Sentences with phrase «covenantal relationship»

The magi needed to burn their astrological maps when they found Christ and entered into covenantal relationship with God.

(3) I am a person who has been brought by Jesus Christ into covenantal relationship to the God of Abraham and Sarah.

As for the more historically grounded covenantal relationships between God and peoples, the only role left for them and the patterns of ritualized culture they had produced was that there be selected from among them those practices that could be justified as contributing to the overall functioning of the ethically autonomous individual.

Mission is the result of God's initiative, rooted in God's purposes to restore and heal creation and call people into a reconciled covenantal relationship with God.

Until that time, the relationship between Jews and Christians, viewed from either side, was one whose ultimate meaning could be located only within the overall covenantal relationship between God and his people.

The stereotyped notion that gay men are promiscuous is given the lie by many who have established a lasting covenantal relationship with one other person.

The perfect Torah «restores the soul,» as the Psalms say, which means the soul does not restore itself without being in a strong covenantal relationship with God — a relationship constituted by the Torah and nothing else.

(A reminder: we're not talking modern business contracts in this relationship: we're talking ancient covenantal relationship, which carries a solemnity and respect and consistency come what may.)

Hesed is often an attribute of covenant, either the Yahweh - Israel covenant or a family covenantal relationship such as husband - wife or father - son.

Then, with her marriage to Boaz, Ruth entered the most intimate covenantal relationship of God's people.

There are, indeed, gay Christian couples living in long - term, permanently intended covenantal relationships who earnestly desire the affirmation of their religious communion.

However, all traditions may find that the idea of covenantal relationships can help to frame the issues for both individuals and communities.

and also recognizes that «Mission is the result of God's initiative, rooted in God's purposes to restore and heal creation and to call people into a reconciled covenantal relationship with God.»

Even as they reflect the particularities of Israel's covenantal relationship with Yahweh, these passages bear the clear imprint of borrowed notions about God's unchallengeable sway over the whole of creation.

The faith of the West too easily devolves into philosophical rationalization about divine Justice, rather than faith in the covenantal relationship with a just and loving God.

Covenantal relationships are fragile.

But the ideals of redemption and restoration, which it envisioned for the nation's covenantal relationship with God and its attendant establishment of justice, were appropriated and applied by Israel's prophets to the...

But in view of the fact that God entered into a covenantal relationship with animals as well as with men, this concern seems misplaced.

In the Old Testament we do see the gradual building - up of the Revelation of Yahweh as I - am - who - am within a covenantal relationship with Israel.

Yet, in light of the prevailing world view in which it was completely permissible to manipulate, cheat, extort, and rob (especially the poor), Amos sees the Day of God as a day of judgment because the community has debased its covenantal relationship with God.

These omnibus bill provisions are likely just the next step towards this relentless economic development at the price of our environmental sustainability and the covenantal relationship we've had with First Nations stretching back centuries to the Crown's agreements of the late 18th century.

In the Old Testament we do see the gradual building - up of the Revelation of Yahweh as I - am - who - amwithin a covenantal relationship with Israel.

(6) The law provides for means of atonement, and atonement results in (7) maintenance or re-establishment of the covenantal relationship.

Does one (God or human) come to the covenantal relationship with everything settled?

In Barton's view, the U.S., like ancient Israel, is in a covenantal relationship with God.

And whereas one might measure beliefs in terms of how certain or uncertain a person feels, the measure of faith is simply about how willing one is to trust God's character and how faithful a person is in living out the covenantal relationship they have with the Lord, despite the uncertainties they may have.

Here, however, Job faces a contradiction between the friends» argument that a covenantal relationship is «defined by humility and passive acceptance of the misfortunes God may use to discipline him,» and God's approbation of Job for his other covenantal virtues, «including strong words and fierce resistance.»