"in regard to the Bible. The Qur'an mentions the word Torah eighteen times and confirms that it was The Word Of God. However, they believe that there have been additions and subtractions made to the Torah. The early Qu'ran exeget Tabari referred to the Torah from the Jewish as ""the Torah that they possess today"". Sura An-Nisa 4:163 of the Qur'an states ""and to David We gave the Psalms"". Therefore, Islam claims the Psalms as being inspired of God. The Qur'an mentions the word Zabur three times (Qur'an 17:55; 21:105) When the Qur'an speaks of the Gospel, it is believed"
"name—one part of ""Jesus Christ"". The term ""Christian"" (meaning a follower of Christ) has been in use since the 1st century. The four canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are the foremost sources for the life and message of Jesus. However, other parts of the New Testament also include references to key episodes in his life, such as the Last Supper in 1 Corinthians 11:23. Acts of the Apostles (Acts 10:37–38 and Acts 19) refers to the early ministry of Jesus and its anticipation by John the Baptist. Acts 1:1–11 says more about the Ascension of Jesus (also mentioned"
"""Nazorean"" is used 13 times (Matthew, Mark in some manuscripts, Luke, John, Acts). In the Book of Acts, ""Nazorean"" is used to refer to a follower of Jesus, i.e. a Christian, rather than an inhabitant of a town. ""Notzrim"" is the modern Hebrew word for Christians (""No·tsri"", נוֹצְרִי) and one of two words commonly used to mean ""Christian"" in Syriac (""Nasrani"") and Arabic (""Naṣrānī"", نصراني). Nazarene is anglicized from Greek ""Nazarēnos"" (Ναζαρηνός), a word applied to Jesus in the New Testament. Several Hebrew words have been suggested as roots: The traditional view is that this word is derived from the"
"the earliest instances of its use in relation to a Christian body), two verses of the Letter to the Hebrews, one verse of the Epistle of James, three verses of the Third Epistle of John, and 19 verses of the Book of Revelation. In total, ἐκκλησία appears in the New Testament text 114 times, although not every instance is a technical reference to the church. In the New Testament, the term ἐκκλησία is used for local communities as well as in a universal sense to mean all believers. Traditionally, only orthodox believers are considered part of the true church, but"
"Leviticus 4:3–16), and to the prophets (1 Kings 19:16). The word ""Christ"" (and similar spellings) appears in English and in most European languages. English-speakers now often use ""Christ"" as if it were a name, one part of the name ""Jesus Christ"", though it was originally a title (""the Messiah""). Its usage in ""Christ Jesus"" emphasizes its nature as a title. Compare the usage ""the Christ"". The spelling ""Christ"" in English became standardized in the 18th century, when, in the spirit of the Enlightenment, the spelling of certain words changed to fit their Greek or Latin origins. Prior to this, scribes"
"Christ (sixteen times). Redeemer (Christianity) In Christian theology, Jesus is sometimes referred to as a Redeemer. This refers to the salvation he is believed to have accomplished, and is based on the metaphor of redemption, or ""buying back"". Although the Gospels do not use the title ""Redeemer"", the word ""redemption"" is used in several of Paul's letters. Leon Morris says that ""Paul uses the concept of redemption primarily to speak of the saving significance of the death of Christ."" The English word redemption means ""repurchase"" or ""buy back"", and in the Old Testament referred to the ransom of slaves (Exodus"
"original settlers of the Americas, but rather a subset of the larger population, who settled in a limited geographical setting. Thus, their language and writing may have had little to no impact on the culture of the rest of the population. The words ""Christ"" and ""Messiah"" are used several hundred times throughout the Book of Mormon. The first instance of the word ""Christ"" in the Book of Mormon dates to between 559 and 545 BC. The first instance of the word ""Messiah"" dates to about 600 BC. ""Christ"" is the English transliteration of the Greek word Χριστός (transliterated precisely as"
"terms Christians and Chrestians had at times been used by the general population in Rome to refer to early Christians. Robert Van Voorst states that many sources indicate that the term Chrestians was also used among the early followers of Jesus by the second century. The term Christians appears only three times in the New Testament, the first usage () giving the origin of the term. In all three cases the uncorrected Codex Sinaiticus in Greek reads ""Chrestianoi"". In Phrygia a number of funerary stone inscriptions use the term Chrestians, with one stone inscription using both terms together, reading: """"Chrestians"
"King James Version The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed/published in 1611 under the sponsorship of King James I. The books of the King James Version include the 39 books of the Old Testament, an intertestamental section containing 14 books of the Apocrypha, and the 27 books of the New Testament. It was first printed by Robert Barker, the King's Printer, and was the third translation into English approved by the"
"plates, Smith may have chosen words that he knew that were closest in meaning to the original concept written on the plates (i.e., a ""translator's anachronism""). The words ""Christ"" and ""Messiah"" are used several hundred times throughout the Book of Mormon. The first instance of the word ""Christ"" dates to between 559 and 545 B.C. The first instance of the word ""Messiah"" dates to about 600 B.C. ""Christ"" is the English transliteration of the Greek word Χριστός (transliterated as Christós); it is relatively synonymous with the Hebrew word משיח, pronounced and rendered ""Messiah""."" Both words have the meaning of ""anointed,"""
"the traditional Christian translation of ""virgin"". Of the seven appearances of ""ʿalmāh"", the Septuagint translates only two of them as ""parthenos"", ""virgin"" (including Isaiah 7:14). By contrast, the word (""bəṯūlāh"") appears some 50 times, and the Septuagint and English translations agree in understanding the word to mean ""virgin"" in almost every case. The controversy stemming from this rendering helped reignite the King-James-Only Movement within the Independent Baptist and Pentecostal churches. Furthermore, many Christians have adopted what has come to be known as the "" litmus test"", which entails checking that verse to determine whether or not a new translation can"
"King James Version (following Textus Receptus of the New Testament, which follows the New York and Moscow uncials, corrected forms of Ephraemi and Athos, along with uncial fragments from St Petersburg, Paris, minuscule 1, and family 13, backed up by Eusebius, Cyril, some Byzantine texts and lectionaries, and the Curetonian Old Syriac, Aramaic Peshitta, Armenian, and Georgian manuscripts, among others), ""Bethabara"" is the place where John the Baptist baptized those who came to hear him preach. The word only appears once in the New Testament, at , and is used in modern texts based on the King James Version, in"
"Christ"" (James 1:1, 2:1). According to Robert J. Foster, ""there is little consensus as to the genre, structure, dating, and authorship of the book of James."" There are four ""commonly espoused"" views concerning authorship and dating of the Epistle of James: The writer refers to himself only as ""James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ."" As many as six different men in the Bible are named James. Jesus had two apostles named James: James, the son of Zebedee and James, the son of Alphaeus, but it is unlikely that either of these wrote the letter. According"
"writing in Old and Middle English usually used the spelling ""Crist"" - the ""i"" being pronounced either as , preserved in the names of churches such as St Katherine Cree, or as a short , preserved in the modern pronunciation of ""Christmas"". The spelling ""Christ"" in English is attested from the 14th century. In modern and ancient usage, even in secular terminology, ""Christ"" usually refers to Jesus, based on the centuries-old tradition of such usage. Since the Apostolic Age, the[...] use of the definite article before the word Christ and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians"
"rare apparition important to pagan beliefs that Christian bishops reinvented as a Christian symbol. The most commonly encountered Christogram in English-speaking countries in modern times is the Χ (or more accurately, the Greek letter chi), representing the first letter of the word ""Christ"", in such abbreviations as ""Xmas"" (for ""Christmas"") and ""Xian"" or ""Xtian"" (for ""Christian""). The Alpha and Omega symbols may at times accompany the Chi-Rho monogram. ""Chrismon"" (""chrismum""; also ""chrismos, chrismus"") since the 17th century has been used as a New Latin term for the Chi Rho monogram. Because the ""chrismon"" was used as a kind of ""invocation"""
"Christians Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ""Christ"" and ""Christian"" derive from the Koine Greek title ""Christós"" (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ""mashiach"" (מָשִׁיחַ). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ""Christian"" is also used as an adjective to describe anything associated with Christianity, or in a proverbial sense ""all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like."" According to a 2011 Pew"
"eight times in the Bible, the first four in the Old Testament, the last four in the New. The Hebrew Bible refers to ""Moses the servant of Elohim"" (עֶֽבֶד הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים ""‘eḇeḏ-hā’ĕlōhîm""; , , , and ). refers to Joshua as ""‘eḇeḏ Yahweh"" (עֶ֣בֶד יְהוָ֑ה). The New Testament also describes Moses in this way in (τοῦ δούλου τοῦ Θεοῦ, ""tou doulou tou Theou""). Paul calls himself ""a servant of God"" in (δοῦλος Θεοῦ, ""doulos Theou""), while James calls himself ""a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ"" (θεοῦ καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ δοῦλος, ""Theou kai Kyriou Iēsou Christou doulos"") in"
"Body of Christ at large."" It expressed the desire for Christian union and identified the Bible as the only standard of Christian faith and practice. In addition to signing the ""Last Will and Testament"", the ministers agreed to take ""no other name than """"Christians,"""" on the basis that it was ""the name first given by divine authority to the disciples of Christ."" Soon, they adopted the name ""Christian"" to identify their group. Thus, former congregations from the Springfield Presbytery eventually became known as the Christian Church. It is estimated that the Christian Church numbered about 12,000 by 1830. The """""
"seven verses in the King James Bible where the divine name actually appears which are Genesis 22:14, Exodus 6:3, Exodus 17:15, Judges 6:24, Psalms 83:18, Isaiah 12:2 and Isaiah 26:4 plus as it's abbreviated form, Jah, once in Psalms 68:4. The reason for this change, as the Committee explained in the preface, was that ""...the American Revisers... were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament..."" Other changes from the RV to"
"Kristian Kristian is a name in several languages, often interpreted as a form of Christian. The name is used in several languages, among them Slovak, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Bosnian, Bulgarian and Croatian. In some languages people with the name are sometimes named after the cross, not after Christ. The word cross in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian is ""kr'st"" and in Russian is ""krest"", in some cases pronounced ""krist"". In contrast Christ in these Slavic languages is called ""Hristos"", which confuses to which of both nouns the name sounds more similar. The name may have a third meaning in Bulgarian and"
"believers (John 14:23). Augustus H. Strong positively describes the nature of the believer's union with Christ with five adjectives. This union is: Union with Christ In its widest sense, the phrase union with Christ refers to the relationship between the believer and Jesus Christ. In this sense, John Murray says, union with Christ is ""the central truth of the whole doctrine of salvation."" The expression ""in Christ"" (""en Christo"", ""en kyrio"", ""en Christo Iesou"", ""en auto"" etc.) occurs 216 times in the Pauline letters and 26 times in the Johannine literature. Hence, according to Albert Schweitzer, ""This 'being-in-Christ' is the"
"disciples for about a year, the text says: ""[...] the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch."" The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26:28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, ""Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian."" The third and final New Testament reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4:16, which exhorts believers: ""Yet if ""[any man suffer]"" as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf."" Kenneth Samuel Wuest holds that all three original New Testament verses' usages"
"Union with Christ In its widest sense, the phrase union with Christ refers to the relationship between the believer and Jesus Christ. In this sense, John Murray says, union with Christ is ""the central truth of the whole doctrine of salvation."" The expression ""in Christ"" (""en Christo"", ""en kyrio"", ""en Christo Iesou"", ""en auto"" etc.) occurs 216 times in the Pauline letters and 26 times in the Johannine literature. Hence, according to Albert Schweitzer, ""This 'being-in-Christ' is the prime enigma of the Pauline teaching: once grasped it gives the clue to the whole."" Given the large number of occurrences and"
"the Greek spelling of Jesus Christ, which translates as ""ihsous"") used by the Catholic Church. The Jesuit version of this christogram contains the heart and three nails in the shape of a V below the letters IHS, so that one sees IHSV. ""IHSV"" can be interpreted to mean In Hoc Signo Vinces, “In this sign, you shall conquer”, a reference to the victory which Constantine won at the Milvian Bridge on 28 October 312 as the first Christian emperor. The heart is a reference to the sacred heart of Jesus. Other notable Jesuit influences in the vestments are the letters"
"Macedonian, in which the word ""kr'sten"" means baptized and has the same as the word for cross. Though sounding similar, the words cross and Christian have different roots, ""Christian"" derives from the Koine Greek word ""Christós"", possibly ultimately derived from the Egyptian ""kheru"", ""word"" or ""voice"", used to replace the Biblical Hebrew term ""mashiach"", ""anointed"". On the other the hand the Slavic and the English word for ""cross"" comes from the Latin word ""crux"" (cruci) ""stake"" which is perhaps of Phoencian or Punic (Phoencio-Carthaginian ) origin. It may come from the Latin word ""crio"", ""to torment"". Kristian Kristian is a"
"Christogram A Christogram (Latin """") is a monogram or combination of letters that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ, traditionally used as a religious symbol within the Christian Church. One of the oldest Christograms is the Chi-Rho. It consists of the superimposed Greek letters chi and rho , which are the first two letters of Greek ""Christ"". It was displayed on the ""labarum"" military standard used by Constantine I in AD 312. The IX monogram () is a similar form, using the initials of the name ""Jesus (the) Christ"", as is the ΙΗ monogram (), using the"
"text. The KJV of 1611 used the 25-letter English alphabet with no letter J, thus it was the King Iames Bible with ""Iesus Chriſt"". It was the ""first revision 1629 Cambridge King James Authorized Bible"" that first used the modern 26 letters and ""Jesus Christ"". The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was ""THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, ""AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ſpeciall Comandement"""". The title page carries the words ""Appointed to be read"
"point in human history. He viewed Christ as ""the one through whom salvation began"" and he saw the completion of Christ's plan of salvation as his death and Resurrection. The use of ""Χ"", derived from Chi, the Greek alphabet initial, as an abbreviation for Christ (most commonly in the abbreviation ""Χmas"") is often misinterpreted as a modern secularization of the term. Thus understood, the centuries-old English word Χmas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas. Christians are sometimes referred to as ""Xians"", with the 'X' replacing 'Christ. A very early Christogram is"
"focus of a Christian's life is a firm belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the ""Messiah"" or ""Christ"". The title ""Messiah"" comes from the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ (""māšiáħ"") meaning ""anointed one"". The Greek translation (""Christos"") is the source of the English word ""Christ"". Christians believe that, as the Messiah, Jesus was anointed by God as ruler and savior of humanity, and hold that Jesus' coming was the fulfillment of messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. The Christian concept of the Messiah differs significantly from the contemporary Jewish concept. The core Christian belief is that, through the death"
"to live consistently with what they have learned in Christ. He wants his readers to mature in their faith in Christ by living what they say they believe. He condemns various sins, including pride, hypocrisy, favouritism, and slander. He encourages and implores believers to humbly live by godly, rather than worldly wisdom and to pray in all situations. Within the New Testament canon, the Epistle of James is noteworthy because it makes no explicit reference to the death, resurrection, or divine sonship of Jesus. It refers to Jesus twice, as ""the Lord Jesus Christ"" and as ""our glorious Lord Jesus"
"steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world. ""Christmas"" is a shortened form of ""Christ's mass"". It is derived from the Middle English ""Cristemasse"", which is from Old English ""Crīstesmæsse"", a phrase first recorded in 1038 followed by the word ""Cristes-messe"" in 1131. ""Crīst"" (genitive ""Crīstes"") is from Greek ""Khrīstos"" (Χριστός), a translation of Hebrew ""Māšîaḥ"" (מָשִׁיחַ), ""Messiah"", meaning ""anointed""; and ""mæsse"" is from Latin ""missa"", the celebration of the Eucharist. The form ""Christenmas"" was also historically used, but is now considered archaic and dialectal; it derives from Middle English ""Cristenmasse"", literally ""Christian mass"". ""Xmas"" is"
"James Version is based, the word ""ᾅδης"" (Hades), appears 11 times; but critical editions of the text of have ""θάνατος"" (death) in place of ""ᾅδης"". Except in this verse of 1 Corinthians, where it uses ""grave"", the King James Version translates ""ᾅδης"" as ""hell"". Modern translations, for which there are only 10 instances of the word ""ᾅδης"" in the New Testament, generally transliterate it as ""Hades"". In all appearances but one, ""ᾅδης"" has little if any relation to afterlife rewards or punishments. The one exception is Luke's parable of Lazarus and the rich man, in which the rich man finds"
"espouse this belief, as well as the movement itself (""born-again Christian"" and the ""born-again movement""). The term is derived from an event in the New Testament in which the words of Jesus were not understood by a Jewish pharisee, Nicodemus. The Greek phrase in the text is ambiguous, resulting in a wordplay in which ""born again"" is rendered as ""born from above"" in some translations such as the NET and the NRSV. The King James Version uses the phrase ""born again"" three times, two of them in chapter 3 of the Gospel of John when Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus."