Sentences with phrase «jesus taking the first place»

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The aspects of the Pentecostal worldview that Smith notes» especially the radical openness to God and the dynamic presence and activity of the Spirit» were part of our group's worldview, and I will ever be thankful to have taken my first Christian steps within a body that placed the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ above all else.

Most Christians hold that the resurrection of Jesus took place on the first day of the week; therefore they regard Sunday as the first day of the week.

However, it can not be clearly seen why do those Christian countries celebrate Easter Monday as the day of Jesus's resurrection, which regard Sunday as being the first day of the week, while, according to their belief, Jesus's resurrection took place on Sunday.

What's interesting about the people who use God to pretend it's not them fixing themselves is that they do not see that it would be Jesus who took them right up to the brink in the first place.

If, as some persons maintain, Christianity was a total transformation of the message of Jesus — a doctrine about Jesus rather than Jesus» own teaching — then it is of paramount importance to see how and why this transformation took place, or rather, first of all, whether the theory of transformation is true.

In the first place, no amount of prayer will take the place of right discernment of good and evil through standards set by the outlook of Jesus, of right calculation of the probable consequences of our acts, of right knowledge and judgment of the total situation in which our lives are set.

Perhaps that's a pittance, but the point is that if Jesus was more interested in being politicized, and just being a political ruler — he had his opportunity and knew it, still choosing to die to take our place in judgment, to bring God to us first.

Much official theology seems to have gone wrong, first, in confining the incarnating action of God to Jesus alone, so that he appears to enter the world as a catastrophic intrusion, as someone has put it, unrelated to the rest of the God - world and God - humankind relationship; and second, in speaking of Jesus in «substance» idiom, thus suggesting a static deity who in some fashion is implanted in, takes the place of, or is incomprehensibly united with another static «substance» called human.

In the first place, so far as its theological aspect is concerned, we can see that those who respond in faith to Jesus Christ are impelled to read the whole of human existence, indeed the whole of their experience of the created world, in the light of that which has taken place in that important moment.

The first one takes place between Adam and Eve and the last one between the risen Jesus Christ who has come to claim His bride, the worldwide body of believers.

That is, historical events such as Jesus praying to the Father or the Father abandoning the crucified Jesus to death constitute the very relations of the first two persons of the Trinity; they do not merely mirror in time some other relations taking place in a separated eternity.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

In the first place, if the biblical passages affirming the ascension and coming again of Jesus through the clouds are to be taken literally, this runs counter to all we know of astronomy and the space world.

The call to conversion which was placed at the heart of ecumenism by Vatican II and was reiterated by Pope John Paul as an adjunct of the millennial celebrations must be taken into consideration when we respond to Jesus» question about belief which he first put to the man born blind.

In immersing himself in the Jordan, Jesus was burdened with the sins of all of us — thus his first move in his public ministry was to take our place as a sinner.

I am convinced the only reason the government got into «social justice» in the first place is because the church has been neglecting its responsibility to take care of the needy in our community as Jesus called us to do.

Sometime during the tribulation, they believed in Jesus for eternal life, and because of this, they obeyed what God's Word said they should do, and took care of the Jewish missionaries who had shared the good news of the Gospel with them in the first place.

In the first place, the quiet but drastic step taken by Robinson between the publication of his book and his essay, of abandoning the concept of an existential encounter with Jesus mediated by a modern historiography in favor of something much less dramatic, is an absolutely essential step to take.

What's interesting is that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) takes the place of Jesus in this fan art, which makes sense considering that he was the character that launched the MCU in the first place.