Sentences with phrase «first generation of believers»

It is a simple suggestion: if the faithful devote themselves to the same things the first generation of believers did, good and wonderful things will result.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

Now many wonder whether some other arrangement might have been more humane, even if it included tolerance of polygamy in at least the first generation of believers.

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The first he believes is Christianity, the second hypocrisy.41 Therefore, «if the contemporary generation of believers found no time to triumph, neither will any later generation, for the task is always the same and faith is always militant.