Flashcards: Bible

Different religious groups include different books in their Biblical canons, in varying orders, and sometimes divide or combine books.

Few biblical books are regarded by scholars as the product of a single individual, and all have been edited to produce the works known today.

Faith healing is the ritualistic practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are claimed to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice.

The numbers given correspond to the chapter numbers and, those in parentheses, to the section numbers within the text.

A gospel is an account describing the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Philippi (/fɪˈlɪpaɪ, ˈfɪləˌpaɪ/; Greek: Φίλιπποι, Philippoi) was a city in eastern Macedonia, in the Edonis region.

Passages in the Old Testament book Leviticus that prohibit "lying with mankind as with womankind" and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah have traditionally been interpreted by Christian churches as condemning and prohibiting homosexual acts, along with several Pauline passages.

In Christian theology, baptism with the Holy Spirit (also called baptism in the Holy Spirit or Spirit baptism) is distinguished from baptism with water.

Gehenna, (/ɡɪˈhɛnə/; Hebrew: גיא בן הינום‎‎ Ancient Greek: γέεννα), from the Hebrew Gehinnom (Rabbinical: גהנום/גהנם), is a small valley in Jerusalem and the Jewish and Christian analogue of hell.

The textual criticism of the New Testament is the analysis of the manuscripts of the New Testament, whose goals include identification of transcription errors, analysis of versions, and attempts to reconstruct the original.

A biblical covenant is a religious covenant that is described in the Bible.

The Tables of the Law as they are widely known in English, or Tablets of Stone, Stone Tablets, or Tablets of Testimony (in Hebrew: לוחות הברית Luchot HaBrit - "the tablets [of] the covenant") in the Hebrew Bible, were the two pieces of stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments when Moses ascended Mount Sinai as written in the Book of Exodus.