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The New Testament uses the term “antichrist” only in the letters of John, identifying both a present “spirit” and future figures who deny Jesus Christ (1 John 2:18, 2:22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7) . Other New ...
Scholars agree Jesus of Nazareth existed, but the four canonical Gospels’ reliability as straightforward historical biographies is contested: defenders argue they preserve eyewitness testimony and anc...
The Bible presents “Antichrist” both as a general spirit of opposition to Christ and as a future end‑time figure tied to passages in John, Paul and Revelation; the New Testament uses the term directly...
Catholic teaching points chiefly to John 20:21–23 and to practices rooted in Jewish sacrificial/atonement patterns and early Church custom as its biblical and historical grounds for sacramental confes...
The three-word slogan "Arbeit macht frei" — commonly translated as "Work sets you free" — began as a 19th‑century literary phrase and was co‑opted by the Nazis into a cruel, propagandistic emblem abov...
Historians treat Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as ancient, theologically driven biographies whose value for reconstructing the historical Jesus depends on methodical parsing of authorship, date, sourc...
Early evidence in the provided sources shows that many in the early church accepted Paul’s claim to apostleship and authority—James, Peter (Cephas) and John are described as “pillars” who, according t...
Christian traditions treat biblical stoning in three broad ways: as a historical Mosaic penalty recorded in the Torah, as a legal practice that Jewish and early Christian communities constrained or su...
Mainstream historians conclude that a historical figure called Jesus of Nazareth very likely existed as a 1st‑century Jewish teacher who was baptized and later executed by Roman authorities, a positio...
The Gospel of Thomas is a noncanonical collection of 114 sayings that differs sharply from the narrative, apostolic, and resurrection-centered gospels in the New Testament; scholars date Thomas mostly...
Acts 1:21–22 sets a clear, narrow criterion for replacing Judas: an apostle must have “been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us” and been a witness to the resurrection . Paul’s l...
Different Christian traditions draw from several Bible passages (Daniel, 2 Thessalonians, Revelation, and the Gospels) to list signs that supposedly precede an Antichrist figure: widespread apostasy a...