Sentences with phrase «into eternal rest»

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If we were not responsible, God would not be just in giving eternal life only to a few and sending the rest away into eternal separation from Him.

On the other hand, there were other men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul would live on forever, that the wicked would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up with the doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination (some would be saved, the rest would be damned); and Jerome, who would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what would become the Latin Vulgate and would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching eternal torment.

When Rob Bell released Love Wins, a book that made a compelling biblical case against the exclusivist theology that all non-Christians will be condemned to eternal conscious torment in hell, the Southern Baptist Convention released a resolution that stated: «Being troubled, even deeply troubled, by the implications of the biblical text does not give us a reason to abandon the text or force it into a mold that rests comfortably with us.

We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a human life was taken and made into the instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's human children.

It's time to lay Jesus Christ to rest and tuck him into his eternal bed of curiosity with Zeus, Athena, Joseph Smith, and Honey Boo Boo.

Another set of predictable terms and themes are pressed into service to describe Calvin's vision of God: distant, transcendent, sovereign, omnipotent, electing some to salvation and reprobating the rest to eternal damnation and misery

The final judgement day sees the rest of humanity cast into an eternal hell, along with the antichrist and his followers.

It offers more than human fulfilment and takes more than human sacrifice because it rests in and draws life from the love of God who lives us unto death and into eternal life.

For the rest of the walk back to Arkaba Homestead, my mind drifted into romantic musings on «untrammeled nature» and «eternal natural cycles» — that sort of typical outdoorsy endorphin high.

Upon reaching the temple, a soul can finally pass into the Ninth Underworld, which is a place of eternal rest.