Sentences with phrase «early followers of»

Greek was the lingua franca of the world of Jesus» day, and was probably not spoken too well by the relatively poorly educated, early followers of Jesus.

The early followers of Jesus wrote books and letters which were intended to continue this work on a wider scale.

@Gary You're partially right - the early followers of Christ, called then, «follower of the Way,» were labeled as a strange sect by the Herodians, Sadducees and religious Pharisees of the day then steeped in Judaism.

In fact, given the degree to which the «early followers of Jesus... suffered Rome's punitive regime, living at the edge of prison,... risking torture and execution,» Taylor finds it exceedingly peculiar that «Christians today are so accepting» of Lockdown America.

These are probably only a few of the passages which could have helped the early followers of Jesus if they searched the scriptures to find the meaning of his death.

In fact, the Bible of today was assembled based on what the Nicean Council selected; not all the literary writings of the early followers of the apocolyptic cult known as Christians...

In beautiful contrast, the early followers of Jesus gave their service, money, goods, time, safety, creature comforts and reputations with a generosity that was not just a series of isolated, unusual actions, but a way of life.

In passing down the experiential faith of the early followers of the Movement (as the AG likes to refer to itself) to a new generation, members began limiting once - popular Pentecostal expressions.

I agree that much of what we hold as doctrines today were probably not held by the early followers of Jesus.

The early followers of Jesus probably didn't know much about it either, and they were better followers of Jesus than most of us.

When referring to the earliest followers of Jesus, the Gospel writers often speak of two groups of disciples: the Twelve and the Women.

That Martha's name appears before her brother's suggests that this woman garnered considerable respect among the earliest followers of Jesus.

No early follower of Jesus would invent a statement that calls his miracles into question and that implicitly admits that he failed to perform when challenged by the Pharisees.

Christianity was understood by the earlier followers of Jesus as a definitively nonviolent practice [8].

An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote with an extreme attention to her own responses to artworks, and a level of psychological sensitivity rarely seen in any aesthetic writing.

An early follower of Walter Pater, her work is characterized by extreme attention to her own responses to artworks, and a level of psychological sensitivity rarely seen in any aesthetic writing.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members sell products to their friends and followers; in turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips to New York to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.

She was able to experiment in online marketing early on at startups in Toronto and San Francisco, when numbers of followers and likes weren't crucial to anyone's bottom line.

A: I was an early adopter of Twitter and now with almost 2 million followers, I consider social media to be an integral part of my brand.

Owned by Sina Corp., a Yahoo - like web portal that came to prominence in the early day, it's become prominent in Chinese politics, especially around environmental issues, corruption over food safety, disaster response and in Chinese celebrity culture, where a number of actors and singers have gained millions of followers (or «fans» as their called in Weibo lingo).

In a series of early - morning tweets Friday morning, Trump called former Miss Universe and new Clinton campaign asset Alicia Machado «disgusting» and urged his followers to look up her «sex tape.»

He joined the social networking site earlier this year, updating followers on his guitar practice and posting a picture of himself doing the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but he also attempted to engage his critics, with mixed success.

In an earlier post, some really brilliant follower of Jesus tried to show me the light, but ended up only concluding — You know, it's complicated!!!

It was not in Mark's gospel, which was the earliest, so was not included in the gospel writings for many decades of early followers.

The real travesty is that out of the early Roman Empire emereged the Catholic church which in the past 1000 years has doe more to persecute followers of Christ then any other group.

That was the belief of his earlier followers, and it was the basis of a good deal of his moral teaching.»

In early 2000, followers of the religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.

Jesus» early followers became new men suddenly and seemingly without psychic preparation: «And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

Were there clues early in his ministry to alert potential followers of what was to come?

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

More and more, I find myself wondering if church sprung out the minds / needs / traditions of the early Christ followers who needed community while facing persecution.

It also includes some early writings of the followers of Jesus of Nazareth.

It is an insult to Jesus Christ and to the very real persecution of his earliest followers for Christians in America to suggest that the health care decision calls for a violent, revolutionary - war - style response to the policies of the Obama administration.

Early Christian writers mention an Elder John of Ephesus, who was a follower of Jesus but was not the apostle of that name, and they sometimes refer to him simply as «the Elder», just as the writer of these letters calls himself.

The author discusses numerous ways Christian see Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God and how the early followers and the early church developed the concepts of Jesus» Divinity.?

Emperor Hadrian (a.d. 76 - 136) wrote about Christians as followers of Jesus Early Christians wrote thousands of letters, sermons and commentaries about Jesus.

His followers were known to be barbaric and disruptive, regardless of how people want to revision early Christianity.

Wesley and his early followers similarly sought to reform the Anglican Church from within through eucharistic practice, the pursuit of holiness within disciplined small groups, and ministry for and with the poor and dispossessed.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

Paul became a follower of Jesus within 2 - 3 years after the ascension, He was a contemporary of Peter, John, and James in the early church.

In Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences, social psychologist Abraham Maslow noted how the great religions of the world developed around the religious experiences of the prophet and his or her early followers.

The early church struggled with this very issue, and eventually agreed that non-Jewish followers of Jesus did NOT have to follow all the Jewish laws (cf. Acts 15:28 - 29).

If the actions of Christ and his early followers are what people like Rush call communism, socialism and Marxism, then Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ and the early Christians were the greatest Marxists!

A Clackamas County judge turned down a petition Monday for early release while the conviction of Shannon Mae Hickman, a member of the Followers of Christ church, is reviewed by the Oregon Court of Appeals.

No, Bill, it is almost certainly untrue that the first followers of Jesus were defined by a belief in his resurrection, because there doesn't seem to have been any mention of resurrection in the early oral tradition.

One of his earliest followers thought it was an abomination to touch women, but if you're going to, you should get married.

The truth is that St Paul has the most to do with the diversity of the early Christian Church (Followers of the Way), but today religion is used politically and otherwise to divide humans into «us» as against «them».

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

The first occasion, as described in the three earlier gospels, finds Jesus alone with his closest followers at a place outside the boundaries of Jewish Palestine, known as Caesarea Philippi.

As I said earlier, I am not bashing Muslims in any way, but I rather be respected as who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinners.