Christian Bible

Church's sacred text

The Christian Bible is the sacred scripture of Christianity, consisting of the Old Testament (shared with Judaism) and the New Testament, which recounts the life of Jesus and early church teachings.

Different Christian traditions include slightly different books—Catholic and Orthodox Bibles contain books Protestants exclude as apocryphal.

She reads from the Bible every morning.

Related

Ten Commandments · Old Testament · Septuagint · Psalms · Proverbs · Grace · Resurrection · Trinity · Holy Spirit · Allegory · Faith · Covenant · Mark · Matthew · Luke · Acts · Jerusalem · Hebrew

Opposites
religious scripture

Christian BibleQuran

Islam's central scripture

Torah · Bhagavad Gita · Vedas · Book of Mormon · Talmud

sacred vs. secular texts

Christian BibleThe God Delusion

Argument against theistic belief

The Communist Manifesto · secular humanism · legal code · constitution

canonical vs. rejected texts

Christian BibleGospel of Thomas

Apocryphal collection of logia

pseudepigrapha · Apocrypha

Family

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Top 200,000
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