To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Form-criticism has made an end of the false notion, which for a long time dominated critical scholarship, that it was possible throughout the gospels to distill from them a 'Life of Jesus' that would be free from dogmatic presuppositions and not affected.
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.
It is now almost certain that the genealogies in both Gospels are genealogies of Joseph, which if we may rely on early traditions of their consanguinity involve genealogies of Mary also. The Davidic descent of Mary is implied in Acts 230 1323 Rom. 13
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt from these documents in the course of my long task, I will say nothing now. Only this, that they bear the seal of the Son of Man and God, they are the Magna Charta of the human spirit. Were we to devote to their comprehension a little of the selfless enthusiasm that is now expended on the riddle of our physical surroundings, we would cease to say that Christianity is coming to an end we might even feel that it had only just begun.
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book.
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
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