Sentences with phrase «not obedience to»

Not obedience to authority.

The story of Abraham shows that God requires faith, not obedience to a legal code, for he was called by God when he was not circumcised.

But the obedience that He is after in us is not obedience to the law... but the obedience of faith.

Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed; rather, they are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth and by the understanding that an individual's theology is a result of that search and not obedience to an authoritarian requirement.

Surely the «pastor» would not want to damage anybody, the old» bull in the china shop» approach it would seem, is not obedience to Christ.

Not exact matches

They are designed to command obedience, not participation.

I don't know how to be a good Christian; I can only hope to follow Christ and do what he says, that maybe through my obedience, someone else can experience gain.

As to those women on whose part you see ill ¬ conduct, admonish them (first), (next), refuse to share their beds, (and last) beat them (lightly, if it is useful), but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of annoyance).

It's not about a law or legalism... If you are truly Born of God obedience is just the natural outcome of love, not trying... If you find yourself trying to not cuss, well, that's works and legalism... but if you walk by the Spirit where the topic just never really comes up because it's not in God's, Jesus» or the Holy Spirit's vocabulary.

(Ephesians 5:22 - 24) «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

The book of Acts tells us that the first Christians referred to their own faith as «The Way» (9:2; 19:9; 22:4; 24:14, 22), indicating thereby that the faith is not merely a collection of dogmas but an active life of obedience to the God who has saved us through his Son.

In «Obedience,» Herbert offers himself to God, asking that God's will would work through him in all things — including his poetry: «Let me not think an action mine own way / But as thy love shall sway / Resigning up the rudder to thy skill,» he writes.

Haran was halfway to Canaan, but it was not complete obedience.

Faith is a curious obedience, a dynamic not static commitment to our own dignity and that of others.

Those persons are not able to see that morality has it's own rewards so they have to be bribed into good behavior or threatened into obedience.

If you are a Christian, and you are not actively pursuing a life of holiness in obedience to God, you are living in a fire damaged house, and it's no wonder that this Christian life isn't all you heard it would be!

I need to be more obedient like Abraham and not be like Terah's reluctant and half hearted obedience.

Water does not save but it is a part of the act of obedience in regards to salvation and we know that the thief on the cross was saved unless you regard that as a different part of salvation.

And please don't fail us by not calling us to live a life of radical purity and obedience to Christ either, because this is the best and most fulfilling life there is.

And so how thankful we can be that He never, not once in all of Scripture, tells us that in order to receive eternal life, we have to promise Him certain things or a certain level of obedience.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Obedience to God, these texts suggest, can not take place in isolation from social structures; faith in the living God demands not only love of neighbor.

But their quick obedience to that look isn't because they are worried about a frightful spanking or punishment when they get home away from witnesses.

If there is anything Americans don't like to admit to more than sins, it is anything associated with the word «obedience.»

Therefore it seems to me that one can not ignore obedience as part and parcel of what it means to be saved.

At the heart of Mary's worthiness is her obedience, not to a man, not to a culture, not even to a cause or a religion, but to the creative work of a God who lifts up the humble and fills the hungry with good things.

But our obedience will be called for, not only in major decisions — what job to take, where to live and serve, whom to marry or not to marry — but in dozens of daily opportunities to do what is clearly God's will: to seek justice, to be merciful, to put others before ourselves.

«When it's something we like, we say it's commitment to an idea; when it's something we don't like, we say it's blind obedience,» said Douglas Jacobsen, a theology professor at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.

Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?»

If these are to be more than easy expressions of cheer and fleeting good intentions, they must be seen not as sentiments but as commands, words that summon not just a mood but a steady and faithful obedience.

Not to preempt, I take the Cain and Abel story as a struggle to please God through sacrifice (a religious act) where the differences led to conflict, though later it is written that obedience is better than sacrifice, as it ever was.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

Furthermore, the Jews were not motivated here, as Haman was, by greed and self - advancement, but were solely focused on obedience to the Word of God, and focused only on defending themselves, not on profiting from their enemies.

Adam's eagerness to snatch the prize of equality with God — the desire of Everyman to set himself up in the place of God as absolute master of a world which is really not his own, but God's — is replaced by the second Adam's total self - surrender: his obedience to the point of accepting the death of the Cross; death which paradoxically leads to life, whereas the consequence of Adam's self - glorification proved to be death.

«Hope... mobilizes to a new obedience,» writes Moltmann, for hope remains «a permanent disquiet... not comfort, but protest, not nightmarish enthusiasms, but resistance, suffering, not escape but love — that is what hope brings into life.

He care about their actions and whether or not they reflect obedience to God's Word.

If you can not find another verse, and if you can't change the definition of «ONE», then you need to step into obedience and make sure that you never go to any other mediator, such as Mary, or any saint, or an Angel, in prayer.

We believe that obedience to God is the pathway, not an obstacle, to our fulfillment as women.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

Entry into this relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of life which was required of him by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.

Besides obedience to avoid punishment is not nearly as fulfilling as a loving relationship built on trust and security.

The authenticity of the Sunnah is proved by the Qur» an, for it orders that the Prophet should be obeyed and it made obedience to him a form of obedience to God and a recognition of His love, «But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe (in truth) until they make thee judge of what is in dispute between them and find within themselves no dislike of that which thou decidest, and submit with full submission» (Surah IV, 65).

Abraham's unconditional love for his creator was also demonstrated in obedience; and God in turn credited righteousness to him Faith is not void of evidence nor is it blind.

In such a case, it is possible to live with a faithful recognition that reception of Holy Communion is not possible, and quiet humble obedience to God's plan.

Contrary to the teachings of many religious men, the love of God does not mean the submission of one's will in obedience to God.

Hence there must be reasons for obedience and love which can not force the consent of faith but which help to motivate and support the choice of love in return for love.

Are we not arguing that there is a correlation between happiness and obedience to God (or faith), between unhappiness and revolt against God, according to the ancient theory debated in the Book of Job?

Tacia that is true one of my favorite verses is if we love him we will obey him thats how we express our love for him he does nt want sacrifice he wants obedience but not out of fear of judgement but because we love him with all our hearts and want to do all we can to show that we appreciate what he has done for us.The woman who offered the few mites gave everything she had the rich people gave out of there abundance.Big difference it wasnt the value it was the attitude she gave her all to God and God honored her.The verse that comes to mind that sums it all up that we are to love the Lord with all our hearts mind soul and strength and love our neighbours as ourselves.brentnz

This sort of god «lovable and understandable to women» may be unattractive to many men because he can not make absolute claims on us for worship, obedience, and authority, or if he makes such claims, we might be justified in challenging him and even charging the claim to his wicked or unfinished side.

Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»