After Jesus was executed, he had to work hard to make Jesus the son of Jehovah because their personal safety was guaranteed only by exaggerating and promoting Jesus as the "son of Jehovah," inheriting Jewish nationalism. In order to justify "we are the same Jews in the same boat," Matthe...
"You know that it was because of a physical (sarx) infirmity (astheneia) that I first announced the gospel to you; though my condition put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me, but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. What has become of the goodwill you...
Salutation - Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God which he promised beforehand through his
4 For if someone comes and proclaims[aq] another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed,[ar] or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received,[as] or a different gospel than the one you accepted,[at] you put up with it well enough![au] 5 For I consider myself ...
20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. ...
Hooker interpreted Paul’s veiling instructions as woman hiding her own glory in order to embody man’s.[3] Paul wants the Corinthians to maintain gender, even in the face of canonical and historical Jesus sayings he might have known and believed that claimed heaven would change men and women...
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BiblePaul, a servant of God,... So James styles himself, James 1:1 and others of the apostles, as Peter and Jude, call themselves the servants of Jesus Christ; and as does the Apostle Paul also; and both seem to be esteemed by them as high characters...
” Clearly, Jesus is speaking of the gospel of the kingdom. How then does Paul dare to call this gospel his own? What an ego!?! This is mysterious… and a seeming conundrum. Of course, as “actual” Bible believers (we actually believe the words on the page and do not simply ...
And every rosary concludes with the Hail Holy Queen where people refer to themselves as ‘poor banished children of Eve’ and pray that ‘after this our exile’ Mary will show them Jesus as salvation is achieved. It would be impossible to assess the influence on the Irish psyche of this co...
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