Sentences with phrase «christian died on the cross»

We can derive some comfort from George Bernard Shaw's bon mot, «The last Christian died on the cross,» for there is a certain absolution in realizing that we all fall pitifully short.

«The last Christian died on the cross» — Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not exact matches

Christians, on the other hand, believe that we will be in the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ solely by our faith in Christ and what He alone did by dying on the cross and rising again on the third day, so we believe it is a free gift of God and it doesn't just come after all we can do as Mormons believe.

But it makes sense that it's a cross since most who died would probably have claimed to be Christian (based simply on US statistics).

As Christians, our most «deeply held religious belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.

So Christians, let us follow our atheist friends in denying the existence of this false god of power, money, bloodshed, and violence, and instead call people to believe in the enemy - loving, all - forgiving God who is found in Jesus Christ dying on the cross.

The Christian good news is that God has entered the world for man's salvation, that he has made himself known in the helplessness of an infant and in a man dying on a cross.

He did die on the cross, and every christian knows the jesus died for our sins.

Recall that Christians believe that Christ died on the cross to save us from the stain of Adam and Eve's original sin.

We are all going to heaven NOT because we are some super human Christian like you are but simply because Jesus died on the cross for us and we rejoice in that sacrifice!

As was mentioned in the article, a cross is a symbol of Christianity, but Christians aren't the only people who died on 9/11.

In many Christian circles, when people think about why Jesus died on the cross, the following is the basic logic that many believe:

A large swath of Christian theology teaches that God sent Jesus to die on the cross, that it was God Himself who wanted an innocent victim to die for the sins of the whole world.

During the first Holy Week, Christians profess, a lowly cabinetmaker named Jesus came out of the woodwork to die an excruciating death upon a wooden Roman cross on a Friday, lie in a borrowed, dusty grave on Saturday and rise to defeat death early Sunday morning.

As a Christian, I believe that God created man, man sinned and disobeyed God, God in His grace and mercy sent Jesus, who lived a sinless life and died on the cross and rose again on the third day to give salvation to the world.

As Shane Claiborne wrote, «As a Christian, I am convinced in the power of non-violence by the greatest nonviolent act in human history: Jesus dying on the cross, even for his enemies.»

Finally, a human life without the cross, which means dying to self and to our own plans and notions of God and of our life here on earth, is a worldly life, not a Christian life.

Even the most legalistic, works - righteousness, religious Christians believe that Jesus was God and that He died on the cross and rose again.

Such an idea might seem scandalous to most Christians today, but this idea is no more scandalous to us than the idea to the first century Jewish person of the Messiah dying on a cross.

With an artistic rendering of a Jesus figure hanging on that cross, it then becomes a symbol of a Christian religious principle, to wit; he died for your sins.

Well, since members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (or Mormons) do believe that Christ died on the cross and rose again on the third day, I guess they are Christians... period.

We should focus on how to treat each other, as long as you Christians deem everyone who doesn't believe Christ died for us on the cross to be lesser people you are the lessor people.

So to answer your question: From my standpoint (because not all christians believe the same thing), I believed that Jesus died on the cross so that all others would have eternal life in heaven.

Although I had been raised a Christian and had understood that Jesus had died on the cross to save me from sin and death, I had never heard in quite the same way that redemption in Christ is cosmic in scope and extends to the entire creation.

Five minutes later and after getting on the end of a Werner cross Die Roten skipper Christian Genter glanced in a header which fell into the grateful arms of Kraft as the men from Swabia continued their early domination of the match.

For a pagan, also, dying on the cross was the ultimate infamy, the definitive proof that you were a criminal lowlife, while for Christians, it became a source of pride.

As a Christian, Easter reminds us of the great sacrifice Jesus made for us when he died on the cross, and was also resurrected.

He had lived in an apartment with books touching the ceilings, and rugs thick enough to hide dice; then in a room and a half with dirt floors; on forest floors, under unconcerned stars; under the floorboards of a Christian who, half a world and three - quarters of a century away, would have a tree planted to commemorate his righteousness; in a hole for so many days his knees would never wholly unbend; among Gypsies and partisans and half - decent Poles; in transit, refugee, and displaced persons camps; on a boat with a bottle with a boat that an insomniac agnostic had miraculously constructed inside it; on the other side of an ocean he would never wholly cross; above half a dozen grocery stores he killed himself fixing up and selling for small profits; beside a woman who rechecked the locks until she broke them, and died of old age at forty - two...