Gospel of the Hebrews

Discovered in the twentieth century, The Gospel of Thomas was founded by peasants that were digging for fertilizer close to the village of Nag Hammadi, Egypt. The peasants revealed a container containing thirteen leather-bound manuscripts that were buried in the fourteenth century. The container contained fifty-two tractates that represented “heretical” writings of Gnostic Christians. Dated back to 200 A.D., there was not much known about the Gospel of Thomas besides that there were only three small

resurrection of Christ thousands of years later. Because of this, people in the Old Testament era had no knowledge of Christ or the gospel, but we assume they were saved by faith. In The Fate of The Heathen, John Gerstner makes several statements in line with this idea. ..What is unfair in God’s damning sinners? If God damned them because they did not believe the gospel, they could legitimately protest that they had no opportunity to believe the

St. Matthew's Gospel was written to fill a sorely-felt want for his fellow other people who live in the same country, both believers and unbelievers. For the first thing just mentioned, it served as a sign of his regard and as an encouragement in the trial to come, for the last thing just mentioned, it was designed to convince them that the Messiah had come in Jesus, our Lord, in Whom all the promises of the God-related Kingdom supporting all people had been satisfied in a (related to religion or

After a number of years have passed through the church, one would wonder how we can be certain that the right books make up the Bible. We have all of these translations and interpretations of Scripture, but how did we get the Bible itself? These are the many questions that make up many non-believers and possibly even many non believers today as well. I can speak for many church goers on the contrary, that have grown up in the church and they have not thought about the idea of the origin of the Bible

Analysis of the Gospel of John 1:1-6 and its comparison with Genesis 1 and 2: 1-3 and Proverbs 8 gives us insight into how a Christian text references Hebrew texts implicitly and explicitly. In chapter one, verse 1-6, of the Gospel of John, we not only witness the explicit references from Genesis and Proverbs, but also see how different ideas present in the two Hebrew texts have been reframed by the Gospel of John. We see a highlight of this reframing in the verse one of the Gospel of John, which

Western Civilization, the most influential and powerful philosophical idea that has greatly impacted history (and continues to influence modern society across the globe) is indeed the concept of monotheism. This began with the Jewish religion of the Hebrews (also known as Israelites). From there this belief has continued to be a major influence in daily life, politics, culture, and inventions in many major western civilizations since then. Many mighty empires and powerful civilizations existed before

a system of laws and Jesus is seen as the giver of laws. Jesus relays the messages that his father has given to him. In the Bible it is written, “Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God” (Hebrews 10:7), He was saying that as written in the scriptures he was there to follow his father’s desired will. The people look to Jesus as an authority and he looks to God as his. Christianity is a practice and lifestyle and Christ is their model to follow

book with 3500 years of history, spanning many cultures and traditions, the Bible stands as a permanent record of God’s interaction with His creation. Taking no relevance of interpretation away from the Greek and Roman backgrounds, the Jewish or Hebrew background was most crucial to the understanding of doctrines such as law, faith, salvation, perseverance, and most importantly, love (E. Tolbert, personal communication, August 22, 2014). The Jewish background also gives way to understanding the

undertone. There are clear bits of historical context throughout the anthology that allow the books to be dated and provide insight to the world of the authors. When the prophetic destruction of the temple in Jerusalem is being discussed in the gospels, it is clear that the authors are discussing the threat of the

The apostles are the twelve followers that Jesus selected early on in his ministry. They were chosen to spread the Gospel after the death of Jesus Christ. These men were ordinary people that God used in marvelous ways. These men called us to follow Jesus Christ. After the Death of Jesus the spread the word of God to places as far as Rome. These men were a crucial part in the spreading of Christianity. When Jesus was alive they were called the twelve disciples because disciple means follower. After