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The Gothic Bible or Wulfila Bible is the Christian Bible in the Gothic language spoken by the Eastern Germanic ( Gothic) tribes in the Early Middle Ages. [1] The translation was allegedly made by the Arian bishop and missionary Wulfila in the fourth century. In the late 2010s, scholarly opinion, based on analyzing the linguistic properties of ...
Theophilus / θiˈɒfɪləs / is the name or honorary title of the person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed ( Luke 1:3, Acts 1:1 ). It is thought that both works were written by the same author, and often argued that the two books were originally a single unified work. [1] Both were written in a refined Koine ...
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity. Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...
In the Bible, Melchizedek (/ m ɛ l ˈ k ɪ z ə d ɛ k /; Biblical Hebrew: מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק , romanized: malkī-ṣeḏeq, 'king of righteousness,' 'my king is righteousness,' or ‘my king is Zedek’), also transliterated Melchisedech or Malki Tzedek, was the king of Salem and priest of El Elyon (often translated as 'most high God').
The salamander letter was supposedly written by Martin Harris to W. W. Phelps, an early convert in the Latter Day Saint movement. Harris served for a short period of time as scribe for the translation of the golden plates, and assisted in the financing of the first printing of the Book of Mormon. A joint statement by Harris and two other men ...
e. The Christian doctrine of the Trinity ( Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', from Latin: trinus 'threefold') [1] is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: [2] [3] God the Father, God the Son ( Jesus Christ) and God the ...
Christian pacifism is the theological and ethical position according to which pacifism and non-violence have both a scriptural and rational basis for Christians, and affirms that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith. [1] Christian pacifists state that Jesus himself was a pacifist who taught and practiced pacifism and ...