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  Jesus
According to the New Testament, Jesus is the Son of God who served a ministry in Galilee and Judaea and was ultimately crucified in Jerusalem by order of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate before rising from the dead on the third day.
Many historians accept the New Testament as evidence for the historical existence of Jesus; but there is much less acceptance of the basic narrative of his life and death, and far less for any miraculous claims, among professional historians and liberal biblical scholars.
Moreover, as many Jews lived in the Diaspora, and Judea itself was populated by many Gentiles, Jews had to confront a paradox in their own tradition: their Torah applied only to them, but revealed universal truths.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jesus.html   (7459 words)

  
 Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jews do not share this belief, and many find its usage offensive, as it implies the reader also worships Jesus as god and messiah.
Being on the lookout when certain "Biblical" articles are written with clear subtle and not-so-subtle anti-Semitic intent, such as Verses criticizing Jews in the Old Testament.
During the holiday of tabernacles (Succos, Succot, in hebrew: סוכות) Jews are commanded (have a mitzvah, in Hebrew: מצווה) to shake a palm branch (lulav, in Hebrew: לולב) and lemon like citrus fruit (Esrog, Etrog, in Hebrew: אתרוג).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Judaism   (2680 words)

  
 How We Got the Bible - How God superintended the writing of His word and preserved it.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Literally the verse is saying that inspiration is the process by which the Holy Spirit moved on the writers of Scripture and what they wrote was not their words, but the very Word of God.
Jesus substantiated the Old Testament teaching on: Adam and Eve, the Flood, Abraham's faith, Circumcision, Sodom and Gomorrah, Jonah in the whales belly, the burning bush, Manna in the desert, and the Brazen Serpent.
In the Old Testament the false prophet was to be killed.
www.bible-truth.org /Howwegot.htm   (19643 words)

  
 Booklet > Sunset to Sunset: God's Sabbath Rest > Was the Sabbath Changed in the New Testament?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A basic principle for understanding the Bible is to look at each verse in context, both in the immediate context of what is being discussed and in the larger social and historical context influencing the author and his audience at the time.
In verses 2 and 3 Paul discussed vegetarianism ("he who is weak eats only vegetables") and continued this theme in verse 6 ("he who eats...and he who does not eat").
Among these were "principalities and powers" (verse 15), "false humility and worship of angels" (verse 18), forbidding to touch, taste and handle (verse 21) and "neglect of the body" (verse 23).
www.ucg.org /booklets/SS/newtestament.htm   (5348 words)

  
 Jesus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
According to the New Testament, Jesus is the Son of God who served a ministry in Galilee and Judaea and was ultimately crucified in Jerusalem by order of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate before rising from the dead three days later.
Christians universally understand this to mean that Jesus was literally God's son – according to the Nicene Creed, God's only begotten son, one with the father.
Two of the Gospels (Matthew and Luke, but not Mark or John), are interpreted to allege that Joseph was Jesus' foster father, and that Jesus' biological father was the Holy Spirit, who mystically caused Mary to conceive, giving rise to a virgin birth.
www.wikiverse.org /jesus   (6833 words)

  
 Jewish Law
We learn in the case of a Jewish slave sold to a non Jew that he must be redeemed and not taken by force, since it is written: 'after he is sold he may be redeemed' (Leviticus, chapter 25, verse 48) and this means that another Jew is forbidden to liberate such slave by force.
Jews should be the first to beware of using such general prohibitions as their only defense, since during all the times when they were killed or exterminated the general prohibition against killing was present in the codes of law of the states or religions responsible for their killing.
Yes, killing of non Jews by Jews is prohibited by Halacha in the same way that spitting on street is prohibited in a city; such killings are treated by Orthodox Jews as being venial sins.
www.cactus48.com /jewishlaw.html   (6847 words)

  
 Textual Integrity & The Bible
The Old Testament, to certain extent and the New Testament in toto lack chain of narration.
The New Testament in what is referred to as the "broader" canon is made up of thirty-five books, joining to the usual twenty-seven books eight additional texts, namely four sections of church order from a compilation called Sinodos, two sections from the Ethiopic Book of the Covenant, Ethiopic Clement, and Ethiopic Didascalia.
This represents for the New Testament an accomodation of the canon of the Syrians with that of the Greeks.
www.islamic-awareness.org /Bible/Text/BibleTex.html   (6448 words)

  
 The Chosen People Puzzle - Christianity Today Magazine
All of the basic promises of divine favor God made to the Jews in the Old Testament are now directed toward that blood-bought community drawn "from every tribe and language and people and nation" and formed by sovereign grace into a new kind of "kingdom and priests to serve our God" (Rev. 5:9-10).
The Old Testament prophets make it clear that the nation of Israel will never be truly blessed by God unless she pursues justice.
In that sense, salvation was closely tied to a specific ethnic identity in the Old Testament: To be identified with "the people of God," it was necessary either to be born a Jew or otherwise incorporated into the Jewish community.
www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2001/004/5.70.html   (4463 words)

  
 Islam and Christianity
One of the verses dealing with the points is 5:73: `disbelieved have those who say God is the third of three; there is no deity except one deity'.
Taken literally this verse is criticizing belief in three gods, not in three hypostases; and from a Christian point of view belief in three gods is a heresy, tritheism.
The Jews, as the Old Testament bears testimony, were prone to relapse into polytheism and idolatry throughout their national history.
www.al-islam.org /al-tawhid/islam_christianity/4.htm   (1258 words)

  
 Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic? - Anti-Semitism and Holocaust
And because the Jews comprise the main biblical characters, because their lives occupy most of the pages, because Jewish history is the primary focus of the Bible - their dirty laundry has become the most prominent.
Even if the New Testament is not a bubbling source of hatred against the Jews, few deny that it has served as a fertile fount of anti-Semitism.
Cutting, pasting, and patching verses together, the faithful have made to Bible sanction war, apartheid, celibacy, aid to the contras, genocide, not eating meat on Friday, castration, pacifism, Marxism, cuts in food stamps, the MX missile, sexual promiscuity, burning people alive - and yes, even anti-Semitism.
www.cdn-friends-icej.ca /antiholo/newtest.html   (2461 words)

  
 Book Excerpts
The Children of Israel in the old testament are synonymous to the Jesus Christ of the new testament.
This corresponds exactly to the death of the old moon and the birth of the new moon.
This word is not found in the Old Testament; but the idea it expresses is found in Job 9:33, in the word "daysman" (q.v.), marg., "umpire." This word is used in the New Testament to denote simply an internuncius, an ambassador, one who acts as a medium of communication between two contracting parties.
www.newagedatabase.com /excerpts.htm   (14563 words)

  
 Bible
It was written in Hebrew (the Old Testament), Greek (the New Testament), and Aramaic (part of Daniel).
The New Testament is complete, but parts of the Old Testament had dropped off prior to the time that Tischendorf found it.
This covenant was for all people, Jew and Gentile alike, and invited all who wished to come under the covenant by faith obedience to the gospel.
www.god-answers.org /Online_Tools/Evangelism_Handbook/bible.htm   (3871 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Holy Ghost
In the New Testament the word spirit and, perhaps, even the expression spirit of God signify at times the soul or man himself, inasmuch as he is under the influence of God and aspires to things above; more frequently, especially in St.
In Acts 28:25, he says to the Jews: "Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fathers by Isaias the prophet"; now the prophecy contained in the next two verses is taken from Isaias 6:9-10, where it is put in the mouth of the "King the Lord of hosts".
From this it follows that, in Clement's view, kyrios was equally applicable to ho theos (the Father), ho kyrios Iesous Christos, and to pneuma to hagion; and that we have three witnesses of equal authority, whose Trinity, moreover, is the foundation of Christian faith and hope.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07409a.htm   (6732 words)

  
 Islam: Muslims, Muhammad, the Quran, & the Hadith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Because in Arab countries any criticism of Muhammad or the Quran is viewed as a criminal offense punishable by death.
Puin would love to see a "critical edition" of the Koran produced, one based on recent philological work, but, he says, "the word critical is misunderstood in the Islamic world - it is seen as criticizing or attacking the text." Some Muslim authors have begun to publish skeptical, revisionist work on the Koran as well.
Sura 20:87, 95, the Jews made the golden calf in the wilderness at the suggestion of Samaritans--there were no Samaritans at that time.
www.jesus-is-lord.com /islam.htm   (10185 words)

  
 Death Penalty Links
Pro-Death Penalty essay criticizing the anti-death penalty policies of Pope John Paul II, with links and citations to the Sequential Authority Structure and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The report omits critical information and was designed to support the preordained conclusions of its authors.
Critical Information and Statistics on the Death Penalty.
www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/links/dplinks.htm   (10610 words)

  
 Bible Query from Job
While G.R. Driver says that in Old Babylonian and in Amarna glosses this means "to flee", The Expositor’s Bible Commentary volume 4 p.944 says that this idiom is also in Psalm 78:19 and means "to speak against".
While God did not specifically command this in the Old Testament law, God’s obedient servants, such as Job, were not looking to see everything they could get away with, but rather looking to please God in all their ways.
However, Philo the Jew (15/20 B.C. — 50 A.D.) mentions the setting of the seven stars of the Pleiades as the time to sow and the rising of the Pleiades is harvest time.
www.biblequery.org /job.htm   (13592 words)

  
 Calif. DOE forcing Islam on children
Then suddenly, the pace picks up, beautiful rich art is included with compelling music and excitement as the angels "come down to Muhammad," and the religious beliefs of Islam are presented as fact in exciting, awe-inspiring ways.
As I talked to the teacher on the phone, I could hear in the background the video reading the verses in the Quran criticizing Christianity, claiming there is no son of Allah, etc.
I'm not sure what I object to more, claiming Christians, Jews and Muslims all have the same beliefs and god (which clearly isn't true as the Quran condemns Christians and Jews to death), or presenting children with statements that Christianity is wrong without qualifiers (like Muslims believe).
www.renewamerica.us /columns/shroder/040918   (736 words)

  
 versify - definition of versify by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
To treat or tell in verse: versify stories from the Bible.
versify - compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga"
poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form
dict.thefreelibrary.com /Versify   (136 words)

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