Sentences with phrase «meaning of salvation which»

The Christian story is nothing else than an effort to represent the meaning of a salvation which had actually been bestowed and received in the fellowship men had with Jesus.

These two sacraments can be understood as closely linked to the two-fold meaning of salvation which we have already considered — penance leading to the forgiveness of sin committed after baptism, and the Eucharist leading to the fullness of God's own life.

Not exact matches

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

The disfunction of evil forces which block the way to human fulfillment is a means of salvation.

Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent

If the Christ paradigm offers salvation to the rich via his identification with the oppressed masses in their struggle for justice, this route must really mean a greater enrichment of experience for that rich man than, let us say, the enjoyment of good books and music which the continued leisure of the upper class could have afforded him.

And though some claim that the «gift» which Paul refers to in Ephesians 2:8 - 9 is faith, the Greek word «that» («that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God) is neuter and the Greek word for «faith» is feminine, which means the gift of God is not faith, but rather the entire «salvation package» which originated with God (i.e, «by grace you have been saved»).

Again, I am not advocating living under the law as a means of salvation, which is what Paul was addressing in Galatians.

That risk was to put the means and instruments of beatitude and salvation into human hands — which is to say, into the hands of sinners who would inevitably make a mess of things from time to time.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

What's more, such people are not just to be a sign and foretaste of that ultimate salvation; they are to be part of the means by which God makes this happen both in the present and the future.»

Man's relation to God, which means his salvation, can not be based on, or sustained by man's own initiative, but is instituted by the sovereign action of God.

Basically, it convinces you that you are a sinful child of the devil, which is meant to humble you, which is meant to prepare you for repentance, which is meant to make you ask for salvation, which is meant to get you saved, which is meant to teach you that you are now a child of God.

For Jews, too, salvation is an act of God's hesed, a word that the KJV obscurely translates «lovingkindness,» but which really means an unconditional act of love, uncompelled and unmerited.

The significance of Abraham is, first, that God in fact promised to extend his salvation through Abraham to all nations, and second, that the story of Abraham reveals not only the temporary sign of the covenant (circumcision), but also the means (faith) by which a person of any nation can come and share in the promised blessing.

Christ manifests the divine will by his obedience unto death, which means by denouncing human passions and strivings, revealing in this way God's eternal thought concerning the salvation of humankind.

Yet much can be done in the way of making clear the understanding of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this life for its fulfillment, the meaning of the Kingdom for this life and the next, the Christian concepts of judgment and salvation with eternity in their span — in short, the goodness and power of a God who, having given us this life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer happiness, and do his will more perfectly.

Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group; in this context it fails to convey its full meaning and purpose as the expression of or solidarity with the new humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples of the coming church....

As DiNoia notes in his first chapter: The Christian claim that there is no salvation except through Jesus Christ, or the Buddhist claim that there is no attainment of Nirvana except in the following of the Excellent Eightfold Path, reflects not an unwarranted exclusivism on the part of these communities but the seriousness with which each regards the true aim of life and the means necessary to attain and enjoy it.

Christ sent the apostles to proclaim his death and resurrection to every creature so that, the document continues, «they might accomplish the work of salvation which they had proclaimed, by means of sacrifice and sacraments, around which the entire liturgical life revolves».

Judaism, land - rooted in content but universal in form and reference, demonstrates that «it is normal for religions to convert into means of salvation the experiences arising from the social interaction which a common land makes necessary for a people» (NZ 135).

Under the secret call of grace in which God offers himself, this freedom is always meant either for judgment or salvation, and only the Gospel says reliably where this leap of freedom leads: it encounters the God of forgiving grace, indeed it is made possible only by him.

The three jewels, right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct, afford the clue to the attainment of moksha, or salvation, which to the Jain, as to the Buddhist, meant release from the wheel of birth, on which one is held by the law of Karma.

The principal means of this encounter is the liturgy, in which the great events of salvation history are dramatized and celebrated.

Oh, I love everything you write and was surprised to see that you do not believe in universalism (christian universalism I mean, which is salvation of the world in Jesus Christ - restoration of all things)!!

elements, by which I mean such things as faith, worship, sacraments, communion with God, the way of salvation, and the hope of eternal life.

We might even surmise that it was meditation upon the meaning of Christ which initially brought Whitehead to a new understanding of the cosmic or total coinherence of fact and salvation.

The Bible was therefore believed to reveal without error the origin of the world, the meaning of history, the moral laws by which all should live, and the only path to salvation.

It is clear that Thomas's poetic vocation coincides with this choice for the world's factual colors to which he points as a means of grasping the possibility of salvation.

The well known principle extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, or the most notorious position of Boniface VIII, «Furthermore we declare, state, define, and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff,» are but further indications of this exclusive attitude - dominant but by no means universal - of the Church which separates Christians from all others.

Third, one can not pass by means of Christ to salvation except in uniting oneself — at least in an invisible manner — to the church, which is at the same time visible and invisible, and in having a real, positive relation to baptism (and also, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, to the Eucharist).

In thus inseparably uniting primeval story and salvation story the Yahwist expresses the meaning and goal of the function of redemption which Yahweh has charged to Israel.

Positively, salvation means the emergence of a healthy Earth in which human beings live in communities that meet the needs of all.

But today we abhor the very notion of eternal suffering inflicted; and that arbitrary dealing - out of salvation and damnation to selected individuals, of which Jonathan Edwards could persuade himself that he had not only a conviction, but a «delightful conviction,» as of a doctrine «exceeding pleasant, bright, and sweet,» appears to us, if sovereignly anything, sovereignly irrational and mean.

Being a Christian means that you have trusted in the true God for salvation ------ Being a christian also means that you are arrogant enough to think that your opinion equates to «knowledge» of the «true God», which is ridiculous.

With which part he should identify his real being is by no means obvious at this stage; but when stage 2 (the stage of solution or salvation) arrives, (Remember that for some men it arrives suddenly, for others gradually, whilst others again practically enjoy it all their life.)

While one questions the meaning of life and believes in «salvation through work,» the other's desire is to create spaces with an «emptiness which must be filled with people and light.»

The second reason this is an important book is that, despite its nature as a catalog of ways and means, it strains against the technological reductionism, extremely common in the climate movement these days, in which green technologies, more or less on their own, are seen as our salvation.