Sentences with phrase «future fulfillment of his promises»

Yahweh graciously promised the Hebrews their own home and high status among the nations if they on their part would but put their trust in him and in the future fulfillment of his promises.

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And believers in revelation feel a trusting responsibility to the universe itself to allow the promise of fulfillment to lure them forward into the future.

The deposit of revelation is said to be finished or fixed, but this can be a salvific teaching only if it means that there is sufficient evidence in our past history to convince us that we live within the horizon of a promise which by its nature always looks to the future for fulfillment.

Does not the entire «Christian era» provide one great testimony that the fulfillment of the prophetic promises is still a vision of the future?

But it is the «word of God» that interprets these events and allows us to see in them a promise of future fulfillment.

To those who object that happiness is impossible in a present that always looks to the future for fulfillment, revelation proposes that the kind of happiness most pertinent to the «now» is precisely the awareness of promise in every present situation.

What stands out is that revelation comes in the mode of a promise of future fulfillment to which we can relate only by adopting the posture of hope.

The image of a promising God who meets us Out of the mysterious future subverts the archaic religious instinct to seek fulfillment in nature or in the present moment alone, or in an escape from history into timelessness.

In the history of Israel, as we saw earlier, the ultimate mystery of the universe is grasped primarily by way of the narration of historical events that promise future fulfillment.

These exhibitions engage with and play upon various readings of promise as simultaneously anticipating a future and its fulfillment or lack thereof, as well as a kind of inevitability, either positive or negative.