Sentences with phrase «clearer than the gospel»

No book in all the world makes this clearer than the Gospel of John.

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Nowhere is that relationship clearer than at the very end of the Gospel, where the risen Christ declares, «All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

The agreement that we are not Fundamentalists or evangelicals as defined by this manifesto is clearer than the positive affirmation of the Gospel.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

What is clear is that this gospel is more of an original composition than the others.

And while more time was given to the story of Abraham than to the story of Jesus that night, the gospel message was clear.

This evaluation of the Gospel records has become clearer and more widely held during the last century or more, a period which has witnessed the development of biblical study on a scale more intensive than ever before, and using the valuable tools of historical and literary criticism.

Challenging what he calls «the Guild» of «critical» Bible scholars, Finnis argues that the conventional view widely accepted today that the Gospel of Mark is of earlier date than the Gospels of Matthew and Luke is quite wrong, and that the evidence is clear that Mark comes third and last in time among the synoptic Gospels.

And there could hardly be any clearer go ahead signal than the recognition that the New Testament itself arose out of the continual interpretation of the Gospel for new situations.

«It is clear to me that whilst our theological dialogue will face new challenges, there is nonetheless so much troubling our world today that our common witness to the Gospel is of more importance than ever.

While probably Mark gives a clearer picture of the human Jesus than any of the gospels, he also presents him as Lord.