Sentences with phrase «atonement as»

Stressing EXTRA empathy, mindfulness, humor, attunement, self - compassion and reciprocal atonement as key ingredients to helping tough kids achieve higher function and healthy relationships.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Rex, yes, Christians alone admit the total sinfulness, accept the Divine atonement as any honest humans should do, and sacrifice themselves to help others.

I believe Jesus our High Priest was retracing the steps of the High Priest on the Day of Atonement as recorded in Leviticus 16.

After Jesus died, He retraced the steps and actions that the High Priest would have taken on the Day of Atonement as recorded in Leviticus 16.

But in interpreting the «how» of redemption, the question has too rarely been asked, «What is the meaning of atonement as love doing its distinctive work in dealing with guilt and self - destruction?»

Let us look again at the atonement as the New Testament witnesses to it, and as the centuries of Christian experience have wrestled with it.

To believe in atonement as the revelation of the love which fulfils and reconciles all human loves is to see all history in a new way.

Shailer Matthews once accurately described most theories of atonement as «transcendentalized politics».3 It is God who redeenns man, and what God does can not be identified with any human experience or form, though it penetrates human understanding.

There is no escaping the extreme difficulty that confronts any attempt to frame a doctrine of the Atonement as a result of the growing recognition of the extent to which motives of theological and apologetic construction determine the Gospels as we have them.

Just as the Crucifixion can not truly be known as the mere negation of transcendence, it is necessary to understand the atonement as a negative process of reversing every alien other, a process of negating all negations.

For added «pizzazz», Catholic theologians divided god the singularity into three persons and invented atonement as an added guilt trip for the «pew people» to go along with this trinity of overseers.

It was not long before I too had given up on Limited Atonement as well.

Not exact matches

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Christians still sin; it's a question as to atonement for that sin.

At the time, not even His disciples knew of Jesus» dual — nature, or that He would be crucified as atonement for God's chosen people.

Unlike Anselm's legalistic theory of the Atonement, the writings of the Early Church Fathers teach theosis or deification, the realization of our human potential for godlikeness through a relational participation in the Divine Life, as the source of our redemption in Christ:

It has been suggested that satisfaction theories of the Atonement and the correlative understanding of the Christian life as a life of interiority became the rule during the long process we call the Constantinian settlement.

(By the way, we believe in pre-mortal existence where we were born as spirit children, which we also believe in every living thing having a soul two but anyways thats not revelant...) Which was when they were at the «drawing board» of the plan of Earth and everything and how they were going to do everything i.e. who was going to be the savior (because every body needs an atonement so we can go back and repent).

They count themselves as Christian because they accept Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe people are saved through his atonement.

Jesus is painted as an atonement by Paul — however — what that atonement actually means is truly up for deeper discussion since in the Torah that sacrifice (of the once a year for the community) was for all people there — for their sins committed in ignorance (or by accident).

As for atonement, actually we play our part also.

«Okay...» then they fumble a poor explanation, then wrap it up with, «Because, as we all well know, limited atonement.»

Certainly; as Leon Morris noted recently in Christianity Today, «no theory [of the atonement] is adequate....

And in the process there was an erosion of Augustinianism that emphasized the soteriological significance either of human will in a form of synergism or of human cooperation with the divine and a growing attack on such classic Protestant doctrines as limited atonement and predestination.

The founder of Oasis has a track record of making statements which rile many of those who self - identify as evangelicals (see Chalke's past comments on the atonement, the Bible and homosexuality).

The Bible portrays the Cross as a substitutionary atonement, an atonement made without conditions.

A Non-Violent atonement helps us see that Jesus what Jesus accomplished on the cross was right in line with the way He lived the rest of His life as well.

Grace is imputed in full on the basis of and as a result of the substitutionary atonement of Christ crucified for my original sin and that of the whole world.

In the sufferings and death that Jesus willingly and humbly accepts we see the greatest act of love as he offers himself in atonement for the selfish sins of mankind.

I would agree with 4 of the 5 points of Calvinism, I hold to unlimited atonement — therefore I would be «labeled» as a «moderate Calvinist».

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I do not hold to a judicial form of the atonement... though this change is a fairly recent development in my theology, and maybe it has not filtered down enough into other areas of my theology, such as my thinking on forgiveness....

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

Believing in angels, satans, bodily resurrections, atonement, and heavens of all kinds as does Osteen is irrational.

Biblical ideas of atonement root back in this basic soil and stem out from it; and while the development later carried them to branches far distant from the roots, there is no understanding the topmost twig — for example, «as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive» --(I Corinthians 15:22.)

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

Joshua, the «law» you speak of that has been done away with is the sacrificial system of killing animals as an atonement for our sins.

This became known as the substitutionary doctrine of atonement.

-- but there is no doctrine of the Atonement, as yet.

It encourages the emancipation of slaves by giving them the possibility of purchasing their freedom, it urges that part of zakat be given to slaves to help them free themselves, and it offers the possibility of atonement for certain sins, such as having sexual intercourse during fasting days, by releasing slaves.

I read your post (but not the book, yet) on the non-violent atonement, and I am unsure how to understand verses such as «Without the shedding of blood there is no remission» in the light of your «non-violent» concept; it's unclear to me.

«It is love to the end that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction».

The principal elements in the death and resurrection cluster of the Christian Myth are (A) his death as sacrifice and atonement, and (B) the «magical» elements of the resurrection stories.

Not until the Christian recognizes the Crucifixion as enacting and embodying the self - negation of the sovereign and transcendent Creator can he celebrate an atonement which is the source of the abolition of all confinement and repression.

The drama of divine incarnation and atonement ought not to be — as it has easily been — abstracted from the teaching of Jesus, his proclamation of God's kingdom made into an incidental preamble to the «deep» and «real» mystery of faith.

Designed to test Warren's doctrine on everything from the sovereignty of God, to unconditional election, to substitutionary atonement, to homosexuality, the interview was seen by Piper as proof that Rick Warren was indeed a «doctrinally sound» evangelist.

[20] The most solemn sin offering occurred once a year as the High Priest sprinkled blood in the Holy of Holies in atonement for the sins of the nation.

I am also unsure — if we are able to give it the proposed reinterpretation — whether it would qualify as myth, for the atonement in the sense of reconciling us to God is certainly true.

Satan must become totally and comprehensively present in his apocalyptic form as the lifeless residue of the self - negation of God before the atonement will have become wholly actualized in history; and then, the radical apocalyptic seer assures us, Satan must undergo a final metamorphosis into an eschatological epiphany of Christ.