Sentences with phrase «to write a gospel»

Who wrote the gospel may never be surely known.

If not, do you claim to know who wrote the gospel of John?

The irony of the apparent impregnability of the Temple would not have been lost on the members of the early Christian community, for whom St John wrote his gospel account.

«But God said unto him...» Luke 12:20 ---- Since God didn't write the Gospel of Luke, or any other book in the bible, we can't say for certain «God said» this.

He was a disciple of Peter (who did interact with Jesus) and undoubtedly it was Peter who informed Mark of the life of Christ and guided him in writing the Gospel known by his name.

justpro86 We don't know who actually wrote the gospel known as John and, even if we did, you'd have to take his word that he's not being an unreliable author.

However, John did not write this Gospel account only for unbelievers.

John wrote his Gospel so that those who read it know that the only way to have eternal life is to believe in Jesus Christ for it.

When Luke writes his Gospel, he refers to the twelve disciples with the shorthand phrase the Twelve.

Yet, no one, including fundamentalists, believes that the apostle Peter wrote the Gospel of Peter.

Whatever else Luther may have been, he was no ecclesiolater or bibliolater, either since he acknowledged that «God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.»

That is to say, by the time Mark wrote his gospel the key issue in dispute between the early Christians and the Jewish community was whether or not Jesus was the Christ.

So, in any single instance, or in any number of instances, it must always be considered possible that the tradition which the first written gospel source has used has lived on to affect the later gospel traditions in cases where they have used the earlier written source.

It's not even known who actually wrote the gospel of Matthew even.

Texts (such as written gospels or letters) recited or orally composed in Christian worship harkened back to the immediacy of oral discourse.

Because people wrote the gospels; people lie; and the «miracles» in the Bible have all been repeated by modern magicians, hucksters, and frauds.

He declares that his reason for writing this gospel is that his readers may have eternal life (20:31).

And yet a literary critical reading of Mark suggests that this pair of stories belongs together, and if we wish to understand what Mark had in mind by writing his Gospel, we had best keep them together.

It's true that scholars say M, M, L, and J wrote their gospels «from the kerygma», or after salvation.

«John» did not write that gospel attributed to him.

Since it is unknown who wrote the gospels then it is also just fantasy that anyone died for writing them.

At the very least, this indicates that it was possible to write a gospel without mentioning the birth of Jesus.

Such a view was accepted by Justin and Irenaeus in the later second century, although in the third century Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, attempted to minimize the authority of the book by proving that since John son of Zebedee wrote the gospel ascribed to him, he can not have written the book of Revelation, since the two writings employ different ideas, styles and vocabularies.

When Ira Sankey wrote gospel music in 19th - century America, he didn't have the organ in mind.

He is the one who eventually writes the Gospel of Matthew.

John specifically wrote his Gospel account so that unbelievers might believe in Jesus.

When the historical writings ABOUT the anonymously - written gospels appear to have been tampered with, THAT certainly doesn't help solidify anything about the Christian claim.

Anonymously written gospels don't help.

Dude, neither Jesus nor his disciple write anything... most of them were illiterate, hence Greek scribes wrote the Gospel as told to them by others.

It is generally believed that Luke would have written his gospel between 60AD and 90AD.

Some fundamentalists would probably believe that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John sat down and wrote their gospels within ten minutes of the Ascension.

Caccia suggests that when Luke resumes writing his Gospel, he will incorporate the mental images he derived from painting and sculpture.

The author was probably not the son of Zebedee but a Jerusalem disciple of Jesus who wrote his gospel around the time of the Roman - Jewish war of 66 - 70 (probably not long after it) in order to present faith in Christ to bewildered and distressed Jewish sectarians.

«God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.»

Snowboarder, I never said John was the first written gospel and most agree Mark was written first.

Well, there's the whole missing ending of Mark, thought to be among the earliest written gospels, which completely leaves out anything after Jesus is buried.

Whoever WROTE those gospels down were relating stories that supposedly CAME from Matthew and John.

But John wrote his Gospel after Peter was dead.

Just what is the intention of John in writing his gospel?

Simon Bening (1483/4 — 1561), St. Luke Writing his Gospel and Painting the Virgin; borders with pearls, pendants, and brooches.

Here, of course, Altizer is wholly unoriginal, for we now know, or should know, that in a fundamental sense this is true of Blake, Hegel and Nietzsche, and it is significant that Altizer could not write The Gospel of Christian Atheism until he had finished The New Apocalypse.

Actually, I think the most accurate would be to state that the anonymous author who wrote the gospel of John attributed those words to Jesus that he or she received second hand (or more) and didn't bother to put into writing until at least many decades after the words were said.