http://biblesurvey.net Free Online Diploma Courses On Bible, Theology, and Bible Books!! Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:00:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We may divide those of Luke's into five parts: I. The Advent of the Divine Man, 1 :-4:13. After stating his aim the evangelist describes the announcement from heaven of the forerunner, John the Baptist, and of Christ himself, and their birth with the attendant ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=507 The Gospels have a literary character all their own; they are sui generis. There is not another book or group of books in the Bible to which they can be compared. They are four and yet one in a very essential sense; they express four sides of the one euvaggelion ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=506 Some who admit the inspiration of the prophets, do not believe the apostles were also inspired, because in their case they do not hear the familiar formula "thus saith the Lord," nor behold the characteristic phenomena that accompanied the inspiration of the prophets. They do not distinguish between different kinds ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=505 Now if we bear these things in mind, many of the differences between this Gospel and the Synoptics are immediately explained. The aim of John being what it is, he naturally speaks of Christ rather than of the Kingdom of God, introduces whatever accentuates the divinity of our Lord, and ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=504 A careful study of the Gospel of John, a study that takes its true character in consideration, does not bear out the contention that several of the differences between the Gospel of John and the Synoptics amount to discrepancies. Neither does it reveal differences that cannot be accounted for in ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=503 II. Differences in respect to the form and contents of our Lord's teaching. a. There is a striking diversity in the form in which the teaching of Jesus is cast. In the Synoptics we have ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=502 After pointing out the remarkable agreement between the synoptic Gospels and referring to some of the attempted explanations of this feature, we must consider the equally striking difference that exists between the Synoptics on the one hand and the Gospel of John on the other. This difference is so great ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=501 I. Differences touching the external course of events in the Lord's ministry. a. According to the Synoptics the principal scene of the Lords activity is Galilee. He repairs to this Northern province soon after the imprisonment of John ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=500 In the second place the hypothesis of oral tradition (Traditions-hypothese, Gieseler, Westcott, Wright), should be mentioned. is theory starts from the supposition that the Gospel existed first of all in an unwritten form. It is assumed that the apostles repeatedly told the story of Christs life, dwelling especially on the ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=499 There are some evident objections to this theory also. The assumption that the lo,gia of Matthew was anything else than the Hebrew or Aramaic original of our Greek Matthew is a baseless supposition; it has no historical foundation whatever. Furthermore the theory offers no explanation of the fact that the ... http://biblesurvey.net/?p=498