Sentences with phrase «initial act of faith»

While initially it might seem that Paul is referring to the initial act of faith in Jesus Christ by which people receive eternal life, the following verse shows that this is not at all what Paul is referring to.

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Eternal security (the belief that a person can not lose his or her salvation) is rejected, since Mormon salvation is based in large part on acts of obedience after an initial faith experience.

Thus the quest of the historical Easter, in the sense of the initial nature of the disciples» Easter faith, suggests that this began with the conviction «that Jesus was somehow alive among them and that, if this was so, God had indeed acted and had raised him and exalted him.»

There is no borrowing involved, and this initial margin acts as a form of good - faith to ensure both parties involved in a trade will fulfill their side of the obligation.

Ultimately, the Court held that the defendant seller, by purporting to rely on the lawyer's approval condition to consider and accept a subsequent competing offer, had failed to act in good faith and was in breach of the initial contract.

If the initial complaint or other earlier filings had contained a claim for punitive damages, or even an allegation that the defendants acted maliciously, willfully, recklessly, wantonly, fraudulently, or in bad faith, the Court would have likely allowed the punitive damages issue to be heard by the jury, and the plaintiff may have received a larger award at the conclusion of the case.