Sentences with phrase «justified by good works»

She was not against charity, but sees the truth of it; one can not be justified by good works unless one does all good works.

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Therefore, the justified Christian man, in himself and of his own nature a sinner but not seen as a sinner by God, brings forth those good works which consist in the love of God and neighbor, not slavishly to win any reward but gladly, that service which is perfect freedom.»

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

Lesslie Newbigin once observed, «One of the dangers of emphasizing the concept of mission as a mandate given to the Church is that it tempts to do what we are always tempted to do, namely to see the work of mission as a good work and to seek to justify ourselves by our works.

More important still, labor done out of devotion to the good is justified not by extrinsic rewards but by the quality of the work itself.

The seven controverted areas taken up by the declaration are 1) sin and human passivity in receiving justification; 2) interior renewal, that is, the way God not only declares persons justified but also makes them righteous, independent of human cooperation; 3) justification by faith alone; 4) the justified person as sinner; 5) law and gospel; 6) the assurance of salvation; and 7) the good works of the justified person.

According to the statement, there is no consensus on justification through the word of God and «by faith alone,» no consensus on the certitude of faith concerning our salvation, no consensus on the continuing sinfulness of the justified, nor on the importance of good works for our salvation, nor on the function of the doctrine of justification as criterion of the entire life and doctrine of the church.

i justify it by telling myself i work better under pressure.

Even if this isn't the case, you will want to consider the cost of the diaper pail you are looking at and whether the price is justified by the quality, function and how well it will work for your specific needs.

It is commonly assumed that the low wages often found in female - dominated workplaces can be justified through better provision of family - friendly arrangements, but the research provides evidence that low wages are accompanied by worse working conditions for many.

I'm a bit taken aback (as ever) by some of the filmmakers who've been shunted into other sections, but at least after all the well - justified complaints that last year's Palme competition was mostly made up of subpar work by established auteurs, they haven't gone that route again (or, at least, not quite so pronouncedly).

That's because Washington and Jolie, two of the most attractive and intensely charismatic actors working in film today, are so well - matched that their characters» otherwise arbitrary attraction is justified by their effortless electricity together.

The work looks awfully good — almost good enough to justify even the awful 2004 renovation by Yoshio Taniguchi.

Using the tag «renewable energy» in a cynical effort to «justify» the suffering caused to the health and well - being of hard - working, tax - paying citizens by incessant turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound is nothing short of monstrous (see our post here).

[36] The court found that the University could properly protect «prepublication critical analysis, unpublished data, analysis, research, results, drafts, and commentary» as well as prepublication peer review work because the University was justified in concluding that, as is prohibited by Arizona law, «release of [the] information would have an important and harmful effect on the duties of a State agency or officer.»

JEG, If there is true correlation of growth with local instrument temperature records, then it seems to me you can only rationally justify selecting tree series on that basis by testing if that selection method works as well when you do the selection based on holding out half the instrumental data, and then seeing how well the trees correlate with the held out data.