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In the Book of Acts, Christianity is referred to as "The Way". The NIV renders Paul's words in Acts 24:14 as "I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect." Rayburn suggests that this was a Christian self-designation, although it did not survive as a title. [3]
The Twelve Apostles (literally "Disciples of the Messiah") Tanṣīr or Ta‘mīd (تَنْصِير or تَعْمِيد) literally "making someone Naṣrānī i.e. Christian, or baptizing him/her" - To confer the Christian Sacrament(or Mystery) of Baptism سر العماد أو المعمودية Sirr al-‘imād or al-ma‘mūdiyyah.
Disciples put their cloaks on the road and praised God. Disciples: "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" Pharisees: "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" Jesus: "If they keep quiet, the stones will cry out." Jesus wept and predicted the destruction of Jerusalem. John 12:16–19
In John 13:13–14 Jesus used the term 'teacher' and 'lord' as synonyms, but here 'my Lord' is designated to the risen Christ, and 'my God' resumes Jesus' description in the Prologue as 'God' (John 1:1, 18). [2] This is the only time in the four canonical gospels that Jesus is addressed as God. [3]
Christ sits at the right hand of God, crowned in glory as "King of kings and Lord of lords". [22] " God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places , far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but ...
He is often identified with another figure of a similar name, Cleophas (Κλεοπᾶς), one of the two disciples who met Christ during the road to Emmaus appearance (Luke 24:13–27). Luke 24:18. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem...
If this side of the Lord's return the church is the militant church, the church of the New Jerusalem is the triumphant church. It is made up of faithful disciples and conquerors in this worldly battle. They have exchanged the sword for a palm of victory (Rev 7:9) and the cross for a crown (2 Tim. 4:8; 1 Peter 5:4).
The Crown of Life in a stained glass window in memory of the First World War, created c. 1919 by Joshua Clarke & Sons, Dublin. [1]The Five Crowns, also known as the Five Heavenly Crowns, is a concept in Christian theology that pertains to various biblical references to the righteous's eventual reception of a crown after the Last Judgment. [2]