Sentences with phrase «by our obedience of»

Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We are in a clandestine phase of the kingdom characterized by meekness, obedience, and persecution.

Shortly after arriving at the Keller household, Sullivan wrote, «I am convinced that obedience is the gateway by which knowledge, yes and even love, enter the mind of the child.»

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.

The struggles faced today by East and West demand a new insight into the human condition, an insight realized in the cross of a self - giving God and consummated in the response of human love and obedience.

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's that system of credulity and blind obedience that shows that the Holocaust wasn't caused by a lack of religion.

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.

We say that rather «The Eucharist went to the Cross», so every Mass is the One same offering of Christ in time and space which was ratified by his perfect obedience unto death on the cross and is offered in heaven as an eternal offering.

Thirdly, this doing of God's will by man in his daily choices obviously does not discharge him from willing obedience as well.

Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»

I would further add that, similar to the self - preservation concerns of the dutiful Nazi executioners, the apologetics defending such atrocities is subject to a similar coercive context in that the choice of obedience or empathy is flanked by promises of reward and threats of punishment.

Speaking personally, it means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.

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.

Christians are not whipping those in disobedience... they are defending the innocent and the ignorant who are scandalized by the errors by those who reject obedience and choose a life of rebellion.

Even today Catholics are not dispensed of obedience) but have to learn that they must willingly also do things that are not obvious to them if they have been decided on by the authorities of the Church.

Calvin described women as»... 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.

Consider further that the Book of Life, as it applies to unbelievers, is a record of those who have offered perfect obedience before God and are thus worthy of eternal life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - 22).

And yet he was a faithful servant, who willed the Good in truth, and he was also loved by the Good, that prizes obedience more than the «fat of the ram.»

The reason they are mnot saved is because of lawlessness rather than being obedience to Gods word they believed in Jesus Christ but because of there hearts did not walk according to the word and because it speaks of signs and wonders it seems more about them and the works that they did.Of course none of us are saved by works.How do you understand that passage as some are saved and some are not it seems clear that to be saved we must believe and also walk in obedience to Gods word.brentnz A Tree and its Fruit mat 7: 2Many will say to Me on that day, «Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?»

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

Furthermore, it's hard to believe such obedience is anything but the product of coercion given it is flanked on one side by a promise of reward and on the other by a threat of punishment.

Later theology for Whitehead, hence, distorted Jesus vision of «gentleness and mercy» by an «old ferocious God..., the Oriental despot, the Pharaoh, the Hitler; with everything to enforce obedience, from infant damnation and eternal punishment,» Price (1954) 176.

We must learn that the unity of the faith and the will to obedience and love are not abolished by certain tensions.

The path of suffering which Jesus chose to tread, the agony in Gethsemane, and the cry of dereliction from the cross, all reveal the intensity of faith, just by virtue of the uncertainty that marked each act of obedience.

If there is one God who made and loves all people and seeks from them an answering love and obedience, then perhaps spiritual experience is that which unites, and the world of religious differences is caused by cultural and historical variations.

The Roman Catechism, issued in 1566, three years after the end of the Council of Trent, taught that the power of life and death had been entrusted by God to civil authorities and that the use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to the fifth commandment.

He will recognize in the change itself the immutable which would itself be betrayed by rigid immutability: fidelity to the eternal Gospel and obedience to the Lord of history, which both go to produce the change in the Church's legislation.

The obedience of a St Francis of Assisi to his heavenly vocation was obedience to a call which did not come through the intermediary of the Church's hierarchy, however true it may be to insist that it remained within the limits of the official Church and was tested and approved by the Church's ministers.