Sentences with phrase «based salvation»

Voices of Doubt: For today's post, hop on over to my friend Jason Boyett's blog, where I contributed to his Voices of Doubt series with a post about «works - based salvation.»

Again, Jesus spoke also of a deeds - based salvation.

Obviously, I knew enough to go to the Bible and steer clear of that form of works based salvation.

It's not God doing some and you doing some or God saving you, but you keeping yourself saved which is a works based salvation which is false teaching denying the marvelous grace of God!

... James is not preaching a works based salvation, He is preaching or rather God through him is telling us that TRUE believers have works that prove their faith is a living Saving FAITH!

In fact, to suggest that good works are of central importance to the Christian faith is often considered heretical in the world of conservative evangelicalism, where advocating any form of «works - based salvation» is looked upon with suspicion.

Personally, my biggest issue with the early fathers is that several of them took a turn towards works based salvation, or so it seems to me.

I agree with the post Jeremy there will be many of those works based salvation folks fall under Matthew even when they use it to justify their misguided perspective «Not everyone who says to me, «Lord, Lord,» will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

«I compared their beliefs on salvation to many evangelical Protestants because I am convinced that many evangelicals also base their salvation on their own good works, despite all their talk about «faith alone.»

Not exact matches

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

I believe the best explanation of this is outlined: 1) The basis of salvation in every age is the death of Christ.

John Piper explores the basis for this term and explains why it's so critical to our salvation.

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.

They shun people based on a scripture that has been twisted and rewritten by greedy men for ages, to reach salvation for themselves they'd turn their backs on their brothers and sisters.

This is because Christian doctrine states quite clearly that we CAN NOT «earn» «merit» or «deserve» salvation or redemption based on the «good» we do.

As Cobb freely acknowledges, solutions to global problems based only on the experience of white, North American men, «are unlikely to lead to the indivisible salvation of the whole world» (PTPT 153).

Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent

Our salvation is not based on us, it's based on Jesus.

But God was able to offer salvation on the basis of faith, because the work of the lamb of God was available.

If our salvation can be lost at some point, then that means it is based on what we do and not what God had already done.

Our salvation is not based on anything but what Jesus has done and continues to do in us.

So when I say I'm ready for a healthy dose of «works - based» salvation, this is what I mean: I'm ready to be liberated from the tyranny of my selfishness by caring for the «least of these».

«Let us understand that these two views on election and salvation can co-exist as long as we stay Christ - centered and biblically based in our theology,» he said.

Personally, I'll go with Jesus because to my limited knowledge every other religious salvation is based on works.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

We present some «plan of salvation,» then dedicate our lives to politically fighting any efforts to allow our nation to adopt the principles Jesus taught as a basis for merting needs.

Assurance of salvation is based on the promises of God alone.

If assurance of salvation is based on works, what assurance do we have that we will continue in good works?

This opinion is based on the theological principle that, as Christians, we must profess the dogma that God wills the salvation of all men even in the post - paradisal period of original sin.

Man's relation to God, which means his salvation, can not be based on, or sustained by man's own initiative, but is instituted by the sovereign action of God.

Offering itself as the ultimate basis of reality and salvation, the sacred may either arouse a defiant emptying of the heavens and a repudiation of all sacrality in favor of secularity in a death of the gods, or become the place of evasion and retreat, a refuge from life rather than a response to it.

Assurance of salvation is based on God's promises in Scripture that those who believe in Jesus will receive eternal life.

You want to justify your supposed knowlwdge of what PRESIDENT Obama is or isn't based on a visit to a black church... you need to worry about your own salvation or lack of.

Exploring theologically what happened is fascinating and can be helpful but its not the basis of salvation in my book.

This is why assurance of salvation should never and can never be based on your works.

Eternal security (the belief that a person can not lose his or her salvation) is rejected, since Mormon salvation is based in large part on acts of obedience after an initial faith experience.

1) James has already stated that salvation is a gracious gift (James 1:17 - 18) See also: 1 Peter 1:3 2) James quotes Genesis 15:6 which claims that God credited righteousness to Abraham solely on the basis of his faith (James 2:23) 3) The «works» that James said justified Abraham was his offering up of Isaac (Genesis 22:9, 12), an event that occurred many years after he first exercised faith and was declared righteous before God (Genesis 12:1 - 7, Genesis 15:6).

Deliverance, redemption and salvation, effected by God's intervention against the world's hostile forces, provide the basis for hope in seemingly hopeless situations.

Such a biblical understanding provides a more fruitful base for reflecting on the use of power than does salvation history, with its stress on human powerlessness.

By comparing the religious structure and historical evolution of Buddhist soteriological ideals with those of Christianity, we might better understand the bases of Christian beliefs about salvation.

Yoder helps us see that Niebuhr's understanding of salvation had to be depoliticized exactly because he assumed the normative status of a politics based on violence.

And PK, when Jesus dealt with the lady caught in adultry, he did NOT mention the «people selling money, religion and salvation for cash,» so based on your thinking, am I to assume it didn't matter to him?

«A clear and convincing testimony to the salvation wrought for us in Christ Jesus has to be based upon normative apostolic teaching: a teaching which underlies the inspired word of God and sustains the sacramental life of Christians today.»

It is true, based on the video, that salvation means transformation here on earth.

«26 For Barth, the meaning and basis of the Sabbath is thus also eschatological, for by pointing to the special history of the covenant and salvation, the Sabbath necessarily points to its ultimate consummation in history.27

Catholic theology was generally based on the view that outside the church there is no salvation, though a gradual opening up towards others began after the «discovery» by Columbus of the New World in the Americas in 1492, and the opening of the route to the East after Vasco da Gama in 1498.

The Atlanta - based 33 - year - old's latest album «Talented Xth» champions not just a picture of Christian salvation but also focuses on education, relationships and social change - all filtered through a biblical worldview.

So no matter how good you think you are, salvation is simply not based on that.

This is solely based on if you believe in the Bible and its teachings... I do fully and I have total assurance and security in my salvation because of the evidence that the Bible has to offer.

The Baptists can't base their beliefs in salvation through acceptance of Jesus Christ and then say that Mormon's, who believe the same, are not Christians.