Sentences with phrase «epistles by»

4:8, 16 --[Implications of God as Father] «expounded with moving insistence in the two [sic] epistles by St. John, the author of the Gospel.

In response to an earlier epistle by Mr Amidu against the NDC, Mr Anyidoho told Accra - based Kasapa FM that the former Attorney General only «comes out to spew gibberish whenever the NPP is under pressure and looking bad, but the NDC is looking so good in terms of the psychological warfare; that is when Martin Amidu strikes.

Not exact matches

This tract was thought spurious by some, but is known to be St. Augustine's by his mention of it in Epistle 231 ad Darium Comitem.

As per most NT exegetes, the Epistle to Timothy was not written by Paul.

(The semi-mythical Paul was supposed to have died during the persecutions instigated by Nero in c. 64 C.E.) Some of the Pauline epistles appear to be have been altered and edited numerous times before reaching their modern forms.

-- The traditional view that the epistle is written by Paul is supported by scholars that include Frank Thielman, Ezra Abbot, Asting, Gaugler, Grant, Harnack, Haupt, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Klijn, Johann David Michaelis, A. Robert, and André Feuillet, Sanders, Schille, Brooke Foss Westcott, and Theodor Zahn.

The ten remaining «non-pastoral» epistles written in the name of Paul were known to Marcion by c. 140 C.E..

The epistle begins by linking divine power and sharing in God's own life (2 Pet.

We now turn to the epistles supposedly written by Paul.

«On the basis of their language, content, and other factors, the pastoral epistles are today widely regarded as not having been written by Paul, but after his death.

The Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy and the Epistle of Paul to T'itus were written by the same author and date to about the same period.

Among the books he had us read were two that really challenged my thinking and helped me see certain key texts in a new light: They are The Epistle of James by Zane Hodges and The Reign of the Servant Kings by Joseph Dillow (a revised and updated edition of the book is now titled Final Destiny).

Centuries of honest textual criticism, archeology and history are virtually unanimous in their agreement that two of the Gospels are eye - witness accounts, two are commissioned investigations by the early church and all of the canonical Epistles were written by first - generation apostles.

Even Paul's comments are arguable latter additions by scribes of his epistles.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

As is shown by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, and also in the exhortations in the New Testament epistles, we constantly separate the commandment from him who speaks it.

I'm just reminded by the articles and responses here, that these problems and difficulties are the reason we have the Epistles in the NT.

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

Ergo, it both epistles could not have been written by the same authors.

The customary term for this kind of exegesis is allegory, a word first introduced into Christian speech by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians: «It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman.

Hasn't enough Unchristian action has been justified by Paul's epistles already?

There are nine, possibly ten, of these letters to the churches (Ephesians being of disputed authorship); ant three others, I ant II Timothy and Titus, called the Pastoral Epistles, may have been written by Paul but more likely were the work of some unknown Christian toward the close of the first century or even later.

-- The Epistles to the Colossians and to the Ephesians are much alike, so much so that some scholars believe that Colossians was written by Paul, and Ephesians by someone later in imitation.

The Apostle Paul wrote in his New Testament epistle (I Corinthians.12) that anyone who says that «Jesus is Lord», are not only professing their allegiance to Jesus, but they were also only able to do this by the spirit of God.

And, it is almost universally agreed by scholars that the Apostle Paul wrote his epistles BEFORE the gospels were written down and guess what?

There are many wonderful truths for us in the book of Hebrews, but if you want to get firmly grounded in doctrinal truths for the believer you need to be studying Paul's other epistles (Hebrews may have written by Paul too).

Among the precepts of Christ in the Gospels, and the precepts with which they are illustrated and supplemented in the Epistles, there are few which could be applied as positive rules, to be followed mechanically, and enforced if necessary by legal sanctions.

In The Epistle to the Romans, Leon Morris says adoption is «a useful word for Paul, for it signifies being granted the full rights and privileges of [belonging to] a family [in] which one does not belong by nature.»

Signs are not lacking that the larger churches were already strongly influencing their neighbours; the First Epistle of Clement is in effect a demand by the church of Rome that the church of Corinth should restore to office presbyters who had been wrongly deposed.

The Petrine authorship of II Peter is almost universally rejected, and the epistles of John are held by the great majority of scholars not to be by the apostle John, the son of Zebedee.

Of our epistles seven are ascribed by tradition to original apostles or to brethren of Jesus, James, I and II Peter, I, II and III John, and Jude.

You would be better served by the pseudo Pauls for if Paul actually wrote the Timothy epistles, he then continues to be the subjugator of women.

I can not avoid the conclusion that by the time they were written — and the Pauline epistles are the earliest of the New Testament writings — Christians no longer thought in that way of their present experience of the risen Jesus; but reserved such language for the initial Easter period (extended by Paul to include his own formative experience).

I believe that there are genuine Pauline fragments in these epistles, though they were probably written by a disciple or disciples of Paul.

What this statement affirms was said long ago by the author of the Epistle to the Ephesians who wrote, «Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.»

Nevertheless, it is, I believe, by no means a hopeless task to recover from the Pauline epistles some indication at least of the character and content of Paul's preaching, and not only of his distinctive preaching, but of what he preached in common with other Christian missionaries.

First Epistle of John, Authenticity - Certainly by a writer in the Johannine tradition, probably NOT by the one responsible for most of the Gospel.

Again, the opening verses of the epistle (i. 1 - 4) have the aspect of a formula which Paul could assume as recognized by his readers.

It is very unfortunate that Jesus was illiterate for it resulted in many gospels and epistles being written years after his death by non-witnesses.

Referencing 1 Corinthians 11 and other Pauline epistles, she said she based her complementarian lifestyle on the Bible's teachings that «the head of the woman is the man» (11:3), that «woman came from man» (11:12), and that woman was first deceived by Satan (1 Timothy 2:12 - 14).

The whole context of the Epistle to the Romas makes it clear that by the true faith we shall become righteous by word and deed.

In further detail Robert Funk has analyzed the parable and the epistle as oral speech.33 It will not take a lengthy exposure to such studies of the lively modes of discourse used by Jesus and the early Christian evangelists to cause the average preacher to look upon his own standardized sermon outline with a new lack of appreciation.

«Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead», said James in his epistle (Jas.

One of these, the Epistle to the Ephesians, was probably composed, after Paul's own time, by a disciple well acquainted with the apostle's writings, perhaps by the collector himself; but the other letters were almost certainly his.

By an ordered round of readings — Old Testament, Gospel, and Epistle — plus the fragments in Introit and Gradual, the church once secured the people against the poverty of the preacher; extended the orbit of this season's declaration beyond the fugitive inspiration of the moment.

This is illustrated not only by the references to the future in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, but by the fact that in the most «moralistic» book of the New Testament, the epistle of James, there are warnings as to the futility of riches and the fate of exploiters in the last days (5:1 - 6), and injunctions to steadfastness as the brethren wait in patience for the coming of the Lord (5:7 - 9).

Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, «Where is the promise of His coming?

We may open the question by observing that virtually all Protestant scholars deny that Paul wrote the so - called Epistle to the Hebrews.

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis is a collection of fictitious epistles from a suave, professional, and insidious devil to a younger, inexperienced, but just as insidious fellow demon.

The pattern is clear in the Epistles to the Romans, Galatians, Colossians, and Ephesians, and when it has been recognized in these clear examples, it can be traced by analogy in other epistles, where it is not so obvious at first sight; not only in epistles written by Paul but in those written by other authors Epistles to the Romans, Galatians, Colossians, and Ephesians, and when it has been recognized in these clear examples, it can be traced by analogy in other epistles, where it is not so obvious at first sight; not only in epistles written by Paul but in those written by other authors epistles, where it is not so obvious at first sight; not only in epistles written by Paul but in those written by other authors epistles written by Paul but in those written by other authors as well.