Repentance of Both the Mind and Soul
Jesus Says Repent The Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand
Faith is More Than Knowing Stuff About Jesus
Jesus Says Repent The Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand
Faith is More Than Knowing Stuff About Jesus
God the Father Almighty, and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord, who was born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary; Crucified under Pontius Pilate, and buried; the third day He rose from the dead;
He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father, from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
And in the Holy Spirit; the holy Church; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; the life everlasting.
See also 'Creeds of the Churches', Revised Edition, Edited by John H. Leith, John Knox Press, 1973. P. 1-33
Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a vast throng, like the roar of many waters and like loud crashes of thunder. They were shouting: For the Lord our God, the All-Powerful, reigns!
7 Let us rejoice and exult and give him glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
8 She was permitted to be dressed in bright, clean, fine linen” (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).
9 Then the angel said to me, “Write the following: Blessed are those who are invited to the banquet at the wedding celebration of the Lamb!” He also said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
10 So I threw myself down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “Do not do this! I am only a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
Roman — Latin
For many centuries in Western Europe, no matter what you spoke, this was the only language kind allowed to be used for the bible, and you might not have been allowed to read it even. The Apostles' Creed written in Latin…
(Enhanced form of —
vatican.va/archive/ catechism_lt/ p1s1c3a2_lt.htm)
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Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem,
et in Iesum Christum, Filium Eius unicum, Dominum nostrum,
qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine,
passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus,
descendit ad ínferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis,
ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Patris,
inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos.
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum,
sanctam Ecclesiam,
remissionem peccatorum,
carnis resurrectionem,
vitam aeternam.
Greek
The Apostles' Creed, written in the kind of language, and a similar text style, to that which the Bible's New Testament was originally written in.…
http://www.creeds.net/ancient/apostles.htm
Πιστεύω εις Θεον Πατερα, παντοκράτορα.
Και (εις) `Ιησουν Χριστον, υίον αυτου τον μονογενη, τον κύριον ήμων,
τον συλληφθέντα εκ πνεύματοσ άγίου, γεννηθέντα εκ Μαρίας της παρθένου,
παθόντα επι Ποντίου Πιλάτου, σταυρωθέντα, θανόντα, και ταφέντα,
κατελθόντα εις τα κατώτατα, τη τρίτη `ημέρα `αναστάντα `απο των νεκρων,
`ανελθόντα εις τους ουρανούς, καθεζόμενον εν δεξια θεου πατρος παντο δυνάμου,
εκειθεν ερχόμενον κρϊναι ζωντας και νεκρούς.
Πιστεύω εις το Πνυμα το `Αγιον,
αγίαν εκκλησίαν, άφεσιν αμαρτιων, σαρκος ανάστασιν, ξωήν αιώνιον. Αμήν.
http://www.reformed.org/documents/apostles_creed_orr.html
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T he God-head is three persons—one God, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. God has made this evident since the most ancient of times, and it is utterly shown in the Life and Person of Jesus Christ. A short hand name from before 170 AD is the “Holy Trinity”. The Lord Jesus says that the Father is greater than all. More Information
The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.
2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
3 He said, “My Lord, if I have found favour in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.
After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming on him.
17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
7 rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
9 For in him all the fullness of deity * Godhead (9) lives in bodily form,
10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
11 In him you also were circumcised — not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.
12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
OLB Strongs 2304 θεος, α, ον theios thi'-os
from 2316; TDNT-3:122,322; adj
AV-divine 2, Godhead 1; 3
1) A general name of deities or divinities as used by the Greeks
2) Spoken of the only and true God, trinity
2a) of Christ
2b) Holy Spirit
2c) the Father
Theophilus of Antioch wrote by 170 AD using the word Trinity to describe God. The word was evidently in common usage, much before the so-called Church Councils, or the Roman Catholic Church even came into being.
The word in Greek is Τριάδος, Τριάς — trias, meaning "a set of three" or "the number three".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity#Etymology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_of_Antioch#Trinity
The Scripture
The Bible starts with the first man Adam passing on to his son Shem what God had taught him, including the description of God's creation of everything, the Heavens and the Earth, all life, and Adam himself, and from Adam's body, Eve the first woman, first ancestors of us all.The Old Testament
This is the Old Testament, and describes all mankind falling into sin, death, and Eternal Judgement, while also foretelling the coming of God's Saviour to the human race, the Messiah — Christ.
The New Testament
Here is a portion of the New Testament, from a copy of Paul's letter to the Christians living in a city called Corinth.
It is from Papyrus 46 held by Michigan University, the reading covers 2 Corinthians 11:33-12:9, and the copy is dated to about 175 AD (Anno Domini — short for Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi• “ In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ ” — 175 years after the birth of the Lord Jesus). This is one of the oldest, amazingly still existing, pieces of a copy of the New Testament, that has been re-discovered so far.
Transcription (the bracketed portions are illegible or missing and are not necessarily attested by P46):
ενσαργανηεχαλασθηνδιατουτειχουσ
καιεξεφυγοντασχειρασαυτουκαυχασ
θαιδειουσυμφερονμ[ε]νελευσομαιδε
εισοπτασιασκαιαποκαλυψεισκυοιδα
ανθρωπονενχωπροετωνδεκατεσσαρων
θιτεενσωματιουκοιδαειτεεκτοστουσω
ματοσουκοιδαοθσοιδεναρπαγεντατον
τοιουτονεωστριτουουρανουκαιοιδατον
τοιουτονανθρωπονειτεενσωματιειτε
χωριστουσωματοσουκοιδαοθσοιδενοτι
ηρπαγηεισυονπαραδεισονκαιηκουσεν
αρρηταρηματααουκεξονανθρωπωλα
λησαιυπερτουτοιουτουκαυχησομαιυπερ
δεεμαυτουουδενκαυχησομαιειμηενταις
ασθενειαισεανγαρθελωκαυχησομαι
ουκεσομαιαφρωναληθειανγαρερω
φειδομαιδεμητισεμελογισηταιυπερ
οβλεπειμεηακουειτιεξεμουκαιτη
υπερβολητωναποκαλυψεωνιναμη
υπεραιρωμαιεδοθημοισκολοψτησαρκι
αγγελοσσαταναιναμεκολαφιζηινα[μη]
υπεραιρωμαιυπερτουτουτρις[τονκυριον]
παρεκαλεσαινααποστηα[πεμουκαιει]
ρηκενμοιαρκεισοιηχα[ρισμουηγαρ]
δυναμισ[ενασθενειατελειταιηδισταουν]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P46.jpg
P.Mich.inv. 6238 © Michigan University
Van Haelst 0497; Aland, Repertorium, I, 0105, NT 46; LDAB 3011; for literature, see K. Aland, Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri (1976), I, pp. 42-44.
But [I was let down] in a rope-basket [through a window] in the city wall, and escaped his hands.
1 It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)
4 was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.
5 On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.
6 For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,
7 even because of the extraordinary character of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not become arrogant, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to trouble me — so that I would not become arrogant.
8 I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.
9 But he said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power [is made perfect in weakness.” So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.]
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