Sentences with phrase «own means of salvation»

Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation

The Law stays the same, the means of salvation and being able to keep it has changed because Jesus goes on to say that» unless your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye likewise shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.»

At a meeting in the fall of 1996, it was determined that further progress depended upon firm agreement on the meaning of salvation, and especially the doctrine of justification.

Evangelical Catholicism proclaims the great gift of friendship with Jesus Christ, not as one attractive possibility in a supermarket of spiritualities, but as the God - given and unique means of salvation for everyone.

The statement says that the book is incompatible with Catholic doctrine on three crucial scores: Jesus Christ as the unique and universal Savior of all; the salvific character of non-Christian religions; and the Church as the ordinary means of salvation.

The disfunction of evil forces which block the way to human fulfillment is a means of salvation.

I have felt the undercurrent since just barely stating that «I didn't think I ascribed to Calvinism» and since have been told «the problem with you is,» «you misunderstand the meanings of words,» and one friend said «Poor Sue» in the subject line of an email she sent me in response to an email on my understanding of the means of salvation!

Again, I am not advocating living under the law as a means of salvation, which is what Paul was addressing in Galatians.

In so doing, He who is both true God and true man assumed our guilt and experienced the fullness of our pain, thus transforming suffering into the means of salvation.

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.

It provides the means of salvation for people who try but fail to live as he did.

No matter what activity was actually going on in the Corinthian church regarding «the dead», why is the discussion / controversy about baptism and not the «true» means of salvation according to Baptists and evangelicals: an internal belief in Christ; an internal «decision» for Christ?

[41:57] The same motif of salvation is expressed in spiritualized terms by a great anonymous prophet who, in the time not long after the fall of the state of Israel, sees the means of salvation emerging in the Servant of Yahweh.

There is no one word that expresses the full meaning of salvation.

We may not have to as this alie race may not have fallen as the human race did or God provided them another means of salvation

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.

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 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.

In this background the spread of the Church was regarded as the highest spiritual value as it communicated the means of salvation to persons who would otherwise be dammed eternally.

Baptism was considered essential for salvation, and the Church was regarded as the unique means of salvation.

On the contrary the traditional approach was for the baptized to think of themselves as a privileged group favoured by God and having more access to the means of salvation.

Although Mormons are usually friendly, loving, and kind people, they are deceived by a false religion that distorts the nature of God, the Person of Jesus Christ, and the means of salvation.

But how can the Catholic Church at once possess the «fullness of the means of salvation» (omnis salutarium mediorum plenitudo) and yet be deprived of certain spiritual gifts?

The gospel of John in a number of different passages attributes to Christ claims to be the unique means of salvation.

Judaism, land - rooted in content but universal in form and reference, demonstrates that «it is normal for religions to convert into means of salvation the experiences arising from the social interaction which a common land makes necessary for a people» (NZ 135).

While the fullness of the means of salvation is given in the Church and is necessary for those who understand that, nobody is outside the possibility of saving grace.

Paul then took this common formula, and transformed the meaning of salvation, so that we are being saved from the sins themselves and not merely from their consequences.

It still won't make the rapture any more real or change the historical meaning of salvation.

Crowder is probably the most controversial and has many critics but if people take time to read his book rather than slurring his character, they will then see the meaning of salvation.

The deepest meaning of salvation involves the love of life and a life of love.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

Moreover, there is no agreement with regard to the meaning of salvation within the Christian church itself».30

Certainly he did not himself institute baptism as a sacramental means of salvation, as the legendary account in Matt.

The Christian story is nothing else than an effort to represent the meaning of a salvation which had actually been bestowed and received in the fellowship men had with Jesus.

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.

Luther insisted that faith in Jesus Christ, not our good works, is the means of salvation (sola gratia).

My experience with AA included the smoke filled rooms filled with thankful people spouting Scripture for their own means of salvation from their inner demons.

The divine unilateral risk and Christ's nonviolence were the means of our salvation.

The chief emphasis of the new movement is on a relationship with a God who is personal, full of love and grace for his creation, and on the grace of God as the means of salvation.

Baptism opens up the way of Christian life: it is completed by the sacrament of confirmation, and then throughout the Christian's life he can receive God's forgiveness through the sacrament of reconciliation, and be fed by the Eucharist: «Priests are stewards of the means of salvation, of the sacraments... not to dispense them according to their own will, but as humble servants for the good of the People of God» (Benedict XVI).14

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

The Law was not given so that Israel could work out its own salvation; it was not a means of salvation at all.

The unknown prophet we have already mentioned, saw much more deeply into the real meaning of salvation from bondage.

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.

And, more important, when man comes to a knowledge of sin and is deserving of death, he has a greater understanding of the meaning of salvation in Jesus Christ.

We are committed to the historic foundations of the faith, the inerrancy of Scripture in its original manuscripts, the deity of Christ, His uniqueness as a means of salvation and the existence of hell.

In this way Ziolkowski transforms these objects into metaphoric receptacles for a cathartic purge; he inextricably links shamanistic and visceral themes as a means of salvation or cure.

Not exact matches

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

Obeying d laws of love whether u r Christian or not will mean grace n thus salvation will be given.

the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...