Sentences with phrase «think about salvation»

When I lay very ill I did not even think about salvation.

Another father of Protestantism, Calvin's writings and thoughts about salvation still have a major influence on the Church today, particularly among Reformed theologians.

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You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

Those who are without Christ, facing an eternity in Hell and she has an opportunity to witness to them and tell them of the most wonderful gift of Gods salvation that can change thier eternal course and she choses to talk to them about something that she thinks makes them feel good.

Moreover, such development requires a transcendent vision of the person, it needs God: without him, development is either denied, or entrusted exclusively to man, who falls into the trap of thinking he can bring about his own salvation, and ends up promoting a dehumanized form of development.

I think you all need to stop worring about the president and pray for him you all have been on the mans back ever since he step foot in the white house everybody needs to do what the word of GOD says which is to «work out your own soul salvation with fear and trembleling.»

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

If you think about it, God also used Satan to put Jesus on the cross to bring about the salvation of the world.

I was a fundamentalist in the sense that I thought salvation means having the right opinions about God and that fighting the good fight of faith requires defending those opinions at all costs.

I think these conversations provide people an opportunity to think deeply about what they believe about salvation.

Augustine disputed with Pelagius about free will, and generally Pelagianism has been viewed by the main stream of Christian thought as a heresy in which man's dependence upon grace for salvation is denied.

please we have enough plastic minsters who think they know they way to eternal salvation how about a tax audit and see where things really stand?

We talk so much about personal faith, personal salvation, and all those things are critical, but I think it's so important that we understand that we're part of an eternal relay and we're responsible for handing over the baton of faith to our generation.

only reason y i say this is because of Santification, once we give our life to the Lord, we streight way (so to speak) begin the process of Santification, this is Christ making us like him, and this Is SUFFERING It does nt happen over night, but for the duration of our time here, as you have said, its sort of like sin being done unto us, and we are handleing it just like Christ did, (with Love) of coarse with the help of the Holy Spirit, This Does NOT feel Good At ALL since our soulful flesh is Corrupt, (but our spirit is saved) This is were your trails and tribulation, your own desire, and All play apart, Now Moment by Moment we choose by our own will, And Jesus helps in these times, as he was tempeted, but without sin, The devil can do nothing but try and decieve the Christian into thinking that he has to work for his salvation as you have said, this thing here is about your Inheritance In Christ, Its gonna be some show nought broke christian in Heaven, because their trying to set of for themseleve trasure on earth, and their is going to be weeping and gnat of teeth, but it wont be, because of their going to Hell, It will be cause they miss out on what they could have had, and it is Devistation, cause they waste so much time, and they wont be able to attend the wedding, supper of the lamb, they wont be, getting the position over city, galacy, ectt... just check it out some of the points i have made, God Bless you!

Several years of prison ministry have convinced me that there are substantial parallels between what we think about incarceration and how we understand salvation.

As long as we think that the word «salvation» refers to forgiveness of sin, eternal life, escaping hell, and going to heaven when we die, we will always be confused about whether or not Christians can lose salvation.

Everyone who doubts his or her salvation displays for the very same reason that they have been saved by God because people who never think about God won't have the same doubts, will they?

If it really has been «done to death,» then I can think of numerous topics that have been done many times more than this topic (at least where I'm at and interact): faith, hope, love, prayer, fellowship, giving, good works, christian unity, salvation, grace, faith healing, being culturally relevant, the gospel, the resurrection, religion vs. relationship, tithing, worship, reverence, christian music, legalism, old vs. new covenant, Paul's conversion, miracles, gifts of the spirit, sign gifts, tongues, nativity, the disciples, crucifixion, materialism, mysticism, new age, atheism, i could probably list about 50 more if I thought about it.

To think otherwise would be counterintuitive: If you decide to join an institution to pursue faith and salvation, then you can't challenge the institution's right to make decisions about faith and salvation when you disagree with those decisions.

Consider this one: Christians might think that the dynamics of grace and faith in human salvation could only be worked out in Christianity — until they learn, for example, about the intricate, debates between the «cat doctrine» and the «monkey doctrine» in Bhakti Hinduism.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

If you do think about it and question it (and just said you didn't for some unknown reason), then I would still be very happy to hear how you explain how coming to a right belief is any different from salvation by works.

So if we think that the word «salvation» refers to «eternal life,» then the clear teaching of Scripture is that receiving and keeping eternal life is conditional about believing the right things and behaving in the right way.

I do feel bad that everyone in the Unification Church still thinks that they who were born from the «Blessed Couples» have no Original Sin; as they were all deceived in the «Wine of Wrath» they all drank; no one ever told them that they who came into the Ark of salvation in «two's» were the «Unclean» animals: the «Clean» came in as groups of «seven», as those who overcome all 7 overcomings on the Path of the Just which the 7 churches are really about: the ladder of Jacob as seen in the Son of Man the angels of God ascended and descended on.

I do feel bad that everyone in the Unification Church still thinks that they who were born from the «Blessed Couples» have no Original Sin; as they were all deceived in the «Wine of Wrath» they all drank; no one ever told them that they who came into the Ark of salvation in «two's» were the «Unclean» animals: the «Clean» came in as groups of «seven», as those who overcome all 7 overcomings on the Path of the Just which the 7 churches are really about: the ladder of Jacob as seen in the Son of Man the angels of God ascended and descended on; but Rev. Moon and his drunken followers all ignored the information I was given from 1986 onward that the Angel of patmos came to my Grandmother Ruth Witt - Diamnt's house in the City of St. Francis to rectify.

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.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

Honestly, I hope you think long and hard about your position on that because the only one in danger of losing eternal salvation is people who utter condemning, anti-Christian, anti-Jesus, anti-love messages like yours.

The overpassing of the limitation of externality in early Hebrew morals involved not only the development of ethical ideals concerning special virtues such as magnanimity, but a profoundly important evolution of thought about the nature of sin in general and of what is necessary in securing salvation from it.

8 Although Mathews did think that those «who have called themselves Christians have regarded Jesus as the author of their salvation», 9 the area of belief, including beliefs about Jesus, was left entirely relative.

I don't think it makes any claims about the salvation of those who have different views but the website I saw it on sure does so that's why I was flustered the other day.

Consider the way most Christians think about «salvation.»

In light of our conversation about Anne Frank yesterday, I thought I'd re-post this rather lengthy piece from 2008 (back when I thought people liked to read 1,000 - word blog posts) that details some of the biblical support for a more inclusive view of salvation.

Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «Life Questions.»

I was talking to a person if he went to church and he stated all they want is your money.You got to give your money to read books about GOD, I mean like thirty dollars and more and the same for a dvd or like if you could give 1,000 or more to keep on the air.He and I both think we are better off stay at home and read the Bible and study it.I think if you are born with the new sperit of GOD you will understand the Bible without the loss of great somes of money.After they sell so many dvds it becomes 100 % profit and they never lower the price so can obtain one.For this is wrong, it states in the Bible that this would happen preachers for money to learn about everyones GOD.They forgot one thing JESUS never forced money from you to hear the wordof salvation Im a follower of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD He is the way.Im not a so called Christian just.

... God is my joy, and the strength of my life He took away my pain and took away my strife And gave me a wife and gave me a life And gave me salvation and his Son paid the price And now I'm a grown man cryin, Cause I get choked up when I think about an innocent man dyin But because of that I don't have to fry So I'll serve G.O.D. till the day that I fly, say

If you could get in heaven because of your good deeds, why would JESUS had to have gone to the cross, you will not go to hell because you sinned, the bible says we all have sinned, you will go for rejecting GODS free gift, his son, JESUS, SEE, HE TOOK YOUR PLACE IF YOU EXCEPT HIS OFFER BUT IF NOT YOU PAY FOR ALL YOUR SINS, KIND OF LIKE COURT, BETTER TO TAKE AN ATTORNEY THAN REPRESENT YOURSELF, sorry for caps, GOD loved you so much he sent his son to die for you as payment for sin, you will answer to GOD for everything you do, JESUS lived a perfect life which was accepted by GOD for payment of sins, thats up to you if you except it, is bible vs man made religions, thats alot of commeon since, there are man made laws you go by or suffer for, plus, there are so many religions you can make one up to best suit you, it do nt work that way, plus, excepting JESUS is the best way to heaven, why would you think you caould live perfect your whole life, you cant, the devil will use religion to lead as many people away from CHRIST as he can, even in the garden, eve was decieved.if the bible is not true than no man has anyright to even say whats right or wrong, things some people do they think is fine and so on, is stealing your car wrong, why, who said, and why are they right, think about it, salvation is simple, man makes it hard, other religions say you have to earn it, fine, if they live that good, they should except JESUS, why not except him, my way is through JESUS, if thats wrong, what have i lost, other ways are thru something or anything else, what if they are wrong, high price to pay for opinion, what if your son took someoneles punishment, and it cost him his life, how would you feel, think about GODS feelings, you cant take a few verses from man religion and get anywhere, read the bible, if you believe theres a GOD in heaven, please do nt reject his son, all very good questions, thanks, i do nt want to be a problem, i just want you to be in heaven someday, i cant be good enough to there there on my own, so i looked to the perfect one, JESUS, you do nt worked to get saved, you work because you are savd.you get get back out in sin and backslide, but, if your really saved, the LORD lives inside you, it will bother you to do certain things, but you can get numb to it, plus, the bible says, you are not your own, you were bought with a price, JESUS BLOOD, free to you but cost him his life, GOD will chastise for repeated sin, you are his child, just like with your children, spend some time alone with GOD, ask him to show you, would love to talk to you guys over phone, i cant type, you can tell, theres so much more i can say please call me [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED] or email is [EMAILREMOVED]