In other words, the same devices that laid waste to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and brought the world to the brink of destruction might offer our only
means of salvation in the face of an asteroid - induced Armageddon.
Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation
This included, among other things, teachings on the «
only means of salvation provided for mankind in Christ,» and «the distinct offices of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.»
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.
Evangelical Catholicism proclaims the great gift of friendship with Jesus Christ, not as one attractive possibility in a supermarket of spiritualities, but as the God - given and unique
means of salvation for everyone.
The statement says that the book is incompatible with Catholic doctrine on three crucial scores: Jesus Christ as the unique and universal Savior of all; the salvific character of non-Christian religions; and the Church as the
ordinary means of salvation.
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).
We have already noted that in the past the Church has understood itself as a unique institution of salvation, which has been entrusted with the
sole means of salvation - the sacraments and grace.
But the ineradicable temporal limitation is really only a preliminary dilemma, and beneath it is concealed a deeper
meaning of salvation history — namely, the attainment of the «fullness of time» in the realm of terminology and myths.
My experience with AA included the smoke filled rooms filled with thankful people spouting Scripture for their
own means of salvation from their inner demons.
I spoke to them about the only one God the creator of all things, about the nothingness of idols, the sin of idolatry, sin in general, and its terrible consequences after death and of the
only means of salvation provided for all mankind in Christ.
Some went further, saying that the Church is not only not the
ordinary means of salvation; it is an extraordinary means for people who happen, for one reason or another, to be Catholic.
As a critical moment for religion and religions, there remains a mere moral argument, that is, whether they serve justice and liberation or not.30 In this way, Boff is able to jump from an understanding of the Roman Catholic Church as the one which is in possession of the
full means of salvation to a comprehensive inclusivism and the ecclesial - catholic quality of the whole cosmos.
Their wisest course is to reject the notion that Miliband is the sole source of their problems — or, in contrast, that he is their
sole means of salvation.
Yes, according to the Bible true followers of Jesus Christ are resurrected into heaven in the company of Jesus Christ with God the Father at the appointed time, but LDS do not believe in heaven and hell proper, rather LDS profess that there are different kingdoms in the afterlife - this is one of many distortions of the nature of God, Personhood of Jesus Christ, and
the means of salvation by LDS.
At a meeting in the fall of 1996, it was determined that further progress depended upon firm agreement on
the meaning of salvation, and especially the doctrine of justification.
The disfunction of evil forces which block the way to human fulfillment is
a means of salvation.
In so doing, He who is both true God and true man assumed our guilt and experienced the fullness of our pain, thus transforming suffering into
the means of salvation.
He trusted the power of the Sacraments as
the means of salvation — as Christ working within him for his salvation.
This effect is objective and universal, leaving no one without
the means of salvation through moral freedom — although how the atonement accomplished this result McCabe did not say.
It provides
the means of salvation for people who try but fail to live as he did.
The de-westernization and de-Christianization of the gospel are therefore essential in recapturing
the meaning of salvation in Africa today.
[41:57] The same motif of salvation is expressed in spiritualized terms by a great anonymous prophet who, in the time not long after the fall of the state of Israel, sees
the means of salvation emerging in the Servant of Yahweh.
We may not have to as this alie race may not have fallen as the human race did or God provided them another means of salvation
In this background the spread of the Church was regarded as the highest spiritual value as it communicated
the means of salvation to persons who would otherwise be dammed eternally.
On the contrary the traditional approach was for the baptized to think of themselves as a privileged group favoured by God and having more access to
the means of salvation.
Although Mormons are usually friendly, loving, and kind people, they are deceived by a false religion that distorts the nature of God, the Person of Jesus Christ, and
the means of salvation.
But how can the Catholic Church at once possess the «fullness of
the means of salvation» (omnis salutarium mediorum plenitudo) and yet be deprived of certain spiritual gifts?
There was no consensus as to
the meaning of salvation.
While the fullness of
the means of salvation is given in the Church and is necessary for those who understand that, nobody is outside the possibility of saving grace.
Paul then took this common formula, and transformed
the meaning of salvation, so that we are being saved from the sins themselves and not merely from their consequences.
Crowder is probably the most controversial and has many critics but if people take time to read his book rather than slurring his character, they will then see
the meaning of salvation.
Moreover, there is no agreement with regard to
the meaning of salvation within the Christian church itself».30