Sentences with phrase «eternal church body»

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Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

As Paul recognized in the Christian Church the marks of the supernatural Messianic community, in so far as it was the Body of Christ, so John teaches that knowledge of God and eternal life are enjoyed by those who are united to Christ.

The Letter to the Ephesians indicates that the unity of Jews and gentiles in the one body of the Messiah was part of God's eternal plan and is constitutive of the Church.

Indeed the Church's whole mission and life is one of leading humanity to communion with the Trinity, a communion that indeed reaches into our subjectivity, but which at the same time heals us and enlightens us and leads us to receive that which we could never attain by ourselves - a share in God's own life, in the immense glory of eternal life in the resurrected body of Jesus Christ.

What is really guaranteed is the Church as the eternal Body of Christ, not the Church as organized under the name of «Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America» or any other name.