Sentences with phrase «by obedience to»

I also know it is through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

It is easy to see how satanically attractive such teaching could be; and it is easy to see how those who propagated it would take to themselves a conscious superiority, contemptuous of those who still allowed themselves to be shackled and constricted by obedience to the moral law or to any other kind of law.

Each generation, in the circumstances of its own time, seeks a deliverance from bondage, and is led to freedom only by obedience to the Word of YHWH.

One of a king's most important duties was to ensure fertility and prosperity by his obedience to the gods and by his observance of the yearly rituals.

In that chapter, he teaches that Abraham's faith was made «perfect» or «complete» by his obedience to God's word spoken to him.

The poor will not be judged by their obedience to authority and their quiet endurance of earthly misery but are free to be faithful to a God that works for liberation within history, as the Pharaoh unhappily discovered.

«Seeing» God is made possible by obedience to the command of Christ.

He goes to great lengths to show that the effort to overcome the consequences of idolatry by obedience to law is not successful.

«We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

Jews had been seeking salvation by obedience to the law, but this did not work.

Since love was no longer to be expressed by obedience to many principles, it had to be a matter of the heart.

Prophetic man was not first committed to calculating self - interest and then persuaded that he could achieve his interests best by obedience to God.

The only sure way in which we can transcend our human relativities is by obedience to the absolute and eternal God.

«6 Such a God is the author, or the excuse for «the alien power of the moral imperative» which is «addressed to man from a beyond» and imprisons him «by an obedience to an external will or authority.

l God has entered into a covenant with America and will shower blessings on it only so long as some unknown remnant of Americans honors the covenant by obedience to the Law.

All of these gods that man has created provide no one with any measure of completeness by obedience to the doctrine that they present.

Once God has ceased to exist in human experience as the omnipotent and numinous Lord, there perishes with him every moral imperative addressed to man from a beyond, and humanity ceases to be imprisoned by an obedience to an external will or authority.

The Jewish legal system, now left behind, had once been the means by obedience to which he had sought «justification»; now faith — the whole - hearted self - committal of a man to Jesus Christ by which the entire personality is transformed — is the sole ground of any one's acceptance with God.

Only a mature, paschal faith — an Easter faith — can perceive who Jesus is, understand what Jesus taught, and grasp what Jesus has accomplished by his obedience to the Father.

Not exact matches

Second, there needs to be some mechanism, such as the cost - shared financing programs established by Tom Kent and Lester Pearson with the support of Tommy Douglas, to guarantee on - going federal investment conditional on provincial obedience to national principles around minimum standards.

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

By the way, willful ignorance and blind obedience to religion is insulting to the evolved brain you have the privilege of having.

It's not about a law or legalism... If you are truly Born of God obedience is just the natural outcome of love, not trying... If you find yourself trying to not cuss, well, that's works and legalism... but if you walk by the Spirit where the topic just never really comes up because it's not in God's, Jesus» or the Holy Spirit's vocabulary.

He picked at our weakness by putting the fruit in the garden.At least a dog might have the obedience to stay where he's told.If God wants blind faith, obedience and submission, he picked the wrong species.

Sad to say, many churches have permitted the revolution to redirect the faith away from the hard path of obedience to one that simply affirms everyone without seeking to transform their affections and their lives by God's word.

These ideas are echoed in the «prosperity gospel» — characterized by the belief that God wants to bless His people, that He wants to give us tangible rewards such as riches and success and that we claim these rewards by exercising our faith in obedience.

The dying on the Cross was the ultimate Act of Obedience by Jesus to the Father.

The only way to get a pass from your ward bishop is by proving your obedience to the church and it's leaders.

According the the revered Theologan Calvin, women are»... more guilty than the man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading all to perdition.

* The most deadly danger facing anyone today is to insult the Spirit of God by refusing obedience to His conviction.

They received by faith the message God sent to them, and then responded with immediate obedience.

And please don't fail us by not calling us to live a life of radical purity and obedience to Christ either, because this is the best and most fulfilling life there is.

She does this by conforming herself entirely to the Person of Jesus Christ through vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

T here is only one way to overcome the disobedience of Adam and that is by a life of total obedience to the Father's will.

But no, it has to be this self - righteous public display, a simple graduation perverted into a religious event by people hoping to widen obedience to their ideology.

How is our obedience to God mediated or intersected by loyalty to institutions (state, church, school),) to our fellows (citizens, worshippers, colleagues),) to our families and friends, to ourselves?

Furthermore, the Jews were not motivated here, as Haman was, by greed and self - advancement, but were solely focused on obedience to the Word of God, and focused only on defending themselves, not on profiting from their enemies.

Adam's eagerness to snatch the prize of equality with God — the desire of Everyman to set himself up in the place of God as absolute master of a world which is really not his own, but God's — is replaced by the second Adam's total self - surrender: his obedience to the point of accepting the death of the Cross; death which paradoxically leads to life, whereas the consequence of Adam's self - glorification proved to be death.

In truth it is impossible to keep one's gaze constantly fixed on the vast horizons opened out to us by science without feeling the stirrings of an obscure desire to see men drawn closer and closer together by an ever - increasing knowledge and sympathy until finally, in obedience to some divine attraction, there remains but one heart and one soul on the face of the earth.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

Entry into this relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of life which was required of him by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.

The authenticity of the Sunnah is proved by the Qur» an, for it orders that the Prophet should be obeyed and it made obedience to him a form of obedience to God and a recognition of His love, «But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe (in truth) until they make thee judge of what is in dispute between them and find within themselves no dislike of that which thou decidest, and submit with full submission» (Surah IV, 65).

It is we who are sanctified, made fit for divine service, by the call of Christ to faith and obedience, just as the fishermen were given roles in God's great drama of salvation.

That is a central Christian teaching which many Christians find offensive since they have fallen into the Galatian heresy of beginning in the Gospel, but returning to the Law: saved by Grace, but remain saved by our obedience.

And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a book of fiction, with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise with him.

In fairly short order, a community of laymen, lay women and priests dedicated to Our Lady were given permission by the Church to live together in poverty, chastity and obedience.

While monasticism in modern times has been deeply influenced by Dom Paul Delatte's rather rigorous interpretation of the Holy Rule (he was Abbot of Solesmes from 1890 to 1921) we find in Hugh Gilbert's firm but gentle hands a rather more humane understanding of the contemporary mind, particularly in his substantial treatment of the concept of obedience (a minefield for any Christian apologist) which stands at the centre of this present work.

«The Eucharist, in which the Lord's obedience on the Cross embraces us all, purifies us, and draws us up to that perfect worship offered by Jesus Christ.»

The assumption is always that the Jewish people received eternal life through obedience to the Law and following the sacrificial system instituted by Moses.