Sentences with phrase «even as the apostles»

An air of expectancy and of imminent cosmic change pervades the New Testament, even as the apostles go out to proclaim the events of the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Not exact matches

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?

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.

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 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).

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.

... 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...

(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.»

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.

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.

And even when, in an appearance after the resurrection, he is represented by the author of the Acts of the Apostles as having referred to the outside world, it was as a provincial might, dividing the world into the immediate environs and everything that was elsewhere: «Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria — and unto the uttermost part of the earth» (Acts 1:8).

The reason, though offered as much by faith as by sight, is that in Jesus Christ, as the apostle put it to the Colossians, «all things hold together,» even the well - publicized actions of well - known figures and the day - to - day activities of ordinary people carried on with never a thought about the scrutiny of history.

There are even a number of «Protestant» churches that are led by self - proclaimed apostles who are thought to speak with just as much authority as the Catholic Pope.

Jesus even referred to Himself as one sent (John 17:18; 20:21) from God, and so it could be said that He was an apostle of God.

If taken by themselves, some of these verses indicate that the apostle deviated from Jesus» example and had a bias against women, and even suggested that women should be treated as second - class Christians — submissive to their husbands, attired and coifed demurely and silent in church.

There are those that will mock and ridicule people of faith but Jesus told us that they will do to us what they did to him so it should come as no big surprise even the disciples and apostle and one point in their lives either didn't believe or persecuted people who did believe until their eyes were opened this is nothing new.

'» We have heard that so many times, but the apostles were astonished that He would encourage them to address God, not even as an earthly father like Father Knows Best, but «Papa» and «Daddy.»

While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).

For the sake of argument, even if Junia were an apostle «in the sense of having seen the risen Lord» it doesn't mean he / she was in authority as an Apostle in the Church.

Jesus spoke to Peter about feeding his sheep, and to his apostles about people who lacked the eyes to see and the ears to hear and how they will never understand his parables even if they try (and, interestingly, he said this as the reason he taught using parables rather than just stating things out explicitly).

Raised a Protestant, despite all my thrashing and twisting I eventually couldn't help but believe that the apostolic succession, through Peter as the designated leader and primus inter pares, is in some logical or theological sense prior to everything else — including even Scripture, whose formation was guided and completed by the apostles and their successors, themselves inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Even before important Christian beliefs such as the canon of Scripture (list of books in the Bible) and the Trinity had been carefully articulated, the mainstream of Christian believers and leaders had a sense of the essential truths that had been handed down from the apostles and the prophets, and passed along to each generation of Christians through Scripture, sermons, and baptismal creeds.

He even proclaimed himself as an apostle.

As far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before theAs far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before theas the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!

For example, it can be regarded as a merely resuscitated Jesus, or even an elaborate hoax by which the apostles hoped to deceive a credulous populace.

Everywhere (And such is now the case almost everywhere in Christendom, which, as it seems, either entirely ignores the fact that Christ Himself it is who so frequently and with such heartfelt emphasis warned against offense, even at the end of His life, and even when He addressed His faithful Apostles who had followed Him from the beginning and for His sake had forsaken all — or maybe silently regards this as an extravagant apprehension on the part of Christ, inasmuch as the experience of thousands and thousands proves that one can have faith in Christ without having noticed the least trace of the possibility of offense.

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.

But even still, many house churches have these as well... sometimes they are called «prophets» or «apostles.»

As though you, too, were not called by God, even if you weren't an apostle.

The Syrian Constitutor of the Apostolic Constitutions (c. 380) could, for example, still think even of the presbyters of Antioch (for this would have been his model see) as taking the place of the apostles rather than the bishop.

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.