Sentences with phrase «beliefs about salvation»

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.

It's not about having strong beliefs about salvation or about the Bible or about the afterlife; it's about how you practice a set of rituals or how you live your life, as in the case of orthodox Judaism, that orients you toward God.

Not exact matches

These matters include God, Jesus, the church, creation, salvation, and so forth, but they also include questions about how these beliefs are related to the human and natural sciences.

Even if he is a Christian, for example, he can set aside all the particular beliefs about Jesus Christ, God, miracles, salvation, and eternal life that he recognizes as peculiar to that tradition.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

If your belief isn't just about you, but about the «eternal salvation» of everyone and that causes you to badger all an sundry about your beliefs then you've just become a pest.

No matter what activity was actually going on in the Corinthian church regarding «the dead», why is the discussion / controversy about baptism and not the «true» means of salvation according to Baptists and evangelicals: an internal belief in Christ; an internal «decision» for Christ?

The belief is not about how you speak, but what you believe and how you do.I am Chinese Christian, actually we Chinese should say thanks to many Apostles from Eu or America, they bring Jesus» salvation news to this land and some died here.Even Chinese bible is translated by an America team.

«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.»

The representative online survey asked 1,000 Americans four questions about core evangelical beliefs on the Bible, the crucifixion of Jesus, salvation, and evangelism.

They said they have made «a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today,» that their faith is very important in their life today; believe that when they die they will go to Heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior; strongly believe they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs about Christ with non-Christians; firmly believe that Satan exists; strongly believe that eternal salvation is possible only through grace, not works; strong agree that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; strong assert that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it teaches; and describe God as the all - knowing, all - powerful, perfect deity who created the universe and still rules it today.

If you do think about it and question it (and just said you didn't for some unknown reason), then I would still be very happy to hear how you explain how coming to a right belief is any different from salvation by works.

They teach diverse beliefs about the nature of Jesus, God, the second coming, Heaven, Hell, the rapture, criteria for salvation, speaking in tongues, the atonement, what happens to persons after death, and dozens of other topics.

His remarks about the beliefs proper to Christians regarding their own faith, the possibility of salvation for non-Christians, and particularly the efficacy of other faiths for salvation, provided a push forward for my own speculations.

Instead of you being concerned about the welfare of these eternal souls as to wondering whether or not they will get the chance for salvation, you get hung up on that somehow because not everyone will get that chance in their mortal lives that somehow that means that God is biased; that in my beliefs as to how God gives out those opprotunities that it doesn't meet to your specifications, then that automatically means that God is biased, when in my beliefs the point is that no matter how you slice it everybody whehter in this life or afterwards will get a chance at learning about the gospel and make their own choices as to whether to follow the gospel or not.

8 Although Mathews did think that those «who have called themselves Christians have regarded Jesus as the author of their salvation», 9 the area of belief, including beliefs about Jesus, was left entirely relative.

«The specific character of the Christian understanding of healing and health arises from its place in the whole Christian belief about God's plan of salvation for mankind,» wrote the draftsmen of the Tübingen conference on the Healing Church.

The most important thing for people to realize about this is that salvation is not merely about beliefs that people hold.

I've been packing lunches for five years now, and my oldest child isn't even in Kindergarten, so I consider it a mission of personal salvation to figure out 1) a way to streamline the lunchbox production; and 2) ever - fresh, ever - evolving ideas about what to pack without having to bust my budget, spend hours of extra time in the kitchen, or compromise my family's beliefs about using only whole foods whenever we can.

Roman Catholic Beliefs Bible study — What does the Word of God say to Catholics about salvation by faith, by works; Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS.

Roman Catholic Beliefs Bible study — What does the Word of God say to Catholics about salvation by faith, by works; Ylvis - The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)

Not long into Lee Chang - dong's Secret Sunshine (2007), a melodrama about suffering, salvation, and the dangerously blurred line between belief and madness, the heroine encounters the first of several...