Sentences with phrase «promised us salvation from»

The fact is, the Bible does NOT promise salvation from a daily walk calamities and pain.

Do we have the belief that God has promised us salvation from hunger?

Does God promise us salvation from these trials because we are Americans, and our nation was founded on biblical principles?

Not exact matches

When a church puts its focus on spiritual subjectivity, or on moral living, or on performing works and rituals with a promise of certain results, the result is a congregation that never gains assurance in their salvation, and they will gradually drift away from God's truth.

That said, I currently believe we are still born a sinner (missing mark of Gods glory, fallen state, lacking life and inheritance from God) with the promise of salvation already solved and available for us to receive.

Such liberation follows from an encounter with a prior grace which promises salvation at the same time that it delivers judgment.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Revelation can be called salvation because its visionary promise of an ever new future redeems us from the prison we build around ourselves out of our hopelessness and mistrust.

1) that eternal life given on the basis of faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works; 2) that eternal security is part of the gift of eternal life; 3) that assurance of salvation is through faith in Christ's promise of eternal life, and not by looking at one's own works 4) Christians can apostatize in this life, and are still eternally secure 5) eternal rewards are earned by faithful works, and lost by unfaithfulness 6) unlimited atonement 7) free - will to respond to God's drawing or not

In communities under siege from plague, wars and malnutrition, the Virgin's breast was a symbol of God's loving provision of life, the nourishment and care that sustain life, and the salvation that promises eternal life.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his famous fireside chats, promised «salvation» from the economic doldrums of the Great Depression.

To submit to the waters of baptism in the Jordan meant to move from the bondage of Egypt, of Babylon, of sin, to the land of promise, freedom, salvation.

It can hope salvation only from its own intrinsic promises and potencies.

Here and there Messianic prophets and even «kings» appeared; under Cuspius Fadus, the «prophet» Theudas; under Ventidius Cumanus, the «bandit» Eleasar; under Felix, a «prophet» who came out of Egypt, who led the crowd of his adherents to the Mount of Olives and attempted to enter Jerusalem with them, expecting the walls to fall at his command; under Festus, a «prophet» who promised «salvation» and deliverance from all suffering.

Because it constantly portrays mystery in the form of a gracious promise, the Bible forbids our searching for meaning, salvation, or fulfillment completely apart from historical existence.

The main reason that I believe that this collection of historically contingent documents is the inerrant revelation of God is because I believe Jesus rose from the dead and I have experienced the power of that event: therefore the prophecies weren't empty promises, the conquest of Israel wasn't just a powerplay under the masquerade of a divine mission, and the apostles really were guided by the Holy Spirit to expound further on all matters leading to 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.

Since it is, in fact, the basic unit of communion best reflecting the dynamic of faith itself, the family has been privileged from the beginning of salvation history as the cornerstone of all human society: a stable sign, born of love, acknowledging the complementarity of human differentiation, in which the spouses» promises of mutual reliability in the engagement of the whole of their lives beget fruitfulness and endurance for the good of all.

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.

After reading this book I have claimed Richard Dawkins as a brave hero and have embraced atheism as a compassionate, pro-human, pro-civilization, unifying body of work that promises salvation of this planet from harmful mythologies and horribly divisive fictional, outdated belief systems.

Panofsky stresses the signs of «unregenerate nature,» of «the blind forces of growth and decay» from which the new order promises salvation.