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After the letter had been purchased for the church and become public knowledge, Apostle Dallin Oaks asserted to Mormon educators that the words " white salamander " could be reconciled with Joseph Smith's Angel Moroni because in the 1820s, the word salamander might also refer to a mythical being thought to be able to live in fire, and a " being that is able to live in fire is a good approximation of the description Joseph Smith gave of the Angel Moroni.

In August 1987, the sensationalist aspects of the Hofmann case led Apostle Dallin Oaks to believe that church members had witnessed " some of the most intense LDS Church-bashing since the turn of the century.

Apostle Dallin H. Oaks explains:

While the complete title of the book is the Acts of the Apostles, really the book focuses on only two men: The Apostle Peter ( chs.

He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Augustine of Canterbury, the " Apostle to the English ", in the year 597.

This John is traditionally supposed to be John the Apostle, although recent scholarship has suggested other possibilities including a putative figure given the name John of Patmos.

It is < nowiki > Apostle Paul's </ nowiki > teaching in one instance that all who are Christ's by faith are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to promise.

He is also called the second Apostle of the Prussians ( Old Prussians ).

Paul the Apostle, an early Christian convert and missionary, wrote, " If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless.

According to Paul the Apostle, marriage is a social obligation that has the potential of distracting from Christ.

A key example is the Apostle Paul's Areopagus sermon that appears in.

They conclude that the Apostle Paul's statement sometimes called the " Magna Carta of Humanity " and recorded in applies to all Christian relationships, including Christian marriage: " There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Both the Patriarchate of Addis Ababa and all Ethiopia, and the Patriarchate of Asmara and all Eritrea do acknowledge the supremacy of honor and dignity of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria on the basis that both Patriarchates were established by the Throne of Alexandria and that they have their roots in the Apostolic Church of Alexandria, and acknowledge that Saint Mark the Apostle is the founder of their Churches through the heritage and Apostolic evangelization of the Fathers of Alexandria.

* The leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, is known as Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa on the Holy See of St. Mark the Apostle.

* His full title is Pope and Lord Archbishop of the Great City of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle that is, in Egypt, Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and all Africa.

This is because Alexandria was the Capital of the Province, and the preaching center and the place of martyrdom of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Apostle.

In his First Epistle to the Corinthians ( c 54-55 ), Paul the Apostle gives the earliest recorded description of Jesus ' Last Supper: " The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ' This is my body which is for you.

Biblical scholars agree that it was composed by the Apostle Paul to explain that salvation is offered through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In response to those who say that the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is not a separate experience from conversion, Pentecostals appeal to the question asked by the Apostle Paul to the Ephesian believers " Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?

' Along with Peter, the unnamed disciple is especially close to Jesus, and early-church tradition identified him as John the Apostle, one of Jesus ' Twelve Apostles.

* Thomas the Apostle is given a personality beyond a mere name, as " Doubting Thomas ".

Another criticism of image veneration is found in the non-canonical 2nd-century Acts of John ( generally considered a gnostic work ), in which the Apostle John discovers that one of his followers has had a portrait made of him, and is venerating it:

( For example, Tertullian taught that Christians should never flee from persecution, and that widows who remarried were committing adultery ; both teachings contradicted the epistles and actions of the Apostle Paul.

Ahadith associate the " Farthest Mosque " as Al-Quds ; for example, as narrated by Abu Huraira: " On the night journey of Allah's Apostle, two cups, one containing wine and the other containing milk, were presented to him at Al-Quds ( Jerusalem ).

Paul of Tarsus, who called himself Apostle to the Gentiles, attacked the practice, but not consistently, for example in one case he personally circumcised Timothy " because of the Jews " that were in town ( Timothy had a Jewish Christian mother but a Greek father ).

Alvin R. Dyer, for example, was ordained an Apostle in 1967.

One example is the title of the series, a reference to the words spoken by Jesus Christ to the Apostle Peter in the Bible at Matthew 16: 19-" I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven ; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven ".

* The Christian Apostle Paul gave an example of meek behavior when writing to Timothy: " The servant of the Lord must be gentle, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose.

More recent methods of scholarship, such as textual criticism, have been influential in suggesting that John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos were three separate individuals.

Early Jewish Christians such as Paul the Apostle visit the synagogue on Sabbath ().

However, he is forbidden to write about such things because John the Apostle is to write about them in the Bible.

Psilanthropism existed among early Jewish Christian groups such as Ebionites who considered Jesus the Messiah, but rejected Apostle Paul as an apostate.

Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies ( 1983 ) ( for which he won an Academy Award ), The Natural ( 1984 ), Colors ( 1988 ), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove ( 1989 ), Stalin ( 1992 ), The Man Who Captured Eichmann ( 1996 ), A Family Thing ( 1996 ), The Apostle ( 1997 ) ( which he also wrote and directed ), A Civil Action ( 1998 ), Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), Broken Trail ( 2006 ) and Get Low ( 2010 ).

A broader range of titles was used later, such as: Virgin, Pastor, Bishop, Monk, Priest, Founder, Abbot, Apostle, Doctor of the Church.

References to animal sacrifice appear in the New Testament, such as the parents of Jesus sacrificing two doves () and the Apostle Paul performing a Nazirite vow even after the death of Christ ().

The Apostle Paul says that such persons are ' perverted and self-condemned ' ( Titus 3: 11 ); the Prince of the Apostles calls the ' false prophets … who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction ' ( 2 Peter 2: 1 ).

Plymouth Brethren groups generally recognise from the teachings of the Apostle Paul's epistles that not all the believers in any one fellowship are suited to give public ministry such as teaching and preaching.

Several popular customs are kept on Föhr, such as Biikebrennen on 21 February with a great bonfire and the Tamsen ( or Thamsen, named after Thomas the Apostle ) on 21 December where young people play pranks on others by hiding things that can spin and turn around.

Christian Universalists such as Hosea Ballou argued that Jesus taught Universalist principles including universal reconciliation and the divine origin and destiny of all souls, and that these teachings were further developed by Saint Paul, Saint Peter, and Saint John the Apostle.

The criterion of multiple attestation focuses on the sayings or deeds of Jesus that are attested to in more than one independent literary source such as the Apostle Paul, Josephus, Q and / or the Gospel of the Hebrews.

Scholars of the Tübingen School such as Johann Gottfried Eichhorn ( d. 1827 ), Christian Friedrich Weber ( 1806 ), thought that the Gospel of the Hebrews may indeed be an authentic eyewitness account written by the Apostle Matthew himself.

His veneration was highly localized, but at Clermont he was moved back in time, to the 1st century AD, along with others of the Apostles to Gaul, such as Saint Martial, to become one of the " seventy-two Disciples of Christ ", and was claimed to have been a converted Jew who came with St. Peter from Palestine to Rome and subsequently became the Apostle of Auvergne, as well as of Berry and Nivernais.

Paul of Tarsus, commonly known as Saint Paul, persecuted the early Jewish Christians, such as Saint Stephen, then converted and adopted the title of " Apostle to the Gentiles " and started proselytizing among the Gentiles.

Some ancient writing describe the presence of the Indo-Parthians in the area, such as the story of Saint Thomas the Apostle, who was recruited as a carpenter to serve at the court of king " Gudnaphar " ( thought to be Gondophares ) in India.

She has a spectacular soprano singing voice, and as such began her young life singing with a Portuguese orchestra, but when it was discovered that her singing voice had healing powers and marked her as an Apostle, she became an object of pursuit.

Saint Paul the Apostle spoke of this unity of Christians with Christ, referred to in the New Testament also in images such as that of the vine and the branches, in terms of a single body that has Christ as its head in ,, and, and.

Iotated E is found in some of the very oldest examples of Cyrillic writing, such as the tenth-century Mostich inscription or the Codex Suprasliensis, whereas in others, such as the Enina Apostle or Undol ' skij Fragments, it is not present at all.

Close behind, a wave of Polish immigrants established east-side Roman Catholic parishes such as St. Albertus ( 1885 ), Sweetest Heart Of Mary ( 1893 ), St. Josaphat's ( 1901 ), St. Stanislaus ( 1911 ), and St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church ( 1923 ).

Passages such as Philippians 2: 5-11 ( following ) are thought by many Biblical scholars to represent early Christian hymns that were being quoted by the Apostle: