Sentences with phrase «eternal truth in»

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).

Liberal scholars looked for culture - affirming eternal truths in scripture and otherwise deconstructed the canonical text into historical - critical fragments.

Not exact matches

My question is this... If you are going to go in and share in what may seem lovely sentimentalities and veer away from the DIVINE eternal truth of God, why go in as a chaplain - a minister - just go in as a social worker or a volunteer.

In Christianity, immanence recedes, nay, it is consumed, and the individual stands face to face with the Paradox, with the eternal truth that was revealed in timIn Christianity, immanence recedes, nay, it is consumed, and the individual stands face to face with the Paradox, with the eternal truth that was revealed in timin time.

For the unshakeable truth of all of history is that «God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»

There are likely hundreds (maybe thousands) of truths in the gospel which help prepare a person to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

If you confuse purification gospel truths with the presentation truth, then you might think it is necessary for a person to repent of their sin or believe in the future judgments in order to receive eternal life.

Only one theological position has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and that once a person has received eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.

On one level Jesus heals a cripple, opens the eyes of the blind or raises the dead, but on another level he reveals a truth about life eternal which God makes available in Jesus Christ.

Ro 2 6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well - doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self - seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

When you invite a person to believe in Jesus for eternal life, it is unlikely they will do so unless they know some other gospel truths as well.

From search for wealth and power and scorn of truth and right, from trust in bombs that shower destruction through the night, from pride of race and nation and blindness to your way, deliver every nation, eternal God, we pray!

So likewise the «existential» truth of Eternal Recurrence shatters the power of the old order of history, transforming transcendence into immanence, and thereby making eternity incarnate in every Now.

I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference between how to receive eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ alone for it), and the logical and theological foundations for that truth (deity of Jesus, death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).

They're eternal principles rooted in a common grace that values liberty based in humble restraint and freedom that springs from knowing a single truth.

She has seen that Elisha is in truth a prophet of the Eternal.

Dr S Radhakrishnan, however, adds that «The rishis are not so much the authors of the truths recorded in the Vedas as the seers who were able to discern the eternal truths by raising their life spirit to the plane of the universal spirit.»

Those who could acknowledge in faith its claim to possessing the eternal truths could become members of the institution by baptism.

There is nothing here about how to know that you have eternal life, but there is much truth here about how to know whether or not you are truly following Jesus in discipleship.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

Is God's Final Judgment one of «eternal» hell for mankind who didn't repent while here on earth... despite the fact that Jesus said, «It is finished»... and Jesus «wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth»... and Jesus is «our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.»

They will need to learn that the body of Christ is of great faith - building benefit from the cradle to the grave, the Word of God is not just a book full of good ideas to live by, Jesus isn't just a good friend to have in a pinch — He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life — the only way to the Father and eternal life.

He wants everyone to come to a knowledge of the truth, and calls everyone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, which is possible through the will.

Take, for example, Jürgen Moltmann's (b. 1926) view of creation as the expression of «God's self - communicative love» or Wolfhart Pannenberg's (b. 1928) rich treatment of the Paschal events confirming for us the eternal truth that Jesus is the obedient Son, the Father is the Ruler of all, and the Spirit is active always and everywhere, including in death.

I would be willing to be patient and pray that theists will have the supernatural reality of God and truth revealed in love, grace and mercy... before it is too late for their eternal calling.

«I have simply tried in my own way», he said, «to apply the eternal truth to our daily life and problems».

But when we understand that the gospel contains both truths, about how to receive eternal life and properly live this life, then we can stop arguing about the role of faith and works in the gospel and see that both have their proper place with proper results.

In the end, Paul's message in the first half of his letter to the Romans points to one single truth: Because God has done everything necessary as far as our eternal life is concerned, there is absolutely nothing we (or anyone or anything else) can do to lose our eternal life once we have iIn the end, Paul's message in the first half of his letter to the Romans points to one single truth: Because God has done everything necessary as far as our eternal life is concerned, there is absolutely nothing we (or anyone or anything else) can do to lose our eternal life once we have iin the first half of his letter to the Romans points to one single truth: Because God has done everything necessary as far as our eternal life is concerned, there is absolutely nothing we (or anyone or anything else) can do to lose our eternal life once we have it.

The one that merely fears the punishment, for him it can not remain eternally true, for there is nothing eternal in him, since the Eternal can only be in him if he wills the Good ineternal in him, since the Eternal can only be in him if he wills the Good inEternal can only be in him if he wills the Good in truth.

The contradiction of our hypothesis is that man receives the condition in the Moment, the same condition which, since it is requisite for the understanding of the eternal Truth, is eo ipso an eternal condition.

God, after an, did not assume the guise of a remote Rabbi who simply declared the principles of eternal truth, but in the Son he compassionately entered into the life of ordinary people and declared to them what God's Word meant to them.

Jesus» truth will have you find all the emotions of man and if you stick with it, becoming a true Christian that follows Jesus» truth takes courage and conviction, not baby feel good hypocrisy to make you a whiner stewing in your sins that leads you to the eternal fires.

I think some things are quite clear in Scripture, such as that truth that eternal life is by faith alone in Jesus Christ.

Of course, for most people, before they can ever believe in Jesus for eternal life, they need to have other beliefs about themselves, the existence and nature of God, and some other biblical truths.

Certainly there have always been those Christians who have understood their faith solely in spiritual or personal terms, who have thought of Christianity as the guardian of eternal truths and timeless values in a world of change and decay.

But in any case, the book is a matchless treasury of Christian devotion cast in moving biography, full of such vivifying truth as the meaning of eternal life and the coming of the Spirit, the promised Comforter.

Standing as a permanent sacrament of the Transfiguration, it draws forward the old city into the new and eternal city of beauty — a city in which truth, justice, and beauty embrace in God — a city on which all men and women (whether they know it or not) have already set their hearts.

5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)

«We are secretly in a close connection with the eternal truth and love, even if we ourselves are not aware of it.»

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.

What you are saying might have some truth in it if we evolved; But since we were created by a thrice holy God, that told us about marrying, who: (marry whom you will, only in the Lord), and how: (Thou shalt not lay with mankind as with womankind), then in order to please him: (Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life...) we have to abstain from this.

It must, by an eternal separation, cut off the heterogeneous from itself in order that it may in truth continue to be one and the same thing and thereby fashion that man who only wills one thing into conformity with itself.

The Enlightenment sought to emancipate the eternal ideas of reason from the cloak of historical tradition, to lay them bare in their stark purity and truth, and to do away with every bit of mythological sense — or, from their standpoint, nonsense.

Theologian Paul Tillich, for example, suggests that theological thought continually moves in a dialectical tension between two poles — «the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal...

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But since Jesus does not lie, we can know Jesus is telling the truth in the Gospel of John when He promises eternal life to all who believe in Him for it.

What this means is that when Paul talks about blindness and the veil in 2 Corinthians 2 — 3, he is not talking primarily about how a person receives eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ, but about all the other truths of the gospel which are contained in the rest of Scripture, and which are centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

As for myself, I believe that Jesus was speaking the truth and that I have eternal life through faith in Him, no matter what.

So the reason I believe in eternal hell is because I believe some, unfortunately, will in fact persist in refusing grace, and be lost forever, and that this sad truth has been revealed to us.

The Pope goes on to enlarge upon this «foundational» truth: «This infinite and eternal love enables us to respond by giving all our love in return: love for God and love for neighbour.