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While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.
Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.
Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.
The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.
The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.
The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.
Prof. C. H. Dodd, 76, a Congregational minister and a leading authority on the New Testament, is general director of the project and chairman of the New Testament panel.
At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.
It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.
How far the fellowship in most local churches falls below what the New Testament means by koinonia!!
There is a vast difference between the community of reconciliation which the New Testament describes and the community of congeniality found in the average church building.
Yet the truth, according to the New Testament, is that every local church has its existence only by being the embodiment of the whole church in that particular place.
`` The scriptures, both Old and New Testament, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct ''.
The apostle Paul said the same thing in the language and faith of the New Testament: `` He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely give us all things??
The New Testament has God declaring himself to be the " Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).
The publication of The Quest of the Historical Jesus, effectively put a stop for decades to work on the Historical Jesus as a sub-discipline of New Testament studies.
Schweitzer established his reputation further as a New Testament scholar with other theological studies including The Psychiatric Study of Jesus ( 1911 ); and his two studies of the apostle Paul, Paul and his Interpreters, and the more complete The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle ( 1930 ).
This examined the eschatological beliefs of Paul and ( through this ) the message of the New Testament.
No other New Testament account includes this event.

New and reports
During the campaign for the New Hampshire primary, reports of an extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers surfaced.
Another early reference reports that " base ball " was regularly played on Saturdays in 1823 on the outskirts of New York City in an area that today is Greenwich Village.
Massachusetts was increasingly concerned over reports of the capabilities of this fortress, and of privateers staging out of its harbour to raid New England fishermen on the Grand Banks.
In Changes in the Land ( 1983 ), William Cronon analyzed and documented 17th-century English colonists ' reports of increased seasonal flooding in New England during the period when new settlers initially cleared the forests for agriculture.
* 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.
It has daily features, updates and links to news reports from The New York Times and the BBC.
Nonetheless, the belief in this status persisted for years, even finding its way onto UNESCO's own web site, into the pages of the New York Times and The Economist, and into international media reports in respect of Toronto's two Olympic bids.
When the US Marines landed on the island, they discovered a large amount of documents, which included agreements between the Soviet Government, and the New Jewel Movement, recorded minutes of the Committee meetings, and reports from the Grenadian embassy in Moscow.
To minimise such differences, seven of the most respected labs, AGTA-GTL ( New York ), CISGEM ( Milano ), GAAJ-ZENHOKYO ( Tokyo ), GIA ( Carlsbad ), GIT ( Bangkok ), Gübelin ( Lucerne ) and SSEF ( Basel ), have established the Laboratory Manual Harmonisation Committee ( LMHC ), for the standardization of wording reports, promotion of certain analytical methods and interpretation of results.
Meeting minutes, annual reports, bulletins, and sermons relating to Klein's rabbinical vocations in Springfield, Massachusetts and Buffalo, New York are also included.
Almost all of the initially favourable reports Ribbentrop provided to Berlin about the alliance's prospects were based on friendly remarks about the " New Germany " from various British aristocrats like Lord Londonderry and Lord Lothian ; the rather cool reception that Ribbentrop received from British Cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats did not make much of an impression on him at first.
However, there is substantial evidence that the meteorite known as Valera hit and killed a cow upon impact, nearly dividing the animal in two, and similar unsubstantiated reports of a horse being struck and killed by a stone of the New Concord fall also abound.
Isserman ( 2001 ) reports that the New Left " " came to use the word ' liberal ' as a political epithet.
This is perhaps the basis for Internet reports in the late 1990s about the supposed discovery of Pope John's diary in which he allegedly wrote about receiving prophetic insight into the future, including the return of Jesus in New York in 2000.
On New Year's Eve, 1922 / 1923, the building burned to the ground ; contemporary police reports indicate arson as the probable cause.
* 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor ( no British records of this attack exist ).
* Empire State Building in New York was evacuated several times on September 11 and after due to false reports of potential threats.
* 12: 30 p. m. EDT Rudy Giuliani holds a press conference detailing earlier reports about a case of anthrax in New York City.
During the New Testament period, although the tensions went unrecognized by Roman authorities, Josephus reports numerous violent confrontations between Jews and Samaritans throughout the first half of the first century.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics reports that estimates of revenue-maximizing tax rates have varied widely, with a mid-range of around 70 %.
Initial reports in the succeeding days suggested his condition was improving, so Roosevelt embarked on a vacation at Mount Marcy in northeastern New York.
" Subsequently, many air traffic control facilities in the New York / Long Island area received reports of an explosion from other pilots operating in the area.

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