Sentence examples for jesus intended from inspiring English sources

Some of the futurist sayings, if taken by themselves, raise the question whether Jesus intended to found a church.

A closely related question is whether Jesus intended his gospel to be addressed to Jews only or if the Gentiles were also to be included.

The impossibility of being perfect during a full lifetime leads some modern interpreters to propose that Jesus intended these admonitions to be only an ideal, not a requirement.

At Issue -- A leading liberation theologist, Father Boff's writings emphasized a duty to side with the poor in secular matters, criticized the church's use of its power and questioned whether a centralized, hierarchical church was what Jesus intended.

It is not known whether Jesus intended to refer to himself or to another figure when he used the term Son of Man in this context (he did refer to himself as a Son of Man in the sense of "a human being," as in Matthew 8 20).

This would seem to make it probable that Jesus "intended to give His life [as] a ransom for many in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy"—prophecy that, if it did not derive from, was cherished and elaborated in, the literature of the Dead Sea sect.

Jesus never intended to found a church, much less a new religion.

"Jesus never intended to give instructions to political leaders on how to run a country," Mr. Falwell told CNN.

That King's references to Exodus and Jesus were intended not as mere narrative, but as exhortation to action.

The movies and trailers that are supposed to shepard in the new year are meant to be light and trite just as Jesus himself intended.

"Jesus never intended to give instructions to political leaders on how to run a country," Falwell said in an interview with CNN.