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In most of the world’s religions, the concept of life with God translates itself mainly into being withdrawn from the ordinary world. Such a concept normally implies abandoning the things that characterize common life (like work, marriage, and love, the pursuit of happiness, the acquisition of goods, etc.) and focusing on the inward religious life. As a result, monastic and ascetic life are usually understood to be the real, or at least the highest, experience of a life with God.
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Christians and Jews conclude all their prayers with the same ancient Hebrew word: amen. Perhaps no other word so succinctly underlines the continuity between the two faiths, coming at the very heart of religious devotion: prayer. None of their other religious practices clearly underlines what is the same and what is different.
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Only Jeremiah in the Old Testament uses the word “new covenant” (Jeremiah 31:31). A long and tragic story was fast approaching its climax; the prophet was in a state of expectancy, looking longingly toward a new beginning, a new creation. His preoccupation was apparent in his language. Significantly, the word bereshith (“in the beginning”), a technical term related to the story of Creation, is also found only in the book of Jeremiah (see chapters 26:1; 27:1; 49:34). By invoking memories of the Genesis account, the prophet expressed his great desire for a new world. Against this backdrop, Jeremiah developed his theology of the New Covenant.
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For Flavius Josephus, the famous Jewish historian of the first century C.E., Daniel was the “greatest of the prophets,” for not only did he prophesy concerning future events, but he actually made known the time when these events would take place in history.1
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When Christians realize that their forefathers relied only on the Jewish Bible.
When Christians speak of the Bible, they refer to a book that contains 39 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. But these 66 books did not always make up the Bible for Christians.