THOMAS: The righteousness that Abraham had was by faith. It is the same justifying righteousness that we ... Reeves brought out in his message (“Hope, Riches, and Power”) that the content is faith in ...
Jesus understood this, of course, and he did not hesitate to criticize the Jews for failing to live up to their high calling. As he put it to them, I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you ...
[John 8:58-59; NAB] Jesus claims to have existed also before Abraham - something impossible ... statement in John 8:58 is best understood in connection with Exodus 3:14. In Exodus God reveals ...
The story reads more like a mother with children in tow. The Davidic dynasty Another interesting clue is in the genealogy of Jesus. In his Gospel, Matthew records the ancestry of Joseph down the royal ...
Did Jesus love the adulteress and the prostitute? Absolutely. There are two remarkable stories showing how Jesus cared for all types of people. The religious folks called the Pharisees in the time of ...
In Genesis 12, God says to Abraham that in him, in his seed, the nations are going to be blessed. And when Paul picks that up, he sees that fulfilled in Jesus Christ. So, is the Abrahamic covenant ...
In Islamic tradition, Jibril is also believed to have delivered messages to earlier prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, the prophet Moses and Jesus. His function as a messenger spans all ...