Sentences with phrase «salvation through faith»

To be sure, in his major epistles he did not speak of «the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus» (II Tim.

The AoG is a Pentecostal and evangelical denomination holding, among other things, the Divine inspiration of the Bible, the Trinity, the Deity of Christ, salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as the believer's empowerment for witness and service, speaking in tongues as the evidence of that baptism, sanctification through the work of the Spirit, a church on mission, Divine healing for the sick available to believers, the return of Christ and a final judgment.

My rather uneducated stab at a paraphrase would include the preceding verse to make more sense of it in context as follows (borrowing partly from the ESV here): ``... and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

God does not maintain your salvation through faith (that doesn't even make any sense).

14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Is it as important as salvation through faith alone in Christ alone?

2 Timothy 3:15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

The Word of God can also pierce men's hearts and show them the truth about their own sin and the only way of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

'' — the bible we have is over 99 % original text — none of the verses under issue affect the Christian message of salvation through faith in the atoning work of Jesus on the cross at all, not even the smallest amount.»

Not most importantly that since the bible is the most heavily researched book in the history of the world by wide orders of magnitude, scholars have thoroughly examined textual criticism issues such as this, and the Christian can rest assured that: — the bible we have is over 99 % original text — none of the verses under issue affect the Christian message of salvation through faith in the atoning work of Jesus on the cross at all, not even the smallest amount.

Perhaps this is an advantage in some way, but I think it's laughable to compare any so - called advantage of redemption or salvation through faith for non-white Christians to that of caucasian Christians, who have enjoyed all the systemic advantages that caucasian non-Christians have throughout United States history.

Neither our belief in salvation through faith, not our confidence in God's forgiveness, nor our affirmation that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ, can depend on the resurrection.

[2 Timothy 3:15 - 17] ``... from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

In the bigger picture, it is a slippery and dangerous slope away from God to doubt that the Word of God as available to us now in the entire Bible does not sufficiently provide the explanation of God's nature and grace and the means for our salvation through faith in Christ, and such a situation can not logically stand anyway.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

The church and its members have a special and exclusive calling to be witnesses of God's promise of eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

Let us be a group of people who want to listen in love and work out our salvation through faith together.

Likewise, if Peter knew that we receive salvation through faith (and I don't doubt that he did) then why does he say that we are being delivered «through water?»

2 Timothy 3:14 - 15 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known thesacred writings which are able to give you wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Not exact matches

SALVATION comes through FAITH ALONE in JESUS CHRIST while judgment and condemnation come from the Law which no longer applies since the DISPENSATION of GRACE!

We understand the statement that «we are justified by grace through faith because of Christ» in terms of the substitutionary atonement and imputed righteousness of Christ, leading to full assurance of eternal salvation; we seek to testify in all circumstances and contexts to this, the historic Protestant understanding of salvation by faith alone (sola fide).

The first is that this salvation by grace package comes to us through faith.

... Therefore, if total depravity is Biblically true, then faith and consequent salvation come only when the Holy Spirit goes to work through regeneration.

Protestants teach that salvation is attained through faith alone.

I find it ironic that Calvinists I know always sum up with the «salvation by grace alone through faith alone» and then have their own interpretation of what God's grace is.

I don't consider non-Calvinists heretics, but brothers and sisters in Christ if they teach salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ.

Should we say, as some inclusivists do, that it is because of Christ's saving mystery, offered to all, that salvation is available to the Hindu, for example, in the sincere practice of his or her faith — that in Christ salvation is mediated to Christians through the church and to non-Christians through other traditions of faith?

For me, we receive the free gift of salvation by God's grace through faith.

Now if we're saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, what happens to those who add works into salvation?

Growing up Church of Christ and «water» baptism for salvation I was completely broadsided one day after reading about our sin problem (Romans 3:9 - 20) about God's solution ``... This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe..»

His encounter with the risen Lord had opened his eyes to the fact that the salvation of Israel, as well as the salvation of the whole world, was to be appropriated through faith in Christ.

(I hear so many Christians that take v 13 as a comforting promise, when in actuality it is a most solemn warning — God has made salvation available by His extension of Grace through faith that He enables in us by revealing Himself to us.

As we have said before, this is what has been described in religious terms as «salvation by grace through faith.»

Having spent the last ten years wrestling through some tough questions related to faith, heaven, hell, and salvation, I really appreciate the personal way in which Bell frames the conversation, asking the very questions I was so afraid to ask all those years and proclaiming the same hope I only dared believe — that God doesn't give up on people, that he is ever - loving, ever - redeeming, ever pursuing.

And once we have truly placed our faith in Him (accepted His gracious gift of salvation through the sacrifice of Christ) the Holy Spirit indwells our hearts and holds us fast.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

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.

Is salvation in a man or a group to be wrought out through complex processes of insight and faith, doubt and backsliding, growth and regression; or does nothing count but a big moment?

At the heart of the Christian faith is this great assurance: Although we have sinned terribly against him and our neighbors through our lovelessness, he still loves us and seeks to win us to salvation by that love.

... James is not preaching a works based salvation, He is preaching or rather God through him is telling us that TRUE believers have works that prove their faith is a living Saving Ffaith is a living Saving FAITHFAITH!

Faith in Christ produces salvation which then enables the holy spirit to reside within which in turn exercises his will over mine and through his power perfects me producing good works.

The only way to salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ.

The significance of Abraham is, first, that God in fact promised to extend his salvation through Abraham to all nations, and second, that the story of Abraham reveals not only the temporary sign of the covenant (circumcision), but also the means (faith) by which a person of any nation can come and share in the promised blessing.

Neither believes salvation is by grace through faith alone in Jesus» death and resurrection.

I believe that salvation, or the awakening from the «sleep» of ignorance, is gained through knowledge, not just faith.

Ephesians 2:8 - 9 is saying that salvation is a gift of God that was bestowed on us through our faith, not because we earned it by works.

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

Ephesians 2:8 - 9 tells us salvation is a gift from God through faith apart from works.