I believe in
the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Not exact matches
Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace
and mercy (totally underserved) for those who believe in Jesus sacrificial
death on the cross at Calvary
and His
redemptive resurrection.
The Christian faith entails a belief in change, but it is change grounded in the
redemptive life,
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Such views, however, not only invariably devalue the terrestrial, but what's worse is that in their very devaluation they fail to apprehend the magnitude
and universal scope of God's
redemptive and re-creative work in the incarnation, life,
death,
and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a truly cosmic work to which Scripture bears testimony.
Christian faith entails a belief in change, but it is change grounded in the
redemptive life,
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It is then certain that Jesus did not speak of his
death and resurrection as
redemptive acts.
Moreover, Jesus did not speak of his
death and resurrection and their
redemptive significance.
It is no accident that the early church used the Lenten period to prepare catechumens for baptism, in which those who are baptized appropriate for themselves the
redemptive work of Christ's
death and resurrection.
Firstly, because it constitutes an image representing Christ's Passion,
and secondly, because it applies the
redemptive fruit of Christ's suffering,
death and resurrection.