The New Testament (Great Courses)

faith-and-doubt

• Humans can avail themselves of Christ's payment simply by trusting that God will find it acceptable — not earned or deserved, an act accepted or rejected.

  NTHI-RC-263

• Paul is not ashamed of the gospel; it represents God's powerful act of salvation — apart from this gospel, there is no salvation.

  NTHI-RC-260

obedience-and-authority

• God has always chosen people not on the basis of their actions but on the basis of his own will, as the Jewish Scriptures themselves demonstrate.

  NTHI-RC-269

• The Jewish authorities oppose Jesus not merely from jealousy but because he is God's unique representative — a direct threat to their authority.

  NTHI-RC-325

belonging

• Group solidarity is created by persecution; the community forms bonds of cohesion, realizing they are all in it together.

  GCNT-RC-107

• Stories about Jesus were not told because they necessarily happened, but because in some sense the storyteller thought them true.

  NTHI-RC-304