Tossed into a cold, dark cell with others who were likely real criminals with serious rap sheets, these two Christ-followers put aside their fear and begin to pray and sing hymns, seeing midnight in a dungeon as being the perfect time and place for worship.
We've had two Jesus Christs since I've been at the Sunshine.
We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.
As a result of the influence of Augustine, in the Catholic West it is in and through the one Christ, the union of Head and body that is the church, that humans come to experience God.
After Christian fundamentalists claimed that a line in the title track of their 1974 album Eldorado sounded like "He is the nasty one – Christ you're infernal" when reversed, the Electric Light Orchestra inserted a deliberately backmasked segment into their next album.
Some scholars, such as William Empson, maintain that the poem also indicates that Donne seriously believed in separate planets and planes, and also the existence of more than one Christ – a belief that Donne later abandoned.
According to the church's tenets, adherents accept "the inspired Word of the Bible as [their] sufficient guide to eternal Life ... acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God ... [and] acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness".
Margaret Wertheim described going to a NPA convention as like "watching thirty Jesus Christs," a reference to the experiment in which three schizophrenics who all believed themselves to be Jesus were placed in a room together.
Hence, in gratitude to Jesus, he incorporated five shields arranged in a cross representing his divine-led victory over the five enemy kings with each one carrying Christ's five wounds in the form of silver bezants.
The resulting execution scene is like a nauseous non-crucifixion — three thieves without Christ or three Christs without a thief.
