Sentences with phrase «apostles believe»

And yet something happened after Jesus» death that made His apostles believe again so much so that they would all be killed for their beliefs.

The answer to that question is the answer to this question: «Did Peter and the other apostles believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus when they beleived in Him for eternal life?»

I am reading your newest posts to your oldest.I have never been to bible school but I consider myself in the journey of education concerning the bible.more than any opinions that you have what concerns me most is how «brothers and sisters» through their comments responds to someone who thinks differently from what is perceived as absolutes (not sure if that's the right term) in scripture.I wonder did the apostle believe half the things that are seen as church doctirine today?how did the disciples who did not have the new testament or the ability to read follow Jesus?I appreciate your questioning.In my experience we are too quick to try and fix someone or use the scriptures as a control mechanism and to slow to practise empathy and love..

Not exact matches

I plead guilty to the fact that I believe apostle Peter is in heaven.

But it's about endless what he's done over history, and if you don't believe the apostles in simply writing up what happened, then you won't believe anyone today either.

OTOH, disregarding denominations, 33 % of the world population believes Christiantiy in one form or another, where Jesus was born of Mary, with God using the Holy Spirit to form him within her, and Jesus using the Holy Spirit later, dying on the cross, and then giving the Holy Spirit to the Apostles after ascending to heaven.

Like the comet reports, you can write them off, or you can believe them and track them down... like I did... if you bother to believe God, seriously believe him, and don't have any problem with what he wants, the apostles accounts won't be any shock to you either.

Sam, you claim that you don't believe the bible, nor the apostles or the prophets, correct?

And as Jesus told them, his seed, people believing him then, the 12 apostles, that would grow like a mustard seed in to a huge tree... which it did, 33 % of the 7 billion people on the planet believe Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit, performed miracles using the Holy Spirit, and later sent the Holy Spirit to the followers after dying on the cross and raising again on the 3rd day of being in the hands of sinful men.

You must also not believe the Bible when it tells us that Jesus Christ promises to guide and guard His Church until the end of time [so that evil will not prevail] and that the Bible says that Jesus Christ will bring His Apostles [which would include their successors] into remembrance of all that He taught them and He would bring them into the fullness of Truth as we can bear it.

The article says on 6 credible martyrs, then states Nero lighted his garden with Christians (I believe more than six died there, not counting the others whom he blamed for burning down Rome) Then we have 11 apostles who were martyred in the Roman empire (more than six there also).

Catholics, in turn, teach that the Magisterium exercised by the successors of the apostles — which they believe is intended by Christ, is guided by the Holy Spirit, and is in clear continuity with the orthodox tradition — enables the Church to explicate the truth of Holy Scripture obediently and accurately.

Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in the Trinity, not because of mere opinion, but Jesus» own testimony and also that of the apostles and other Bible writers.

I believe the Word of God that was affirmed by Jesus, the Prophets and the Apostles concerning Moses account of Noah's Ark..

If you want to beLIEve that the «apostles» could have written their books, you are sadly mistaken.

They tell the others, who still don't believe, but Jesus later appears to all 11 apostles (Judas is persona non grata at this point and / or dead) and rebukes them for not believing Mary Magdalene and the first two apostles who saw him earlier.

Catholics believe in the following, «For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved» than that of JESUS (Acts of the Apostles, iv.12); We probably can agree that we are united by Jesus in our faith and can set aside our other differences.

I believe those parts I understand based on what Jesus, Prophets and the apostles stated which confirms what the story is all about.

You have to believe the recorded history provided by the witnesses to it, the apostles Jesus gathered at the start.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

Yet much of Christianity believes in extra-Biblical creeds and councils formulated centuries after the time of Christ and the Apostles.

Hi, with all do respect, do nt you believe that a formal apology to the black race for the many years of stone cold bigotry should come from the apostles all white, or the milocvich 70, next in line, all white also, yea I said milocvih, Its like some big comunist white cult of 82

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).

But more than 1.5 billion Orthodox and Catholics, 75 percent of Christendom, believe that Christ Himself gave the apostles, their successors and priests the ability to forgive sin on His behalf and His Church.

This thread may have gotten to long but back to your response from last night let me try and explain again, I believe it on authority of the apostles and other people of that time period.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

The apostle Paul believed in the ONES: (Ephesians 4:4 - 6) One body.

At the beginning of the Acts, the apostles are accused of being drunk, so obviously if they weren't believed to be sober in their own day, why should we believe what they wrote even now?

I believe the truth died with the apostles....

And we don't call anyone misfits or outcasts, we know faith can be a difficult thing, even the apostle Thomas didn't believe the other apostles until he saw Jesus himself.

I believe the body of believers in Acts devoted themselves to the apostle's teaching, prayer, fellowship and the breaking of bread together.

She reasons that Paul and the other early apostles to the nations must have believed that the Kingdom was coming within their lifetimes (cf. 1 Thessalonians 4 and Mark 13:30).

This, I believe, is what the apostle Paul meant when he instructed Christians to be ready to give a defense for the hope --(not the certainty, not the doctrine, not the logic....

I believe in the The Nicene Creed and the Apostles» Creed and our fellowship's statement of faith.

Every Muslim believes in God, in Angels, in revealed scriptures, in apostles, in the Day of Judgment, and in destiny.

If a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, what was the object of faith for OT people and the apostles who did not (as far as we can tell) believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus?

This emphasis on the primacy of belief was the first message of Muhammad to the Arabs, just as it was the message of all apostles and prophets; as the Qur» an says, «Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the Prophets received from their Lord.

Those who believe in some apostles and reject others will be punished, for the Qur» an says, «Lo!

«Blessed are they who have not seen, and have yet believed» (Jn 20:29), Christ tells Thomas, yet we believe alongside the apostle through hearing his story.

I also want to point out that Peter and the apostles did not believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus until after He died and rose again (cf. Matt 16:20 - 23; Mark 9:31 - 32; Luke 9:44 - 45; 18:31 - 34; 24:19 - 26; John 20:9, 24 - 30).

Islam calls mankind to believe in all His scriptures which have been revealed through the apostles — such as Abraham's Books, Moses» Bible, Jesus» Gospel, and Muhammad's Qur» an.

No doubt the apostles thought and believed about Jesus what the NT says

On the other hand, those who believe in all of His apostles will receive their reward.

Allah rejects the disbelievers, those who are polytheists, who do not believe in Angels, or in the apostles, or in the scriptures, or in the Last Day — and He invites them all to believe in Islam through logical thought and acceptance of the evidence revealed to men.

Islam calls mankind to believe that Muhammad is the last of all prophets and apostles, as is made clear in the Qur» an, «Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets; and Allah is Aware of all things» (Surah XXXIII, 40).

We must believe in Angels, the ambassadors of the revelation from Allah to His apostles, and, of necessity, in the Scriptures, His messages to humanity.

I have not yet seen an explanation on how Peter and the apostles could have eternal life without believing in the death and resurrection of Jesus, but how today we must believe it.

To accept and believe in the messages of Allah is a mere logical consequence of belief in Angels and apostles.

The apostle Peter puts it so eloquently, stating, «Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls» (1 Peter 1:8 - 9).

We confess «I believe» with the baptismal (Apostles») Creed, because the focus is on the individual's public confession of faith.