Sentences with phrase «gods imminence»
I do however take comfort in that Jesus demonstrates Gods imminence.
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Most significant, the imminence of the final coming of the Kingdom of God dominated the thinking of many in the early church and lowered the priority accorded to worldly goods, economic systems and attempts at social transformation.
However decidedly he refused the demand to prove his claim by a miracle (Mark 8: 11, 12) he obviously himself understood his miracles as a sign of the imminence of the Kingdom of God (Luke 11:20, Mark 3:27, Matt.11: 5), exactly as his church was later convinced that it possessed the powers of the Messianic age to work miracles (Acts 2:43, 4:9 - 12, etc.), and as his disciples believed that they performed miracles in his name.
This imminence is not temporal, but it is the nearness of God.
The historical Jesus did not demand faith in himself; but at the most in his word, especially in his word of proclamation of the imminence of the Kingdom of God, and he did not offer salvation, but only promised it for the future.