Sentences with phrase «early disciples doing»

The scriptural account of Acts shows the apostles and early disciples doing exactly that.

Perhaps he believes that the earliest disciples did not understand it as Paul did.

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Some of that evidence includes, «the empty tomb, the early belief of the disciples in the resurrection of Jesus due to eyewitness testimony, the transformation of the disciples, the conversion of Paul, and the conversion of James» I understand that many have died in the name of faith and religoun throughout time and still do, but they have died wholeheartedly believing that their way was the truth.

For one thing, as we saw in the case of the early disciples, it is important that reason and faith communicate so we don't make grave mistakes when it comes to understanding the requirements of our faith.

This might be the case, and certainly the evidence is that Jesus and his disciples did not, in fact, fast in the prescribed manner, as we saw earlier in this chapter.

What it can do is to work towards a discovery of the earliest strata of material in the gospel narratives, and thus indicate what it is highly likely the earliest disciples believed.

Yet something does remain: the unquestionable fact that the earliest stories testify to the disciples» firm certainty that God had vindicated Jesus» obedience unto death, that Jesus was therefore alive, and that they were in contact with him, not only as one whom they remembered but as one whose reality they could and did now experience.

But this tradition, found no earlier than Matthew's Gospel, more than fifty years after the event, almost certainly stems from much later apologetic, suggesting, as it does, that the Jews, unlike the disciples, were ready for the Resurrection even before it happened.

Using the story from Luke 24 about the two disciples on the road to Emmaus as a framework, Wright shows how the startling news about the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb transformed and re-imagined the mission and purpose of the early church, and how it can do the same for us.

In the Sha» bani order in Istanbul, Shaikh Ahmed Amish early in this century forbade his disciples to assemble for dhikr together; they were taught to do their dhikr privately, reading the Qur» an frequently and reciting phrases and words of love and attachment to the Prophet (the Peace and Mercy of Allah be upon him) and his Companions.

(John 18:11) These things are not difficult to be misunderstood or compromised by disciples with the best of intentions, but that does not change what the scriptures testify concerning Jesus and the early church.

-- Paul never persecuted anyone (if Paul persecuted anyone, it would have been for a belief that he didn't hold, and you are saying that Paul invented the whole resurrection story and convinced the «disciples» to pretend later)-- So, after Jesus death, the disciples went back to their occupations and stayed that way for 10 years or so (the date of Pauls earliest letters)-- Then, Paul, a successful member of the Jewish authority decided to invent a new religion.

The early days weren't easy, and its took a while before they got any business, because the disciples of Taylor did not respect him.