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! |
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Pagina 3
... Angel — Gabriel with Mary and Joseph 23 Introduction 23 Shadow over the Holy Family: Betrothal and Divorce 24 Sword ... Angels Sing,'Glory to the New-Born King!'” 85 Circumcision in the Temple 87 Prophetic Witness: Simeon & Anna 88 ...
... Angel — Gabriel with Mary and Joseph 23 Introduction 23 Shadow over the Holy Family: Betrothal and Divorce 24 Sword ... Angels Sing,'Glory to the New-Born King!'” 85 Circumcision in the Temple 87 Prophetic Witness: Simeon & Anna 88 ...
Pagina 8
... angels manages to touch everyone sometime and make even the hardest heart quiver if only for an instant and the tender heart swell. Why? Answering that question is partly what this book is about. Doing so involves three challenges. The ...
... angels manages to touch everyone sometime and make even the hardest heart quiver if only for an instant and the tender heart swell. Why? Answering that question is partly what this book is about. Doing so involves three challenges. The ...
Pagina 10
... angels has been distorted for centuries in English Bibles, and a proper understanding of what they actually said may be amazing to many modern Christians. Forty-one days after the birth, Jesus was taken for the ritual dedication and ...
... angels has been distorted for centuries in English Bibles, and a proper understanding of what they actually said may be amazing to many modern Christians. Forty-one days after the birth, Jesus was taken for the ritual dedication and ...
Pagina 11
... angel turning it on and off at the right times. Properly understood, the Star is a blazing cosmic testimony of God's sovereignty and Jesus' glory but may challenge the fixed theological notions of at least a few. Once we have the family ...
... angel turning it on and off at the right times. Properly understood, the Star is a blazing cosmic testimony of God's sovereignty and Jesus' glory but may challenge the fixed theological notions of at least a few. Once we have the family ...
Pagina 15
... horses over an old dirt The Old Priest & the Angel: Zacharias and Gabriel The story of Jesus' birth begins with the birth of His cousin, John the Baptist. Old Zacharias must have been a little nervous that 15 ENTER GABRIEL—THE STORY BEGINS.
... horses over an old dirt The Old Priest & the Angel: Zacharias and Gabriel The story of Jesus' birth begins with the birth of His cousin, John the Baptist. Old Zacharias must have been a little nervous that 15 ENTER GABRIEL—THE STORY BEGINS.
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.