Before becoming a follower of Christ, Paul was a prime example of a “righteous” Jew. He came from a God-fearing family (2 Timothy 1:3), he was a Pharisee like his father (Acts 23:6), and he was educated by a respected rabbi named Gamaliel (Acts 22:3). His Jewish credentials i...
These then, I believe are the motifs which provided the framework by which the early message was moulded. The four names of the movement supplied: 1. The Doctrinal content; 2. The World-view; 3. A Restoration theme; and 4. The Experienti... DW Faupel - 《Pneuma》 被引量: 2发表: ...
The followers of Jesus called him Christ5. Christ is a Greek word that means“ chosen one”,because they believed he was chosen by God to be his messenger. In time the followers ofJesus became known as Christians. The Christians taught that people’s sins would be forgiven ifthey became C...
Paul was a Pharisee. One day he had a ‘revelation’. He changed his name from Saul to Paul, and straightway preached his revelations about the ‘Christ’ in the synagogues. Paul continued to have new ‘revelations’ that spoke ‘of’ and ‘for’ a Christ, but he was glaringly silent ...
Christ. But the desire of the crafty foe was to slay the soul, not the body; and this he did by searching diligently for slow but deadly tortures. In the words of Cyprian himself who suffered at his hands: they who wished to die were not suffered to be slain. We give two ...
19 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled across the hill country to Ephesus, where he met some of the Lord's followers. 2 He asked them, “When you put your faith in Jesus, were you given the Holy Spirit?” “No!” they answered. “We have never even heard of the Holy Spi...
” InActs 28:31, Paul shares the good news of Jesus Christ: “Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.” Paul was not afraid to tell others what the Lord had done for him. Paul spent all his days, from conversion to ...
Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be justified ROMANS 10:4 Do we need Works & Faith? Man is justified by works and not by faith alone JAMES 2:24 Man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law ROMANS 3:28 Was Paul the enemy? When he ...
Pauline spirituality is rooted in the words of Saint Paul in his Letter to the Galatians: “I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).
He turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And the spirit came out of her instantly. 19 When her owners realized that their hope of making money from her was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market...