But, if I am right in my belief, these very words will be used against you and you WILL suffer
eternal damnation for your unbelief.»
Finally, Anselm's thought about the atonement, so centered in an awe - full sense of human sin, always left unanswered the question: If the human creature is subject to
eternal damnation for having eaten of one miserable apple, how much more unforgivable is the murder of God's son?
Are they words thrown like rocks and the heavy club of the promise of
eternal damnation for disagreement?
Hell to mystics is something like «
Eternal damnation for awhile» but it's not eternal forever.
Not exact matches
The depiction of hell as a place of
eternal punishment and torture of sinners has been an unnecessary roadblock to faith
for many
for it suggests a God who unfairly punishes sins of 70 years on earth as warranting
eternal damnation.
If Love is God's primary characteristic, why are 4 of the 10 Commandments demands
for obsequious submission upon penalty of
eternal damnation?
Emerald... in a way though, if you believed something to be true... like really believed... no doubt,
for instance, the only way
for others to be happy or not suffer
eternal damnation (or whatever), wouldn't you feel wrong by not trying to convince others.
It's still a theological inconsistency of fatal proportions (no pun intended)-- God sets a man along a path aligned with God's plan, knowing the results of God's plan will cause the man to commit a «mortal» sin to end his terrible remorse (which wouldn't have happened were it not
for playing his part as God wanted him to do), resulting in
eternal damnation, and God allows it to happen?
Especially, since, according to the bible, the penalty
for non - belief is
eternal damnation.
One question I often ask people is: If you have a child, what would it take
for you to condemn that child to
eternal damnation?
I've decided that I'll be good and do what is right
for the sake of goodness and not because of the fear of
eternal damnation or the anticipation of an
eternal reward that does not exist.
Once the young apologist, I suddenly found myself wrestling with the notion that most of my fellow human beings would suffer
eternal damnation in hell
for being born at the wrong place and the wrong time.
Mr Hawking need a personal revelation from God in order
for him to believe and if not He endangering himself to
eternal damnation.
In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their
eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold
for certain).
My own conviction is that in all this we simply have a rejection in time, a condemnation
for the moment, not
eternal damnation.
The ancient Romans believed in
eternal damnation, and so when Jerome translated it infernus, he was assuming that there would be an
eternal hell
for sinners, something that Jews never taught.
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.
Through my continual searching of the Christian faith, I quickly learned I could no longer accept Christianity merely as a tool
for avoiding
eternal damnation.
As
for eternal damnation, hell, and all that — it's far too complex
for me to weigh in... I think hell exists
for those who separate themselves from God, but we know from the Book of Acts that Christians were having themselves baptized in the name of the dead.
Remember, your assertion is that the price
for choosing wrong is
eternal damnation.
It's what I choose to bank my
eternal life and / or
damnation on - TOLERANCE and appreciation
for people who bring goodness to this world but I understand that won't work
for everyone.
For some people, Memphis, Tennessee, conjures visions of southern religion: folks hootin» and hollerin» about God,
eternal damnation and hell; sweating preachers thundering on about sex, drinking and Democrats.
I don't know, Sean, I am an atheist and I have a GREAT deal of respect
for both spirituality and
for theism, insomuch as it is practiced in a way that does not assume that, as and atheist, I am condemned to
eternal damnation or that I have no morals or sense of right or wrong.
While I am in sympathy with your plight and suffering you endured while traveling in the Middle East, if you are truly a present Christian you should be a follower of Christ's words and life and be concerned
for men who face
eternal damnation as Jesus taught.
No baptism = stained with original sin = bound
for eternal damnation.
Those who quote the whole verse often do so in an attempt to prove reprobation, that God chooses some
for eternal damnation.
Some Calvinists (though not all) hold to reprobation — which is the belief that God not only decided whom He would choose
for eternal life, but also chose whom He would send to
eternal damnation — while others flatly deny it.
You'd better hope you chose the right denomination since the penalty
for getting it wrong is
eternal damnation.
That sacrifice, glorified in theresurrection, challenges us
for love's free response onwhich each individual's
eternal salvation or
damnation is decided.
Every time I do something good I do it
for the sake of it, not because I am afraid of
eternal damnation.
Rainer, you don't think telling someone they are in store
for «
eternal damnation in Hell» is killing to the spirit of that person?
Atheists have the ability to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing, not
for fear of
eternal damnation.
OOOOO i du n no, because atheists preach compassion and doing the right thing
for the fact that it makes you a decent human being whereas religious folks do the right thing
for fear of
eternal damnation to hell
for instance.
If you can trust the God of the universe to save your soul from
eternal damnation, you should be able to trust Him while you waiting
for a husband or wife.
There is no passage in the Bible that condems the wealthy to
eternal damnation simply
for possessing wealth; after all we are called to live lives of abundance.
But don't call me names and threaten me with
eternal damnation if I don't want to help you pay
for it.
There was no possibility of repentance after death; as we must note, there was either the definite sending to
eternal damnation of the evil man or the preparation of the good man
for a final heavenly state (in circles that did not accept some doctrine of an «intermediate state», there was instead a sort of «waiting» until the final consummation)-- but the moment of death, with its judgement of this and that individual, was absolutely final in its determination of the direction that was thereafter to be taken.
At the risk of losing his salvation and under the threat of
eternal damnation, the King is to be held responsible
for retaining the Queen to whom he is married.»
If, to the human understanding, the
eternal damnation of even one person upsets our desire
for a «harmonious cosmos,» this should be motivation not to explain how it would really be harmonious after all, but to pray
for the salvation of all.
Though the devil doubts that Henry's sins qualify him
for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage to Martha (Gene Tierney) notwithstanding.
But
for Rachel, who will be married to one of the many powerful community leaders vying
for her hand, disobeying the Prophet means
eternal damnation.