RS 200A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: New Covenant, Biblical Canon, Septuagint

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS 200A
• Professor: Shamma Aaron Boyarin

Document Summary

The gospel according to john: quite different from the others writers. The gospels came around the last quarter of the rst century. In the beginning was the word > // genesis. Verse 6 : john is not the john who wrote the gospel, it is john the baptist. Some groups thought or accused him to be the messiah. Children of god, not born of blood or of the will of esh or of the will of man, but of god. Verse 14: god gave the law to moses (old covenant) and grace and the truth to jesus (new. Christians need grace to go to heaven because of the original sin. Verse 19 : john the baptist says jesus is going to come. Verse 24 : john the baptist is baptizing. It becomes the rst sacrament in the catholic and. One of the only two sacraments mentioned in the new testament, with communion.