Sentences with phrase «in deathbed conversions»

I don't know what sort of praiseworthy items God will find in deathbed conversions, but maybe He will praise things they did before they were believers?

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He said, for instance, of the deathbed conversion of his friend Frank S. Meyer that «the only remaining intellectual obstacle to his conversion was the collectivist implication lurking in the formulation «the communion of saints» in the Apostles» Creed.»
«Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife.
If a man has lived a life of cruelty and then has a change of heart, is truly sorry for his sins and then dies (the proverbial «deathbed conversion») he can «be saved» without having done a good work in his life.
The subject of deathbed conversions was hotly debated in 17th century England.
One of Revelle's students and associate, John Lancaster, published a review of the piece denying that Revelle could in any realistic sense be an author of the article, Revelle's family are dismissive of any «deathbed conversion» and Singer was «disinvited» from the Revelle memorial symposium.
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