Sentences with phrase «because as the apostle»

Because as the apostle Paul put it, «three things will last forever — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love.»

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Same thing with the bible — many gospels were rightly left out, because they were found to be frauds used for social gain by crooked writers many years later, and not written by the actual apostles or their scribes, as they had claimed.

Assumed, the apostles had been liars or impostors, it had emerged within weeks, because people from Palestine had accused them to be liars (note that the ancient world was as international like our modern world, because of trade).

Also He told the Apostles that He would SEND the Paraclete to remain with them forever...... and He would bring them to all the Truth as time goes on because they could not bear it all just then.

This discrepancy was revealed most dramatically when Martin Luther was considered a heretic by the institutional church of his day... but only because he clung to what he saw the institutional church as rejecting: that is, the apostles» teaching.

Kirk maintains they are necessarily male (and Jewish) because they are «a proleptic [anticipatory] symbol of the coming kingdom», a divine reconstruction of the twelve tribes of Israel, founded on the twelve sons of Jacob; although he adds this does not preclude «the possibility that Jesus has other ends in mind... a church with Peter at its head and the twelve apostles as the foundation stones of its order and authority» (p. 43).

Well, I don't think the Apostles taught as roaming Rabbis because: a) they weren't rabbis (well, Paul was) b) I forget the other point

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

Paul always referred to himself as Paul, an apostle of... Titles have become an in - thing today.One minister I spoke to was very adamant about titles, because in his view it created protocol.

In fact, the Apostles «advocated this system, not because God had revealed it as the divine will for Christian homes, but because it was the only stable and respectable system anyone knew about» at the time, according to Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe of the Women's Bible Commentary.

This is the message Gods angels have for humanity today: The apostle John referred to a vision he had, saying: And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, * + and he had everlasting good news + to declare as glad tidings to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people, + 7 saying in a loud voice: «FEAR God + and give him glory, + because the hour of the judgment by him has arrived, + and so worship the One who made + the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters.»

Now the apostles must have known better, because there's just no way they thought that Jesus, being as wonderfully contrary as He tended to be, would say, «Yep, solid point homies, send my people away from me.»

At Jerusalem itself the continued presence of the majority of the apostles simplified the question of authority, because they seem to have acted on all important questions as a body which sought and obtained the consent of the Church as a whole (Acts 6: 12 - 16, 15:22) under the joint guidance of the Spirit (Acts 15:28, cf. 6:3).

There were those in Corinth who challenged his credentials as an apostle, mainly because there was no evidence in his life and ministry of power to perform miracles.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

The local situation is filled out in some detail; and in the course of this report, the more moving because unintended, the apostle discloses the mature stance of a man «in Christ» as he lives out his obedience in the midst of envy, rivalry, misunderstanding, and considerable interparty slugging.

And of course, most congregations take it as unanimous in the New Testament that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born (contra Matthew), there was at Jesus» baptism a public announcement from heaven as to his divinity (contra Mark and Luke), Jesus was rejected in his home town because he was a familiar local figure (contra Luke), Peter was the foremost apostle (contra John), and Judas hanged himself (contra Luke, in Acts)

The apostles had a special status as long as they lived, because they had known the Lord personally.

We are co-workers of the apostles (bishops and priests) in this work, but as lay Catholics we are all equipped and commissioned to speak for Jesus Christ because of our baptism and confirmation.

As Sharyn Dowd has observed, the apostles «advocated this system not because God had revealed it as the divine will for Christian homes, but because it was the only stable and respectable system anyone knew abouAs Sharyn Dowd has observed, the apostles «advocated this system not because God had revealed it as the divine will for Christian homes, but because it was the only stable and respectable system anyone knew abouas the divine will for Christian homes, but because it was the only stable and respectable system anyone knew about.

of the Syrian Church, it is said «The Apostles have also decreed that at the end of all the scriptures, the Gospel shall be read as the seal of all the scriptures, the people rising to their feet to hear it; because it is the salvation of all men.»

Because from his writing, as well as the later quotations of the apostles and Jesus, we know they were accurate at that time.

But in the words of Leo the Great, «Peter is the true leader of all, who have in the first place Christ as their leader... The strength which Christ gives to Peter passes through Peter to the Apostles — because he gave such authority to him whom he chose as head of the whole Church.»

I love that study, it shows how the manuscripts of the OT were put together into what we now have as the OT by the scribe Ezra, and also shows the science of manuscripts, and how the NT that we now have was circulated whole as early as 100AD, and that no council ever voted on what was to be «in» the Bible, because the books of the Bible were dictated by the apostles themselves.

The Didascalia is still quite prepared, as was Ignatius, to liken the presbyters to the apostles, because, in effect, the bishop sits among them as Christ, God incarnate.

Cyprian's ideal is likewise a martyr bishop, but because he must counter the rival claims of the confessors to bind and to loose by virtue of their witnessing to Christ, Cyprian must, unlike Ignatius, reach back explicitly to the prerogatives of the apostles and notably Peter.87 Cyprian called Peter a bishop88 and regarded every bishop as filled with the Holy Spirit89 and as the vicar of Christ, succeeding by vicarious ordination to the apostles.90 Thus Cyprian found the essence and fulfillment of the Church in the bishop:

It is not known, what triggered Mr. Jumah's sudden observation because; Kofi Ghana as he is affectionately called, has been one of the apostles of Nana Akufo Addo in recent years, and been out and about everywhere defending the man he now claims would be a «terrible president».