Sentences with phrase «christ after the flesh»

«I calmly let the fire burn, for I see that what is consumed is only the fanciful portraits of Life - of - Jesus theology, and that means nothing other than «Christ after the flesh.»

As Paul had put it, «Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.»

So far, then, from running away from Historie and taking refuge in Geschichte, I am deliberately renouncing any form of encounter with a phenomenon of past history, including an encounter with the Christ after the flesh, in order to encounter the Christ proclaimed in the kerygma, which confronts me in my historic situation.

We need to separate Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus in the flesh) from the Crucified and resurrected Christ for Paul says in 2Cor 5:16 «wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh (ie Jesus of Nazareth), yet now henceforth know we Him no more».

Not exact matches

Did Jesus Christ really come to South America and was seen in the human flesh, hundreds of years after his death and was sitting at the right hand of God.

In the five thousand one hundred and ninety - ninth year of the creation of the world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty - seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham; the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty - second year from David's being anointed king; in the sixty - fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety - fourth Olympiad; the seven hundred and fifty - second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty - second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus; the whole world being at peace in the sixth age of the world, Jesus Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to sanctify the world by his most merciful coming, being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary, being made flesh.

What was true of Christ's work in the Church after His resurrection was already true of His words and works in the flesh.

Romans 8: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

The one - flesh union of marriage is patterned after an archetype, that of Christ and his church.

While Christians rightly believe that all truth necessary for such a spiritual experience is mediated only through the revelation in Christ, they must guard against the assumption that only those who know Christ «after the flesh», that is, in the actual historical revelation, are capable of such a conversion, A «hidden Christ» operates in history.

This humanity of Christ found one of its greatest defenders in St Ignatius of Antioch: «For my own part, I know and believe that he was in actual human flesh, even after his resurrection.

After Peter proclaimed Jesus to be «the Christ, the Son of the Living God», the Lord answered him and said «Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father in Heaven.

The historic figure of Christ «after the flesh» is fulfilled by the «Lord who is the Spirit.»

This is a discussion that he and I have had before in the pages of First Things (August / September 2012), after I reviewed his book Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter, in which he proposed a rapprochement between creedal Christianity and Mormon materialism.

The issue i have is that christians stay at the cross and never go any further in there belief that is tragic and if the songs and teachings only lead them to the cross then that is a crime.The cross represents our death as we were crucified with him and after that death we rose with Christ.Sadly many christians are still at the cross still struggling with there demons and flesh life and asking for forgiveness continually pleading the blood.They do nt understand because they are babes in Christ The reality is that Christ died and rose again our life is not in the Cross but is in the risen Christ and in him we are more than conqueres.Lets celebrate our new life in Christ not the death of our old life in Christ.brentnz

In one of the most controversial scenes in Martin Scorsese's landmark examination of the duality of flesh and spirit, The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus (Willem Dafoe) speaks to Judas (Harvey Keitel) after addressing a fanatical crowd out for blood.