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Luke the Historian: The Book of Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Acts forms an indispensable link between the accounts of Jesus’ life (Gospels), their preaching in Acts (Kerygma) and their interpretations and applications in the New Testament letters. The early church developed and circulated two collections of NT writings: (1) the Gospels (four) and (2) the Apostle (Paul’s letters). However, with the rise of the Christological heresies of the second century,...

4. Some other examples of OT prophetic concepts being expanded are (1) the seed of Abraham is now the spiritually circumcised (cf. Rom. 2:28–29); (2) the covenant people now include Gentiles (cf. Hos. 1:9; 2:23; Rom. 9:24–26; also Lev. 26:12; Exod. 29:45; 2 Cor. 6:16–18 and Exod. 19:5; Deut. 14:2; Titus 2:14); (3) the temple is now the local church (cf. 1 Cor. 3:16) or the individual believer (cf. 1 Cor. 6:19); and (4) even Israel and its characteristic descriptive phrases now refer to the whole
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