Sentences with phrase «authority as apostles»

Paul and others will make an appeal to their authority as apostles when necessary, or they will say it is a custom, or a hymn; it's not that hard, really, when anyone reads the whole thing instead of just verses.

Stephen J. Binz notes that «her announcement, «I have seen the Lord,» is the same credential used by Paul to insist on his own authority as an apostle: «Am I not an apostle?

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.

«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»),

However, the insult is in the explicit denial of the authenticity of Christian baptisms, on the basis of the Mormon belief that the power was lost upon the death of the original apostles, and was restored when they returned as angels and appeared to Joseph Smith, granting him authority which now resides only within the Mormon organization.

Kirk maintains they are necessarily male (and Jewish) because they are «a proleptic [anticipatory] symbol of the coming kingdom», a divine reconstruction of the twelve tribes of Israel, founded on the twelve sons of Jacob; although he adds this does not preclude «the possibility that Jesus has other ends in mind... a church with Peter at its head and the twelve apostles as the foundation stones of its order and authority» (p. 43).

In fact, I've been in multiple conversations in which the apostle Paul seems to be hailed as the final authority on Christianity, his words, in effect, trumping the words of Jesus.

He was also unambiguous about his calling as an apostle (2:6 b) in that the instructions he gave carry «the authority of the Lord Jesus» (4:2).

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.

Kelsey even charges that Warfield got his notion of authority from his mother's milk and not, as he thinks, from Jesus Christ and the Apostles.

Lumen Gentium, the Constitution on the Church, reads: «This is the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, which our Savior, after his Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which he erected for all ages as «the pillar and mainstay of the truth.»

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.

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.

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.

Just as there were some «apostles» in the days of Paul who were not «apostles of Jesus Christ,» there can be apostles today who can be considered as «sent ones» and yet do not have the same authority as the «apostles of Jesus.»

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.

At Jerusalem itself the continued presence of the majority of the apostles simplified the question of authority, because they seem to have acted on all important questions as a body which sought and obtained the consent of the Church as a whole (Acts 6: 12 - 16, 15:22) under the joint guidance of the Spirit (Acts 15:28, cf. 6:3).

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

For the sake of argument, even if Junia were an apostle «in the sense of having seen the risen Lord» it doesn't mean he / she was in authority as an Apostle in the Church.

Catholic eyes are open to the Truth as spoken to us by Jesus Christ's Church which has the Authority given by Jesus Christ when He sent out His Apostles saying, as the Father has sent me so I send you.

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.

If one sees the creeds as extensions of the apostles» teaching and writing of scripture, there is less conflict between competing authorities.

One who affirms a doctrine of apostolic succession culminating in the authority of the bishop of Rome must not only choose between succession of teaching or succession of office (as J. B. Lightfoot in his own day understood), but also surmount the historiographical difficulty posed by the early Church's transition from apostles to presbyters, and from presbyters to a single monarchical bishop.

As far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before theAs far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before theas the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!

But in the words of Leo the Great, «Peter is the true leader of all, who have in the first place Christ as their leader... The strength which Christ gives to Peter passes through Peter to the Apostles — because he gave such authority to him whom he chose as head of the whole Church.»

Kasemann pointed out that time and again the Gospels narrate the healing of possessed persons, which then continues in the Acts of the Apostles; the New Testament letters, especially the «Revelation of John», celebrate the triumph of the Risen Christ as redemption from captivity to the powers and authorities, meaning by this, all who torment and seduce the world and individual human beings, and alienate them from their humanity, are thrown out of their power.

That pre-eminence can be sensed in the words used by Pius XII on the occasion of the definition of the Assumption of Our Lady «By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by the authority of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and by our own authority do pronounce, declare and define as a divinely revealed dogma...» It is an awesome power, linking the current successor of St. Peter to the Lord who taught as one having authority, and not as their scribes and Pharisees (Matt.

The facts were, chiefly, these: Jesus of Nazareth, a man anointed by the Spirit and divinely accredited by mighty works, who went about doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil (for God was with him), who was put to death by the blind and misguided authorities, religious and civil, at Jerusalem, where he was crucified — all this is preliminary and descriptive, as identifying him, like the central clauses in the Apostles» Creed.

as the Father SENT Him... so He was sending His Apostles and the Successors of the Apostles... How was Jesus Christ sent by the Father... with power and authority; He sent the Apostles out with His power and authority.

So, for example, the Roman Catholic reaction to form criticism has always been extremely cautious, emphasizing the limits that must be set to this kind of enquiry, and the authority and reliability of the apostles as «eyewitnesses and ministers of the word».

Jesus Christ was SENT by the Father with power and authority and He said that as He was sent so it is that He is sending His Apostles.

As vicar of Peter and consul Dei, Leo was the Covenantal heir of the authority of the Jewish high priest and the prince of the apostles and the residuary legatee of the power of the populus Romanus.

But the recognition of such facts as these must not obscure Paul's sense of apostolic authority: «God has appointed in the church first apostles.»

Ambrose laid stress upon the thrice - asseverated love of Peter for the resurrected Jesus as distinguished from the faith in the pre-resurrection Matthaean episode as the basis of Peter's pre-eminence among the apostles and of his authority to rule the flock of Christ and bind and loose on earth.