Sentences with phrase «second advent»

The more we try to penetrate in imagination to the state of mind of the first Christians in the earliest days, the more are we driven to think of resurrection, exaltation, and second advent as being, in their belief, inseparable parts of a single divine event.

In the 1830s and 1840s, some Evangelicals turned to premilliennialism because it reinforced their desire to flee social upheaval while plotting out Jesus» second advent.

As Allison notes, the Church has worked around this tension by claiming that the events of Easter and Pentecost mark the onset of the kingdom that would come into full fruition at his second advent.

In this discourse, as we have seen, the prediction of the second advent of Christ is interpreted in the sense of His presence in the Church through His Spirit.

YHWH is not enough to get you to heaven after the second advent.

«And just as the words (Increase and multiply and fill the earth) were once spoken but throughout all time give to our human nature the power of generation, so also the words (This is My Body) once pronounced produce a perfect sacrifice at each table in the churches, from that day to this and from now to Our Lord's second advent.»

It now trembled upon the verge of its conclusion in His second advent.

The principal elements of the kerygma can be traced in this speech — the fulfilment of prophecy, the death and resurrection of Christ, His second advent, and the offer of forgiveness.

The second advent of the Lord, which had seemed to be impending as the completion of that which they had already «seen and heard,» came to appear as a second crisis yet in the future.

Judgment is for Paul a function of the universal lordship of Christ, which He attained through death and resurrection, and His second advent as Judge is a part of the kerygma — as Judge, but also as Saviour, for in i Thess.

This is the only passage in Acts i - iv which speaks of the second advent of Christ.

In one respect it appears that even within a very few years the perspective of the kerygma must have altered, namely, in respect of the relation conceived to exist between the death, resurrection, and exaltation of Christ on the one hand, and His second advent on the other.

It is to be observed that the apostolic Preaching as recorded in Acts does not (contrary to a commonly held opinion) lay the greatest stress upon the expectation of a second advent of the Lord.

This change was natural enough; for when it became necessary to readjust the Christian outlook to the indefinite postponement of the second advent and judgment, the Church had to organize itself as a permanent society living the life of the redeemed people of God in an unredeemed world.

The expectation of the second advent has a larger place in this Gospel than in any other.

The second advent is not the supreme fact, to which all else is preparatory; it is the impending verification of the Church's faith that the finished work of Christ has in itself absolute value.

As time passed, and the earthly life faded into the past and the second advent into the remoter future, one of two alternatives was open: Either the whole saving event could be put in the past, in close conjunction with the earthly career, or else it could be entirely postponed to the future, in close connection with the Parousia.

Had we not been touched through the life and teachings of Jesus by the immediacy of the new covenant, we would not feel this pathos born of longing for a second advent.