Sentences with phrase «eternal plan»

How is it possible to affirm, as Christians traditionally have done, that the violent death of Jesus is central to God's eternal plan for human salvation and, simultaneously, that God is not responsible for the murderous anger of Jesus's opponents, the savage brutality of the Roman guards, or the greedy betrayal of Judas Iscariot?

The good news is that God's eternal plan included a way to right these wrongs without destroying human freedom and even to deepen the glory and beauty of love.

Genially he converses with God, wondering if it would «spoil some vast eternal plan, if he were a wealthy man.»

On the metaphysical level, God's will is the primary cause of everything that happens; both good and evil are part of God's eternal plan for achieving his ends.

His coming at the «fullness of time» is the completion and crowning glory of the Father's eternal plan to raise us up to share in his own life.

The talks of the conference have sought to explain what it means to say we have faith in God by looking at the evidence for His existence and his eternal plan to found the Church as man's true environment in which he comes into contact with his creator.

It was God's eternal plan to make us what he himself is.

It leaves him destitute «of curiosity and love, of novelty, destitute of the susceptibilities of surprise and wonder,» unable to put forth new volitions to further his eternal plans and purposes (FG 244).

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.

Whatever secondary causes are involved in the temporal unfolding of his eternal plan, God is the primary maker of all these things, and so, as an intelligent and free cause, he knows them, «plans» them (i.e., conceives their plan), and wills them to be just such as he knows them.

Yet with the Blessed John Duns Scotus and the Franciscan tradition, we can go back even further, to the beginning of the universe and before, to the eternal plan of God in His eternal wisdom.

(John 11:27) she was not expecting the crucifixion, but she seems to have spoken out of a common expectation that the Messiah had been decreed in the eternal plans of God.

(Incidentally, we may see in this eternal plan the division of the sexes and our own identity as male and female according to God's design so that His Son might become incarnate.)

Jesus is the fulfillment and completion of God's eternal plan.

Paul's word of hope is that Christians no longer have to fear the cosmic powers opposing them because those forces have received the news of God's eternal plan — news announcing the sovereignty of God and the eventual elimination of the evil impact of these rulers and authorities.

falls far short of God's eternal plan.

In accordance with the eternal plan of Providence, Mary's divine motherhood is to be poured out upon the Church, as indicated by statements of Tradition, according to which Mary's «motherhood» of the Church is the reflection and extension of themotherhood of the Son of God.

Scripturally Revealing God's Eternal Plan for his Lesser Creatures by Mary Buddemeyer - Porter.