Sentences with phrase «from eternity»

Perhaps some primal chaos also existed from all eternity.

That is the faith, the full, whole evangelical faith — election from eternity.

Saint John Paul indicates that life lived in obedience to Christ forms a part of «the mystery hidden from eternity in God and revealed to mankind in Jesus».8 We can say with St Paul, as he indicates earlier in the same letter: «We are God's work of art, created in Christ Jesus to live the good life as from the beginning he had meant us to live it» (Eph 2:10).

Paul shows that all those whom God foreknew from eternity past will ultimately and finally be glorified with God in eternity future.

-- Lesya Khyzhnyak from Eternity of Dream.

got ta love the humility of the church... «we have the power to decide by who, how and when someone can be saved from an eternity in hell... just don't miss the window that we set — ONE WEEK ONLY — ONE LOCATION — OUR ABORTION FORGIVENESS RATES CA N'T BE BEAT!!»

Foreknowledge is not God's plan from all eternity about whom to give eternal life.

let me try that again: FATHER HAS BEEN AT IT A LONG TIME AND THE PERFECT FATHER FROM ETERNITY!

Thomas admits a contingency in events, but, like Spinoza's use of freedom, all events are still foreseen from eternity as happening.

For God knows from all eternity just what action will be taken under whatever circumstances.

When discussing Calvinism with Calvinists, there are two texts that are almost always brought up in defense of God's right to do anything He wants with people, even if it means deciding from all eternity to send billions of them to everlasting punishment in hell.

This view obviously conflicts with the understanding of the future that has been espoused by classical theologians, for the traditional view is that God foreknows from all eternity the future exclusively as a domain of exhaustively definite facts.

Paul's point in Romans 8 is that God determined from eternity past to bring us to glorification despite our many weaknesses and failures.

It also comes from within by reducing stress, getting enough sleep, healthy diet, and keeping women happy; by that give them not just gifts like the preserved gold and silver roses from Eternity Rose or a ring, but also respect and especially love.

Election (according to Calvinists, anyway) is the decision from all eternity about who would receive eternal life.

Determinism (in connection with God, anyway) is God's decision from all eternity what every single action and event would be.

First, it is important to note that in the surrounding context, there is nothing anywhere about some sovereign decree of God regarding whom He has chosen from eternity past to redeem and reconcile to Himself in eternity future.

Most practising Christians, I would suggest, think of angels as supernatural beings who from all eternity have existed to sing God's praises in heaven.

Time does not exist apart from eternity's embrace.

In mythological language, this means that he stems from eternity, his origin is not a human and natural one.

The elect were not only chosen in Christ from all eternity, they were actually justified before they were born, quite apart from repentance, faith, and a personal response to Christ and the gospel.

God knows the outcomes from all eternity not because there is some secret pattern in the sequence of outcomes that allows him to compute the outcome of one roll from the outcomes of prior rolls.

Paul wanted them to know that God knew all about these things from eternity past, and it didn't stop Him from initiating His plan to rescue and redeem the world, and since God predestined such a plan, He will take care of everything necessary to bring it to completion, which will result in our glorification (cf. Romans 8:31 - 39).

Instead of knowing from all eternity everything that will happen, God needs only know events as they occur.

Only one Person is eternal from eternity past, and that is God Himself.

It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it» (TOB 19:4).

It extends from eternity into time.

Sin did not force the hand of God, who willed from all eternity that we should share in His divine life, feed on Him in the Eucharist and enjoy with Him the bliss of heaven.

The exhibition also features works from the Eternity series by XU ZHEN ®, which are sculptural amalgamations of Eastern and Western art.

The Father begets the Son from eternity, the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, etc..

For them, the Incarnation was not an afterthought but is The Mystery at the heart of God's creative purpose hidden in the Father's heart from all eternity and revealed in Christ in the fullness of time.

The Philadelphia Confession of Faith, echoing the Westminster Confession, rejected it plainly: «God did from all eternity decree to justify all the elect... nevertheless, they are not justified personally until the Holy Spirit doth in due time actually apply Christ unto them.»

Anyone who has read Collins's book, however, should realize that Collins absolutely and unequivocally holds the belief that God knows all events from all eternity.

It is also in line with the Christian theory of the Logos which distinguishes the Word which was from eternity with God and was God from the Word which appeared in a temporal manifestation in the form of Christ.

It is not that, for example, believers found it convenient to compare the pelican to Christ, but that one of the reasons why God from all eternity created the pelican was precisely that it should be a sign of Christ.»

The bible can only be interpreted by itself and context in which it is written, some things changing with culture and others that reach across every generation and time span from eternity to eternity.

God only died for His, predestined elect family from eternity past.

Father, Son and Spirit are determined that the circle of love they share from all eternity should be ceaselessly, shamelessly inclusive.

We see that God's primordial nature so orders the eternal objects that one such possibility is indeed from eternity identified as the ideal given that situation.

If God is as the Calvinist insists, then they are right: we mere humans can not question God's judgment or challenge His choices from eternity past to choose some for redemption and others for reprobation.