Sentences with phrase «of paul»

For this reason the narrative portrait of Paul's relationship with the apostles is not simply meant to show that Paul was not taught by them; it is also meant to model the unity that is only possible in the fear of God and the revelation of Christ in the gospel.

Pagels is correct insofar as Augustine had a one - sided reading of Paul.

To choose their position over that of Paul, Titus, and the other apostles would be equal to pleasing humans and, worse yet, a relationship of bondage.

After the return of Paul and Barnabas from their missionary journey together, certain men from Jerusalem arrived in Antioch and insisted that circumcision is essential to Christian salvation, thus making the grace of God through Jesus Christ subsidiary to the Mosaic law and making the Savior himself dependent on Moses.

Certainly not everybody must have the dramatic about - face experience of Paul on the Damascus road or an experience like that of Augustine, who was a seeker for years until, at thirty - two, he suddenly answered the call of Christ and became a changed man.

The earliest of our Gospels is Mark, written between 65 and 70, very soon after the death of Paul.

In a way then, your life does not revolve around Jesus but around the likes of Paul et al and the ancients and some Greek cynics.

Victor Paul Furnish in The Moral Teaching of Paul (1979) contrasted those who treated scripture as a sacred cow and those who considered it a white elephant.

A long time for a great evil — the religion of Paul which has spread across the world encouraging persecution of dissenters, slavery, an inferior societal role for women, persecution of homosexuals and criminalization of ordinary sexual behaviors of both gay and straight people, quite a few wars, poverty and ignorance.

the «eyewitnesses» to Joe did not see the delivery of the plates... they only saw the plates AFTER deliverance... while the traveling compamions of Paul were right there with Him on the Road to Damascus... go read the Book of Acts

Revelation doesn't specifically mention it, but 1 Cor 15:22 - 28 and many of Paul's statements in the epistles, and John as well, make it clear that Jesus will indeed save the world, hence the title, Savior of the World.

Ron probably accepts the Bible to be the inerrant, inspired word of God, and as such, something coming from the pen of Paul is from the mouth of God.

Though his book is still the Gospel of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit works through the missionary activity of Paul and his associates.

This passage is the last part of Paul's parenthesis.

7Me major implication of Paul's statement is that there is a basic relationship of equality between himself and the Jerusalem apostles in the sight of God.32 This is given explicit statement in 2.7 - 8; both Paul and Peter have been entrusted with the gospel.

The true letters of Paul are the oldest New Testament documents (Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Phillipians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon).

-- The next letters of Paul that were preserved (for doubtless a number of others after, being read were destroyed) are I and II Corinthians.

«The creation came into being when God spoke,» she said, reminding us of Paul's belief that «faith comes through hearing.»

He was the friend and companion of Paul, referred to as «the beloved physician.»

And the most influential books of the New Testament, on which Christianity is actually based, are the writings of Paul, who never met Jesus face to face, never heard him speak, but thanks to a mystical experience on the road to Damascus, suddenly became the world's greatest expert on Christ.

Something of this broadened sense of connectedness must have been part of Paul's sense that he and other Christians were «members of one another» as united in «one body» of Christ (Rom 12:5).

This was the essence of the preaching of the first Christians, according to the book of Acts and the letters of Paul.

But the usual and normal Scriptural method, as seen in all of Christ's prayers and all of Peter's prayers and all of Paul's prayers — including this one here — is to pray to God the Father, through Jesus Christ (which is why many of us say, «In Jesus Name»), and in the Holy Spirit.

The Christian theologians took their cue from other letters of Paul's in which he is clearly using his culture's customs to resolve friction that had arisen when women began responding to the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ.

So where is that approval of Paul's word as divine scripture now that most NT scholars believe that Peter did not author Peter 2?

«I am my biggest marriage problem» is the theme of Paul Tripp's work in the field of relationships.

Also see Seyoon Kim's The Origin of Paul's Gospel (1982), Edwin Yamauchi's Pre-Christian Gnosticism.

10:11); He rained down fire from heaven and burned up the enemy soldiers who came to get Elijah (2 King 1:9 - 15); He killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers who were attacking Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:35); He blinded the false prophet Bar - Jesus, who stood against the teaching of Paul (Acts 13:9 - 11).

You said: «John was not unknown and the first letters of Paul was maybe one decade after the Christ died.»

As such, I would not call Lydia a new believer here, but rather a woman who was already a believer, but who had limited knowledge about what she believed, and who came to a fuller knowledge of her faith through the preaching and teaching of Paul.

Very much unlike the case of Paul de Man and deconstructionism, the TNR exposé does not succeed in discrediting the person and important work of Mircea Eliade.

Even some of Paul's Epistles deal with this subject: worry more about being a good person than the exact day Christ will return.

All verses like this and Matthew 5:28 (where Jesus talks about adultery in a similarly harsh manner, are meant to do is point us straight to verses of Paul's such as Romans 3:23 and Ephesians 2:8 - 9: it's the evidence Jesus provides that, no matter what, even if we never murder a single person or in any way commit adultery, we're nothing without Him... and, oh, yeah, it's the meter that shows us who we are and why we need Him, and only Him (John 14:6), to get to heaven.

sure you canh say Jesus was already dead... then what of his experiences... does ANYONE ever DIE for a LIE that they KNEW to be a lie????? Psychologists have looked into the writings of Paul..

Douglas Harink teaches theology at the King's University College in Edmonton, Alberta, and is the author of Paul Among the Postliberals: Pauline Theology Beyond Christendom and Modernity (Brazos).

So much for Peter's alleged stamp of approval of Paul's works as divinely - inspired Scripture.

For us who are Christians all of this is demonstrated in the words and encounters of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospels; it is spelled out most clearly in the Epistles of John and in the letter of Paul discussed earlier.

(13) This is not the only clue and center even in the letters of Paul, not to speak of the New Testament at large, but it is a crucial dimension of it and gives the theologian a marvelous framework for displaying and exhibiting the message of the Bible in relation to the needs of people today.

We also have a fuller account of Paul's encounter with the risen Lord in Acts 9, repeated in Acts 22 and 26.

Now restrains» that is what we call the present tense which means that the clear statement of scripture is that both the man of iniquity and the restrainer were present at the time of Paul's writing.

The letters of Paul as well as the Gospel records show that the Christian community from the beginning made ethical decisions within the community and in relation to buying and selling in the market, and the problem of obedience to the state.

«Authenticity — Probably written by a disciple of Paul or a sympathetic commentator on the Pauline heritage several decades after the apostle's death.

The earliest voice we directly hear, that of Paul (for Paul antedates all of the Gospels), tells us little about Jesus, and Paul's testimony is not that of an eyewitness.

If our mental filter is to «come alongside» someone that is over-burdened, and stand with them, restore what we can, then we will find support in the words of Jesus, and again, in the words of Paul in Galatians.

The sheer number of philological details, scholarly debates and historical speculations threatens to make the interpreter (and the reader) lose the true power of Paul's argument.

Krister Stendahl's 1963 article «The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West» (in his Paul Among Jews and Gentiles) charged that readings of Paul based on Augustine and Luther are theological projections; Paul himself was much more concerned with Jew - gentile relations than he was with the relation of faith and works.

Adams's reading of Paul resulted directly from an ecclesial stance at odds with a world that values only strength and power.

Their effect was shattering, and especially in the case of Paul, the enemy of the Christian movement, they had the effect of turning upside down the whole outlook of the people concerned and reversing the course of their lives in the most drastic and complete way.

and in the case of Paul, he writes 1 Cor.15: 1 - 3 within 15 years of Jesus» death — a passage which claims the resurrected Jesus appeared to over 500 people at once.

It was through my reading of Paul and Pauline theologians.