I t’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

A quick concordance search of “God” in the Common English Bible gives 1,109 hits in the New Testament, but 3,189 in the Old Testament. Those statistics are hardly surprising.

Of course, the Bible was not written in one go, but in fact is a collection of writings, the earliest dating back nearly 3,500 years. The Bible is made up of the Old Testament (otherwise known as ...

All Christians - Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant - agree that the Books in the Bible are the inspired, ... i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament. [A&W, p.33] ...

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 ...

Let’s turn now to the Old Testament, starting with Exodus, where “rock” first appears. The passage below was referenced in the previously cited 1 Corinthians 10:2-4 . But first, some context.

In the Old Testament, four great leaders who were notably appointed by God stand out. In chronological order, Moses was succeeded by Joshua, then approximately 400 years later, King David was ...