Sentences with phrase «only by faith in»

Traveling to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have disavowed Christianity and taken a Japanese wife, Rodrigues and his fellow Jesuit Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) are confronted with abject poverty and an oppressive government that condemns Christians to live in fear — desperate circumstances the fathers believe can be improved only by faith in God.

Only by faith in the goodness of God and his power to conserve the good and even at times to make good come out of evil, can courage and the forward look be maintained.

Indeed, it is only by the gift of freedom in Christ that we become aware of the terrible burden of the law, and only by faith in Christ do we receive the power to name the darkness of sin and guilt.

We are justified only by faith in this Jesus, he insists.

Jesus tells us it is impossible to get to heaven by our own works and that only by faith in Him is it possible (Matthew 19:26).

Rex i do nt disagree that the Lord is returning i am looking forward to that nor about John the baptist but i am saved i think it is dangerous to tell people they are not saved by a few comments you do nt agree with.whether you know the word well or go to church or even do good works is no guarantee that you are saved that just means you are religious.It is only by faith in Jesus Christ that all are saved and not by works brentnz

Not exact matches

In her memory, we devote our actions to a just cause; to defend what is right and to protect the interest of not only shareholders but most importantly the far more important stakeholders of employees, drivers and customers whose lives have been forever altered by the abiding faith and fervent hard work of Travis Kalanick and the Uber team.

Not only did Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, both 50, celebrate 21 years of marriage this year, but they did so by releasing a joint album «The Rest of Our Life,» inspiring others both in their career moves and their commitment to each other.

«The only way the American people can have faith in this investigation is for it to be led by a fearless, independent special prosecutor.»

He argues that monotheism by its very nature admits the confession of faith only in the one God of Israel, so that the worship of other gods is suppressed — along with their worshippers, if necessary.

So as Chirstians when we ask Mormons if they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, that they believe Jesus died and rose again on the third day to take away our sins and they say yes, they are not saying that they believe by confessing this that they automatically will live in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are and when they acknowledge our faith they don't believe that we will automatically be there based only on the blood of Jesus alone either.

You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom God of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the love of God — i.e. true love which stems from God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.

all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

That's because we recognize only one Christian nation, the church, the holy nation that is bound together by a living faith in Jesus rather than by man - made, blood - soaked borders.

These beliefs are apparently the ones set forth by Messrs. Johnson, Hoge, and Luidens in «Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline» (FT, March 1993): (1) That Christianity is the only religion with a valid claim to truth, (2) that persons can be saved only through Jesus Christ and otherwise go to hell, and (3) that therefore one should try to convert others to the Christian faith.

The RC church is second only to the Taliban in the application of retribution towards its members (and by extention of its insistance of being the one «true» faith) to the rest of the world.

Religious beliefs, Jewish or Christian, that are God - centered are considered beyond the pale of good taste in their eyes and are subscribed to only by «yokels» and «morons» of either faith.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

Faith that the sun will rise is more of a resonable expectation than a belief despite evidence — there is a precedent set based on long observation by not only the person making the belief statement, but also by everybody else in the world (except maybe the Inuit).

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Not only that, we are told that we should not question anything in the Bible but to just take on faith that everything written by these other human beings is totally the way that everything works.

Not to mention, for those of you who have a belief and has ur faith in Traditional Christianity (along with any other religion); YOU WILL SUFFER the 7 last plagues of God, due to the mark of the beast that is about to be enforced by a resurrected ROMAN EMPIRE that is arising now in Europe unless you can repent and turn to the ONE and ONLY TRUE GOD!

Pelikan summarized the Protestant way of putting the argument: «If the Holy Trinity was just as holy as the Trinitarian dogma taught, and if original sin was as virulent as the Augustinian tradition said it was, and if Christ was as necessary as the Christological dogma implied, then the only way to treat justification in a manner faithful to the Catholic tradition was to teach justification by faith.»

believing in this is the only way to Heaven (by Christian faith).

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

If they did decide to somehow make people disbelieve in their faith by force, they only have to look to the Catholic church for the roadmap on exactly how to do that!

The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and paradoxes can we truly appreciate its beauty and harness its potential.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

«It is only as we rest IN Christ and His righteousness by faith that we will find ourselves doing the finished works of the Father.

If there is a God and there is just as much for as against, But lets say there is a God and he made everything Including you and He gets to make the rules because lets face it hes a lot bigger then you, So unfortunately he only wants those who believe in him based on the information given, Lets look at the facts based on the Book,, Some of his own angels turned on him and they see him every day... That had to hurt, So he decides With man he only wants those with the faith to believe based on His book and faith found thru the holy spirit, If you refuse to believe then he cant use you, cant trust you, so he will choose to toss you aside, Hey I understand It ai nt fair, Your important, Your Smart, But unfortunately hes bigger then you and he has the Juice, You either play by the rules or wait and see what not believing leads too.

Christian missionaries in Mughal India were constantly trying to present the Christian faith not only by writing in Persian (the language of the Court) but also by telling the Christian story, for example, through the painting of miniatures, a notable art form at the time.

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.

Throughout the Bible, God rewarded those who not only had faith in him but proved it by doing works that pleased him.

I know what torment this is, but I can only see it, in myself anyway, as the process by which faith is deepened.

Based on this observation, the fourth view is that the pronoun is referring to the entire «by grace you have been saved through faith» concept, and the fifth view is that the pronoun only refers to the concept which Paul has stated twice in the context, namely, «by grace you have been saved» (Ephesians 2:5, 8).

Therefore, it is only in so far as we are, as Paul expresses it, «in Christ», united with him by faith which responds to God's grace reaching out to us in him, that we may hope to be raised to a share in his risen life of communion with the eternal God.

They may only enter into full communion with the LDS church as adults, no longer in the custody of their apostate parents, and only by virtue of affirming their faith in the principles their parents reject.

«In so far as one wishes to speak of a modification of faith before and after Easter, it can only be said that «once» became «once for all», the isolated encounter with Jesus limited by death became that presence of the exalted Lord such as the Fourth Gospel describes.»

I believe by faith that my life will be tested with fire and only the things I did in Jesus will remain.

They have been led by experience to conclude that the only power in human life able to counterbalance the dark and divisive faiths of our time is a still stronger faith, a faith concerned with Reality rather than human wishes.

Perhaps it was the only way to preserve faith in God at a time when all the hopes of his people were dashed to earth by the Romans as they had been by the Babylonians in the sixth century B.C. (cf. Is 63:18; 64:11; Rev 11:2).

Mr Bolton, who was only elected in September 2017, was sacked after party members voted by 867 to 500 to express their lack of faith in his ability to lead the party after the scandal over his lover.

Berger wishes to speak of «a God who is not made by man, who is outside and not within ourselves,» but he limits his act of faith in such a God to projections outward from common human experience, i.e., to signals of transcendence70 The result is that Berger is left finally with his own experience alone, a consequence that weakens his understanding not only of Christian theology but ultimately of play as well.

For me, my needs are met in the Church... being fed by the Sacraments I not only kept my Faith alive but it has flourished; it is by the grace of God and all I have to do is bask in his goodness offered freely to me.

A common faith in God is held by only a minority, and comparatively few people believe that there is Absolute Truth to which all human discoveries of truth can be referred.

This transition is effected by the death of the abstract and alien God in the kenotic process of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious form of faith can only grasp this process as a series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.

The disciples were devout Jews, trained not only in the ritual of their faith but in the more mystical fellowship that could say, «The nearness of God is my good,» (Psalm 73:28 as translated by J. M. Powis Smith in The Religion of the Psalms, p. 152) and

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.

If for you your faith is only about «worshiping» the words in a book (which are written by man)... think about it... you might be wasting your time and not realize how distant you actually have become (from the true msg) worrying about trivialities or needing to reconcile scripture with science / common sense... simply because your book (and your self - imposed obligation to believe in the words) doesn't leave you another option.