Sentences with phrase «only biblical hope»
Again, if that is the angle the g.ay lobby must take, their only biblical hope is to actually convert conservatives to a new faith.
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I would also contend that only a biblical understanding that Jesus of Nazareth is now the risen Lord provides an adequate authority and an unshakable hope for a nonviolent movement.
Hellfire and brimstone is a bit Biblical, but only when presented with the hope of Heaven and the Way, Truth, and Life to get you there.
Thus the gospel was concentrated in the person of Jesus; the hope of the Kingdom receded and became eventually only another name for «heaven,» the other world, the state of bliss beyond death, or, as in Thomas Aquinas, a term for the divine theodicy in general — though in truth this interpretation really emphasized a fundamental element in the whole biblical conception, in Jesus» teaching as elsewhere — and thus an intellectual concept of the person of Jesus tended to become central for Christian doctrine, theology, and devotion, rather than the person of God, his sovereignty and his redemptive will, his wisdom and his love.
His call to a fresh «innocence of becoming» and «newness of life» is at least a faint echo of the biblical prophets and St. Paul, only without the virtues of love and hope.
The consistent biblical position, however, is that only trust or hope can fully energize the ethical life.
By hoping for a future deliverance, biblical eschatology renders present misery only temporary, and even though distress may still remain, the prospect of an eventual solution at least makes pain more bearable.