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El Greco's depiction of Pentecost, with tongues of fire and a dove representing the Holy Spirit's descent (c. 1600). Cessationism versus continuationism involves a Christian theological dispute as to whether spiritual gifts remain available to the church, or whether their operation ceased with the Apostolic Age of the church (or soon thereafter).
The Koine Greek term Ego eimi (Ἐγώ εἰμί, pronounced [eɣó imí]), literally 'I am ' or 'It is I ', is an emphatic form of the copulative verb εἰμι that is recorded in the Gospels to have been spoken by Jesus on several occasions to refer to himself not with the role of a verb but playing the role of a name, in the Gospel of John ...
Two names and a variety of titles are used to refer to Jesus in the New Testament. [1] In Christianity, the two names Jesus and Emmanuel that refer to Jesus in the New Testament have salvific attributes. [2][3][4] After the crucifixion of Jesus the early Church did not simply repeat his messages, but focused on him, proclaimed him, and tried to ...
Voice of God. Ezekiel hears the voice, represented by the Hand of God, Dura-Europos synagogue, 3rd century CE. In the Abrahamic religions, the voice of God is a communication from God to human beings through sound with no known physical source. In rabbinic Judaism, such a voice was known as a bat kol (Hebrew: בַּת קוֹל baṯ qōl ...
1 All hail the power of Jesus' name! Let angels prostrate fall. Bring forth the royal diadem, Refrain: and crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him Lord of all! 2 O seed of Israel's chosen race now ransomed from the fall, hail him who saves you by his grace, Refrain 3 Let every tongue and every tribe responsive to his call, to him all majesty ...
The only two events subject to "almost universal assent" are that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and was crucified by the order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Non-Christian sources that are used to study and establish the historicity of Jesus include Jewish sources such as Josephus, and Roman sources such ...
For the Eastern Orthodox concept, see Theosis (Eastern Orthodox theology). In Christian theology, divinization ("divinization" may also refer to apotheosis, lit. "making divine"), or theopoesis or theosis, is the transforming effect of divine grace, [ 1 ] the spirit of God, or the atonement of Christ. Although it literally means to become ...
Citing John 1:1,14 Hamon holds "Jesus was the eternal Word revealed and manifest in mortal flesh" and can be called by the personal name "Logos". [1] Citing Timothy 2:15 Hamon defines the less personal usage "logos" as "the Scriptures as a whole". [1] He defines rhema as "a specific word from the Lord that applies it to us individually. …