Sentences with phrase «known as his apostles»

These twelve became known as His apostles.

Though Paul is known as the apostle to the gentiles, Peter is the one who initiated the mission to the gentiles.

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the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...

[130] While not personally an eye - witness of Jesus» ministry, Paul states that he was acquainted with people who had known Jesus: the apostle Peter (also known as Cephas), the apostle John, and James, the brother of Jesus.

As I looked out over the 180 people taking New Testament interpretation, I saw folk who had never been to church in their lives, and for whom the YDS chapel was their first parish; who certainly did not know the Nicene Creed and probably not the Apostles» Creed.

In fact, the Apostles «advocated this system, not because God had revealed it as the divine will for Christian homes, but because it was the only stable and respectable system anyone knew about» at the time, according to Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe of the Women's Bible Commentary.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

By the way, John was the only apostle who revealed that he could also look into others» hearts as Jesus did who always knew what men really thought about all things.

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.

It is the Biblical notion that miracles have ceased to be normal... This is not to say that God has stopped performing miracles, or that the Holy Spirit has stopped working, but only that the Apostolic miracles such as speaking in tongues, prophecy / revelation, and healings have ceased as a normative gift to individual believers: 1) The Holy Spirit's purpose in imparting the «sign gifts,» has expired 2) The sign gifts were given exclusively to the original Twelve Apostles, so that the sign gifts and Apostleship are inextricably linked 3) The gift of Apostleship no longer exists

I know we're programmed to see the 12 apostles as saints with halos and contemplative faces.

Another major factor is the claim of Orthodoxy to be the Church founded by Christ, led by bishops who were appointed by other bishops who were appointed by others back to the apostles themselves, a concept known as Apostolic Succession.

The apostles redistributed the wealth as they saw fit as the believers gave money for the cause of the new cult — as they felt instructed to do by the greatest authority that they knew of — God.

Now the apostles must have known better, because there's just no way they thought that Jesus, being as wonderfully contrary as He tended to be, would say, «Yep, solid point homies, send my people away from me.»

Don't need the Quran to tell us that Jesus or any of his apostles or prophets is righteous... The bible speaks for itself and then so does the Spirit of Christ known in these parts as the Holy Ghost...

Volume I we know as the Gospel according to Luke, Volume II as the Acts of the Apostles.

He answers through modern day prophets and apostles and through His Holy Spirit as answers come to my mind and I know they are true.

And we know that the Apostles were not so scrupulous in this respect, as not to accommodate themselves to the unlearned.

So though we can understand why Mark could come to this curious view (perhaps at the close of a career as an apostle that did not have the success he had expected), we must reject it as a true reflection of Jesus» mind, and as out of keeping with the other things we know about his teaching.

'» 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.»

Built on a foundation of the apostles of Jesus Christ, the New Jerusalem will encompass the whole world as John knew it — 1,500 miles from one end of the Roman Empire to the other.

When the apostle Paul found himself at the foot of a pagan altar to an «unknown god» he used it as an opportunity to proclaim his God — the God that he knew personally and the God that made Himself knowable in Jesus Christ.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

As we have seen in Chapter 10 we can no longer recover the actual historical development by which the apostles came to see the significance of the death of Jesus.

He has an awesome position but when I remember Jesus Christ's promises to His Apostles that He would send the Paraclete to bring them into all remembrances of what He told them and also bring them into further Truth in the future and that evil will not prevail against His Church... I can dismiss the harshness that sometimes is found on these «belief blogs» and hope and pray that all will eventually come to know the Truth as it is.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

clumsily inserted into the Mary Magdalene story» probably out of «a desire to make the apostles as well as a woman witness of the empty tomb».35 But the emphasis is now no longer on the emptiness of the tomb but on the way the linen cloths have been left lying.

«We do not know how to pray as we ought» confesses the mighty apostle in Romans 8:26.

In spite of the diversity in the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the traditions, in all their variety, have in common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.»

See John 20:30; Mark 16:17 - 20; John 2:11; Acts 2:22: («Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

All of the other leaders in Scripture are known as ministers and fellow laborers, but not apostles.

It has always been recognized that the document known as the Didachi or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, has a special affinity with the didactic portions of the First Gospel.

The apostles had a special status as long as they lived, because they had known the Lord personally.

In the Apostles» Creed it is said of Jesus «He descended into hell» and the doctrine in question is known as the Descent into Hell.

As Sharyn Dowd has observed, the apostles «advocated this system not because God had revealed it as the divine will for Christian homes, but because it was the only stable and respectable system anyone knew abouAs Sharyn Dowd has observed, the apostles «advocated this system not because God had revealed it as the divine will for Christian homes, but because it was the only stable and respectable system anyone knew abouas the divine will for Christian homes, but because it was the only stable and respectable system anyone knew about.

I presume that everyone knows that this is a departure from the Prototype: for «in Christ Jesus,» as the apostle says, «there is neither male nor female.»

Obviously the speeches have historical value as expressions of what Luke thought the apostles had said; but we do not actually know that they are devoid of historical basis.

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!

Because from his writing, as well as the later quotations of the apostles and Jesus, we know they were accurate at that time.

If Francis wants to change the «business as normal», he would rewrite the Apostles» Creed as we now know it to be: (Would said new Creed vitiate his religion - yes but he is the one preaching openness and transparency.)

Mary known as Magdalene was Jesus» wife and his apostle.

which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

This was the secret, and famous, Cambridge Conversazione Society, known to outsiders as the «Apostles» It met on Saturday nights, not for formal debate, but for free and perfectly frank discussion of ideas, following the reading of a paper.

As for the work of the apostle and the relationship he sustained with the churches, we must depend almost entirely on the letters of Paul — and this means that we can know very little except about Paul's own apostleship.

The apostle Paul states that «We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time» (Romans 8:22).

Paul, of course, did not have the complete New Testament as we have it today... in fact, as he was writing this letter, he was writing part of this first foundation, but he knew of other letters and accounts of the life of Christ that were written by other apostles, and so he mentions them here as foundation number 1.

This complaint no doubt included material support in the form of food and other necessities as well as pastoral care, since the apostles said they did not have time to wait on tables.

Just as there are no longer «apostles» in the same sense as in the days of Peter and Paul, so there are no longer «prophets» in the original high meaning of that term.

It is not known, what triggered Mr. Jumah's sudden observation because; Kofi Ghana as he is affectionately called, has been one of the apostles of Nana Akufo Addo in recent years, and been out and about everywhere defending the man he now claims would be a «terrible president».

Playwright Terence McNally is probably best - known for Corpus Christie — his controversial stage drama about Jesus and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.