As to our action, let us align ourselves with the purpose expressed by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

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.

Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).

When questioned by the Sadducees about the resurrection of the dead ( in a context relating to who one's spouse would be if one had been married several times in life ), Jesus said that marriage will be irrelevant after the resurrection as the resurrected will be ( at least in this respect ) like the angels in heaven.

John 3: 16 says that only those that accept Jesus will be given eternal life, so the people that do not accept him cannot burn in hell for eternity because Jesus has not given them eternal life, instead it says they will perish.

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

" When Jesus the Christ, who is the Word and the Bread of Life, comes a second time, the righteous will be raised incorruptible and will be taken in the clouds to meet their Lord.

* Man has free will to respond or resist: Free will is limited by God's sovereignty, but God's sovereignty allows all men the choice to accept the Gospel of Jesus through faith, simultaneously allowing all men to resist.

" God alone determines who will be saved and his determination is that all who believe Jesus through faith will be justified.

“ Acts, then is a continuation of the Lucan Gospel, not in the sense that it relates what Jesus continued to do, but how his followers carried out his commission under the guidance of his Spirit .” Thus, part of the answer to the purpose of Acts is that Luke is writing to Theophilus, who is also mentioned in Luke 1: 3, in order to explain to him the occurrences that take place in the church that fulfill Jesus ’ promise to his disciples that “ you will be baptized with, the Holy Spirit not many days from now ” ( Acts 1: 5 ).

According to Epiphanius's account of the Ebionites, the group believed that Jesus was chosen because of his sinless devotion to the will of God.

Shortly thereafter, he decided to follow the words of Jesus, who had said: " If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven ; and come, follow Me.

Jonah spent three days in the belly of the fish ; Jesus will spend three days in the grave.

While Jonah metaphorically declared, “ Out of the belly of Sheol I cried ,” Jesus will literally be in the belly of Sheol.

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.

Although the Bible never says " Jesus is God ", trinity based theology summarily claims: " Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man in one person, and will be so forever.

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.

Christians call the message of Jesus Christ the Gospel (" good news ") and generally adhere to the Ten Commandments.

Christians see in this book a comparable call to the church not to forsake the Lord Jesus Christ.

For instance, the phrases " if it be lawful to call him a man " suggests that Jesus was more than human and is likely a Christian interpolation.

In this passage, which is based on Meier's reconstruction, Jesus is called a " wise man " but " lawful to call him a man " and " he was the Christ " are removed, as is the reference to the resurrection.

“ 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.

And you shall call his name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins ( Mt 1: 21 ),' as < U > those who have made memoirs </ U > of all things about our savior Jesus Christ taught ... ( 1 Apol.

More than any other Bible source, the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus ' call to not resist evil but turn the other cheek, are used as the basis for Christian anarchism.

Jesus fully and in every way responded to the call of God and so the person of Jesus is theologically understood to be “ the divine Word in human form .” Jesus was not God-man in essence, but fully identified with God at all moments of life.

Many Christians call their prophet Jesus of Nazareth the " Prince of Peace ", and see him as a messiah ( savior or deliverer ), the " Christ ", who manifested as the Son of God on Earth to establish God's Kingdom of Peace, wherein persons, societies, and all of Creation are to be healed of evil.

On several occasions the disciples call Jesus the Son of God and even the Jews scornfully remind Jesus during his crucifixion of his claim to be the Son of God.

This Biblical interpretation is a call to action against poverty, and the sin engendering it, to effect Jesus Christ's mission of justice in this world.

At one point John and his brother James wanted to call down fire on a Samaritan town, but Jesus rebuked them.

An 18th century Ethiopian icon of Yashew that the Europeans call Jesus

The battle call selected by the emperor " Maria Help " ( which might carry Roman Catholic connotations ) had been previously amended to " Jesus and Maria help " at the request of Johann Georg.

* Revelation 14: 12-13: " Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to the faith of Jesus.

Some evangelical churches practice what is referred to as an altar call, whereby those who wish to make a new spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ are invited to come forward publicly.

" To call Jesus denounced " () is to pronounce him execrated or accursed.

The account was chosen to open the Lenten season because of two exegetical aspects: Jesus ' call to Zacchaeus to come down from the tree ( symbolizing the divine call to humility ), and Zacchaeus ' subsequent repentance.

Christianity declares that in the life and death of Jesus Christ the unique and the universal concur.

In fact, He came into this world Himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who stood here amid the darkness of human sin and said: `` I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life ''.

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

He maintained that the life of Jesus must be interpreted in the light of Jesus ' own convictions, which reflected late Jewish eschatology.

Jesus also maintained that the time would come when the dead would hear the voice of the Son of God, and all who were in the tombs would come out, the faithful to the resurrection of life, and the unfaithful to the resurrection of judgment.

Arius taught that Jesus Christ was divine and was sent to earth for the salvation of mankind but that Jesus Christ was not equal to the Father ( infinite, primordial origin ) and to the Holy Spirit ( giver of life ).

Adoptionism ( also known as dynamic monarchianism ) denies the eternal pre-existence of Christ, and although it explicitly affirms his deity subsequent to events in his life, many classical trinitarians claim that the doctrine implicitly denies it by denying the constant hypostatic union of the eternal Logos to the human nature of Jesus.

For example, the pelican, which was believed to tear open its breast to bring its young to life with its own blood, was a living representation of Jesus.

Jesus Christ used the " birth " analogy in tracing spiritual newness of life to a divine beginning.

Associated perhaps initially with Jesus People and the Christian counterculture, born again came to refer to a conversion experience, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in order to be saved from Hell and given eternal life with God in Heaven, and was increasingly used as a term to identify devout believers.

In the Gospel narratives that describe the life of Jesus, the first instance of him being called the Son of God appears during his Baptism by John the Baptist.

Episodes in the life of Jesus and statements about what he accomplished during his public ministry are found throughout the New Testament.

Christianity ( from the and the Latin suffix-itas ) is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings.

These professions state that Jesus suffered, died, was buried, and was resurrected from the dead in order to grant eternal life to those who believe in him and trust him for the remission of their sins ( salvation ).

Most denominations teach that Jesus will return to judge all humans, living and dead, and grant eternal life to his followers.