Sentences with phrase «at atonement»

«At Atonement, Alpha has been a revitalizer for those with some previous life in the church.

As a preview, these books will be on (1) Church and pastoral Leadership, (2) How your church can incorporate Kingdom principles in the new millennium, (3) A study on Genesis 1 (based on my podcasts), and (4) A new look at the atonement.

Let us look again at the atonement as the New Testament witnesses to it, and as the centuries of Christian experience have wrestled with it.

Gerstenberger virtually acknowledges as much when he notes that it «is difficult to explain rationally such ritualistic efforts at atonement.

Even at the atonement (and I agree with Jeremy that penal substitutionary theory is not the best explanation of the atonement) the beatings and mockings were perpetrated by the Romans and were not necessarily part of the reconciliation of the world to God.

Christ forgave all who show true remorse and a true effort at atonement, and the Church tries to emulate that.

Not exact matches

IOWA CITY, Iowa, April 24 - Wells Fargo & Co executives planned to convey a message of atonement to shareholders at the bank's annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday as it works to convince investors and regulators a sweeping sales scandal is a thing of the past.

At the time, not even His disciples knew of Jesus» dual — nature, or that He would be crucified as atonement for God's chosen people.

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

The atonement of the world is anticipated, Pannenberg says, in that those who accept the claim of the Cross and live for the unity that it promises are free to live at one with God and neighbor.

At least all we have to do to avoid the ultimate penalty is to accept Christ and believe in his sacrificial atonement, however, we still have to suffer on earth for humanity crime in the garden of eden.

(By the way, we believe in pre-mortal existence where we were born as spirit children, which we also believe in every living thing having a soul two but anyways thats not revelant...) Which was when they were at the «drawing board» of the plan of Earth and everything and how they were going to do everything i.e. who was going to be the savior (because every body needs an atonement so we can go back and repent).

Director Joe Wright (Atonement) is hard at work on a new origin story - ish movie for Captain James Hook, one that aims to do for the good Captain what Wicked did for Oz's witch.

Since Jesus atoned for our sins by carrying love for enemy to the ultimate degree, a refusal to follow his example at this point not only involves a denial of scriptural authority; it also constitutes a questionable doctrine of the atonement.

I just reread Pink's, «The Atonement: Was the Sin Question Finally Settled at the Cross?»

It is at - one - ment (or atonement), being at one with.

Don Browning found himself with similar concerns at about the same time, although his Atonement and Psychotherapy (1966) is more heavily theological.

The text says nothing at all about sacrifice or atonement.

In contrast the Pope elaborates in evangelical terms the doctrine of atonement, revealing at once God's serious appraisal of sin and the depths of his mercy.

These doctrines were justification by faith in Christ; sanctification / Spirit - baptism as a subsequent work of grace; divine healing as part of Christ's atonement; and the literal premillennial return of Christ at the end of the church era.

Jeremy — I agree with what you're saying about the flawed nature of atonement theology, but could you explain how you see the mechanism at work with how Jesus» death cleansed our sins or defeated death and Satan if not for a price being paid?

When I look at Cain and his possible intentions of sacrifice, atonement or «liberation».

We will look at this verse in more detail when we discuss the Calvinistic idea of Limited Atonement, but for now, it is enough to note that even if the whole world lies under the control of the wicked one, Jesus has done what is necessary to liberate the whole world from the evil one so that they can respond to the gospel and believe in Jesus for eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:7 - 13).

At - One - Ment: For myself, a reinterpretation of the term «atonement» has come to be the most helpful metaphor.

We say, then, that the suffering and dying of Jesus is at the centre of the redemptive action we call atonement.

There is, however, a remarkable fact which appears when we look at the history of the doctrine of atonement.

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

The Christian affirmation that Jesus was crucified «for our sake» is often stated by the use of the word atonement, a word that will serve if we remember that etymologically it means «at - one - ment.»

This is about the spiritual condition of humanity in its fallen state, and our need to be cleansed from sin and re-connected to our Source, who is God, through the sacrifice and atonement completed at the cross by Jesus Christ.

(I was the first person to explain the Substitutionary Atonement theory to one of our bishops, and at first he couldn't believe anyone could possibly believe that, and once convinced was appalled.)

We read substitutionary atonement and the sacrificial system into Genesis 3:21 at our own theological peril.

1) that eternal life given on the basis of faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works; 2) that eternal security is part of the gift of eternal life; 3) that assurance of salvation is through faith in Christ's promise of eternal life, and not by looking at one's own works 4) Christians can apostatize in this life, and are still eternally secure 5) eternal rewards are earned by faithful works, and lost by unfaithfulness 6) unlimited atonement 7) free - will to respond to God's drawing or not

Greenberg's particular legend among Jewish fans stems from his decision not to play on Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar — at a crucial time in the 1934 pennant race.

Recently, however, several scholars have looked at the text without this idea of atonement in mind and have read it quite differently.

He had long stumbled at the doctrine of Atonement.

And that atonement was no abstraction at all!

i.e. what at the profoundest level it effected — is portrayed in objective imagery: The pre-existent Son of God is delivered up to the death of the cross, and thereby atonement is wrought for the guilt of mankind, the righteousness of God satisfied and the curse of sin removed.

In a down - to - earth and intensely practical writing style, Sharon Baker shows the problem with traditional understandings of the atonement and the violence of God, and reveals an alternative way of looking at the cross of Jesus and the violence of God in the Bible.

You wrote with the theroies od atonement and penal substitution being conveyed it appears to you that the message comes across that «God is more angry than anything and apparently doesn't like us at all».

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

At the same time, Christian tradition affirms the reality of an «eschatological pause» (T. F. Torrance), a «time between the times» (Karl Barth), in which the atonement consummated «once for all» in Christ truly becomes the possession, in time, of an ever greater portion of humanity.

I think I have more of a Kaleidoscopic view of the atonement with heavy emphasis one way or the other depending on what is needed to be highligted at the moment.

I'd wrestle with free - will vs. predestination or the divinity of Christ and the incarnation, the Trinity, the atonement, and general church history on my own at home for the most part.

When all you've got is an English Literature degree and they're asking you to comment on substitutionary atonement at Christian colleges and church trends on CNN, something's gone amiss.]

Thus «salvation» from the Latin salvos (healing), «atonement» (at - one - meet), an Anglo - Saxon word traditional in British and American evangelicalism, or «redemption,» expressing our release from the dominant causal efficacy of past sinful actions.

The mystery of atonement can be approached with new understanding if theology and psychology will look together at the same reality, however difficult it may be to do so.

Director Joe Wright (Atonement) is hard at work on a new origin story - ish movie for Captain James Hook, one that aims to do for the good Captain what Wicked did...

A staunch Puritan, Baxter could not suppose that the salvation of pagans nullifies the need for atonement; it must mean, rather, that the efficacy of Christ's saving work extends to some, at least, who have never heard of him.

im sure many do but i just wish EVERYBODY here could know the true Jesus... I wish I could know Him better... it hurts a little at first... to know how short of His love we have fallen... but what is so awesome about him is that his atonement was so total that it can even atone for the hateful comments that have been posted here... and whats even MORE amazing is that His atonement can atone for MY sins... if we could just see one glimpse of his heart we would all lay down all of this human «intelligence» and say... I'm so sorry... please show me the right way.