Sentences with phrase «through obedience to law»

but he is not alluding to any gradual approach to Christ through obedience to the law.

There would have remained the dispute as to whether salvation comes through obedience to law or participation in the faithfulness of Jesus, but this could have continued as a debate that might prove fruitful for both parties.

The assumption is always that the Jewish people received eternal life through obedience to the Law and following the sacrificial system instituted by Moses.

But somehow the conviction grew that behind all this, expressing himself through history, particularly that of the Jewish people, was the very God of the universe, and that he was the Lord of history; that he ruled the universe and man through laws, and that only through obedience to these laws could man live.

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«We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

Jeremy a great job of blowing the dust off these passages and revealing their true meaning, which is often hidden by those with an agenda of trying to make believers fear that they will loose eternity with Christ if they don't try harders through works or their obedience to following the law.

Here is the culmination of Israel's thought about natural law: a glorious day should dawn when man's jungle impulses would atrophy, when right would triumph deep in human nature, and society would pursue its happy course in a state of «anarchy,» of «no law,» because everyone would do the high and noble thing through his love for it, in obedience to the unwritten law inscribed on his heart!

I also know it is through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

«As their king, you also need to mobilise the people for their own development through cooperation with the government by regularly paying tax, levies and fees, obedience to the laws of the land, promotion of peace and tranquillity and enthusiastic participation in development projects.

Souraya soon realizes that the only power she might have «would only be through exaggerated, even competitive, obedience to the laws of her husband's God.»