Sentences with phrase «christian hope of eternal life»
In this last chapter I shall try to do two things: to trace some connections between the Christian hope of eternal life and the coming of the kingdom; and to indicate the major foundations on which I believe both these forms of faith must rest.
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Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?
It is interesting that believing Christians, who hope for an eternal life of unimaginable bliss, have neither discarded nor added to the Greek triad.
The Christian lives in the hope and in the vista of eternal life as the gift of God.
Yet, the promise and hope of eternal life in Christ challenged prior beliefs about the meaning of life in «the world» for Christians with roots in the Jewish tradition.
Another great note in Christian faith is the hope of eternal life.
«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?
«Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me» John 5:39 Although The Simple Gospel is a compilation of articles and essays written by Jon Cardwell while serving as a missionary - pastor in remote bush Alaska (2002 - 2008), the hope behind this little book is to exhort earnest Bible reading, study and meditations among Christians in these dark times; and further, to encourage an eye upon the scriptures from a perspective that is gospel honoring, Christ exalting, and God glorifying.Jon has often said from the pulpit, «The gospel of Jesus Christ is simple; but it's not simplistic.»