Sentences with phrase «ultimate destiny»

This is everyone's ultimate destiny whether they know it or not.

Heaven and hell are in the picture as the two possible ultimate destinies for humankind.

Although the Dutchman has so far only played in defence for the first - team, regular watchers of the club's academy teams suggest the former - Ajax youth product's ultimate destiny lies further forward, as an unassailable midfield general.

He's a footballer whose ultimate destiny may lie in midfield according to those who have watched him rise up through the youth and reserve teams, such as Tony Park, featured in the Full - Time Devils profile video below.

Nelson's destiny was to fall a hero at the Battle of Trafalgar just as the British Empire's ultimate destiny became its inevitable demise.

When we understand these two bookends of the Bible as framing the whole Christian mystery, the marriage of man and woman takes on its true nature as an image that points us towards our ultimate destiny marriage to God.

parousia = second coming eschatology = • the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind

The claims of Jesus to represent the character of God, his claim to be the master of men and of their ultimate destiny, and his claim to be sent by God to effect the reconciliation between man and God would remain as the lunatic arrogance of a disordered mind if everything ended in the judicial murder of a field - preacher on a Roman Cross.

But the teaching of Christ is that the ultimate destiny of human beings, as far as we can at present comprehend it, is not extinction or absorption into the Infinite, but the full development, the bringing to maturity, of sons of God.

But at least he has enough true light by which to live, and he has powerful and indeed exciting clues to the meaning and purpose of life and to man's ultimate destiny.

It is by faith that man is led to fulfillment and ultimate destiny, and God is the ground of his faith.

Further, the challenge of the new view of man to the traditional form of the Christian answer to the question of his ultimate destiny is almost as devastating as it could be.

One concerns our bodily existence and its value in our ultimate destiny.

For Luther, the relationship of God and humans was the basic framework for meaning, for theology, for humans» ultimate destiny — and for every dimension of daily living as individuals and in company with one another.

In my opinion, the greatest theological contribution of Wesley was his way of affirming human responsibility for our ultimate destiny and daily life while strongly maintaining the primacy of faith.

Tearing down the walls, both our own and others, will lead the adventure on towards its ultimate destiny where love will triumph over loss.

That's the ultimate destiny of every living thing.

How do you deal with the rather bleak outlook of knowing your ultimate destiny is a wooden box under six feet of dirt?

Revelation must now be interpreted as God's envisagement of the whole universes possibilities and ultimate destiny.

The Bible grows out of historical experience and its world view involves a profound sense of the meaning of the life of peoples, their hopes and expectancies, their time of crisis, and their ultimate destiny.

It is the time of decision which involves man's ultimate destiny.

This vision of the ultimate destiny of the soul accented its quality as intelligent and self - conscious.

Of course, the greatest existential concern about sin and death for most people remains judgment and their ultimate destiny.

Faith requires trust in God and the recognition that our ultimate destiny is in God's hands.

If they were trying to understand the ultimate destiny of the crucified Jesus, then such passages as lent themselves to relevant reinterpretation might have led to a conviction in the divine vindication and heavenly exaltation of the crucified Jesus.

In spite of this biblical report of his death, various haggadic stories grew up about his ultimate destiny and they fastened on the odd way in which his burial was reported.

But it is a relevant illustration of how readily the believed martyrdom of a saintly and venerated figure could not only bring encouragement but originate convictions about his ultimate destiny.

Christian monasticism encouraged the faithful to withdraw from the materialistic world with its earthly attractions and prepare themselves for their ultimate destiny in the heavenly realms.

(332) And «as intelligent and free creatures,» they «have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love.

And if we are truly oriented towards God then it makes sense for our ultimate destiny to be the oneness with God which the death of our physical bodies makes possible.

Christians hope that the ultimate destiny of the believer, perhaps of all people, is to see God and to be in the presence of the One who is Light and Love, Beauty and Holiness.

Berne, however, is quite serious: «Games... form the basic structure for the emotional dynamics of each family... [the child's] favored games also determine his ultimate destiny,..

Heaven is not our home, our ultimate destiny.

For isn't God — and not man or woman — the sole judge of any person's ultimate destiny?

I suppose what the phrase denotes is the modern culture which gives great emphasis on human being as a creator of culture and of history out of nature and which also believes that human being and history require no transcendent reference to a Divine Creator or a Divine Redeemer from self - alienation to bring about the realization of the community of love which is the ultimate destiny of humanity.

For this reason, they can not comprehend the prophetic religions (the Jewish, the Christian and the Islamic) which emphasize that the ultimate destiny of human beings is to serve God's Purpose in human history, which Purpose He has revealed in some unique historical Person.

That ultimate destiny of all human beings is to be one with God and, through that unity, one with one another.

That unity, in turn, is necessary to the church being a sign of the ultimate destiny of humankind.

It is precisely as a liturgical worshiping community that the church is most effectively a sign of the ultimate destiny of every human being and of humanity as a whole.

The diversity of belief among the Jews upon the subjects of the ultimate destiny of man in general, and of the resurrection in particular, was such that we must devote the next chapter to it.

(c) Eschatological Man The total vision of man inspired by Humanae Vitae must also look towards man's ultimate destiny.

[24] The celibate person chooses to remain in the «ache» of solitude to emphasize that man's ultimate destiny is to be a partner of the Absolute.