Sentences with phrase «who believe in the gospel»

I'm one who believes in the Gospel of Thomas... and I believe that Jesus was an Essene as well...

When the traditionalists, who believe in the Gospel, can loyally recognise themselves in the elder son ofthe parable, they will humbly rejoin the prodigals in sharing the Sacrifice of Mercy in the renewed Roman Rite.

i'm Christian — someone who believes in the Gospel, and all the uncomfortable implications that come along with it when trying to love everyone around me.

Not exact matches

I believe the man, Jesus, who's story is recorded in the 4 gospels — would never recognize the American christian churches as anywhere near followers of «love one another as I have loved you» and «do to others as you would have them do to you.»

that's Satan 2Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

But the gospel has power, and those who believe that, and preach it in the conviction that it can transform and ennoble lives, can still get a hearing.

If the gospel is not preached with conviction — the convictions that humanity is in need of salvation and that Jesus is the Savior who liberates us into the fullness of our humanity and gives us eternal life — then the gospel will not be believed.

I, for one, was a person who used to think that the gospel was nothing more than «believe in Jesus for eternal life.»

Everyone who believes that Jesus and God are one in the same most often refer to the Gospel of John because you won't find that assertion in the three other gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke.

Do you have a particular group of person in mind, or could you give some examples of who believe that the gospel is only «believe in Jesus for eternal life»?

The fourth Gospel reports Jesus» saying, «If you love me, you will keep my commandments,» and «He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.»

The religious leaders of the gospel are any of us, in any time, who believe that God's activity is all past tense, or who believe that the Spirit has nothing new to renew in us.

Those who claim otherwise are the wolves in sheep's clothing as even the Mormon's do good works (don't drink / teach no sex before marriage etc...) but they do not believe the gospel and are not saved.

We believe simply that there were many people that lived here who had they had the chance to hear our Gospel would have liked to have been baptized in our church!

2 Corinthians 4:3 - 4 KJV But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: [4] In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

THe women tell the disciples, who in this gospel anole do not believe them except Peter.

The good news, the Gospel, is that while God is holy and we are sinners, and sin deserves punishment, God, out of His great love for us, sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die in our place for our sin so that anyone who wants eternal life in heaven with God can simply believe in Jesus Christ for it and it will be given to them.

Jeremy before the Gospel was preached in New Zealand my people the maori people already had many gods and lived under there own type of spiritual law.They had rituals to keep themselves holy or pure but was by works.They also believed that there was one supreme God who was above all other Gods and his name was eo.So when the Missionaries came they understood the message of a supreme God and the way to know him was through his son over 60 % of maori people accepted the Gospel.It was bigger revival than the welsh revival in terms of percentage of population the welsh revival was only 10 % of the population of wales and that was considered a large revival in its day the new zealand revival was in the years 1820 - 1840.

And those of them who hear us preach are quite likely to believe that we are not ourselves honest when we preach the gospel, because they know perfectly well that in our «secular» moments we do not subscribe to any such scheme of things.

In this way, the gospel unveils a way of life for the here and now so that all who believe and follow the gospel can live, love, and look like Jesus to a dark and dying world.

Furthermore, those who believe the Gospel of John to be a true account of who Jesus was and what he was about know that it is the nature of this Gospel to set up an insider / outsider dichotomy among its readers (as Gail O'Day demonstrates in her work on irony in John).

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

Jesus is not saying that God has chosen who the sheep will be before they ever believe in Jesus, and when people hear the Gospel, only those who are predestined to be God's sheep will actually believe.

For the gospel we are commanded to believe has the same efficacy as a sacrament: It gives what it signifies to those who receive it in faith.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

This came initially from «highbrows,» who realized correctly the theological heresy and narrow - mindness in revivalism, but who believed profoundly in the relevance of the Christian gospel for all men everywhere.

This is of course your opinion and you are ent - i - tled to it, but if you really believe that perhaps you should investigate the matter yourself instead of taking other people's opinion as gospel the way you claim anyone who believes in a diety does...

There must be some truth in the idea that it is God who calls and enables people to believe the Gospel by the Holy Spiirit.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We bBelieve in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believebelieve.

As the scholar Paula Fredriksen has expressed it, among those who believed the gospel, there were «too many gentiles, too few Jews, and no end in sight.»

On the way, he takes issues with those scholars who believe that the Incarnation is found only in John's Gospel, and he illustrates how a high Christology is found in all four gospels.

An evangelist, then, is someone who both understands the call of the gospel as found in Scripture and lives it out in their own life as a way to invite other people to believe in Jesus and live out the gospel as well.

(my translations), the Gospel of John is very much about abiding — where Jesus abides and how we who believe in Jesus shall abide.

I would have preferred something closer to the actual statements of Jesus in the Gospel of John where it is simply stated that anyone who believes in Jesus receives eternal life.

the blood of the son of god is greater then mur and the biblea moral system its a gospel and a covenant that says we cant meet gods standard but jesus did, so everyone can be forgiven of anything if they recieve it form jesus od does nt say just cause u murdered your excluded to god sin is sin, the only difference is the level of boundary you break ad the consequence in this life, a liar gets a small consequence a murder will in this reap judgement, but to after this life god sees as we a sinned, jesus paid it all and he forgives everyone who believes in jesus for an they did

«We believe that a man must be called of God by prophecy and by the laying on hands, by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.

I personally don't believe that those who have never heard the gospel wind up in hell.

Following this, the course also looks as numerous texts from the Gospel of John in which Jesus promises eternal life to those who believe in Him for it (cf. John 1:12 - 13; 3:14 - 16; 5:24; 6:35 - 40; 10:27 - 30; 11:25 - 26).

But since Jesus does not lie, we can know Jesus is telling the truth in the Gospel of John when He promises eternal life to all who believe in Him for it.

I wonder how people who believe in the Prosperity Gospel justify this belief.

The «gospel,» remember, is not simply the message that eternal life is given to those who believe in Jesus for it.

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

And since Jesus says over and over in the Gospel of John that those who believe in Him will have everlasting life and will not perish, will not die, will not ever thirst, and will not ever be taken out of God's hand, we must either agree with what Jesus says, or doubt His word and believe that we know better.

sounds more like «corporate brainstorming», but what I was trying to suggest is that it appears that we're witnessing (not intentionally) an evolving understanding of what wd become more central to the narrative and eventually orthodox.That is, if you cdn't believe it, you were out the door.A good example wd be the higher Christology that the fourth gospel reflects and more specifically, the virgin birth which it (like Mark and Paul) doesn't mention.If the birth narratives that we're familiar with are absent from the earliest gospel and the most theological gospel that came decades later, and can only be found in the other two gospels that we know used the first, it at least suggests a growing and evolving understanding of who Jesus «was» and «is».

For this reason the Gospel of John ends with the story of Thomas, who needs to see in order to believe.

When we freely proclaim the gospel as Jesus offered it to His hearers, the compelling nature of the free gift of God to all who simply and only believe in Jesus for it is recognizable to all as something that no religion on earth has offered, and hence, is no religion at all but is a message that can have its origin only in God.

It is the very point of the gospel, the fact that everyone who believes in Jesus can have full access to God.

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While he hung there, he constantly proclaimed the Gospel to those who passed by, pleading with them to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

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