The word can also refer to a collection of Christian orders of prayers and readings, such as contained in Anglican or Lutheran resources.

Sunday services are held throughout the year and weekly testimony meetings are held on Wednesday evenings, where following brief readings from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, those in attendance are invited to give testimonies of healing brought about through Christian Science prayer.

These readings are the weekly Lesson-Sermon, which is read aloud at all Sunday services in all Christian Science churches worldwide, and is studied by individuals at home throughout the preceding week.

Traditionally, most Christian readings of the Bible maintained that almost every prophecy was actually about the coming of Jesus, and that the entire Old Testament of the Bible is a prophecy about the coming of Jesus.

: These essentially pagan readings of Botticelli's Birth of Venus should not exclude a more purely Christian one, which may be derived from the Neoplatonic reading of the painting indicated above.

The account of the Exodus is given particular attention in the readings since it is considered to be the Old Testament antetype of Christian salvation.

Christian translations also tend to be based upon the Hebrew, though some denominations prefer the Septuagint ( or may cite variant readings from both ).

Meetings held in the Kingdom Hall include Bible readings, public talks on matters such as the Bible, family life, Christian qualities and prophecy, as well as discussion of specially-prepared study articles in The Watchtower magazine and other publications of Jehovah's Witnesses.

However, Islamic music, including the Tajwid or recitation of Qur ' an readings, is structurally equivalent to Arabic secular music, while Christian Arab music has been influenced by Syriac Orthodox, Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Anglican, Coptic, and Maronite church music.

" This is the basis for Christian readings of Old Testament prophecy, which asserts that passages are to be read as allusions to future events.

The ceremonies begin with an interfaith service, comprising prayers, hymns and readings by senior representatives of the main Christian denominations and of the Jewish and ( since 1994 ) Islamic faiths.

Jeremias notes that the Quartodecimans began their Christian Passover celebrations by reading the appropriate readings from the Hebrew Scriptures, i. e., the twelve readings from the Hebrew Scriptures that still are read at the Easter Vigil in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Armenian traditions.

As this original eschatological fervor began to die down and as Christianity became an increasingly Gentile movement this original eschatological orientation of the Christian Passover celebration began to be lost and with the development of the practice of baptizing catechumens during the twelve readings in order for them to share the Eucharist for the first time with the Christian community at the conclusion of the Paschal Vigil, the baptismal themes came to dominate the celebrations of the Paschal Vigil, as they do again in those churches which have begun again to baptize its adult converts during the Easter Vigil.

Origen, who had a lasting influence on Eastern Christian thought, further develops the idea that the spiritual realities can be found through allegorical readings of the scriptures ( along the lines of Jewish aggadah tradition ), but he focuses his attention on the Cross and on the importance of imitating Christ through the Cross, especially through spiritual combat and asceticism.

The Saturday and Sunday after Theophany have special readings assigned to them, which relate to the Temptation of Christ and to penance and perseverance in the Christian struggle.

The Revised Common Lectionary is a lectionary of readings or pericopes from the Bible for use in Protestant Christian worship, making provision for the liturgical year with its pattern of observances of festivals and seasons.

Christian themes, along with those from “ the great religions of the East ” ( cited in Hayward 1952 ), came to dominate Bodkin ’ s later thought and writings, which may also have been influenced by her readings of Martin Buber, Gilbert Ryle, and Karl Jaspers ( among others ), as her 1944 letter to the editor of Philosophy, “ Our Knowledge of One Another ,” and a 1956 article in the same journal, “ Knowledge and Faith ,” seem to show.

The Christian prayer of that time consisted of almost the same elements as the Jewish: recital or chanting of psalms, reading of the Old Testament, to which were soon added readings of the Gospels, Acts, and epistles, and canticles such as the Gloria in Excelsis Deo.

This thesis was put forward and defended by his readings of the early Christian philosopher Tertullian, who believed that famine and war were good for society as a whole as a means of solving the problem of overpopulation and resource-sharing.

The Danvers Statement is included in readers such as Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: A Documentary Reader ( NYU Press, 2008 ) and Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim readings on Genesis and gender ( Indiana University Press, 2009 ).

This is one of two early extrabiblical Christian uses of " κυριακήν " where it does not clearly refer to Sunday because textual readings have given rise to questions of proper translation.

The Christian writer's traditional re-interpretation is that the Hebrew word Sheol can mean many things, including " grave ", " resort ", " place of waiting " and " place of healing ".

Thus, Abulafia in the 13th century assumed that the language spoken in Paradise had been different from Hebrew, and rejected the claim then current also among Christian authors, that a child left unexposed to linguistic stimulus would automatically begin to speak in Hebrew.

The books of the Old Testament, showing their positions in both the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible, shown with their names in Hebrew ) and Christian Bibles.

The Book of Judges ( Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim ספר שופטים ) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

The full title in Hebrew is named after a young woman of Moab, the great-grandmother of David and, according to the Christian tradition, an ancestress of Jesus :, Megillat Ruth, or " the scroll of Ruth ", which places the book as one of the Five Megillot.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

The Book of Zechariah, attributed to the prophet Zechariah, is included in the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and is the penultimate book of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

Liberal Christian scholars, like conservative Christian scholars, accept earlier versions of the texts that make up the Bible in Hebrew or Greek.

This idea is first found in the Torah ( the five books of Moses, which are also included in the Christian Bible ) and is elaborated on in later books of the Hebrew Bible.

God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, so Christians generally look to the Scriptures ( both Hebrew and Christian ) for an understanding of who God is.

Some Christian denominations ( such as Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox ), include a number of books that are not in the Hebrew Bible ( the biblical apocrypha or deuterocanonical books or Anagignoskomena, see Development of the Old Testament canon ) in their biblical canon that are not in today's Jewish canon, although they were included in the Septuagint.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

Deuterocanonical books is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages of the Christian Old Testament that are not part of the Hebrew Bible.

The Jewish historian Josephus speaks of there being 22 books in the canon of the Hebrew Bible, a Jewish tradition reported also by the Christian bishop Athanasius.

David (; Dawid ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and, according to Christian scripture ( Matthew and Luke ), an ancestor of Jesus.

The first Christians, Jewish and Gentile, were certainly aware of the Hebrew calendar (; ; ; ; ), but there is no direct evidence that they celebrated any specifically Christian annual festivals.

Because the Julian calendar's implicit solar year has drifted further over the centuries than those of the Gregorian or Hebrew calendars, Julian Easter is a lunation later than Gregorian Easter in five years out of nineteen, namely years 3, 8, 11, 14, and 19 of the Christian cycle.

The tradition that this was the disciple Matthew begins with the early Christian bishop Papias of Hierapolis ( about 100 – 140 AD ), who, in a passage with several ambiguous phrases, wrote: " Matthew collected the oracles ( logia — sayings of or about Jesus ) in the Hebrew language ( Hebraïdi dialektōi — perhaps alternatively " Hebrew style ") and each one interpreted ( hērmēneusen — or " translated ") them as best he could.

The Book of Genesis ( from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek γένεσις, meaning " origin ";, Bereʾšyt, " In beginning "), is the first book of the Hebrew Bible ( the Tanakh ) and the Christian Old Testament.

Courses are offered in ethics, the philosophy and history of religion, Christian thought and history, and the Bible.

Every family of Riviera Presbyterian Church has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project in which all members of the family participate.

-- Opportunities for study of the Christian faith and the Bible

We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

Simple accounting is mentioned in the Christian Bible ( New Testament ) in the Book of Matthew, in the Parable of the Talents.

A table comparing the canons of some of these traditions appears below, comparing the Jewish Bible with the Christian Old Testament and New Testament.

Whether seen as a pagan work with “ Christian coloring ” added by scribes or as a “ Christian historical novel, with selected bits of paganism deliberately laid on as ' local color ', as Margaret E. Goldsmith did in “ The Christian Theme of Beowulf ,” it cannot be denied that Christianity pervades the text, and with that, the use of the Bible as a source.

They were first divided into separate books by the early Christian scholar Origen, in the 3rd century AD, and the separation became entrenched in the 5th century AD when it was followed by Jerome in his Latin translation of the Bible.

A Christian with a knowledge of the New Testament of the Bible would say that although God ’ s grace and forgiveness abound in situations, there are consequences which result from bad decisions.

In the early days of Christian worship the Bible furnished all that was thought necessary, containing as it did the books from which the lessons were read and the psalms that were recited.

Christian Bible as codex

Broadly speaking, Christian eschatology is the study of the destiny of mankind as it is revealed in the Bible, which is the primary source for all Christian eschatology studies.

The Prophecy of Seventy Septets ( or literally ' seventy times seven ') appears in the angel Gabriel's reply to Daniel, beginning with verse 22 and ending with verse 27 in the ninth chapter of the Book of Daniel, a work included in both the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Bible ; as well as the Septuagint.

She was the author of the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Christian Science textbook and which, along with the Bible, serve as the permanent " impersonal pastor " of the church.