Sentences with phrase «apostles taught»

Much of what the Old Testament prophets and what Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught assumes this pattern.

The Bible is one tool to support what the Apostles taught.

By requiring a document to contain what the Apostles taught, therefore, the Church was not simply glorifying the Founding Fathers but exercising its responsibility to provide some sort of assurance that the Scripture contains authentic writings.

The second was more subtle: Does the book contain what the Apostles taught?

By requiring that the New Testament books contain what the Apostles taught, the Church was not trying to freeze its development to the past, but was making sure that its ongoing life and thought be in line with the past.

(2) Does it contain what the Apostles taught?

It is true that both the gospels and the speeches of Peter and Paul in Acts give important testimony as to what the apostles taught about the Christian life and proclaimed about the meaning of Jesus» own life, death, and resurrection; yet both the gospels and Acts were written, not by apostles, but by later disciples, and their evidence on particular points stands in need of confirmation, if possible, from the apostles themselves.

Well, I don't think the Apostles taught as roaming Rabbis because: a) they weren't rabbis (well, Paul was) b) I forget the other point

Your statement that «all the comments on this subject (concerning atheists) do not come from happy people... who despise, are upset, have nothing, are not thankful and... have nothing to live for» goes against the very way that both Jesus and the apostles taught when speaking with individuals who do not share their view.

another gnostic gospel... not even close to the true Gospel found in matthew, mark, luke, and john gospels that line up with Paul, and the other apostles teachings of Jesus, those four gospels have hundreds of manuscrips not like these puny 1 time fragments dated way after apostles

Heresy can be defined as any departure from Christian orthodoxy which is a teaching, doctrine or practice that goes beyond the apostles teachings — the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3).

Not exact matches

Cardinal Müller: Not even an ecumenical council can change the doctrine of the Church, because her Founder, Jesus Christ, entrusted the faithful preservation of his teachings and doctrine to the apostles and their successors.

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.

According to the New Testament which is a collection of the teachings of Christ and his Apostles the Triune God consists of three Persons: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

«They devoted themselves to the apostles» teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

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.

To an outsider, beliefs in the teachings of Mormon are no more fantastic, say, than those in the Acts of the Apostles, or Revelation.

Since he failed his mission, was deceived by Satan and later followed Satan and taught its teachings, the book of Revelation has to be written so that the deception of Jesus and his apostles may be exposed!

«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),

The marks of the Catholic church are: One - In doctrine, sacraments, and head (the pope); Holy - its sacraments and teachings lead men to holiness; Universal - meaning the same doctrine and sacraments and head throughout the world; and Apostolic - can be directly traced to the Apostles and Jesus Christ.

Humane Vitae came out in 1968 but it reaffirmed what was in the Didache or teachings of the apostles and also in the bible.

Jesus nor his apostles used it for any other reason than to teach that.

One of these is mastery of the tradition through which the teaching of the Apostles has come down to us.

Others are even more adamant, however, in saying that the Church can not change a practice that is based on the doctrine of Jesus, the apostles, and centuries of authoritative teaching.

Mormon belief is very much like the teachings of the earlier Christians — before the creeds — and also matches the teachings of Christ and the Apostles.

We have been promised that if we worship God daily in the midst of his people, and if our worship remains faithful to the teaching of the Apostles, God will be made known to us in both Spirit and Truth.

Only living persons are to be baptized, for just before Jesus ascension to heaven, he gave the command to his eleven faithful apostles: «Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them... teaching then to observe all the things I have commanded you.»

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 Books that told of the Traditions that the Apostles were told to teach.

[Jesus Christ commission the Apostles to go out and teach and to Baptize].

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

The apostle Paul did not say that all denominations could teach different terms for pardon.

Notice we refer to such teachings as «calvinism» and not Jesus or the apostles!

The prophets and apostles represent the Word of God - teaching.

From what I know about the bible Apostles were men who walked with and were taught by Jesus Himself..

What were the terms for salvation taught by the Apostles?

Jesus told the Apostles to go out to all the nations and TEACH what He TAUGHT.

«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.

ICEMAN, When Jesus Christ commissioned Peter and the Apostles to go out to all nations teaching them all that He taught them and Baptise everyone... how were they to do that if the succession of Popes was not also commissioned?

The apostles of the early church, who were taught by Christ and inspired by God, organized the church to primarily focus on three things: teaching, fellowship and prayer.

The apostle Paul called women his «co-workers» which could imply a teaching role and women were first to witness the resurrection of Jesus.

As he enumerated the tasks of faith, being an apostle came first; being a prophet came second, preceding such essential tasks as teaching and heeling.

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.

We read there that the early church continually devoted themselves to the apostle's teaching, to the breaking of bread and fellowship, and to prayer.

There are no ethical absolutes for us in the Law or in the teaching of Christ and the apostles, and there is no natural law, at least not one about which any reliable conclusions can be drawn.

At one point you define heresy as departure from the apostles» teaching and at another you define it as departure from historic church teaching.

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.

If we also fail to understand why we bore others, we are missing the lesson that Winnicott and the apostle Paul seek to teach us.

«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.»

The apostles understood this teaching and new model brought by Jesus so well that the Acts of the apostles recorded that they sold all they had and brought the proceeds to the church to be shared by all and they all received equally and none lacked.