Sentences with phrase «earthly ministry»

Did Jesus hide this aspect of God from us during His three years of earthly ministry?

Now this kind of narrative is possible only because of the equation earthly Jesus = risen Lord and the consequent and subsequent equation: Situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience, which equation is necessarily implied by the methodology of the synoptic evangelists.

Then (2) historically the disciples during Jesus» earthly ministry did not yet possess the fully formed faith which sprang from his resurrection; the judgment upon their prior faith, at first crude and but slowly developed, could be made only in the light of the fuller experience which came later.

Christ's earthly ministry approaches its climax as He enters Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover.

It would exercise some of the same freedom which Paul's and the other NT letters do when they refrain from any nostalgic attempts to play Galilee into their theology by transforming the teaching of Jesus» earthly ministry into a system of theology and ethics [Krister Stendahl: «Biblical Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), I, 428].

He observes that in Luke's usage, Isaiah 61 is «scripture's foreshadowing of [Christ's] entire earthly ministry,» that the servant songs refer to the «entire mission of the servant, his life, death, and offspring,» and not simply to his death.

Thus Chávez linked Christ's earthly ministry with the socialist agenda and with Bolívar's legacy.

You are confused in regards to Jesus» earthly ministry which was primarily to the Jews versus His current heavenly ministry to the church.

Then (3) in view of the further claim inherent in the nature of the synoptic gospel material (situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience) we may apply historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus directly to the situation of the believer in any age, always providing, of course, that we can solve the practical problems involved in crossing the barrier of two millennia and radically different Weltanschauungen necessary to do this.

«Jesus is Lord» is a proposition, but a proposition that compels assent only when Jesus» earthly ministry, death, and resurrection are understood as (collectively) the pivotal and definitive moment in the long history of God's covenantal love for His erring people.

In a prayer at the end of his earthly ministry, God's Son reported about his followers: «When I was with them I used to watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me; and I have kept them, and not one of them is destroyed except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.»

Jesus Christ, during the time of His earthly ministry, set up a spiritual kingdom on earth, in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy; He being the King and all born again believers the subjects of the Kingdom, and they are now reigning with Him as Kings and priests on the earth.

Jesus taught about it in His earthly ministry and went to prepare a place for us.

It is true that the miracles of healing that Jesus performed during his earthly ministry do not seem to happen as often in the Church today, although they are by no means unheard of.

Are the various titles given to Jesus in the gospels, such as «Lord» or «Son of God», ones that were used of him in his earthly ministry or were they first applied to the risen Christ by those who believed in him?

His attention was so focused on the immediate future that he showed little interest in the words and deeds of Jesus, as remembered from the latter's earthly ministry.

@Reality: «The Ascension symbolizes the end of Jesus» earthly ministry and the beginning of the Church.Only Luke's Gospel records it.»

We will see that Mary and Joseph's careful obedience to the law were key factors in preparing Jesus for his earthly ministry.

If there is a «hidden» dark side to God, then Jesus didn't fully reveal God to us during His earthly ministry, and therefore, all these texts are not telling the truth.

That does not mean that we see the full picture of God from just Jesus» earthly ministry.

But again, you're limiting Jesus to his earthly ministry.

3) Christ in His earthly ministry used descriptive labels in His discerning identification of «people».

Jerusalem and Benares represent what are probably the two sharpest alternatives in the religious history of mankind» the city in which the Ark of the Covenant was set down, in which Jesus ended his earthly ministry, and from which Muhammad ascended to heaven» and that other city, where a thousand gods descend into the river at dawn and near which the Buddha preached his first sermon announcing liberation to all sentient beings.

At the very end of his earthly ministry, he threw open the shutters of his teaching.

During Jesus» earthly ministry, many plotted against him (cf. Mark 14:1 - 2, 10 - 11).

This second detail helps us establish the fact that Jesus» earthly ministry was at least three years in duration.

(Mark 14:62) As we have seen, this theory of the messianic secret, or rather of Jesus» secret Messiahship, was Mark's answer to the question which his fundamental thesis, that Jesus was already Messiah during his earthly ministry, at once suggested:

And to say that Jesus was made Messiah by the resurrection is to say that he was not the Messiah during his earthly ministry.

Jesus, as he begins His earthly ministry, lays down and builds upon the foundation of the Word.

Further, Jesus is described as appearing to the two disciples very much as he might have done during his earthly ministry.

Did Peter see Jesus just as he had known him during his earthly ministry or did he see a glorified Jesus?

Now he is ready to begin his earthly ministry.

Christ's earthly ministry was only three and half years long, but Luke takes 30 % of that and says absolutely nothing about it.

The earliest Gospel account, Mark, is dated around 40 years after Jesus» earthly ministry and long enough for the «Chinese whisper» effect to take place.

My own faith in him and loyalty to him as the Lord Jesus Christ is in no way dependent on these apocalyptic Son - of - man passages; it hinges upon all that he was and did and said during what we know of his earthly ministry and his continuing presence as the living Christ.

Perhaps we should institute some annual ritual, based on this scripture in Acts, by which we memorialize Judas's supposed act of perfidy and the selection of new leaders who have walked with Jesus in all aspects of his earthly ministry, from baptism to ascension.

By that time various legends about Jesus were growing steadily, such as that of the Virgin Birth, and the more miraculous stories of what he did during his earthly ministry.

Further, the designation of Jesus as «a glutton and a drunkard» belongs to the polemics of the controversy surrounding Jesus» earthly ministry during his lifetime, rather than to the circumstances of the controversies between the early Church and Judaism.

These are important both for the permanent wisdom they yield, as part of our Christian Scriptures, and for the light they throw on the framework of Jewish life and thought in the midst of which Jesus lived and did the work of his earthly ministry.

But then I get second thoughts about Paul, who, with both his genius and his humility, was nevertheless going to fight all corners who said he was not a true apostle — even though he did not meet the formal apostolic criterion of having known Jesus in his earthly ministry.

It was the Women who supported Him financially during His earthly ministry (Luke 8:1 - 3).