Sentences with phrase «jesus is a good man»

Even atheists say that Jesus was a good man and provides a great example for people to follow.

Jesus was a good man, but just a man.

If you think Jesus is a good man, a good teacher, or even the son of God, but you deny that He is the only eternal Life Giver, the only Messiah Savior who gives you EVERLASTING Life, you are L O S T. Millions of professing Christians are LOST because they think its Jesus plus good works, water baptism, and / or other beliefs.

Jesus was a good man.

Not exact matches

Because the Bible tells us not, «Man, you have to get all the jots and tittles right before you go out and tell people about Jesus,» but «How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!»

The good news that Jesus practiced and that mormonism malpractices is that spiritual man is always the image and likeness of God, who is all the life there is.

Jesus dying on the cross was an act caused by man's sin, but, look, He applied the pain and suffering for the good of the world that all might have life everlasting.

To JesusisGod, Yes Jesus was good but when he died and the lesser men took over they perverted all of his teachings and now most organized religous groups should be prosecuted under the RICO act.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

Well, unless Jesus was just shooting the breeze, it means this congregation should be able to cure this unfortunate young man and restore him to health.

For I can't say for certainty, what fate awaits a man for whom Jesus says, it is better for that man to not have been born.

If Jesus said, «It would be better if this man was never born», how could you possibly think Judas ended up in heaven.

Moral of the story is we all need forgiveness.Sin is sin.We all need the mercy of God.This man is on a quest to find that.Judge yourself.We are all sinners in need of a savior.You won't be able to say to God on the day of judgment, well at least I didn't shoot my brother in - law, therefore I should be allowed into heaven.You'll give an account for your life.I'm counting on grace, not because I deserve it, but because of the high price that Jesus Christ paid on the cross.A debt I could not pay.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

It is best to first understand the things Jesus said as God came to us in the form of man so that we could see by his example and life the full attributes of God.

It is written in Luke: Jesus said: «It's better if this man had never been born.»

So basically, a man who is responsible for the torture and deaths of millions could end up in paradise if he loves Jesus best.

Its easier to related to Muhammad than to Jesus or Buddha because he never claimed that he was of divine origin, he was as shocked at his revelation as anybody else, he frequently said many times «I'm a man amongst men,» he frequently said «all the good that happens comes from Allah and everything that is not good is my fault,» he's very human and that is what makes him relatable.

Regarding your second fold, God Himself is unchanging; it is out of His Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants with man who could not keep and broke them until He (God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption is what changed.

There has been much spurious research and false conclusions drawn by those known as «anti-Mormons» to lead people to a bad impression of a man who was about as good a man who ever lived - save Jesus, of course.

The gospel beauty of Jesus Christ and his parables of what men ought ye be, really makes a big difference in my own life, and as well as yours also.

Didn't Jesus warn his followers that they were the salt of the earth but if they lost their saltiness; their essence, they would be good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled by men.

Teaching the message of Jesus is not Marxism or Socialism it is being a good person and being a good man.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

The core principle of the sacraments of the Church therefore lies in this nature of man as «spirit wrapped in matter» or, perhaps better to say, matter integrated into spirit, which has been created by God for intimate union with Himself through Jesus Christ.

No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher of life then in His words.

Jesus told those who thought they weren't in good with God that the road to salvation is narrow, that they must go and sin no more in order to be saved, and he told the wealthiest man that his riches were keeping him from Heaven, all problems that we deal with today.

Jesus knew very well that the people who followed him were not saints, holy men and women; and they did not follow him purely for spiritual reasons.

According to John's Gospel, Ascension Day begins already on Good Friday as Jesus is «lifted up» on the cross to draw men to himself, and Pentecost begins on Easter as Jesus breathes the Spirit on the disciples.

Ken Wilson, as best I could understand, argued that a person only has to believe that Jesus is the God - Man, the Christ, who takes away the sin of the world.

But this Jesus is only a human being, and (as Pastor Ennio Flores has well put it) if he is God it is only because he is the poorest of men.

To my unbelieving friends, my last and best example of Truth is Jesus, being the God - Man (Son of God) and Israel's Messiah (the Christ) He is the embodiment of Truth.

Darryl like you i also know that without him i can do nothing i am weak but in him we are overcomers its a good place to be dependent on him he can use us when we are in that place i believe God has plans for you that is why the enemy is playing mind games i had a season of that he does nt bother me now as i fire scripture back at him.Like greater is the lord in me than he that is in the world.Sin shall not have dominion over me.In my weakness i am strong in Christ.Weakness is not an excuse to give in or give up its our opportunity to trust God and walk in his strength and power.You are a mighty man of God you tell the devil to flee in Jesus name and he will.

In acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord, he acknowledges a new relationship with life into which he enters wherein he is enabled to receive life as it is offered, as good and significant, and goes about man's proper business of living it to the full.

My money is on the camel, and not only because I am fond of both camels and outlandish metaphors; but it is a very old question what Jesus really said had a better chance of passing through a needle's eye than a rich man had of entering God's Kingdom.

Bill Scarrott, after hurting myself laughing over your post about finding Jesus in places that smell like manure, it occurred to me that after the wise men showed up, there was incense as well.

It might seem strange the people can simultaneously hold both ideas mentioned above; namely, that the poor man represents Jesus Christ on earth, and therefore all the right is on his side, and he is the only one who must be considered; but at the same time, that poverty is a scandal, and we must do our best to get rid of this scandal and to put the poor into a «normal» situation; that is, put an end to poverty.

Similarly, there was no compelling reason for God to become man in Jesus other than that it was according to his good pleasure.

11: 16 - 19) No word of complaint over the evil of the world, that it would be better never to have been born, that the beast is better off than man, such as the Jewish apocalypses contain, dominates the preaching of Jesus.

For one of the most frequent emphases in contemporary theology, and consequently in a good deal of contemporary preaching, is that there is (what is styled) an absolute «difference in kind» between the sell - expression of God in and through any and every man, and that which was accomplished in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Thus Christian faith presupposes and deepens faith in a creator God, and Jesus Christ is truly, in the words of Stanley Jaki, «the saviour of science» as well as the redeemer of man.

We shall have the root of the matter in us; we shall have come to recognize that in the history leading up to our Lord, and with the coming of Jesus himself, there were released into the world, and that in what we may rightly call an unprecedented fashion, energies for good which have changed the lives of men and through them the face of nature too, and that these same energies are still available whenever men turn, in faith and with utter self - surrender, to the Lord of all life.

When Jesus set in contrast a self - righteous Pharisee, saying to God, «I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men,» and a contrite publican, praying, «God, be thou merciful to me a sinner,» (Luke 18:9 - 14) he was both summing up the best of his race's teaching on the true spirit of confessional prayer and indicating to his disciples the self - depreciation which must follow any such estimate of personal worth and possibility as he himself believed in.

But it is chiefly concerned to tell men what they may become in Christ, what indeed they already are in the divine intention: sons of God, made in his image, fallen into sin by their willfulness, and now by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ able to be conformed to his likeness, the evil and the sin which they know so well being done away through God's forgiving love shed abroad through him.

Most people like Jesus, or at least have some respect for Jesus, but I recently met a man who said that he has never met anybody whose life was better for following Jesus.

To speak of Jesus just as a good man, a great ethical teacher and a healer of the sick is to fail to do justice to the evidence of the New Testament.

And the impact of Jesus Christ upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in man made manifest.»

Not saying that was a good thing to do, but if ol' St Nick slapped a guy for saying that Jesus was only a man... how much more upset would he be over saying Jesus didn't even exist...

It was their memory of him as well as their conviction about him which they shared with others, so that men and women who had never seen Jesus came not only to believe in him but also to feel that they had known him.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.