Sentences with phrase «paramount importance christians»
It is of paramount importance Christians portray accurately the character of the God of the Bible to the world; even more so to fellow believers.
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Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.
Of these, which for the Christian are of paramount importance as the incomparable instances of divine love and suffering, it can not be said that they, as «the characteristics of intuitive realization, nondogmatic toleration, insistence on non-aggressive virtues and universalist ethics, mark Jesus out as a typical Eastern seer.
A verse of paramount importance to Job — and equally so for Christian doctrine — is 42:6: «Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes» (NRSV).