Sentences with phrase «eternal is more»

Not exact matches

Some of the more paranoid or lawsuit - fearing companies in the U.S. require office couples to sign a wavier or «love contract,» vowing that their relationship is consensual and neither will take legal action against their employer (or each other) should the love prove less than eternal.

The program seems to be even more lucrative because right now, it pretty much seems that Eternal Trusts has the ability and expertise to carry this out.

The real message Rush wants the people to know is that money makes you King in this world, and ultimate though temporary power on the planet is more important than getting into the gates of eternal heaven.

While it does not appear to me that bin Laden in any way obeyed the Laws of God, and thereby lived out of love, and therefore, yes, is more than likely facing eternal perdition, I can not know that.

But Christ is more concerned for our hearts and to live for the things that are eternal.

To have grain and have it «more abundantly» decalres rather outrightly that there are many «grain» therefore for Christ to say that we «might have [it] more abundantly» declares without much doubt that we become eternal in the Life / death Life / death struggles throughout eternity.

You said, «To the Christian, who understands the consequences of accepting or rejecting Jesus, that person is compelled to share — not out of a desire to cause pain but to provide one more, maybe the only, opportunity for the dying person to avoid eternal punishment.»

ddeev... I have always been curious about people that deemed eternal life more desirable than reality.

The spirit is the soul, the eternal spark that God created, the spark that reincarnates lifetime after lifetime to advance more quickly.

They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

I was just curious about the mindset of those who deemed non existence more desirable than eternal life, even when viewing the Christian option as hypothetical.

But as previously mentioned, your belief in non existence is no more or less a verifiable reality than my belief in eternal life.

Is Fred Phelps, who has seized on a few hateful scriptures, more or less a Christian than Rob Bell, who no longer believes in an eternal hell?

Can you think of anyone more a victim than a child that is born already damned to eternal hell simply for being born?

Would not restoring the life of the murdered be more just than eternal punishment of the murderer?

Again, I'm not concerned with proving the reality of an eternal afterlife, I was more curious about the mind set that would cause someone to prefer non existence over immortality, even if that immortality was HYPOTHETICAL.

The fact they do have morals that are not based on consequences such as eternal h3ll fire would suggest they have more integrity not less.

I agree if he understands eternal truths in the sense that there are confessions of truth eschatologically valid once for all time, never out of fashion but always worthy to be remembered, confessed, and more deeply reflected upon by the people of God in order to discover always anew their eternal newness (as Pope Francis says in Evangelii Gaudium, 11).

No one wants to be one of the dry bones, wells without waters, spiritually walking dead among us like the non-believers on this site that end up in the eternal flames, blotted out, no eternity unless they repent, ask Jesus for forgiveness and sin no more.

I, for one, was a person who used to think that the gospel was nothing more than «believe in Jesus for eternal life.»

Without the truths of the death and resurrection of Jesus, there is no gospel, but the gospel is way more than a message about justification and how to get eternal life.

Faith (or belief without evidence) is more motivated by two basic human emotions: FEAR of dying and punishment and HOPE for an eternal afterlife.

More specifically, his primordial nature is eternal and his consequent nature everlasting.

The term salvation is more appropriately used in this sense because we are talking about a finality: the decision whether one will attain eternal life.

To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night sky and see more than the infinite reach of empty space and the eternal stretch of endless time, that can «keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God» (3:1).

Since the gospel is about way more than just receiving eternal life but is also about how God's people are to live their lives in this world, then the goal of living out the gospel is not primarily to rescue people from hell so they can go to heaven when they die.

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.

We have already recognized the sense in which eternal objects are internally related: the more general or abstract function includes the less general as a constituent or term.

(E.g., They say things like «Jesus did his 99 %, but I must do my 1 %» or «I'm saved now, but if I sin later, I won't be saved any more» or «I accepted the gift of eternal life, but I can give it back if I don't abide.»)

Far more pervasive, however, than this apparent reconciliation with Buddhism, are the principal themes of eternal death and Christ's descent into hell.

Even if someone was as good as Mother Theresa or Gandhi, they could not earn their eternal life by their good works any more than could Hitler or Pol Pot by their evil works.

To me, a perfect judgement and sentence of the evil person would require more than just a punishment in eternal flame, since he would still be capable of cursing God, fostering hatred and perversion and all sorts of other humanly sinful ways while he was being eternally tormented.

The potentialities given with the «eternal objects» are more varied and richer than what is actualized in the actualities of the world.

As Ambrose, the fourth - century bishop of Milan, told the recently initiated: «You must not trust, then, wholly to your bodily eyes; that which is not seen is more really seen, for the object of sight is temporal, but that other eternal, which is not apprehended by the eye, but is discerned by the mind and spirit» (Ambrose of Milan, De mysteriis, III, 15).

Here there is no talk of having a little patience, and of things going well by Sunday; but here is found the Eternal's victorious comfort, and these scourged Apostles have more than conquered.

He did seem to acknowledge some such reality, while observing that a Whiteheadian would no doubt give more emphasis to the realm of eternal objects But his objections to this realm and to such speculation was nevertheless made clear.

Reality is more than a bit touched leading all his fellow atheists to the eternal flames with his hatred of Jesus» truth.

No, it is the serious question, of what each man really is according to his eternal vocation, so that he himself shall be conscious that he is following it; and what is even more serious, to ask it as if he were considering his life before God.

Thus the last is once more the ancient constant faith which is also the most new: God, Jesus Christ, his grace, his forgiveness and eternal life.

I shared the reservations of Elton Trueblood, who wrote of exclusivism: «Such a scheme is neat and simple, but it is morally shocking... A God who would thus play favorites with his children, condemning some to eternal separation from himself while admitting others, and distinguishing them wholly or chiefly on the basis of the accidents of history or geography, over which they had no control, would be more devil than God.»

This is why Satan loves nothing more than to make us doubts God's eternal love for us.

We see at once that the historical in the more concrete sense is a matter of indifference; we may suppose a degree of ignorance with respect to it, and permit this ignorance as if to annihilate one detail after the other, historically annihilating the historical; if only the Moment remains, as point of departure for the Eternal, the Paradox will be there.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

If Christ gave his ministers the ability to forgive the eternal penalty of sin, how much more would they be able to remit the temporal penalties of sin!

I hope that when my earth - body dies and my eternal soul is uploaded into the heavens via God's Galactic Internet that my file folder is judged as appropriate for download into a mansion that is more heavenly than this one, but that does not change that life in this mansion is what it is.

And Updike's notion of eternal life is more amusing than edifying.

Earthly pleasure was more valuable for them than eternal reward.

Likewise, experience and memory, so crucial for the scientific endeavor, are nothing more than side effects of the eternal matter - energy cascade.

Eternal separation from Christ might be a more sanitized version of the medieval view of hell, but it is still out - of - touch with the reality of 1 Corinthians 15:22 - 28, Colossians 1:15 - 20, Romans 5:12 - 19, 1 TImothy 2:4 - 6 and 4:9 - 11, 1 John 2:2 and 4:14, and many other passages.

Personally, I'd be a lot more afraid to NOT believe, because of the eternal repercussions.