Access to divine life is cut off by man’s choice. Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger ...
The Old Testament contains a record of the pact between ... The pact between God and Abraham was sealed by the circumcision (Genesis 17); the pact between God and the Jewish people, by the ...
I hear people all the time in the context of church say to me, “Well, I believe in the God of the New Testament, it’s the God of the Old Testament that I can’t stomach.” But do you find that this ...
This is not God ordaining things, preparing things, or using things. This is the way in which sins grow and propagate, and we see that happening in the Old Testament and the New Testament as well.
The first five books of the Bible, often referred to as the Pentateuch or Torah, are foundational texts for Judaism and Christianity. They provide instructions for moral and ethical living, and they ...
He regarded the Bible and particularly Genesis of the Old Testament, to which he no doubt refers most of all in his Preface, as the divinely inspired Word of God. It was Luther’s firm belief ...