The Bible: The Four Acts Of The Bible

The Gospels were based off of oral stories and parables, which are recorded within the first four books of the New Testament. The Gospels consist of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Surprisingly, the book of Mark developed at around 70 CE. Followed by the book of Mark, the book of Matthew and the book of Luke appeared in 80 CE. These books were primarily based on oral traditions and stories from Jesus. Within these stories of the books, it contains Jesus’s way of life and his teaching for his followers. Based off of the book of Mark, Matthew and Luke contain oral stories of Jesus and his parables (Coward 36). Often times, Christians categorize Mark, Matthew, and Luke together, since they tell similar accounts of Jesus’s way of life and his teachings,

The Bible is made up of a collection of books.The New Testament includes several different genres of literature (Harris,2014). At least four genres consist of, the gospels,historical,letters,and apocalyptic. The gospels are the first genre which appears in the first four books of the bible. Matthew,Mark,Luke,and John gives the accounts of the life of Jesus Christ in different perspectives. The gospels are not like any other type of literature,it is defined by its subject matter,the life of Jesus (Harris,2014).The other books are considered historical texts. Additional books were letters of epistles. The letters by Paul were a major unit of the collection Revelations. There are twenty-seven documents in the New Testament which fits into one

The Bible is a veritable catalog of the majesty and power of our creator, thy God and all of his works. Strictly from a literary standpoint, the Bible is seen as a masterpiece for its sheer diversity of form and content, for artistry, for affective power, and for the way in which no matter how well you think you know it, or how many times you’ve read it, you can always find new meaning in its text. The Bible isn’t just one book, but instead an anthology of 66 different ones written by various authors over the span of approximately fifteen hundred years. The Old Testament, originally written in Hebrew, consists of thirty nine canonical books of scripture prior to the coming of Christ, when God’s people belonged to the nation of Israel. As a religious text, the Bible has found its stories, psalms, phrases, and proverbs seep in to many facets of western and world culture.

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.

The Drama of Scripture frames the biblical narrative as a work of drama, with six acts. These acts are Creation, Fall, Israel, Jesus, Church, and New Creation (Drama pp. 23-24, 2014). The first three acts come from the Old Testament, and the final three come from the New Testament. In many ways, I feel that this Six Act Drama plays itself out in my life as well. As a Catholic man of faith, this makes a great deal of sense to me. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, hence CCC, states that, “God is the author of Sacred Scripture. ‘The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit’” (CCC 105, 2000). Additionally, it states “The inspired books teach the truth…” (CCC 107, 2000). These two quotes point to the primacy of Scripture in how I find my life playing itself out. Since Scripture is how God narrates His will, and since we are made in the image and likeness of God, it follows that patterns present in Scripture would manifest themselves in my life. Each act of the drama represents a phase of my life which has either happened, is currently happening, or one for which I still await.

Acts 8:26-40 teaches us a variety of things about mission as well as evangelism’s role within it. It reminds us whose mission it is, that radical inclusion is anticipated, that evangelism is an important aspect of but is not in itself mission, and that the Holy Spirit plays a fundamental and essential role in mission and effective evangelism.

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Paul preaches sermon of remembrance that ends in Jesus at King in the line of David

The concept of analytics-based decision marking takes into consideration industry knowledge and business analytics which includes four acts (Bartlett, 2013). The four acts help prepare analytics to support an anticipated decision and illustrate a process for analytics-based decision making. As a result, the role of statistical thinking, the interaction, and relationship between industry knowledge and analytics, as well as where things can go wrong in a real business problem can be revealed (Bartlett, 2013). In addition, moving from one act to another seamlessly, jumping back from and forth from one act to another or simply following some other route is easy to do in a real business problem. This annotated bibliography will examine articles that contain resources that support the concepts contained in the four acts.

In reading Howard I. Marshall, “Acts”, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. He implied, the most significant for studying and interpreting the book of Acts is how a reader gets out of what he is reading and how he approaches it (Marshall, 17). He states that, “an average reader studies the books of Acts as a history book of the early church” (Marshall, 17). Readers should use critical thinking to seek a deeper revelation. For example: recognizing the authorship to the Gospel of Luke. And seek for what the author’s purpose of writing Luke-Acts (Marshall, 19). Accurate information gives better understanding. In fact, if a reader did not know the culture or customs of the first-century Christian writers of the early church. They would not know the first-century Christian writers were only known to write Letters and Gospels, and not large history literature, as the author did in the book of Acts (Marshall, 18). Who was the author addressing with his literature (Marshall, 18)? With these considerations, it is most significant to have accurate information to be able to study and interpret the true of the book of Acts.

The book of Acts is known as 'the birth of the church'. Acts recounts the story of

The book of Acts has such a variety of topics that can be addressed. Every chapter has something in it that can be applied to daily living in the postmodern twenty first century in Canada's western culture, and society. With this in mind, the point of this essay is to address what scholars will have to say about Acts 5.

At the birth of the Early Church there were no Gentiles within the Christian community. The relationship between Judaism and Christianity became more complex as people began to accept Gentiles into the church. The book of Acts makes clear to us that the conflict that had arisen was between two different groups of Jewish people, the Hellenists and the Hebrews. The Hellenists, although Jewish, were open to a Hellenistic culture unlike the Hebrews, and it was through them that a connection to the gentile world was created. The Jewish church would eventually wain and the leaders of the Christian movement proclaiming the Gospel would then become predominantly Gentile.

Are the copies in existence today an accurate representation of the original copies of the New Testament? There are many facts and studies that prove this claim to be true contrary to popular belief by non-Christians and other religions alike. There are at least three reasons that it can be know with certainty that the New Testament in existence today is an accurate representation of the originals. Including the amount of copies, age, and determining that the variants within the Bible do not make a difference.

There is a big difference between person and nature. Human nature if composed of body and soul, in a human person is found the added perfection which makes each one an individual, distinct from all others. A human person has only one human nature. Christ is a divine Person having the nature of God and the nature of man. God through time has proved He had both nature of God and the nature of man, which are two totally separate things. This was all by doing some things that only God could do and other things that men do. But let’s make it clear that Christ only is one person.