Sentences with phrase «effect human salvation»

One's view of the atonement will reflect one's understanding of the plight of humanity and what needs to be done to effect human salvation.

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I am inclined to think that Christians tended to be misled by the anthropomorphic ideas of God with which, quite rightly up to a point, they often operated; and that they found it unnecessarily difficult to think of salvation being effected by the personal Spirit of God reaching out to men in judgment, mercy, forgiveness and love through the medium of a human personality.

The violation of this theological principle places in human hands the capacity to effect our own salvation.