Sentences with phrase «christian salvation»

It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Clarke recognizes the difference between metaphysical generality and the particularity of the historic scheme of Christian salvation then justifies generality as part of a universal religion.

5:17), while the notion of «rebirth» is found applied to various aspects of Christian salvation in a series of NT writings (Mt. 19:28; In 3:3 ff.; Eph.

But in a broader, scriptural light, David's prayer expresses the truth of Christian salvation.

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.

One should also appreciate the fact that though an institution founded by Christian Missions, considering the inter-religious character of the academic community of the college, the founders emphasized the Christian «values» of self - giving service to the poor and concern for the whole person rather than Christian salvation, thereby somewhat separating the common «culture» and values of humanism of academic community of the college, from the Christian «religion» and thus relatively secularizing it to keep the academic community free from discrimination on the basis of religion.

There was no longer consensus on the doctrines of the church, the priesthood, the sacraments and the mode of Christian salvation.

Ritschl was one of the few theologians to expand on his insights,» considering the solidarity of the race as the fundamental condition of religion, plunging us corporately into sin and making way for a new corporate reality of righteousness in Christian salvation.

Consequently, it seems strange that I found only one reference to Christology or Christian salvation: the «blood of the Redeemer.»

I suspect he'd reaffirm his view that Christian salvation would surely comprise bodily resurrection as well as spiritual survival.

The Atlanta - based 33 - year - old's latest album «Talented Xth» champions not just a picture of Christian salvation but also focuses on education, relationships and social change - all filtered through a biblical worldview.

After the return of Paul and Barnabas from their missionary journey together, certain men from Jerusalem arrived in Antioch and insisted that circumcision is essential to Christian salvation, thus making the grace of God through Jesus Christ subsidiary to the Mosaic law and making the Savior himself dependent on Moses.

The translation «deliverance» has usually been chosen rather than «salvation,» in accordance with the emphasis of the crisis theologians that Christian salvation is not a possession.)

But both Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler and George W. Truett Theological Seminary professor Roger Olson, in separate blog posts, said that parts of the document sound like semi-Pelagianism, a traditionally heretical understanding of Christian salvation.

Marriage is a God - breathed symbol of Christian salvation.

Not exact matches

In much the same way that most Christians would not like to see their pastors discuss «tooth fairy theory» as being a possible path to salvation that's just as good as accepting christ.

Jesus isn't the road to salvation it is all false and misguided teachings that Christians follow.

I take issue with the statement in the article that Evangelical Christians say that you can only attain salvation if you confess according to their tradition.

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

Christians: If there was no guarantee of salvation, would you still desire a relationship with Christ?

Evil tempers lead to evil actions, which in turn lead some Christians to abandon the faith and put their eternal salvation at risk.

I wish people would grow up about that fact - it's not like any of these figures» involvement barred them from gaining salvation by becoming Christians after the execution.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Obeying d laws of love whether u r Christian or not will mean grace n thus salvation will be given.

I only gave them an opportunity to accept or reject what many Christians believe is essential to salvation... baptism.

If Jews want, for instance, to respond to the internal Christian debate over the possibility of salvation for non-Christians, then it is perfectly fair to announce that according to Judaism, one side of that Christian debate is right and the other wrong.

Pelagianism Augustine accused Pelagius of teaching salvation by works Western Christians are obsessed with not being saved by works Western Christians deemphasize ascetic disciplines and exercises Spirituality becomes a set of mental acts Salvation is rescue from hell, rather than transformation into glory Determinism enters some parts of western theology from Manichaeism through Augustine

Christian's please remember «such were some of you» before our salvation, so please be mindful of those who don't believe as we.

But no matter what the commercialized idea of Easter is, to Christians it is still regarded as a holy day to remember the salvation God extends to all who believe in and accept Him.

I would also propose that God is not a Christian, and that reading or hearing Bible sentences is not a requirement of «salvation» — lest we reduce the cross to mere words.

At the same time, we insist that all Christians should have open access to the Bible, and should be encouraged to read and study the Scriptures, for in them all that is necessary for salvation is set forth so clearly that the simplest believer, no less than the wisest theologian, may arrive at a sufficient understanding of them.

I find some Christians real hypocrites... the reason why they believe is that they're selfish... they're worried that they'll not find «salvation» when they die.

Berlinerblau makes a mistake, common among many secularists and some Christians, in assuming that a person who takes his or her religion seriously must thereby regard government as an instrument of proselytization and salvation.

Catholic claims of priestly and especially papal authority thus seemed to prevent individual Christians from choosing their own faith, as necessary for salvation; they also seemed to prevent citizens from thinking and voting independently, as necessary for democracy.

When Christians say they have «faith in God or salvation, they are also saying that they are choosing to believe in something that may not exist.

Jews can not affirm salvation through Christ, and Christians can not affirm salvation without Christ.

When you compare the key person or founder, date, location; key writings; who is God; who is Jesus; who is the Holy Spirit; how to be saved (salvation); what happens after death; and other facts, beliefs, or practices you will learn why Mormonism is deem a cult and not part of the Christian faith.

Evolved DNA, God's salvation is free, but Christian life costs one's everything.

Sean, do you believe the christian way the «only» and «true» way (as others say often) to come to God and achieve salvation?

Most Christians don't understand how others might see it as hate when they make the claim that their heaven & heII exists and that those not invited to heaven are going to go to heII to be tormented and tortured for eternity and the only way to salvation is to accept their God as your Lord and Savior... They think to themselves that they are just trying to help by condemning those they dislike and who don't worship the same way they do, but that doesn't change it from what it is, «hate filled».

Also, Christians don't keep score, so to speak, but we do our best to obey God, not because we are trying to earn salvation, but because we are thankful for the gift.

While it is true that salvation is not earned, it doesn't mean that Christians aren't rewarded / punished for behavior.

Vic, your whole Jesus - sacrifice - salvation tale that you keep referencing, the foundation of your crazy Christian superstition, is a steaming pile of bull excrement out of the gate.

Christians have been predestined for salvation, however, individuals have not been preordained to believe and become Christians.

are you saying that all gods are really the christian god so that faith in any one will result in the salvation written about in the bible?

If by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, who redeems his children by the atonement and sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan of salvation revealed in the Bible and ascribed to by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.

The non-existent god I don't believe in doesn't save the day, their is no «salvation for the christians», but maybe, in the late afternoon sunlight, while tracking a dust mote through the air, it might be that human invention of «god» was an attempt to take away «sin» so that we could find the beautiful, and ethical, and loving within ourselves and others.

This is because Christian doctrine states quite clearly that we CAN NOT «earn» «merit» or «deserve» salvation or redemption based on the «good» we do.

Furthermore, if the Christian teachings regarding salvation and necessity of accepting Jesus as your Savior is so critical, why have the vast majority of the worlds religions not contained that doctrine?

For many Christians, the gospel is only about their own salvation.