Sentences with phrase «eternal purpose as»

Take the following statement: «Nothing so hinders the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose as does the present - day pastoral role» (p. 137).

Not exact matches

As Augustine argued in the City of God, the fall of the eternal city, or any city on a hill, does not mean the failure of history's purpose and humanity's flourishing.

So you see Keith you are special created for a purpose in this stage of transit test life... as true life is the eternal life that which comes after death on resurrection and Judgment day... God Bless

(Matt 5:3) The universe and all life is evidence that someone who is surpassingly greater than us exists and we as humans are an essential part of his «eternal purpose».

Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to create man in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose of destroying evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.

However Heb 5:9 is pretty clear cut as the words eternal and salvation are conflated in this verse which I think for all practical purposes equates to eternal life.

He considers the team a training ground to learn how to care for others and find joy and purpose in investing in eternal things, such as sharing the gospel of Jesus with others.

One of those purposes is its ultimate dissolution, after which comes the eternal abode, as we are told in many places in the Qur» an.

Unless this is realized I we shall be thrown back on Socrates, and shall then have neither the God as Teacher, nor an Eternal Purpose, nor the Moment.

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

The Bible clearly lays the answers to the foundational questions as it relates to origins, life, meaning, purpose and eternal life.

Regarding knowledge of possibility, we can, for present purposes, avoid discussing the well - known difference between Whitehead and Hartshorne as to whether God has a primordial vision of all eternal objects (possibility), as Whitehead asserts, or whether God derives eternal objects from the world, as Hartshorne does.

But can we agree on the last statement of the quoted paragraph regarding man — the idea that «in him as a person all the moral ends of the universe and all the movement of God's eternal purpose find meaning»?

Asked on the call how his faith had shaped his success as a businessman and his political career, the presidential candidate spoke about «a conviction that life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus Christ and his purposes.»

Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to serve God in a specific task, but this does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere in Scripture has nothing to do with whether or not someone has eternal life, but has everything to do with what role God wants them to serve in His plans and purposes for the world.

For example Frank constantly emphasizes the eternal purpose to the extent that anyone who does nt grasp and understand it as he does has missed the whole point of the bible and body life.

I do believe that a big picture view of the eternal purposes of God is vital for understanding our rule as the people of God.

As long as we think of this Word as the expression of God's underlying character or eternal purpose, we overlook its contingent relatedness to the evolving worlAs long as we think of this Word as the expression of God's underlying character or eternal purpose, we overlook its contingent relatedness to the evolving worlas we think of this Word as the expression of God's underlying character or eternal purpose, we overlook its contingent relatedness to the evolving worlas the expression of God's underlying character or eternal purpose, we overlook its contingent relatedness to the evolving world.

Yet it remains the fact that there is a movement forward, and the Christian declaration is that in this, the hand of God is to be discerned as He leads His children to a deeper understanding of His nature and of His purpose for them, thereby enriching their lives and giving them the assurance that if they seek Him they will find life eternal.

The work of the Eternal Word of God, present in men spermatically, as Justin Martyr for example put it, offered this possibility of salvation, so that the historical accident of having lived after Jesus or having heard about Him was not the necessary condition of the salvation which God purposed for His human children.

For the church as authority it should be said that the church at the heart of its being is the embodiment of the eternal purpose of God in human history.

Third, it is noteworthy that in Man's Vision of God Hartshorne distinguishes between God's «purpose as laid down before all the worlds, or rather before each and every world» — which is part of God's eternal and unchanging aspect — and «the more and more particular purposes which mark the approach to, and..., the achievements of purpose which mark arrival at, any given point of time» (MVG 237, my italics).

As Whitehead put it: «Evil is the brute motive force of fragmentary purpose, disregarding the eternal vision» (SMW 192).

They couched the promise of eternal life (in other words the terms to receive eternal life, which is faith into Jesus Christ in His promise) in the message of the gospel, which has as one of its purposes, to persuade and convince its hearers that Jesus Christ is worthy, sufficient, authoratative, qualified, and trustworthy to receive our faith in for eternal life.

so all they need to do is show up, PLEASE the manager and they are safe too, no matter how bad results are, the one thing that matters to them is PLEASING the untouchable man and they can keep getting their fat weekly cheques whilst flopping on the field... a new manager will gut half of this squad because frankly they are not fit foe purpose... its even more annoying when you see how open this year's league is and how ita possible foe them to win it even as useless and spineless as they are, but we really underestimate just how gutless and totally useless and spineless these eternal losers are....

Rosina races through the streets of Prescott, an eternal loner, the only brown girl in town who doesn't hang out with the other brown girls, as if she's trying to stand out on purpose, her spiky black hair snaking through the air, earbuds in her ears, listening to those wild women that made music in towns and cities so close to here but practically a whole generation ago, those brave girls with boots and electric guitars, singing with voices made out of moss and rocks and rainstorms.