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    November 27‚ 2012 The Shroud of Turin is Jesus of Nazareth’s Authentic Burial Cloth The Source of the Image Revealed Under the cover of darkness‚ Jesus of Nazareth was arrested and brought to trial before the Jewish authorities. His captors repeatedly punched him in the face and spit on him‚ but that was only the beginning of his suffering. Early in the morning they brought him to Pontius Pilate‚ the Roman installed governor of the Judean Province. Pilate ordered that Jesus be flogged and

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    Book of the Law-the book that was given to Joshua by Moses after before he died so Joshua could follow the laws and be able to get the desired land. Rahab-is a prostitute and house where the two spies from Acacia spend the night. Helped the two spies escape arrest from soldiers of Jericho. Jericho -town that was invaded by Israelites to take over as the land was given by God to Joshua and people from the town of Acacia. Caleb-the son of Jephunneh. Belonged to the Kenaz clan. Joshua gave Hebron

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    BIBL 104 10/13/13 Summary of the books of the New Testament Books Matthew The Book of Matthew is of gospel genre. It is the first book of the New Testament and the first of the four gospels. Matthew is sometime referred to as “The Sermon on the Mount”. Matthew begins with the descent of Jesus. Matthew is a book that was wrote by the Jews for the Jews retelling the story of Jesus’ birth. King Herod orders all male babies ages two and under in Bethlehem and surrounding towns to be killed

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    Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament Danett A. Bourgolly Grand Canyon University Jim Banktson July 5‚ 2009 Module 1 Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament “A history whose basis is divine intervention by providing truth‚ The Old Testament has been in existence for over 2000 years and brought about a radical change to history. In order for one to truly understand a book‚ the author has to have knowledge of or to what he or she is writing about and be able to relay

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    Harris calls Paul “the most influential apostle and missionary of the mid-first-century CE church and author of seven to nine New Testament letters” (H G-33). It would be quite an accolade to receive such recognition‚ but what makes it even more remarkable is that Paul‚ or Saul‚ (Saul was his Judean name and Paul was his Roman name (footnotes B 1943)) originally persecuted the ekklesia or “church”. Paul went from persecuting the ekklesia or “church” to being its “most influential apostle and missionary”

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    The gospels of the New Testament are regarded as some of the most sacred and important text in Christianity. They are included: Mark‚ Matthew‚ Luke‚ and John. It is accepted that Mark was written first and then Matthew and Luke were written afterward around the same time. They are called the synoptic gospels because they all view the events of Jesus’ life in a similar way. They are very similar however they all have significant differences. Those gospels give important insight into the life‚ death

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    References: Luke‚ 14‚ 2005‚ Catholic Good News Bible‚ 3rd edition‚ UK: The Bible Societies/Harper Charpentier‚ E.‚ 2007‚ How to Read the New Testament‚ 15th edition‚ London: SCM Press

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    Semester Exam Essay I don’t believe either the Biblical Maximalists or Biblical Minimalists are correct; the bible is not completely historically accurate‚ nor is it completely inaccurate. The bible‚ especially Genesis‚ may be based on some historical occurrences‚ but is exaggerated and includes untrue stories. I think stories in Genesis were created‚ based on some historical events to provide explanations to how and why we were created. The explanation couldn’t be disproven at the time‚ but now

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    of the many discoveries made is the presence of miracles. Both Old and New Testament writers record the fact that miracles were part of the biblical record and each miracle was performed for a specific reason. For the purposes of this paper‚ only New Testament examples of miracles will be considered in the search for the meaning behind miracles and miracles performed by false prophets will not be considered. In the study of New Testament miracles‚ it can be seen that their ultimate purpose is to give

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    we need to first understand what atonement means and where the word comes from. McGrath says that the word atonement "can be traced back to 1526‚ when the English writer William Tyndale was confronted with the task of translating the New Testament into English"(McGrath 83). At this time there was not a word for reconciliation in the English language and Tyndale had to come up with a word for it. This word that Tyndale came up with or invented was at-one-ment today know as atonement. McGrath

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