Quotes About Jesus

presents Jesus as God's greatest act of redemption and revelation.

God" has now done something in Jesus so important that it represents a surpassing further disclosure of divine purposes, both illuminating the eschatological future and also casting a powerful retroactive light on all "God's" prior actions witnessed to in the OT. Everything is given a new meaning in light of Jesus, and Jesus in turn is the superlative vehicle of divine purposes, the new defining divine action in the light of whom one now can and must understand adequately what "God" means.

The claims that the OT God had now sent forth Jesus as the self-revelation that surpassed all previous ones (including specifically the Torah), that this God thereby had widened the circle of the elect to include all nations, and that a right relationship with this God and a full participation in the elect now rested upon how one responded to Jesus, these all amounted to significant differences with the Jewish religious tradition. In

Early Christians (initially Jewish believers and then increasingly Gentile converts) claimed that the OT God was now to be identified with reference to Jesus and approached through him. Either implicitly or explicitly, this meant the relativization of all previous portrayals of and claims about this God, generating unavoidable (and understandable) tensions between the young Christian movement and the larger Jewish religious tradition.

it is in sayings of Jesus that "God" is referred to as "the Father" (e.g., 4:21-23).

rescuing and vindicating, giving commandments, judging and punishing, and most importantly God's acts in Jesus, sending him forth, handing him over to redemptive death, and raising him and exalting him to superlative glory. So theologizing about "God" in the NT is essentially making inferences based on God's acts.

Similarly, Paul refers to "God's" Spirit as conveying divine sonship to believers (Gal 4:4-6; Rom 8:14-17), a status that is theirs through Jesus' unique sonship. Indeed,

The word ghost is only used in the Bible a few times, but nonetheless it is mentioned. Several passages include: Matt. 14:26; Mark 6:49; Isaiah. 29:14; and Luke 24:37-39. The Bible references the disciples witnessing Jesus walking on the water during a storm. What they believed they were seeing was a ghost, rather than Jesus walking on the water. After the resurrection, his disciples thought he was ghost, but he let them touch him

I think if Jesus would have been alive today, he would have been all about the pot. I think he would have really grooved on it, and that's why he would've gone to jail today.

I also wonder what it would be like to meet Jesus, and how I'm going to die.

I understand Jesus perfectly," Mama tells me. "I just don't understand Christians, and I don't think he would either.

When God made His covenant with Abraham, He promised that He would "make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky." Jesus is the needle who sews the children of God who are not direct descendants of Abraham into that nighttime sky.

This is why Jesus is hymned not as grape juice but as wine: because He is dangerous and excessive. He is more than you need, and He is more than pleasure, and if you attend to Him, you will find so much there that you will be derailed completely.

This is why Jesus is hymned not as grape juice but as wine: because He is dangerous and excessive.

I become professional or hip, depending on what I am wearing. I feel different when I am wearing different clothes. I act different. I let my Talbots suits and my vintage shirts remake me in their image. I want to let Jesus do the same.

The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.

This is why Jesus is hymned not as grape juice but as wine: because He is dangerous and excessive. He is more than you need, and He is more than pleasure, and if you attend to Him, you will find so much there that you will be derailed completely. And you will think your heart might break. And then, per Louis de Blois, He will withdraw and you will be miserable and sick until He returns.

The Dictionary [Emily] Dickinson used defined tender as 'anxious for another's good' and a pioneer as 'one that goes before another to remove obstruction or to prepare the way for another.' This seems to me a good way to think of Jesus: sojourning before us, clearing the brush, bushwhacking, even---removing the impediments of sin, making a path that will lead us to our true selves, and to God.

I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.

Christianity did not begin as a monolithic revelation. In other words, it did not begin as a single teaching directly coming from the mouth of Jesus. After Jesus' death, there were many different and opposing viewpoints concerning who he was and what he taught. There were many different groups competing for converts. Each of these diverse groups traced their teaching back to the individual apostles and each had books to support their points of view.

Remember that, according to the Gospel of John, there were "Three Mary's" at the foot of the Cross! Mary, Mother of Jesus Mary of Clopas Mary Magdalene Three women mentioned in Mark 16: 1 also came to the tomb of Jesus who were named Mary!

When the Christos incarnated in the man Jesus, He united Himself with the destiny of the Planet Earth.

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

When Jesus came to earth of old, He came in weakness and in woe; He wore no form of angel mould, But took our nature poor and low. But when he cometh back once more, Then shall be set the great white Throne; And earth and heaven shall flee before The face of Him that sits thereon.