The Book of Haggai

The Book of Haggai is one of the prophetic books of the Old Testament. The headings of Haggai's discourses indicate that the date of his prophetic activity was from August to December 520 B.C. There is no...

Types of Literature in the Old Testament

Modern scholars have classified Old Testament writings according to their literary genres (Gattungen is the German technical term) and have searched for their origin in preliterary oral traditions and in the daily life of the people (or to use the...

Baptized

The New Testament is full of teaching as to the meaning, the nature, and the effect of Christian baptism. In John iii. Jesus describes it as a rebirth by water and the Holy Spirit without which a man cannot...

The Book of Micah

Micah was an Old Testament prophet and the book that contains his prophecies. Micah preached and wrote in the 8th century B.C., when Jerusalem was being menaced by Assyrian armies. Near the beginning of the...

The Trinity

The Trinity in Christianity, three Persons in one God. The doctrine, central to Christianity, is considered a supernatural mystery, known to man only by the revelation of Jesus in the New Testament. According...

Holy Spirit

In Christian theology the Holy Spirit (frequently Holy Ghost) is the third person of the divine Trinity. The others are God the Father and God the Son.

Elder

An Elder, in ancient Judaism and in many Christian churches, is one of a body of officers charged with executive, judicial, and pastoral responsibilities. Selection to the office has always depended more upon...

Philip

Covenant

A covenant, in theology, is a term derived from the Bible. The Hebrew word is berith, which has the sense of pact, treaty, alliance, or league. The term was used of human agreements, but its special religious usage was for the Sacred Covenant...

Communion

Communion is a term in the Christian vocabulary that has a number of special uses. The one most frequently met is its attachment to the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, sometimes called the Eucharist, or, in...