This Sunday’s gospel (Luke 1:1-4; 4:12-21) lays down the New Testament fulfillment of the jubilee year which was first commanded by God in the Old Testament (Le ...
Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament ... This lays the ground work for the revelation of Jesus Christ about the sacrament of reconciliation. But let us now begin to repent ...
He seeks to destroy humanity and is the adversary of Jesus, through whom God intends to deliver humanity from evil. Satan is a title or role in the Old Testament, not a proper name. In the New ...
We also know Jesus is the lamb without blemish ... In our study of the faith, we can never, ever do away with the Old Testament. In studying the New Testament we must remember the words of ...
They appear even in the oldest books of the Old Testament. Parables were often used by Jewish rabbis who were contemporaries of Jesus. A famous and quite ancient Old Testament example is the ...
The term “Old Testament” is a loaded one since it assumes ... was used by both Jewish and non-Jewish participants in the Jesus movement as it first began to spread beyond Palestine.
"the books," an expression Hellenistic Jews used to describe their sacred books several centuries before the time of Jesus. Christians adopted the phrase "Old Testament" to refer to these sacred ...
Thanks for joining our study. This leadership topic will be a two-week series, today with the Old Testament and, next week, the New Testament. The topic was selected for reflection in accordance ...