Sentences with phrase «as apostles by»

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Same thing with the bible — many gospels were rightly left out, because they were found to be frauds used for social gain by crooked writers many years later, and not written by the actual apostles or their scribes, as they had claimed.

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 John.

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

as noted by the author of this article, likely judas was not a «mole» otherwise he would have never been appointed an apostle.

Even though history clearly speaks to Paul dying at the hands of Nero, all the apostles except John being murdered, and early church fathers such as Polycarp being killed by Rome?

At this time, I lean towards the «elder» in Paul's writings to be someone that we would call a fulltime pastor / evangelist / prophet / apostle; and further, assomeone recognized as such by outsiders / non-believers.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

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.

What a farce is all this unctuous adulation of Marx, or of Lenin... They are men like any other men, and they have not attained to their present position as apostles of the communist State by the sheer force of their mild, pacific, self - abnegating temperaments.

In the light of this confirmation of the tradition it does seem highly plausible, as the studies by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini maintain, that the apostles would have practised continence even if it were not a universal requirement in the «apostolic age» and beyond.

Had that already occurred by the time of Christ, there would be no reason why this could not have been revealed to the apostles by Jesus as a caution against soteriological presumption.

He is only guided and advised by the messages of Allah and by the apostles but is still completely free to choose as he wishes.

For a year I shall serve purely as a deacon, an office set up by the first apostles to serve the community, as recounted in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles; read on and you'll learn how the first deacon, Stephen, quickly also became the first Christianapostles to serve the community, as recounted in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles; read on and you'll learn how the first deacon, Stephen, quickly also became the first ChristianApostles; read on and you'll learn how the first deacon, Stephen, quickly also became the first Christian martyr.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

Aside from being an apostle, the people that followed Paul as their spiritual father appear to have done so by their own choice.

So Reality, how many «experts» say that 2 Thessalonians was written by a pseudo Paul as opposed to those who say that it was written by the apostle Paul?

The apostle may be a commoner, a fisherman, a one - talent man by nature, or he may have ten talents — yet all that he has is dedicated to the service of the Eternal and as such is lifted up.

In the Pauline churches official leaders such as apostles, prophets, and teachers were present, but in the act of gathered worship their role as leaders was muted by the Spirit's urging and prompting of contributions by every group member.

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

By the way, John was the only apostle who revealed that he could also look into others» hearts as Jesus did who always knew what men really thought about all things.

Since the Catholic Church in 451 A.D. had so grossly departed from the Biblical faith, why do you respect, receive and follow the Chalcedonian Creed, as if it were written by the Apostles and included in the New Testament?

And even when, in an appearance after the resurrection, he is represented by the author of the Acts of the Apostles as having referred to the outside world, it was as a provincial might, dividing the world into the immediate environs and everything that was elsewhere: «Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria — and unto the uttermost part of the earth» (Acts 1:8).

Among both Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany there were those who, as the New Testament says about the apostle Paul's involvement in the martyrdom of Stephen, were «consenting to the death» of the Jews (Acts 8:1), and many more who were (as it seems now, by hindsight) blindly insensitive to the situation.

The reason, though offered as much by faith as by sight, is that in Jesus Christ, as the apostle put it to the Colossians, «all things hold together,» even the well - publicized actions of well - known figures and the day - to - day activities of ordinary people carried on with never a thought about the scrutiny of history.

Clearly, the NT as written by the apostles and writers under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit is the authoritative source for the church.

In his book Man as Male and Female (Eerdmans, 1975), Jewett argues for an egalitarian male / female relationship by calling for distinctions (within the New Testament materials themselves) between Paul the former rabbi and Paul the apostle, or between Paul's perception of the truth and his implementation of it in the first century.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

There are even a number of «Protestant» churches that are led by self - proclaimed apostles who are thought to speak with just as much authority as the Catholic Pope.

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

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.

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.»

In context, he refers to the «holy apostles» (Eph 3:5), as a way of speaking about the apostles who were called and sent by Jesus Christ to lay the foundation for the church by teaching and writing about Jesus Christ and the gospel (Eph 2:20).

This is usually done by the church after an apostle dies, as we see happen with Matthias replacing Judas in Acts 1.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

These two holy apostles would have been better fit as bouncers outside an expensive casino in Vegas owned by a mobster, than preachers of the gospel of love.

Another major factor is the claim of Orthodoxy to be the Church founded by Christ, led by bishops who were appointed by other bishops who were appointed by others back to the apostles themselves, a concept known as Apostolic Succession.

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.

As an apostle he distinguished his ministry from that of others by virtue of having been the originating parent of faith for congregations (I Cor.

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.

If taken by themselves, some of these verses indicate that the apostle deviated from Jesus» example and had a bias against women, and even suggested that women should be treated as second - class Christians — submissive to their husbands, attired and coifed demurely and silent in church.

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.

The deacons had hands laid on them by the apostles (Acts 6:6), and it is probable that the elders were similarly appointed by the apostles with the consent of the Christian community as a whole; their functions included the control of finance (Acts11: 30) and must also have involved the arrangement of worship.

The authority of the apostles was real, but the guidance of the Spirit was unhesitatingly accepted by them as by other Christians.

While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.

We, too, are living at the end of the story; we — as were the apostles — are engaged in the second, christotelic reading by virtue of our eschatological moment, the last days, the inauguration of the eschaton.

As we have seen in Chapter 10 we can no longer recover the actual historical development by which the apostles came to see the significance of the death of Jesus.

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).