Sentences with phrase «individual eternal destinies»

Some might suppose that God's pronouncement that he «loved» Jacob and «hated» Esau shows that he is speaking about their individual eternal destinies, but this is mistaken.

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Nor is it easy to see what purpose is served in the eternal economy of things by this two-fold determination of our individual destinies.

This was not narrowly confined to the eternal destiny of the individual in the way the hope of personal immortality has so often been.

In the words of Oxford scholar Larry Siedentop — and in contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destiny.

Holiness was very much up to the individual's own will, it seemed, and one's eternal destiny depended upon the cultivation of holiness.

But again, determining someone's eternal destiny is not a function of individual Christians, or of the church it general, but is a task for Jesus alone.