eachcommunity, though the appearance of the bishop as the individual leader of the local church—the monarchical bishop—was a fairly early development.Ignatius of Antioch—whose letters, written aboutad107, provide an early description of the Christian community—was clearly a monarchical bishop, ...
even within a single Christian communion. Most modern interpreters of the New Testament would agree to a description of faith as the personal knowledge of God revealing himself inChrist.Yetit is doubtful whether the post-Reformationtheologyof any Christianchurchhas presented faith simply in these term...
Jesus (as Wladislaw Komar in opening credits) Description: Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny,...
As you take part in the sacraments, you receive grace from the storehouse Jesus won. Now, that’s quite different from the simple Biblical description of grace. That’s because this doctrine is not only derived from the Bible, but it is the result of various scholars and Popes over the ...
As for the calendar, the birth of Jesus created an interesting alteration of the dating system used in the western world to this day. The change in the Roman (or Julian) calendar counting forward from the founding of Rome (Ab Urbe Conditum or AUC) to a date counting forward from the ...
The description of the Sixth Seal is longer than any of the previous Five Seals: {6:12} And when he had opened the sixth seal, I saw, and behold, a great earthquake occurred. And the sun became black, like a haircloth … Continue reading → More Galleries | 4 Comments 6) Re: th...
Description The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is a Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985. The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) has become the most widely used Roman Catholic Bible outside of the United States. It has the imprimatur of Cardinal George Basil Hume. ...
The church was dedicated to the miracle of the healing of the bleeding woman by Jesus. According toMark 525-34 andLuke 843-50, this is a description of her healing: “And a woman having an issue of blood… Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her is...
Faith aside, there's only a 1-in-365 chance that Jesus was actually born on December 25. Part of Christianity’s early success was its savvy leaders' ability to graft their new cult onto existing pagan ones, taking things like the popular holiday of Saturnalia and making it their own so...
ar'-mi, ro'-man; The treatment of this subject will be confined to(I) a brief description of the organization of the army, and(II) a consideration of the allusions to the Roman military establishment in the New Testament.I. Organization.There were originally no standing forces, but the ...