... amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"(Acts 2:12). (HCSB, 2061; Metzger, 181 & 182). To answer this question the Apostle Peter stood with the other eleven apostles as their spokesmen and addressed the crowd by delivering a sermon. He explained the fulfillment of the oracle given in the Old Testament ... through the prophet Joel, that God made good his promises to Israel, that he would pour out his spirit on to all people; before the messianic judgment would ... he was received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out this that you now see ...

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... Lord, lest he break out against them." These quotes exemplify how God only spoke directly to Moses. Conversely, in The Sermon on the Mount God sent His son Jesus as a prophet to speak to the Jewish people, from the time period of 6 B.C.E- 30 C.E. Jesus had a different approach to teaching God's Word. Jesus did not preach to a single individual, rather he attracted ... very little fear. Jesus would simply ask them to follow him, and they would oblige willingly. For example, when Jesus saw Peter and Andrew fishing, "he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."" In ret...

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I believe the Bible is the word of God because: God selected men, most who were prophets, to write the Bible for Him (1 Samuel 10:25). A prophet is defined as a "inspired teacher or revealer of the Divine Will; one who foretells future events (Webster's New Dictionary)." God specifically told Jeremiah and several other authors to, "Write in a ... what is written, is what God has said. The human authors actively spoke as well, yet what they said came from God, they were "carried along by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21)." The apostle Paul, author of 12 of the books in the New Testament, was giv...

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There are many different opinions about Jesus Christ. Some say He was just a man or one of the great prophets of old. According to Isaiah a prophet of the Old Testament, "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel". Christ was indeed the son ... ate, he was weary and rested, he was sorrowful and wept, he suffered and dies. In all things he behaved as a man. According to the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Simon Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. In many scriptures throughout the...

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