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nouna legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
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nouna profession of belief
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nouneither of the two main parts of the Christian Bible
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nounstrong evidence for somethingtype of:
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- lot (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction
- job a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
- job a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- john (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation
- john the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament
- david (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)
- michael (Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews
- paul (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle
- mark the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament
- sarah (Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac