Sentences with phrase «people about salvation»

Not exact matches

«I have interviewed persons who have talked specifically with Glenn about his personal salvation - persons extremely well known in Christianity - and they have affirmed (using language evangelicals understand), «Glenn is saved,»» Garlow said in his memo, which was dated Wednesday.

Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people.

I wish people would grow up about that fact - it's not like any of these figures» involvement barred them from gaining salvation by becoming Christians after the execution.

-- it's not about being a «good person» we are all evil (me too); «free people do not need salvation»... what about a free person who is about to drown... do they need saving?

The Bible contains a lot of interesting stories, talks between people, between God (Jesus) and people, wisdom (proverbs), prophecy (revelation), words of salvation (the 4 gospels, the epistles), historical data, like dates, locations, names of people involved in the stories, parables, reports about miracles, Jesus did, songs, prayers, psalms etc...

Moreover, such development requires a transcendent vision of the person, it needs God: without him, development is either denied, or entrusted exclusively to man, who falls into the trap of thinking he can bring about his own salvation, and ends up promoting a dehumanized form of development.

Asked about the value of the newspaper debates, Charles said that trying «to lead people to salvation by pointing out sins... only brings antagonism and rebellion and shoves them away.

At our church so many people are confused and worried about loosing their salvation because of wrong teaching about sin and salvation.

Galatians 6:8 says nothing about a person losing their salvation.

It is very specific about what happens to person when they get saved, but it never specifically mentions or warns about one losing their salvation.

I think these conversations provide people an opportunity to think deeply about what they believe about salvation.

I do believe that there are competing views in Scripture about God, sin, salvation, and the role of the people of God in history.

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!)

At the time of the Old Testament, God's Covenants were in place for His people of the time, as revealed first verbally from generation to generation, then when Hebrew became a written language, by Moses and the prophets, and through all time the intended audience knew as much about their condition and need for salvation as God wanted them to know at the time.

They know the word «sin,» they know about Christ's death and resurrection, and they know that salvation comes with naming the reality — that Christ died on the Cross for all people.

The bible assures us that no believer is without that willing sinful nature so the people who believe faith + consistent works = salvation are lying to themselves about their own integrity.

As far as the question posed about what about salvation for people who died before Jesus came, or the people of other faiths who died already?

You said «There are so many metaphors in the Bible for loss of salvation» yet you can't produce one single verse that specifically states anything about a person losing their salvation.

Therefore, one could conclude that those two verses are not talking about the capability of man's will to accept / believe, but about the fact that it is God that chooses, grants, teaches, calls and draws; and that is what God was doing through Christ speaking to this crowd of people — giving all of them in the crowd (Jn 3:16; 1 Jn 2:2; Jn 6:40) the opportunity to be taught by God (by Christ) to believe in Christ for salvation.

But I brought up that little parable to cause people to consider that they should not make dangerous assumptions about their salvation.

Craig, The Bible is clear about people losing their salvation which is why it's hard for me to believe you can't see it.

He says he heard so many people misusing terms such as «born again» and «salvation» that he wrote a book about the practice.

If a person could lose their salvation the Bible would be very exact about how it could happen, but it doesn't because it can't happen to a Christian.

Everyone who doubts his or her salvation displays for the very same reason that they have been saved by God because people who never think about God won't have the same doubts, will they?

Where people join an institution to achieve religious objectives — like the pursuit of faith, prayer, and salvation — they are giving that institution the authority to make decisions about religious matters.

Argue about almost anything else that doesn't matter as much as the person you're arguing with's eternal salvation.

«We detect here no evidence that in the secret counsels of the divine will the Father and the Son chose only some to whom to reveal the truth about salvation» (Klein, The New Chosen People, 83).

Paul recognizes that his Jewish listeners do not accept his message about Jesus and opens Romans 9 with what is the barest beginning of his anxious questioning about whether God's salvation story still includes the people of Israel.

By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness O God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are afar off upon the sea: Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains, being girded about with might; Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves and the tumult of the peoples.

The teacher's method of evangelism had three steps: tell people they are sinners, tell them about Christ, and lead them to salvation.

But not only does my reading of scripture lead me to a different conclusion, where there is uncertainty about such a situation, the safer position is to consider the possibility that renouncing Christ will result in you losing your life and forfeiting your promise of salvation, and determine before hand that you will never renounce Christ even should people threaten you or your families life with death or torture.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

They teach diverse beliefs about the nature of Jesus, God, the second coming, Heaven, Hell, the rapture, criteria for salvation, speaking in tongues, the atonement, what happens to persons after death, and dozens of other topics.

Honestly, I hope you think long and hard about your position on that because the only one in danger of losing eternal salvation is people who utter condemning, anti-Christian, anti-Jesus, anti-love messages like yours.

It is possible for people who have been enlightened about salvation, who have fully experienced salvation, who have come to participate with the Holy Spirit in a deep and vital way, who have fully experienced the Word of God and the powers of the age to come, it is very possible for them to fall away.

Throughout biblical history, when people spoke and wrote about salvation, they were referring to physical deliverance from some sort of temporal calamity, such as sickness, premature physical death, enemies, and natural disasters like storms, floods, and famines.

When I feel like I have something worthwhile to say but am not given the time of day, I like to imagine all the reasons why these people won't hear me — they are so satisfied with their own salvation, they don't care about anyone else; they are afraid to look critically at their elaborate theological systems because they find so much security in them; they are stupid; they are prideful; they are coldhearted.

You also say that salvation is through Jesus alone but you have to make up some fantasy about God being a time - traveler so he can go back and save the millions who were left SOL by the method of instruction God chose to tell people about Jesus (word - of - mouth).

Do we understand in church and seminary what Freire is talking about when he says that people «can not save themselves (no matter how one understands «salvation»), either as individuals or as an oppressor class.

It is also caused by speech that, warped by the modes of technology, involves an exchange of information but does not personally address another person («Son of David») or announce something about oneself («have mercy on me») Where there is neither address nor announcement, there will never be healing, salvation or liberation.

Explicit confession of the Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for salvation, at least under certain circumstances» very wide circumstances, it turns out» says Rob Bell in his Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.

Jesus is not so much acted on and mistreated by the hands of evil people as he is active in using the deeds of sinners to manifest God's glory and at the same time to bring about their salvation.

If people aren't asking about it, it speaks to the failure of the communal witness in deeds, not necessarily the explanation of ideas about God, Jesus, salvation, etc..

In light of our conversation about Anne Frank yesterday, I thought I'd re-post this rather lengthy piece from 2008 (back when I thought people liked to read 1,000 - word blog posts) that details some of the biblical support for a more inclusive view of salvation.

Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «Life Questions.»

Christianity is about personal salvation and a person has the God - given right to claim it if they so please.

The most important thing for people to realize about this is that salvation is not merely about beliefs that people hold.

How often do people argue about whether or not we can lose our salvation, and how to know for sure if we are really saved or not?

I was talking to a person if he went to church and he stated all they want is your money.You got to give your money to read books about GOD, I mean like thirty dollars and more and the same for a dvd or like if you could give 1,000 or more to keep on the air.He and I both think we are better off stay at home and read the Bible and study it.I think if you are born with the new sperit of GOD you will understand the Bible without the loss of great somes of money.After they sell so many dvds it becomes 100 % profit and they never lower the price so can obtain one.For this is wrong, it states in the Bible that this would happen preachers for money to learn about everyones GOD.They forgot one thing JESUS never forced money from you to hear the wordof salvation Im a follower of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD He is the way.Im not a so called Christian just.

The renowned preacher also emphasized the need for people to care much more about the salvation of their souls rather than seeking for miracles and prosperity as they will continue to be used by unscrupulous people who are supposed men of God.