New Testament

Jesus explained the parables to the disciples privately to provide them with deeper spiritual insights and understanding that the broader crowd might not grasp. This selective revelation emphasized the importance of faith and the willingness to seek deeper truths. Additionally, it allowed the disciples to grow in their understanding and prepare them for their future roles in spreading Jesus' teachings. The use of parables also served to provoke thought and reflection among listeners, while maintaining a level of mystery for those not truly seeking to understand.

According to the Bible mankind was created to live on earth.

when Adam and Eve no longer lived up to God's requirements, that is when death was spoken of for the first time.

Genesis 3: 19 shows that they returned to dust, the place where they were taken from. Read Genesis 2: 7.

However 2'000 years ago, God sent his only precious Son to redeem the human race from the curse of sin and death and to undo the damage caused by Satan.

John 5: 28,29 talks about the ressurrection which is part of God's solution for mankind. ...

The question is : How will we be remembered by Him

Nevertheless the Bible speaks about a little flock that will rule with Jesus Christ in heaven. Read Luke 12: 32 the number is 144'000 sealed according to Revelation 7: 4-8

So to answer your question which is: Where does it say that when you die you go to heaven?

The Bible teaches about the ressurrection on earth. And about 144'000 chosen ones to reigne with Christ in heaven. Read Luke 12: 32 and Revelation 7: 4-8

Jesus' life was mainly focussed on preaching about God's kingdom to come, that he told us to pray for in Matthew 6: 9,10

God's kingdom is the government that will undo all the harm that millenniums of human rule have done.

The good news is that God's kingdom will provide a perfect health for all those who take their stand for His government. Peace and security, and a clean environment for ou rbeautiful planet. Which no human government is capable of providing, because it does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step. As confirmed in Jeremiah 10: 23.

Human were not created to rule themselves. They do a poor job of governing other people and solving their problems.

2'000 years ago Jehovah God sent his most precious Son to redeem the human race from the curse of sin and death and to undo the damage caused by Satan. Read John 3: 16; 1 John 3: 8.

So to answer your question, which is " Why is term gospel applied to Jesus' life?

The answer is: He was the only one that could play that role in God's goal to restore paradise on earth. A perfect life that was lost through Adam's choice to no longer live up to God's standards. And a perfect life that lived up to God's standards that Jesus has proved by his obedience to God.

1Corinthians 8: 6 reads: " There is actually to us one God, the Father, from whom all things are and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and we through him.

Jesus was sent on earth 2'000 years ago to redeem the human race from the curse of sin and death and to undo the damage caused by Satan. Read John 3: 16; 1 John 3: 8

The ransom that was paid for us, is by Jesus' sacrifice.

From a historical and scholarly standpoint, the answer is no — none of the New Testament authors can be shown to have met Jesus during his lifetime. The gospels and epistles were written decades after Jesus’ death, and the texts themselves give no indication that their authors were eyewitnesses. In fact, the earliest gospel (Mark) appears around 70 CE, roughly forty years after the crucifixion, and it is anonymous. Matthew and Luke both copy Mark extensively, which strongly suggests they were not eyewitnesses; if Matthew had personally followed Jesus, he would not need to rely on someone else’s account. This aligns with what scholars note on the page you’re viewing: the “Matthew” who wrote the gospel was not the disciple Matthew and did not personally know Jesus .

The Gospel of John is the only one that later church tradition tried to link to an eyewitness, but modern scholarship overwhelmingly rejects that attribution. The text is written in advanced Greek, contains highly developed theology, and refers to its source (“the disciple whom Jesus loved”) in the third person — all signs of a later author writing within a community, not an eyewitness writing directly. Outside the gospels, the rest of the New Testament is written by figures like Paul, who explicitly states he never met Jesus during his earthly life and only knew him through visions and revelations.

So while Christian tradition later attached apostolic names to these writings, historians and textual scholars agree: the New Testament documents were composed by later followers of the movement, not by people who personally walked with Jesus.

The announcement of the Gospel to the world is called the good news.

The good news is all about God's kingdom ( government ) to come, where God's will, will be done as in heaven also on earth, according to Matthew 6: 9,10.

It means that God's kingdom will undo all the harm that millenniums of human rule have done.

It will provide a perfect health for all those who take the stand for God's government, peace and security, and a clean environment for our beautiful planet.

Psalms 37: 29 shows that the righteous ones will possess the earth and that they will live forever on it.

Here are a few Scriptures to be considered according to God's promise. Read Isaiah 33: 24; 54: 13; Micah 4. 4; John 17: 3.

The relationship between God and human beings is just like a relationship between a scientist and his robots. Human beings cannot survive for a long period on this earth. God had made like that. Death is a permanent sleep without a dream.

Human beings are ruled by spirits but humans must learn to control and rule the spirits. Spirits possess people according to the mental state of the human beings and keep them in the same state until they are rejected and replaced by another. This is an all time phenomena occurring in all humans. Human beings are always under the influence of spirits. Certain situations and circumstances cause the possession of certain type of spirits. Often thinking and talking about bad subjects or bad imaginations even for fun can take serious turns on one who think and talk. Often thinking and talking about good subjects with good imaginations can create positive effects in your life. Your favorable thoughts and beliefs can bring favorable spirits by your side. The more you think the more would be the possession of that spirit. All spirits (good and bad) have the possessing and dominating nature. Only because of this nature a drunkard dies as a drunkard and a scholar reaches a top position by studying more and more. They can take you to the extent of sacrifice or suicide.

All of your activities, talks and even thoughts determine what kind of spirits you will have for your life. Only these spirits are the reason for the good and bad happening in your life. These spirits determine your destiny from your daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Spirits are separate elements. A human being doesn't have a spiritual body. A human being during his/her life time is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, interests and everything. Further there will be always some spirits on behalf of your parents, friends, relatives and other people. These spirits are your consciousnesses and memories. Even thoughts are not your own. For example, when you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. Brain is a device used by your spirits to control your body. A mind is a combination/formation of many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. A mind is just a computer's mind. After the destruction of a computer completely you will not get its mind. The same is the case with the human beings. Soul is nothing but an energy needed for the functionality of a body. It is not a spirit or anything else. A body's functionality is based on the auto mechanism. After death all spirits which accompanied a person quit and go to different places searching new bodies. No one lives after death in any form and there is no afterlife. All human beings are just robots made of flesh and bones and toys of the spirits for their games.

You must not leave your mind in its own way. If you do, the spirit will take full control of your mind, then controlling it is not so easy. First of all you must think and believe that it's not you. Then you must command that spirit both mentally and orally to go. Whenever you are possessed by that thought you must divert your mind at once towards some other subject and stay in it for a while and then continue your duty. This is a mental exercise. You may also bring at once an opposite feeling through your imagination. For example if the depression is about your future then you may think, imagine and believe that you are going to live a healthy, wealthy and happy life in future. You must continue this exercise for few days. While doing this exercise you are creating an opposing spirit, i.e., a positive force. Soon this new spirit gets stronger and eliminates the negative force. Within a few days you will be alright.

The meaning of the word " GOSPLE " is the Good News. The good news is that God's kingdom ( government )that Jesus told us to pray for in Matthew 6: 9,10 is the government that will undo all the harm that millenniums of human rule have done.

It will provide: a perfect health for all those who take their stand for God's government. Peace and security and a clean environment. Which is what no human government can provide. Read Revelation 19: 15, 17, 18.

Wicked people will be removed. Read Proverbs 2: 22. And Satan and the demons will be unabe to mislead the nations anymore. Read Revelation 20: 3, 10.

For the moment the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one according to 1 John 5: 19, and Revelation 12:9 helps us to understand who is the wicked one, in these words. " The original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire earth.

That does not mean that we have to fall prey to Satan's tricks. The Bible is a letter from God, and is beneficial for setting things straight, so that we may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work, confirmed in 2 Timothy 3. 16,17. It is the way that God has chosen to communicate with mankind.

The Bible has the life-saving message that can be found no where else. John 17: 3 reads. " This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. That is where our focus should be.

God has paid a high price by sending his only begotten Son, 2'000 years ago, to redeem the human race from the curse of sin and death and to undo tha damage caused by Satan. Read John 3: 16.

1 John 3: 8 reads: The one who practices sin originates with the Devil, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God ( Jesus Christ ) was made manifest, to break up the works of the Devil."

Psalm 37: 29 shows what our future holds for those who take their stand for God's government, expressed in thses words. " The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it. Which has always been God's purpose, when he created mankind, and is confirmed in Genesis 2: 15-17.

Adam had the choice between life and death, emphasized in verse 17. Adam knew that if he did not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad he will not die. Genesis chapter 3 and Romans 5: 12 is mankind's history.

The good news is God's kingdom to come, where God's will, will take place, as in heaven also on earth. Read Matthew 6: 9,10

Devil is an evil spirit. It find pleasure in doing bad things in this world.

God has given freewill to all creatures including human beings and spirits. Spirits are separate elements. Human beings can make their own choices using their sixth sense. Freewill enables human beings to live any kind of life but if they hurt anyone they have to face the consequences. The same is the case with the spirits. Freewill enables them to possess any person and dominate them but if they force and hurt the person then they have to face the consequences. Humans’ lives depend on the character and intelligence of the possessed spirits. If the chosen spirits are good, their life will be good. Your activities, talks and thoughts determine what kind of spirits you will have for your life.

God is a mystery even to the spirits therefore certain spirits have become atheists. Among these atheists certain spirits have become evil. Among these evil, certain spirits took themselves the leadership and call themselves Satan.

Human beings are ruled by spirits but humans must learn to control and rule the spirits. Spirits possess people according to the mental state of the human beings and keep them in the same state until they are rejected and replaced by another. This is an all time phenomena occurring in all humans. Human beings are always under the influence of spirits. Certain situations and circumstances cause the possession of certain type of spirits. Often thinking and talking about bad subjects or bad imaginations even for fun can take serious turns on one who think and talk. Often thinking and talking about good subjects with good imaginations can create positive effects in your life. Your favorable thoughts and beliefs can bring favorable spirits by your side. The more you think the more would be the possession of that spirit. All spirits (good and bad) have the possessing and dominating nature. Only because of this nature a drunkard dies as a drunkard and a scholar reaches a top position by studying more and more. They can take you to the extent of sacrifice or suicide.

All of your activities, talks and even thoughts determine what kind of spirits you will have for your life. Only these spirits are the reason for the good and bad happening in your life. These spirits determine your destiny from your daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Spirits are separate elements. A human being doesn't have a spiritual body. A human being during his/her life time is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, interests and everything. Further there will be always some spirits on behalf of your parents, friends, relatives and other people. These spirits are your consciousnesses and memories. Even thoughts are not your own. For example, when you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. Brain is a device used by your spirits to control your body. A mind is a combination/formation of many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. A mind is just a computer's mind. After the destruction of a computer completely you will not get its mind. The same is the case with the human beings. Soul is nothing but an energy needed for the functionality of a body. It is not a spirit or anything else. A body's functionality is based on the auto mechanism. After death all spirits which accompanied a person quit and go to different places searching new bodies. No one lives after death in any form and there is no afterlife. All human beings are just robots made of flesh and bones and toys of the spirits for their games.

You must not leave your mind in its own way. If you do, the spirit will take full control of your mind, then controlling it is not so easy. First of all you must think and believe that it's not you. Then you must command that spirit both mentally and orally to go. Whenever you are possessed by that thought you must divert your mind at once towards some other subject and stay in it for a while and then continue your duty. This is a mental exercise. You may also bring at once an opposite feeling through your imagination. For example if the depression is about your future then you may think, imagine and believe that you are going to live a healthy, wealthy and happy life in future. You must continue this exercise for few days. While doing this exercise you are creating an opposing spirit, i.e., a positive force. Soon this new spirit gets stronger and eliminates the negative force. Within a few days you will be alright.

Mark portrays Jesus as a servant to emphasize His role in fulfilling God's mission through humility and self-sacrifice. This servant motif highlights Jesus' actions, such as healing the sick and caring for the marginalized, showcasing His commitment to serving others rather than seeking power or status. By depicting Jesus in this way, Mark underscores the idea that true greatness in God's kingdom is found in serving others. This perspective invites readers to adopt a similar attitude of service in their own lives.

Jesus' command to his followers to preach and teach others the truths of the scriptures (Matthew 28:19-20) was given to all of them, including women. There are a number of women that were Christians mentioned in the Bible, even ones that were actively preaching to others. A noteworthy example would be Priscilla, who worked along with her husband in the ministry. (Romans 16:3)

(New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)

Thomas Didymus, also known as Thomas the Apostle, is traditionally believed to have been martyred in India. According to various accounts, he was killed by being pierced with a spear, which is often depicted in Christian art. His death is thought to have occurred around 72 AD, and he is venerated as a martyr in many Christian traditions. The specifics of his martyrdom, however, vary across different historical sources and traditions.

No, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin are not a couple. They are both political journalists and have collaborated professionally, particularly known for their work on political commentary and analysis. Their relationship is one of professional colleagues rather than a romantic partnership.

I don't have specific information about a person named Nyabhang Simon Wal. It's possible that he could be a private individual or someone not widely recognized in public databases or media. If you're looking for someone specific, you might want to provide more context or check social media or online directories.

The Pharisees attained purity through strict adherence to the Jewish laws and traditions, particularly those related to ritual cleanliness. They emphasized the importance of following the Torah and additional oral laws, which governed various aspects of daily life, including food, Sabbath observance, and personal conduct. This focus on ritual purity was seen as a means to maintain a close relationship with God and to set themselves apart as a holy community. Their practices included regular ritual washing and avoiding anything deemed impure, reflecting their commitment to spiritual and communal righteousness.

The phrase "Where two or more are gathered in your name, I am there with you" emphasizes the idea of community and divine presence in collective worship or fellowship. It suggests that when individuals come together with a shared purpose or belief, particularly in a spiritual context, they invite a sense of divine connection and support. This concept is often cited to encourage communal gatherings and highlight the importance of unity in faith. Ultimately, it underscores the belief that spiritual strength and guidance are amplified in a group setting.

Yes, the Lord's Prayer remains relevant today as it encapsulates fundamental themes of faith, forgiveness, and community. Its call for daily sustenance and spiritual guidance resonates with many seeking meaning in their lives. Furthermore, the prayer's emphasis on unity and compassion encourages individuals to foster relationships and work towards a more harmonious society. Thus, it serves as a timeless reminder of our shared human experience and responsibilities.

No, the term "gentiles" traditionally refers to non-Jewish people in a religious context, while "Caucasians" is an ethnic classification primarily associated with people of European descent. These terms are not synonymous and serve different purposes. Gentiles encompass a broader range of ethnicities and cultures, while Caucasian is a specific racial category.

In the Bible, Jesus tells Peter that "another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go" in John 21:18. This statement is part of a conversation after Jesus' resurrection, where He predicts the kind of death Peter will face and the manner in which he will glorify God.

Risen Jesus appeared to both Mary Magdalene and a group of women. In the Gospels, Mary Magdalene is often highlighted as the first to witness the resurrected Jesus and is given the task of announcing his resurrection to the disciples. Additionally, other accounts, such as in Matthew 28, mention that Jesus appeared to a group of women who were visiting the tomb. Thus, his appearances were not limited to just Mary Magdalene.

The shortest chapter in the New Testament is 3 John, which consists of just 14 verses. It is a letter written by the Apostle John addressing Gaius, commending him for his hospitality and faithfulness. The chapter emphasizes the importance of supporting fellow believers and living in truth.

Revelation 6: 4 reads: " Another came out, a fiery- coloured horse ( or red horse ), and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword."

The Rider of the Red Horse:

The rider represents warfare. Notice that he takes peace away from not just a few nations but the whole earth. In 1914 for the first time in history, a global war erupted. It was followed by a second world war, which was even more destructive.

For the first time in history, mankind appears to have the ability to extinguish all human life. Even so-called peacekeeping organizations, such as the United Nations, have not been able to stop the rider of the red horse.

So to answer your question, which is : What does the red horse in the Book of Revelation symbolize?

This red horse and its rider symbolize warfare and destruction world-wide, with its powerful weapons including nuclear devices, each capable of destroying tens of thousands of people. As well as sophisticated chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction

The disciples had the choice to follow Jesus, as evidenced by their individual calls to discipleship in the Gospels. When Jesus invited them to leave their lives behind and follow Him, they made a conscious decision to accept that call. Their willingness to follow Him reflects both their faith and personal choice in response to His teachings and authority. However, the depth of their commitment evolved over time as they experienced His ministry and mission.

If Jesus' story was true then this is my answer. Jesus was a human being. A human being chooses his life. He too had chosen his life. The life he had chosen had caused some troubles after certain period. His words were turned against him. Further if there had been some sin, he has to pay for it. These are all the consequences.

Nobody can escape from their sins. Every human being must face the consequences of their actions. That's natural law. God cannot watch each and every human being at the same time. That's why He had created the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. His death was predetermined by the spirits. There is no doubt in it but why it was determined so is the question. You search, you will get some reason. I guess He had paid for his own sins but good deeds are always remembered that's why He is respected and worshiped even now. I think that there is difference between ancient and present day spirits. The ancient spirits must have had strict principles or laws in judging the matters.

Probably his statement that he was a God and King to heaven might have created a conflict among spirits and ended in that way. It seems the incidents that happened in his last moments of his life on earth explains indirectly the issue which he had with God and spirits. Human beings cannot know what is happening among spirits. Jesus was a human being. He didn't know this. In this case, King Herod was in a state of God and the people were in the state of the spirits.

God never bothers who believe Him. God cannot watch each and every human being at the same time. That's why He had created the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Your past determines your present and your present determines your future. God has given freewill to all creatures including human beings. According to this, all human beings have all right to live a life as they wish. But if it happens to be bad and hurts someone, they have to face the consequences. These consequences are created by spirits. It's a natural system. After death no one lives in any form. Heaven and hell are only for spirits. Spirits are separate elements. A human being is not a single spirit. A human being during his/her life time is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, interests and everything. Even thoughts are not your own. For example, when you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A human being is just a robot made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., and a toy of the spirits for their games.

In the upstairs room, after Jesus' ascension, Mary prayed with the apostles and other followers of Jesus. According to the Book of Acts, specifically Acts 1:14, she was among those who devoted themselves to prayer alongside the apostles Peter, John, James, and others. This gathering was a time of unity and preparation for the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.