Sentences with phrase «of lead them to salvation»

Confessing sins to God, not doing certain things while making an effort to do other things, making a verbal confession of faith... None of these lead to salvation, but are rather a result of salvation and come forth from the indwelling Holy Spirit as fruit.

Not exact matches

Live that way if you really think it's going to help «save» yourself, but do not confuse your foolishness with the fact that others do NOT need your idea of salvation... and just might actually lead a richer life than the one yours.

This makes me wonder about the school she attended to obtain her Chaplain status... every graduate there must not be learning about salvation & how it is the ONLY WAY to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (James 3:3 - 6) If I were in her shoes, I would definately be leading each & every soul to the Lord, and prompting them to make their heart right with God.

2 Timothy 3:14 - 15 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known thesacred writings which are able to give you wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

We understand the statement that «we are justified by grace through faith because of Christ» in terms of the substitutionary atonement and imputed righteousness of Christ, leading to full assurance of eternal salvation; we seek to testify in all circumstances and contexts to this, the historic Protestant understanding of salvation by faith alone (sola fide).

The problem with a theology that preaches that only one religion, and indeed only one interpretation of one religion, can be correct, and all others lead to salvation, is that you're jumping into an already crowded pool when you say that.

I am talking about the forgiveness of sins that lead to salvation.

It would be harder for him to harbor that suspicion were he leading the people humbly to the east and the dawn of salvation.

As Cobb freely acknowledges, solutions to global problems based only on the experience of white, North American men, «are unlikely to lead to the indivisible salvation of the whole world» (PTPT 153).

Neo-Platonism held, among other things, that the most perfect being was the least physical, and had the least to do with the physical; that the way of salvation necessarily leads from the body, from the earthly - historical, to a realm of pure spirit.

Asked about the value of the newspaper debates, Charles said that trying «to lead people to salvation by pointing out sins... only brings antagonism and rebellion and shoves them away.

If our faith in God saves us, it stands to reason that losing our faith leads to loss of salvation.

Robert Deniro plays a violent conquistador who is trying to repent of past sins and work out his salvation as led by Jeremy Irons who plays the Priest.

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

Others, led by theologian Thomas Oden, call for a return to «classical» theology, the great systems in which the thinkers of the early church took all of reality, including their own salvation, into a comprehensive understanding of God's activity.

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.

THey are the sandcastles of satan who devour millions by making them believe their religion leads to salvation.

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.

This one - sided perspective led him to ignore how intimately interrelated were the traditional concepts of foreknowledge, sovereignty of God, and salvation by grace alone.

There, through much hardship, they lead the dead to liberation or salvation so these souls can rejoin the elements of the world of the living.

The Jewish writers of the New Testament introduced the «ecclesiastical attitude» and other distortions that led to what Rauschenbusch calls «ascetic Christianity,» a religious attitude that thinks in terms of heaven, divine intervention, and personal salvation rather than social justice.

God's people didn't know how all the details would fall into place, and they didn't exactly know that He was coming to only set up a Kingdom of Heaven, not a kingdom of the earth and flesh, but they were led by God's grace to trust Him toward their justification, righteousness, and salvation.

If someone who has salvation commits a sin that leads to death, such as one of the «Seven Deadly Sins», and is unrepentant at the time of death, they can not enter into the Kingdom of God and have effectively lost their salvation.

Religions around the world talk about a path of righteousnous leading to humanity's salvation.

Obama is a progressive Christian who blends the emotional fire of the African - American church, the ecumenical outlook of contemporary Protestantism, and the activism of the Social Gospel, a late 19th - century movement whose leaders faulted American churches for focusing too much on personal salvation while ignoring the conditions that led to pervasive poverty.

God's acts of salvation, insofar as they lead to transformation, happen not outside ourselves or to us, but primarily within us.

A good example is Habakkuk's presentation of a dialogue between the prophet and God — the prophet's first complaint is against the sins of Judean society and God explains that he will be using the evils of the invading Chaldeans to punish Judea; the prophet responds by complaining about the evils of the Chaldeans which God then assures will not go unpunished — that they tyranny itself will lead to it's own punishments and that the punishment for Judea's sins is itself redemptive and God assures that he will be able to provide salvation.

If his stories might be considered simply a retelling of the story of salvation, as some have suggested, might he be attempting to lead the reader along the path to some sort of «spiritual» experience?

In the way leading from one age of solitude to the next, «each solitude is colder and stricter than the preceding, and salvation from it more difficult.»

Similarly there are those who actively refuse the gift of salvation — and these are the ones I've been led to be most concerned about.

This affirmation of God's sovereignty and the principle of salvation by grace led to a series of criticisms against all worldly authorities that claimed to usurp the power of God, be it an authoritarian church, an infallible Bible or a mechanical sacrament that offered salvation in a simplistic way.

First, it is said — somewhat in contrast to the teaching of the southern school — that the significance of the one who leads men to salvation is exemplary.

«Judaism can not accept as the instrument of its salvation the very philosophy of nationalism which is leading the world to destruction.

This philosophy or metaphysic led immediately to an ethic, and the ethic was identical with the teaching of salvation.

Paul is not saying that the destruction of the flesh by Satan necessarily leads to salvation.

On the contrary the truth sets people free and the truth that salvation is a gift from God apart from works will never lead people to a false sense of security.

You may be guilty of leading people astray and causing them to lose their salvation.

Those on the center right need to explain the interpretive rules which seem to lead them to different conclusions on some issues (divorce, the role of women in the church) than on others (homosexuality, salvation for non-Christians).

What you are actually looking at is the only thing on earth and in history that perfectly fits the picture of a broad road that leads to destruction while selling an «assurance of escape from hell aka salvation.»

Poverty and wealth can then become the venue in which redemption once accepted leads to a working out of salvation for both the giver of the cloak and the recipient, done within the life of grace.

This poem leads me to understand the salvation of growth much as I understand Jesus» way of bringing salvation to the people: He did not minister from an exalted station above them.

Freed from the impurity of philosophy and science, religion would at last lead men to salvation.

Any religious tradition claiming to be the absolute truth in a universe so marked by relativity leads not to the salvation of humankind but to its enslavement.

But somehow when it comes to knowledge of God all these things are off limits, and we're told we are selfish if we want to know «trivial» things about God (unless they immediately lead to someone's salvation....

No, for Cyprian, all this is inextricably interlinked to the issue of salvation, a point to which all attributed implicit theological disclosure ought to lead.

The teacher's method of evangelism had three steps: tell people they are sinners, tell them about Christ, and lead them to salvation.

At least in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his salvation, and the need to realize the significance of these convictions in relation to contemporary world and life views, have led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.

One may, in other ways, feel sorrow for sin (the sorrow of regret, or remorse, or despair); but one can not feel the sorrow of repentance (which alone leads to forgiveness and salvation) unless one knows that God suffers because of our sin incalculably more than we — and that he suffers willingly and out of love for us.

The church's ministration is basically one of caring for its people and enabling them to lead the gospel life and thus to move the world on toward salvation.

Whereas you suggest that it is the Jesuit tendency, as demonstrated in Pope Francis, to subordinate human and divine law to a missionary end, St. Ignatius understands the subversion of divine law as leading not to salvation, but to damnation.