... At the time of the passage, Moses' influence and the Exodus would have loomed large – as it does throughout the Old Testament.
Mark 7:10, 12:19. There are many places where the Torah is ascribe ...
... g the many ways of dividing them up: is there any best way?
What ways are useful in which contexts ie where would you use some of the ways of dividing up the bible?
Which material in the New Testame ...
... o the new Testament which defines what we should and shouldn't do. I attempted to find a direct command to worship. I found it very difficult. The nearest I came to it was a quote from Hebrews which says:
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... New Testament Church's identity, reason for being and mission was the great commission (Mt 28:19f). It was the final thing that Jesus entrusted to the fledgling church.
Are we carrying out the grea ...
... o things.
I find it fascinating that the greatest missionary impetus of the New Testament, was not planned by a Church board. Rather it was the equivalent of one of our small groups who decided to s ...
... ith their large numbers, emotive community singing were very conducive to a response to evangelism. It has been suggested that the Calvinists realized from the New Testament that no techniques could produce ...
... g was interrupted, it should not be construed that he was un- educated. By 16 he was reading the Greek New Testament and had done significant work in Latin. George lived in an environment that could on ...
Texts Today and Yesterday
- Old testament was written in a mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic. New Testament was written in Koine Greek ie the patois greek of the day
- Some greek shows signs of having ...
New Testament Religious Movements
- Sadducees were connected with the ruling class of the temple.
- they thus disappeared with the temple in 70AD
- the name is to be related to Zadok the High ...
Leadership transition
- There are marked changes in leadership structure in the old and new testaments
- The patriarchs were head of households and this leadership structure extended into Egypt ...
... he large part of the Old Testament from the Jews.
- It is clear that the first books to be considered canon - officially or otherwise were the pentateuch.
- note as soon as they got this status then redact ...
... f Daniel ie the writer lied about who he was
- The New Testament calls the pentateuch the books of Moses - common name? content Moses? Plain wrong?
- accuracy of verbal traditions
- conflicting verb ...
... the old and new testaments as illustrations of God's relationship with his people as well as the relationship between leaders and followers among God's people
- crafts included carpentry - the making ...
... and crafted by the church of the new covenant in an attempt to meet the requirements of that covenant. One of the reasons why the governance structures in the New Testament church appear to change betwee ...
... hat are limited to the time they addressed. I don't expect that the Christian church will return to a full sacrificial system. However the Old Testament sacrificial system has many insights to offer int ...
... I believe that this passage is a statement of what the New Testament church believed their calling to be as they journeyed the original words in God. I don't believe that the pretty poetry came from Jes ...
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Gifts and ministry labels identified in the New Testament are not exhaustive. Other gifts and other ministries are equally possible.
The Church exists only to achieve the vision and mission that Go ...
... of New Testament leadership to realize that practically all the churches and the majority of the Christians are young and immature. Taking many of the examples, from Paul yelling at the Galatians to Pe ...
'Elder' in the Old Testament and New Testament
In many christian traditions, the role of elder is central to the general governance of the church. Different traditions have different understandings o ...