Imagine walking through life without the Holy Spirit. No inner guide. No advocate. No quiet voice in your spirit convicting ...

Their next section inventories the “dark side of the Bible,” detailing numerous Old Testament texts that present an un-Christlike picture of God and proposing a grand theological explanation for how ...

Texts like Matthew 1 or Luke 16 are everywhere in the New Testament and no doubt give rise to well-meaning statements like: “You can’t understand the New Testament without the Old Testament ...

Editor’s note: Columns in the Faith section reflect opinions and perspectives of the writer and are not necessarily those of The Republic. A friend recently asked me why God in the Old Testament ...

OLD TESTAMENT Noah's Liberty Ship What did history's most famous boat look like? ... Essentially, his version is a long bar whose cross section is shaped like a diamond.

Divisions of the Bible. The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order ...

What Christians call the Old Testament and Jews call the Torah is a very old collection of texts. Its final formulation in writing dates back to between 450 and 250 BCE, but its origins in oral ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...

The Old Testament considers children an evidence of God’s blessing: “And God blessed them, and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: In Konstantin Flavitsky’s vivid 1855 painting, we witness the moment Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery — a scene from Genesis 37 that not only reveals family ...

Risk of ‘wrathful Old Testament–style’ reaction from central banks is rising, JPMorgan says Last Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 4:12 p.m. ET First Published: Feb. 27, 2023 at 12:13 p.m. ET Share ...