Sentences with phrase «god as the apostle»

Paul was sent by God as the apostle to the gentiles.

He was a near and dear to God as apostles were to Jesus.

Not exact matches

we as believers have a commission: Then Jesus called together the Twelve [apostles] and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases, And He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healing.

With that in mind, the prophetess as God's voice, as judge, as apostle, as leader has precedence in the scriptural history of God's people as far back as at least Judges and as recently Acts, to saying nothing of those who have been recognised as particular saints since then (although I'm not RC I don't deny there are people worthy of particular honour).

This testimony about Jesus as only a son of David (2 Samuel 7:12 - 14 NIV) who was punished by God with the floggings of men for claiming to be god thus becoming the «bright morning star» (Isa.14: 9 - 20) was revealed through the Bible by Maestro Evangelista in http://www.thename.ph which proves he is the «angel» or messenger sent by Jesus to deliver his testimony or HIS ADMISSION that he is not a son of God and as the «bright morning star «to all churches (or believers of Jesus) thus nullifying the «antichrist» lie made by the apostle JoGod with the floggings of men for claiming to be god thus becoming the «bright morning star» (Isa.14: 9 - 20) was revealed through the Bible by Maestro Evangelista in http://www.thename.ph which proves he is the «angel» or messenger sent by Jesus to deliver his testimony or HIS ADMISSION that he is not a son of God and as the «bright morning star «to all churches (or believers of Jesus) thus nullifying the «antichrist» lie made by the apostle Jogod thus becoming the «bright morning star» (Isa.14: 9 - 20) was revealed through the Bible by Maestro Evangelista in http://www.thename.ph which proves he is the «angel» or messenger sent by Jesus to deliver his testimony or HIS ADMISSION that he is not a son of God and as the «bright morning star «to all churches (or believers of Jesus) thus nullifying the «antichrist» lie made by the apostle JoGod and as the «bright morning star «to all churches (or believers of Jesus) thus nullifying the «antichrist» lie made by the apostle John.

It only clarifies that what the apostles had written and testified about Jesus as Son of God, as God, and as one who had died for the sins of mankind, who was raised to life and will return literally in this world in their writings ARE ALL FALSE TESTIMONIES about Jesus, which means the apostles had presented to us a false «Jesus», for Jesus still says in Rev. 22:16 that he will send an «angel» or messenger to testify about him (Jesus).

Today's Latter - Day saints (Mormons) believe in both the Old and New testaments, and in Another Testament, and they believe in continued revelation from God through a prophet 12 apostles, and 70 men, just as in the times of the Old and New Testaments (see Joshua 4:4, Numbers 11:16, Luke 6:13, Luke 10:1).

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

What will matter is that the thousands of children waiting for adoption be treated, in the words of the apostle Paul, as children of God.

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

Angels are creatures who serve as liaison between God the Almighty and His apostles, bringing the Godly messages and revelations to them.

I implore you to stick with the facts of God's word and as the apostle Paul commanded learn to rightly divide the word of truth.

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.

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.

So, Oscar Wilde wrote: But in a manner not yet understood of the world he regarded sin and suffering as being in themselves beautiful holy things and modes of perfection», did he!!!! ----- The apostle Paul wrote:::» Futhermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not be done.»

Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures [Old and New Testament] were given as believe in neither God nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His apostle [Muhammad] have forbidden, and do not embrace the true Faith [Islam], until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.

St. Andrew has developed the following mission statement: «We are sent as a community of disciples and apostles to share God's love.»

Apostles and prophets are the foundation of the church - as - God - wants - it (Ephesians 2:20; 3:5 - 6; 4:11).

He drew out of the New Testament, and particularly from the faith of the apostles as they looked back at the cross of Jesus, the belief that it was the world which was dying, not God who was dead.

Whereas Paul described his former life in Judaism as focused on human relationships with his contemporaries and predecessors, his depiction of his new life is so centered on his relation to God that he as yet has no relationship to the other apostles.

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.

Apostles are given by God as a gift to the church and the world (Ephesians 4:11), and are needed most desperately.

The majority of the communions represented hold to the Nicene and Apostles» creeds; others, such as Baptists, Congregationalists and Disciples, recognize these as witnesses in past generations, but do not hold them in the same reverence, emphasizing instead a personal faith in the living God through the living Christ.

My children lost their friends, people that declared that they were brothers and sisters to us crossed the road rather than speak to us, we lost everything... I saw that as the people of God and the apostle to W...... as he called himself had rejected us it seemed logical that God had also.

Therefore, in order for the Galatians to please God, they must continue in a relationship of identification with Paul and the other apostles (as portrayed in 2.1 - 10), and not enter a new relationship with those who tell them to be circumcised.

Casting out of demons was an act of God, and was also a gift for the Apostles as a confirming miracle of their authority to deliver the gospel — such authority is NOT a gift for believers today.

It is the Biblical notion that miracles have ceased to be normal... This is not to say that God has stopped performing miracles, or that the Holy Spirit has stopped working, but only that the Apostolic miracles such as speaking in tongues, prophecy / revelation, and healings have ceased as a normative gift to individual believers: 1) The Holy Spirit's purpose in imparting the «sign gifts,» has expired 2) The sign gifts were given exclusively to the original Twelve Apostles, so that the sign gifts and Apostleship are inextricably linked 3) The gift of Apostleship no longer exists

This has been reinforced by the first phrase of the Apostles Creed, rendered in English as: «I believe in God the Father Almighty.»

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.»

The apostles redistributed the wealth as they saw fit as the believers gave money for the cause of the new cult — as they felt instructed to do by the greatest authority that they knew of — God.

No work that the church does can be successful in the eyes of God if not built on the foundation as laid by the apostles and prophets.

Use your brains and imagination to learn the truth, as those were the real infidels who are in war with God and his Apostles... and not those who submit to submission...

Jesus even referred to Himself as one sent (John 17:18; 20:21) from God, and so it could be said that He was an apostle of God.

It is inconceivable to me that Paul can be quoted by modern male chauvinists as the biblical authority for excluding women from accepting God's call to serve others in the name of Christ, when Paul himself encouraged and congratulated inspired women who were prominent — to use his own descriptions — as deacons, apostles, ministers and saints.

Are we to assume that if first century Semite culture» had allowed it Jesus would have appointed women apostles and addressed God as Mother?

'» We have heard that so many times, but the apostles were astonished that He would encourage them to address God, not even as an earthly father like Father Knows Best, but «Papa» and «Daddy.»

The apostles went out and proclaimed, «Let all Israel then accept as certain that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.»

When the apostle Paul found himself at the foot of a pagan altar to an «unknown god» he used it as an opportunity to proclaim his God — the God that he knew personally and the God that made Himself knowable in Jesus Chrigod» he used it as an opportunity to proclaim his God — the God that he knew personally and the God that made Himself knowable in Jesus ChriGod — the God that he knew personally and the God that made Himself knowable in Jesus ChriGod that he knew personally and the God that made Himself knowable in Jesus ChriGod that made Himself knowable in Jesus Christ.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

Paul experiences the extremes of sin and God's mercy, which so captivates him as to make him the spiritual father of the Gentiles: «In the history of his sin and its most gracious forgiveness, he exemplifies far more than his brother Apostles his own Gospel; that we are all guilty before God, and can be saved only by His free bounty.»

Studying the Bible in his cell, he was struggling to understand what the apostle Paul meant in his letter to the Romans: «For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed — a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: «The righteous will live by faith»» (1:17).

I think keeping ideals in mind is very good to keep us humble and hungering for more, but the risk is that people then appoint themselves apostles and church planters to the body of christ global and defend their expression of church as touching on gods purpose more than anyone else.

(5) As we move on to the New Testament, we find ourselves in a qualitatively different situation, for the Apostles were eye - and earwitnesses of God's self - revelation in Jesus Christ, the revelation that fulfilled the partial revelations of the divine mercy in Israel's history.

As it had happened to God's son, so it went with the Apostles, just as they themselves had expected, and so it has gone with so many witnesses of the Good and the true in whom this eternal will has burned fiercelAs it had happened to God's son, so it went with the Apostles, just as they themselves had expected, and so it has gone with so many witnesses of the Good and the true in whom this eternal will has burned fiercelas they themselves had expected, and so it has gone with so many witnesses of the Good and the true in whom this eternal will has burned fiercely.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

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.

See John 20:30; Mark 16:17 - 20; John 2:11; Acts 2:22: («Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

The church is organized on the same principles as the original and ancient church of Jesus Christ on the foundation of living apostles and prophets and with priesthood authority from God.

We confess the Triune God affirmed in the Nicene and Apostles» creeds, which we accept as brief, faithful statements of Christian doctrine based upon Scripture.

Of course, if someone is so close with God and Jesus as the apostles and many Christians in the 1st century were, that believer won't need the Bible in order «to hear» God speaking since he hears the Holy Spirit directly.