The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

As Dietrich Bonhoffer puts it, `` Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to both of us ''.

Whenever a congregation really sees itself as a unit in the universal Church, in vital relation with the whole Body of Christ and participating in His mission to the world, a necessary foundation-stone of the ecumenical movement has been laid.

To be the Savior and the Lord, Jesus Christ has to be a historical individual with a biography all his own ; ;

Each man can identify himself with the history and the death of Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ has identified himself with human history and human death, coming as the head of a new humanity.

The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

I praise God for the privilege of being a nurse who has that peace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

When that fear has been removed by faith in Jesus Christ, when we know that He is our Savior, that He has paid our debt with His blood, that He has met the demands of God's justice and thus has turned His wrath away -- when we know that, we have peace with God in our hearts ; ;

In their case, the god of this world ( Satan ) has blinded their unbelieving minds, that they should not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

I am convinced of this, that he who has begun a good work in you will bring it to perfection until the day of Christ Jesus.

He who believes in the Son ( Jesus Christ, the Son of God ), has everlasting life.

Fixity does not lie in a hidden decree, therefore, but in corporate unity of the Church with Christ, whom it has come to know in the gospel and has learned to embrace in faith.

The Lord Jesus Christ gave His Spirit to His Apostles ; they in turn laid their hands on those who should succeed them ; and these again on others ; and so the sacred gift has been handed down to our present bishops, who have appointed us as their assistants, and in some sense representatives.

Administration to the sick is one of the eight sacraments of the Community of Christ, in which it has also been used for people seeking spiritual, emotional or mental healing.

For example, his engraving of The Last Supper of 1523 has often been understood to have an evangelical theme, focussing as it does on Christ espousing the Gospel, as well the inclusion of the Eucharistic cup, an expression of Protestant utraquism, although this interpretation has been questioned.

Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.

It has with a Baroque portal ( 1667 ), a noteworthy bell tower, presbytery frescoes portraying the Histories of St. Peter and Virgin by Jacopo da Montagnana ( 1495 ) and Palma the Younger's altarpiece depicting Christ Crucifixed Between St. Augustine and St. Jerome.

According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1: 1 (" The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", but not in all versions, see Mark 1 ), 5: 7 (" What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

Baptism has been called a sacrament and an ordinance of Jesus Christ.

* His view of the second coming of Christ is also unusual ; he suggested that this would not be a physical reappearance, but that the Christ being would become manifest in non-physical form, visible to spiritual vision and apparent in community life for increasing numbers of people beginning around the year 1933.

A number of scholars, including Frazer, have suggested that the Christ story is an example of the " dying god " theme.

Major-General Thomas Harrison, who had commanded the troop which aided Oliver Cromwell in dissolving the Rump, suggested that there be a ruling body based upon the Old Testament Sanhedrin of 70 selected " Saints ", which was based on his beliefs, as a Fifth Monarchist, that the rule of the Saints would usher in the reign of Christ on Earth.

It has therefore been suggested that part or all of the passage may have been Eusebius ' own invention, in order to provide an outside Jewish authority for the life of Christ.

Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons ' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ – Lust for Glory ( a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton ).

Ambrose ( De virginitate 3, 14 ; 4, 15 ) and John Chrysostom ( Matthew, Homily 88 ) have suggested that Mary Magdalene was a virgin after the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

He suggested that this would not be a physical reappearance, but rather, meant that the Christ being would become manifest in non-physical form, in the " etheric realm " – i. e. visible to spiritual vision and apparent in community life – for increasing numbers of people, beginning around the year 1933.

A number of specific dates have been suggested for the Second Coming of Christ.

Reasons for departure are suggested by Bradford, when he notes the " discouragements " of the hard life they had in the Netherlands, and the hope of attracting others by finding " a better, and easier place of living "; the " children " of the group being " drawn away by evil examples into extravagance and dangerous courses "; the " great hope, for the propagating and advancing the gospell of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world.

Some historians have suggested that this semantic issue caused some of the disagreement: perhaps Luther's supporters may have understood " salvation by faith alone " to mean " salvation by being faithful to Christ ", while his opponents understood him to mean " salvation by intellectual belief in Christ ".

In 1898, F. D. Powers -- a minister at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church ( today the National City Christian Church ), a congregation of the Disciples of Christ in Washington, D. C. -- was serving as president of the annual convention of Washington-area Disciples when he suggested that a Christian meeting place be established on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

He suggested Merton read The Confessions of Augustine and The Imitation of Christ.

" The change of view is illustrated clearly in the essay, published in the Tübinger Zeitschrift for 1831, on the Christ-party in the Corinthian Church, Die Christuspartei in der korinthischen Gemeinde, der Gegensatz des paulinischen und petrinischen Christentums in der ältesten Kirche, der Apostel Petrus in Rom, the trend of which is suggested by the title ( in English, ' The Christ Party in the Corinthian Community, the Opposition of Pauline and Petrine Christianity in the earliest Church, the apostle Peter in Rome ').

In contrast to a dualistic type of religious ground motive, Dooyeweerd suggested that the Christian's basic orientation to the world ought to be derived not from human speculation, but from God's revealed purposes: Creation, the Fall into sin, and Redemption in Christ.

Anne Roes detected the symbol, which often appears with balls in the quadrants formed by the arms of the chi-cross, in standards represented on coins of Persepolis, and she suggested that early Christians endorsed its solar symbolism as appropriate to Christ, and suggested " although it cannot be proved, that in the white saltire of St. Andrew we still have a reminiscence of the old standard of the Persepolitan kingdom.

The hermit then suggested that because of his size and strength Christopher could serve Christ by assisting people to cross a dangerous river, where they were perishing in the attempt.

After watching The Passion of the Christ, a shameful Kyle suddenly felt that Cartman's anti-Semitism was justified, and suggested to angry members of his synagogue that the Jews apologize for the death of Jesus.

It was suggested by Berthe van Regemorter that in the St Cuthbert Gospel this design represents Christ ( as the central bud ) and the Four Evangelists as the grapes, following, " I am the vine, ye are the branches ", but this idea has been treated with caution by other scholars.

Among others, the King suggested vault arches, Medieval and Islamic elements be included, and he also designed an exquisitely ornate window for the main façade ( inspired by the chapter house window of the Convent of the Order of Christ in Tomar ).

Paula Fredriksen, in From Jesus to Christ, has suggested that Jesus ' impact on his followers was so great that they could not accept this failure.

Cheri DiNovo of comparing Canada's media coverage of serial killer Karla Homolka to the persecution of Jesus Christ, and suggested that DiNovo was unfit to run for parliament.

" Christ opened the doors of hell to missionary work among the dead ..." ( H. Donl Peterson, “ I Have a Question ,” Ensign, Apr.

Supporters of this view believe that the Roman Empire does not threaten the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ because Luke “ simply recognizes its existence as a political reality, but he is clear that God is greater .” Throughout Acts, believers like Paul are being charged with spiritual crimes concerning “ teaching against Israel, the law, and the temple ” ( Acts 21: 21, 28 ; 23: 29 ; 24: 5 ; 25: 8, 19 ; 28: 17 ) or being a civil disturbance ( Acts 16: 20, 21: 38, 25: 8 ) rather than political charges.

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 Baptists have been non-creedal “ in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another .” Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada and the Churches of Christ.

In his letter to the church at Thessalonica, Paul writes, " The Lord himself will descend from heaven ... and the dead in Christ will rise first .” But he adds that “ we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air ." Th.

" 19: 7-8 Christ is represented throughout Revelation as “ the Lamb ,” symbolizing the giving of his life as an atoning sacrifice for the people of the world, just as lambs were sacrificed on the altar for the sins of Israel.

This is the “ second resurrection ,” and all those who were not a part of the first resurrection at the coming of Christ now rise up for judgment:

In 1968, the International Convention of Christian Churches ( Disciples of Christ ) adopted the Commission's proposed “ Provisional Design of the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ).” Soon the Provisional Design became “ The Design .”

The Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) at the “ General Church ” level consists of a number of self-governing agencies, which focus upon specific Christian witnesses to the world that have emerged in the dialog within the movement since before the first convention in 1849.

The writer calls himself simply “ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ .” Jesus had two apostles named James, but it is unlikely that either of these wrote the letter.

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 main theme of Ephesians is “ the Church, the Body of Christ .”

“ Philippians: Rejoicing in Christ .” BibleCourses. com.

“ He that is not of Christ is of Antichrist ,” he wrote to Pope Damasus I.