Sentences with phrase «in eternal»

To be sure, in his eternal wisdom, God elected those whom he chose for eternal life and banned the remainder to perdition, but the way he chose to make known his election was through his Word and Spirit, which created a relationship of covenant between himself and each of his elect; thus, the relation between God and the individual was grounded on covenant.

And the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.

The lesson was completed on Jan. 18, when Dad went to be with his Savior and live in his eternal home.

I was taught the wrong way growing up (the merciless god who throws non-believing sinners in the eternal bowels of hell was in - comprehensible) it's not that way at all.

While the deity of the bible may be a possibility, it would be merely 1 possibility in an eternal sea of possibilities.

They are only preparatory, in Rudolf Otto's beautiful image, «the Cape of Good Hope,» the foothills of a mountain range which is lost to our eyes in eternal darkness.

When the struggle is understood in these eternal dimensions, the more mundane consequences of competitiveness, such as lack of representativeness in the presentation of religious culture on television can be seen as almost inconsequential.

The Wagnerian ideal of erotic heroism inflames ordinary men and women with the desire to live as though such love were possible even for themselves; for myth does not represent some archaic glory but is written «in the eternal present.»

He's saying that the frequency for love, peace, freedom and contentment is an immaterial and invisible transmission that exists in an eternal dimension.

Renewal is rather about transmitting Tradition today in its eternal newness — «in fidelity, to its own identity and the rich deposit of truth which it has received from Jesus Christ.»

Interesting that CNN links the legislation of a single nation with the universal faith in an eternal god.

That is to say, it excludes the cruel and godless idea of the popular belief in an eternal punishment in hell.

Those who die in the kingdom's struggle are also participants in the hope of the kingdom that is coming... How then can we make a contradiction between our entering into historical struggles and our belief in eternal life with God?

I am not a believer in eternal conscious damnation so I think the destruction Jesus was referring to did not have to do with eternal condemnation but rather a life filled with destruction.

The temporal point of departure is nothing; for as soon as I discover that I have known the Truth from eternity without being aware of it, the same instant this moment of occasion is hidden in the Eternal, and so incorporated with it that I can not even find it so to speak, even if I sought it; because in my eternal consciousness there is neither here nor there, but only an ubique et nusquam.

A lot of my other Christian friends went into full - time ministry or started working at nonprofits, and sometimes it seems like their work is more important in an eternal sense than what I do.

I knew from my first reading that he was a man who himself spoke as an apprentice in eternal living, who had learned much from the Master and could help those new to the craft.

Sure, occasionally we might burst forth in eternal praise for fresh air.

In this context, it is not necessary to locate Jesus» divinity in an eternal pre-existence with God.

The early Christians did not believe in an eternal timelessness or that time as we know it is an illusion.

May he always bask in the eternal glow of Christ's merciful love.

Hawkins's official response to the college, which she posted on her website, quoted part of Wheaton's questions, including a request to «clarify how it is that we worship the same God if Muslims can not affirm that God is the Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; or that God the Father is indeed the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; or that the Father did not spare his only begotten Son; or that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit coexist as a Trinity in eternal and self - giving love?»

We are incorporated into Christ and shall be with him and one another in an eternal fellowship.

Both approaches, according to Hartshorne, obliterate all real distinctions between present and future by implying that all events are real now in an eternal present that can be known by a properly qualified (i.e., omniscient) being.

Bill Maher is framing his accusation against God with this assumption (held by those «Christians» in his life): that all «the wicked» judged by God in the flood, will also (and so much worse) spend the remainder of their eternal souls in ETERNAL punishment.

Also, «creator god» is used in the limited Western concept (possibly because many Westerners can't perceive of a creator god that isn't also anthropomorphic)... instead of the Eastern idea of God / Universe / Nature in an eternal state of creation / destruction as eternal recombination of matter.

For example, as Shakespeare's famous Sonnet XVIII nears its end and we are unsure of how the speaker's love will overcome death or how «in eternal lines to time [she will grow],» there occurs a tiny typographical indentation and line space.

His statement regarding Israel's belief in eternal life is, to say the least, disputed among scholars.

The atom that moves in an immeasurable path today and the atom that moved in an immeasurable path billions of years ago are rooted in the eternal ground.

Far from being, as it later became, a too precise surveying of the divine nature, this trinitarian experience involved, at first, a humble and grateful acknowledgment of unfathomable mystery in the Eternal.

And of course since atheism is Absolute, Complete and Total NONSENSE, the atheists lacks the certainty in a Resurrection, in Eternal Rewards in Heaven and Eternal Punishment in the other Place that IS NOT Heaven.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

God interacts with the world in time, rather than determining it in his eternal decree.

In principle, the decisions could have been made in an eternal contemplation of all possibilities.

In the eternal scheme of things what difference does it make when it comes to timing since were talking about eternity not just about this life.

Which of you here, my friends, sees any fitness in their eternal perpetuation unreduced in numbers?

We should pause and think about what truly matters in the eternal sense of God's Kingdom.

And further, how had it come to pass in the eternal counsels of God?

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

Please use all your bible expertise to explain why your Gawd would let someone like that into heaven but fry an otherwise great and moral person in eternal hell because they don't believe in jeebus....

He goes beyond masculinity in the only fatherhood worthy of the name, and is at the same time, in this eternal virginity, the antitype of all motherhood.»

Yes, I believe in an eternal separation from God as well, and I don't believe in annihilationism or universalism.

The decisions resulting in eternal objects or truths can not be of that sort.

The Kingdom of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only in the eternal order... The primary principle of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply as a person... The person is primary, not the society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three principles of a Christian social order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child of God and is destined for a life of eternal fellowship with Him... Love... finds its primary expression through Justice — which in the field of industrial disputes means in practice that each side should state its own case as strongly as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...

Aesops... threatening people who do not believe in eternal damnation with eternal damnation is logical cancer.

Various Marian apparitions are privately revealed illustrations of the fact that we really will hold onto our bodies, though glorified, in eternal life.

Do any of us have a chance or are we all fated to die and live in eternal damnation.

See William Adams Brown: The Christian Hope, p. 84) and refer not to final destinies in an eternal heaven and hell, but to the intermediate fate of the dead in the time between decease and resurrection.

There is no time and space in the eternal.

So the only thing I can conclude is that we won't be perfect after all in our eternal state.