Sentences with phrase «even apostles»

The nature of the church is so different from the nature of any other social institution that it is hardly correct to think of it as having been established by any person or collection of persons, even the apostles themselves.

· The physical resurrection of Jesus is hard to take, and even the apostles need two proofs (touch and taste) before they can begin to come to terms with their owndumbfounded amazement (Lk 24, 39 - 43).

The heros of the Bible are exposed for being and doing typical dumb guy things with even the Apostles unable to see God in Jesus until after the Cross.

Even his apostles had a hard time understanding his deity at first.

Its obvious you never have and don't even know what the bible says about Jesus or even the Apostles.

Even the apostles they came out in the morning speaking in tongues and the people thought they were drunk you would have no idea the proper way to act so Merry Christmas even to you.

Even the Bible records examples of Christians — even apostles — who were not healed, despite prayer.3 The third wrong assumption is that every Christian has the gift to heal people.

Jesus Christ told him on the road to Damascus that he was going to be used greatly by God, but every time Paul tried to be used by God, all he did was cause problems and make people angry, to the point that even the apostles didn't want him around.

This has always been the stumbling block, even for the first disciples and even the Apostles.

Even the apostles.

Functioning in the church, unity in the church, making it NOT about us, praying for those that are trying to lead the church and having to deal with defending Christ on a regular basis and being the targets they are, being a church member is in the family and showing them how to serve God in the family, that we being able to meet and gather collectively is a gift and even the apostles did it and encouraged it.

Posing as godly loved ones who have died, saintly clergymen who are now dead, Bible prophets, or even the apostles or disciples of Christ (2 Corinthians 11:13), Satan and his angels will deceive billions.

Only recently were there even apostles called from outside the United States.

Even the Apostles set up a plan for making sure the poor and widows were taken care of fairly and not purposefully or accidentally ignored.

And we don't call anyone misfits or outcasts, we know faith can be a difficult thing, even the apostle Thomas didn't believe the other apostles until he saw Jesus himself.

Even the apostle Paul instructs an escaped slave, Onesimus, to return to his master, they observed.

But even the apostle Paul wrote that we only see «through a lens darkly ``.

Even the apostle Peter believes that Paul was a true disciple of Christ and refers to Paul's writing as Scripture in 2 Peter 3:16.

Even the apostle Paul, who shows very little interest in the earthly life of Jesus, says that he «was descended from David according to the flesh» (Rom 1:3).

Not exact matches

Cardinal Müller: Not even an ecumenical council can change the doctrine of the Church, because her Founder, Jesus Christ, entrusted the faithful preservation of his teachings and doctrine to the apostles and their successors.

False Christians arn't persecuted True ones are though they even have been persecuted by the Vatican and other false Christians they are under ban in places like NK and Iran and some other places Jesus apostles where persecuted stephen was stoned John the baptist was decapitated Paul was liked in prison for a while you see only true Christians are persecuted how can the richest orinization on the planet claim to follow God and be the richest on the planet and actually persecute everyone else.

Even though history clearly speaks to Paul dying at the hands of Nero, all the apostles except John being murdered, and early church fathers such as Polycarp being killed by Rome?

There's no extra-Biblical evidence any of the apostles even lived, let alone how they died.

another gnostic gospel... not even close to the true Gospel found in matthew, mark, luke, and john gospels that line up with Paul, and the other apostles teachings of Jesus, those four gospels have hundreds of manuscrips not like these puny 1 time fragments dated way after apostles

Others are even more adamant, however, in saying that the Church can not change a practice that is based on the doctrine of Jesus, the apostles, and centuries of authoritative teaching.

The other Apostles would be in even worse shape.

I thought the Biblical perspective was that elders are to have a good repuration with outsiders and to be above reproach... and to not even have the appearance of evil... Sorry, on issues like this I'll take the apostle Paul over a magazine editor anyday.

At the beginning of the Acts, the apostles are accused of being drunk, so obviously if they weren't believed to be sober in their own day, why should we believe what they wrote even now?

So, to paraphrase the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians that as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

I doubt the Gospel is even close to what was actually spoken or written in the time of Christ and his apostles.

There were more than four Gospel writing apostles too, but only four were chosen, and even those had to be edited for consistency.

Conversely, the apostle Paul recognized that there were Gentiles who, even without the religious instruction of the Bible, showed their knowledge of God by their justice (Rom.

I would think the apostle Paul had cultivated a fairly good relationship with the Father, and yet even after much prayer he remained unhealed.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Even as Jesus foretold Peter's actual betrayal he confirmed his choice of Peter as the only one who could confirm his brothers (his fellow apostles) in the faith whenever they became confused about the truth and how to govern the Church - the phrase Jesus used was that they would be «sifted like wheat» (Luke 22:32).

Even among the Twelve Apostles, Jesus brought together Zealots and tax collectors who would have hated each other in any other context.

In the light of this confirmation of the tradition it does seem highly plausible, as the studies by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini maintain, that the apostles would have practised continence even if it were not a universal requirement in the «apostolic age» and beyond.

Such thinking was actually evident in the apostles of Jesus before the church even began.

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

Even in the churches that use the Apostles» Creed the sermons rarely expound what is confessed.

(1 Thessalonians 5:21) John recorded Jesus» praise to the Church in Ephesus, «You have even put to the test those who refer to themselves as apostles (but are not), and have discovered that they are false.»

The scriptures demonstrate that the chiefest of apostles were quick to repent with error (Acts 23:5 Gal 2:14) even when the rebuke came from the wicked.

While it is true that none of the Apostles needed a formal education for their position, we can not say they were not educated by Jesus and others; even Paul not only was educated in the worldly and in religious sense, but he taught «school» every day for two years in Ephesus after being rejected by the synagogue.

The apostle Peter puts it so eloquently, stating, «Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls» (1 Peter 1:8 - 9).

Even then, none of the apostles or prophets performed as many miracles as Christ.

The way of the apostle is a way open to all as individuals — even to the genius himself if he can forsake the absorbing satisfactions of a brilliant self - sufficiency and be ready to will one thing.

The apostles were being martyred, leaving false teachers even more opportunity to rise.

The issues addressed by the Council of Nicea and the Council of Chalcedon never even arose among the Apostles and other believers of the New Testament times.

Kelsey even charges that Warfield got his notion of authority from his mother's milk and not, as he thinks, from Jesus Christ and the Apostles.