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Catholic and Orthodox Churches both receive these books as canonical:
Tobit, Judith, parts of Esther, 1& 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, parts of Daniel.
Protestants reject these as non-canonical. Protestant rejection runs deep enough to exclude these books and parts of books from their...
One's personal end may be nigh or not depending on your state of health, age, and happenstance.
The end of this age and all that goes with it may be nigh or not and we simply do not know as Jesus indicated when he said
John 1:1-3 doesn't say that the Word came to earth. That is said in John 1:14.
John 1:1-5 tells the reader that the Word is God and that the Word created everything that was created. The verses also say that Life was in him and that Life was the Light of humanity.
In the New Testament, the word basileia can be translated as "kingship" (abstract noun), "kingdom" (concrete noun) or "reign" (action noun). the Kingdom of God lies ahead of us. It is brought near in the Word incarnate, it is proclaimed throughout the whole Gospel, and it has come in Christ's...
I forgot to mention the business-like activities that elders must perform.
Elders are members of the chair of the following bodies:
Parish council
finance committee
scripture studies
school councils for the parish
administrator with secretarial helpers of the parish's assets
coordinator for...
Titus 2:13 waiting in hope for the blessing which will come with the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Christ Jesus.
This verse is translated according to the Granville Sharp rule. That rule was mentioned in the thread about 2 Peter 1:1-2.
So is Jesus the great God and...
I think that the explanation given is incorrect. The reasoning appears to assume that Jesus and the Father are two independent beings, one being the greater (the Father, who is identified as God) and the other being the lesser (the Son, that is to say, Jesus). A better explanation is this, given...
There is evidence that the Clement of the letters is the clement mentioned in Saint Paul's letters. But many modern scholars disagree. The letters are not canonical scripture yet have had importance as a source of information about the state of the Church in Rome and the Church in Corinth in...