Sentences with phrase «about the salvation of»

If you think about it, God also used Satan to put Jesus on the cross to bring about the salvation of the world.

One more point, according to the epistle of James, the prayer of the righteous are effective, therefore as the monks heal their souls, their prayers for the world will also become more effective (less about them, more about the salvation of the world).

Third, when I say that God is on the side of the poor and oppressed, I do not mean that God cares more about the salvation of the poor than the salvation of the rich or that the poor have a special claim to the gospel.

God cares equally about the salvation of the rich and the poor.

I don't think it makes any claims about the salvation of those who have different views but the website I saw it on sure does so that's why I was flustered the other day.

We can not ignore the messenger, because the message she tells is about the salvation of the world.

The renowned preacher also emphasized the need for people to care much more about the salvation of their souls rather than seeking for miracles and prosperity as they will continue to be used by unscrupulous people who are supposed men of God.

Not exact matches

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

I wish people would grow up about that fact - it's not like any of these figures» involvement barred them from gaining salvation by becoming Christians after the execution.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

Instead of talking about their families you should preach the gospel of salvation to them, and save their souls from eternal damnation in hell.

She should be talking to them about their salvation, once they have that, they can talk about anything they wish, of course it will most likely be about God and Heaven.

This makes me wonder about the school she attended to obtain her Chaplain status... every graduate there must not be learning about salvation & how it is the ONLY WAY to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (James 3:3 - 6) If I were in her shoes, I would definately be leading each & every soul to the Lord, and prompting them to make their heart right with God.

The Bible contains a lot of interesting stories, talks between people, between God (Jesus) and people, wisdom (proverbs), prophecy (revelation), words of salvation (the 4 gospels, the epistles), historical data, like dates, locations, names of people involved in the stories, parables, reports about miracles, Jesus did, songs, prayers, psalms etc...

She was peaceful for the first time during her last stage of illness, NOT because she got to talk one last time about the love from her family but by talking about her salvation she found through Jesus.

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.

Moreover, such development requires a transcendent vision of the person, it needs God: without him, development is either denied, or entrusted exclusively to man, who falls into the trap of thinking he can bring about his own salvation, and ends up promoting a dehumanized form of development.

Here is a presentation of the author of the best book about Universal salvation, Gerry Beauchemin: Gerry Beauchemin has written a book which should be the standard work in this topic!

The flood story touches on just about every aspect of God and salvation and I want it to be more than spiritual.

I think you all need to stop worring about the president and pray for him you all have been on the mans back ever since he step foot in the white house everybody needs to do what the word of GOD says which is to «work out your own soul salvation with fear and trembleling.»

I am talking about the forgiveness of sins that lead to salvation.

We can hold to eternal security while still affirming that most verses that talk about «salvation» affirm a conditional deliverance from some sort of temporal and physical calamity.

The debate over «Once Saved, Saved Saved» is easily solved, however, when we realize that almost none of those verses which talk about «salvation» are actually talking about eternal life.

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

The only problem is that there is no objective reason whatsoever to believe any of the stuff about salvation or an afterlife.

Asked about the value of the newspaper debates, Charles said that trying «to lead people to salvation by pointing out sins... only brings antagonism and rebellion and shoves them away.

Most of them are always talking about sin and doing something to obtain our salvation.

At our church so many people are confused and worried about loosing their salvation because of wrong teaching about sin and salvation.

We, and our students, have written not only about God but also about the problem of evil, Christ, the church, Christian education, pastoral counseling, preaching, the nature of human beings, history, liberation and salvation, spirituality, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, science and religion, and other standard theological topics.

When we reduce holiness to simply «stop sinning,» we become incredibly superficial and miss the big picture of what Christ's salvation is really all about — transformation.

I was a fundamentalist in the sense that I thought salvation means having the right opinions about God and that fighting the good fight of faith requires defending those opinions at all costs.

But what about those who have never trusted in the blood of Christ for the salvation?

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.

Holloway considerably enhances and develops the patristic perspective about the flesh as the «hinge of salvation» with his vision of the evolution of matter poised and framed from its beginning as a unity which culminates in the Incarnation of God.

While many other ecofeminists are deeply skeptical about the environmental fallout from the Christian economy of creation and salvation, Grey sees in that economy the prophetic challenge and the inspiration to remedy the ecological crisis.

The point is that we need this hymn to restate and magnify our entire salvation history, to draw on Hannah's song in 1 Samuel, as well as on prophetic warnings about the day of the Lord as a time when all that we value will be called into question.

No passage could be clear enough for you about loss of salvation because you don't want to see it.

It holds a variety of Christian themes about Jesus, salvation, global day of prayer, blah blah blah; you know the usual tacky Christian attempt to witness to unsuspecting motorists who are forced to see this massive sign against their will and resent the fact that they have to look up and see not Coca - Cola, but «Jesus loves you enough to die for you».

Growing up Church of Christ and «water» baptism for salvation I was completely broadsided one day after reading about our sin problem (Romans 3:9 - 20) about God's solution ``... This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe..»

I have just read your other post about real meaning of «salvation».

For once, in the spirit of Habakkuk, let all the earth keep silent and let us stop yammering about what God does or does not intend, except the salvation of the world.

Gal 6:8 is about the possibility of losing salvation because the passage is clearly addressed to the brothers.

But it has taught one reader, at least, more than many sermons about the potential of intercession, about the possible workings of redemption beyond the grave, and about the ways of salvation and damnation.

It's about salvation — rescue from all the self - induced afflictions to which humanity is prone; forgiveness when those afflictions overcome us; ultimately, life within the embrace of the Thrice - Holy God.

It's a book about the gospel,» I said, «about how modern Christians have misunderstood it to be all about personal salvation, when it's more about the story of Jesus.»

There are a number of great rabbit trails whether you want to look the blood of the «eternal covenant» noted in Hebrews, a covenant which is not written about in scripture anywhere, but implies that the plan of salvation is before all time — and it is the blood of the cross which impelled Christ from the grave.

Just this: that, far from being unconcerned about the human plight, the Church Fathers were motivated by their theology of salvation in upholding doctrines of divine immutability and impassibility (God's transcendence of human suffering and passions).

, Gerard McKay's ongoing concern about the trustworthiness, perhaps even the orthodoxy of any text that cites Tertullian's famous dictum «the flesh is the hinge of salvation» (caro cardo salutis est) is surely misplaced (Letters, Nov - Dec 07).

But once the new covenant between man and God came about as a result of Christ's death and resurrection, we were given this free gift of salvation.