Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election was expected to be a walkover for Nkrumah. But the first returns showed that in some areas, Ghanaians were beginning to have qualms about their self-appointed "messiah." In the capital city of Accra, two of the city's wards rejected the proposed constitution and favored Danquah over Nkrumah. Even in his home constituency, Nkrumah got only 7,000 votes compared with his 1956 total...
...present Christianity as a continuation of the mainstream of Judaism, thereby giving it protection as a recognized religion from Roman persecution. One scholar has even tried to explain Paul's early vehemence against the Christians by suggesting that Paul at one time considered himself to be the Messiah...
...town he would always begin in the synagogue if there was one-using it as a springboard rather than as a place to convert many Jews. For the Christian doctrine that the Messiah had been executed as a criminal was, as Paul said, plain foolishness to Greeks but a special stumbling block to Jews. Paul inevitably did better among the Gentiles-until the almost inevitable blowup, usually organized by dissident Jews. Then his personal bravery was an evangelistic asset. In three successive towns in Galatia, for example, Paul and Barnabas were expelled with violence (in one Paul was nearly stoned...
...bush telegraph crackled that Banda was back, and within half an hour of his arrival at a friend's house in nearby Limbe, cheering blacks appeared outside as if by magic to cheer their messiah...
...complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge of last-ditch followers of the self-styled Messiah Bar Kochba, who led the Jews in a desperate three-year revolt against the Roman Empire...