With astonishing boldness, Francis immediately announced the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Sultan, while emphasising that his own concern was
for the eternal salvation of the Muslim leader, who was apparently deeply moved by the Holy Man's courage, enthusiasm, and steadfastness.
The true lights of the Church, those who are most important
for the eternal salvation of mankind as well as of individuals are not the Pope, the bishops or the cardinals in their red cassocks, but those who possess and radiate most faith, hope and love, most humility and unselfishness, most fortitude in carrying the cross, most happiness and confidence.
Israel's passion is not a co-redemptive passion, achieving
for the eternal salvation of souls what is lacking (as concerns application, not merits) in the Savior's sufferings.
Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864) accordingly condemned the proposition: «We should at least have good hopes
for the eternal salvation of those who are in no way in the true Church of Christ.»
Not exact matches
He requires repentance, the stoppage
of sinning as a regular practice, and faith in Christ
for eternal salvation.
Again, the very essence
of eternal salvation is completely by - passed
for a discussion on «warm and fuzzy» family ties.
I will be praying
for Kerry Egan, that she is saved, because with such a lack
of concern
for someones
eternal soul I would question her
salvation ever being real, but if she is saved, then she will have to stand before a Holy God one day at the judgement seat
of Christ and give an account
of what she has done
for Him, I pray that she may yet grab this opportunity she has to change the course
of so many souls, before its too late!
To believe in Jesus
for your
salvation and to have a part in His everlasting Kingdom where sin, death, sorrow, pain, despair, oppression do not exist, and in this life have a moral code that includes loving everyone though not participating in sin and have that hope
of eternal life.
The point is this: Stop thinking that when you share the Four Spiritual Laws, or the Romans Road, or the plan
of salvation, or given an altar call, or invite someone to believe in Jesus
for eternal life, or any
of the other myriad
of things that Christians today call «sharing the gospel,» stop thinking that you have actually shared the Gospel.
First, the person may stop resisting, and submit to what the Holy Spirit is saying, and so, having understood that they are a sinner and in need
of salvation because judgment is coming, they will believe in Jesus Christ
for eternal life.
In Heb 5:9,
salvation is directly equated with one's obedience: «and, once made perfect, he became the source
of eternal salvation for all who OBEY him.»
The Israelites (a type
for Christians) were saved out
of Egypt (the world) and lost their
salvation (
eternal life) in the desert because they stopped believing.
The Bible is so ambiguous, it's not even clear what exactly is required
for its main promise
of eternal salvation, that any
of the good teachings in it are rendered meaningless by the evil teachings that are in it.
Assurance
of salvation is the sure knowledge that I have
eternal life because Jesus guarantees it to everyone who simply believes in Him
for it.
What is decisive
for the Church and hence also
for us Catholics is the ancient teaching, because it is fundamentally ever - new,
for it is what decides our life, our
salvation, our
eternal future and our situation before the judgment seat
of God.
Much
of what the west has long taken
for granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the Christian way
of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to
eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by which to live.
Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that
salvation and the promise
of the resurrection
of the dead and
eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching
for almost 2,000 years??
Calvinist's refute that by quoting the scripture that says those prdestined
for eternal salvation had their names written in the Book
of Lif before the foundation
of the earth.
Christianity is, they might say, a religion
for personal
salvation or
for the preservation
of eternal values.
A study
of Beliefs That Count will provide a fine opportunity
for rethinking our basic Christian beliefs in regard to such doctrines as God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, man, the Bible, the meaning
of sin and
salvation, the kingdom
of God, and
eternal life.
The good news is, that Christ came to planet earth as an atonement
of sins,
for all those that believe in Him and have accepted His plan
of salvation to
eternal life.
We talk so much about personal faith, personal
salvation, and all those things are critical, but I think it's so important that we understand that we're part
of an
eternal relay and we're responsible
for handing over the baton
of faith to our generation.
Man was quite rightly given little encouragement to think that his
eternal salvation could be won by his own unaided efforts,
for it was the gift
of divine grace.
In this way, God qualified him as a perfect High Priest, and he became the source
of ETERNAL salvation for all those who obey him.»
With all true Christians, Baptists profess loyalty to Jesus Christ the Lord, the
eternal Son
of the heavenly Father who «
for us and our
salvation» became man.
Sure, God's
salvation is unspeakably powerful and it is
eternal (meaning that it never ends
for the faithful) but God does not force it upon us if we decide we don't want it
for whatever reason such as the cost
of maintaining it is too high.
Even if we were to grant (
for the sake
of argument only) that God could or would intervene in this way in earthly affairs, God's resurrection
of this one person can not logically support the likelihood
of salvation for the rest
of us: (A) It can not prove that God is able to save us from death and grant us
eternal life; (B) it can not guarantee that God is interested in doing this; and (C) it does not even show that God will forgive our sins.
I was set free in the gospel
of grace and in looking for a Church home, I too was confronted with eternal salvation by the Church Of Chris
of grace and in looking
for a Church home, I too was confronted with
eternal salvation by the Church
Of Chris
Of Christ.
Also thank you
for the revelation about Romans 10:9 which talks about the
salvation over the power
of sin rather than
eternal life.
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?
It was an event in the history
of salvation, in the realm
of eternity..., in an analogous way, history comes to an end in the religious experience
of any Christian «who is in Christ»...
For although the advent
of Christ is an historical event which happened «once» in the past, it is, at the same time, an
eternal event which occurs again and again in the soul
of any Christian.»
Why try to change a world that is so obviously
of inferior spiritual significance compared with the
salvation of eternal souls
for heaven?
She believed in Jesus
for eternal life, and He gave it to her, and full and free forgiveness came along as part
of that
salvation package.
But John 5.28 - 29 suggests that in some way works are effecting the
salvation of the individual
for eternal life and from
eternal death.
Following Bonhoeffer's exposition
of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition
of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn
of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness)
for which one must pray
for laborers; the call
of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers
of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men
of the urgency
of the times); the suffering
of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's
eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth
for the devil or
for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «
salvation of the Church»).41
Rather, Waldstein has in mind a world in which «spiritual and temporal authority cooperated together within a single social whole
for the establishment
of an earthly peace, ordered to
eternal salvation.»
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Boyd also reveals a basic misunderstanding
of other key ideas as well, such as the term «
salvation,» the requirements
for eternal life, and the concepts
of great faith, small faith, etc..
about the
eternal life in God; nor does anything point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition
for the achievement
of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions
for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving
for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree with the opinion that where there are no conditions
of life worthy
of man one can not even speak
of salvation today.
We are saved through the appropriation
of this revelation,
for salvation, or «
eternal life.»
The Holy Synod
of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content
of salvation solidly within the perspective
of the ultimate goal
of salvation... the
eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation
of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation
of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish
of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering
for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems
of the day.»
And I understand why they want to do this —
for the sake
of the unity
of the church — but I think that if we lose or sidestep the truths
of eternal security and assurance
of salvation, then we have pretty much lost most
of the gospel — we have pretty much lost the battle
for the truth
of the Gospel.
The history
of salvation as it consummates in Christ, must be presented as an organic whole, in which «all things do hold together» in Christ» (Col. 1:17) and in which the personal, authoritative revelation
of a personal and transcendent God comes to its fulness in the Incarnation
of God, personally in the
Eternal Word, made esh
for us men, and
for our
salvation.
The one reference that didn't work
for me was 2 Timothy 2:10 (NIV) «Therefore I endure everything
for the sake
of the elect, that they too may obtain the
salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with
eternal glory.»
In order to accomplish this
salvation of those whom He had previously chosen, God sent Jesus to die specifically and only
for the sins
of those whom He had chosen so that they might have
eternal life (Limited Atonement).
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.
Second, the rigidity
of his hierarchy as an ontological plan
for creation might sometimes lend itself to the idea that the Incarnation
of the
eternal Word was superfluous — all grace flows naturally through the ranks, from the divine Word at the peak on down to the faithful: the Incarnation
of the Logos does act as a theophany — arevelation
of God — but it seems hardly necessary
for salvation.
Here the metaphor
of «
salvation» describes that end
for which «
eternal life» was used in the previous verse.
Not that God grants them
eternal life or
salvation, then takes it away when they become old enough to be accountable, it merely means that there exists a conditional form
of grace
for children that God will redeem them if they die (Deuteronomy 1:39, 2 Samuel 12:16 - 23)
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