Sentences with phrase «salvation outside»

There is «no certain salvation outside Christ,» so believers should not be separated from the true church of Christ.

While there may be salvation outside the church, there can be no maturing outside the church..

The axiom that there is no salvation outside the Church is stated overtly, but reconfigured positively: All salvation that occurs in human history is in some way always already in the Church, or related to her in an intimate, if hidden, way.

For this reason, although I am willing to grant that there may be salvation outside the church, there can be no maturing outside the church.

There is no salvation outside the Church.

Since there is salvation outside the visible church — since, that is to say, Christ is somehow working outside organized Christianity — and if non-Christians have a right to know God's «whole plan of salvation» for Christians, then it follows that Christians have an obligation to know God's plan of salvation for those outside the visible church, for those who are not preordained to become professing Christians.

[29] At the annual meeting of the (almost exclusively Roman Catholic) Indian Theological Association in May 1996, which focused on the issue of the identity of the church in India, the Final Statement said that» [t] he church in India must situate her identity in the context of 97 % of the Indian population seeking their salvation outside the church without any reference to it.»

It is for this reason that Stanley Hauerwas has recently reasserted the old claim that «there is no salvation outside the church.»

One can not ignore the comment made at the annual meeting of the (almost exclusively Roman Catholic) Indian Theological Association in May 1996, which focused on the issue of the identity of the church in India, where the Final Statement said that» [t] he church in India must situate her identity in the context of 97 % of the Indian population seeking their salvation outside the church without any reference to it.»

If you want a verse about losing your salvation outside of the gospels, read Hebrews chapter 12 where it talks about how Esau sold his Birthright for a morsel of food.

Though his fear that his own sinfulness would separate him from God helped lead to then - radical ideas about salvation outside of man's own ability to be righteous, doubts about his faith, thinking and relationship with God would haunt him later in life.

The old maxim, «No salvation outside the church» is beaten into our brains to the point where we believe it.

On the question of infallibility, Mr Alan Pavelin notes that one of the Church's teachings which was regarded as infallible but has now been changed is that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church.

This could be consistent with Christian belief except that it leaves Jews outside of the salvation of Jesus but still acting within the will of G «d. Unless Jews are then predestined to damnation» which is surely not Weiler's thesis» that presupposes Jews find salvation outside of Jesus.

This rigid theological position of «no salvation outside the Church» was maintained throughout the Churches for over a thousand years, even by the greatest of scholars and saints like St. Thomas Aquinas.

I believe Jesus died for all, but I also believe we have a part in our salvation outside of Charizomai.

Unity In Suffering Jesus» uniqueness as a deity who saves through suffering may resolve in part the questions of salvation outside of Christianity and / or the Church that John Hick posed (Gavin D'Costa, «Remembering John Hick,» May).

Not exact matches

Las Vegas might be garish and fake, but those who wander outside its pulsing glow do not find meaning or salvation.

All of us are interested in salvation, but all of us have interests in the church that frequently lie outside the church's chief purpose.

To CatholicMom, in other words outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation (except if your invincibly ignorant of the truth which is held by Rome alone)

They see those outside the church as outside of, well, salvation and lost.

The first man called is not outside God's love nor outside salvation in Christ.

If salvation was via sacrifices etc (Jews) and then via believing in Jesus; what happens to those outside these two faiths?

Concerning the correspondence on Infallibility and «outside the Church no salvation» (Jan. / Feb. 2007), I should like to suggest the following thoughts:

Then we see again that salvation is outside of us.

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

The prophetic motif of salvation in and through historical process and the apocalyptic motif of salvation crashing in from outside of history are intertwined in the biblical documents, and each motif needs to be qualified by the other.

God's acts of salvation, insofar as they lead to transformation, happen not outside ourselves or to us, but primarily within us.

In this sense, the old dictum «Outside the church there is no salvation» takes on new meaning for Volf.

However, you fail to consider that the Gentiles at that time were outside of the hope of Israel («for salvation is of the Jews»).

Catholic theology was generally based on the view that outside the church there is no salvation, though a gradual opening up towards others began after the «discovery» by Columbus of the New World in the Americas in 1492, and the opening of the route to the East after Vasco da Gama in 1498.

Many do not agree with Barth that salvation is effective only through this one historical event, but they then typically argue that God works salvifically outside of Christianity as well as within.

While the ancient formula «Outside the Church no salvation» may lend itself to misunderstanding, we agree that there is no salvation apart from the Church, since to be related to Christ is necessarily to be related, in however full or tenuous a manner, to the Church which is his body.

As a person outside the faith, an individual is neither assured of his salvation nor permeated by truth.

Jonathan, how can you compare salvation via faith to «If you swear allegiance to an organization, then constantly violate the rules, or preferences, or both, of the organization, eventually, you will find yourself outside of the organization.»?

While the fullness of the means of salvation is given in the Church and is necessary for those who understand that, nobody is outside the possibility of saving grace.

But I would maintain that the removal of the idea that God will judge those outside of salvation when they appear before Him after death is contrary to the Scriptures.

No marriage can be sanctioned by the Church if the very basis of the marriage involves acts that put the couple outside of eternal salvation.

For outside the Church there was no hope for his salvation.

According to Mundadan, the Latin missionaries had no life experience of non-Christian religions and they narrowly interpreted the dictum, «Outside the Church there is no salvation».

As he points out, the old doctrine of «Outside the Church there is no salvation» was in Vatican II completed by the correlative idea, «Wherever there is salvation, there is the Church.»

As a result, ethical conduct in the secular world replaces narrow definitions of salvation, and a larger number of people pursue their salvation through specialized, short - term commitments outside of the church entirely.

The Latin church had a very narrow view of the church, and the Latins interpreted Christ and salvation in Christ, in the light of their doctrine of the church; so much so that pope Bonifice VIII in the Middle Ages could assert that outside the church there is no salvation nor remission of sins and that submission to the Roman pontiff, for every human being is an utter necessity for salvation.

What is really involved here is the understanding of the doctrine «extra ecclesiam nulla salus» (outside the Church there is no salvation) by the Portuguese and St. Thomas Christians, respectively.

In Matthew 22:13, it is a man who responded to the call of salvation to come to the banquet, and was actually allowed in, and is addressed by God as being a friend, yet he did not have the proper wedding clothing, and so is cast outside of the joyful banquet hall.

Traditionally Protestants have claimed that salvation was only possible through faith in Jesus Christ and Catholics have said that «outside the church there is no salvation».

The New Testament claims, that Jesus died on the cross for men's salvation, and that he rose in victory to ascend to the right hand of God, are outside the historian's field of reference.

Those who vacillated or chose to end their lives were outside salvation; they died in their sin, like Judas of old.

and these changes won't come in the form of some salvation orchestrated by some divine being outside ourselves, but rather through divinity from within, through the hearts and minds of each individual: it is and will continue to be an inside job.

But the Romantics then miss the point of their legitimate insight when they claim that Milton would have been content to let that sympathy work its effects outside of the economy of salvation.