It means that depsite being
chosen as an apostle, judas could fall away.
Not exact matches
Christ going to the cross meant salvation for all who
choose to accept Him — including Zimmerman — just
as it was for another famous murderer — the
apostle Paul.
«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.»
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.
kermit4jc They
chose at that time who would take Judas» place
as an
apostle.
For his final presentation in class, he had
chosen to work on a reading of a section from 2 Corinthians 11, where Paul speaks of his «weakness»
as an
apostle of Christ.
In the Acts of the
Apostles, the evangelist Luke draws his readers into the Pentecostal experience of the disciples, after Matthias has been
chosen to replace Judas
as the twelfth representative of the new Israel.
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.
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.»
Herein, in contrast to all other church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «
as servant in the midst of the holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the
chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained
as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament
apostles.»