Sentences with phrase «by means of his death»

This is to say, the raising of Lazarus will effect the Son's return to God by means of his death and resurrection.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

God himself passes through «Self - annihilation» in Jesus» passion, and, as a result of that passion, and by repeating Jesus» passion in the actuality of experience, the Christian can discover a new and joyous humanity, a humanity that is born only by means of the death of God: «Thou art a Man, God is no more» (The Everlasting Gospel).

An IUL is a standard universal life insurance policy by means of death benefit, but the growth inside is tied, in part, to different indices of the stock market.

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In England they found that «cleaning the air to the level of cleanliness enjoyed by the area with the best air [in the UK] would mean a 40 percent drop in the bronchitis death rate among males.»

But the presence of the gene mutation is by no means a death sentence.

His attorneys have argued that this is a malicious lawsuit meant to slander him, brought by a firm that manipulated Kalanick at a time when he was grieving the death of his mother.

These higher temperatures mean Indianapolis will see a likely increase of up to 15 additional deaths per 100,000 residents by late century, with a 1 - in - 20 chance of more than 31 additional deaths.

The death of Progressive Conservative MLA Manmeet Bhullar on Nov. 23, 2015 means that a by - election will be held to choose the next MLA for the Calgary - Greenway constituency early this year.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

The untimely departure or death of a senior executive could mean trouble for companies that don't have effective strategies for developing personnel By Joel McKay

Though crucifixion on this cross only means physical death, not spiritual.The ankh was a symbol, not of death, but of life, and it is the ankh that was used by all Christians until the 4th century when the Vatican introduced the Roman cross for the first time.

I'm not sure what you mean by not fearing death, but if you mean in a philosophic way, a true Christian has no fear of death.

All I am saying is that religions were created by humans as a means of explanation of life after death.

It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum's moral analysis in» Blood for Blood» and» They Did It» is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply to all uses of the death penalty by modern states.

Haught can not explain what happens at death, nor the meaning of the sacraments as taught by the Church, nor the human need for true interior life.

Nietzsche was, of course, a prophetic thinker, which means that his thought reflected the deepest reality of his time, and of our time as well; for to exist in our time is to exist in what Sartre calls a «hole in Being,» a «hole» created by the death of God.

What we know as the traditional image of the Incarnation is precisely the means by which Christendom laid the ground for an inevitable willing of the death of God, for this traditional image made possible the sanctification of «time» and «nature,» a sanctification finally leading to the transformation of eternity into time.

I have entered territory that extends beyond the safe boundaries of what I know, wandering by way of the sea, as well as the far - off lands where Paul will soon be wrestling with the Corinthians over what it means to be baptized into Christ, and into his death and new life.

He vetoed the consumption of prawns, those bizarre other - worldly creatures which no member of the faithful had ever seen, and required animals to be killed slowly, by bleeding, so that by experiencing their deaths to the full they might arrive at an understanding of the meaning of their lives, for it is only at the moment of death that living creatures understand that life has been real, and not a sort of dream.

Not only loss of breath but loss of blood means death, and this fact was seized upon by the early Hebrews, as by other peoples, as the basis of an elaborate superstructure of religious ritual.

This is the meaning and message of the Passover, and participation in it has the sacramental efficacy of producing rebirth; this is also the meaning of the commemoration of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, for by participating in the death of Christ who sums up all of the past, we also participate in his resurrection, which attains the eschatological future.

Simply by noting the overwhelming power and the comprehensive expression of the modern Christian experience of the death of God, we can sense the effect of the ever fuller movement of the Word or Spirit into history, a movement whose full meaning only dawns with the collapse of Christendom, and in the wake of the historical realization of the death of God.

Hill has come to see how his struggles are not separate from God's providence for him - they do not disqualify him from living the Christian life and being pleasing to God, but are rather «part and parcel of what it means to live by faith in a world that is fallen and scarred by sin and death».

In contrast, Caldecott states in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi).

We can sense something of the early Christian understanding of the eschatological meaning of the new covenant by noting the words of Paul, who, while speaking of the old covenant as a law of death and condemnation, rejoices that the glory of the new covenant so surpasses the glory of the old that the old covenant now has no glory at all:

What is meant by them does not only take place in those moments when the incomprehensibility of life can no longer be shirked, for example, when our dearest die, when a lifelong love is for ever destroyed by unfaithfulness, when the doctor tells us that death is imminent and inevitable.

7) The death penalty should not be imposed if the purposes of punishment can be equally well or better achieved by bloodless means, such as imprisonment.

According to an audio recording obtained by HuffPo, «every death must be confirmed by the Institute of Forensic Science, which means either the bodies have to be brought to San Juan to do an autopsy or a medical examiner must be dispatched to the local municipality to verify the death.»

In fact, it is too long to correspond with the date of Herod Agrippa's death, by means of which we are able on the basis of Luke's information to date his second visit.

Christianity is a dialectically monotheistic faith in which the nature and purposes of the Ultimate are illumined by historical events culminating, though by no means terminating, in the life, death and resurrection of the Jewish teacher Jesus, called by faith the Christ.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insanBy the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insanby no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

As the «outpouring» of the Spirit had come, unsought, in consequence of the life, death and resurrection of Christ, so the «indwelling» of the Spirit was the means by which He continued to form, guide and govern His Church out of the unseen world, where He was now invested with divine authority «at the right hand of God».

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

Its effect upon one who takes it seriously is well expressed by Paul, in a passage where he has defined the meaning of the Christian life precisely in terms of the Gospel, as sharing Christ's sufferings, being conformed to His death, and experiencing the power of His resurrection.

Craig both seventh day and anglican are believers they are saved by faith in the death of Jesus Christ and they believe in the forgiveness of sins sactification and the resurection at Christs return.This is what i meant regarding theology one has to be careful otherwise you exclude groups of christians because some of there other theology may not be the same as ours.They still hold to the central truths of the bible but have differences ie like sabbaths or baptism but that does not mean they arent saved or are christians.What church denomination do you belong to if you mentioned jehovah witness or mormons that is a different story as they do nt believe that Jesus Christ is central to there faith they have relegated him to nothing more than a prophet so there is no salvation in those religions.brentnz

This does not mean that God is changed, if by that verb «changed» it is suggested that the divine nature if altered or becomes something essentially different from what it was before Christ's death and thus moves in and towards the world in a fashion totally at variance with the prior mode of divine concern.

Instead, Jesus came to inaugurate a new bloodline of relatives, a family connected by the means of His sacrificial death and life - restoring resurrection on our behalf.

Occasioned by the death from AIDS of his friend (not his lover) Patrick, Sullivan reflects on the meaning of friendship as something very different from - and, he suggests, much more rare and elevated than -» being in love,» not to mention having sex.

Christ manifests the divine will by his obedience unto death, which means by denouncing human passions and strivings, revealing in this way God's eternal thought concerning the salvation of humankind.

The normal eschatological situation, which gives life urgency by facing us with the inevitability of our own death, the hunger for meaning, and the fear of suffering and loss, becomes apocalyptic when it appears that there is no longer time for normal urgency.

Two meanings also may be found in Jesus» statement that the Son of God will be glorified by means of the illness (11:4): his power will be manifest through it, and the raising will actually lead to the arrest, death, and resurrection, which will finally validate his glorification.

The final Counselor saying in verses 13 - 15 really sums up the content of the preaching of the church; it is to be a proclamation utterly dependent on God, and it will declare the true meaning of the new age, ushered in completely by the death and resurrection.

A certain man, called Adam, degenerated voluntarily by abandoning the source of life and we are his descendants, that means we have inherited his degenerated nature, which does works of death, called sins.

It is true that both the gospels and the speeches of Peter and Paul in Acts give important testimony as to what the apostles taught about the Christian life and proclaimed about the meaning of Jesus» own life, death, and resurrection; yet both the gospels and Acts were written, not by apostles, but by later disciples, and their evidence on particular points stands in need of confirmation, if possible, from the apostles themselves.

A majority of commentators on this event emphasize that Peter misunderstands and that Jesus, knowing that Peter needs to understand what confessing Jesus as the Christ will mean, addresses any misunderstanding by foretelling his own suffering and death.

For all who believe in a God of love, justice, and mercy, it will mean constant prayer not only for the victims of the «culture of death,» but also for those who are joined in the great struggle on their behalf, and, indeed, for those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressors.

But Christianly understood death is by no means the last thing of all, hence it is only a little event within that which is all, an eternal life; and Christianly understood there is in death infinitely much more hope than merely humanly speaking there is when there not only is life but this life exhibits the fullest health and vigor.

Two large, sunken pools, fed by what the official literature describes as the largest man - made waterfall in North America, drain into central shafts meant, it seems, to conjure the infinite abyss of death and loss.