However, the Greek Bible can ultimately be understood as responding to the struggles that the Hebrew Bible has with the meaning of God's covenant promise of land for his people. ... The Greek Bible, in turn, enacts this recasting through the repetition of type scenes from the Hebrew Bible in the Greek Bible. Thus, the writings in the Greek Bible are responding to the covenant problem in the Hebrew Bible by taking what was rooted in the physical and moving it to the metaphysical, which ultimately culminates in the Hebrew Bible's promise of physical land becoming a promise of a metaphy...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I hope to show many of the individual beliefs that are held by the different denominations, and to go back to the Bible and show what it has to say concerning baptism. The point is not to distinguish who is right and who is wrong, but to make people think about what they have been taught in their denomination, and to compare it to what the Bible has to say on the matter. ... Here we have our requirements ...

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• Approx Pages: 36
• Grade Level: High School

This is seen throughout the Bible, as both Old and New Testament outline eternal security with respect to God's power. ... The Bible often speaks of believers (the church) being the bride of Christ. ... If this were the case, the Bible would be contradicting itself. ... This viewpoint is supported by three main points from scripture; "the Bible has salvation described through use of conditional terms, the Bible warns believers not to fall away from God, and the Bible identifies certain peo...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The Bible How do we as evangelicals treat the Bible today? ... The New Bible Commentary Edited by our very own D.A. ... Don't tell me that Bible versions don't matter. ... If it wasn't found in the Bible it wasn't Authoritative. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

No parable of Jesus has been used or quoted more than that of "The Prodigal Son-. The impact and the effect that this story has had on the lives of people who have heard it are tremendous. J.E. Compton says, "the greatest of all His [Jesus'] parables."" We as human beings have always struggled wit...

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• Grade Level: High School

God's Covenants: A Biblical Perspective Introduction The Bible is the story of mankind and his relationship with God. Beginning with Adam's failure to comply with the Lord's command to not eat of the tree of knowledge, up to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, man sought to regain the open fell...

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This essay is concerned with Martin Luther (1483-1546), and his concept of Christianity. Luther began his ecclesiastical career as an Augustinian Monk in the Roman Catholic Church. Consequently, Luther was initially loyal to the papacy, and even after many theological conflicts, he attempted to bring about his reconciliation with the Church. But this was a paradox not to endure because in his later years, Luther waged a continual battle with the papacy. Luther was to become a professor of biblical exegesis at Wittenberg where, in 1957, he posted his critique of the Roman Catholic Church's...

• Word Count: 2769
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School