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Introduction According to another division,
The books that the Christian the New Testament can also be
Church considers sacred form classified into the following
the concept of the Bible, which two sections:
is divided into two parts: the 1. Historical Journeys: Including
Old Testament and the New “ G o s p e l o f M a tth e w ” , “ G o s p e l
Testament, and the last part of Mark”, “Gospel of Luke”,
begins with the four Gospels. “Gospel of John” and
In addition to the Gospels, this “Acts of the Apostles”.
section includes the works of 2. Scientific Journeys: It
the apostles and several other includes the other part
epistles, which are also of the New Testament,
attributed to the apostles, and which is the letters of
finally ends with the “Book of the leaders of early
Revelation” or the “Apocalypse”. Christianity, and because
In the division of the Bible, the precepts of some of
the first part is known as the the Christian beliefs are
Old Testament and the second expressed in it, it is
part is known as the New called “Journeys” or
Testament. The famous Old scientific chapters, which
Testament contains 36 books are the “Epistles of
and treatises, and Christians Paul” as the founder of
have attributed its compilation contemporary Christianity.
to Jewish prophets by the time (Eshagh Khoeini, 1985:
of Moses to the time of Jesus. 332-333)
Also, the New Testament,
which the world's most famous In general, the Christian
Christians believe in, has 27 Church calls the biblical
books or epistles, and Christians collection of Old and New
cite the compilation of some Testaments “Bible”, which is
parts of it to the disciples of derived from the Greek word
Jesus and the other parts to the “Byblos”, of which is the
leaders of the early Christian period. meaning book.
