Sentences with phrase «about the eternity of»

Not exact matches

In what seems like an eternity to the audience (and in reality lasted about 10 seconds), Jobs takes a sip of water and reflects on both the criticism and the question.

We have no right to make our own decisions about how to conduct our lives, if we do then we are consigned to the fires of hell for eternity.

You really need to get off your fixation on the physical as we are speaking about the Kingdom of God not this earth where we exist for such a short moment of eternity that one will hardly notice.

What better time to speak about the loving power of Jesus, the forgiveness through Jesus who shed his blood on the cross, and the opportunity to spend eternity with Jesus forever.

It doesn't bother me in the least that I won't have to sit worshiping at the feet of some egotistical deity for all eternity, or try to make some demon feel good about himself.

Once as I lay on the very threshold of eternity, I thought about two main things.Who would take care of my family and what would it be like to be in the presence of my Lord and Master, Yeshua (Jesus).

Its good to talk about the family, Somehow the first goal of any chaplain is to try to lead the dying person (If he / she is willing) to face the eternity with confidence.

Those who are without Christ, facing an eternity in Hell and she has an opportunity to witness to them and tell them of the most wonderful gift of Gods salvation that can change thier eternal course and she choses to talk to them about something that she thinks makes them feel good.

I just thought of this — Billy Graham was pretty much a bully as well — he very strongly told people to repent and his sermons were all about repenting of sin and accept Jesus or you spend eternity in Hell.

Now think about doing that for all eternity and just what kind of people they are.

When you're watching your children go backwards, on the other hand, you start to daydream about eternity; about the day when, in the words of JRR Tolkein, everything sad becomes untrue.

The Word of God says «As the tree falls, so shall it lie» Ecclesiasties 11:3 Choices about eternity are made by the individual while they are living.

He uses knowledge that spans time and eternity to use against us while we only have a limited amount of years on this earth to learn about him.

We should keep this in mind when we think about another aspect of God's eternity: his immutability.

Writing about one hundred years after the time of Augustine, Boethius defined eternity as «a perfect possession altogether of an endless life.»

I accept the Bible's authority; at the same time I have wondered — as with suicide — about a precise identification of every person of this type with the biblical model» («The Bible and Two Tough Topics,» Eternity, August 1974).

Let him be totally ignorant of the down - street gossip, but give him a chapter and order him to walk around it, camp on it, sup with it, and come at last to speak it backward and forward, until all he says about it rings with the truth of eternity.

I used o think as you do about Jesus being all those «things», about love, self sacrifice, compassion, etc.... But how is Jesus so loving and compassionate when according to the bible he and his Father will throw billions of people into HELL for all eternity for simply not believing in them?

Talking about blessings being removed, for the limited period of time that we have on this earth, is really then a small price to pay, for then an eternity of blessing through salvation.

The whole story about some god punishing a person for all of eternity for not believing in your particular brand of religion might scare a child enought to believe but most adults are way past such a silly concept.

Having grown up as part of a conservative evangelical church, I was taught as far backas I can remember to tell people about Jesus, to tell them that by inviting Him intotheir hearts, they would be saved from the fires of Hell and instead spend eternity inheaven with Him.

Wonderful teacher... get out your Bible and start reading... this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing leading millions to an eternity in hell... the prosperity gospel he teaches is contrary to the teachings of Christ... Christ talked about abundance in life but he was speaking of spiritual abundance not material things... Scripture and Christ said in this life you will have trouble... Christ suffered in this life as did each of his Apostles... open your eyes before it is too late for you.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

Maybe it's just that I am sane... Christians often prattle on about having a choice of accepting Christ or spending eternity in hell.

The word used in Hebrews 10:25 is also used in 2 Thessalonians 2:1 where Paul is writing about the ingathering of believers for the Day of the Lord, after which time we will spend eternity with Jesus.

A sample: for the feast of Corpus Christi, we are given some practical grounding in Christ's words about being the «living bread come down from heaven», together with thoughts about how we are united to the Father through Jesus, and also with one another - quoting St Paul - and finally a profound look towards eternity as «Jesus» gift of himself is transmitted to us beyond time and space».

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

First, it is important to note that in the surrounding context, there is nothing anywhere about some sovereign decree of God regarding whom He has chosen from eternity past to redeem and reconcile to Himself in eternity future.

Augustine could not be more explicit about the unity of all times in God: «Thy today is eternity.»

What I love about Luther, besides his rather curmudgeonly and down to earth personality, is his emphasis on forgiveness rather than perfection in life between now and our complete restoration in the fullness of Eternity.

What is it other than that throughout eternity an infinite stillness reigns wherein the conscience may talk with the individual about what he, as an individual, of what he has done of Good or of evil, and about the fact that during his life he did not wish to be an individual?

While external legislation and laws are important, are we not a people who really believe it is only the inward change brought about by the power of the gospel that really transforms lives and culture for eternity?

Joe and Jane (who are not Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they brag about drinking alcohol and having sex), go straight to hell, where they are told by Satan (played by one of the church deacons) that they are destined to spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.

Only for him who wills the Good in truth, only for him can what is taught about the punishments of eternity be eternally true.

Eternity asks solely about faithfulness, and with equal earnestness it asks this of the king and of the most wretched of all sufferers.

First, he believes that in the modern era, the Church Fathers» ideas about divine attributes, traditionally dear to Catholics and Protestants alike — such as divine perfection, simplicity, eternity, and immutability — have to be evaluated anew in light of a narrative reading of the Gospel.

This is the change that eternity asks about, not about the unchangeableness of the suffering.

To speak about God the Holy Trinity in the midst of the modern world, we have to speak also, in part at least, about human philosophical knowledge of God, about God's simplicity, eternity, immutability, infinity, and so on.

You share the responsibility with your wife, and hence eternity will also ask her as an individual about her share of the responsibility.

Am not anti-Christ nor Anti-Jewish just like all Muslims am a monotheist so must be rather Anti-Polytheists & Disbelievers... but believe me it is not hatred but rather pityness for the innocents and hardness towards the wicked transgressors... Guess that is all about it unless few of our brother got the message wrong!?! Since we learned from the Quran verses that there will be in paradise from the Jews, Christian and others from other beliefs... and since God forgives any thing else other than to assign for him partners as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...!?

If one really thinks about it, the multiverse is impossible over the entire period of eternity (which is what atheists would propose for the age of the «invisible» part of our universe — if such a thing exists at all).

If Jesus is drawing all people to himself, if judgement is about putting all things right, if Gods goal is the reconciliation of all creation then whatever judgement and punishment happens to seek to achieve this end, how can we say love never fails, if in this ultimate instance, it does, by leaving anyone lost for all eternity?.

If so, I'd be asking Jesus for forgiveness for my sins that I knew about and sins that seemed natural because Jesus haters of this world ensure everyone sins and all get blotted out for eternity... not knowing righteous from unrighteous.

Even though it hurts and I'm tired of it (Literally) there is a «joy» like James talked about; preparing us for a wild and fun eternity with Him forever!

They might not be as obvious or open about it on social media but the entrance into old age brings questions of retirement, health, legacy and eternity.

Hell to me is eternally without the fellowship of God - imagine being next to someone who constantly talks about themselves and does nothing except things that benefit themself (sort of like the person who does good to make himself feel better in your previous post), with no cognizance of my existance - I would hate to be next to that guy for eternity, that would be hell!

I have think I may have sinned deliberately, I sinned today or yesterday at 1 am with my own will to watch pornography and spill my seed, and three days after that I seen some images on my friends facebook page and I noticed these images which caused me to have lustful intent and I went to these images and looked at them then when to go spill my seed elsewhere, and then I did the same thing before when I recently became christian but that time I did it three times, I, m 18 years old and I felt convicted when I had done them i didn't feel right, because I felt grievy, and I didn't know anything about willfully sinning until I read this article and I, m still learning and i feel ashamed and scared of my eternity.

However, sci - fi and fantasy lit is full of stories about how tragic being immortal can be, so I'd guess that most would opt out of eternity after a few hundred years, or more.

One wonders how many novelists and, for that matter, how many sermonizers are prepared to confront in such detail this difficult fact about the human condition, that sooner or later most of us will be called on to give adults, to whom we are bound with the most powerful ties of love and respect, the services we associate with the care of an infant, with their sense of dignity, and our own, now and for all eternity, dependent on the delicate attention and sensitivity we bring to the task, even as they gaze upon us helpless and vulnerable.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.