Sentences with phrase «early followers who»

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Even Jesus» earliest followers clashed over who he was and what he meant.

Jesus Himself and His early followers preached that He is the Son who reveals the Father.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

More and more, I find myself wondering if church sprung out the minds / needs / traditions of the early Christ followers who needed community while facing persecution.

Early Christian writers mention an Elder John of Ephesus, who was a follower of Jesus but was not the apostle of that name, and they sometimes refer to him simply as «the Elder», just as the writer of these letters calls himself.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

As I said earlier, I am not bashing Muslims in any way, but I rather be respected as who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinners.

This is the title that was recognized by his followers early on — though probably not until after Easter — as the determinative answer to the question, «Who is Jesus of Nazareth?»

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

When the Oxford professor clicked that little «tweet» button, he made a conscious decision to tell his 1.3 million followers that parents who discover severe disability early enough — that is, during pregnancy — should rid themselves of the burden.

John does, after all, preaching that the old way is dead, and the promised Messiah is coming who will usher in a new era of peace for the entire world, and that those who want to participate in this new era must show it by going through the waters of baptism, much as the followers of Ea would have done 3000 years earlier.

From the early days of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.

People have been tortured and died for causes they believed in that either failed or were actually nonexistent, just because the early christ followers did this does not mean the idea of jesus being the messiah holds any more weight than Simon Bar Kokhba, who still has followers in Israel and has never been found, which most take to mean that he ascended to heaven and he never died.

Earlier this week, on his show Last Week Tonight, comedian John Oliver took on televangelists who promote the idea of «seed faith,» which promises followers that God will richly reward them if they donate to ministries.

Who were these early followers interested only in Jesus the man, the great prophet, the human teacher?

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.

It is the story of the early leader's and follower's STRUGGLE to understand who they were and what they were supposed to do in the midst of the void of questions Christ left us in.

Most of Jesus» early followers were lower - class people who were considered unimportant by the political and literary elite.

(After all, Jesus» most early followers were fisherman from fishing villages, who Jesus called «fishers of men.»)

To accomplish his purpose, Luke shows that the preaching and teaching of the representatives of the early church are grounded in the preaching and teaching of Jesus, who during his historical ministry (Acts 1:21 — 22) prepared his specially chosen followers and commissioned them to be witnesses to his resurrection and to all else that he did (Acts 10:37 — 42).

The early enrollee out of Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, who is trying to get his Twitter followers up, tweeted the following Tuesday afternoon.

Please be aware that those several thousand new followers will be the ladies and gentlemen of the Press Gallery, who are just itching for you to get drunk and post something fruity in the early hours after a prolonged session in the Strangers» Bar.

Punk fashion emerged in the early 1970s and its followers were basically people who were gong against all the fashion rule and were doing everything on «do it yourself» formula.

If you look at someone who has thousands upon thousands of Twitter followers, it's likely they were an early adopter.

Beyond Caravaggio One of those artists who blast his rivals off the walls, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio nevertheless inspired a legion of followers in early 17th - century Europe.

Fairhope was founded in November 1894 on the site of former Alabama City as a radical Georgist «Single - Tax» colony by the Fairhope Industrial Association, a group of 28 followers of economist Henry George who had incorporated earlier that year in Des Moines, Iowa.