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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... means without the written permission of the author. First published by AuthorHouse 9/2/2008 ISBN: 978-1-4343-4081-8 (sc) Library of Congress Control Number: 2007907273 Printed in the United States of America Bloomington, Indiana This ...
... means without the written permission of the author. First published by AuthorHouse 9/2/2008 ISBN: 978-1-4343-4081-8 (sc) Library of Congress Control Number: 2007907273 Printed in the United States of America Bloomington, Indiana This ...
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... mean present or immediately. Combine that with her saying that God “has done great things for me,” indicating an accomplished fact, and it is clear that Mary herself was declaring that she had already entered into the venture, not that ...
... mean present or immediately. Combine that with her saying that God “has done great things for me,” indicating an accomplished fact, and it is clear that Mary herself was declaring that she had already entered into the venture, not that ...
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... meaning, priorities, or application of it, but if it is not the true and trustworthy Word of God given by God Himself (considered in the context of how He was working with men when He gave it), then, its verity is broken. It is just ...
... meaning, priorities, or application of it, but if it is not the true and trustworthy Word of God given by God Himself (considered in the context of how He was working with men when He gave it), then, its verity is broken. It is just ...
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... means literally “one who has received a souvenir,” and by implication, to woo and win; this was something of an idiom for an engagement gift. In modern times, it would mean one who had received an engagement ring; in their time, it ...
... means literally “one who has received a souvenir,” and by implication, to woo and win; this was something of an idiom for an engagement gift. In modern times, it would mean one who had received an engagement ring; in their time, it ...
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... meaning “elevation”) completes the process of marriage. The husband brings the wife into his home and they begin their married life together. In the past, the kiddushin and nisuin would routinely occur as much as a year apart. During ...
... meaning “elevation”) completes the process of marriage. The husband brings the wife into his home and they begin their married life together. In the past, the kiddushin and nisuin would routinely occur as much as a year apart. During ...
المحتوى
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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.