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.

Some Christians adhere to New Covenant theology, which states that Jews have rejected Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God have ceased being the Chosen People.

* People were saying, " has gone out of his mind ", see also Rejection of Jesus ().

* M. Fergus, S. Emil & V. Geza: The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ ( 175 B. C.

After Jesus slays al-Dajjāl at the Gate of Lud, he will bear witness and reveal that Islam is indeed the true and last word from God to humanity as Yusuf Ali's translation reads: " And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his death ; and on the Day of Judgment He will be a witness against them.

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

# The Children of Israel were God's original chosen people by virtue of an ancient covenant, but by rejecting Jesus they forfeited their chosenness-and now, by virtue of a New Covenant ( or " testament "), Christians have replaced the Jews as God's chosen people, the Church having become the " People of God.

In order to strengthen his title to both the Roman Empire and announce his position as the protector of Christendom, Otto III took for himself the titles " the Servant of Jesus Christ ," " the Servant of the Apostles ", " Consul of the Senate and People of Rome ," and " Emperor of the World ".

Her testament of June 6, 1939 states, " I beg the Lord to take my life and my death … for all concerns of the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary and the holy church, especially for the preservation of our holy order, in particular the Carmelite monasteries of Cologne and Echt, as atonement for the unbelief of the Jewish People and that the Lord will be received by his own people and his kingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world, at last for my loved ones, living or dead, and for all God gave to me: that none of them shall go astray.

* People are saved through a belief in Jesus as savior and an acknowledgment of their sins, not by their achievements.

The most " underground " expression of Christian rock is the annual Cornerstone Festival, sponsored by the Jesus People USA, a community which formed during the Jesus Movement of the 1970s.

Cornerstone Festival was a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA and held annually around the 4th of July near Bushnell, Illinois.

Norman would frequently show up at the Hollywood Palladium unannounced and unscheduled on Sunday afternoons and sing to as many as 4, 000 people at the Jesus People Festivals organized by Duane Pederson.

Norman, along with Pat Boone ; Arthur Blessitt ; Duane Pederson ; Jack Sparks, a founder of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project ; and other Jesus People leaders were prominent participants in the Spiritual Revolution Day march and rally in Sacramento, California on February 13, 1971.

On September 3, 1970 Norman began writing a regular column called " As I See It " in the Hollywood Free Paper, an evangelistic newspaper founded by Duane Pederson, one of the leaders of the Jesus People in Hollywood and Los Angeles.

In June 1972 Norman was one of the featured performers at " probably the high-water mark of the Jesus Movement ", Explo ' 72, the " Jesus Woodstock ", " Godapalooza ", or " Godstock ", which attracted 80, 000 young people to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, On June 17, the final night of Explo ' 72, with " the thousands who showed up included everything from short-hairs out of conservative Bible colleges to hair-to-your-waist devotees of Larry Norman, Christian rock, and the Jesus People ".

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

In 1975, Powell married his girlfriend, the Pan's People dancer Babs Lord, quickly and quietly, partly because he was about to start filming for Jesus of Nazareth, and partly to overcome problems if she flew out to see him on location in Morocco.

Jesus People USA is an intentional community and ministry, currently located on the North Side of Chicago.

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The Jesus People of the late 1960s and early 1970s began to write new hymns and worship songs with a folk-rock style.

Many of Elijah Muhammad's teachings may be found in Message to the Blackman in America and The True History of Jesus as Taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

He then continues by prophesying about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the establishment of a free people in America in the last days.

* March 27 – In North America ( Canada ), explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is released from the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ).

After being seen in Bergman's Academy Award – winning films and having been first choice for the title role of Dr. No, von Sydow finally went to America after agreeing to star in the film which led to much greater recognition, in the role of Jesus in George Stevens'all-star epic The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ).

* The Crown Rights of Jesus Christ: An address delivered by request before the General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church of America

On November 29, 1911 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) organized the MIA Scouts along the lines recommended by the Boy Scouts of America as part of their Mutual Improvement Association youth program.

On 21 May 1913, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ' 15-month-old " MIA Scout " program was officially invited to join the Boy Scouts of America.

With the suppression of the Society of Jesus in Spanish America, Jesuit vineyards were auctioned off, and new owners typically did not have the same expertise as the Jesuits – leading to a production decline.

The Jesus movement was a movement in Christianity beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spreading primarily through North America and Europe, before dying out by the early 1980s.

Even in 19th century North America, when by the decree of the President of the United States, Brigham Young, the Mormon hierarch and head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was appointed first Governor of the Utah Territory on 28 September 1851, this was called ( politically, not in law ) establishing a semi-theocratic ( theodemocratic ) form of government there ( until the Utah War ) as an imperium in imperio, within the limits of the republic.

* The Mormon Miracle Pageant is performed every summer in Manti, Utah by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and includes a visitation by Jesus Christ, shortly after His resurrection, to inhabitants of ancient America, as recorded in The Book of Mormon.

In 1970, Lloyd Webber and Rice used the popularity of their second rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, to promote Joseph, which was advertised in America as a " follow-up " to Superstar.

* The fourth chapter of Tex ( t )- Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the " Mexican " in America by William Nericcio, focuses on the life and death of Lupe Vélez and is entitled, Lupe Vélez Regurgitated or Jesus ’ s Kleenex: Cautionary, Indigestion-inspiring Ruminations on " Mexicans " in " American " Toilets.

Having been eventually defeated numerous times in the General Assembly by a coalition of the liberals and moderates from the 1960s onward, some PCUS conservatives, primarily from non-metropolitan parts of the Deep South, founded what today is the Presbyterian Church in America ( PCA ) in late 1973, formally citing its rationale as " long-developing theological liberalism which denied the deity of Jesus Christ and the inerrancy and authority of Scripture " on the part of PCUS leaders.

The plumed basilisk, Basiliscus plumifrons, also called a green basilisk, double crested basilisk, or Jesus Christ lizard, is a species of corytophanid to Latin America.

Agrarian socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920 University of Oklahoma Press, 1999

In the 2008 book Vintage Jesus: Timeless Answers to Timely Questions, authors Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears write: " According to Scientology, Jesus is an " implant " forced upon a Thetan about a million years ago ", and Jack Huberman writes in 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America that in Scientology Jesus is seen as having been " implanted in humanity's collective memory ", by the character Xenu from Scientology space opera.

The Appeal makes seven main arguments: First, that slavery is contrary to the Declaration of Independence ; second, that slavery is contrary to the first charter of human rights bestowed upon man in the Bible ; third, that the argument that slavery was prophesized gives no excuse to slaveholders for encroaching on another man ’ s natural rights ; fourth, that slavery was never supposed to exist under patriarchal dispensation ; fifth, that slavery never existed under Hebrew Biblical law ; sixth, that slavery in America “ reduces man to a thing ” ; and lastly, that slavery is contrary to the teachings of Jesus and his apostles.

Margie Phelps, daughter of Pastor Fred Phelps, led the protest, holding signs stating that " God Hates Israel ", " Jews Killed Jesus ", " America Is Doomed ", " Israel Is Doomed ", and " ADL Jew Bullies ".

In the BBC documentary The Most Hated Family in America, filmmaker Louis Theroux questioned Shirley Phelps-Roper as to whether she had considered that Westboro's technique of protests were more likely to " put people off the Word of Jesus Christ and the Bible ".