Sentences with phrase «in eternity past»

In eternity past, God did not choose who He would unconditionally and irresistibly bring into His church, but rather, decided that all those who believed in Jesus and in so doing became members of His church, to them He would give the task of being a blessing to the world by sharing serving one another, declaring God's grace, and loving others just as He has loved us.

His development inside his mother was the same as yours or mine, with one very important distinction, no human s.p.e.r.m. Jesus was with or part of God in eternity past, the only difference is that when he walked the earth, he wore a human body.

The basic explanation of Unconditional Election is that God, in eternity past, had an eternal decree by which He predetermined all things that would happen.

As a result, we are totally dependent upon God to initiate salvation for us, which He did in eternity past by choosing to save some, without any condition or merit on the part of those whom He chose (Unconditional Election).

Instead, Paul is saying that God decided in eternity past to make sure that everyone and anyone who joins His family by faith will finally and ultimately be brought into conformity to Jesus Christ at their glorification.

(Isaiah 40:17, Daniel 4:35, Isaiah 42:1, Matthew 3:17, 17:5, Ephesians 5:2) And in order that He might demonstrate His love, and to bring glory and honor, and praise to Himself, and in order to demonstrate His relative attributes of mercy, grace, justice, and loving - kindness, He devised a plan in eternity past to create a universe where His creation would rebel against Him, and He would send forth His Son to the world to be born of a virgin, to live a perfect and sinless life, and to die a subst.itutionary death on a cross, shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins.

So this choice took place in eternity past, before the foundation of the world.

Everytime I try to conceive of God in eternity past, I hit a stumbling block.

In eternity Past, Present and Future, FATHER IS FATHER To His SON.

For if, as Calvinists teach, God, in eternity past, chose some people to be the beneficiaries of His grace so that they, out of all the people of the world, might alone receive eternal life from Him, then Israel, as God's elect people, should all unconditionally receive eternal life from God.

Except I'll add that the thing doing the determining is the sovereign will of God, determined in His own councils in eternity past.

God's love, righteousness, grace, mercy, and wrath are the same today as in eternity past, and will be the same in eternity forward.

In Romans 8:29 - 30, Paul looks at our future glorification in eternity from the perspective of God in eternity past.

Yes, that is one possible ramification of believing that God hardened Pharaoh's heart in eternity past.

God imagined the entirety of creation in eternity past before He ever spoke the first «Let there be...» of His epic story, creating every micro and macro part of His infinitely complex, undeniably beautiful and «good» creation.

Not exact matches

You'll almost certainly dodge that question by claiming he has always existed, so if that's the case, what suddenly prompted God to create a universe filled with over 100 billion galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars after spending an eternity extending into the past existing alone in an absolute void of nothingness?

@Vic: For the sake of argument, let's suppose the universe was created by an all powerful being who had existed for an eternity extending into the past in emptiness of the nothingness that was before he got bored and created the universe with its 170 billion or more galaxies and trillion trillion stars.

-- God existed for an eternity in the past prior to creating the universe.

The idea that we will spend eternity in heaven comes more from pagan religion than from Scripture, and has only been prominent in the church for the past 500 years or so.

The whole story about some god punishing a person for all of eternity for not believing in your particular brand of religion might scare a child enought to believe but most adults are way past such a silly concept.

In this debate, Calvinists say that God hardened Pharaoh's heart first from eternity past because God needed a vessel of destruction through whom to reveal His wrath.

People have rejected theism because they held untenable the idea of a mind not subject to change or to interaction with other beings, or a mind omnipotent in the sense that its power was all the power in existence, or a mind having precise knowledge of details of the future (or of all times from the standpoint of eternity), or a mind creating a first state of the cosmos at a finite time in the past, or knowing all suffering although it did not itself suffer, or an all - embracing mind which in no sense could be identified with the universe, or one which could in every sense be identified with it.

First, it is important to note that in the surrounding context, there is nothing anywhere about some sovereign decree of God regarding whom He has chosen from eternity past to redeem and reconcile to Himself in eternity future.

Paul shows that all those whom God foreknew from eternity past will ultimately and finally be glorified with God in eternity future.

As with therapy, the first step in moving forward in eternity is to make sense of the past.

To fully generalize the foregoing view, even the laws of nature, so far as contingent, are to be attributed to divine decisions made, not in eternity or for all time, but at a finite time in the past.

Few contemporary theologians have yet understood how, for Aquinas, the simplicity of God's eternity embraces as presence all the spatiotemporal events of past, present, and future in the transcendent, noncoercive presence of Infinite Consciousness.

It was an event in the history of salvation, in the realm of eternity..., in an analogous way, history comes to an end in the religious experience of any Christian «who is in Christ»... For although the advent of Christ is an historical event which happened «once» in the past, it is, at the same time, an eternal event which occurs again and again in the soul of any Christian.»

Alas the time of opportunity for choice is now past and they must for eternity live with the decision they made in those few short years of temporal living.

50) who took over Plato's concept of eternity in which there is neither past nor future but only present.

Mary prepared Jesus a spiritual feast, something He could enjoy and feast on just two days before He endured the worst hours in his entire existence — from eternity past to eternity future.

For to judge by the outcome (whereby an attempt is made to unite a judgment of temporal existence and of eternity into a judgment that comes after the event is past) is not humanly possible in the instant that a man himself acts, nor is it possible in the instant when others act.

Paul's point in Romans 8 is that God determined from eternity past to bring us to glorification despite our many weaknesses and failures.

In Romans 8:28 - 30, Paul is not talking about an eternal decree from eternity past about to whom He would give eternal life, but rather, God's plan from eternity past to bring those who believe in Jesus into conformity to the image of Jesus Christ, which does not fully occur until glorification (cf. Eph 1:4; 4:1; 5:27; Col 1:22 - 23In Romans 8:28 - 30, Paul is not talking about an eternal decree from eternity past about to whom He would give eternal life, but rather, God's plan from eternity past to bring those who believe in Jesus into conformity to the image of Jesus Christ, which does not fully occur until glorification (cf. Eph 1:4; 4:1; 5:27; Col 1:22 - 23in Jesus into conformity to the image of Jesus Christ, which does not fully occur until glorification (cf. Eph 1:4; 4:1; 5:27; Col 1:22 - 23).

Here I agree with Robert Neville in his book Eternity and Time's Flow that eternity or the divine act of being is «the togetherness of the modes of time — past, present, and future — so that each can be its temporal self&raquEternity and Time's Flow that eternity or the divine act of being is «the togetherness of the modes of time — past, present, and future — so that each can be its temporal self&raqueternity or the divine act of being is «the togetherness of the modes of time — past, present, and future — so that each can be its temporal self» (60).

Our evil now belongs to the past, it is now written yonder in eternity.

It's been next to an eternity and we rarely get past the last sixteen in the champion's league.

Pillars of Eternity is a masterclass in role - playing game development, recapturing the essence of the genre's past triumphs and repackaging them for a universal audience.

Her musing recalls Kore - eda's «After Life» (1998), a post-mortem fantasy about souls in a heavenly waiting station who must choose the past moment that they want to relive through eternity.

Old Hunters DLC is set in a complete new nightmare world, a world that houses past hunters where they are trapped for an eternity.

Solve the mystery of its past, or become a fixture in its halls for all eternity!

And this despite his professed belief in metaphysical timelessness: «Time does not exist,» he wrote to Apollinaire in July 1916, «and on the great curve of eternity the past is the same as the future.»

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