Sentences with phrase «church first apostles»

But the recognition of such facts as these must not obscure Paul's sense of apostolic authority: «God has appointed in the church first apostles.»

«God set in the Church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers.»

Not exact matches

Centuries of honest textual criticism, archeology and history are virtually unanimous in their agreement that two of the Gospels are eye - witness accounts, two are commissioned investigations by the early church and all of the canonical Epistles were written by first - generation apostles.

As I looked out over the 180 people taking New Testament interpretation, I saw folk who had never been to church in their lives, and for whom the YDS chapel was their first parish; who certainly did not know the Nicene Creed and probably not the Apostles» Creed.

The first churches were not without any of these problems, and they had the Apostles, sub-Apostles and more present with them.

Origen of Alexandria, the first major interpreter of the Bible in the Church's history, said that «the apostle Paul, «teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth,» taught the Church... how it ought to interpret the books of the Law.»

The answer is centered in a misunderstanding of what an apostle was in the first place (in the Greco - Roman social context), and is based on a hierarchical understanding that places apostles at the top of the church structure when the New Testament clearly places them at the bottom.

What is happening here, for the first time in two thousand years, for the first time since the apostle Paul pondered the continuing «mystery» of Living Judaism, for the first time since the Church condemned Marcion as a heretic in the second century, for the first time since so many things in our tortuously entangled relationship, is that believing Jews and Christians are encountering one another on a footing of civil equality in a shared exploration of the way through history of the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus.

The problem of authority was bound in any event to arise in a period when the Jerusalem Church had ceased to be an effective force and the apostles had passed away; the development of a stable form of church government had become a matter of urgency, and in settled churches where the first enthusiasm had often become lukewarm (Church had ceased to be an effective force and the apostles had passed away; the development of a stable form of church government had become a matter of urgency, and in settled churches where the first enthusiasm had often become lukewarm (church government had become a matter of urgency, and in settled churches where the first enthusiasm had often become lukewarm (Revel.

Were there no such thing as inspiration, Christianity would be true, and all its essential doctrines would be credibly witnessed to us in the generally trustworthy reports of the teaching of our Lord and of His authoritative agents in founding the Church, preserved in the writings of the apostles and their first followers....

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

However impressive the alleged sign or wonder might be, we are not to pay heed to any messenger who leads us toward a different god than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, or to accept another gospel than the one the Church received from the apostles in the first century.

That is why a man must be chosen of God through revelation to represent him and to preach his holy word — a thing that protestant churches totally lack because they apostatized from the Catholic church and which the catholic church can not claim either because the first pope was a bishop, not an apostle, and to this day can claim no authority from living apostles.

The Church asked two important questions of each document: (1) Does it come from the first generations of Christians, particularly from the Apostles or their associates?

It is not «the Church of the first century Apostles» or the «Church of the New Testament in general».

Back in the first century when the apostle Paul was establishing the first Christian churches, only pagans and Jews went for pharmakia products being pushed by Greek medical doctors and their trained associates in other lands.

As far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!

These apostles were not missionaries, in Judea, but leaders of the Jerusalem church; (Cf. Acts 8:1) the actual mission was conducted by their emissaries; and probably James came to the city at the time Peter and John first left it and went to Samaria, during the persecution that followed the martyrdom of Stephen.

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.»

First, the early church was responsible for summarizing the general doctrines of the faith in creedal form such as the rule of faith, the later Old Roman Symbol, and finally the Apostles» Creed.

The man who wrote the Acts of the Apostles, the chief documentary evidence for the first decades of the church, was a Greek and wrote it for the Greeks.

This is where Christ gave the Apostles (the first leaders of the Church) the authority to forgive sins in Jesus» name and on his behalf.

He is wrong about what the bible says about being armed with the current weapon of the day, remember when the church officials came to arrest Jesus in the garden, the apostle Paul DREW HIS SWORD and cut a mans ear off, and what did Jesus say to him, he did n`t reprimand him he said, Stop there will be a time for the sword (GUN) but this is not it.So what can we learn from this, first the apostles carried weapons while in the company of Jesus, second, apparently Paul was very good with his sword, he obviously bested the guy whose ear he cut off.

The apostles were the church's first ministers - «first» both in the sense of earliest and in the sense of most responsible and most revered.

These, however, will be refuted by none other than the Spirit conveyed in the church which the apostles were the first to receive.

As they praised God and as the apostles did many wonderful things, they at first found favor with all the people, and every day new converts were added to the church.

Herein, in contrast to all other church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «as servant in the midst of the holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament apostles.»

Melkites view themselves as the first Christian community, dating the Melkite Church back to the time of the Apostles.

About the School: In August, Holy Apostles Church opened the doors of St. Ignatius Catholic School, the first new Catholic School in the Treasure Valley in over 50 years.