On our journey through the Old Covenant background to the New Covenant priesthood of Jesus Christ, we have discovered some important points. First, Adam was a priest-father of humanity.
Discover the universal message of Jesus' human ancestry in the New Testament, connecting him to the divine and emphasizing ...
Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...
Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to ...
164 505 By his virginal conception, Jesus, the New Adam, ushers in the new birth of children adopted in the Holy Spirit through faith. "How can this be?" 165 Participation in the divine life ...
For instance, both Matthew and Luke date Jesus’ birth toward the end of the reign of King Herod ... s magi may have been inspired by a historical memory. In 66 C.E., the new Armenian king came to ...