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Now we will start our second lesson, which is about the New Testament
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The New Testament is divided slightly differently from the Old Testament,
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however, they also have some similarities
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for example, you will see here Historical book
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you will also see Prophetic book
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What also happens there in the Old Testament, right?!
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Well, the most important division that we have in the New Testament
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is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
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those are what we know as the Gospel
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also called Biographical books
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Why biographical?
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Because they talk about the biography, the life story of Jesus
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but, within that division, there is a subdivision
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and what kind of division would that be?
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These first three books: Matthew, Mark and Luke,
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they are called synoptic Gospels
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that is, they look at Christ from the same point of view
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from the same perspective
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portraying more deeply as to that boy who was born,
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his life story, the trajectory of Jesus as the son of man
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But John, he gives more emphasis, a little differently,
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the sequence of the narrative also doesn’t correspond as much as
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in Matthew, Mark and Luke
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When you read Matthew, Mark and Luke
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it may seem like you’re rereading the same book
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because the narratives are very similar
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but John’s narrative is different.
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John focuses more on miracles, on signs
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And he starts: “In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ”. (John 1:1)
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He says: “all things were made by him;
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and without him was not any thing made that was made”.
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In verse 14 he says: and the Word, this Word that was with God, and is God,
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He was made flesh, and lived among us
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That is, John emphasizes the divinity of Christ
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more than his on work,
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that he came to do here personally, as a man,
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his suffering, the humiliations he went through.
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This is what sets John's Gospel apart from the synoptic Gospels,
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which are those that portray Jesus from the same perspective, from the same point of view.
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However, John is also a Gospel and he also tells the story of Jesus.
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Then we have a very small section here
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that you can see here, it’s the book of Acts
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it is considered the only historical book,
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the only book essentially historical in the New Testament
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Although here they also tell Jesus' life story,
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because they're part of what is called the Gospels, or even Biographical books,
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the Historical book section only begins with the book of Acts
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It could be called Acts of the Apostles, or Acts of the Church, or even Acts of the Holy Spirit,
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Because starting from this book the Church begins to develop, to grow, to bear fruit,
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after the baptism in the Holy Spirit, in Acts, Chapter 2,
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in which the body is formed between Jews and Gentiles.
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What we know today as the Church
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it is nothing more than the congregation of saints.
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Well, here we have, in red, a section of books
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these are actually letters.
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They are not books, these are letters that apostle Paul wrote to the Romans,
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he also writes to the Corinthians, okay?!
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You can see here two letters that we have in hand:
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the First letter to the Corinthians, the Second letter to the Corinthians.
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We also have the letter to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians,
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to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians (two letters to the Thessalonians),
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two letters to his disciple Timothy,
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to Titus, another disciple of Paul, to Philemon,
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and, finally, to the Hebrews.
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The letter Paul writes to the Hebrews,
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clearly, should have been written in Hebrew
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Why [am I mentioning this]? Because the New Testament was written in Greek,
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koine Greek, a common language at the time,
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but the letter he writes to the Hebrews, certainly, should be written in Hebrew.
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However, after you've done a lot of research, you'll understand
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why I'm saying that it is a Pauline epistle, okay?!
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Later I will prepare a lesson to explain
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about the authorship of Paul to the Hebrews
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But the main point is this:
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there is the idea that Paul wrote it in Hebrew,
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but who translated it into Greek was Luke, ok?!
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Here we have another group of epistles, which are not part of the Pauline epistles,
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they are General Epistles, also known in Theology as Universal Epistles.
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James, one letter, two letters of Peter: First and Second letters of Peter,
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First, Second and Third [letters] of John
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and the letter of Judas, this is not Judas Iscariot.
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Finally, we have the only book considered essentially Prophetic in the New Testament,
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which is the book of Revelation.
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Slowly we develop the study,
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this is just a presentation about biblical contents,
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it is important for you to understand how the books are divided, to know who wrote them,
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so that you can observe the way they addressed the Church,
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the way they expressed themselves when greeting,
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when saying “goodbye” to the Church, and how each one of them used to do it.
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Paul had something peculiar that differentiated him from the others.
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You will also see that Revelation is a very rich book,
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but it is impossible to understand Revelation without Daniel, for example,
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without Zechariah, which are part of the Old Testament.
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That is why the Bible is one book as a whole, it is connected from beginning to the end.
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Genesis reveals that God created the heavens and the earth,
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Revelation reveals that John saw a new heaven and a new earth.
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This is brilliant, such a beautiful thing from God!
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So I hope that during these classes you will learn a lot.
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Pray for us, and may God bless your life! Amen?!
