I had a discussion with a friend yesterday (still very fresh in my mind) that told me he thinks that all religions
lead to salvation in the end.
I pray for you, that God hold you in the palm of His hand and
leads you to salvation in Christ..
Not exact matches
Evil tempers
lead to evil actions, which
in turn
lead some Christians
to abandon the faith and put their eternal
salvation at risk.
This makes me wonder about the school she attended
to obtain her Chaplain status... every graduate there must not be learning about
salvation & how it is the ONLY WAY
to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (James 3:3 - 6) If I were
in her shoes, I would definately be
leading each & every soul
to the Lord, and prompting them
to make their heart right with God.
2 Timothy 3:14 - 15 You, however, continue
in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known thesacred writings which are able
to give you wisdom that
leads to salvation through faith which is
in Christ Jesus.
We understand the statement that «we are justified by grace through faith because of Christ»
in terms of the substitutionary atonement and imputed righteousness of Christ,
leading to full assurance of eternal
salvation; we seek
to testify
in all circumstances and contexts
to this, the historic Protestant understanding of
salvation by faith alone (sola fide).
I agree that God didn't pursue Adam
to smash his face
in, never suggested that or alluded
to it, but there is no confusion where sin
leads and there is no doubt about the consequences off those who love their lives, they will lose it where as those that hate their lives will find it... So
to conclude, Jesus and the father are not two different things, they are both the very same
in as much as God desires all
to be saved and has shown the way
to salvation.
If our faith
in God saves us, it stands
to reason that losing our faith
leads to loss of
salvation.
The one place where the exception is clearly visible is
in the anonymous Letter
to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed
in regard
to how God
leads wayward humanity
to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.
Others,
led by theologian Thomas Oden, call for a return
to «classical» theology, the great systems
in which the thinkers of the early church took all of reality, including their own
salvation, into a comprehensive understanding of God's activity.
In prison, his arguments with a Christian
led him
to salvation
The Jewish writers of the New Testament introduced the «ecclesiastical attitude» and other distortions that
led to what Rauschenbusch calls «ascetic Christianity,» a religious attitude that thinks
in terms of heaven, divine intervention, and personal
salvation rather than social justice.
In the way
leading from one age of solitude
to the next, «each solitude is colder and stricter than the preceding, and
salvation from it more difficult.»
This affirmation of God's sovereignty and the principle of
salvation by grace
led to a series of criticisms against all worldly authorities that claimed
to usurp the power of God, be it an authoritarian church, an infallible Bible or a mechanical sacrament that offered
salvation in a simplistic way.
First, it is said — somewhat
in contrast
to the teaching of the southern school — that the significance of the one who
leads men
to salvation is exemplary.
Those on the center right need
to explain the interpretive rules which seem
to lead them
to different conclusions on some issues (divorce, the role of women
in the church) than on others (homosexuality,
salvation for non-Christians).
What you are actually looking at is the only thing on earth and
in history that perfectly fits the picture of a broad road that
leads to destruction while selling an «assurance of escape from hell aka
salvation.»
Poverty and wealth can then become the venue
in which redemption once accepted
leads to a working out of
salvation for both the giver of the cloak and the recipient, done within the life of grace.
The Church had always taught that man can not come
to believe
in God's revelation and
salvation without God's grace first softening our heart and enlightening our mind
to lead us toward Him.
Any religious tradition claiming
to be the absolute truth
in a universe so marked by relativity
leads not
to the
salvation of humankind but
to its enslavement.
At least
in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his
salvation, and the need
to realize the significance of these convictions
in relation
to contemporary world and life views, have
led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.
One may,
in other ways, feel sorrow for sin (the sorrow of regret, or remorse, or despair); but one can not feel the sorrow of repentance (which alone
leads to forgiveness and
salvation) unless one knows that God suffers because of our sin incalculably more than we — and that he suffers willingly and out of love for us.
3:4 - 11), but it was not the right righteousness that
leads to salvation, the righteousness achieved by faith
in Christ.
Whereas you suggest that it is the Jesuit tendency, as demonstrated
in Pope Francis,
to subordinate human and divine law
to a missionary end, St. Ignatius understands the subversion of divine law as
leading not
to salvation, but
to damnation.
Christians sometimes fail
to distinguish the new, constructed, allegedly «holistic» ethical system from God's holistic and eternal design of
salvation, not realising that the two logics
lead in different directions.
At least the penitent is given a clear choice: persisting
in their sins and remaining unreconciled
to God and the Church, or the conversion that
leads to salvation.
Though his fear that his own sinfulness would separate him from God helped
lead to then - radical ideas about
salvation outside of man's own ability
to be righteous, doubts about his faith, thinking and relationship with God would haunt him later
in life.
But not only does my reading of scripture
lead me
to a different conclusion, where there is uncertainty about such a situation, the safer position is
to consider the possibility that renouncing Christ will result
in you losing your life and forfeiting your promise of
salvation, and determine before hand that you will never renounce Christ even should people threaten you or your families life with death or torture.
While hymns covered just about every subject, those which found particular favor
in nineteenth century America were based on a personal experience of Jesus and the gospel, particularly
in regard
to faith («Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine»), the atonement of Jesus («When I Survey the Wondrous Cross»), confession («Just As I Am, Without One Plea»), dedication («Nearer, My God,
to Thee»), following Jesus» example («Saviour, Like a Shepherd
Lead Us»), and
salvation («Amazing Grace!
14 You, however, continue
in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able
to give you the wisdom that
leads to salvation through faith which is
in Christ Jesus.
Insofar as realization of relation with God
in one of the dimensions we have discussed excludes communion as a permanent, coequal dimension, it
leads to something other than
salvation, And, of course, so long as Christians insist on clinging
to distinct identities, relations and communion, they will fail
to realize the distinctive religious ends of other traditions.
There is often a misunderstanding that the coupling of theology and politics would
lead theologians and churches
to be absorbed
in politics at the expense of the furtherance of the gospel and
salvation of people.
Paul argues that we do not have a licence
to sin.because of grace If christians continue
to sin and grieve the holy spirit they clearly arent walking by faith or abiding
in Christ.There has
to be an ongoing repentence
in the christians walk that
leads that person
to become more like Christ.It is true that
salvation is a gift of grace received by faith however the word also says that we called
to walk by faith otherwise it is impossible
to please God and if we love him we follow his commands not willfully disobey.If we do nt continue
to abide
in Christ and turn from sin then i think we can risk Christ saying
to us that he never knew us.Like everything that God offers us we must meet his conditions that are only possible
in Christ..
Some even say that all roads
lead to Rome,
in other words all religions
lead to salvation.
Emphasizing, first, that all are saved diminishes the reality of oppression, sometimes
leading to powerful people treating their friends and family horribly while justifying their behavior because they're preaching
salvation in Jesus.
Their wrong teachings could
lead them away from the only true way of
salvation (by faith
in Himself) and they also had the power
to have people put
to death for violating their laws.
I guess your «bible» leaves out the last few verses
in Matthew where Christ commissioned the church
to «make disciples» of all nations, teaching them...» I say so because your ad nauseum rants will not
lead to the conviction, repentance, and
salvation of one soul... unless someone happens
to read your diatribes and say «OH GOD, there must be something better than this, please show me the way»!
Abmadinejad asks Bush
to take his Christianity seriously, and
to join with himself
in seeking
to discern the proper application of the teachings of these prophets
to current events: «We believe that a return
to the teachings of the divine prophets is the only road
leading to salvation....
Religions present a core teaching on how human life can
lead to fulfillment and lasting happiness; they indicate a path of
salvation or liberation
in this life and
in the hereafter.
Staupitz,
in his reply months later from his southern hideout, was warm but guarded: «My love
to you is unchanging, passing the love of women, always unbroken... But as I do not grasp all your ideas, I keep silence about them... It seems
to me that you condemn many things which are merely indifferent... but we owe much
to you, Martin, for having
led us back from the husks which the swine did eat
to the pastures of life and the words of
salvation.»
Many evangelicals, including a number of Southern Baptists, have begun
to observe the liturgical season of Advent, which has
led them
to ponder more deeply the role of Mary
in the history of
salvation.
The actual end is repentance that
leads to sanctification and subsequent
salvation, and godly sorrow for your actions is paramount
in this equation.
The remarkable thing about this sentence is not only its loose syntax but its implicit meaning: (1) the Pauline epistles are regarded as addressed just as generally as II Peter itself is; (2) they have been collected and are regarded as scripture; and (3) among them are the Pastoral Epistles, for the forbearance of the Lord as
leading to salvation is mentioned
in I Timothy 1:15 - 16.
The vote is about
salvation, happiness and together
in unity; we can rescue Nigeria and
lead it
to prosperity,» Tinubu said.
A band of outlaws,
led by tough, gruff Stretch (Peck), find themselves knocking at death's door after becoming lost
in the treacherous western Badlands — only
to find their
salvation in a lonesome town called Yellow Sky, where the only inhabitants are a doddering old man and his mysterious alluring daughter.
The film also engages
in questions of race relations after the women capture a Native American man and force him
to lead them
to water, and
salvation.
As power - hungry orc warlock Gul» dan (Daniel Wu)
leads an advance party through a Dark Portal from the depleted lands of Draenor
to fertile Azeroth, clan chieftain and new father Durotan (Toby Kebbell) begins
to wonder whether Gul» dan and his destructive «Fel» magic might
in fact be the cause of all the Orcs» woes, rather than their
salvation.
A letter written by Hanks» character
in the Luisa Rey segment, a bit of dogma spat out by Sonmi - 451, Frobisher's endless letters, they all serve as a device
to tell us that we're supposed
to be watching a film about how the friendship between Ewing and the stowaway slave has a ripple effect that could
lead to the
salvation of man 500 years later.
There a several problems that eventually force the bandwagon back
to district headquarters,
in order that it might be retrofitted for the next great thing that is going
to lead us
to educational
salvation.
The soul of good teaching lies
in motivation.A self - motivated person can spread inspiration like sunrays.But
in my country India, we value a GURU higher than God himself, for he enlightens the path and
leads the disciple
to attain knowledge and ultimately,
salvation.