Sentences with phrase «about eternal things»

The more the present day is marked by noise — deafening noise — about ephemera, the more Benedict's silence about eternal things becomes profound in contrast.

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She says she reads poetry — her favorites are Mary Oliver and Edna St. Vincent Millay — because it gets her thinking about things that are eternal.

The history of government welfare programs is overwhelmingly biased towards expansion; hence, President Reagan's quote about a government program being the closest thing to eternal life we will see on earth.

And in the end you, who do nt believe in God, stand before a very real God to give an account for your eternal life... One thing about media is that media mostly announces the bad things that go on in the world, barely the positives.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our human capacity to learn personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion with other persons, and most of all with the unseen God.

That is something to worry about — that there are people who can't imagine living for the common good and who feel they must believe in eternal punishment else they will do things that they think we all should fear.

The only thing they care about is whether the church teaches eternal security or not.

Now at some time in the eternal security debate, after all this talk about grace, someone says something like, «I think you're taking this grace thing a little bit too far.

If we are talking about how to receive eternal life, it is not simple belief that matters, but believing in the right person for the right thing.

Concerning the «Eternal, conscious torment in hell», take what the Bible actually says about hell and its duration» and if you do not believe some of the things that some people think is unscriptural and can not find it Scripture just ignore it.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

You can believe all of those things about Jesus and God, which are good things to believe, but if you don't believe in Jesus for eternal life, none of it matters.

They too are interventions to be understood indexically and historically, not as though they encapsulated eternal truths about the way things must necessarily be.

The first and most important thing to notice about this text is that even if God did elect or foreordain Jeremiah, it was not to eternal life, but rather, to be «a prophet to the nations.»

please we have enough plastic minsters who think they know they way to eternal salvation how about a tax audit and see where things really stand?

So, for example, if your hear a pastor saying, «You have to take up your cross daily and follow Jesus in order to go to heaven when you die,» you can look in the text he is preaching from (maybe Matthew 16:24 - 26 or Luke 9:23 - 26), and see that Jesus is talking about saving your life (which is NOT the same thing as receiving eternal life) by living in a profitable way here on earth (cf. Luke 9:24 - 25).

«Say what you will about God, there is not a shovel big enough to dig yourself out of the whole that you dug for yourself when you said: «Not a single thing in the entire universe can claim eternal life» In that one statement, you are admitting that the universe is not eternal.

We talk so much about personal faith, personal salvation, and all those things are critical, but I think it's so important that we understand that we're part of an eternal relay and we're responsible for handing over the baton of faith to our generation.

What prompted some of Dark's questioning (and much of mine) was what he calls the «Uncle Ben» view of God — the view that God is an angry and controlling being who does not tolerate questions or curiosity or nonconformity, the view that God consigns most of humanity to eternal torment in hell for believing the wrong things about him, and the view that it is the duty of his followers to ignore their doubts and embrace him without question.

Mike i like what you wrote about the relationship with Christ its all about that.To me the gospel description is found in that verse it covers our fathers love that he has always loved us from the beginning when he created us it covers the reason why Jesus was sent to put things right to remove our sin guilt and shame and to receive from him new life his life eternal but it is just as real today and tomorrow and forever.brentnz

Yes i know two counsellors i told one of them about this and i want to know why Jesus Christ without any mercy sends that person to hell forever to suffer and never ever forgives them even though they didn't commit any thing like murder and that also forever you can forgive that person went in minutes of that sin with in a snap of a finger then only why that sin why not give him another life in Earth after forgiving and punishing him for the rest of his sin it is said that god and Jesus Is very merciful then why he is giving such a life sentence that is much more worse than eternal nothingness and why doesn't he punish Satun with eternal nothingness because i think most of the sins in Earth are committed because of him only?

After all, to believe this fact, we must also believe that there is a God, that He loves us, that He has revealed Himself to us in Scripture and through Jesus, that the Bible is correct in what it says about all these things, that Jesus truly is able to offer us eternal life, and on and on it goes.

If, then, there is to be significance in the talk about accomplishing, a distinction must be made between the momentary and the eternal view of the thing.

When Marcus Aurelius reflects on the eternal reason that has ordered things, there is a frosty chill about his words which you rarely find in a Jewish, and never in a Christian piece of religious writing.

Hence in the end it would seem as if that true eternal claim that demands purity of heart, by willing one thing, were done away with, as if it had been withdrawn from government, set away in retirement at such a distance from daily life that there simply could be no talk about it.

So if we think that the word «salvation» refers to «eternal life,» then the clear teaching of Scripture is that receiving and keeping eternal life is conditional about believing the right things and behaving in the right way.

2Pe 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; 2Pe 1:11 for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.

In the eternal scheme of things what difference does it make when it comes to timing since were talking about eternity not just about this life.

It's all about the nuptial meaning of things, great things, eternal things.

Martin weighs the merits of his «all truths are timeless,» or can be so formulated without loss of truth, against what he takes to be my view (for no reason in my writings that I can see) that all are time - bound; he ignores the moderate or less extreme view that some (namely, truths about extremely universal and abstract, eternal and necessary things, including the essential structure of time as such) are timeless, and others (those about less universal and abstract, also non-eternal and contingent things) are time - bound, but this not in every way a careless thinker might suppose but in a definite and logically intelligible way.

Those who would condemn their fellow man to a simulacrum of eternal separation from goodness should worry about facing the real thing themselves.

So now, we've got about eight things a person seemingly must believe in order to receive eternal life.

I've never thought of believing in my soul merely as a way to eternal life and I wasn't taught as a child about my soul or the Bible - for as long as I can remember I felt communion with the earth and nature, and was fully aware of my soul and spirit, years before I ever learned of such things in the Bible.

C.f. M.Levering, Sacrifice and Community: Jewish Offering and Christian Eucharist (2005), p. 90: «In teaching human beings about eternal realities in accord with the manner of human knowing through sensible things, God works through the visible sign to make present the invisible reality».

«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?

However, going through the baby days again has shown that even with different children, certain things remain eternal about life with a newborn... so here are my ten unavoidable truths.

If you want to lose that extra bit of fat and you are serious about this «cardio thing», are you doomed to eternal jogging or elliptical exercise machine (if you are still mentally - challenged)?

(laughs) Also those eternal themes, I care about those things.

Some things are eternal though, and squeezing down into the thin carbon seat, compressed between transmission tunnel and sill, looking over the long, heavily louvered bonnet, carbon cycle wings hanging above wishbones and giving you yet more information about what the front wheels are doing, you feel immediately at one with the Seven.

There's one thing we've hammered on about in the eternal quest for a smooth, trauma - free home search process: When you're applying for a mortgage, you need to shop till you drop.

When asked about him working on adult - oriented games, he says he is interested in working with other people on adult games (like he did with Eternal Darkness and is doing with MGS: The Twin Snakes), but at the same time there is still a lot of things that can be done in the for all ages department.»

Where I disagree with Eternal - CMO is about Microsoft and Nintendo not doing this sort of thing.

One of the things I love about the research on marriage is that it buttresses up and reaffirms eternal Truths that have been taught throughout time, through multiple faith traditions.