Sentences with phrase «necessary for the faith»

«For most adults, faith is underdeveloped, lacking some of the key elements necessary for faith» maturity.»

Why is it necessary for the faith community to fill the roles of family?

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I think the only agenda that is necessary is for us to follow Christ and continue to exercise our faith in Him alone.

So we all, even Osama, will be saved from physical death, but Jesus Christ — the atoning one, and only one capable of being the mediator between us and God the father — can only save the repentant from spiritual death (faith and works meet for repentance are necessary).

Corecco added that in today's globalized, multicultural, and secularized world, where the faith is something that can not simply be taken for granted, it becomes necessary to require a more explicit faith of the contracting parties, if we really want to save Christian marriage.

Never, so far as I can tell, has modern historical study made it impossible for a contemporary person concerned about intellectual integrity to believe what the Church (or the synagogue) has long taught as necessary for true faith.

This is necessary both in order to identify and reject heretical deviations from the truth of the gospel and also to provide sound instruction for passing on the faith intact to the rising generation.

The Israelites, though, were a special case in that a certain harshness was necessary to establish the Jewish Faith and people in order to prepare for a Messiah to save the whole world.

Catholic claims of priestly and especially papal authority thus seemed to prevent individual Christians from choosing their own faith, as necessary for salvation; they also seemed to prevent citizens from thinking and voting independently, as necessary for democracy.

It is a question of faith — faith that the truth of Christ, for which he gave his life, points beyond the narcissism of plausibility to the one thing necessary for our fulfillment as cognitive and loving human beings.

The only thing necessary for salvation is FAITH as Paul stated in Ephesians 2:8 - 9.

Theistic beliefs merely the necessary presupposition for becoming a person of explicit theological faith.

It is possible — and necessary — for us to witness to the fullness of our faith.

Although some commentators claim that the encounter with the hemorrhaging woman simply occupies an interlude in the story of Jairus's daughter, her healing points to the faith necessary for new life.

I am persuaded that nothing short of a thoroughly biblical faith can provide the theoretical base and the staying power necessary to endure the discouragements and the agony of the impending struggle for justice.

It is necessary to collect the questions posed by contemporary human knowledge, especially scientific, and respond to them, showing the reasons for the faith and the plausibility of believing and living as aChristian.

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

It is not the external observance to the law that will be the determinant of the reward, for if it were so, love, grace and faith would not be necessary; we could as well be handsomely rewarded by being a Pharisee.

There are some who teach that both faith and baptism are necessary for justification.

However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

When understood this way, it becomes clear that 1 John 5:1 is not referring at all to the initial faith which grants a person eternal life, but rather to the ongoing faith which is necessary for sanctification and godliness.

Is it really necessary for WTS professors to not only confess faith in Jesus Christ, but also commit to this creed?

Traditional exclusivism holds that 1) Jesus Christ is the only Savior, and 2) explicit faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for salvation.

Furthermore, it is necessary to qualify the idea of the orders of creation by the recognition that the original creation has been distorted by the fall into a universal condition of rebellion against God's design for the world, and that the Christian faith longs for the restoration and fulfillment of creation through the history of God's redemption in Jesus Christ.

If there were a consensus of responsible reflection, then the adoption of that consensus as the vehicle for expression of Christian faith might be necessary.

I think it's time to exchange our fear for faith, and take the necessary steps to get healthy and then seek out a healthy relationship.

An all powerful creator would not make an excuse by putting it back on the people... wouldn't he search for a way to help them understand instead of accusing them of not having faith... trust must be earned by anyone asking for «faith»... an all knowing god would understand this... if no trust... no faith can be had... reading a book does not fulfill even the barest minimum of building a trust which is necessary if you are to ask for «faith».

Art. 7 of the Decree on the Missions says in so many words that God can give in ways known to himself the grace of faith and thus the hope and love necessary for eternal life also to those whom the actual message of the gospel has not reached.

''... reading a book does not fulfill even the barest minimum of building a trust which is necessary if you are to ask for «faith».

Asian theologians such as Wesley Ariarajah, Tissa Balasuriya, Kosuke Koyama, Lynn de Silva, and Aloysius Pieris have found a dialogue with Buddhism both necessary and valuable for their own reflections on Christian faith.

How many Catholics realize that Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical, Humani generis, indicates that duscussion of biological evolution is compatible with Christian faith (# 36)-- as long as God's intervention is recognized as necessary for creating the human soul.

After setting forth what Missouri understands to be the Lutheran teaching of justification by «faith alone,» the ad depicts Catholic teaching in this way: «The Roman Catholic Church teaches that something more than trust in Christ is necessary for us to be saved.

Accordingly, although at some points it will be necessary to state wherein contemporary theologians differ in their interpretations of the Bible and of biblical faith, we shall for the most part keep to the main stream of Christian conviction.

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

Personally we should expect persecution when we are following Jesus and walking by the spirit Jesus said that as he was persecuted so will we.It may not be to the same extent that other believers in foreign countries who are losing there lives for there faith.But persecution for righteousness is necessary for us to grow in our faith just as a tree that is buffeted by winds grows stronger roots.You could call these tests or trails or tribulations or persecutions of a type.What ever comes our way we know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.brentnz

Faith is a necessary component for any answer to any question concerning the things of God, no matter what our personal belief system is.

Yet it was a hope that could claim his attention and interest to the point where he took the steps of faith and obedience so necessary for the fulfillment.

We often hear that while works are not required for justification, they are the necessary result of justification and true saving faith.

These serious, excellent, upright, deeply sensitive people who are still Christian from the very heart: they owe it to themselves to try for once the experiment of living for some length of time without Christianity; they owe it to their faith in this way for once to sojourn «in the wilderness» — if only to win for themselves the right to a voice on the question whether Christianity is necessary.»

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Any way the establishment of a second religion was necessary and as well keeping it astray off track was necessary as well as that it was intended to relieve them from the burden of opening up their Religion faith for new converts to join up in theirs???

I Understand that they consider this a necessary sacrifice for their faith, but it also serves to remove any claim to genuine logic.

Christianity was necessary as well as true because in Niebuhr's eyes it was the only available faith that challenged men and women to struggle for justice while chastising them for their sins.

There are way too many people of faith just sitting around waiting for god's intervention rather that taking necessary action on their own.

I do not see in faith any necessary power for redemption that makes universalism impossible.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

But human greed, pride, selfishness, self - centeredness, and alienation make it necessary for Christian theology to combine faith and reason in the quest for transformation and reconciliation.