Esler believes that this specific point is supported through Luke ’ s emphasis on citing examples of Romans who come to believe in Christ ( Acts 10: 1-11: 18 ; 13: 12 ; 18: 7 ).

By picturing Roman authority negatively proponents of this view believe that it is emphasizing the fact that Christian ’ s should obey and submit to Christ ’ s authority ( Acts 4: 19-20 ; 5: 29 ).

* Rubenstein, Richard E., When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ ’ s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome ( New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999 ).

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

The first sixty-nine weeks are interpreted as covering the period until Christ ’ s first coming, but the last week is thought to represent the years of the tribulation which will come at the end of this age, directly preceding the millennial age of peace:

While only Revelation speaks of a period of a thousand years for Christ ’ s rule on Earth, there are numerous other prophecies in both testaments concerning a future age of peace.

Many amillennialists believe that during this time period, the church will continue to evangelize and grow as well as suffer declination in periods until Christ ’ s coming.

The creed became standard orthodox doctrine, while the Coptic Church of Alexandria dissented, holding to Cyril's formula of the oneness of Christ ’ s nature as the incarnation of God the Word.

Cyril new religion wasn ’ t about proving the existence of God or proving the divinity of Christ but rather instilling a faith in people.

Other groups who were accused of docetism held that Jesus was a man in the flesh, but Christ was a separate entity, who entered Jesus ’ s body in the form of a dove at his baptism, empowered him to perform miracles, and abandoned him on his death on the cross.

In his critique of the theology of Clement of Alexandria, Photius in his Myriobiblon held that Clement ’ s views reflected a quasi-docetic view of the nature of Christ, writing that Clement " He hallucinates that the Word was not incarnate but only seems to be.

) In Clement ’ s time some disputes contended over whether Christ assumed the ‘ psychic ’ flesh of mankind as heirs to Adam, or the ‘ spiritual ’ flesh of the resurrection.

The writer of the letter of James identifies himself as “ a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ ,” in much the same way as did Jude, who introduced the letter of Jude by calling himself “ a slave of Jesus Christ, but a brother of James .” ( Jas 1: 1 ; Jude 1 ) Furthermore, the salutation of James ’ letter includes the term “ Greetings !” in the same way as did the letter concerning circumcision that was sent to the congregations.

The Quorum of Seventy oversees the activities of its Missionary Operating Committees to ensure the fulfilling of Christ ’ s commandment to take the gospel to the entire world.

Seventh-day Adventist Church holds opinion that " Christ ’ s example forbids exclusiveness at the Lord ’ s Supper.

:: C. Prayer for the Philippians ’ Discerning Love to Increase until the Day of Christ ( 1: 9-11 )

:::: a. Christ ’ s Emptying ( 2: 5-8 )

:::: b. Christ ’ s Exaltation ( 2: 9-11 )

Mitre worn by an Eastern bishop with icon s of Christ, the Theotokos ( Mary, Mother of God ) and John the Baptist | Forerunner ( John the Baptist ).

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

Ecclesia and evangelist portrait s. A number of biblical passages, including those describing Christ as a " bridegroom " led early in the history of the church to the concept of the church as the Bride of Christ, which was shown in art using a queenly personification.

Second, the other side of the dialogue is Paul ’ s conversion and calling to follow Christ in the early 30s.

Clearly these are the Church ’ s agents of ministry and work of whom the body of Christ consists ; and God has ordained them.

Matthew 2: 13 cites Hosea's prophecy in that God would call His Son out of Egypt as foretelling the flight into Egypt and return to Israel of Joseph, Mary, and the infant Jesus Christ.

They were engaged a few weeks after their return, and were later married at Christ Church, Hampstead on 10 January 1922.

:: Christ is raised with his own body: " See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself "; but he did not return to an earthly life.

Posttribulationists hold that Christ will not return until the end of the tribulation.

* In 1898, the Unamended Fellowship was separated from as a result of differing views on who would be raised to judgment at the return of Christ.

They do not believe we can be sure of being saved, believing instead that salvation comes as a result of a life of obedience to the commands of Christ After death, believers are in a state of non-existence, knowing nothing until the Resurrection at the return of Christ.

Paul urges them to go on working quietly while waiting in hope for the return of Christ.

Just as Paul expects Onesimus ( and, at a later time, himself ) to be freed literally from his yoke, as fellow servants of Christ, they expect to realize their status of brotherhood and thus equality with Christ ( before the Father ) in a literal, temporal fashion, upon Christ's return to earth.

After Rapp's death in 1847, a number of members left the group because of disappointment and disillusionment over the fact that his prophecies regarding the return of Jesus Christ in his lifetime were not fulfilled.

“ And that Christ being Lord, and God the Son of God, and appearing formerly in power as Man, and Angel, and in the glory of fire as at the bush, so also was manifested at the judgment executed on Sodom, has been demonstrated fully by what has been said .” Then I repeated once more all that I had previously quoted from Exodus, about the vision in the bush, and the naming of Joshua ( Jesus ), and continued: “ And do not suppose, sirs, that I am speaking superfluously when I repeat these words frequently: but it is because I know that some wish to anticipate these remarks, and to say that the power sent from the Father of all which appeared to Moses, or to Abraham, or to Jacob, is called an Angel because He came to men ( for by Him the commands of the Father have been proclaimed to men ); is called Glory, because He appears in a vision sometimes that cannot be borne ; is called a Man, and a human being, because He appears arrayed in such forms as the Father pleases ; and they call Him the Word, because He carries tidings from the Father to men: but maintain that this power is indivisible and inseparable from the Father, just as they say that the light of the sun on earth is indivisible and inseparable from the sun in the heavens ; as when it sinks, the light sinks along with it ; so the Father, when He chooses, say they, causes His power to spring forth, and when He chooses, He makes it return to Himself.

Yet after the second return from Judea, John and his companions went back again to their trade of fishing until he and they were called by Christ to definitive discipleship (; ).

For Pentecostals, " every moment is eschatological " since at any time Christ may return.

In Christianity and Islam, the Second Coming of Christ, the second advent, sometimes called the parousia, is the anticipated return of Jesus Christ to Earth.

In the New Testament the Greek word ἐπιφάνεια ( epiphaneia, appearing ) is used five times to refer to the return of Christ.

In January 1946, Theosophist Alice A. Bailey prophesied that Christ ( who is regarded by Theosophists as being identical with the being known by Theosophists as the Maitreya ) would return " sometime after AD 2025 ".

William Miller predicted on the basis of and the " day-year principle " that Jesus Christ would return to Earth between the Spring of 1843 and the Spring of 1844.

* Second Coming and End times ( fundamental beliefs 25 – 28 )— Jesus Christ will return visibly to earth after a " time of trouble ", during which the Sabbath will become a worldwide test.

This act of restraint has given humanity a chance to mend their ways and return to Christ.

After the Tribulation, Christ will return to establish His Millennial Kingdom.

Another feature of the pre-and mid-tribulation beliefs is the idea that after the Rapture, Christ will return for a third time ( when also counting the first coming ) to set up his kingdom on the earth.

* Charles Taze Russell and the Bible Student movement claim this year marks the invisible return of Jesus Christ to earth.