Sentences with phrase «find salvation for»

Yet the only God worth worshiping does not require that we lie, sacrifice critical thinking, or believe nonsense to find salvation for selves or civilizations.

Not exact matches

Though critics over the years have labeled him any number of things — anarchist, socialist, even Marxist — make no mistake, Mackey is a true believer in (mostly unfettered) free enterprise, and his love for it is like that of a convert who finds salvation later in life.

Um... actually, if you check your Catholic history, you will find that for centuries the Catholics enforced their brand of salvation at the point of the sword.

so in your spare time of denial read Romans chapter 10 verses 9 thru 13 and give your life to Jesus Christ the one and only God that gave his life for all mankind, rich or poor that we may be forgiven of our sins and have power over the devil, and help the lost to find their way to salvation through the power of the Holy Spirit... so rebuke the devil and be free, give your life to Christ so you can begin to sleep at night... I love you all with the love of Jesus Christ...

Watch and pray for the day of wrath is at hand that you be found in Christ as one of His chosen people; a chosen sinner trusting in Christ alone for the salvation of the soul.

the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...

You can not find salvation at deaths door without really believeing to start with otherwise you are just trying to hedge your bets and if GOD does exist do you really think he'll fall for that one?

She was peaceful for the first time during her last stage of illness, NOT because she got to talk one last time about the love from her family but by talking about her salvation she found through Jesus.

The non-existent god I don't believe in doesn't save the day, their is no «salvation for the christians», but maybe, in the late afternoon sunlight, while tracking a dust mote through the air, it might be that human invention of «god» was an attempt to take away «sin» so that we could find the beautiful, and ethical, and loving within ourselves and others.

I find this to be an insufficient conclusion, because they usually simply want to make the point that it's not essential for salvation.

, the rich must find their salvation and escape from the judgment to come by giving up their wealth (which they or their parents acquired by robbing the poor) and joining the struggle for liberation.

The fact that others have found salvation through other figures does not reduce Jesus» importance for us.

Sigurd Daecke finds anthropocentrism to be deeply embedded in Protestant theologies of creation reaching back to Luther («I believe that God has created me») and Calvin (nature is the stage for salvation history) and finding a twentieth - century home in the humanistic individualism of Bultmann as well as the Christocentrism of Barth («the reality of creation is known in Jesus Christ»)(see Daecke).

Once we establish the idea that Eden was perfect, rather than it being Good and at best, Very Good, we begin a frantic journey of a restoration of perfection and salvation is finding a way to forgive fallen broken creation for its lapse from perfection so we can be loved by «God» again.

That the «brethren» or leaders of the church do nt just speak for God, but speak plenty of their own rubbish that is for our «salvation and stuff»... I removed the religious blinders and found a wonderful world that is not plagued by guilt, remorse, doubt or fear that I may not be doing what God wants me to do.

it is in the message of the prophets that we first meet this conception, for it is in their message that we find the idea of a future act of God which will be decisive for the salvation of the people in a way in which his past acts on their behalf were not.

Undoubtedly a certain insight was promoted in regard to such questions as how the papal primacy and the episcopacy founded by Christ can exist and work together in the Church, how the necessity of the Church for salvation is compatible with the possibility of salvation of a human being who does not belong to it, how in the realm of grace each of the regenerate can depend on every other and so above all on Mary, while there is nevertheless only one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ.

From Origen's hope that salvation will eventually be received by all, to Karl Rahner's assertion that other religions can serve as pointers to Christ, to Clark Pinnock's biblical case for a more optimistic view of salvation, I've found that tucked away in the dusty corners of Christian libraries is a wealth of scholarship on the subject.

Even if we can not pray for some of these goals with much affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are praying.

I don't believe they met «for sudden salvation» in case things got critical, but rather because they sought the comfort that they found in studying the Bible.

We can probably find some point of disagreement that would cause us to not get along but theology will never be one of them because, like you, I don't consider any brand of orthodoxy to be necessary for salvation.

What Hitler had claimed and gotten from the German people was precisely the acknowledgment that the truth for them was found «apart from and beside the one Word of God» — in the Nazi Party — and that it was in «other events and powers, figures and truths» — in the Nazi ideology, rise to power and leaders — that Germany's salvation was located.

The most obvious conclusion (and I'm sure Jesus was not trying to trick us or obscure his meaning) is that people who thought they were Christians and did «Christian» works are surprised to find out that they did not qualify for salvation.

Yet the Church knows that it is sacrament and testimony, not for its own salvation, but for that of the world, that it serves the God of the Covenant (which is the Church) by permitting and confessing him to be greater than itself, so that the grace of which the Church is the enduring sign is victoriously offered by God even to those who have not yet found the visible Church and who nevertheless already, without realizing it, live by its Spirit, the Holy Spirit of the love and mercy of God.

They came to find salvation or they came to get rich, or, often enough, for both reasons in some combination not even clear to the individuals themselves.

For all that, he was as such still distinguished in the eyes of his disciples from the many lesser teachers of salvation who lived and worked around him, for he claimed to be the first — without a «model» — to have found this salvatiFor all that, he was as such still distinguished in the eyes of his disciples from the many lesser teachers of salvation who lived and worked around him, for he claimed to be the first — without a «model» — to have found this salvatifor he claimed to be the first — without a «model» — to have found this salvation.

I find the argument about being «chosen» for service but not for salvation possible, but not compelling.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

Pray for the salvation of Muslims by finding who Jesus is.

How can anyone possibly know for certain that you've found the «right» religion while not experiencing the others that millions upon millions of others find to be their salvation?

I have asked God for clear understanding on baptism MANY times and still find myself in a pickle over it so conclusion is «do what they that were mentioned as saved did» I already TRUST IN CHRIST as my savior, knowing I can not earn my salvation by works or deeds.

For me in reading this post, I think the problem with with «proper steps» and not with «how to find salvation».

A Response to Responses») writes: «Today the uniqueness of Jesus can be found in his insistence that salvation or the Reign of God must be realised in this world through human actions of love and justice, with a special concern for the victims of oppression or exploitation.»

If we accept these teachings, we will find it unlikely that everyone fulfills the conditions for salvation.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

For people like Doug and Linda Hill, church involvement was relevant for at least three reasons: it would help the «haves» to behave more compassionately, it would help the «have nots» take greater responsibility for their own lives, and both groups would find the divine salvation that would cure their poverty of spirFor people like Doug and Linda Hill, church involvement was relevant for at least three reasons: it would help the «haves» to behave more compassionately, it would help the «have nots» take greater responsibility for their own lives, and both groups would find the divine salvation that would cure their poverty of spirfor at least three reasons: it would help the «haves» to behave more compassionately, it would help the «have nots» take greater responsibility for their own lives, and both groups would find the divine salvation that would cure their poverty of spirfor their own lives, and both groups would find the divine salvation that would cure their poverty of spirit.

Seeing himself a sinner who fell infinitely «short of the glory of God,» the salvation that Luther found through the redeeming death of Jesus Christ was for him a sheer gift of the most unmerited grace.

«Be like newborn babies, crying out for spiritual milk that will help you grow into salvation if you have tasted and found the Lord to be good» — 1 Peter 2:2 - 3.

If this is your position, then there is no salvation to be found for LGBT folk?

Let's not forget we were forwarned about this day, and the very Word of God this man is talking about fortold us: 2 Pteter: 3 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

There is no doubt at all that we find it in the historical Christendom which abandoned the real futurist eschatology of the New Testament and internalized human salvation, at the same time banishing the future of God to a world beyond this one, so that redemption is no longer seen in the kingdom of God, the «new heaven and the new earth,» but now only in the saving of the individual soul for the heaven of the blessed.

Secularism is forcing Catholics and Protestants to find common cause in a battle for their own survival, and against a secularism that promises a happiness and salvation it can not deliver.

However, wherever this is true, a submission to it's authority, proper and accurate interpretation of it's contents, and an uncontested exaltation for it's central message — salvation in Jesus Christ — is found.

One can not find any convincing proofs that, for such persons, the positive value of their religion in assuring their salvation was done away with after Jesus Christ.

Paul loved his Gentiles more than livelihood, went to any lengths to serve them, and found his message for them constantly expanding and deepening in its appreciation of what God had done for their salvation in Christ.

Above all, it is good and necessary for Christian people to pray together, as well as to pray privately, to come together regularly and faithfully in order to receive grace for daily living, to praise God, to thank him, to intercede before him, and to find in him their truest «joy and salvation.»

If we could have made it to heaven by living a good life then Jesus would not have had to die on the cross to make a way for us to find salvation?

One should also appreciate the fact that though an institution founded by Christian Missions, considering the inter-religious character of the academic community of the college, the founders emphasized the Christian «values» of self - giving service to the poor and concern for the whole person rather than Christian salvation, thereby somewhat separating the common «culture» and values of humanism of academic community of the college, from the Christian «religion» and thus relatively secularizing it to keep the academic community free from discrimination on the basis of religion.

In the end though as I prayed to find the one true God and asked him to save my soul by His grace for His glory and my salvation.

Their founder was Peter Waldo, a rich merchant of Lyons who, seeking salvation, in 1176 took to heart the advice of Jesus to the rich young ruler, paid off his creditors, provided for his wife and children, gave the remainder to the poor, began begging his daily bread, and traversed the countryside and the cities preaching the Gospel as he found it in a vernacular translation of the New Testament.