Letter to the Romans – Part IV Have you ever been in quicksand? I have never been in quicksand, but some reading as a child and some movies reminded me of an image like this to better understand the theology of the Letter to the Romans. Imagine that you are in quicksand and that, inevitably, […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE Because of Adam’s sin, all are sinners, but by the righteousness of Jesus Christ, all are made righteous to a right relationship with God, all are given this opportunity. This is the gospel of Paul that we are considering in the letter to the Romans. In the first part, […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE Writing to the Romans, the apostle Paul presents his own gospel. He means that he wants to propose and explain his vision of the gospel; it is not his own personal creation but the way he understood the right way of announcing the Gospel of Christ. He presents the work of […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE A cordial greeting to our viewers. With this conversation, we begin a new series of presentations of biblical books. We have already seen the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, now we will consider the letters of the Apostle Paul. In the New Testament, the collection of the Pauline […]
Acts of the Apostles We have reached the end of the story of the Acts of the Apostles. The last two chapters narrate the journey of transfer of Paul from Caesarea-Maritime to Rome. Paul was arrested in Jerusalem, transferred to Caesarea to await trial, the new governor Festus asks him if he wants to […]
The Acts of the Apostles In the spring of the year 60, in Caesarea Maritima, the governor of Judea was changed. Antonius Felix left the place to Porcius Festus. The new attorney general found that among the many cases to be solved there was also the question of a prisoner named Paul. For two years […]
Acts of the Apostles Paul was arrested in Jerusalem. The crowd in the temple tried to lynch him, the court commander intervened and saved him, discovered that he was a Roman citizen and, therefore, does not know how to proceed; he tries to make him judge by the Sanhedrin, but skillfully Paul defends himself […]
Acts of the Apostles In the spring of 58, the apostle Paul left Philippi in Macedonia, where he had celebrated the feast of the Unleavened Bread, that is, the Passover, and left to go to Jerusalem. He arrived there for the feast of Pentecost, so the journey took about 50 days, and it was […]
Acts of the Apostles In the Easter period of the year 58, Paul makes a long journey from Macedonia to Jerusalem; he left immediately after of the Feast of Unleavened Bread celebrated in the city of Philippi and wants to arrive in Jerusalem before the Feast of Pentecost, 50 days later. In this period, […]
Acts of the Apostles Antioch was the mother city of Paul’s apostolate. There he had begun at the invitation of Barnabas and Paul always returns to Antioch after his travels. At the end of the second great missionary journey, which led the preaching of the Gospel in Europe, Paul leaves Corinth and, after a […]