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The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus. It includes four ancient biographies of Jesus (called Gospels), an ancient history of the early Christians (the book of Acts), early letters (epistles) written by Christian leaders, and Christian prophecies (the Apocalypse, also called the book of Revelation). In recent times, the term New Covenant is also used by some ...

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In the context of the New Testament, the name typically refers to one of the following: Gospel of John John the Baptist John the Apostle, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. John the Evangelist, to whom the Gospel of John is attributed, often along with 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Revelation. He was traditionally identified with the apostle, but today most scholars doubt this identification. There are a great many other histori ...

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In the New Testament, Jezebel is a prophetess in the city of Thyatira. She is accused in Revelation 2:20 of inducing members of the church there to commit acts of sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Some authorities suggest that the author here uses the name Jezebel as a nickname, knowing that readers in Thyatira would know who was being referred to, and would also know of the ...

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The word "faith", translated from the Greek πιστις (pi´stis), primarily conveys the thought of confidence, trust, firm persuasion. Depending on the context, the Greek word may also be understood to mean "faithfulness" or "fidelity".-1Th 3:7; Tit 2:10. Commenting on the function of faith in relation to the covenant of God, the writer of the letter to the Hebrews says, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."(Heb 11:1 ESV). Υποστασις (hy-po´sta-sis) ...

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Son of man - Matthew. Son of man - Mark. Son of man - Luke. Son of man - John. Son of man - Acts. Son of man - Hebrews. Son of man - Revelation. ...

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List of Biblical figures - Christian Apostles of Jesus. Peter Andrew (Simon's brother) James son of Zebedee John son of Zebedee (aka John the Evangelist) Philip Bartholomew Thomas Matthew James son of Alphaeus Judas son of James (aka Thaddeus or Judas Lebbaeus) Simon the Canaanite Judas Iscariot (the traitor) ...

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List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Magi. Names: Balthasar, Melchior, and Caspar (or Gaspar) Source: European folklore Names: Hor, Basanater, and Karsudan Source: The Book of Adam, an apocryphal Ethiopian text Names: Larvandad, Hormisdas, and Gushnasaph Source: Syrian Christ ...

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All Christian groups respect the New Testament, but they differ in their understanding of the nature, extent, and relevance of its authority. Views of the authoritativeness of the New Testament often depend on the concept of inspiration, which relates to the role of God in the formation of the New Testament. Generally, the greater the role of God in one's doctrine of inspiration, the more one accepts the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy and/or authoritativeness of the Bible. One possible source of confusion is that these terms are diffi ...

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Babylon occurs in the Christian New Testament both with a literal and a figurative meaning. In the time of the New Testament, there was probably no Christian community in the actual city of Babylon. In the Book of Revelation, the city of Babylon seems to be the symbol of every kind of evil. In the Rastafari movement, Babylon refers to the oppressive power structure that adherents believe has been responsible for keeping their people poor and oppressed for generations. Babylon New Testament - New Testament e ...

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The category of New Testament apocrypha reminds the modern reader of the wide range of responses that were engendered in interpreting the message of Jesus of Nazareth during the first several centuries of the Common Era, as mainstream Christianity emerged. Obedient Christians were warned away from these works now termed apocryphal, many of which were vigorously suppressed and survive only as fragments. In the process of determining the Biblical canon, a large number of works were excluded from the New Testament. These New Te ...

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The Old Testament or the Hebrew Scriptures (also called the Hebrew Bible) constitutes the first major part of the Bible according to Christianity. It is usually divided into the categories of law, history, poetry (or wisdom books) and prophecy. All of these books were written before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth who is the subject of the subsequent Christian New Testament. The Bible of Jesus is the Old Testament, specifically according to the Gospel of Luke 24:44 "written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in ...

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New Jerusalem is the concept of Jerusalem (in the definite or indefinite sense) as being renewed or rebuilt, either in the present day or in the future, either at the Temple Mount or in a different location. Definitions of "New Jerusalem" differ from theology to theology. New Jerusalem - New Jerusalem in the New Testament. In the New Testament, the term New Jerusalem occurs two times: verses 3:12 and 21:2 in the Book of Revelation. It is mentioned in 21:16 as being 12,000 stadia by 12,000 stadia at t ...

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Herod Antipas (short for Antipatros) was an ancient leader (tetrarch, meaning "ruler of a quarter") of Galilee and Perea. Born in 20 BC, Antipas was a son of Herod the Great, who had become king of Israel; and Malthace, who was from Samaria. He and full-brother Archelaus and his half-brother Herod Philip were educated in Rome, as kind of a friendly hostage situation in order to maintain Herod the Great's compliance with Augustus Caesar. (Herod the Great was also notorious for killing family members, having killed his old ...

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An alphabetical list of people featured in the Bible. (Note, the Torah or "Old Testament" of Judaism is the source of the Bible. Judaism does not accept the New Testament of Christianity.) List of Biblical figures - Names. List of Biblical figures - New Testament. Agabus Agrippa I, called "Herod" in Acts of the Apostles Andrew Anna Apollos Aquila Barnabas Bartholomew Caiaphas Dionysius the Areopagite ...

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Note: Tanach quotes are from the Judaica press Tanach.New Testament quotes from the Bible in this article are from the King James Version. 'Gehenna' is a word tracing to Greek, ultimately from Hebrew Gai-Ben-Hinnom meaning Valley of the Son of Hinnom], and is still called Gai Ben Hinnom in Modern Hebrew (גיא בן הינום) ...

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In Greek mythology, Tartarus, or Tartaros, is both a deity and a place in the underworld — even lower than Hades. In ancient orphic sources and in the mystery schools Tartaros is also the unbounded first-existing "thing" from which the Light and the cosmos is born. The Greek poet Hesiod asserts that a bronze anvil falling from heaven would fall 9 days before it reached the Earth. The anvil would take 9 more days to fall from Earth to Tartarus. In The Iliad, Jove asserts that Tartarus is "as far beneath Hades as heaven ...

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New Testament.

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