming a follower of Christ.
Christians can be offensive in one of three ways: Because people hate your leader, Jesus. Because we tell them the truth about sin and its wages. (But even in this, we are to be harmless as a dove and wise as a serpent.” “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolve...
He intimately knows all our needs and is the only One who can meet them. He cares about every detail of our lives. Many of these aspects of God in the Old Testament are also found in Jesus in the New Testament, because Jesus “is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact impr...
(Col.1:27) Jesus said, "I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever - the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in ...
Matt.18:10 –“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.” Jesus’ use of “their angels” (hoi angeloi auton) in reference to “one of these little ones” (enos ton micron...
“I considerChristianity to be a teaching that gives meaning to life … and thus it makes absolutely no difference to me whether Jesus Christ was God or not.”[16]But the Church has understood that to look at Christianity in this way is to bring it completely to nothing. It is not ...
Scripture, of course, confirms this conclusion. In John 5:28-29, the Lord Jesus says: “Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done...