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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... King James Version®. Copyright© 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. © 2008 Richard R. Racy. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by ...
... King James Version®. Copyright© 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. © 2008 Richard R. Racy. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by ...
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... King!'” 85 Circumcision in the Temple 87 Prophetic Witness: Simeon & Anna 88 Chapter 6: Between Malachi and Matthew 92 Why Intertestamentary History? 92 New World Order: Alexander & the Greeks 95 The Abomination of Desolation: The Rise ...
... King!'” 85 Circumcision in the Temple 87 Prophetic Witness: Simeon & Anna 88 Chapter 6: Between Malachi and Matthew 92 Why Intertestamentary History? 92 New World Order: Alexander & the Greeks 95 The Abomination of Desolation: The Rise ...
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... King They Don't Talk about in Sunday School ”I'd Be Safer in Herod's Court as a Pig Than as His Son!” Chapter 8: The Wise Men and the Star of Bethlehem: The Magi Introduction The Magi Caspar, Melchior, Balthazar—& Liu Shang? Were the ...
... King They Don't Talk about in Sunday School ”I'd Be Safer in Herod's Court as a Pig Than as His Son!” Chapter 8: The Wise Men and the Star of Bethlehem: The Magi Introduction The Magi Caspar, Melchior, Balthazar—& Liu Shang? Were the ...
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... that foretold of him, because the Christian's full appreciation of the era of Jesus' birth and even His birth date has been severely hampered by not knowing nearly enough about this amazing, brilliant, and psychotic king who has 10.
... that foretold of him, because the Christian's full appreciation of the era of Jesus' birth and even His birth date has been severely hampered by not knowing nearly enough about this amazing, brilliant, and psychotic king who has 10.
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Richard R. Racy. enough about this amazing, brilliant, and psychotic king who has been reduced to a cardboard caricature villain in most of our minds. The story of Herod will bring us to the Magi and the Star—and a final resolution of ...
Richard R. Racy. enough about this amazing, brilliant, and psychotic king who has been reduced to a cardboard caricature villain in most of our minds. The story of Herod will bring us to the Magi and the Star—and a final resolution of ...
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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.