Sentences with phrase «proclaimed apostle»

This greatly offended the manager, who was pentecostal himself, and who also aired a program that came on an hour or two later each afternoon called «Prepare for War» which was hosted by a self - proclaimed apostle and prophet who gave new revelations from God each day over the air and claimed to have power to heal people over the air.

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.

Not exact matches

Very Rev Andrew Dunn, Dean of Southwark Cathedral, told Premier: «I would be encouraging, on this feast of Pentecost, for people to remember the Spirit drove those apostles out of the place where they'd taken refuge from terror and into the streets, proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ in every language to every people and thrilling their hearts.

Like the word itself and the apostle who proclaims it, so the Church where the preaching of the word is continued and where the believers or «saints» (i.e., those who have been transferred to eschatological existence) are gathered is part of the eschatological event.

But we really don't have any more proof at all to believe that Paul, the self - proclaimed «apostle» was anything more than an ordinary man who needed to make up religious «sales literature» to survive and spread his own personal beliefs.

The apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians about a wicked man who would sit in the temple proclaiming himself to be God.

McKnight does a masterful job defining and defending this understanding of «Gospel» and includes chapters about the Gospel that Jesus preached, the Gospel that Paul preached, and the Gospel that Peter and the other apostles preach, and how this understanding of «Gospel» shows that they all preached, proclaimed, and lived the same gospel.

Some people are so up in arms about the Mormons, but when you think about it, there is no more reason to put stock in say Paul, the self - proclaimed «apostle» as there is to put stock in Joseph Smith.

And, the first part of 1 Corinthians 9 tells us that Paul is talking about people who travel to proclaim the gospel, i.e., apostles.

«Emma» keeps spewing stuff from the self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul of the NT.

It's just more junk from the chatty Cathy self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul.

But unfortunately new really is anything from that politician self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul and forward where we see division, judgment, disenfranchisement, and all the weird stuff that the Catholics, evangelicals, bible thumpers, etc. start to corrupt the simple lessons of Jesus, regardless of how important a person you see him as.

It is true that both the gospels and the speeches of Peter and Paul in Acts give important testimony as to what the apostles taught about the Christian life and proclaimed about the meaning of Jesus» own life, death, and resurrection; yet both the gospels and Acts were written, not by apostles, but by later disciples, and their evidence on particular points stands in need of confirmation, if possible, from the apostles themselves.

But even if we [apostles] or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed!»

The apostles went out and proclaimed, «Let all Israel then accept as certain that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.»

Paul, as the apostle to the Gentiles, undoubtedly ran up against this blindness on numerous occasions, and he is providing a brief explanation here for why some people do not respond to the gospel when it is proclaimed to them.

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.

This encounter caused the first apostles to say Jesus had «appeared» to them and to proclaim that God had raised him from the dead.

Christ sent the apostles to proclaim his death and resurrection to every creature so that, the document continues, «they might accomplish the work of salvation which they had proclaimed, by means of sacrifice and sacraments, around which the entire liturgical life revolves».

The apostle Paul says that the» good news» is the power of God to salvation» The writer of Revelation has a vision of an angel who proclaims the «everlasting good news» then proceeds to declare judgement on the earth.

Had it not been, there would have been countless examples of believers including apostles who would have proclaimed that the day had changed.

Once the resurrection of Jesus came to be proclaimed by way of a narrative set within an historical context, it is not surprising that, after the death of the apostles, Christians of the latter part of the first century expanded this tradition and produced others.

The Jews were acting so as to proclaim themselves unworthy; the Gentiles were making manifest their desire to be deemed worthy (Lumby in «The Acts of the Apostles» in The Cambridge Bible, 168).

2 So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles he had chosen, commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: «Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.

The apostles were proclaiming that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God and that He had died and risen from the dead.

And in the Acts of the Apostles, Paul is pictured as saying to the Athenians: «What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you» (Acts l7: 23).

Non-Mormons these days give little «cred» to Joseph Smith, but if we were in the time of Paul — we would probably feel the same about him — a self - proclaimed «apostle» (and attributed with writing a big chunk of the NT).

And you really get rid of most of the notions if you just don't adhere so closely to the self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul.

And as the greatest of the Apostles proclaimed, «Christ is risen from the dead and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep» (I Corinthians 15:20).

Paul was, after all, a self - proclaimed «apostle».

He even proclaimed himself as an apostle.

What arose was the apostles» faith, which impelled them to proclaim the kerygma.

An apostle who proclaimed the gospel among Jews might have believed that Jewish Christianity, though ultimately only a part of Catholic Christianity, deserved more adequate representation than it found in Mark.

(«The apostles who proclaim the word may be regarded merely as figures of past history, and the Church as a sociological phenomenon, whose history forms part of the history of religion.

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.

In the fourth century Athanasius sums up this process in these words: «The actual original tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic church, which the Lord conferred, the apostles proclaimed, and the Fathers guarded» (Ad Seraph.

Of course Paul was a self - proclaimed «apostle» that helped conflict the NT in many ways.

they were dead... The «Apostle Paul» was and is as much of an apostle as Joseph Smith... self proclaimed with no actual contact with Jesus himself.

The first evangelist to proclaim the gospel outside Jerusalem was Philip, who was not one of the apostles.

The epistles were mostly written by the politician and self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul whose words often contradicted Jesus» simple lessons.

and Romans — well Romans is automatically disqualified for me because it was written by that self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul (the politician — whose words are the most dangerous and untrustworthy of the NT — we have no reason to believe his words any more than those of Joseph Smith).

As the author of II Peter claims, the apostles did not proclaim the power and presence of their Lord by relying on myths such as those employed by rhetoricians (1:16).

The apostles continued to work wonders, proclaim the gospel, and make their presence known on Solomon's Porch within the walls of the Temple precinct.

Because people did not remain in the truth, that is to say, the truth the Apostles proclaimed.