Baptists take pride in rediscovering “the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers,” which they took from Martin Luther, and “accepting it with absolute enthusiasm.” The reason for their pride has nothing to do with it
Baptists consider that “there are two types of ministers in the church: first, bishops, pastors, or priests, and the terms are synonymous (to them), and second, deacons.”
Why does this question arise: Is there a need for the church? What do people say? In my mind there is an echo of everything that resonates in people's minds.
The Church was founded by Christ. The first thing that appears in the New Testament is the Evangelist Matthew, when the Apostle Peter promises that...
Saint January was born in Naples, Italy. This is according to the claim of one group, while others return him to Benevento, where he later became bishop
قبيل ذبيحة المسيح على الصليب، رفع صلاة حارّة من أجل جميع الذين سيؤمنون باسمه، طالباً من أبيه أن يحفظهم في وحدة إلهية. كلمات المسيح هذه ليست دعوة إلى وحدة خارجية، بل إلى وحدة داخلية مطلقة، شبيهة بوحدة الأقانيم الثلاثة في الثالوث الأقدس، أي إلى الوحدة التي فقدها الإنسان بسبب السقوط. وهي تقوم على أساس الأقانيم الثلاثة وتتمثل بها، وتعني خلاص الإنسان وكماله.
في الفترة التي تلت العصر الرسولي انتقل موقع الرسل في الكنيسة، كما حدَّده الكتاب المقدّس، إلى الأساقفة. كانت سلطة الأسقف في الكنيسة الأولى سلطة المسيح والكنيسة ولم تكن سلطة شخصيّة. وكما أن الرسل كان لديهم “فكر المسيح”، والقرارات التي كانوا يتّخذونها في المسائل الكنسية تتم بإرشاد الروح القدس وليس من لدنهم.
The truth of salvation in Christ is not a rigid letter that can be preserved in a book. It is a treasure that the Lord gave to the apostles so that their union would be the sure guarantee of their possession of the truth of salvation. The apostles passed this treasure on to the bishops so that they might complete the mission, in their union with the Church - the Body of Christ, where the Holy Spirit works. In doing so, they do not express their own opinion, but the will of the Holy Spirit who dwells in the Church.
Saint Maximus is from an ancient family in the Peloponnese (islands in Greece). He was born in 1470 AD. He went to Italy and studied with teachers
The Church is the link between humans themselves, and between them and God, in the image of the partnership existing between the Holy Trinity. In this sense, there was a Church in Paradise, but the fall of man from the first communion led to the transfer of the Church from Paradise to earth.
Saint Clement is originally from Ankara in Galatia. He was born to a pagan father and a Christian mother, in the third century AD. When his parents died,
Saint Martyr Philothei was born in Ternovo, Bulgaria, from a simple village family. Once the pious mother implanted the first in her daughter’s soul
