Cultural Influences

• The Divine is angry and punishing (Old Testament)
• The Divine is jealous (Old Testament)
• The Divine is male
• The Divine commands preferred people to get land by way of war (Old Testament)

Important Teachings

• Forgiveness
• Love
• Compassion
• Integrity
• Honoring Parents

Gospels of the Bible:
-The Five Gospels Parallel at U. Toronto

The Q: This is

• CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS & RESEARCH MINISTRY
• New Archeology
• Religious Tolerance

New Testament of the Bible
-This is a placeholder, the point being: Read the New Testament FIRST. It has a higher vibration and is really the whole point. The Old Testament is best thought of as a context. Jesus came to help people get out of the mentality of the Old Testament - the angry punishing God leading to following rigid rules in order to 'be right' or not be punished.

Entire Bible (Old and New Testament)
-Parallel Study Bible (with translations and commentaries)
-New English Translation

Non-Mainstream
-The Gnostic Society Library
- NET (Includes Apocrypha)