Apostle Paul

James D G Dunn notes: “The epochal significance of Pentecost raises the whole course of salvation-history to a new plane ….In one sense, therefore, Pentecost can never be repeated - for the new age is here and cannot be ushered in again. But in another sense Pentecost, or rather the experience of Pentecost, can and must be repeated in the experience of all who would become Christians.” Dunn is effectively saying that in order to witness for Jesus Christ today, just as the disciples…

MRS 325: The relationship between the Gospel of Luke and Acts The Gospel According to Luke as well as the Acts of the Apostles collectively make up 27 percent of the information of the whole New Testament. These two works were authored by Luke, a Gentile believer (Colossians 4:10-14). Seeing that he just authored these two books, which his writings constitute over one fourth of the New Testament writings (making Luke the greatest possible author), the study of the content and message is quite…

This can be seen in their lives as they gave themselves up continually to prayer and to the ministry of God. As a result, they were full of faith and full of the Holy Spirit, and led people to Jesus every day. According to the book of Acts of Apostles, “And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.” (King James Bible, Acts. 4. 7) Similarly, the Anabaptist obedience to Jesus’s calling…

work. There are definitively a few similarities to the Pauline theology. In the Pauline theology Jesus died for our sins but not in the Gospel of Thomas. A similarity that there is between the Gospel of Thomas and Paul is that they both care for the hungry.4 The genre of the Gospel of Thomas is hard to place. According to Nicholas Perrin in his article Recent Trends in Gospel of Thomas Research (1989–2011). Part II: Genre, Theology…

What the early Christians made of the resurrection can be gathered from the letters of Paul, the Gospels, and the Acts of Apostles. It is quite a complex picture; did they believe that Jesus had undergone a spiritual or physical resurrection? The earliest sources that I could find about this is from the letters of Paul. His belief in the resurrection of Jesus is based on a vision of the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus. But the evangelists also report…

is well for a man not to touch a woman.’” This is according to the Apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians. Although Saint Paul goes on to say that it is better for one to be married to avoid sexual immorality, historians widely believe that his sexual ethics, especially in relation to virginity, played a significant role in the lives of Christians, especially young women, throughout the early Church. The Acts of Paul, an apocryphal text according to Saint Jerome, written between…

were concerned that the gods were angry with them because they were too lenient on the atheists who were, in this case, Christians (104). Seventy years after John wrote Revelation, the community had shifted from an “age of prophecy” to an “age of apostles” (107). Those who identified themselves as prophets and supported prophets viewed John of Patmos’s Book of Revelation as one of the central components of their preaching. Specifically, Justin the Philosopher, who was one of the first to…

the only ones who kept the good news? Well, it was that just as you saw those animals dirty, they saw the other humans as dirty. Does God view some people cleaner than others? No, all without Christ are dirty: the Jew and Gentile alike. According to Paul quoted in Romans 3:10, “There’s nobody living right, not even one, nobody who knows the score, nobody alert for God. (MSG) There’s none righteous, no, not one.” But to them, the majority believed that they were better when in all reality, God…

recording Jesus ' ascension to heaven, after he has been resurrected from the dead and met with his disciples. Before Jesus left his apostles he told them that the Holy Spirt would come. Not long after the ascension, the Day of Pentecost came and the Holy Spirt came over the apostles, and gave them the ability to speak in tongues. A crowd of people heard the apostles speaking in tongues, because they did not know what this meant the people assumed that the disciples were drunk. Peter used this…

This source is Acts of the Apostles (21:31- 28:31), from the New Testament. It is a religious work that is a written account of what occurred in the decades after the emergence of Jesus as a player in history. It appears to be a work produced around the late first century, (Richard Pervo, 14) in the years after jesus’s death. The source discusses events that occurred to Paul after Jesus had died. It seems to be written by Luke (Richard Pervo, 13-14), this source is a compilation of Paul’s…