Sentences with phrase «ultimate salvation of»

Directed by Bill Pohlad, the film is set in and around the back catalogue of Wilson's stunning music but also fully explores the personal troubles he encountered and the ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.

The film intimately examines the unique journey and ultimate salvation of this musical icon, whose success came at an extraordinary personal cost.

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That can only be appropriated through revelation and consummated by salvation: the ultimate redemption of the world by its creator God.

What's more, such people are not just to be a sign and foretaste of that ultimate salvation; they are to be part of the means by which God makes this happen both in the present and the future.»

All three of these ideas» the ultimate possession of the transformed earth by the physically resurrected saints, the explicit prophecies about Christ by pre-Christian prophets, and the deification of man as the ultimate goal of salvation through Christ» are ideas for which Mormons are still deemed un-Christian, because they are distinct from the teachings of most Protestant denominations.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Offering itself as the ultimate basis of reality and salvation, the sacred may either arouse a defiant emptying of the heavens and a repudiation of all sacrality in favor of secularity in a death of the gods, or become the place of evasion and retreat, a refuge from life rather than a response to it.

This seminal prayer, one of many such prayers, clearly states that while it is true that all individuals are responsible for their own sins, nevertheless God desires each sinner's ultimate salvation.

Not the high priest in the temple in Jerusalem or the baptism of John the Baptist in the Jordan River brings the ultimate salvation, but rather keeping Jesus» words, as they are conserved in the Sayings Gospel — to be sure, on the condition that they are really kept, observed, and not just conserved.

«26 For Barth, the meaning and basis of the Sabbath is thus also eschatological, for by pointing to the special history of the covenant and salvation, the Sabbath necessarily points to its ultimate consummation in history.27

Religion becomes idolatrous when the symbols of perfection are worshiped as though they were the ultimate itself: when founders, prophets, and seers are deified, when infallible authority is ascribed to certain organizations and books, and when the performance of rites is taken as a guarantee of salvation.

They use David Bebbington's scheme of marks that identify evangelicalism: conversionism (an emphasis on the new birth as a life - changing experience), biblicism (reliance on the Bible as ultimate authority), activism (a commitment to evangelizing), and crucicentrism (a focus on Christ's redeeming work on the cross, usually pictured as the only way of salvation).

When Paul called for the removal of the sinning man in 1 Cor., it wasn't about power or dehumanizing him; it was about protection of the Body and the ultimate protection salvation of the man.

It provides a one - sentence affirmation about the gospel and speaks of our entire hope of justification and salvation» resting on «God's promise and the saving work in Christ,» as «our ultimate trust.»

One prominent author, pastor and radio Bible teacher says that «Fruit bearing... is the ultimate test of salvation.

It is also the ultimate test of salvation.»

Concerned with the nature of the world ground, it is also interested in how man must relate himself to this ultimate reality in order to achieve what, in Christianity, is called salvation.

For Revelation in the ultimate resort and in principle claims the whole of reality as the possible subject - matter of its affirmations, even if only sub respectu salutis (in relation to salvation), and from this point of view even events and realities which are accessible to secular experience fall within its material scope.

In its actuality salvation is enjoyment; at its acme it is ecstasy — the unrestrained joy experienced on the occasion of an acute awareness of the harmonious union of life with its surrounding community and its ultimate ground.

We are a people who love Jesus first, whose Bible is their ultimate rule of faith and practice, who believe spreading the good news of Jesus» lordship and salvation in word and deed is our most important contribution to the common good.

Some speak in individual terms of the cultivation of the Christian life or the salvation of souls; others state their goal to be the building up of the corporate life of the Church or of some part of it; again the goal is defined as the «communication of the vital and redeeming doctrines of Scriptures,» or it is otherwise described by reference to the Bible as the ultimate source of all that is to be taught and preached.

The primary concern of Christian mission is with the salvation of human spirituality, with the human being's right choice of structures of ultimate meaning and sacredness.31

He defines the Gospel as «a great movement from lower to higher, going through estrangement and crises, but also through atonement and salvation, and so directed towards its ultimate goal, a Glorified Humanity in full communion with God, of which goal the Risen Christ is the guarantee and first fruits».

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

Yet I think that Erik, standing now beyond such narrow social considerations, would tell us what we ought to know already: History is not the ultimate theater of justice or salvation.

If you do nt want to salvation, then accept your fate of eternal hellfire because that is the ultimate end to all men who refuse Christ as their savior.

Thus, God's choice of the sinner, not the sinner's choice of Christ, is the ultimate cause of salvation.

Many Gnostic Christians believed that, because of his divine origins, Jesus did not suffer on the cross, that the heavens were populated by all sorts of entities including a lower Creator God and a superior God of Light — and that knowledge of one's ultimate origins from the latter was the key to salvation.

So far as the prophet himself is concerned, the contingent possibility of quiet salvation through repentance is an impossible possibility: Israel's redemption, and the ultimate fulfillment of Yahweh's covenant purpose — these lie now only beyond judgment.

If it is true, as I suggest, that salvation lies in the direction of an Earth organically in-folded upon itself, it is then surely evident that, though a reciprocal mechanism of action and reaction, the vision and prevision of this ultimate end, this outcome of History and of Life, may be made to play an essential part in the building of the future, if only by creating the atmosphere, the psychic field of attraction, without which it will be impossible for Humanity to continue to converge upon itself.

To extend this greeting was to express a wish for a life of wholeness, a life lived in accord with God's will and fulfilled in some ultimate salvation (Isa.

But if they are dealt with at depth, the contribution of Christian insights to the discussions will be a more natural preparation for the communication of the gospel of salvation in Christ than the charitable services have been in the past, because it raises issues regarding the nature of self - alienation in human beings and the ultimate ways of reconciliation overcoming it.

Had Henry not believed absolutely True truth regarding God, mankind, sin, salvation, the provision of redemption, and the ultimate joy of knowing God in Christ, he would not have initiated the second conversation.

In fact, the nature of the penultimate historical goal of humanization within the hope of ultimate salvation, is the theme of moral philosophy in the Christian religion.

Through the extraordinary actions of ordinary individuals, the film acknowledges self - sacrifice as a kind of supernatural event, one that points to the ultimate salvation in Christ.

Within the more traditional framework, fundamentalism has been described as a «world - view,» a rather tight (or narrow, or simplistic) view of the world — an orientation that is perhaps hierarchically organized around the ultimate value of otherworldly salvation, an orientation that supplies totally encompassing normative expectations for how people should behave, a set of beliefs and assumptions that are deeply meaningful to the people who hold them and that give meaning to these people's lives.

Love & Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of the iconic Wilson — portrayed by two actors, Paul Dano in the»60s and John Cusack in the»80s — and examines his musical brilliance, personal voyage and ultimate salvation.