If
this man dies for his faith, the reward of Heaven will outweigh anything he leaves behind a thousandfold.
Not exact matches
Rather, what we find here is a supreme illustration of the
faith of the one who said: «When Christ calls a
man, he bids him come and
die».44 Nevertheless, some of the Marxist interpreters are correct in their perceptive observation of finding in Bonhoeffer's theology some possibilities
for a constructive encounter between Marxism and Christianity.
i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a
man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to
die for his
faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's
faith either way — god is a
man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a
man claiming to know the will of some kind of god
Faith is good thing, faith in one's
Faith is good thing,
faith in one's
faith in one's self.
It's not about YOU, it's about a brave young
man who is willing to
die for his
faith.
It is a win - win
for this faithful christian
man: if he lives then justice has been done and an innocent life is preserved, if he
dies his death will only mean the growth of the
faith his willing to
die for.
The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a
man has
faith in me, even though he
die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has
faith shall ever
die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has
for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but
for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»
I do in a sense have
faith but my
faith lies in believing in things such as personal responsibility, values such as hard work, respect, and ethics such as charity and helping others (which I developed on my own out of my own choosing and I recieve my own satisfaction from doing not a belief in sucking up to an invisible
man in the sky
for «great reward» after I
die).
In particular we should look to the examples of the holy
men and women over the history of the Church,
for «in him who
died and rose again
for our salvation, the examples of
faith that have marked these two thousand years of our salvation history are brought into the fullness of light» (ibid).
- people believe the Savior is named «Jesus» and remain unsaved... - that Jesus» name really isn't «Jesus» He was never called «Jesus» in His life... - most people don't know the meaning of the name «Jesus»... - you say a person does not need to know ANYTHING about «Jesus» (e.g., that He is a
man, that He is God, that He
died for sins and rose again, that He isn't a Mexican somewhere in Tiajuana)-- other than that this guy is the guarantor of eternal life by
faith alone... - you discount passages that say the lost are saved by the «preaching of the cross» (1Cor.
After the disappointment of seeing another Arsenal title challenge wither and
die, the Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that our star striker Alexis Sanchez had lost
faith with Arsene Wenger and the club in general and was ready to ship out to pastures new was like pouring salt onto an open wound
for Arsenal fans, but judging from the way the Chilean put himself about against
Man City today, perhaps that salt should be taken as a pinch rather than added to those wounds.