Sentences with phrase «in holiness by»

In their attempt to grow in holiness by carefully observing rules about food and purity» the Pharisees may have kept themselves apart from ordinary people, rather as some vegetarians are reluctant to eat with those who have chosen meat, or as the early Methodists, with their stress on temperance, kept themselves apart from those who drank alcohol.

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In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promiseIn so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promisein Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

This was picked up by the various «Holiness Movements» and is prevalent largely in conservative Christian circles like the Assemblies of God, Southern Baptists and such.

All the justice that was well deserved (consumed by eternal burning holiness) is covered in perfect love taking onto self the pain (consequence) of sin up to the maximum evil could imagine.

It does not matter if you are in south america or the pope all that is not pure is consumed by this burning holiness.

There is a final way that the Church often fails gay people, and that is by watering down the biblical vision for sexual holiness and human fulfilment in a misguided attempt to be more welcoming.

As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began, That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us, To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant, The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

Paul wants his readers to put off that old way of conduct, and live their new life in the Spirit with the new man which was created by God for righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:22 - 24).

He was arrested in May, following a Vatican investigation into how the pope's private documents appeared in the book «Sua Santita» («His Holiness») by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.

This is precisely what the Incarnate Son brings about in his own humanity: he confirms the femininity of holiness by using the natural and finite to point us to the infinite and eternally worthy.

So at the place where we could potentially have been «turned to dust» in the holiness of God, we are «held» by Christ, who anchors us.

2.9 - 11); he is made «Lord and Christ» as the inauguration of eschatological existence at Pentecost (Acts 2.36); in this sense he is «appointed Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead» (Rom.

(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep in Isaiah's thought of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place of dread as the corollary of holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness of the deity, and the response demanded from man by the holiness of the Most High had become thoroughly ethical.

(Exodus 19:12 - 14) Repeatedly in the early laws the command to observe some negative taboo was reinforced by the penalties of violated holiness — «Ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field.»

The changing meanings of holiness in the Bible are thus among the most indicative signs of progress, and obviously by the time the Isaiah of the Exile wrote, some men were praying in secret to the holy God.

In all this, the Sultan was undoubtedly influenced by the great personal holiness and magnetism of St Francis, and also by the fact that there were some similarities between Franciscan spirituality and that of the Sufis, Muslim mystics with whom the Sultan was well acquainted.

Chesterton's charity, humility, and passionate love for truth have also been highlighted by Italian scholar Paolo Gulisano, and in a recent anthology, The Holiness of G.K. Chesterton.

(Jude, vs. 20) One does not mean by this that other elements of the original tradition are not present in the New Testament's thought of holiness.

The body of every saint is to an exceptional degree a temple of the Holy Ghost, and the impressive track record of cures (affirmed by the Catechism of the Council of Trent) presumably stems from a continuing connection between the physical remains and the possibility of divine intervention.Tradition suggests that the holiness and curative possibility is much greater for primary and secondary relics, but still exists for third - class, in this case the casket.

This one will be declared or ordained the high priest of God, God's son, Yahweh himself, bearing the name by his passing through death in the spirit of holiness.

Yet Jesus continually reverses his «Maternal Humanity» by becoming incarnate in a satanic body of holiness.

... When God saves people in this life by working through his Spirit to bring them to faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.

Indeed, our pride ought to be shattered when we pray, «and lead us not into temptation,» for by these words we recognize that we can never be self - sufficient in holiness and virtue.

R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless perfection and fellowship with God in our flesh.»

We need to continue work already begun by lay - people everywhere on a holistic depiction of God's grass - roots strivings for holiness and justice in history.

I will grossly oversimplify this complexity by speaking primarily of three broad groups: (1) the largely white Holiness churches, especially those in the Christian Holiness Association (CHA); (2) the white Pentecostal churches in the Pentecostal Fellowship of North America (PFNA); and (3) a more diffuse grouping of ethnic Pentecostal churches dominated by black Pentecostalism.

In short, as one Pentecostal historian puts it privately, large segments of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements were «captured» by fundamentalism.

The lines are also blurred by large segments of Pentecostalism (especially in the south and among blacks) that are also «Holiness» in that they teach «three works of grace» — conversion, entire sanctification and a «baptism in the Spirit» with speaking in tongues.

In classic religious fashion, that which is most dangerous and polluting is transformed by the proper ministrations of members of a holy caste («priests» in this case) into a potent source of sanctity and holinesIn classic religious fashion, that which is most dangerous and polluting is transformed by the proper ministrations of members of a holy caste («priests» in this case) into a potent source of sanctity and holinesin this case) into a potent source of sanctity and holiness.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).

What, in this so - called «Holiness Code», as also penalized by death?

Holiness is also participation in the life of the Church, which is the holy people called into being by God's saving work in Christ.

This state of readiness is described as «holiness and godliness,» being «zealous to be found by God without spot or blemish, and at peace,» and growing «in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.»

For others it was a transcendent and ineffable «holiness,» unrelated to the conditions and values of human life on earth, to be imitated in seclusion from the world, by a contrived and exacting discipline.

It is how scriptural holiness first takes root in the soul through faith alone by grace alone.

Rosmini's personal holiness was recognised by the Church in solemn form when he was beatified in 2007.

In the old days, they used to call this «holiness» or «sanctification» — both words we don't hear much because they lost some meaning by their misuse perhaps.

The arrest followed a top - level Vatican investigation into how the private documents appeared in the best - selling book «Sua Santita» («His Holiness») by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.

In the third step the gospel is proclaimed either directly or by the witness of holiness and goodness in the lives of individual ChristianIn the third step the gospel is proclaimed either directly or by the witness of holiness and goodness in the lives of individual Christianin the lives of individual Christians.

Secondly, we have come to significant agreement (although surely with differences remaining) on profound theological issues: on our justification by faith through grace in Jesus Christ; on the proper relationship between Scripture and tradition; on the communion of saints and the universal call to holiness; and on the role of Mary in the life of the Christian and of the church.

As the Nazi's raised hell in the Holocaust in Europe in the 1930s and early 40s, his holiness Pius XII stood silently by... Fast forward to the epidemic of priestly pedophilia, covered up and stone - walled for decades by the Holy See.

Raised a Southern Baptist, Grady became a charismatic in college, attended an independent charismatic church, then was ordained by the Pentecostal Holiness Church before being drawn to the conservative Episcopal parish.

But the uniquely creative element in Christian experience is just the overflow of new life and power which come from the depths of that experience in which our human despair is met by the suffering love of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.

By this grace they «help one another to attain holiness in their married life and in welcoming and educating their children»» (CCC 1639).

Among theological issues most deeply engaging me in the past year are sin in believers, the virginal conception of the Lord, providence in history, prevenient grace, the holiness, catholicity and apostolicity of the one church, radical judgment at the end of history and the rejection of sin by atoning grace.

«If the poet can say, «Everyone is drawn by his delight», not by necessity but by delight, not by compulsion but by sheer pleasure, then how much more must we say that a man is drawn by Christ, when he delights in truth, in blessedness, in holiness and in eternal life, all of which mean Christ?

It also is a reminder of the holiness of G - d by virtue of existing in the first place.

«You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»

Most people overlook that fact Gods holiness is like the fire Moses saw in the bush, its a burning holiness, it scorched Isaiah's lips, the mighty seraphim covered their faces and Moses was shielded behind a rock so he would not be burned to a crisp by the Glory of a Holy God.

But men are called to in this fateful and choice - laden situation by no inert holiness ossified in his own perfections.