Sentences with phrase «holiness means»

And yet at the same time holiness means above all else that Yahweh keeps close to Israel, that he could not abandon them without denying himself.

Just as omniscience means that all existence is regarded as intelligible, so holiness means that all action is involved in some moral order and that every moral achievement, however worthy, stands under a higher judgment.

Christian holiness means to be like God.

These remarks do describe the effects of holiness, but I am far from convinced that they tell us what holiness means for the priestly writers of Leviticus.

But holiness means purity and you can't be 99 % pure and just have a little dirt.

That is to say, anything holy was dangerous to meddle with, and, far from having ethical connotation, holiness meant unapproachableness.

From this perspective, the disciple of the Lesser Vehicle must seem to be an egotist — «what does his holiness mean to me, if he is holy only for himself,» asks Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara, the ethical mirror of Mahayana.

Not exact matches

The marks of the Catholic church are: One - In doctrine, sacraments, and head (the pope); Holy - its sacraments and teachings lead men to holiness; Universal - meaning the same doctrine and sacraments and head throughout the world; and Apostolic - can be directly traced to the Apostles and Jesus Christ.

That said, those who ARE looking for something apart from empiricism and existentialism, those who are looking for some purpose and meaning to existence, need to see authenticity and integrity in the church i.e holiness.

John Paul saw how women can continue Christ's selfless love in a way that teaches the world the meaning of holiness and true human happiness.

Holiness, to me, means committing every area of my life — from sex, to food, to time, to work — to the lordship of Jesus.

He sped up saint - making in 1983, a move meant to lift up contemporary role models of holiness.

Where human holiness offers itself as a means to his ends, God is not content to send forth in greater intensity his creative influence, the child of his power: he himself comes down into his work to consolidate its unification.

The changing meanings of holiness in the Bible are thus among the most indicative signs of progress, and obviously by the time the Isaiah of the Exile wrote, some men were praying in secret to the holy God.

Isaiah of Jerusalem is notable for the way in which, far ahead of his time, he translated the idea of holiness into ethical meanings.

Even now, Holloway argues, growth in holiness and the «sedating» of sexual concupiscence can lead a couple to be able only to seek thesexual act when they are seeking it in its full meaning.

(Isaiah 5:16) Then, in contrast with this view, having described the loose and cynical ways in which popular thought referred to «the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 5:18 - 19) he went on to announce with vehement earnestness the real meanings of holiness in terms of personal morals and social righteousness.

(Jude, vs. 20) One does not mean by this that other elements of the original tradition are not present in the New Testament's thought of holiness.

As the centuries passed, however, «holiness» changed its meaning, and in the change can be seen the increasing possibility of private prayer.

(Isaiah 57:15) Here we find both the exaltation of the meaning of holiness into terms of transcendent greatness and, as well, the deepening of its meaning into terms of goodness and mercy.

Primitive ideas of dreadful unapproachableness in deity had been left behind; the concept of divine sanctity had been sublimated into terms of transcendent purity; and instead of «holiness» meaning aloofness, it could itself characterize a humble and contrite heart.

Sexual relationships between a husband and a wife can participate in the meaning of communion that reaches the edges of holiness and has something of the nature of a sacrament about it.

More important, however, for future religious development than this translation of holiness from primitive untouchableness into majestic greatness and exclusive sovereignty was the baptism of the idea into moral meanings.

This label, apparently, is meant to denote the specific calling God gives to each individual, through which each is to live out his own particular call to holiness.

If we're looking for the way to get God to bless our sexual lives, the solution to the problem of what it means to be a sexual being, we're only going to come up with false rules and standards, ways of being that force some people out and others in, models of holiness that may work for one season of life but fall apart in another.

This doesn't mean that we aren't capable of goodness and holiness; it just means that things are much more vulnerable than we like to realize.

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

The meaning of all of this is not yet clear, but the older Holiness traditions may indicate what lies ahead for both traditions.

Some Holiness churches, notably the Church of the Nazarene and the Wesleyan Church, have seen high - level administrative rulings against the charismatic movement whose enforcement means virtual excommunication for those professing charismatic experience.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).

Amos's «righteousness,» Hosea's hesed, or «lovingkindness,» and Isaiah's «holiness» represent three important developments of the meaning of the divine kingship for the life of the community.

Well understood this sacrament is an exceptional means for believers to advance in holiness and to help build the human community in love and sharing.

In the old days, they used to call this «holiness» or «sanctification» — both words we don't hear much because they lost some meaning by their misuse perhaps.

And while we would hope and expect that people who have eternal life will live lives of increasing holiness and obedience, the fact that God has given us freedom means that a life of good works is not guaranteed.

Her earliest work on the relationship between ritual purity and holiness, and her later work on the true literary and theological meaning of the Book of Leviticus do much to counter the neo - Freudian view that Judeo - Christianity is based on a primitive, superstitious, patriarchal, taboo ridden ideology.

Normally, holiness in the Christian's vocabulary has a more restricted connotation; «to be holy» means «to be separated from evil.»

doctorezero, Marriage to Jesus means she believes in His teachings and distributes His truth to others which then brings forth fruit to God, the fruit of holiness.

«If the poet can say, «Everyone is drawn by his delight», not by necessity but by delight, not by compulsion but by sheer pleasure, then how much more must we say that a man is drawn by Christ, when he delights in truth, in blessedness, in holiness and in eternal life, all of which mean Christ?

Moral evil He can not will, either as end or means, for that would contradict his holiness.

Sin just means missing the perfect mark (in this case, God's holiness; in our justice system's case, breaking the law of the land).

To be sure Second Isaiah is able to begin with the holiness of Yahweh; and he does indeed see all history devolving in meaning therefrom.

So as we conform to his image by walking according to his holy spirit and being obedient to the word then we become more holy like him that does nt mean we are him but like him.The verse as he is so are we in this world is that we are his reflection we are not the true light he is the true light and so others should see his light reflect in us through his holiness his love his compassion etc etc brentnz

Sanctification means growth in holiness (or wholeness and health — the root word is the same).

A word that once stood for faithfulness to historic orthodox Christian faith and a commitment to personal holiness, to the proclamation of the good news, and to ministries of compassion and justice has been hijacked by those on the right and the left who have narrowed the meaning to «white Republican.»

Creation means that contemplation of the majesty of God's work and the holiness of the Creator ought to make us very humble about ourselves, remembering that he still says to us, as to the people of Israel:

You know what orders we gave you, by the help of Jesus Christ: it is the will of God that you should be holy, that you should abstain from sexual immorality and learn, each of you, to keep his body in holiness and honor... not to overreach his fellow - Christian or to invade his rights... About family affection (within the Christian «family», the Church, he means) it is not necessary for me to write to you.

The author of the Ephesians is not talking about some future horizon so much as the actual and present means for edifying, for «building up» the Church; so that she can preach the fullness of Christ's message of salvation and so serve the holiness of its members.

The «final beauty» says Hartshorne «is the beauty of holiness» (Hartshorne 1970, 321)-- which I take to mean the enrichment of the life of God in God's consequent nature from all the creation.

By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction of these codes, the evolution of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the Law of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and amplifications of the book of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis of the «Holiness Code» in the book of Leviticus and the legislation subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important than this development of the content of the Law is the transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the Law.