In the Acts of
the Apostles we see two more examples of God healing people using material things associated with His saints.
Eventually the 11
apostles see Jesus in Galilee, some still doubting.
Not exact matches
(
See the insert «
Apostles and Terrorists: A Company's Best Friends and Worst Enemies.»)
The «working out dramatically,» of course, suggests the great poetic potential of southern religion, as we
see in THE
APOSTLE and TENDER MERCIES, for example.
Judas was not to become a martyr because of the way the
apostles wrote about him in the Gospel - they
saw through the eyes of men, and Judas was unable to redeem himself before he died a natural death, dying instead loathed, hated & driven to suicide for his deed against the Son of God, Jesus, whom he had Loved so much.
False Christians arn't persecuted True ones are though they even have been persecuted by the Vatican and other false Christians they are under ban in places like NK and Iran and some other places Jesus
apostles where persecuted stephen was stoned John the baptist was decapitated Paul was liked in prison for a while you
see only true Christians are persecuted how can the richest orinization on the planet claim to follow God and be the richest on the planet and actually persecute everyone else.
JWW, the same verse you joke about, is from the
apostle that knew Jesus,
saw heaven, and knew who God is.
(Revelation 7:9 - 17) The
apostle John also
saw «the dead... standing before the throne» of judgment.
At Revelation 20:11, 12, we read the
apostle John's description of Judgment Day: «I
saw a great white throne and the one seated on it.
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.
This can be
seen from carefully looking at Hebrews chapter 4 in the Bible, for the
apostle Paul wrote that the «seventh day» or God's «rest» day (Heb 4:1 - 5), was still ongoing some 4000 years after the end of the sixth «creative «day (Gen 1:31), and was far from complete.
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
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 quite honestly, I fail to
see how the Mormon people can assert that Mary remained a virgin in light of this evidence from their prophets and
apostles.
When the
apostles had been asked by the government to no longer preach anything about Christ, Peter and John responded by saying «Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we can not but speak of what we have
seen and heard (Acts 4:19 - 20).»
Since Jesus Christ did not lie to the
Apostles and His Church is still standing after 2000 years it is very simple to
see who has the proper interpretation of the Bible... the Church that compiled the Bible... collecting the inspired scripture from amongst many scriptures and placing the Books in the Bible.
Maybe you should go back and read the early church fathers, the men who learned the faith from the
apostles and
see what they have to say on this issue.
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.
The Book of Acts can be
seen as a continuation of Luke since it is what he observed of the Disciples - turned -
Apostles after Luke finishes reporting of Jesus» crucifixion and resurrection.
In Acts 4:29 - 31, we
see the
apostles pray for boldness in their preaching as well.
This discrepancy was revealed most dramatically when Martin Luther was considered a heretic by the institutional church of his day... but only because he clung to what he
saw the institutional church as rejecting: that is, the
apostles» teaching.
To review: In their letters to the early church, the
apostles Peter and Paul include what you might call a Christian remix of the traditional Greco - Roman household codes, which detailed the responsibilities of a male head - of - house, his wives, slaves, and adult children (
see Ephesians 5, Colossians 3, and 1 Peter 3).
We can
see how the
Apostles» Creed is an extension or expansion of such «confessions,» made necessary because of movements of thought or opinion which were beginning to invade the Christian community and to threaten the integrity of the gospel the Church preached.
«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 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..
(
See the
apostles words).
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.
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.
See 1 Corinthians 15:7,8 «Then he appeared to James, then to all the
apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.»
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 can break free of our demands to touch and to
see and trust the witness of the
apostles.
Mike John the
apostle was given revelation before he died that is all about the last days and what is to happen in the future so he
saw our future unfold before him.So the message Jesus gave was true like everything God does it is not how we would understand it.I suspect Paul also may have
seen alot more insight on what was to come than he talked about also.brentnz
I agree with you that the
apostles physically
saw Jesus ascend from earth.
If the appearances to the
apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have
seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the nature of visions rather than of bodily
seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external reality.
The power to bind and loose, conferred on all the
apostles jointly and to Peter in particular (Matthew 16:19) is
seen in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as authority to absolve sins, to pronounce judgments on doctrine and to make decisions on Church discipline.
Scripture repeatedly describes baptism as occurring in conjunction with repentance, and I
see absolutely no evidence that Jesus, the
apostles, or members of the early church engaged in infant baptism.
This is bolder than the claim I once
saw here that some
apostle (I forget who) should be credited with the idea of uniformitarianism.
The
apostle - slave might be the same as the lowest household slave who was given the shameful duty of washing feet (
see John 13).
I
see the NT First Century Culture and their amazing pluralism, and realize what the
Apostles were saying in light of that culture.
But even the
apostle Paul wrote that we only
see «through a lens darkly ``.
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.
We
see what Jesus tells the
Apostles...... In [John 20:21 Peace be with you.
Jews believe in a Messiah, but don't believe it was Jesus (though the passover ceremony is all about Christ); Muslims go back to Abraham but since the prophet Mohammad don't have any recent connection to God; Catholics came from a combination of the Roman and Christian church after the death of Christ's
apostles; Protestant's
see misunderstandings in the Catholic church and have tried in various forms over the years to correct them without any true religious authority; Mormons believe God restored the truths of the original Christian church back on earth through modern prophets and revelation.
I am also decisively informed by Norman O. Brown, yet I end in a place somewhat different from Rubenstein's, primarily because I
see Paul's theology of justification by grace to be the central focus of what the
apostle has to say, whereas Rubenstein works more with the symbols of Paul's so - called «Christ mysticism.»
We should learn from the testimony of the
apostle who, far from
seeing success as accomplishing more than others had accomplished, measured it against the call of all Christians with whom he hoped to share the reward (II Tim.
The
apostle Peter, after testifying that he had
seen Jesus Christ in all His glory, said, «And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts» (II Peter 1:19, NASB).
Perhaps if one can
see the close analogy between a psychoanalytic interpretation of society and Paul's theology of culture, a new way toward an understanding of the message of the
apostle may emerge.
Members believe that Christ established His Church anciently on the «foundation of the
apostles and prophets» (Ephesians 2:20;
see also Ephesians 4:11 - 14) with «one faith, [and] one baptism» (Ephesians 4:5).
We
see various instances of these types of
apostles elsewhere in the New Testament.
Since the Syriac fathers
see the old order of sacrifices as having lost its former value, it is curious how firmly both Aphrahat and Ephrem held a tradition which is strange to the New Testament, namely, that Christ as High Priest «according to the order of Melchizedek», actually received the Aaronic priesthood by unbroken succession of imposition of hands through John the Baptist, who was of priestly family; when the former priesthood was repudiated, the power continued in Christ and he passed it on to the
Apostles.