Sentences with phrase «of eternal truth»

He departs from much pietistic tradition by making Creation and divine providence subservient to the evolutionary world process, rather than viewing God's activity as a sporadic set of interventions designed to inform man of some eternal truth or to keep him traveling the straight and narrow.

(«Idealism shrinks from attributing the absolute to an individual person, and accidental facts of history can not bear the whole weight of eternal truth.»)

By contrast, says Socrates, the philosopher is a person who begins with absolute confidence, with a vision of eternal truth, goodness, and beauty, and with his own psychic kinship to these abiding forms.

God, after an, did not assume the guise of a remote Rabbi who simply declared the principles of eternal truth, but in the Son he compassionately entered into the life of ordinary people and declared to them what God's Word meant to them.

The contradiction of our hypothesis is that man receives the condition in the Moment, the same condition which, since it is requisite for the understanding of the eternal Truth, is eo ipso an eternal condition.

To Bonhoeffer, the Bible was meant «to be expounded as a witness, not as a book of wisdom, a teaching book, a book of eternal truth» (No Rusty Swords, p. 118).

Socrates initiates a radical departure from such materialism into a realm of spirituality: each human, he avers, is inhabited by a soul, a conduit to the realm of eternal truths.

Certainly there have always been those Christians who have understood their faith solely in spiritual or personal terms, who have thought of Christianity as the guardian of eternal truths and timeless values in a world of change and decay.

Process philosophy is, therefore, a much - needed corrective of theological and scientific dogmatisms of eternal truths, fixed categories, and unchangeable permanences.

If we had to locate Duméry's position in relation to that of his master Plotinus, we would have to say that the sole difference is that for him Christian dogmas, which are only mythical representations of eternal truths, ought not be eliminated, but understood.

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

One of the eternal truths about baby sleep is that as soon as you start to feel cocky or smug about how your kid's sleeping, it'll come back to bite you in the keister and your kid will stop sleeping.

It embodies an ancient philosophy based on a deep understanding of eternal truths about the human body, the mind and the spirit.

Not exact matches

The sooner we wake up to this eternal truth the sooner we can all reap the blessings of a peaceful world.

Have those misconceptions about the Law given to the Jews clearly explained and find out why God allows suffering and where the idea of a hellfire really came from and what the truth is that leads to eternal life.

The truth at the end of the day is that only Christ demonstrated his love for mankind and could redeem men from eternal sinfulness.

I do believe that Christ is the only way to eternal life, and I also believe that all religions and philosophies contain elements of truth.

My question is this... If you are going to go in and share in what may seem lovely sentimentalities and veer away from the DIVINE eternal truth of God, why go in as a chaplain - a minister - just go in as a social worker or a volunteer.

If that is true of the gospel's most counterintuitive claim — that it is through the unjust death of a just man that the world is redeemed — it is also true of his claim to be the truth that is the way to authentic human life, and to eternal life.

But Truth and Method opens with a verse of Rilke on the «eternal partner» and «the great bridge - building of God» for good reason: «establishing the ontological background of the hermeneutical experience of the world» was the work's ultimate objective.

and at the time of jesus moses gallileo newton charles darwin, people opposed them but ultimately the same people bowed to their eternal truth, so norm is man made not natural and it changes from time to time, the only thing which is self reliant and unchanging is mother nature, so Sikh faith is not a ritualistic dumb faith, indeed it's a lifestyle which tells to «Respect and follow The Laws of Nature and not to destroyy the beauty of nature».

By the illusion of critical power that turns us from the source of truth, or by the eternal partner to whom we must open our hearing to find our way?

I agree if he understands eternal truths in the sense that there are confessions of truth eschatologically valid once for all time, never out of fashion but always worthy to be remembered, confessed, and more deeply reflected upon by the people of God in order to discover always anew their eternal newness (as Pope Francis says in Evangelii Gaudium, 11).

Laws change according to the needs of the people, Truth is eternal.

For the unshakeable truth of all of history is that «God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»

Without the truths of the death and resurrection of Jesus, there is no gospel, but the gospel is way more than a message about justification and how to get eternal life.

There are likely hundreds (maybe thousands) of truths in the gospel which help prepare a person to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

If you confuse purification gospel truths with the presentation truth, then you might think it is necessary for a person to repent of their sin or believe in the future judgments in order to receive eternal life.

Only one theological position has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and that once a person has received eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.

On one level Jesus heals a cripple, opens the eyes of the blind or raises the dead, but on another level he reveals a truth about life eternal which God makes available in Jesus Christ.

From search for wealth and power and scorn of truth and right, from trust in bombs that shower destruction through the night, from pride of race and nation and blindness to your way, deliver every nation, eternal God, we pray!

So likewise the «existential» truth of Eternal Recurrence shatters the power of the old order of history, transforming transcendence into immanence, and thereby making eternity incarnate in every Now.

I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference between how to receive eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ alone for it), and the logical and theological foundations for that truth (deity of Jesus, death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).

She has seen that Elisha is in truth a prophet of the Eternal.

Dr S Radhakrishnan, however, adds that «The rishis are not so much the authors of the truths recorded in the Vedas as the seers who were able to discern the eternal truths by raising their life spirit to the plane of the universal spirit.»

Those who could acknowledge in faith its claim to possessing the eternal truths could become members of the institution by baptism.

But they do disclose to us certain important truths, upon which the attainment of our eternal salvation depends, and they do also give a popular description of the origin of the human race and of the chosen people.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

Is God's Final Judgment one of «eternal» hell for mankind who didn't repent while here on earth... despite the fact that Jesus said, «It is finished»... and Jesus «wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth»... and Jesus is «our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.»

They will need to learn that the body of Christ is of great faith - building benefit from the cradle to the grave, the Word of God is not just a book full of good ideas to live by, Jesus isn't just a good friend to have in a pinch — He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life — the only way to the Father and eternal life.

He wants everyone to come to a knowledge of the truth, and calls everyone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, which is possible through the will.

Take, for example, Jürgen Moltmann's (b. 1926) view of creation as the expression of «God's self - communicative love» or Wolfhart Pannenberg's (b. 1928) rich treatment of the Paschal events confirming for us the eternal truth that Jesus is the obedient Son, the Father is the Ruler of all, and the Spirit is active always and everywhere, including in death.

I would be willing to be patient and pray that theists will have the supernatural reality of God and truth revealed in love, grace and mercy... before it is too late for their eternal calling.

Reality is more than a bit touched leading all his fellow atheists to the eternal flames with his hatred of Jesus» truth.

But when we understand that the gospel contains both truths, about how to receive eternal life and properly live this life, then we can stop arguing about the role of faith and works in the gospel and see that both have their proper place with proper results.

And of course as an atheist your Extreme Hypocrisy and Pathological Lying does help to Illustrate the Eternal Truth that will last Forevermore.

In the end, Paul's message in the first half of his letter to the Romans points to one single truth: Because God has done everything necessary as far as our eternal life is concerned, there is absolutely nothing we (or anyone or anything else) can do to lose our eternal life once we have it.

Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by which to live.

Jesus» truth will have you find all the emotions of man and if you stick with it, becoming a true Christian that follows Jesus» truth takes courage and conviction, not baby feel good hypocrisy to make you a whiner stewing in your sins that leads you to the eternal fires.

I mean the idolatry that successfully tempts so many religious people into thinking that they possess the ultimate truth of God — the idolatry of the evangelical tradition that equates the words of Holy Scripture (usually the King James Version) with the eternal, life - giving Word of God.