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[52] [53] The Bible usually uses the name of God in the singular (e.g., Exodus 20:7 [54] or Psalms 8:1), [55] generally using the terms in a very general sense rather than referring to any special designation of God. [56] However, general references to the name of God may branch to other special forms which express his multifaceted attributes. [56]
Homoousion (/ ˌ h ɒ m oʊ ˈ uː s i ɒ n, ˌ h oʊ m-/ HO(H)M-oh-OO-see-on; Ancient Greek: ὁμοούσιον, lit. 'same in being, same in essence', from ὁμός, homós, "same" and οὐσία, ousía, "being" or "essence") [1] [2] is a Christian theological term, most notably used in the Nicene Creed for describing Jesus (God the Son) as "same in being" or "same in essence" with God ...
The Hebrew scriptures were an important source for the New Testament authors. [13] There are 27 direct quotations in the Gospel of Mark, 54 in Matthew, 24 in Luke, and 14 in John, and the influence of the scriptures is vastly increased when allusions and echoes are included, [14] with half of Mark's gospel being made up of allusions to and citations of the scriptures. [15]
Immanuel – "God with us," is a Biblical concept that deals with the concept of divine presence, often used by Christians as a title for Jesus; Incarnation (Christianity) – Believed of the second person of the Trinity, also known as God the Son or the Logos (Word), who "became flesh" by being conceived in the womb of Mary.
1911: "and [a] God was the word" – The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect, by George William Horner. [17] 1924: "the Logos was divine" – The Bible: James Moffatt Translation, by James Moffatt. [18] 1935: "and the Word was divine" – The Bible: An American Translation, by John M. P. Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed ...
The Tetragrammaton YHWH, the name of God written in the Hebrew alphabet, All Saints Church, Nyköping, Sweden Names of God at John Knox House: "θεός, DEUS, GOD.". The Bible usually uses the name of God in the singular (e.g. Ex. 20:7 or Ps. 8:1), generally using the terms in a very general sense rather than referring to any special designation of God. [1]
John 3:16 is the sixteenth verse in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, one of the four gospels in the New Testament.It is one of the most popular verses from the Bible and is a summary of one of Christianity's central doctrines—the relationship between the Father (God) and the Son of God (Jesus).
Verses 1-11 report the call of Jesus' first disciples.Jesus arrives at the Lake of Gennesaret, or Sea of Galilee.Biblical scholar William Smith suggests that "there was a beautiful and fertile plain called 'Gennesaret'" at the northwestern angle of the Sea of Galilee, and "from that was derived the name of 'Lake of Gennesaret'" used by Luke in Luke 5:1. [3]