Nativity: the Christmas Story, Which You Have Never Heard BeforeAuthorHouse, 2 nov 2007 - 372 pagine Sometimes reading like a historical novel, or a forensics detective story, a melodrama, or a scientific adventure, Nativity takes the reader on a fast, awesome ride of discovery into the real history and real people behind the birth of Christ. Nativity is the ideal reference for pastors, students, and laymen, combining scholarly depth and reliability in a popular writing style easily accessible to all with references for independent study. New elements of meaning and relevance to the Nativity Scientific evidence virgin births occur as often as identical twins but Jesus was one of a kind The life and death drama behind Joseph and Mary rarely told The real events of Bethlehem and Nazareth Herod amazing genius whose architecture excelled Rome, and kept his murdered wife in a jar of honey! Was Jesus incarnated from the time of the Fall? Is the Christmas tree a pagan idol or a biblical image of the Tree of Life? While vigorously defending the traditional faith, Richard Racy gives new insights and new theological perspectives guaranteed to inform and provoke while entertaining in a major new work on the birth of Jesus Christ. A revealing and thought-provoking new book that truly tells us the Christmas story, which we have never heard before! |
Dall'interno del libro
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Pagina 4
... Egypt, I Called My Son.” Chapter 11: The Date of Jesus' Birth Introduction: The Rubik's Cube Syndrome First, the Basics Gabriel's Annunciation to Zacharias The Decree of Augustus The Shepherds The Death of Herod the Great Three Eclipses ...
... Egypt, I Called My Son.” Chapter 11: The Date of Jesus' Birth Introduction: The Rubik's Cube Syndrome First, the Basics Gabriel's Annunciation to Zacharias The Decree of Augustus The Shepherds The Death of Herod the Great Three Eclipses ...
Pagina 35
... Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod... But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those ...
... Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod... But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those ...
Pagina 38
... Egypt under Cleopatra, and the great library at Caesarea built by Herod was second only to that in Alexandria, and it too was lost. Also, all the histories of that era have not survived, and all those that have are not intact ...
... Egypt under Cleopatra, and the great library at Caesarea built by Herod was second only to that in Alexandria, and it too was lost. Also, all the histories of that era have not survived, and all those that have are not intact ...
Pagina 39
... Egypt. When Herod died, an angel directed Joseph to take Mary and Jesus back to Israel. However, when they arrived, they discovered that one of Herod's surviving sons, Herod Archelaus, reined over Judea. This too will be discussed in ...
... Egypt. When Herod died, an angel directed Joseph to take Mary and Jesus back to Israel. However, when they arrived, they discovered that one of Herod's surviving sons, Herod Archelaus, reined over Judea. This too will be discussed in ...
Pagina 43
... Egypt. This might mean that Luke placed Jesus' birth nearly ten years after Matthew says it occurred if the 4 BC date for Herod's death holds up. The issue arising from this reference to Quirinius challenges biblical reliability and ...
... Egypt. This might mean that Luke placed Jesus' birth nearly ten years after Matthew says it occurred if the 4 BC date for Herod's death holds up. The issue arising from this reference to Quirinius challenges biblical reliability and ...
Sommario
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THE PERSONAL JOURNEYS | 195 |
THEOLOGY | 223 |
NATIVITY SCRIPTURES CHRONOLOGICALLYTHE SCRIPTURES | 296 |
SUPPORT MATERIAL QUIRINIUS | 303 |
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL FOR THE INCARNATION | 312 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 319 |
ENDNOTES | 344 |
BACK COVER | 369 |
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Pagina 247 - How can this be, since I have no husband?' And the angel said to her. The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
Pagina 78 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Pagina 167 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Pagina 296 - He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David ; and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever ; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Pagina 219 - He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts, he has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of low degree; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.
Pagina 34 - AND when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Pagina 298 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying^ Where is he that is born King of the Jews ? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Pagina 198 - Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
Pagina 299 - When they had heard the king, they departed; and lo, the star which they saw in the east went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.