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  1. Muhammad's Suicidal Intent
    Hadith Argument Dossier
    The Sunnah.com page for Sahih al-Bukhari 6982 includes a report that Muhammad repeatedly intended to throw himself from mountain tops during a pause in revelation. The serious pressure point is not 'Bukhari proves…
  2. Mukti opens at Kedgaon
    Reformation Tracker
    Ramabai expanded work for orphaned and vulnerable girls.
  3. Music — Documented Drums
    Church Architecture
    A drum kit is visible behind the candidates in the official photograph. The image establishes an instrument’s presence, not what music was played during this service or a rule for all Mennonites.
  4. Mut'a: Permission, Prohibition, and Chronology
    Hadith Argument Dossier
    The canonical corpus remembers temporary marriage as permitted by Muhammad, practiced into Abu Bakr's reign, prohibited by Umar in one report, and prohibited by Muhammad before leaving Mecca in another. Sunni law…
  5. Naaman's healing and Jesus' prophetic challenge
    Jesus Prophecy Tracker
    Jesus recalls the healing of Naaman the Syrian as a scriptural example of God's mercy reaching beyond expected insiders.
  6. Nahum
    Biblical Writing
    Nahum announces Nineveh's downfall through forceful poetry about imperial violence and judgment. The relief promised to those under domination and the text's severe imagery both require attention.
  7. Nahum foretells Nineveh's fall
    Timeline Event
    Nahum announces judgment on Assyria's capital, Nineveh, against the backdrop of imperial violence.
  8. Narek
    Church Center
    Gregory’s prayer book is received as an Armenian spiritual treasure.
  9. Narthex
    Church Architecture
    The entrance space leads from the outside into the nave. Certain introductory rites and prayers are also held here.
  10. Narthex
    Church Architecture
    The western entrance opens toward the assembly. This arrangement is illustrative; parish buildings vary.
  11. National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon
    Reformation Tracker
    Several presbyteries organized a synod in the Arabic-speaking region.
  12. Nations come to the light with gifts
    Jesus Prophecy Tracker
    The magi's gifts and journey recall Isaiah's vision of nations approaching the light of restored Zion.
  13. Nave
    Church Architecture
    The faithful gather in the nave to pray, hear Scripture, and share in the Church's worship. Processions and many sacramental rites also take place in this central space.
  14. Nave
    Church Architecture
    The nave accommodates the congregation in relation to the sanctuary. The plan does not prescribe contemporary seating divisions.
  15. Nehemiah
    Biblical Writing
    Nehemiah brings wall-building, political opposition, debt, public Torah reading, and contested reform into one restoration narrative. Its last chapter resists the impression that one successful building project…
  16. Nehemiah confronts debt and loss of family land
    Biblical History
    Families complain of hunger, pledged fields, taxation, and children entering servitude. Nehemiah confronts local elites and calls for property and charges to be restored.
  17. Nehemiah rebuilds Jerusalem's walls
    Timeline Event
    Nehemiah organizes wall rebuilding and communal reform under Persian rule.
  18. Neuchâtel adopts reform
    Reformation Tracker
    Farel’s preaching helped bring reform to Neuchâtel.
  19. New Testament writings circulate
    Timeline Event
    Gospels, apostolic letters, Acts, and Revelation arise and circulate across communities before the canon's later formal recognition.
  20. Nicaea I — First Ecumenical Council
    Timeline Event
    Nicaea confesses the Son as true God, of one essence with the Father, against Arian subordination.
  21. Nicaea II: the actual decree
    Apologetics
    The decree receives holy images and distinguishes honorific reverence from divine adoration.
  22. Nicaea: the Son is not a creature
    Church History
    The first ecumenical council belongs to Oriental reception. Its confession of the Son is shared with Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and classical Protestant traditions.
  23. Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
    Reformation Tracker
    Patron whose Saxon estate offered refuge to Moravian families.
  24. Ninety-Five Theses
    Reformation Tracker
    An invitation to dispute indulgences, penalties and repentance.
  25. Noah and the flood
    Timeline Event
    The flood story presents judgment, preservation, and God's covenant with Noah and living creatures.
  26. Northern and southern Presbyterian bodies reunite
    Reformation Tracker
    PCUS and UPCUSA joined as the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
  27. Numbers
    Biblical Writing
    Numbers alternates censuses, laws, journeys, and crises as Israel moves toward the land. The wilderness becomes a place of provision and blessing, but also of resistance, contested leadership, and a generational…
  28. Obadiah
    Biblical Writing
    Obadiah is a short prophetic indictment of Edom's pride and conduct toward Judah in catastrophe. Its movement from a particular neighboring conflict to the day of the Lord challenges the assumption that a rival's…
  29. Obadiah: judgment on Edom
    Timeline Event
    Obadiah condemns Edom's violence and announces the Lord's sovereignty over the nations.
  30. Offering and Ash
    Biblical Architecture
    Genesis 22:11–14 records that Abraham is stopped from harming Isaac and offers a ram instead. The darkened stone and ash are illustrative traces of a burnt offering, not details of preserved remains or a claim that…
  31. Olivétan’s Bible is printed
    Reformation Tracker
    A French translation from Hebrew and Greek reached print.
  32. One church, several antecedents
    Reformation Tracker
    How should the 1947 formation of the Church of South India from its identified antecedents be classified?
  33. One God: Father, Son and Spirit
    Oriental Orthodox Study
    The three Persons share one undivided divine life. The Son is eternally begotten; the Spirit proceeds from the Father in the Creed. Personal relations are not ranks of divinity.
  34. One like a son of man
    Christophanies
    A human-like figure receives an everlasting kingdom in heaven's court.
  35. One night — garden, arrest, hearings
    Passover Chronology
    John 18:1 leads from the farewell discourse to a garden across the Kidron, followed by arrest and hearings before Annas and Caiaphas. The Synoptics connect supper with the Mount of Olives and Gethsemane. Narrative…
  36. Only one mediator?
    Objection to invocation of saints
    If Christ alone reconciles us to God, why address a saint at all? Could the practice shift the confidence and religious prayer owed to Christ onto a creature?
  37. Open Bible
    Church Architecture
    An open Bible accompanies Lititz’s documented central preaching arrangement. This is a sourced local furnishing, not evidence for every provincial sanctuary.
  38. Open Earth
    Biblical Architecture
    Genesis places these altars at different stops in the patriarchs’ travels: near Shechem and Bethel, by Mamre, and at Beersheba. The open earth and footpath provide an outdoor setting for study; they are not a…
  39. Opening the mouth in parables
    Jesus Prophecy Tracker
    Matthew connects Jesus' parables with the psalmist's telling of ancient mysteries.
  40. Ordained ministry
    Oriental Orthodox Study
    Bishops, priests and deacons serve the Church. Coptic teaching on priesthood is one source for this study; jurisdiction and rank must be named.