The copies we have of Old Testament manuscripts do have signs of human error within them. But the question is, Does that lead to despair? Dr. John Meade answers that question with a resounding no.
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 ...
Where was Jesus in the Old Testament? One of the truths that we know about Scripture that Scripture teaches us is that Jesus was active and working even throughout the Old Testament. I want to give ...
This week, we discuss the Old Testament and, next week, the New. I would wager that most people are unaware that Jesus spoke the commonly used phrase, “The truth will set you free.” ...
In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...
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 ...
After much pre-publicity, which I reflected on at the time, The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality within the Biblical Story (Yale University Press) has finally appeared. This enables an end to ...
After Jesus came, lived, died, rose and ascended, He sent the Holy Spirit to empower His followers to tell others about Him (Acts 2). At first, Jesus’s followers told other Jews about Jesus. Then they ...
If you missed last week’s Part One/Old Testament discussion ... One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ ...