Sentences with phrase «christ in the new testament»

This question was answered by Jesus Christ in the New Testament of The Bible, when he gave us, what is commonly refereed to now as «The Lord's Prayer».

And, on a superficial level, this kind of relationship appears to be indicated by the profusion of terms which are associated with both the emperor and the figure of Christ in the New Testament, such as theos (deus), theou uios (divi filius), kurios (dominus), basileus (imperator), soter (servator), archiereus (pontifex maximus), euangellion (evangellium), parousia (adventus), and others.

All the servants of Christ in the new Testament were trained for their service in the context of the local church.

Does Webb really believe that such teaching from one supposedly chosen by God to lead his Church «does not significantly damage or deface» the portrait of Christ in the New Testament?

We are working our way through several of the views about how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament in light of the love and mercy taught and exemplified by Jesus Christ in the New Testament.

Strictly speaking, of course, there is not one image of Jesus Christ in the New Testament; there are several, and they range all the way from the wandering teacher, who had nowhere to lay his head (Matt.

Not exact matches

The divinely inspired writings of the New Testament convey the apostolic teaching, which is the authoritative interpretation of God's revelation in Christ.

This essay grounds his conviction of the need for ontological reflection in Christology, by indicating how the New Testament itself supports its claims concerning the uniqueness and universality of Jesus Christ with an incipient ontology.

Even in the New Testament before Jesus Christ was to be captured and hung a cross, Jesus Christ told his disciples to arm themselves with a sword.

This is evident in the New Testament passages found in Romans, Ephesians, Revelation, and elsewhere that underscore the «cosmic Christ.»

Throughout the New Testament, we see the body of Christ relying on one another in a variety of circumstances.

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@glossolalia — read your whole bible (especially the New Testament) Christ specifically addressses «clean» and «unclean» restrictions and how that relates to the Law after His arrival on the scene (i.e. nothing passes away from the Law, but that it is fulfilled in Him).

And I hope that they will vote «Democrat» in order to send a message that they are not owned by the Republican Party, but owned by Christ and the Christian Values taught in the New Testament.

Bertrand Russell, in his book, «Why I Am Not A Christian», He discredits the inspiration of the New Testament: «I am concerned with Christ as He appears in the Gospel narrative... He certainly thought that his second coming would occur in clouds of glory before the death of all the people who were living at the time.

The Church of Jesus Christ today has a prophet like Moses, 12 apostles who represent the 12 tribes, and 70 men who also serve the people, just as in the Old and New Testament.

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At the latest in the second century after Christ scriptures of the New Testament were in circulation (papyri of this time have been found).

However, every now and then I see public service ads from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints, and these ads always stress honesty, compassion, and caring... a great deal like Christ's messages in the New Testament.

The God who is Judge in the New Testament, the God who appoints his Christ to carry out his judgment, is the same Yahweh who showed himself as God by hearing the cries of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt.

The Holy Bible especially the New Testament was passed down by Jesus Christ Himself to the Apostles who in turn passed it down by word of mouth and in writing.

These words doubtless point out a peculiar relation between Christ and believers; a relation which is often mentioned in the New Testament.

Ask Jesus in faith for dicernment and start reading the new testament... You will be shocked when you lay down your preconceived notions and... see and hear truth... see how christ sets an example... feel the truth...

The New Testament books were highly regarded by the early Christians because they helped validate their faith in the Old Testament and make sense of it in light of Christ.

You will hear me say this several times this week: The most important question we have to ask when reading the New Testament household codes is this — is their purpose to reinforce the importance of preserving the hierarchy of the typical Greco - Roman household or is their purpose to reinforce the importance of imitating Christ in interpersonal relationships, regardless of cultural familial structures?

Since we have encountered Christ in the Church and in the New Testament, we have come to know God's mercy and His justice.

What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

Nor has anything been more characteristic of recent research than the gradual detection of early kerygmatic fragments in the New Testament, in which the original eschatological meaning of the christological titles used in the kerygma is still apparent, and is clearly distinct from their later metaphysical use: Jesus is «exalted» to the rank of cosmocrator with the «name that is above every name,... Lord Jesus Christ», in order to subjugate the universe (Phil.

Since «Christ» is bound up with the pictures of Jesus that have succeeded each other in our history, and since those pictures are bound up with the judgments of historians, Altizer does not ignore the work of the great New Testament scholars.

«Thus Saith I, the Lionly Lamb of all the Gods and Goddesses of GOD and in the Aboveness of My Word are spoken the reverences of my Faith in the Lord and King of all the Gods and Goddesses, Christ Jesus, the redeemer of all the lost souls of lusts» concerns and even those of who did find in their smallness portions of eyeing benevolencies of varied understandings in the Gospels of the New Testaments being righteously divided for Fruitions» sakes.

Other interpreters looked to verses in the New Testament presenting Christ as the «image of the invisible God» (Col. 1:15).

It is rumored that Rudolf Bultmann — the demythologizer of the New Testament who had little interest in the question of Jesus» physical resurrection — often leaned over the pulpit when he preached, reaching out toward his hearers like any tent - meeting evangelist and pleading with them to come to Christ.

I mention this concept of sacrifice in particular because if I have to ask wherein I still differ from Professor Lampe (whose consummate New Testament scholarship I would not venture to query), it touches the question of the unique and creative quality of Christ's work.

The bottom line is this: Being «in» Christ is a special theological concept in the New Testament which takes some study to comprehend.

Being «in» Christ is a special New Testament concept for people who have believed in Jesus for eternal life.

The Law from the Old Testament was fulfilled when Christ came, from that time forward we have the Gospel of Christ, thus you read of no animal sacrifices in the New Testament, for example, just to give you an idea.

and so this New Covenant birth, on one of grace, mercy and love, and it is better than the old testament in this way, because like the rainbow was a sign that God would never flood the earth again wiping us out, so too Christ lifts the O.T. curse that was a result of sin.

They understand at least the theory of a congregation being a cohesive community — the «body of Christ» in New Testament terms — even if they have little sense of what they must let go of to contribute to the shape of this community.

The New Testament does not give us a doctrine of «nature», a doctrine of the authentic nature of man; it proclaims the event of redemption which was wrought in Christ.

We would not require an exhaustive knowledge of the New Testament to call to mind occasions in which we see Christ communicating the mystery through deeds and words in ways which remind us immediately of the sacraments.

We seem to have overlooked one important point, which is that in the New Testament faith is always faith in Christ.

It occurs only twice in the New Testament — here, and in Ephesians 1:6, where Paul writes that all Christians have been adopted as children of God through Jesus Christ and have been «blessed / graced» (same verb Luke uses with the root xaris).

I can not attempt here a treatment of the biblical language of sacrifice, but I think I can safely assert that Christ's death does not, in the logic of the New Testament sources, fit the pattern of sacrifice I have just described.

We can conclude as Karl Barth seems to do, that it is the sense of the New Testament that all are elected to salvation in Jesus Christ.

And the impact of Jesus Christ upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in man made manifest.»

The Old Testament tells of his people, Israel, and the New Testament of the possibility that we all might enter into God's chosen people, the Church, by way of baptism and faith in Christ.

In the New Testament this ascription is given to Christ.

It is however abundantly clear that the New Testament is interested in the resurrection of Christ simply and solely because it is the eschatological event par excellence.

But the New Testament does not proclaim Jesus Christ in this way.