Nativity: the Christmas Story, Which You Have Never Heard BeforeAuthorHouse, 02/11/2007 - 372 من الصفحات 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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... Betrothal and Divorce 24 Sword in Joseph's Heart 30 The Fire of Love & Integrity 32 Chapter 3: Augustus' Decree and the Question of Quirinius 35 Controversy: Inerrancy vs. History 35 Matthew & Luke—Fatal Disagreement? 39 The Decree of ...
... Betrothal and Divorce 24 Sword in Joseph's Heart 30 The Fire of Love & Integrity 32 Chapter 3: Augustus' Decree and the Question of Quirinius 35 Controversy: Inerrancy vs. History 35 Matthew & Luke—Fatal Disagreement? 39 The Decree of ...
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... betrothal between Joseph and Mary, or at least a very long one. This actually would have been possible in that era but only under exceptional circumstances. Arranged marriages were frequently made early either by parents who wanted ...
... betrothal between Joseph and Mary, or at least a very long one. This actually would have been possible in that era but only under exceptional circumstances. Arranged marriages were frequently made early either by parents who wanted ...
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... betrothal, Joseph's near-termination of their relationship, their marriage, their dealing with the world around them. It might be asked why we need to be so inquisitive. There are at least three reasons. First, if we are going to base ...
... betrothal, Joseph's near-termination of their relationship, their marriage, their dealing with the world around them. It might be asked why we need to be so inquisitive. There are at least three reasons. First, if we are going to base ...
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... betrothal. Unlike the modern American experience in which engagement and weddings are entirely personal even among minorities that retain old traditions and also within church denominations, Jewish marriage in biblical times was tightly ...
... betrothal. Unlike the modern American experience in which engagement and weddings are entirely personal even among minorities that retain old traditions and also within church denominations, Jewish marriage in biblical times was tightly ...
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... betrothed to a man acceptable to all. God even uses the wait for the maturing of a young woman as a metaphor for His waiting for the national maturity of Israel to be ready for metaphysical marriage to Himself in covenant (Ezek. 16:7-8) ...
... betrothed to a man acceptable to all. God even uses the wait for the maturing of a young woman as a metaphor for His waiting for the national maturity of Israel to be ready for metaphysical marriage to Himself in covenant (Ezek. 16:7-8) ...
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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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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 198 - Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
الصفحة 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.