Sentences with phrase «sanctified means»

«64 Some contemporary writers speak of the end sanctifying the means, giving considerable laxity to ethical application.

To sanctify means «to make holy.»

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Christians believe that a mortal person has an immortal soul, and that this immortal soul can be provided with a resurrected, «sanctified» (which effectively means purified, unblemished, and apparently lacking genitalia) body... the term Eternal Life tends to be used to describe the idea that a «True Believer» in Christ (a term open to many, many interpretations) will have their immortal soul implanted in that resurrected body and they will get to live for all time with Christ, apparently singing a lot and doing very little else.

Evangelical Catholicism celebrates the seven sacraments as divinely given means of sanctifying life.

A true Christian makes prayer a daily matter (1 Thess 5:17), in which Jesus taught them to pray first and foremost for God's name of Jehovah to be sanctified by means of his «kingdom».

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

Though we often think of the word «sanctified» as a reference to the «second stage» of salvation, so that after a person is justified, they then become sanctified, we must remember that the most basic meaning of the word «sanctified» is «to set apart.»

As Seerveld points out, «Generation after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical truth.

The Sabbath is meant as a time of rest from the world — a period of non-work and delight in which one's «useless» activity both fosters a recognition of the divine and sanctifies and refreshes ongoing life.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

«Since it has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the mystery of God, Who is the ultimate goal of man, she opens up to man at the same time the meaning of his own existence, that is, the innermost truth about himself... For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole of nature created by God for man's use» (41).

But Paul repurposed a word which had a rich meaning in the Old Testament, but which had never been used for actual righteousness... hagiazo, «sanctify.»

Up to now, spouses who really sought to live their conjugal relationship as God wished, to sanctify themselves in and through their marriage, received little orientation from the teaching of the Church, aside from the idea that a certain abstinence is a recommendable means not just of family planning but of positive growth in married sanctity.

God The Father and God The Son and God The Holy Ghost are HOLY, SANCTIFIED and commands that HIS SERVANTS be HOLY, SANCTIFIED and SEPARATE, we go into The World to Preach His Gospel, but we are NOT to be «of the world» Meaning, we are not to follow WORLDLY STANDARDS in our lives, but apply HIS MOST HOLY STANDARDS to our lives.

Such a pale brand of atheism uncritically permits the same old values and meanings to hang around, only now they can become sanctified by an ethically and politically conservative Darwinian orthodoxy.

Yet if the words and events of the Gospel narratives are to have more than a historical meaning, subject to the rules of historical criticism, they also must be read as sanctifying symbols that religiously address today's believer.

Rather, they contend, the Anglican way of discerning truth is by means of communion itself, through the unity of a Scripture - immersed and sanctified people whose lives are shaped by the Church's ancient eucharistic worship and prayer.

Meanwhile, the picture's final revelation of his blessedness comes not in his celebrated kindness to animals, but in the appearance of stigmata that, by themselves, are meant to sanctify the soft, half - whispered platitudes of a Shakespearean cast - off in a tunic and tights.