Paul rejected the authority of the Apostles that Jesus appointed, and the Apostles that Jesus appointed rejected Paul. Paul lacked authority to preach, and his own letters make it clear that he did not possess a letter of recommendation from the authorities that Jesus instituted. Jesus did not ...
and applied it to the man’s eyes.” This blind man was then instructed to wash in the Pool of Siloam. After doing so, he emerged able to see. Archaeologists in 2004 uncovered significant areas of the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David, affirming the existence of the ...
If you are asking yourself if Jesus did this on purpose, of course he did. Jesus shared the meaning with his disciples with full disclosure. They knew Him to be the messiah, and just in case they needed the clarification of the parable, He gave it to them. (For reference take a look...
That is why the Gospel of Jesus Christ speaks of a Body of Christ and a community of saints. And it's also why the New Jerusalem is a city, which is a single entity formed from the original contributions of many free citizens. Its purpose is to govern and uphold the wider world (...
There’s some clear indications that there’s an actual binding authority that the church has, that it can speak in the words of Jesus and that we’re to submit to our leaders and there to have a spiritual account for us. In Acts 15, the Council of Jerusalem says, it seemed good to...
And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” 38So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.39Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip...
“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”New Living Translation“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing ...
And as Jesus himself pointed out, money tends to shut down moral inquiry. “It’s all about money,” Thornbury argues. “All these people were told, ‘Don’t say anything about Trump or we’re going to stop giving to your thing.’ All of the money that is behind these evangelical ins...
9 “I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the Lord’s people in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast ...
Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.” 9 Again the Lord said to me, “A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,...