Sentences with phrase «in eternal things»
He considers the team a training ground to learn how to care for others and find joy and purpose in investing in eternal things, such as sharing the gospel of Jesus with others.
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And in the end you, who do nt believe in God, stand before a very real God to give an account for your eternal life... One thing about media is that media mostly announces the bad things that go on in the world, barely the positives.
The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.
Considering that this life is limited, and the next is eternal, that is one of the few things in their beliefs that make logical sense.
We need no threat of death or eternal torture from a magical sky - daddy in order to do the right thing.
He is gracious enough to allow us to be characters in His eternal epic, and that's a beautiful thing.
There are loads of justifications from christians who really do believe in the eternal punishment thing.
that whosoever believeth in him should not perishbut have eternal life (he's god — he makes the rules - he could have done this without the whole dieing on the cross thing)
The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our human capacity to learn personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion with other persons, and most of all with the unseen God.
Some people will never believe in eternal life, because it seems so uncertain compared to things like «millennium goals.»
Then you've missed out on the greatest thing you could ever imagine: eternal life in heaven.
It tells you that no matter how many mistakes you make, how many bad things you do you can avoid any and all eternal consequences for this simply by believing something, with no penalties, no retribution, no sacrifices, nothing; just believe in Jesus and all is forgiven.
That is something to worry about — that there are people who can't imagine living for the common good and who feel they must believe in eternal punishment else they will do things that they think we all should fear.
In the essay, Losana Boyd, the Director of Creative & Marketing Services at First Things, and a poet, favorably reviewed The Eternal City by Kathleen Graber, praising the poet's fluent syntax, arresting imagery, and elegant, well - crafted lines.
The point is this: Stop thinking that when you share the Four Spiritual Laws, or the Romans Road, or the plan of salvation, or given an altar call, or invite someone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, or any of the other myriad of things that Christians today call «sharing the gospel,» stop thinking that you have actually shared the Gospel.
In Santa we trust - Here it is, God who is eternal and the first, came to be when they were only 3 things that existed, Je, ho, vah, I will call them elements for the sake of such.
... Pharaoh's eternal destiny is not the thing in question (Baxter, Explore the Book, VI: 88 - 89).
And so how thankful we can be that He never, not once in all of Scripture, tells us that in order to receive eternal life, we have to promise Him certain things or a certain level of obedience.
What kind of horrible person needs the fear of eternal damnation in hellfire just to be encouraged to do the right thing?
You have to believe in the right person for the right thing, namely, you have to believe in Jesus for eternal life (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).
He must have never been a Christian in the first place, or maybe He had eternal life, but he lost it, but one thing is for sure, there is no way that person will be in heaven.»
It is possible to believe in Jesus for eternal life (and of course, receive eternal life as a result), but still not be «saved» from many of the temporal and physical consequences of sin, or from sickness, or from enemies, or from many of the other negative things that can happen in life.
These churches, and para-ministries, will focus on the things that are the highest priority to Christ — believing in Christ for eternal life, and helping the hungry, thirsty, prisoner, sick, homeless, and unclothed.
Lewis Sperry Chafer, in his systematic theology, lists 33 things which happen to us at the moment we believe in Jesus for eternal life.
Now at some time in the eternal security debate, after all this talk about grace, someone says something like, «I think you're taking this grace thing a little bit too far.
If we are talking about how to receive eternal life, it is not simple belief that matters, but believing in the right person for the right thing.
Giving up on doing such things because it is deemed to be too difficult, ineffective, cumbersome, shaming, paralyzing, pointless, or whatever could be better interpreted as a loss of faith in the Savior Jesus Christ and his power to change us, and an absence of the Holy Spirit which seals us unto holiness and eternal salvation.
The death and resurrection of Jesus are definitely part of what we share in evangelism, but we tell them these things to convince and persuade them to believe in Jesus for eternal life, not because they get eternal life by believing in the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Deep familiarity with the Bible enables us to penetrate the Kultursmog of the present and see things in the light of eternal reality and the divine gifts of creation and redemption.
Others have noticed this same thing, and we receive daily e-mails and phone calls from people saying they are prayerfully supporting Bob Wilkin, myself, and the ministry of Grace Evangelical Society as we continue to present the offer of eternal life to all who believe in Jesus for it.
As Whitehead says,» «Change» is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the evolving universe of actual things» (PR 59 / 92).
Concerning the «Eternal, conscious torment in hell», take what the Bible actually says about hell and its duration» and if you do not believe some of the things that some people think is unscriptural and can not find it Scripture just ignore it.
There is a difference between the mechanism of justification (the death and resurrection of Jesus, along with a myriad of other things) and the message of eternal life (believe in Jesus for it).
Were I to follow what I would call the comic or gnostic vein in Schleiermacher's thought, I would gain the assurance that I, like any other single entity, am actually resolved in the eternal.14 All things, including my cancer, are really signs, miracles in themselves that signify the encompassing One.
But if this is the case what are we to make of those several passages in which Whitehead speaks variously of an «inevitable ordering of things, conceptually realized in the nature of God» (PR 244, italics added, or of «the eternal order which is the final absolute wisdom» (PR 347, italics added)?
He asks whether we are to regard the Cross as an opus operatum whose agent achieved something new, radically affected the scheme of things in time, and established in respect of the relations of men and women to God a new foundation: or whether we are compelled, partly by the demands of a theology that would emphasize divine acceptance above divine judgement, to say that all we find here is the most sublime presentation in time of the eternal readiness of God to receive to himself the truly penitent.
If they believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of all mankind, and if they believe that three days after his death, Jesus Christ rose from the dead and if they believe all of these things, but don't believe in Jesus for eternal life, that person is not saved.
He, we believe, is the eternal Logos who became flesh in order to reconcile man to God and reveal the underlying reason of all things.
Again, faith is a scary and powerful thing that rewards us in the end with eternal life.
Being responsible to believe in Jesus for eternal life is not at all the same thing as working to gain, prove, or keep eternal life.
that the monads will pour into that place whither they are irrevocably destined by the total maturing of all things and the implacable irreversibility of the whole history of the World — some of them spiritualized matter in the limitless fulfillment of an eternal communion, and others materialized spirit in the conscious agonies of an interminable decomposition.
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?
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.»
30 God's «knowledge of all things is what it is in eternal superiority to all things and eternal independence of all things.»
Also, I should say that it seemingly puts Jesus is the company of other great philosophical and religious teachers who essentially say the same sorts of things, in their own contexts and in their own times as to how to find «eternal life» a phrase I think speaks of a qualitative type of life, a flourishing, if you will, both now and after death.
You can believe all of those things about Jesus and God, which are good things to believe, but if you don't believe in Jesus for eternal life, none of it matters.
He says, «For in the Eternal, properly speaking, there is neither anything past, as though it had passed away, nor anything future as though it were not as yet, but whatsoever is, only is».7 God, therefore, must have implanted all at once the seeds of things which are later to become in the world:
Salvation rests, as does the whole of creation, on the supreme and self consistent love, the free self - giving of the one in whom and for whom all things were made in obedience to the Father's eternal will.
All of these cases have one thing in common: God's eternal corrective love must be communicated to each one amid widely varied personal circumstances.
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.