Sentences with phrase «eternal presence of»

«Eternal life is not what begins after temporal life; it is the eternal presence of the totality of life.»

In short we were created with the ability to be thankful without limit for the wonder before us which is the eternal presence of God.

As the continued presence of active lawbreaking and unappeased rulers rebels against the concept of a perfected society, so the eternal presence of sin and an unappeased God rebels against the concept of a perfected cosmos.

Not exact matches

Jesus» presence in this sense, in distinction from the presence of the Risen Lord or the Eternal Son, is rarely asserted clearly in traditional theology.

Death is the absence of eternal life and eternal life is only that which exists in Christ (in the presence of God).

I would not presume to spell out the precise eternal consequences of that presence or absence — that is God's business, not ours — but it strikes me (the Missouri influence again) that those consequences can not be tamely domesticated to our specifications.

They suggest that the same eternal principle may be recognized in other great spiritual teachers such as the Buddha and Lord Krishna, and that too exclusive a focus on Jesus is liable to ignore the evidence of God's presence in the other great faith traditions of the world.

Perhaps we can never manage perfectly such a juggling act, but we need to try — to think of human beings both as bodies, for whom the relentless succession of hours and days leads surely to the grave, and as God - aimed spirits, whose every moment is lived in the presence of the Eternal.

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

For every moment of life is lived in the presence of the Eternal, in every moment of life we are «advancing either to Heaven or to Hell,» and those high stakes are played out in the most mundane of decisions.

His theme is life eternal, that is to say, in eschatological language, the life of the Age to Come, but life eternal as realized here and now through the presence of Christ by His Spirit in the Church.

He recognizes the God of the fathers as the eternal Thou, and he understands the present revelation of God as the assurance of His future presence.

In the first place, praying for God's help reminds us that we are not in control of the world or even of our own life, while reminding us that we are living in the presence of an infinite and eternal being.

From Matt: Revelation 14:9 - 11 portrays the eternal torment of the condemned as taking place «in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb» (14:10).

As the Christian Church makes memorial of Christ's life and work, bringing these from the past into the present; as through that memorial, it pleads before God the wonder of the self - offering which Christ made on Calvary; as the communicants know the presence of Christ brought from heavenly places into their heart of hearts — so they are in communion with Him, and with God and man through Him, the communion which is Life Eternal.

This mutual immediacy consists of God's eternal presence which forever participates in the world of perpetual flux.

Whitehead's proposal suggests that the power of rationality expressed through God's eternal presence in the world possesses the capacity to influence humanity toward the realization of the good.

God did not create sin, His purity prohibits any tolerance of sin in His eternal presence, and His perfect righteousness requires Him to punish sin.

If you believe that the presence of ongoing sin in a person's life causes them to lose their eternal life, you might be a legalist.

Comparable in its depth is the great Penitential, probably the most poignant expression ever written of man's sense of his unworthiness in presence of the eternal realities in which he exists:

This enormously transforms his perspective upon the present life, less through hope of future reward or fear of punishment than through a sense of the enhanced worthfulness of the present as preparatory to eternal life in the presence of God.

Jesus is the eternal priest of the order of Melchizedek, superior to Aaron and his sons, who opens a way into the Father's presence.

Yeah, so you're an average American «feeling» the presence of a middle - eastern sky god giving you love and the promise of eternal life if you blindly belief he «sacrificed» his son so he could resurrect himself to save his creation from an eternal damnation he created.

It may well be true that the whole meaning of eschatology is for us fulfilled in the revelation in Christ — that is, in the active presence in Christ as known within the church — of the eternal order, the kingdom of God: the Fourth Gospel has some such conception.

Concern with material continuity also fed theological and artistic speculation about the fate of cut fingernails and hair, the condition and presence of genitals, the age and stature of the resurrected body, the bodies of the saints, the fate of relics, whether bodies in hell are reassembled as completely as those given eternal life and how and whether digested body parts are regurgitated at the resurrection.

In the opening verses of the Fourth Gospel, for example, we are in the presence of the Logos — the outgoing of eternal God in the creation of his world and the salvation of his people.

That the Eternal, the Infinite, the Incomprehensible should make decisions, that he should be confronted by an Either / Or, that he should grant or withhold his presence, that he should show grace or wrath, that in other words God has a history, that there is a story of personal encounter between him and man: these are things a philosopher could never admit.

I submit that the real pastoral task is to stand up boldly, even if embarrassedly, in the middle of all this and dare to proclaim as clearly and sensitively and faithfully as we know how the gospel of Jesus Christ: that these tacky, romantic, transitory moments are redeemed by his loving presence in our midst and thereby given eternal significance.

The real pastoral task is to stand up boldly, even if embarrassedly, in the middle of all these tacky, romantic, transitory moments in so many weddings and dare to proclaim as clearly and sensitively and faithfully as we know how that through the gospel of Jesus Christ we are redeemed by his loving presence in our midst, and there by we give the wedding eternal significance.

Theandrism is religion itself, that is to say, the eternal relationship between man and God, the presence of the One to the human spirit.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

On the contrary, he is a child of God capable of eternal life, of sharing God's own presence and power.

She was standing in the presence of God's eternal life personified in the human Jesus.

«We recognise that just as all truth rests in the Word of God, through whom all things were made and through Whom all thing will come to their completion, so too the construction of a true human ecology can only be achieved in relationship to the Word -LSB-...] we can see and sense the echoing of that eternally spoken Word in so much of the created world around us -LSB-... which Word is] expressed in all those actions and events which make up the history of salvation -LSB-...] we recognise most centrally that this eternal Word of God, in whom all things makes sense, finds flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth who then becomes its fullest expression and true presence in the world -LSB-...] the centre of true human ecology is the person of Christ.»

He has entered into the very presence of God in eternal and definitive communion.

the whole world being at peace, Jesus Christ, eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to consecrate the world by his most loving presence, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and when nine months had passed since his conception, was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judah, and was made man:

Psalm 16:11 reminds me though... You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

A highlight for many at this year's San Sebastian - Donostia film festival was the presence of screenwriting ace Charlie Kaufman, who notably wrote such idiosyncratic gems as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The ideas include the eternal ongoing presence of the worker to sustain and promote living.»

Signed, titled and dated 1962 +1965 on the reverse «All primitive expression reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear, a recognition and acceptance of the brutality of the natural world as well as the eternal insecurity of life.»

(eternal energy flow) In the presence of gravity?

(eternal energy transfer) In the presence of extreme gravity?

GOD»S Spiritual Blessings: Forgiveness and Life in CHRIST; HIS Eternal WORD; our Loving BIBLE Church GOD»S Blessings of family: my Loving, devoted husband of 39 years; our married children; and precious grandbabies GOD»S Blessings of Home a warm and comfortable place of belonging; a country where we have personal freedoms; our Eternal home that is being prepared for us in HIS PRESENCE