Sentences with phrase «as eternal truth»

We are not denying that there is such a thing as eternal Truth, unaffected by human history; we are simply denying that any man actually has such a truth, for eternal, unconditioned Truth exists only with God.

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My question is this... If you are going to go in and share in what may seem lovely sentimentalities and veer away from the DIVINE eternal truth of God, why go in as a chaplain - a minister - just go in as a social worker or a volunteer.

I agree if he understands eternal truths in the sense that there are confessions of truth eschatologically valid once for all time, never out of fashion but always worthy to be remembered, confessed, and more deeply reflected upon by the people of God in order to discover always anew their eternal newness (as Pope Francis says in Evangelii Gaudium, 11).

When you invite a person to believe in Jesus for eternal life, it is unlikely they will do so unless they know some other gospel truths as well.

Theologians usually misstep when they react to current moods, unless it is to take today's questions as an opportunity to think about eternal truths.

Dr S Radhakrishnan, however, adds that «The rishis are not so much the authors of the truths recorded in the Vedas as the seers who were able to discern the eternal truths by raising their life spirit to the plane of the universal spirit.»

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

Take, for example, Jürgen Moltmann's (b. 1926) view of creation as the expression of «God's self - communicative love» or Wolfhart Pannenberg's (b. 1928) rich treatment of the Paschal events confirming for us the eternal truth that Jesus is the obedient Son, the Father is the Ruler of all, and the Spirit is active always and everywhere, including in death.

To Bonhoeffer, the Bible was meant «to be expounded as a witness, not as a book of wisdom, a teaching book, a book of eternal truth» (No Rusty Swords, p. 118).

And of course as an atheist your Extreme Hypocrisy and Pathological Lying does help to Illustrate the Eternal Truth that will last Forevermore.

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

In the end, Paul's message in the first half of his letter to the Romans points to one single truth: Because God has done everything necessary as far as our eternal life is concerned, there is absolutely nothing we (or anyone or anything else) can do to lose our eternal life once we have it.

I think some things are quite clear in Scripture, such as that truth that eternal life is by faith alone in Jesus Christ.

Yet, just as with Islam, moderates are able to look for its eternal truths.

Certainly there have always been those Christians who have understood their faith solely in spiritual or personal terms, who have thought of Christianity as the guardian of eternal truths and timeless values in a world of change and decay.

But in any case, the book is a matchless treasury of Christian devotion cast in moving biography, full of such vivifying truth as the meaning of eternal life and the coming of the Spirit, the promised Comforter.

Standing as a permanent sacrament of the Transfiguration, it draws forward the old city into the new and eternal city of beauty — a city in which truth, justice, and beauty embrace in God — a city on which all men and women (whether they know it or not) have already set their hearts.

Standing as a permanent sacrament of Pentecost, the Church draws the world forward out of the old city and into the new and eternal city of truth.

What you are saying might have some truth in it if we evolved; But since we were created by a thrice holy God, that told us about marrying, who: (marry whom you will, only in the Lord), and how: (Thou shalt not lay with mankind as with womankind), then in order to please him: (Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life...) we have to abstain from this.

The ultimate reality upon which our hope depends is therefore the eternal truth and power of God, breaking into the flow of historical events, qualifying it, transforming it, yet always to be understood as giving meaning to life through its relation to that which is beyond the time form of the world process.

As for myself, I believe that Jesus was speaking the truth and that I have eternal life through faith in Him, no matter what.

No, because the end justify s the means and you have already made up your mind that you are right about Jesus and there can be no other truth, and it's never about learning more about different people and cultures and religions, it's about making sure anyone who is different knows you are a Christian which is the only sensible way to live and anyone who is not like you is either converted, attacked, pitied or dismissed as a fool who awaits eternal damnation.

I do not think that asking these sorts of questions is a good way to do evangelism... I do, however, think that these sorts of questions are helpful to ask Christians as a way to gain insight into what sorts of ideas and truths people think are essential to the «gospel» and as a way to see what people think about how to gain or keep eternal life.

Article I of the Statement of Belief, which must be signed by all who seek membership in the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, the Mother Church, reads: «As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal life.&raquAs adherents of Truth, we take the inspired word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal life.&raquas our sufficient guide to eternal life.»

(It is man, influenced by other men, who twisted things around to mean what they do now; it is man, influenced by other men, who inspired the change from accepting Universal Restoration / Reconciliation as truth to accepting Eternal Torment or Permanent Annihilation as truth instead.)

As such, there are fantastic chapters on the gift of eternal life, the truth that faith is not a work, the perseverance of the saints, and election.

For the latter, truth is a pragmatic device by means of which men are enabled to gain satisfactions as biological and temporal rather than as rational and eternal beings.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

These are the really eternal principles, aren't they, to which we hold fast as we loosen our grip on those purported Eternal eternal principles, aren't they, to which we hold fast as we loosen our grip on those purported Eternal Eternal Truths?

We must reclaim all truth and the whole of reality as coming from the Eternal Logos and finding their fulfilment in the Logos Incarnate.

Thus Lessing's old problem as to how «accidental historical truths can serve as proofs for eternal rational truths» was deepened by the awareness that even our reconstruction of the «historical truths» is «accidental», i.e.historically relative.

Gil if we only received one blessing in this life and that was eternal life in Jesus Christ that alone would be enough but we are blessed way more than that because we have been sent his holy spirit to help us overcome our old nature.He never leaves us nor forsakes us whether good or bad happens he strengthens us in our weakness.It says in the bible that the rain falls on both the righteous or the wicked God is fair to all whether they deserve it or not he can not be anything else than a holy righteous loving and fair God.I do nt need to convince you to believe about God he will reveal himself to you if you are seeking the truth as he is the truth.I do nt try and make others believe its pointless.I know without a doubt that i am saved and my sins are forgiven.As a christian it will a joy to be with the Lord there is no fear in death for those that love him.In the meantime i serve him with all my heart until he calls me home.I love talking about the Lord but each of us must walk according to what we believe.I trust my life to Jesus Christ and i choose to follow him who do you follow?

Guilt of being born with a sin, fear of eternal damnation, and the ignorance to believe in what some other fool has passed down the line as the ultimate truth.

I do believe there are core truths in His teaching that are eternal and the chief truth I seek to use as my guiding principle in life is summed up in the law of love.

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.

For as John Paul II expressed it: «This unity of truth, natural and revealed, is embodied in a living and personal way in Christ... He is the eternal Word in whom all things were created, and he is the incarnate Word who in his entire person reveals the Father» [Fides et Ratio, 34].

The temporal point of departure is nothing; for as soon as I discover that I have known the Truth from eternity without being aware of it, the same instant this moment of occasion is hidden in the Eternal, and so incorporated with it that I can not even find it so to speak, even if I sought it; because in my eternal consciousness there is neither here nor there, but only an ubique et nEternal, and so incorporated with it that I can not even find it so to speak, even if I sought it; because in my eternal consciousness there is neither here nor there, but only an ubique et neternal consciousness there is neither here nor there, but only an ubique et nusquam.

Nor can it interest me otherwise than historically that Socrates» or Prodicus» doctrine was this or that; for the Truth in which I rest was within me, and came to light through myself, and not even Socrates could have given it to me, as little as the driver can pull the load for the horses, though he may help them by applying the lash.3 My relation to Socrates or Prodicus can not concern me with respect to my eternal happiness, for this is given me retrogressively through my possession of the Truth, which I had from the beginning without knowing it.

In light of the denial of «the gospel» as a technical term for this message by GES advocates and the insistance that «Jesus guarantees eternal life to whoever believes in Him» by itself, without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved, for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of Eternal Life Under Siege&eternal life to whoever believes in Him» by itself, without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved, for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of Eternal Life Under Siege&Eternal Life Under Siege».

CNN: My Take: 5 reasons Christians should love «Twighlight» Jane Wells, author of Glitter in the Sun: A Bible Study Searching for Truth in the Twighlight Saga, writes that the Twilight Saga has launched a firestorm of debate as to whether the vampire - human love story represents eternal love at its finest or glorifies misogynistic and abusive relationships.

The earth and all that's in it may turn to dust, but those moral laws written in stones, and on people's consciences of all ages will still be the truth, eternal, as the One who wrote them!

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

Without explicitly professing his Christian faith, Solzhenitsyn leads the reader to see that the truth about man is the Christian understanding of man as a fallen but redeemable creature with an eternal destiny.

The anger is understandable, as those who refuse to learn are intellectually dishonest while supposing to propose eternal truth.

«We recognise that just as all truth rests in the Word of God, through whom all things were made and through Whom all thing will come to their completion, so too the construction of a true human ecology can only be achieved in relationship to the Word -LSB-...] we can see and sense the echoing of that eternally spoken Word in so much of the created world around us -LSB-... which Word is] expressed in all those actions and events which make up the history of salvation -LSB-...] we recognise most centrally that this eternal Word of God, in whom all things makes sense, finds flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth who then becomes its fullest expression and true presence in the world -LSB-...] the centre of true human ecology is the person of Christ.»

Plato (c.428 - 348 BcE), for example, regarded the «inspired utterances of poets and prophets as, at best, symbolical adumbrations or shadows of truth and, at worse, the source of degrading superstitions».3 Fundamental to Plato's thought is the conviction that truth can not be found in everyday life and sensible reality, but in a more real or ideal realm of unchangeable or eternal forms, which are the blueprint and pattern of the world.

He departs from much pietistic tradition by making Creation and divine providence subservient to the evolutionary world process, rather than viewing God's activity as a sporadic set of interventions designed to inform man of some eternal truth or to keep him traveling the straight and narrow.

One of the eternal truths about baby sleep is that as soon as you start to feel cocky or smug about how your kid's sleeping, it'll come back to bite you in the keister and your kid will stop sleeping.

In truth, he's been there for a while on the valuation front, but proved more nimble than us in conceding the influence of QE2 - «a kind of underlining of the seemingly eternal promise of a bailout should something go wrong, as if Noah had been sent not just one rainbow but two!»

This week, Aggelos is joined once again to continue the discussion from last episode by Isarii of ErrantPenman.com as well as new special guests including Atropos, creator of The Elder Scrolls Online community site Tamriel Foundry and Ashen Foundry projects, and Truth Eternal, Voice behind Journal of Ashes Community Participation Channel & Founder of Heavenly Sword Gaming.