Sentences with phrase «hope for eternal life»

It bears either a «tree of life» or «cypress» pattern, I am not entirely sure, nonetheless both are extremely powerful motifs in the Oriental symbolism, expressing hope for eternal life.
This not only gives them hope for their business and to overcome poverty, but a hope for eternal life as well.
JJ, you are jealous of people who have faith, you got nothing to look forward to, you got no life, and you got no hope for eternal life.
It is interesting that believing Christians, who hope for an eternal life of unimaginable bliss, have neither discarded nor added to the Greek triad.
His empty grave is our hope for eternal life.
For if those with faith come up short we have lost nothing for we were happy in hoping for eternal life, but if those without faith come up short then they have to face the reality that they rejected God and they missed out on the greatest opportunity, plus they probably were never truly happy in this life.
The heavenly city's faith is in God; it hopes for eternal life; and its love is directed toward God and others in God.

Not exact matches

We do not know the eternal life for which we hope, says Benedict.
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.
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?
Is God's Final Judgment one of «eternal» hell for mankind who didn't repent while here on earth... despite the fact that Jesus said, «It is finished»... and Jesus «wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth»... and Jesus is «our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.»
Where the Eternal does not come to heal such a sufferer, what happens, with the aid of cleverness, is about as follows: first, the sufferer lives for some years by an earthly hope; but when this is exhausted and the suffering still continues, then he becomes superstitious, his state of health alternates between drowsiness and burning excitement.
«We will, indeed, attempt to provide for those in physical need, but we will also point people to the crucified and risen Lord Jesus... To all who wish to hear we will share the hope of eternal life and the forgiveness of sins through repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.»
For the Church has the baptism, the Eucharist, the grace of love and the hope of eternal life, and this is every - thing.
Art. 7 of the Decree on the Missions says in so many words that God can give in ways known to himself the grace of faith and thus the hope and love necessary for eternal life also to those whom the actual message of the gospel has not reached.
I hope that when my earth - body dies and my eternal soul is uploaded into the heavens via God's Galactic Internet that my file folder is judged as appropriate for download into a mansion that is more heavenly than this one, but that does not change that life in this mansion is what it is.
If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.
Not by presenting us with more evidence, but by appeals to our emotions and / or our fears: Either by using, «Our almighty, all - knowing god will protect you and give you eternal life (security and hope)», or, «Our righteous, just, and holy god will torture you for all eternity if you DO N'T make the jump (using blind faith).»
«There stands a person who is responding out of anxiety, who may not have the peace of God that you have... who may not know the forgiveness of sins, who does not have the hope of eternal life... Jesus died for that person every bit as much as he died for you.»
Third, although the Bible calls people to believe in Jesus for eternal life, Lopez points out that if faith is a gift that comes as a result of regeneration, then people should not be called to believe in Jesus (for they can not), but should instead be called to hope and pray to God that He might regenerate them.
Yet although there are numerous calls throughout Scripture for people to believe in Jesus for eternal life (John 3:16, 36; 5:24; 6:47; etc.), there is not only place in Scripture where people are invited to hope and pray to God for regeneration.
They are the ones I am hoping to reach, and who are receptive to talking about Jesus, and His promise of eternal life to those who believe in Him for it.
However, in the first case of the unreturned gift, one could say that there always remains a hope for a reciprocal gesture, as there is in an eschatological reserve: there will always be self - sacrificing in this life, but in hope of the eternal banquet.
I don't see any emphasis on soul sleep being the right answer — merely on a desire for us not to mourn those who have gone on before us, because we have hope in their eternal life.
The term «resurrection of the dead» should not be interpreted as a hope for the prolongation or restoration of our own conscious existence, but rather a hope that human life has meaning, that when our conscious existence is ended, the historical life we have lived may be raised before the eternal Judge, and may be vindicated, as being of some value for that Kingdom which is eternal and for whose fuller manifestation on earth we ever pray.
Yet, the promise and hope of eternal life in Christ challenged prior beliefs about the meaning of life in «the world» for Christians with roots in the Jewish tradition.
I've been hoping for anything that would assuage my angst as I come to terms with my previous conception of eternal life.
The kingdom itself is the content of the eschatological hope for the transformation of our mortal lives through participation in God's eternal glory by the power of his Spirit in the resurrection of the dead.
«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?
Published in 2012, this endearing, profound book introduces us to the eternal struggles of parenthood, as viewed from families with uniquely challenging circumstances, and it offers insight and hope for all of us who live side - by - side with such families...
«Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me» John 5:39 Although The Simple Gospel is a compilation of articles and essays written by Jon Cardwell while serving as a missionary - pastor in remote bush Alaska (2002 - 2008), the hope behind this little book is to exhort earnest Bible reading, study and meditations among Christians in these dark times; and further, to encourage an eye upon the scriptures from a perspective that is gospel honoring, Christ exalting, and God glorifying.Jon has often said from the pulpit, «The gospel of Jesus Christ is simple; but it's not simplistic.»
In this Quit or Continue E3 2015 predictions special we take you through the runners - and - riders of the show and tell you what games and certainties, maybes and those we live in eternal hope for.
I am ever so grateful for: ONE: The hope of and security in eternal life with my Savior, Jesus Christ TWO: The unity and harmony in my marriage to my best friend of 32 years THREE: The goodness, kindness, patience, mercies, compassion, and faithfulness, of my precious Lord and Savior
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