Sentences with phrase «only means of salvation»

Of course you would come back and say, well then, we would invite one to trust in Christ's work as the only means of salvation, apart from works.

This, as all Paul's utterances and writings testify, is the only means of salvation.

I spoke to them about the only one God the creator of all things, about the nothingness of idols, the sin of idolatry, sin in general, and its terrible consequences after death and of the only means of salvation provided for all mankind in Christ.

This included, among other things, teachings on the «only means of salvation provided for mankind in Christ,» and «the distinct offices of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.»

I'm now saved (for the 1st time) because I have truly seen the error of my ways (Need of a Saviour), repented to God, turned from all known sin, and have trusted in Jesus Christ's atoning sacrifice as the only means of my salvation.

Not exact matches

If only those who are exposed to the gospel and express explicit faith in Jesus Christ receive salvation, I reasoned, then that would mean the majority of the human race is damned to hell simply for being born at the wrong place and the wrong time.

But in the final analysis it can only mean «Save all those whom it is possible to save,» for the salvation of those who are finally impenitent is an intrinsic impossibility (just as it would be an intrinsic impossibility for God to send rain and withhold rain in the same place simultaneously).

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

Most Christians I know are raised to fear a vindictive God and eternal hell, derive pleasure from the thought that God will provide «evildoers» and non-Christians with their comeuppance and use God as a means to acquire material, trivial things (existence of mega-churches, buy my book, this is the only way to salvation, pray to God so that my football team wins).

The significance of Abraham is, first, that God in fact promised to extend his salvation through Abraham to all nations, and second, that the story of Abraham reveals not only the temporary sign of the covenant (circumcision), but also the means (faith) by which a person of any nation can come and share in the promised blessing.

To put it in today's terms, this means that God passed over the New York City and Chicago of their day, and instead chose to kick - start His great plan of salvation in the kind of town you'd only stop in when you are running out of gas on the way home from vacation.

Under the secret call of grace in which God offers himself, this freedom is always meant either for judgment or salvation, and only the Gospel says reliably where this leap of freedom leads: it encounters the God of forgiving grace, indeed it is made possible only by him.

I mean if God did well enough to see fit to install this perfect plan called salvation before the foundation of man, that who so ever believes that Jesus took not only one for the team or mankind but all of the sins of mankind upon Himself, that in this gift provides freedom liberty and justification?

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

But the ineradicable temporal limitation is really only a preliminary dilemma, and beneath it is concealed a deeper meaning of salvation history — namely, the attainment of the «fullness of time» in the realm of terminology and myths.

Only in some such context can we be prepared to understand what Whitehead might mean by speaking of matter - of - fact entities as the salvation of reality.

The Bible was therefore believed to reveal without error the origin of the world, the meaning of history, the moral laws by which all should live, and the only path to salvation.

A too easy, although quite compelling, way of making the point is that «salvation» is a notion whose meaning is understandable only within the Christian cultural - linguistic system, so of course no one else has it; whatever Buddhists or Confucians, say, are after, it is not salvation.

Being a Christian means not only having a belief that Jesus is the Messiah that God promised to save us from our sins but actually accepting that free gift of salvation with humility and thankfulnness and entering into permanent fellowship with God through Jesus Christ.

But today we abhor the very notion of eternal suffering inflicted; and that arbitrary dealing - out of salvation and damnation to selected individuals, of which Jonathan Edwards could persuade himself that he had not only a conviction, but a «delightful conviction,» as of a doctrine «exceeding pleasant, bright, and sweet,» appears to us, if sovereignly anything, sovereignly irrational and mean.

If there is salvation only for those who believe in Christ, as «extreme Christians» affirm, and salvation for them means eternal life in God, then what will be the fate of the great majority of the people of Asia, or more than two - thirds of the human race?

The remarkable thing about this sentence is not only its loose syntax but its implicit meaning: (1) the Pauline epistles are regarded as addressed just as generally as II Peter itself is; (2) they have been collected and are regarded as scripture; and (3) among them are the Pastoral Epistles, for the forbearance of the Lord as leading to salvation is mentioned in I Timothy 1:15 - 16.

Choice is your only method of salvation and your only means of escape.