Not exact matches
In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promise
In so doing, he has appeased His
Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who
believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promise
in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!
And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the
holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to
believe in Jesus for eternal life.
The bottom line is that the
holiness we need comes not from our own works, but from Jesus Christ Himself, who gives it to us freely when we
believe in Him for eternal life.
Those that
believe in the sacrificial and purity gods, collapse into rule keeping, legislative righteousness, slavish thinking, and venomous anger as they kill their own gay children or chant «
holiness» as they murder
in fact or figuratively.
And finally, realize that they don't have to profess Christianity, they don't need to call themselves Christian, they don't need to
believe any theology or dogma to strive to attain the
holiness in their lives that Jesus did
in his.
More, it's about God's fusion
in Jesus Christ of natural kinds, kinds that were
believed to represent either
holiness or depravity.
As will soon be evident, the writer
believes that Christian perfection — or
holiness, as the doctrine is more popularly called — stands
in one sense for a very important and vital truth.
doctorezero, Marriage to Jesus means she
believes in His teachings and distributes His truth to others which then brings forth fruit to God, the fruit of
holiness.
«I have come to
believe that the true mystics of the quotidian are not those who contemplate
holiness in isolation, reaching godlike illumination
in serene silence, but those who manage to find God
in a life filled with noise, the demands of other people and relentless daily duties that can consume the self.»
In fact, many Gnostic Christians could not reconcile the idea of Jesus being fully God and fully man because they
believed the supreme spiritual Being could not take on a physical identity without defiling His
holiness.
Weil's moral absolutism remains a reproach to Jews who
believe they can appropriate Israel's ethnicity (and perhaps its ethics) but dispense with its
holiness code, and to Christians who seek redemption
in their own ethnic roots rather than through adoption into the people of God.
If the person you are talking to seems to
believe that they don't need to
believe in Jesus because they are good enough people on their own, you might want to present some of the preparation truths about the
holiness of God and our own human sinfulness.
It's a heresy, but lots of people
believe it, especially
in the Wesleyan and
Holiness Pentecostal groups.
And he chose to endow this man as well with true moral philosophy and with every ornament of sweet poetry, so that the world might admire him and hold him up as a model to be followed,
in life,
in work,
in holiness of character and all human striving, so that we
believed him heaven - sent rather than of this world.