Sentences with phrase «eternal damnation in»

Fear of eternal damnation in hell could act as a deterrent, but belief in a forgiving god may make crime more tempting

I shall stop believing the death of Christians is a reasonable solution, when they stop believing my eternal damnation in hell is one.

The idea that one needs a sky daddy who threatens eternal damnation in order to behave like a civilized and decent human being has caused more bloodshed and misery than any other idea on the planet.

A Christian, who does good deeds with the promise of everlasting life in heaven or the threat of eternal damnation in hell.

Rainer, you don't think telling someone they are in store for «eternal damnation in Hell» is killing to the spirit of that person?

Christie, people who require a divine, judgmental being and the fear of eternal damnation in order to treat their fellow inhabitants with kindness and respect, scare me — and obviously the inverse thought scares religists like you.

If you need the promise of heaven or the threat of eternal damnation in order to be a good person, that's your weakness, not mine.

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.

The final passage is the closest we come to a designation of «heresy» as someone condemned by God to eternal damnation in the Bible.

What kind of horrible person needs the fear of eternal damnation in hellfire just to be encouraged to do the right thing?

Again to AE: It is VERY clear in the Bible that anyone who does not believe that Jesus is the son of God will suffer eternal damnation in a pit of hellfire.

Instead of talking about their families you should preach the gospel of salvation to them, and save their souls from eternal damnation in hell.

Not exact matches

I just can't «believe» in an invisible being who ignores pain and suffering and threatens all who don't kneel with eternal damnation.

It is necessary, under peril of eternal damnation and the sin of unbelief, to believe these words of Christ: Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed also in heaven.

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?

Why should they be go to eternal damnation pretty much just because they were born in the wrong country?

In each chapter, DeYoung addresses the most noteworthy, and often most controversial, emergent theological viewpoints, hitting on such issues as scriptural authority, inaugurated eschatology, eternal damnation, and Jesus's death and resurrection.

According to catholic teaching, the existence of hell, of a state of eternal damnation, is an article of faith (as indeed, given free will and evil, it is a logical necessity); but that some human beings are or will be in fact damned is not an article of faith (though again logically it must be regarded as a possibility): hence Pere Teilhard's prayer further on in this passage.

But when Christians talk about getting saved from their sins, more often than not, they are referring exclusively to what they believe are the eternal ramifications of sin — damnation in hell.

It is interesting to me that the notion of eternal damnation does not appear to have been accepted at all in the first 3 or 4 centuries and then as you say, by the 6th the damnation crowd had won the battle.

Mr. Hawking need repentance or be in danger of placing himself to eternal damnation.

On several occasions, and notably in a general audience of July 28, 1999, John Paul II has cautioned against excessive certitude in speaking about hell and damnation, while emphasizing that «eternal damnation remains a real possibility.»

If you use it in attempt to deny rights to others or to threaten them with eternal damnation, then it becomes a problem.

The answer is eternal damnation, suffering and torture in hell.

Yet it does not follow that he who does not believe in any of these facts would be considered a nonbeliever by Allah and would therefore suffer eternal damnation.

But now the Catholic authorities in Rome have presented a strikingly different (and seemingly modern) picture of eternal damnation.

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 certainIn 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 certainin 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).

In other words, God has the right to do whatever He wants, and if He wants to elect some to eternal life while condemning others to eternal damnation, who are we to talk back to God?

My own conviction is that in all this we simply have a rejection in time, a condemnation for the moment, not eternal damnation.

You are sending a message to people, such as myself, who aren't afraid in eternal damnation, simply because we don't believe in it.

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.

In doing so, is he not condemning countless people to suffer 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.

The next number in such sanctimonious fools» repertoire is to threaten everyone who doesn't agree with them with eternal damnation.

I'm exhausted from living every moment in dread of eternal damnation.

An incarnational theology that limits the significance of the earthly appearance of the second person of the Trinity to the salvation of our souls from a world of iniquity and eternal damnation must, inevitably, terminate in a devaluation of everything terrestrial.

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.

Now Apoliea could mean eternal damnation, it really could, but it can also mean temporal judgement, or even physical destruction, which we can see at least in Pharaoh's case was the literal truth.

The Bible often alludes to statements by Jesuswhich undeniably allude to the fact that popular opinion and the road to eternal damnation are often one in the same.

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.

Atheists have to be vociferous and aggressive in direct proportion to the aggression and accusation of eternal damnation that you religious fvkks instigated the whole fight with!

Or some hear the gospel as a metaphorical message about how to live a better life in the here and now and view any talk of after - lives, eternal damnation, and saving as only metaphor that tends to get abused when it is used to stir up fear in order to get converts and tithing members.

Those who quote the whole verse often do so in an attempt to prove reprobation, that God chooses some for eternal damnation.

Not saying i don't believe in future punishment, i» am just not sure if i believe in eternal damnation anymore, i» am open to other possibilities (including possible salvation after death).

Dear Jeremy I want to know that we all know that god is very loving and forgiving he will forgive every sin except one and that is blasphemy against the holy spirit and god can even forgive murder then why not such a sin that can be forgiven with in half an hour by an average human then why the punishment is really much worse eternal damnation?

In an increasingly shrinking world, its a belief that my friends of different religions can have an afterlife that is not doomed to eternal damnation, just because they do not believe the same things I do or because they grew up in a culture different than minIn an increasingly shrinking world, its a belief that my friends of different religions can have an afterlife that is not doomed to eternal damnation, just because they do not believe the same things I do or because they grew up in a culture different than minin a culture different than mine.

Whenever a fundie like you can not make an intelligent contribution to the discussion, you make threats of hellfire, eternal damnation, and in this case, judgement.

Such conflicts provoke renewed inquiry into the Koran's puzzling and apparently contradictory attitudes toward Christians and Jews, the «People of the Book»: Muslims are told in the same surah («The Table»), virtually in the same breath, that Christians and Jews will attain salvation by following their own religion, but that if they deviate from true Koranic doctrine they are subject to earthly punishment and eternal damnation.