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Secret Scriptures Revealed

Author : Tony Burke

Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 37,35 MB

Release : 2013-12-19

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0802871313

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Throughout history, Christians have expressed their faith through story. They created texts featuring important early Christian figures, like Jesus, Peter, Paul, Mary Magdalene, and Judas, to express their relationships to God and to the world around them. Some of these texts are found in today's New Testament, but there is a wide assortment of other texts that are not included in the Bible. Secret Scriptures Revealed answers, in clear accessible terms, many frequently asked questions about the Christian Apocrypha. It describes and explains the key texts and includes a much-needed discussion.



Secret Scriptures Revealed

Author : Tony Burke

Publisher : SPCK

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 44,96 MB

Release : 2013-06-20

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0281068461

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Throughout history, Christians have expressed their faith through story. They created texts featuring important early Christian figures—like Jesus, Peter, Paul, Mary Magdalene, and Judas—to express their relationships to God and to the world around them. Some of these texts are found in today's New Testament, but there is a wide assortment of other texts that are not included in the Bible. Secret Scriptures Revealed answers, in clear accessible terms, many frequently asked questions about the Christian Apocrypha. It describes and explains the key texts and includes a much-needed discussion of the enduring value of the Christian Apocrypha. This book recognizes that the Apocrypha are fascinating texts, which have much to offer in terms of understanding early Christian communities and the canonical Bible.



The Secret Scripture

Author : Sebastian Barry

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 29,48 MB

Release : 2008-06-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101202920

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Now a major motion picture starring Rooney Mara An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Booker Prize finalist and author of Old God's Time Sebastian Barry's novels have been hugely admired by readers and critics, and in 2005 his novel A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In The Secret Scripture, Barry revisits County Sligo, Ireland, the setting for his previous three books, to tell the unforgettable story of Roseanne McNulty. Once one of the most beguiling women in Sligo, she is now a resident of Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital and nearing her hundredth year. Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an engrossing tale of one woman's life, and a poignant story of the cruelties of civil war and corrupted power. The Secret Scripture is now a film starring Rooney Mara, Eric Bana, and Vanessa Redgrave.



The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden

Author : Rutherford Hayes Platt

Publisher : Nelson Bibles

Page : 660 pages

File Size : 22,15 MB

Release : 1927

Category : Apocryphal books

ISBN :

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Presented here are two volumes of apocryphal writings reflecting the life and time of the Old and New Testaments. Stories told by contemporary fiction writers of historical Bible times in fascinating and beautiful style.



The Secret Things of God

Author : Dr. Henry Cloud

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 36,67 MB

Release : 2014-05-22

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1471136787

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Book Description

The phenomenal bestseller, The Secret, tapped into a spiritual hunger present in our society, revealing the Law of Attraction as a way to improve your life and find harmony with universal energies. Dr Cloud builds on these ideas by offering a positive Christian interpretation of the thinking found in that book. By comparing ideas and concepts in The Secretwith biblical scripture, he points readers to the Creator of the universe as the source of all power, offering twenty spiritual truths that hold within them the secrets of happiness, relationships and purpose. Yet even among those who claim a Christian faith, these truths often lie dormant and untapped within the soul. The Secret Things of Godwill help readers unlock the secret treasures God has for them, and gives guidance on how to activate these truths in our lives.



The Secret in the Bible

Author : Tony Bushby

Publisher :

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 35,49 MB

Release : 2003-01-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780958189149

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Provides insight into the lost history of the Giza Plateau and how Temple priests of the Great Pyramid preserved the evidence of life beyond death.



Revelation

Author :

Publisher : Canongate Books

Page : 60 pages

File Size : 47,7 MB

Release : 1999-01-01

Category : Bibles

ISBN : 0857861018

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The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.



The Nag Hammadi Library in English

Author : James McConkey Robinson

Publisher : Brill Archive

Page : 516 pages

File Size : 17,75 MB

Release : 1984

Category : Gnostic literature

ISBN : 9789004071858

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Baxter's Explore the Book

Author : J. Sidlow Baxter

Publisher : Zondervan

Page : 1846 pages

File Size : 15,31 MB

Release : 2010-09-21

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0310871395

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Book Description

Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.



They Found the Secret

Author : V. Raymond Edman

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 31,38 MB

Release : 1984

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0310240514

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This book presents the lives of twenty well-known and little-known Christians in search of the pattern which leads to the abundant life Jesus promised.