Furthermore, when on trial, the church responds to the authorities by professing the name of Jesus Christ ( Acts 4: 20, 28-29 ; 5: 29-32 ).

The phrase also occurs a few times in the Vulgate translation of the Bible, notably in when Peter asks Jesus the same question, to which he responds, " Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ; but thou shalt follow me.

The usual grace given before Formal Hall is Benedictus, Benedicat per Jesum Christum Dominum Nostrum ( Blessed is He and may he bless food through Jesus Christ Our Lord ) to which the assembly responds Amen.

Luke adds that Jesus ' female followers follow, mourning his fate, but that he responds by quoting.

God grants total repentance as each individual responds to repentance through faith in the expiating sacrifice of Jesus for all sin.

On the other hand, in Jesus responds to Peter's statement that he and the other disciples had left all and followed him by saying there is " no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God who will not receive back an overabundant return in this present age and eternal life in the age to come "

John responds by, instead, asking to be baptized by Jesus.

Jesus responds,

Jesus responds, to explain their gross misunderstanding of the humble and self-sacrificial nature of his teaching, " whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave.

Jesus responds by contrasting ritual cleanliness, gotten by bathing with water used by dogs and pigs, like a harlot, against the life-giving water that comes down from heaven in baptism.

Lisa responds " Praying to Buddha ... Jesus ... SpongeBob ... there's no time to be picky!

Our Lord Jesus Christ has resurrected from the dead and defeated His enemies .” Amid the ringing of the hand-bells and church-bells, the congregation responds, " Truly, we believe that He is risen !” This is done three times.

As in his response to the first temptation in Matthew 4: 4 Jesus again responds by quoting scripture.

The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research ( FAIR ) is a non-profit organization that specializes in Mormon apologetics and responds to criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Jesus responds that if she really knew who he was, she would have asked for the " water " that Jesus was offering.

Jesus responds that his power comes from his Father, and that he has been given the power to judge men from the Father.

They also use the biblical verse of Romans 10: 9 " That if you confess with your mouth, ' Jesus is Lord ', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

" ( King James Version ) They consider that when Jesus said in John 3: 5 that one has to be born from " water and the spirit " to enter the kingdom of God, it was not a command but a necessity, because the text states " Ye must be born again ".

They further maintain that Jesus bodily ascended into heaven where he rules and reigns with God the Father.

They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches.

They often cite Christian Science's views on the nature / existence of evil or sin, the divinity and resurrection of Jesus, the Trinity, and a few other matters as demonstrating that it cannot be considered a Christian denomination.

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.

They believe that God raised Jesus from death and gave him immortality, and he ascended to Heaven, God's dwelling place.

They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.

They also agreed that " we shall by all means labor to keep off from us all such as are contrary minded, and receive only such unto us as may be probably of one heart with us, such as that we either know or may well and truly be informed to walk in a peaceable conversation with all meekness of spirit, for the edification of each other in the knowledge and faith of the Lord Jesus …" The covenant also stipulated that if differences were to arise between townsmen, they would seek arbitration for resolution and each would pay his fair share for the common good.

They wanted to create in themselves that environment that allowed Jesus to fulfill His divine mission, insofar as they were able.

They deal with the life of Jesus of Nazareth and with questions of ecclesiastical life and practise, which they resolve in a monastic-ascetic way.

They are expected to become imitators of Jesus and follow the ways in Christ as he, Paul, teaches in all his churches ( 1 Cor.

They argue that the disciple who formed this community was both an historical person and a companion of Jesus Christ.

Irenaeus, ( c. 130 – 202 ) in his Against Heresies ( 1: 25 ; 6 ) says scornfully of the Gnostic Carpocratians, " They also possess images, some of them painted, and others formed from different kinds of material ; while they maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them.

Elsewhere in his Church History, Eusebius reports seeing what he took to be portraits of Jesus, Peter and Paul, and also mentions a bronze statue at Banias / Paneas, of which he wrote, " They say that this statue is an image of Jesus " ( H. E.

One of his most famous numbers is " They Ain't Makin ' Jews Like Jesus Anymore ," a song in which Kinky verbally and physically beats up a drunken white racist who berates blacks, Jews, Greeks, and Sigma Nus in a bar.

Director Terry Jones noted, " They were all very knowing because they'd all worked for Franco Zeffirelli on Jesus of Nazareth, so I had these elderly Tunisians telling me, ' Well, Mr Zeffirelli wouldn't have done it like that, you know.

They also argued that crucifixion was a standard form of execution in ancient times and not just one especially reserved for Jesus.

They persuade others to follow after them and not believe in Jesus and the teachings of the church.

They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ ; Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus.

They form the point in scripture where Jesus gives his ultimate demonstration that he has power over life and death, thus he has the ability to give people eternal life.

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.

Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

and ( 3 ) in so doing, frees itself to give appropriate emphasis to the event Jesus Christ by means of statements that, from Bultmann's point of view, are mythological.

I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

For his workmanship we are, created in Christ Jesus.

For his workmanship we are, created in Christ Jesus.

Schweitzer notes that St. Paul apparently believed in the immediacy of the " Second Coming of Jesus ": " Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord " ( 1 Thessalonians 4. 17 ).

Austrian economist Jesus Huerta de Soto argued that Friedman's conclusions are based on misleading data ( such as GDP ).

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

Adventists believe God will grant eternal life to the redeemed who are resurrected at Jesus ' second coming.

Jesus will call to life all those who are unrighteous.

" Arianism " is also often used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ — the Son of God, the Logos — as either a created being ( as in Arianism proper and Anomoeanism ), or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created ( as in Semi-Arianism ).

* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints also rejects Trinitarian doctrine, although other churches that are part of the Latter-Day Saint movement still adhere to the Nicene Creed.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

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.

Unexpectedly, since Jesus was a Jewish Galilean, the Samaritans are shown favorably in Luke-Acts.

In harmony with Paul's notices are the statements in Acts that Apollos was a highly educated Alexandrian Jew, who " spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, even though he knew only the baptism of John.

In are references to four parties in the Corinthian church, of which two attached themselves to Paul and Apollos respectively, using their names ( the third and fourth were Peter, identified as Cephas, and Jesus himself ).

We are proud to profess it, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

" the bishop presiding after the likeness of God and the presbyters after the likeness of the council of the Apostles, with the deacons also who are most dear to me, having been entrusted with the diaconate of Jesus Christ " — Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians 6: 1.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.

For example, both works are soteriological and possess a high Christology, stressing Jesus ' divine nature as opposed to the human nature stressed by the Synoptic Gospels.

The readings of the second Nocturn are mainly hagiological biography, with homilies or papal documents for certain major feasts, particularly those of Jesus and Mary.