The other New Testament writers had immediate access to Jesus as well: James and Jude were half-brothers of Jesus who initially did not believe in him. Peter was one of the 12 apostles. Paul started out as a violent opponent of Christianity and a member of the religious ruling class, but...
It is in this large way of looking at the Hebrew literature that we discover its real preciousness. And when we get this large conception, then petty questions about the absolute accuracy of texts and dates no longer trouble us. “He who has once gained this broader view of the Bible,”...
But there’s a lot of nuance that goes into answering this question. The Bible didn’t fall out of heaven, and it was a long time in the making. So,let’s take a closer look at the people whom tradition says wrote the Bible.Before we jump into the list of names, let me throw ...
to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the...
They worshiped and served what had been created instead of the God who created those things, who should be praised forever. Amen. 26 Because people did those things, God left them and let them do the shameful things they wanted to do. Women stopped having natural sex and started having ...
that girl started singing ‘killing me softly’? by the end of the show, it was kumbaya. everyone was happy. life was beautiful. it was that impactful.” “ready or not” “at one point, the group had disbanded. she had left the group at this point and we didn’t know what we ...
Today Reif is MIT’s president, about to step down from the job after more than a decade leading the Institute. Back then, he was a first-generation college student trying to make his education count. Wanting to study something beyond the notes he took in class, he started wrestling with...
Each line of the `.txs` file contains one Bible verse started with `#:`. The verses must be listed in the correct order. For example, the beginning of the `BBE-Dan.txs` file looks like this (parts of the text are omitted in the sample): \begtt #1:1 In the third year of the...
9⸤One day⸥ some men from the cities of Cyrene and Alexandria and the provinces of Cilicia and Asia started an argument with Stephen. They belonged to a synagogue called Freedmen’s Synagogue. 使徒行传 6:9 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) ...
the judge sentenced him to life in prison. In 1983, as Thevis appealed his sentence in court, theatergoers in America were captivated by another violent kingpin, Tony Montana, and the tabloids started to call Thevis “the Scarface of Sex.” When he died behind bars in 2013 at the age ...