and the 27 books of the new testament. at its heart are the four gospels of matthew, mark, luke, and john, the narrative stories of the life of jesus, first written down in the century after jesus' death. wright: i think what we can say is, not necessarily, we've got these early manuscripts, therefore it must all be true, but we've got these early manuscripts which point back like a set of signposts from different roads all leading to the same city, and because the manuscripts are slightly different here and there, we can see that these traditions have diverged, but they've diverged from a common source. and we can go back very close to that common source and say again and again, this is actually what john or paul or whoever wrote. it's wonderfully sharp, hard evidence of that by comparison with all the other texts that we know from the ancient world. most biblical scholars today agree that the best way to understand the gospels and particularly what they say about jesus is to try and understand the life and times in which

the new testament gospels look to stimulate faith.ook to stimulate knowledge and insight. >> gnosticism held a fascination for many christians for another reason. its gospels seemed to offer a more female-friendly faith. >> it was the gnostics that thought the role of the female as an image and the role of women within the church should be advanced so that god is not only male, god is also female. there are not only male leaders, there are female leaders. there are not only male priests, there are female priests, and in this way, there is a kind of gender balance found in these texts. >> that balance is not found in the gnostic gospel of thomas, where peter asks jesus to send mary magdalene on her way, for women aren't worthy of apostolic life. >> and jesus replies, "leave her alone for i shall make her a male, for every woman who becomes a male will enter into the kingdom of god." this isn't a very liberating view of women, and not one i think the people probably want to latch onto today. >> the gnostic gospels seemed to assault the

. >> of the four new testament gospels only two feature the nativity story. gospel according to luke tells of the roman emperor and his census and the trip from nazareth to bethlehem and the birth of jesus who was born in the manger. but in matthew there is no mention of this. joseph and mary are already living in both ham. and some details in mathew, the star, and magi, they are not mentioned in luke. for many, the details and the difference in the gospels did not matter. the questions are resolved by faith. >> we are evangelical protestants and we do believe the christmas story that the angel came to mary and the angels celebrated christ's birth outside of bethlehem. >> this is the senior pastor of the moody church in chicago, and a poll of american christian adults find 75 percent agree with the pastor and believe the christmas story is historically accurate. >> the point is, if jesus is who he claimed to be, the son of god, and if he came to prove he was the son of god, and to die for us, then these miracles become very believable. >> the nativity stories

. >> of the four new testament gospels only two feature the nativity story. gospel according to luke tells of the roman emperor and his census and the trip from nazareth to bethlehem and the birth of jesus who was born in the manger. but in matthew there is no mention of this. joseph and mary are already living in both ham. and some details in mathew, the star, and magi, they are not mentioned in luke. for many, the details and the difference in the gospels did not matter. the questions are resolved by faith. >> we are evangelical protestants and we do believe the christmas story that the angel came to mary and the angels celebrated christ's birth outside of bethlehem. >> this is the senior pastor of the moody church in chicago, and a poll of american christian adults find 75 percent agree with the pastor and believe the christmas story is historically accurate. >> the point is, if jesus is who he claimed to be, the son of god, and if he came to prove he was the son of god, and to die for us, then these miracles become very believable. >> the nativity stories

the old testament is filled with examples of god's love for his people.mate love climaxed in the gift of his son, and that's where we part company. but without god's chosen people i would not have the faith that i have. it's tragic, it's absolutely tragic that we all worship a god that has taught us through his scripture that we should love one another and that love, i saw that love present tonight that we should have one for another. and i felt that love for us, that community experience tonight. and that's a very positive understanding that i'll take away from the visit here tonight. man: i'm glad that you're here tonight, and we especially want to welcome our friends from temple emanu-el in marble head. take out the book of psalms and turn to page 17, and we'll sing together psalm 23. ♪ my soul he doth restore again ♪ ♪ and me to walk doth make ♪ within the paths of righteousness... ♪ woman: i was interested in the reference to god, and how that reference to god made me feel very comfortable, because the god that i know was the same god they were refer

you cannot get from the new testament to auschwitz directly. that is wrong.all of the responsibility at the foot of the church simply do not understand the fundamental difference between christianity and nazism. they are absolutely different things. on the other hand, you could not have auschwitz had you not had the long pre-history made possible by christian anti-judaism. christianity did so much evil to jews and judaism over the centuries that for many jews it remains the enemy, the bad guy no matter what they do. this was deepened in the 20th century by the holocaust experience, which, of course, was a total genocide, done, not by christians, but for which many jews feel jews were set up for by this long tradition of hatred and isolation. and so this has only deepened the fact that even for secular jews sometimes, the only thing left of their jewish memory is that somehow the christians are the other or the enemy. man: when black citizens, black christians in particular, tour the holocaust museum, i think there are at least two responses -- the first is to

old testament, new testament or the koran. >> i would go with old testament or koran. oh, new testament. >> there's not a lot of difference between -- >> no sh you're absolutely right. that's maybe the point i'm trying to make. okay, everybody. >> reporter: light, congenial. the comedian's street antics were met with southern hospitality. but on the web they were vilified. the hatred flowed freely. islam was called the scourge of the planet. and worse. >> it takes a real confident bigot to say something to your face. they'll yell it in a car driving by. they'll post on the internet all day. >> i suddenly feel like i know why my parents came here and gave me these set of opportunities. because i'm supposed to do something with it. >> reporter: there is emotion there. >> no, i'm just tired. >> reporter: i don't think so. i wonder if the people who dislike you so much know how much you love the country you live in? >> hopefully we'll be able to communicate that just a little bit. >> maybe i'm delusional, but i love the fact that we're trying. this is our calling. to go ou

it is a great testament to what sailors can do in a testament to defeating diversity. the crew on board today are just as a heroic, when you see the things they do every day, as those heroes were in 1779. again, i want to welcome you here. i hope you get a chance to see some of the ship as you walk around when you do tours talk to some the sailors and marines who operate it. i am is available for questions about the sheep. i will turn it over to the fleet week folks. thank you again for your hospitality. [applause] >> all right, dave told me to take this, so i am is already breaking the rules. he is our stage manager today. good morning. i am with the san francisco fleet week board of directors. we are very pleased to have the senior leadership seminar taking place this year on the bonhomme richard. just a little quick remark, in may 2010, i got a phone call saying to come on over for lunch, so we can talk about fleet week. i showed up in a room over at the marine memorial, and he had a big chart laid out and had a bunch of his friends sitting there and said, you are a

. >> one of the intriguing things about the gospel accounts, the new testament, is the fact that at thecifixion, the guys all run away. and that becomes a very interesting matter. it seems to indicate that, in fact, in terms of the rising of faith and the continuation of the movement, women played a primary role, and in particular, mary magdalene. ♪ >> in the gospel of john, mary magdalene is the first person to whom jesus appears after he rises from the dead. >> so there's this poignant moment of epiphany, this moment of recognition. she -- he says, "mariam," and she says, "rabuni." and she grabs him. and he says, don't cling to me. don't cling to the jesus of the past. we need to go forward into a new, brighter future, for you and for the male disciples. >> and then, she disappears from the scene, only to reappear centuries later as a prostitute, the woman with the alabaster jar filled with precious ointment for washing jesus' feet. how did this happen? >> there is a story about a woman who is a member of the oldest profession in the gospel of luke, just before the first account of ma

that there is such opportunity for that kind of growth and change and support for that is a real testament i think to this place and how special it is. and of course, i have worked with many wonderful people, including many supervisors, i do not have a list nearly as long as our share of. i will not name names. i do have a contingent here from real-estate i know and other colleagues in the chamber and i am appreciative to them for the opportunity to work with them and i want to acknowledge the support i get from home. my spouse lisa is here as well. i got a substitute teacher for her class and cut out a little early to be here. definitely a team effort and i am incredibly appreciative and honored. thank you very much. [applause] president chiu: supervisor chu has some concluding comments. grow up wanted to take -- supervisor chu: i wanted to take the opportunity to thank amy. you always work behind the scenes and make things much when it comes to board. whether it was at the city administrator's office you always demonstrated above and beyond the capacity to do the work and make sure when

it is a great testament to the power of the human being. i personally own many of these, and every time i look at the painting, i season been different. it really makes me happy. i hope it will be the same for you. thank you for the opportunity. [applause] >> on behalf of my firm and myself, i would like to thank you all for it to pay less for joining us. on behalf of the arab-american community -- [speaking foreign language] you're welcome to join us anytime in the middle east, your honor. thank you very much. [applause] >> can we have another round of applause for the mayor and a supervisor mirkarimi. thank you all. [applause] thank you also much. [applause] ♪ >> again, thank you all for coming, and the party is just getting started. we will have -- we will be having a close a call musical session, and you'll see the beautiful modern art from iraq in the north court. and we have a dance by a sudanese group as well. again, i would like to thank all of our sponsors. including the law firm in san francisco. another one is in his third year o

. >> indeed, testament to the seriousness in which washington views that. timothy geithner is in europe and will meet mr. sarkozy in paris but today being hosted in germany ahead of meetings with the president mario draghi. i wonder what he will say, diana. >> reporter: well, yes, this is his third visit since september which is testament to the severity in which they see the crisis and president obama asked him to come ahead of thursday and friday summit's of course to put pressure in the way that the u.s. has been over the last few months on european leaders to try and really find some resolution and some force to stop this sort of unraveling of the euro-zone which, of course, president obama has characterized as the strongest head wind slowing down the u.s. economy in the past. so it is incredibly serious given the interconnected nature of the u.s. and european financial systems and, of course, of the two zones as trading partners that europe gets its act together and we'll see whether the steps that mr. sarkozy and mrs. merkel announced yesterday are en

ran the academies in jerusalem, and had deep, detailed discussions about the hebrew bible, the old testamentthem. and these teachers and rabbis looked at this kid and said, this kid has a real gift. we should sign him up. let's get him to enroll. he's wasted up there in nazareth. >> it was a mission, the gospels say, that jesus thought more important than his earthly family. for when they had departed for nazareth, jesus was still in the temple. >> and on the way home, mary and joseph suddenly realized after a few days that jesus is missing. this always struck me as somewhat like "home alone." and they come back and they discover him in the temple. and mary is very upset and says, how could you do this? >> jesus, in his 12-year-old, know-it-all state says, "well, didn't you know, i needed to be about my father's business?" and he understands that his destiny is somehow here. the temple is where he belongs, discussing these religious issues is what he's supposed to do. >> how could mary and joseph fail to notice jesus was missing? did this mean that the family was so large, a child like jesus

he carefully selected new testament scriptures documenting prophecies of messiah, jesus' birth, death and resurrection. >> for jennens, i think messiah was a personal mission. jennens was a very committed christian. >> we find jennens going to another friend saying i have done this scripture collection for handel and hope it becomes his best. it is on the best subject. subject is messiah. >> here is handel's composition room. he wrote it in 24 days. many believe it was devinely inspired. one music scholar described the number of errors of incredibly low for a composition of its length. a friend who visited discovered him sobbing. after he wrote the hallelujah chorus, reports saying i do think i saw the heaven before me and the great god himself. for jennens and handel, they made the controversy decision to perform in theatres instead of churches to reach a wider audience. suzanna maria siber was described of being able to penetrate the heart with its voice when others could only reach the ear. >> she touches people on every left whether it be a spiritual level or personal level. >> if

. >> north carolikoreans told him write a last will and testament. he donated his organs to the university. >> no one writes real, you know. >> afterwards kim was released from prison and went back to china. holds no bitterness to those that tortured them. >> i never complained. i am leaving with jesus. jesus dying on the cross, last words, father, forgive them. they know not what they are doing. >> kim had no problem going to start a university there. >> jesus come back. love my enemy. i lay down my life. >> the university of science and technology is backed by the south korean government and u.s. its goal is to give north korea's leader's tools to promote peace on the korean pins peninsula. >> it gives them internal life. >> 35 million dollar campus includes world class dormitories and classrooms. students even have access to the internet, something most north koreans could only dream of. dale hurd, cbn news. >>> one out of every three south koreans identifies himself as a christian. six of the ten largest churches in the world are in korea and ove

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this is a testament to the homeless families standing up with courage, side by side with service providers, making sure that the media embraces their voices and here's the tragic stories of the families in san francisco today. has led to this huge outpouring where families have been joined by teachers, nurses, private citizens and donors to really address this response. that is what i think, at least we believe, the embracing of this fundamental right to housing is. we would like to see, as we step forward, an engagement directly with homeless families and service providers to figure out the best way to respond to this. we would like to see an inclusion of every family in crisis. not just families with school- age children, although it is important -- due to the educational impact. [tone] we also want to make sure that the impact on how -- newborns and homeless children, 0-5, is addressed. we would like to see a list of the families living in hotels, who for some reason are not on the list for shelter -- families living in cars, these situations that we cannot comprehensively addressed unt

it's a testament that you're here. welcome. mayor lee: welcome, tim. thank you, and welcome, everybody. welcome to the greenest city. it's in the world, right? we just have north america but i'll accept the world. mitch, congratulations. thank you for starting greenstart right here in downtown san francisco. and it's amazing, our was on of workforce development and our department of environment, we are very much loving today because we've been talking with clean tech for a long time and everybody asks, when's the right time for this to start happening? well, now. and i love this term "accelerator" because we don't have time to waste. we need innovation right now if we're going to reduce carbon emissions below the 1990's levels, by 20%. we need that now and we need people to have that vision in a very real way. it's more than a vision. we have to have those examples out there and not only to maintain our world class status of being the cleanest site, but i think we need to use our city as the guiding post for the rest of the country, that we can actuall

his letters to the faithful make up two books of the new testament.ere is a copy, written in greek on papyrus by one of peter's disciples around the year 200, a mere century or so after his death. >> pasini: "in the beginning, it was the word, and the word was 'god'." >> safer: and from the same period, the gospel of luke and part of the gospel of john, also written on papyrus, venerated by early christians in egypt, preserved for centuries in a desert monastery. >> pasini: "the bread for today give us..." >> safer: they contain the oldest known copy of the lord's prayer, so fragile we were only allowed to see replicas. >> pasini: that great treasure of papyrus, i think, is the most important treasure of christianity. >> safer: with our tour nearly over, it seemed as if the library's collection had come to life in the streets of the eternal city: the centurions and crusaders, the centuries of faith and folly, time present and time past. leaving the library, we thought there's something, something almost magical to be immersed in this place, to breathe

and as a testament to our growing and strengthening partnership. browse our programs and learn how to register. also because the sunset recreation center is being renovated, registration will happen this saturday. i do want to recognize marty hackett, one of our partners who retired in november after almost 30 years. we thank him very much for his service. i want to bring up katie very quickly to give you just a preview of the budget instructions and some of the budget challenges which are better, but that we will nonetheless be facing in the coming months. >> good afternoon, commissioners. it is that time of the year. the mayor's office issued budget instruction to all departments last tuesday, december 6. for the coming two fiscal years, in fact, because the city is about to enter into two-year budget cycles. they have asked us -- they have given us general fund reduction targets both for fiscal year 2012-2013 as well as for fiscal years 2013-2014. the budget office currently projects a general fund shortfall for the coming fiscal year in the amo