Sentences with phrase «promised all of us eternal life with»

It is Christ's victory over evil and the promise of eternal life with God, however, that is at the center of evangelization.

«While we rejoice that Professor Foster's earthly struggles are over and find comfort in the promise of his eternal life with Christ, we grieve the loss suffered by his wife Anise, his children Gus and Avery, and his many friends among the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of Wheaton College.

Not exact matches

In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf, died on the Holy Cross for the remission of our sins (became sin and curse for us) descended to hell and defeated death (keys of which were held by Satan,) rose from the dead on the third day bringing us eternal life and reconciliation with God the Father, then ascended to Heaven promising us the Holy Spirit and preparing the place for us.

Death is pretty much the last frontier, which is why I think christianity with it's promise of eternal life has such a toehold in the western psyche.

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

who with the lordship position can ever know that they have a personal relationship with christ and can stand on his promises of the certainty of salvation and eternal life.

I don't need the promise of eternal life to make me treat others with the dignity and respect I would like to receive and I have friends from all walks of life.

a reality... so there really is no «nicer way» physical death isn't nice... it isn't all good stuff... with the exception it is the vehicle for thos of us who believe in Gods Promises to eternal life..

I also point out how while the gospel does promise eternal life, that life begins here and now, and the vast majority of the gospel is concerned with how we live our life now.

The sociologist Rodney Stark makes some headway in answering the first part of this question: traditional religion, by invoking supernatural power, can promise eternal life, reunion with the departed, a perfected soul, and unending bliss, all of which have obvious appeal and none of which can be offered by merely secular competitors (Stark 169).

Lutherans speak of «growth in grace and faith,» with effects in Christian living; eternal life is, biblically speaking, «unmerited «reward,»» a fulfillment of God's promise to the believer.

Man as we know him today, man of metaphysics, of abstract thought, the creator of his own environment, the space - traveller, the moulder of himself, the man of God and of grace and of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentiality.

May the Lord comfort the bereaved, consoling them with his unshakable promise of eternal life.

Yet, the promise and hope of eternal life in Christ challenged prior beliefs about the meaning of life in «the world» for Christians with roots in the Jewish tradition.

A Christian, who does good deeds with the promise of everlasting life in heaven or the threat of eternal damnation in hell.

doesn't matter... those are merely words of a bunch of men over a long period of time who then edited the book to fit their own personal agenda of controlling weak minded people with fear mongering and promises of eternal life.

I go on the truth of his Word and the promise that I can have eternal life with Him John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son (to suffer for me in my place for my sins) that whosoever believes on him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

Write it with liberal doses of love messages and promises of eternal life... they'll eat it up; and then he just sits back and watches y» all fight over it.

Rather, assuming that we agree with your premise — that people who believe these things remain unsaved — there is another entirely viable option: that it is not sufficient to believe these things apart from the promise of eternal life by faith alone in Christ, but that these these are indeed essential elements of the gospel that must be believed for salvation.

Yet oddly enough — in another biblical curveball — the promise of God is fulfilled by a kingdom and its king, who brings with him nothing less than eternal life.

Baseball's eternal symbol of promise and horror, the embodiment of the hope and ugliness inherent in every sport and, by extension, life, with what you thought was a rising sun in the background before you discovered it was setting?

Otto Rank (at one time a protege of Freud), broke with his master and posited that we are, rather, motivated by the undeniable conflict between our sense of ourselves as «immortal souls,» and our realization that we exist by virtue of our all - too - mortal bodies, that we are desperate to believe that we will, somehow, live beyond our bodies, and that, in order to do so, we pursue «immortality projects,» that we invest in our activities the promise of eternal life.