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The Canon – Part 12: Apocrypha
By Christian After having taken a look at the apocryphal gospels in the last part of this series, we now want to get an overview of the apocrypha in general. In the following, we will use the term apocrypha to refer to those writings that have not been included in the canon of the New…
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The Canon – Part 11: Is There Only One Gospel?
By Christian Is there only one gospel? If you look at the Greek word from which the German and English word is derived, there is: The Gospel is the good news that God has come to man in Jesus Christ. The word „gospel“ (German Evangelium) means “good news” and comes from the Greek word euangelion.…
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Metamorphosis: How a ‚council of apostles and older men‘ became the channel of God
Von Christian When I was a small child, if I had asked my grandparents who was in the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, they would probably have looked at me in some amazement. But this is only hypothetical, because at that time the term ‘Governing Body’ was hardly used. In fact, in the book Life…
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The Canon – Part 10: Is the Bible ‚the Holy Scripture’ or ‘the Word of God’?
By Christian In the last part of this series I had said that with terms like ‘the Holy Scriptures’ or ‘the Word of God’ some assumptions and ideas are unconsciously linked. At the very least, we should be clear about exactly what we mean by the terms ‘God’s Word’ and ‘the Holy Scriptures’ when we…
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