Sentences with phrase «indeed than the gospels»

But it is in no sense a biography of Confucius, much less so indeed than the gospels are of Jesus.

Not exact matches

A highly valid argument coming from a socialist; but today it is gospel truth for a great many Christians, indeed for the best and most serious Christians — those who think of Christianity as something more than words and kind sentiments.

The Gospel is not a game show, and pragmatism at all costs costs us much indeed --- more than just a few hundred thousand dollars in prizes.

«By the time of the writing of the gospels,» notes C. F. Evans, «it had disappeared, leaving behind no more than an echo, and that not in narrative but in credal form («The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon»), which Luke has some difficulty in attaching as an awkward pendant to his Emmaus story.»

We might expect that the Jewish literature would provide a closer parallel to the gospel narratives, and, indeed, exorcism stories are more common here than they are in the Hellenistic literature.

These «Fathers» spoke of the specific activity of God in Jesus Christ as being indeed the fulfillment, completion, and adequate expression, vis - à - vis men, of the Eternal Word of God, but they did not regard salvation as available only through Jesus; even in the Fourth Gospel, it would seem to be the writer's intention to have the Word speak, rather than the historical Jesus in isolation from that Word «who was in the beginning with God», «by whom all things were made», «who was the light of every man», and who in Jesus Christ was decisively «made flesh and dwelt among us».

The Gnostic gospels were indeed «scripture» far more so than the present form of the so called «Holy Bible».