And we might spend hours and days alongside those people as we celebrate the arrival
of the savior who made it possible for us to all live together as part of one family.
Not exact matches
Children
who are not baptized, worship other gods, and never accept jusus as their
savior are going to burn forever according to youe perfect word
of god.
In tales with happy endings, the author is a kind
of savior - facilitator
who rescues the protagonist.
All
of you
who refuse to show love to your fellow man as your
savior instructed, no matter what his / her plight, are the ones
who are truly lost.
4 — I believe anyone
who has accepted Jesus Christ as the Son
of God,
who died on the cross and rose again, as their
savior will spend eternity in splendor.
(By the way, we believe in pre-mortal existence where we were born as spirit children, which we also believe in every living thing having a soul two but anyways thats not revelant...) Which was when they were at the «drawing board»
of the plan
of Earth and everything and how they were going to do everything i.e.
who was going to be the
savior (because every body needs an atonement so we can go back and repent).
Jesus brought us all the rules
of the Mormon church, but people killed Him and the rules Jesus taught were lost for 19 centuries until Joseph Smith, Gods new appointed
savior, could find the golden plates (that nobody ever saw and all 6 people
who claimed to see them later recanted and said they were lying).
If you were a real Christian you would know Christs words speak for themselves and the fact that he didn't take the sword away and turn it into a pruning shear right then and there does not mean he was saying «I mean all this stuff is for later after I come back and kill all the evil people and those
who haven't accepted me as their
savior so you won't have to fear anyone so you can finally give up your guns and weapons
of war...» You disgust me chad.
So before you judge people
who partake in wine and spirits, you should ask yourself whether or not your
savior is one
of the people whom you judge.
Anyway, yes, Roger, if one believes in the doctrine
of Grace, Hess is in Heaven right now, and the Jews
who he helped kill but never accepted Jesus as their
savior, they are all in Hell right now, for all eternity.
Until we discover a new vision
of the
Savior, a
savior who has risen out
of our disappointments, we'll never understand Easter.
Before the cross
of Christ, both the Jew and the Gentile were equal and nobody could make any special claim for salvation: Jesus the Messiah was not the Messiah
of the Jews alone
who had come to deliver them from the hands
of the Romans, but he was the
savior of all people, including the Romans.
The word is full
of people
who believe in Jesus as their personal
savior,
who believe in the inerrancy
of the bible, but
who do nothing to help right social injustice, to help the poor, to feed the hungry, «the least
of these.»
So I attribute these thoughts to those Jesus
who are not my
saviors,
who are antichrists and differents
of you.
When I look at the life
of Jesus, I see a
savior who walked daily and unflinchingly in tension.
In an inscription from 9 C.E. found in Asia Minor, Caesar is spoken
of as «our God» and as a «
savior»
who brought «peace» throughout the earth, and whose birth was «good news» to the world.
He may be one
of the folks
who have not accepted Jesus as a
savior.
It's what caused Eve to bite the apple (the desire to be God — to handle life without God) and it will be the demise
of everyone
who does not acknowledge their need for a
savior and a God.
Behind this heresy, which I saw penetrating into the church, there stood from the very beginning the one
who soon stepped out as the far more dangerous adversary, the one hailed at the beginning — and not least by many Christians — as deliverer and
savior: Hitler, himself the personification
of National Socialism.
Attis
of Phygia: Virgin birth on December 25, considered the
savior who was slain for man's salvation.
They more or less define Jesus the same way Christians do - he is a wholly divine while simultaneously wholly mortal, the human One True Prophet and only True son
of God,
who absolves the work
of all previous prophets, and is the personal
savior of mankind.
The message
of Jesus is FORGIVENESS but to qualify for it, and to personally receive it, you will one day have to admit by faith that you need this forgiveness that He purchased on the cross, and that He truly is
who He claimed to be, THE ONLY TRUE LORD AND SAVIOR, Who alone is worthy of all worship and prai
who He claimed to be, THE ONLY TRUE LORD AND
SAVIOR,
Who alone is worthy of all worship and prai
Who alone is worthy
of all worship and praise!
The promise
of a
savior is astonishing news for the people
who were desperate for a
savior.
I guess I am one
of those «fundamentalists»
who believes the latter
of accepting Jesus as
savior.
He came to seperate the ones
who accept Him as their personal
savior and the rest
of the world.
This kind
of internal contradiction seems to run through much traditional theology; it finds explicit expression in Luther's dichotomy between the terrible God,
who put him not only in awe but in utter terror, and the tender and loving God whom he knew in Jesus Christ as the
savior, the loving friend, and the gracious Father
of men.
The sutra is inexhaustibly rich with deep and fine similes which express this anxious love.10 The wisdom
of the Tathagata is so high, his knowledge is so deep, that to the man
who is blind, erring, and engrossed in the world it must seem to be absolutely incomprehensible.11 However — and what Mahayana shows to us is the highest reconciliation between God and man — this compassionate love turns to each man with the appropriate means and in unique ways in order to show him that he too has within himself the potential not only
of ending his own suffering but also
of one day being himself transformed from one saved to a
savior, a Tathagata.
the effect
of his account
of salvation is that Christ comes to look almost like a Marcionite
savior,
who does not so much inaugurate the liberating history
of God with us as describe a path
of flight from time.
It follows that the highest command can no longer be the attainment
of individual salvation — as Pali Buddhism formulates the goal
of its way
of life — but rather the imitation
of the Buddha,
who in turn is understood to be not merely a model for the attainment
of one's own salvation, in the Hinayanist autosoteriological sense, but a universal world
savior.
And this was his offer: you can become full - fledged members
of the Chosen Nation instantly if you believe that Jesus was the
savior who died for you on the gallows.
One
of the most unpalatable lessons
of history is that evil is often perpetrated by people
who think they are doing good as midwives
of progress, agents
of natural selection,
saviors of Christendom — whatever.
Neither theologian wishes to suggest sheer universalism, and both remain critical
of Knitter, John Hick and others
who recognize
saviors apart from Jesus Christ.
And after all it is not Jesus the teacher, nor Jesus the healer,
who is at the heart
of the Christian faith, but the Jesus Christ
who is known by faith as the
savior and Lord
of men.
But if you took the time to get to know people on a deeper level you might see that not all
of those
who claim Christ as their
savior fall into these little pigeon holes that you and the author discuss.
@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies
of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth
of Christ, Your interpretation
of God at His worst shows a complete lack
of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts
of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language
of the day.Most
of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three
of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his
savior and was in the company
of many
who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard
of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»
By placing yourself under the leadership
of people
of color
who are your mentors, teachers, supervisors, or pastors you may find it hard to fall into a
savior complex; instead you will be constantly listening, learning, and being guided by someone you need... rather than someone
who «needs» you.
The only ppl that can know the truth for sure is the ppl
who have accepted God and his son Jesus Christ and made him a part
of your everyday life... ppl make mistakes everyday, do nt make the mistake
of not getting to know our lord and
savior Jesus Christ..
Rome believed it was the hope
of the world, the founder
of peace (the pax Romana), and the
savior of those
who pledge their allegiance.
A lot
of people have the «Jesus» as a part
of their name; many
who don't care the least about our
savior.
Christians believe that we can not «work» or «earn» our salvation, but only can we enter Heaven by repentance
of sin and trusting in Jesus as our
savior who paid for our sins on the Cross.
To many,
who go so far as to agree with the observation that religion finds itself in a state
of crisis (and there are, indeed, many
who will not even admit the justice
of such an observation) a new theological movement, which has attracted the attention
of the whole Christian world, appears to be the only
savior.
They demand that it become a
savior, while the church has always known that it is not a
savior but the company
of those
who have found a
savior.
In what sense can Christians call Jesus Christ the decisive revelation
of God, the
savior of all humanity, or the Lord
of all the universe, without treading on the religious toes
of Hindus or Buddhists or others
who sense no such universality in Christ?
If you do nt want to salvation, then accept your fate
of eternal hellfire because that is the ultimate end to all men
who refuse Christ as their
savior.
The OT is full
of a wrathful god
who killed the whole world, except one family, then the NT has a loving
savior who didn't want to see anyone suffer.
hating a good man
who's done nothing but try to help the country out
of a horrible mess and spreading lies about him is pretty much the opposite
of how these people's «
savior» said they should act.
The Jews
of Paul's time were looking forward to the coming
of the Messiah, a miraculous
savior who would end the sufferings
of God's people and institute a reign
of perfect justice.
Read the Bible and the Quran, but read both
of the words and get off
of your high horses to think that a religion that teaches such love and beauty, also shows doubt in those
who do not so choose to believe in your
savior.
The lower class citizens, led by the beautiful Maria, a combo
of John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary, prophesy a coming
savior who will break the endless cycle
of fear and enslavement.
Rather, I want to emphasize the alienness
of the Christian message as a whole: This
savior, whom the Gospel proclaims, is an intruder, one
who breaks into human reality like a «thief in the night» — unexpected, unrecognized, indeed unappealing.