In prison, his arguments with
a Christian led him to salvation
Not exact matches
Evil tempers
lead to evil actions, which in turn
lead some
Christians to abandon the faith and put their eternal
salvation at risk.
Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the
Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the
Christian path
leads to eternal
salvation; and the belief that
Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by which
to live.
Obama is a progressive
Christian who blends the emotional fire of the African - American church, the ecumenical outlook of contemporary Protestantism, and the activism of the Social Gospel, a late 19th - century movement whose leaders faulted American churches for focusing too much on personal
salvation while ignoring the conditions that
led to pervasive poverty.
Going
to church
to save your soul while hoarding your good fortune as your fellow man is suffereing, is not
Christian and will not
lead to your
salvation.
Christians sometimes fail
to distinguish the new, constructed, allegedly «holistic» ethical system from God's holistic and eternal design of
salvation, not realising that the two logics
lead in different directions.
Insofar as realization of relation with God in one of the dimensions we have discussed excludes communion as a permanent, coequal dimension, it
leads to something other than
salvation, And, of course, so long as
Christians insist on clinging
to distinct identities, relations and communion, they will fail
to realize the distinctive religious ends of other traditions.
BUY THIS CARTOON!So a
Christian author writes that female masturbation opens the door
to demons and can
lead women
to the loss of their
salvation.
Paul argues that we do not have a licence
to sin.because of grace If
christians continue
to sin and grieve the holy spirit they clearly arent walking by faith or abiding in Christ.There has
to be an ongoing repentence in the
christians walk that
leads that person
to become more like Christ.It is true that
salvation is a gift of grace received by faith however the word also says that we called
to walk by faith otherwise it is impossible
to please God and if we love him we follow his commands not willfully disobey.If we do nt continue
to abide in Christ and turn from sin then i think we can risk Christ saying
to us that he never knew us.Like everything that God offers us we must meet his conditions that are only possible in Christ..
As a kind of mirror image, a
Christian might say that Buddhists do not attain
Christian salvation, as their aim does not
lead to that personal relationship with God which is
salvation.