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The New Testament covers the founding of the Christian Religion over doctrinal issues within the Mosaic religion, and is roughly divided into three parts: the Gospels, the Epistles and the Revelations.

The Gospels

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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are short books about the ministry of Jesus, and Acts outlines the ministry of Paul the evangelist.

The Epistles

Writings of early Christian preachers are the second part. Those written by Paul are named for who they were for, and the rest are named for their author.

The Revelations

The concluding book is basically St. John's dream-journal about the end of the world. Thus, the Bible begins and ends at the beginning and end of the world.

Plot

The events in the New Testament are found in it's books of Luke and Acts, both by Dr. Luke.

Jesus has a faith healing ministry. He opposes the ritual killings started by Moses and is himself killed. After he is raised from the dead, he raises Paul from the dead who had been struck by lightning on the highway to Damascus. Paul then becomes an evangelist for the religion started by Jesus on behalf of monotheism.

Basic Doctrine

Jesus' doctrine is summarized in his famous Prayer. Paul's doctrine is found in his opening statement to the Greeks in Athens.

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The New Testament is often referred to by Christian preachers in their sermons during religious services.

Manuscripts

After the New Testament was written by Hebrews, it was translated into handwritten copies in various languages. The oldest manuscripts found are in Greek See New Testament Manuscripts.

See also

• Gnosticism and the New Testament
• Bible translations
• the Canon of Scripture
• Books of the Bible
• Gospel of Thomas
• New Testament apocrypha
• New Testament view on Jesus' life
• Old Testament
• Textus Receptus
• Christian anarchism
• Two-source hypothesis
• Authorship of the Johannine works
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles
• Table of Books of Judeo-Christian Scripture
• Category:New Testament books
• Society for Biblical Studies, India

External links — Source Text

Greek:

• The New Testament Gateway - Dr. Mark Goodacre.
• Greek New Testament text (searchable only; no downloads) with lexical aids
• Greek New Testament This is a Greek text of the New Testament, specifically the Westcott-Hort text from 1881, combined with the NA26/27 variants.
• New Testament Greek Three graduated courses in New Testament Greek; Includes exercises in translating sections of the Greek New Testament.

Other Languages:

• Bible Gateway 35 languages/50 versions at GospelCom.net
• Unbound Bible 100+ languages/versions at Biola University
• Online Bible at GospelHall.org - King James Version, English Standard Version, Bible in Basic English, Darby Translation
• King James version of New Testament at Project Gutenberg
• Full text of the New Testament in English, Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew and French
• Serbian New Testament — full text
• The New Testament at romansonline.com

External links — References

• New Testament Gateway, sponsored by Duke University
• Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy
• Overview of Inerrancy
• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• State Church Of The Roman Empire
• Apologia — Courses Christianity, Cults, and Other Religions
• Christian Faith — Exhaustive Information About Christian Faith
• A Lutheran discussion of the dates of writing, compiling, and setting of the canon can be found at Ask the Pastor.
• A comprehensive discussion of the development and authorship of the New Testament can be found at these pages:
  • http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_ntb1.htm
  • http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Trowbridge/NT_Hist.htm
  • Synoptic Problem Home Page
• For more information on the Evangelical view on the time of writing, see:
  • http://www.ccel.org/contrib/exec_outlines/ca/ca_04.htm
  • More Than a Carpenter, chapter 4, by Joshua McDowell
  • Redating the New Testament by John A.T. Robinson, who dates every book of the N.T. to before 70.
• For further reading:
  • Who Wrote the New Testament? by Burton L. Mack, Harper, 1996
  • Who Wrote the Gospels? by Randel McCraw Helms.
• Ethics of the New Testament — article by V. Antonov
• Raymond E. Brown's An Introduction to the New Testament (ISBN 0-38-524767-2) is considered by many scholars to be one of the finest general introductions to the NT.
• New Testament Alterations from the Order of Nazorean Essenes

• Jewish Encyclopedia: New Testament
• Catholic Encyclopedia: New Testament

• New Testament