with the translated new testament safely delivered, ramidas believes a new world of opportunity will open up for the bokachi believers. >> i believe god has called his own church with the missionaries. >> reporter: stan jeter, cbn news. >> wendy: you can see more great stories about the work of the church around the globe at our christian world news website. find it at cbnnews.com. we'll be right back. >> george: and finally on our broadcast this welcome, an iranian christian threatened with compulsion is expressing his great tu gratitude to cbn and its viewers. >> wendy: swedish officials originally rejected his quest request, but our coverage and your response put pressures on the officials. they granted jibari a new hearing. and now he and his pastor ask that we share this video with you. >> i want to say a special thanks for the cbn channel, especially the american people by the cbn channel and the internet. >> we don't think it could have been done without your help. >> wendy: jabari's lawyer is hopeful he will soon be granted permanent residency in sweden. the power of televisi

after the crucifixion of jesus around 30 a.d., the new testament recounts how the faith he started tooked by the leadership of the apostles peter and paul, the message of the resurrected jesus spread into the heart of the roman empire. but success brought persecution and death. as christianity's early leaders began to die out, it was critical to keep the story of jesus alive, so they compiled sacred books about his life, what we know today as the new testament. but to the south and the desert sands of egypt, a group of christian monks and mystics were writing their own gospels with a very different version of the life of jesus, one that launched a battle for the very heart of christianity. of all the threats to christianity over the past 2,000 years, perhaps the greatest came in 1945 near the village of nag hammadi in southern egypt where the waters of the nile dry up into desert sands. this is where a farmer named mohammed ali was digging for fertilizer when he discovered a clay jar with 13 ancient books hidden inside. >> within these books, there were over 50 texts, most of which we d

is mentioned more by name in the koran than in the new testament. >> of the four new testament gospelsnly two feature the nativity story. the gospel according to luke tells the roman emperor augustus caesar journey from nazareth to bethlehem wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. in the gospel according to matthew joefs and mary are already living in bethlehem. some details in matthew the star, the maja, massacre of the innocent are not mentioned in luke. en for many the details and the differences in the gospel dos matter. the questions are resolved faith. >> we are evangelical protestants and here we really do believe the christmas story i believe the angel came to mary and angels celebrated christ's birth outside of bethlehem. >> dr. irwin lutz zer is the senior pastor of the church in chicago. they find 75 percent agree and believe the christmas story is historically accurate. >> the point is, if he's jesus is who he claims to be, the son of god, then he came to prove he was the son of god and to die for us, these miracles become very uniqueable. >> function of a nativi

make his path straight. >> narrator: the gospel of mark is the oldest in the new testament. it was written soon after the failure of the first revolt for a community that was struggling to reconcile its expectations of jesus with the loss of the temple. >> we know a little bit about mark's community from some things in the gospel itself. mark's audience reads greek and not aramaic. mark always has to explain the aramaic phrases that jesus uses. >> ( dramatized ): taking her by the hand, he said to her, "talitha cumi," which means, "little girl," "i say to you, arise." >> mark is written for a jewish- christian audience living somewhere outside the homeland, and thus reflecting on the events of the first revolt, from that vantage point. >> narrator: mark's audience may have watched roman soldiers parading through the streets, bearing plunder stolen from the temple. they would certainly have seen, even been forced to use, the coins that depicted the terrible defeat. >> mark is clearly reflecting on the destruction of the temple as part of his understanding of the significance

. >> one of the intriguing things about the gospel accounts, the new testament, is the fact that at thexion, 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 mary o

. >> we're beginning to get, for the first time in the new testament, the language that will become the hallmark of all the later christian tradition. you see, it's paul who starts the writing of the new testament by writing letters to these fledgling congregations in the cities of the greek east. >> paul alludes in a number of his letters to the message that he would have communicated verbally, probably. he emphasizes two things: on the one hand, very clearly the importance of the death and resurrection of jesus; on the other hand, he also emphasizes the... the importance of understanding the end time and the immediacy of the end time, and that one must be prepared for it. and the way one prepares for it is to be good. we find a lot of ethics in... in paul. and it's around this issue of how one... one lives in anticipation of the end time that's just around the corner, for paul. >> narrator: the death and resurrection of jesus lie at the very heart of paul's preaching, but it is a story that pre-dates paul and goes back to the first followers of jesus in jerusalem. >> ( dramatized ): j

in the last few generations of new testament scholarship, the galilee has achieved this reputation for being the hotbed of radicalism, you know, the... i don't know, the '60s berkeley of... of palestine. >> the galilee, by most of the traditional accounts, is always portrayed as a kind of bucolic backwater-- peasants on the hillsides. and yet, our recent archaeological discoveries have shown this not to be the case. nazareth stands less than four miles from a major urban center, sepphoris. sepphoris was founded as the capital of the galilee. and so it was really invested, much like caesarea maritima, with all the trappings of greek or roman city life. >> narrator: recent archaeological discoveries at sepphoris challenge the conventional picture of jesus' life. >> one of the more exciting discoveries that we made at sepphoris was a magnificent roman villa with a gorgeous, gorgeous mosaic on its floor, in a banquet hall. floor, in a banquet hall. floor, in a banquet hall. the lady was dubbed "mona lisa" by the press when we found her because she is really an extraordinary depiction of a

he shed tears and go to the new testament, the shortest verse in all of the bible. jesus wept.merica wept. governor mike huckabee, good to have you around and tharching you. >> thank you, john. >> jenny. >> continuing coverage throughout the day in the dead low shooting in sandy hook community. and community of 30,000 people. 20 families insurancing the loss of a child this holiday season. we'll bring you the latest on fox news ahead. sometimes what we suffer from is bigger than we think ... like the flu. with aches, fever and chills- the flu's a really big deal. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. prescription tamiflu attacks the flu virus at its source. so don't wait. call your doctor right away. tamiflu is prescription medicine for treating the flu in adults and children one year and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu tell your doctor if you're pregnant, nursing. have serious health conditions, or take other medicines. if you develop an allergic reactio

old testament and new testament to understand scriptures. they're finishing a course on consolation ministry and dealing with grief and building the support of ministries within parishes. so there's a slew of courses that they'll take over the five years, that coupled with various minister experiences that extend themselves in their own parish and opportunities and other parishes and other social service agencies. >> if somebody is watching us or knows somebody that might be interested, what number should they call? >> (415)614-5615. and i can answer all the questions. repeat that please. >> (415)614-5615. >> actually that is our main office number. >> but that will work just as well. >> yes, it will. >> were talking about the wives and the women in the process is there some sense that they feel second class citizens? it's a difficult role, i would imagine to have your husband ordained, your learning everything but you're not ordained. >> that does surface for sure, especially since they participate fully in the program. they can chose to pa

book of the apocalypse right at the end of the bible here the apocalypse is the last book of the new testament so well the christian bible and what does this book say it says the world will end that god will decree the world's end the christ will come again and that before he comes again there will be a lot of battles. these are called eschatological battles between good and evil so there will be earthquakes cataclysms wars the church will be persecuted and many believers as soon as there are troubled times and there always have been in the history of humanity they will take this as proof to say that the end of the world is near and in the last two thousand years there have been hundreds of announcements of this kind all untrue obviously all untrue otherwise we wouldn't be here talking about it. some are still trying to predict this famous date and in fact two thousand and twelve is only the latest theory in vogue. and paris is not just a bookshop the end of the world department contains dozens of works that link this dates to a very old prophecy. a mayan prophecy. these pre-columbian people b

>> he's a bible scholar, new testament scholar who is founder and leader of a group called jesus seminar. a group of scholars for the last 15 years have been exploring the historical jesus. >> yeah, does he have very much standing in the academic community paula fredriksen interhe represents the school of representation. >> she's also a diplomat. well, funk is saying some pretty vacanting things. and it appears as though he is off the charts, does it not? he's organized a semiannual seminar that you speak of. and his forum debunks the sayings from the cross, the virgin birth, the resurrection, jesus' miracles and he sees jesus as a sort of jewish socrates, almost a lenny bruce character, is that right. >> that's right. >> you find no evidence in any of your scholarship, by the way, that jesus was a revolutionary, correct? interi find counterevidence. >> counterevidence? if yes is it he was not a revolutionary nor an insurrectionist. >> not that i can see from the documents. >> was jesus a conservative? >> i don't think so. >> well, in what sense was he unorthodox? >> well, i think that i

book of the apocalypse right at the end of the bible where the apocalypse is the last book of the new testament so while the christian bible i want is this book say it says the world will and that god will to create the world and the christ will come again and that before. these are called eschatological battles bitter. to be persecuted and many believers as soon as there are trouble. to say that the end of the world is near and in the last two thousand years there have been they're talking about it some are still only the latest theory in vogue. in paris is. a mayan prophecy of thousand years. before two thousand and twelve. pounds the end times for the real my and we are going from and they try to uphold this legend with all the strength of a scientific truth. in a suburb of and to a pathway to get real reform a chemist has become an apocalypse star. over the last ten years he's written several books announcing the two thousand and twelve catastrophe and he tracks the end of the world science on the internet i am following every day several sites or from the bad fourth university from nasa fo

afterlife and rewards and punishments but not specifically christian and certainly not specifically new testamentbiblical. >> the founding fathers saw united states, america, as a secular nation? >> well -- >> you make this statement in the book, you said, "there was a treaty," that you cite in 1797, a key time, between the united states and tripoli. in that treaty the u.s. government says the government of the united states of america is not in any sense founded on the christian religion. there are also courses approved vision for the total separation of church and state in the founding doctrine, correct? >> no, i don't think the total separation of church and sta is in the bible, there's total disebb stabment, emerges in the 19th century. >> wer they dominantly christian, as if it was not founded as a nation free of any required state religion? >> no, i -- no, i -- this -- >> therefore, it was a secular nation, as they saw it, and they wanted it that way. >> i think you have to talk about whether it's by law or by culture. and i think most everybody would have understood early on that by law, t

opposition lines the national coalition it comes after washington formally recognized them as the new testament representative of the syrian people but as i say is gonna check out reports now of the world needs to keep its size open to who's actually if i say on the ground. they call themselves martyrs god and all those you see around you of the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country but syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat us sot. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead a man who was presumably an assault supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground it's islamist groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr tatar we come meet was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam that you have this have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin lad

chips what's wrong with what's wrong with that you know you know i like to see really that the new testament on my christmas pudding phenomenon how do you do stuff yourself as a christmas dinner and then you stuff yourselves some more you leave a bit of a tomato. at its worst you leave a little coin in it that's great you mustn't small of the coin but with all the brandy and all the brandy you poor going christmas put well you know how that goes but look at these people some people in thailand cook with peru so if you think english food is really that bad then i beg to differ i'm moving on guys two thousand and twelve hot mike moment here we know jesse jackson jesse jackson is a reference he's a man of the cloth he's supposed to be friends with barack obama but when he was doing an interview program a new show one morning to talk about barack obama the reverend jesse jackson was caught with a hot mike saying to the man next to him i want to cut off obama's nuts for talking down to black people in fact we can listen to that sound bite right now if we can cue it jesse jackson right here. anywa

christian tradition depicts mary magdalene as a prostitute, but she's never called a prostitute in the new testamentcenturies of christianity. the most we know about her is that she's independent. luke tells us that she was possessed by seven demons and had been exorcised by jesus. so perhaps she followed him because he had performed a healing for her. other than that, mary is an independent woman. prostitute? no reason to think so. >> but what was she to jesus? could jesus have been married to mary magdalene, as some legends have it, or to anyone else? >> we have no indication in the gospel tradition that jesus is married. would it have been unusual for a jewish man to have been unmarried? no, not at all. >> whatever the details of jesus' personal life, to his fellow jews, what he said was as important as what he did. he gave them a radical agenda, scholars say, one in which society's outcasts could play a central role. its manifesto promised that the powerful will be brought low and the meek would inherit the earth. the sermon on the mount was an edgy message at a volatile time. >> the thought of

>> in matthew, the new testament, jesus' birth is accompanied by the slaught over children, king herrodll the children in bethlehem up to 2 years of aim t is the slaughter of the holy innocents and the evil done, even at christmastime. >> you question how can this evil exist in the world, something that's so senseless, that normal people can't comprehend the depth over the evil. what does the bible say? >> the bible is full of texts that articulate this grief and sorrow over tran ditch the psalms probably the most articulate expressions of those, like my god, my god why have you forsaken me, why are you so far from my groaning, the words of mying an lish with fish? the bible shows through psalms that people are ho are religious fill the full emotional weight associated with tragedy and they pray in that tragedy because they need help. and the prayers also show that they frequently -- that those prayers frequently help, that the psalms end frequently in hope and confidence acres firming that god hasn't despised those who suffer but listened to them and attended to them and helped them. >

but in reality, when we look at the pages of the new testament, we find that from the very beginning, diversity characterized the earliest believers. whether they were jewish christians or gentile christians, the christian message and the christian church has always lived in this tension of diversity. >> and the church has gradually and slowly built up a fuller and fuller understanding of what it is to be human in the image of god, trying to be honest to the jesus who walked in galilee and delivered the sermon of the mount. and also trying to be honest to the lives we lead in the 21st century. and that will always be intention, always. >> christianity has survived many powerful attempts to kill it off, and today, many of the issues that occupied the first christians are once again causing us to debate, challenge, and to believe or not 2,000 years after jesus. >>> tonight, finding faith and purpose this holiday season. >> there's so much bad news in the world. we need good news. >> america's pastor rick warren joins me. >> people say i fell out of love. that's your choice. >> he talks

his letters to the faithful make up two books of the new testament., 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 the air and

let newtown be the hour after which in the words of the new testament, we did all we could do to make things new. politicians can no longer be allowed to defend the status quo. they must instead be forced to defend our children. parents can no longer take no for an answer from washington when the topic turns to protecting our children. the violence we see spreading from shopping malls in oregon to movie theaters in colorado to college campuses in virginia to elementary schools in connecticut. it's being spawned by the toxic brew of a violent popular culture, a growing mental health crisis, and the proliferation of combat-styled weapons. though entrenched special interests are going to try to muddy the cause in the coming days, the cause of this sickening mass shooting like the others is no longer a mystery to common-sense americans, and blessedly, there are more common-sense americans than there are special interests, even if it doesn't always seem that way. i say good luck to the gun lobbyist. good luck to the hollywood lawyer who tries to blunt the righteous anger of millions of par

. >> my favorite, one of my favorite passages in the new testament says the one who is within you is greater than the one who is in the world. and there's a wonderful spiritual that i was taught in the civil rights movement that sings friends don't treat me like they used to since i laid my burden down. and to lay down the burden of prejudice and narrow mindedness is a huge burden to lay down. and there will be a time when those friends you had as friends don't treat you like they used to. and just accessing what my friend leyla teaches me about god can consciousness. -- god consciousness. >> yeah. >> to access that. when this florida pastor wanted to burn the qurans, i said, i was in the gym on a bike, you know, doing my cardio, and i was reading this -- [laughter] and in "the new york times," and i said -- and it came to me we shouldn't be burning qurans, we should be reading qurans. so we put together this program of three of my closest muslim friends to come and talk about what the quran means to me. and leyla came and spoke, and i asked her why she does what he does, and she sai

our identity always came from the old and new testament.an ethos and morallyty is best based on gods word because morality slides into relativism. heather: pass star, i see that you agree. >> i would agree with the rabbi. i have a little bit different take from what we're experiencing in our own church, first baptist church in dallas. people seem to be reluctant to put a religious label on themselves. our church is growing tremendously right now. we're getting ready to open $130 million campus on five blocks of downtown dallas and the reason we're growing is, we're having people from all different religious backgrounds, catholic, methodist, episcopalians because coming to our church because we don't emphasize being a baptist. we don't talk about that. we talk about a follower of christ. we don't teach a manmade creed. we teach the bible. what i'm finding people are hungry not for religion. they're hungry for a relationship with god. i believe any church or synagogue that offers that is going to attract people. heather: rabbi, i would ask yo

i wish brian lamb would have the jefferson -- jefferson wrote his own new testament and i wish brian lamb would have somebody on it. i never read it but i would like to know what it is about. i appreciate c-span. having wonderful day. host: thanks, jerry. columbus, ohio. we will keep talking about culture, politics, and social changes in america. coming up next, bill bennett, former education secretary. and clarence page from "the chicago tribune," syndicated columnist. we will be right back. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> issue is not whether it will be stigmatized or morally condemned. he is. precisely the same false claims. the issue is how many times the government can punish him as a result of that moral condemnation. the answer in the double jeopardy clause is ones. >> starting monday and throughout christmas week, c- span radio is featuring supreme court oral arguments by current justices before they were on the bench. all this week at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. you can listen to c-span radio in

there are only three passages that deal with homosexuality in the new testament. the old testament they cite leviticus. most acknowledge if we took all of the old testaments literally most of us would make it to age 40. >> stephanie: kill everyone that commits adultery, kill rebellious sons who disaway their parents. kill anyone who works on the sabbath. jesus never addressed the subject of homosexuality other than what can be inferred from his exam of loving and accepting everyone. they were referring to marriage between a man and a woman. where jesus protested the practice of men getting rid of inconvenient wives by handing them a seth of divorce, in this passage, jesus suggested to penalize women often causing financial devastation, other unjust consequences, he was not saying anything about same-sex marriage which does not exist. he never spoke against homosexuality. the majority of churches who view same-sex marriage not only accept divorce members but accept them as leaders. he ends by saying as they confront the evidence, it will only be a matter of time be

he talked versus from the new testament and that's good. we need that comfort.ry where morality is not something we discuss only when we have no other place to run, which i'm afraid sometimes is the way it goes. we criticize anybody who invokes god's name, except after a tragedy like this and then it seems to be okay. >> gretchen: exactly. when i put my children to bed at night, i say god is always with you, when you wake up and you're lonely, know he's with you. yesterday at our church, governor, it was just so moving. they lit a candle for every one of the victims and they honored them and it was so wonderful to know that if you were a person of faith, that you have a lot of questions why, but you have something to hold on to. >> i heard it once said, gretchen, and i think it's an applicable statement that even if you're a believer, you still hit bottom, but at least you find out it is solid at the bottom. and so it's not that we're spared from grief or pain or suffering, 'cause we're not. but we know that there is a world that goes beyond the evil and the hor

the only thing in the new testament came from one of the disciples. >> stephanie: he knew what jesusthank you. >> caller: it's awesome. liberal, second red state. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i just want -- have a couple of comments on gay marriage. look, i've been married for 17 years. you know you hear the right wing conservatives talking about it the sanctity of marriage. i'm not sure how allowing gay couples to enter into a legal contract is going to ruin my marriage. >> stephanie: yep. brad, you know, you're speaking as a guy you know, a married guy but interestingly, that's really the legal basis for this whole thing is -- that's what happened in prop 8. they couldn't prove the harm. they legally couldn't prove the harm. that's exactly the legal basis. >> right. there is no legal basis. basically, it is state-sponsored discrimination. >> stephanie: thank you. the fiscal cliff thing whatever, oh the president and john boehner met face-to-face yesterday. face-to-face -- face to orange-soaked face. right up in there. president got to get a whiff of that. the president. >> o

emanates from some of the greatest moral teachings on planet earth, what those of us refer to in the new testament as the golden rule, but treat others as you want to be treated. or put in the old english, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. that is a principle, a moral principle that runs throughout every major faith on the face of the planet. danny inouye exemplified that value, that uniquely american value. and somewhere we seem to go on astray. we go astray now from what we learn in newtown, connecticut. we go astray when we see how some of us treat each other in this chamber. the old adage is not just to go along to get along. you get along a lot better if you get along. or to put it in the old country boy wisdom, you can attract a lot more flies with honey than you can with vinegar. that's the life that our colleague led. some people call it a throwback to the gentlemanly days of the united states senate, a throwback when courtliness and deference -- i hope it's not a throwback. i hope we're not throwing back anything. i hope we will remember the life of danny inouye. he -- he

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testament to automation. and to container of revolution. in the 1960s, newnew jersey twice as many long shoreman as you have on the east coast. gulf coast. i think it's amazing that you would have had that small number of people who could have had that huge an impact on the economy. i think it will likely end up being settled. it's a testament to how well we have done with the productivity in 50 years. >> number two now. in russian. vladimir putin signed a bill today that been as americans from adopting russian children. what is this about? >> response to the magninsky act won by americabe by congress signed by the president which would narrowly, narrowly written. a russian reformer exposed corruption of $230 billion or something like that in the russian government. what the act would do and then he was in prison. basically murdered. deny visas to officials who were involved in the murder and other human rights violations. stop them from using any of the overseas assets. get a petty response from vladimir putin who tries to act like a big man who is going to