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Sacred Name Bibles are Bible translations that consistently use Hebraic forms of the God of Israel 's personal name, instead of its English language translation, in both the Old and New Testaments. [1] [2] Some Bible versions, such as the Jerusalem Bible, employ the name Yahweh, a transliteration of the Hebrew tetragrammaton (YHWH), in the ...
— Genesis 2:19 (with notes added) In 1 Corinthians 15:45 (KJV), soul [ psūchê ] is defined based on an interpretation of Old Testament text; “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul [ psūchê ] ; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”( 1 Corinthians 15:45 )
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity. [1] The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew generic word for god) creates the heavens and the Earth in six days, then rests on, blesses, and sanctifies ...
The New Revised Standard Version ( NRSV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1989 by the National Council of Churches, [8] the NRSV was created by an ecumenical committee of scholars "comprising about thirty members". [9] The NRSV relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and ...
Nicolaism (also called Nicholaism, Nicolaitism, Nicolationism or Nicolaitanism) was an early Christian sect mentioned twice in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. The adherents were called Nicolaitans, Nicolaitanes, or Nicolaites. They were considered heretical by the mainstream early Christian Church.
The Book of Genesis (from Greek Γένεσις, Génesis; Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [ 1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ( 'In the beginning' ). Genesis is ...
The fig tree is the third tree to be mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible.The first is the Tree of life and the second is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve used the leaves of the fig tree to sew garments for themselves after they ate the "fruit of the Tree of knowledge" (Genesis 2:16–17), when they realized that they were naked (Genesis 3:7).
[15] The biblical bases for original sin are generally found in the following passages, the first and last of which explain why the sin is described as "original": Genesis 3, the story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden; [16] Psalm 51:5, "I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me"; [17]