Ephesians 2:8 reminds us that our salvation
comes through faith, not feelings.
But the freedom that
comes through faith in Jesus Christ is unbelievable.
They are now thankful for the REAL FREEDOM that
comes through FAITH and objective reason.
Today, most scholars believe this was the position of the Twelve, the Jerusalem Church, and even of St. Paul (Acts 21:20 — 26), despite the latter's insistence that justification
comes through faith and that gentiles should not take on the law of Moses.
This experience
comes through faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
The freedom of the Christian
comes through faith in the victory of Jesus Christ.
That is the power that
comes through faith not government, not culture.
SALVATION
comes through FAITH ALONE in JESUS CHRIST while judgment and condemnation come from the Law which no longer applies since the DISPENSATION of GRACE!
It is not a physical thing it is that which is not visible and
comes through faith.
Unlike secular groups, we provide the added benefit of spiritual healing, which can only
come through faith in Christ.
Not exact matches
And they even foretold of those that would
come to sway our
faith through philosophy and science.
Though we may still sin every single day, Jesus Christ — the Son of God —
came to earth to die on the cross so that we may be forgiven
through faith in Him.
Second there are plenty of people who
come to their
faith as it were
through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to
faith and acknowledge it as
faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?
I would say that our
faiths shared a common ancestry... the Christian
faith coming through Abraham's son, Isaac and the Muslim
faith coming through Abraham's son, Ishmael.
Philippians 3:8,9 «More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is
through faith in Christ, the righteousness which
comes from God on the basis of
faith,»
(Gentiles) * Galatians 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might
come on the Gentiles
through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith.
For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending
through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have
come to living
faith in the body's living Head.
In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ
through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever
comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»
God is something most Christians
come to understand and know
through faith, experience, reason, and reflection.
Faith, and having the young Chaplin «Chris»
come and stand by mom side pulling her
through the rest of the way, it helped save her live.
Robert, that would be Romans 10:17 — Consequently,
faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard
through the word about Christ.
The Old Testament is filled with examples of gentiles
coming to
faith in the God of Israel
through the works demonstrated by Him.
I am a member of Mars Hill Church and can only say that
through the preaching at Mars Hill Church, I have truly
come to
faith and grace
through Jesus Christ.
Salvation
comes by grace alone
through faith alone in Christ alone, and a life of repentance is the natural response that the sinner has to what His savior has done for him.
The more experience you have with God, the easier it is to have
faith... The truth is that God always
comes through.
I
came to
faith THROUGH reason, NOT despite it.
Salvation
comes by grace alone
through faith alone in Christ alone ----- Except if God placed you in a region on earth where christianity doesn't exist, then you've never heard of Christ, and will likely go your entire life without learning the first thing about him.
The first is that this salvation by grace package
comes to us
through faith.
A powerful inducement to believe in Christ is the abundant life of meaning and purpose He alone can give, and the crowning experience of life as His intimate companion in the world to
come, not to mention the obvious fact that
through this
faith one escapes the corruption of the lake of fire.
Once again, it
comes down to BELEIFS and
FAITH There is not ONE person on this planet that can say they are «IN PERSONAL CONTACT, OR GOD SPEAKS THROUGH ME» that I would beleive or have faith
FAITH There is not ONE person on this planet that can say they are «IN PERSONAL CONTACT, OR GOD SPEAKS
THROUGH ME» that I would beleive or have
faithfaith in!!
... Therefore, if total depravity is Biblically true, then
faith and consequent salvation
come only when the Holy Spirit goes to work
through regeneration.
Salvation
comes by the grace of God, but
through our individual
faith.
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly
through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my
faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS
COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
Read Numbers 13 & 14 when Israel
came to Kadesh - barnea, they did not possess the land because of their unbelief in what God promised them, they had to do nothing to possess it just enter in
through faith in what God promised.
Part of Israel's call was to be a light of who Yahweh is so that the nations around could
come to
faith,
through faith, by the Passover blood and then the sign of circumcision, which for us I believe plays the same role as baptism.
These assumptions
come to light in all kinds of ways, but especially
through religion — the various
faiths that treat women as though they are not equal to men.
One of my favourite stories to tell is how my family
came to
faith in Jesus
through a cheesy 70s children's record called Bullfrogs and Butterflies.
It
comes in standing with those whose
faith carries them
through the persevering fight for justice long enough to see actual change for anyone who loves their neighbors as themselves.
1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the
faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts
come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love
through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay
Science, however, is a partial, objective attempt to discover facts about the empirical aspects of existence; Christian
faith is an inclusive, committed approach to the totality of life's meaning as this
comes to us
through the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
Moreover, as William Beardslee insists, the story form tells the individual «where he has
come from and where he is going,» since «by creating its own ordered world, wherein
through struggle and action an end is achieved, the story expresses
faith in the ultimate reality of order and life.
Conversion is a process that does not begin and end with the profession of
faith in Christ, but begins with the Holy Spirit's prevenient grace on the person's life and continues
through repentance for a lifetime — the Kingdom
comes.
Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country could be described as a «Protestant» novel; it
comes closer than any other novel I know to telling a story of justification by grace
through faith.
The numbers of people who have
come to Christian
faith through the Toronto movement,
through many different churches, are impressive.
Graham, his son, Franklin, and others can still preach a meeting and people will
come to hear the truth of the Gospel and many will respond by grace
through faith.
We shall have the root of the matter in us; we shall have
come to recognize that in the history leading up to our Lord, and with the
coming of Jesus himself, there were released into the world, and that in what we may rightly call an unprecedented fashion, energies for good which have changed the lives of men and
through them the face of nature too, and that these same energies are still available whenever men turn, in
faith and with utter self - surrender, to the Lord of all life.
Through my own pastoral experiences I have
come to see that neo-orthodoxy — with all its emphasis on realism in theology, on the kerygma of the Bible, on the sinfulness of personal and corporate life, on the radical nature of the new life, and so forth — is hesitant and weak in calling persons to a positive
faith.
Through Fr Nesbitt she
came into contact with the theology of Edward Holloway and the work of the
Faith movement, becoming a committed supporter, practically and spiritually.
But victory over sin and Satan and the world and the flesh
comes only
through walking by
faith.
It is now the history of humanity as lived under the impact of the new
faith which is born out of response to Jesus, and
through which a new «people» has
come into being which lives by the mercy God has shown in him.