The Bible: The First Four Books Of The New Testament

13) The Creation of the World; the Garden of Eden; Adam and Eve; Original Sin; the Fall

Despite physical beauty, greed can create an ugly personality that affects relationships with others. Elle Woods, worked her way up from nothing more than living as a pretty girl to get into Harvard, in the movie Legally Blonde. While Glinda, of Wicked, used her high social status to remain in power by tromping down others. Glinda the Good is known as the epitome of ‘goodness’ but she stepped on other to work her way up. Elle Woods however, was ambitious and worked hard to better herself and built her way up to prevail as powerful. Both of these women may seem nothing more than beautiful, but they arose above what people thought they could become to ensue as powerful, although in extremely different ways. Glinda’s greed left her well liked, but also isolated, depressed and alone, while Elle Woods’s ambition gave her a happier future and more successful life.

The names “Old Testament” and “New Testament” are inherently theological in nature. Because there is a difference distinctly built into giving them different notations, it implies that there are differences between each the Old Testament and the New Testament, whether it is subtle in nature or obvious in nature. To Christians, the difference means that the Old Testament contains dealings between God and the world and even some of the rules made are made irrelevant by the interactions of Christ Jesus with the world. One of the differences between the New Testament and the Old Testament is the way each of the Testaments describe God and God’s nature. The Old Testament describes an angry God, one who only created the world and was obsessed with laws and rules. The New Testament describes a loving God who redeemed the world. The different ways the Old Testament and New Testament describe God and his nature are very much influenced by their perspective of God. By the rules, actions, and laws God made, the early writers of the Old Testament made their judgements about God and wrote those perspectives into the books of the Old Testament. The writers of the Old Testament did the best they could with the information they had and got some things about God right, but also got things wrong. The writers of the New Testament and therefore, Christian believers understand God better.

The book of Matthew gospel is the first book of the New Testament. The theme in Matthew speaks about The Kingdom of Heaven. The phrase "The Kingdom of Heaven" occurred numerous times being spoken by Jesus. The Gospel Writer Matthew wrote to a Jewish audience expounding upon the fact Jesus was the Messiah.

The King James version of the Bible affected many things and had a major impact on society and the English language. It was created by King James to benefit and fill a request given by the puritans to King James. It took seven years to write and it became the English standard version of the Bible. The King James version includes a lot of formal and poetic language to describe stories and events in the other versions of the Bible. It taught the Bible in a different way making it easier for some people to understand and believe in the stories and truths of the Bible. This version is the most influential version of the Bible. It is also the most referred too and the most popular for many groups of people. Overall it is a descriptive and creative translation that combines truth with poetic art and beautiful language appealing to many different groups of people.

Finally, the Book of John concludes the Gospels within the New Testament. The Book of John is broken down into four sections. The first section serves as a prologue. Subsequently, the second section accounts for the miracles Jesus’s performed. Following the second section, the ascension to the third section entails the glory of God. Conclusively, the fourth section finishes off with epilogue, including the reappearance of Jesus after his resurrection. Similarly to the other books of the Gospels, the Book of John introduces Jesus’s baptism performed by John the Baptist and concludes with Jesus’s death and resurrection. On the contrary, the Book of John focuses on literal elements and symbolic elements. The Book of John included seven miracle

The New Testament was formed by combing oral tradition and several other written sources. Contrary to popular belief, the Canon was not formed at the Council at Nicea (at least I thought that). Instead, the Bible was put together over the centuries as new texts were slowly added. This sparked great debate about which books were ok to be added and who decided which books. Out of this period came the discovery of the Gnostic books or Gnostic gospels. These books were inaccurate and portrayed Christ in an incorrect way. So the responsibility of those deciding on which books to use as Canon was to somehow decide which books preached differing gospels. This obviously gave them great power over what books were in the Bible, but also what the overall

The approved books of the Hebrew Bible, that were inspired by God were called the "canon" of Scripture. The Greek word canon means rod or ruler, which is a form of measurement. The Jewish Rabbis and the Christian Community used a measurement process to select the books they thought was authoritative. Authoritative is defined as, “able to be trusted as being accurate or true; reliable” (Dictionary, 2014). The Biblical Scriptures was recorded on scrolls, a roll of parchment paper for writing.

The first four books of the New Testament are known as the Gospels. These books tell us about the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They are named for their authors: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The earliest descriptions of these books are from Justin Martyr in 155 AD which he calls them “memoirs” (Elwell and Yarbrough, 56). These are more of a biographical account of the life of Jesus. In these books God offers salvation through His son; a call to faith in light of the coming judgment.

The New Testament is the word of God, documented through scrolls, or books, and communicated and shared for man to learn and study the life of Jesus Christ (Bethel, 2017). For Christians, the word of God is sacred and authoritative; this makes it similar to other world religions. This religious documentation is similar to other religions in that it documents history and is therefore, historical. For Christians, the New Testament is unlike other historical literature. The New Testament covers the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. Though the teachings, examples, and miracles revealed in the New Testament, Christians receive the information they need to model their life after the Savior, Jesus Christ. The

The first four books of the New Testament are called the Gospels. Four men, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write down the life of Jesus. Each man had different reasons for writing and different people they were writing to so their books didn’t all have to be identical; just accurate. Many more people wrote about Jesus, but only these four testimonies made it into the canon of the New Testament. As John MacArthur’s Study Bible explains, only these four books were necessary to form “a complete testimony about Jesus Christ.”

According to our text, the New Testament is comprised of four primary literary forms: Gospels, History, Letters and Apocalyptic (Harris, 2014). The Gospels was made up of four books written by four separate authors who tell of Jesus from four individual viewpoints based upon their understanding of who Jesus was, yet it does not cover the lifespan of Jesus, only certain accounts. Therefore, it is not considered historical or a biography but is defined as ‘sui generis’. The historical counts of the life of Christ is noted in the book of Acts. This book tells of the history of the early church but by all accounts doesn’t use traditional criteria most often noted in historical writings. The Epistles are known as letters. These letters were thought to be written by Paul and his followers. The letters were often written to the various churches rather than people or individuals. They were also written to address issues, concerns or to offer praise for specific acts or behaviors. Thus, letters or epistles addressing sin were more of the rebuking nature to bring correction and accountability in the effort to restore the parishioners to appropriate, God-fearing behaviors. Whereas, other letters may be to praise churches for exemplifying model behaviors that could be used for strong witnessing. The latter form is known as the apocalyptic writings. This form tends to deal with the End Times and was suspected to have been written during the time of church persecution. The book of Revelation in particular, was written around the 1st century when Christians were said to have been killed for their faith. It is during this time that the question was raised regarding God’s role and whether or not he would win. It was stated emphatically that God would win and would redeem his people.ReferenceHarris, S. L., (2014). The New Testament: A Student’s Introduction (8th ed.). Dubuque:McGraw-Hill Education.

The first five books of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts are considered historical, (Tenney, 1961). These books tell the story of Jesus. The New Testament is a collection of writing by early Christians, believed to be mostly Jewish disciples of Christ, apart from Luke (Tenney, 1961). The New Testament is the records of Words, Works, and the Life of Jesus Christ. The New Testament is the record of the character and establishment of a new dealing of God with men through Christ (Tenney 1961). The contents of the New Testament are classified in three ways: by authors, periods, and literary character, (Tenney,

One of the most important books in the history of design is The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the Mazarin Bible and the 42-Line Bible. It is often considered one of the first notable books to have been printed because unlike early books, this book was printed with movable type. Invented by Johann Gutenberg, his invention changed the course of technology and the way people gained knowledge forever.

The New Testament was canonized over a period of approximately four hundred years (Stotesberg). From AD 50-125, the books which in the end constitute the New Testament were written. Simultaneously, other books, which did not end up being included in the final canon, were produced. These books are the Epistle of Barnabas, the Didache, I Clement, the seven letters of Ignatius of Antioch, etc. (“Development of the Difficult Canon”). As more and more books were written, Christians realized that it was imperative that they gather and consolidate this material before it became lost. Sometime before AD 100, ten of Paul’s letters were gathered and combined into their own canon. The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) were combined to form another canon soon after the canonization of Paul’s letters. The Gospels and Paul’s letters became the main body of a new group of Scriptures that would soon become the New Testament. Soon Acts, I Peter, I John, and Revelation were inserted into this body of Scripture. Following this, the rest of the books were added to the New Testament (Barker).