Sentences with phrase «ultimate wording of»

In this approach, Jesus emerges as the ultimate word of God to whom all the scriptures point.
The word about sin is the penultimate rather than the ultimate word of the gospel, which witnesses to the power of God, in both judgment and mercy, to provide by grace the resources we can not provide for ourselves.
The structure of faith as apprehended within the whole company of the prophets was hardly without its contradictions, but the projection in faith of a final consummation embracing all prophetism's high affirmations is variously and eloquently proclaimed, and such raptured extensions of prophetic faith represent the ultimate words of prophetism.

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At session's end, we return to our hotel rooms with a tough homework assignment — to rewrite our ultimate mission knowing what we now know — and a word of advice from Groppel.
CBSA does not accept the tariff exemption − in other words, it still makes importers pay the customs duty, or «tax» − unless importers can produce paperwork containing personal information from the ultimate consumers of these electronic devices.
If the ultimate aim of any feedback is to improve employee performance — and therefore, the organization's performance — than you need to consider whether the timing and the wording of the feedback will accomplish those goals.
This is the ultimate form of word - of - mouth advertising.
In the Austrian school of economics the consumer has the ultimate word.
In other words, «Rather than consider the wisdom and authority of God, I'll be my own ultimate authority.»
«If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason; for then we should know the mind of God,» he said, HIS words not mine.
Either the Bible is the inspired and inerrant word of the Christian god; or it is simply another ancient text, whose ultimate traceability is unknown, and which shares a lot of the same narratives and stories of countless other religions throughout history.
Yes, it could be the ultimate» Divine Comedy» in which the potentate is lying, it could be fict i tious mythology, or it could be that which it claims to be: the word of God.
In these days of rival grand theories» superstrings, the inflationary model, et al.» competing on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal for the status of last word on the ultimate, Davies» book might appear to be just another technician's confident assertion that science will soon have all the answers.
He took into account the audience's ability to perceive in the ultimate sense — by flinging aside his deity and becoming the Word, one of us, living in our cramped planet within the limitations of a human body.
In other words, he must affirm both the ultimate unity of brahman and the plurality of the attributes which define God and the soul Neither unity nor plurality may be allowed ultimacy at the expense of the other.
And in this new perspective Jesus was seen to be himself the ultimate truth: the very embodiment of God's Word.
So to prove that point, he calls forward a witness which he views as the ultimate authority — Scripture, the very Word of God.
In other words, is religious belief the ultimate center of convergence and organization for reason: its stage of maturation, source of identity, place of survival?
Likewise, sola Scriptura meant that ultimate authority is vested in what God says, and not in the words of men.
If, as Christians believe, all truth ultimately comes from God through Jesus Christ, then all roads of worldly enquiry should lead back towards the same ultimate source and conclusion, the truth of the Word.
Sure, the church you attend... whatever,... but the religion you believe in teaches right from wrong and claims a connection to, or understanding of, or words directly from, the supposed ultimate moral authority does it not?
In view of Jehus subsequent reprehensible behavior and classical prophetism's ultimate repudiation of any true relationship between Jehu and the Word (Hosea 1:4), we should judge either that this word was not the Word; or that Jehu viciously appropriated the divine Word in Elisha to his own brutal ambitiWord (Hosea 1:4), we should judge either that this word was not the Word; or that Jehu viciously appropriated the divine Word in Elisha to his own brutal ambitiword was not the Word; or that Jehu viciously appropriated the divine Word in Elisha to his own brutal ambitiWord; or that Jehu viciously appropriated the divine Word in Elisha to his own brutal ambitiWord in Elisha to his own brutal ambitions.
For Al implies that a being consists exclusively of an absolute fixed perfection plus a purely changeable and surpassable imperfection; or in other words, insofar as the being changed at all there would be no ultimate limit of any sort to this change, and no guarantee that the being which in some respects was absolutely perfect would remain even superior to others in his non-absolute aspects.
To those impatient political enthusiasts who talk loudly on how futile and impractical religion must always be, and who are bent on legislating human equality into existence, Kierkegaard offers a word of counsel, «Only that which is religious can with the assistance of eternity press the equality of men through to its ultimate conclusions: the reverent, genuine, unworldly, true, the only possible equality between men.
These words are addressed to Jesus, and we must not fail to notice that the transcendent Creator and Judge can be identified as the ultimate ground of selfhood only at the moment when an immanent and totally human Jesus can be named as the divine Creator and Redeemer!
It was Bonhoeffer's conviction that only a church whose message is a part of her own being, a church who witnesses in obedience to her own ultimate concern through her actions, is able to interpret and proclaim the word of God to a world come of age.
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.
Originally, I wrote this guide for myself, so that I would remember all the steps involved to taking my book manuscripts from a Word documents, all the way through editing, typesetting, and design, to the ultimate goal of putting the books on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple iBooks.
In the words of Cobb: «The direction is to accept without hesitation or embarrassment the distinction between ultimate reality and God, and to recognize that the God of the Bible... is a manifestation of ultimate reality — not the name of that reality» (Quoted in BPM 120).
I mean the idolatry that successfully tempts so many religious people into thinking that they possess the ultimate truth of God — the idolatry of the evangelical tradition that equates the words of Holy Scripture (usually the King James Version) with the eternal, life - giving Word of God.
Before we turn off the lights and go to sleep, Bingham's final soothing words tell us that Einstein's insight offers the best definition of science: the «search for the order and harmony of what exists,» and «perhaps that is the ultimate human quest.»
Dominic, you are the one claiming that the Bible is the «inherent word of God» and the «ultimate truth», so it is up to you to back up your claim with proof.
To go back one step further we should of course say the ultimate court of appeal is God in se, since the functional meaning of the word «God» is such ultimacy.
In Paul's time, a sinner was the ultimate extreme of moral failure, maybe not unlike our use of the word «terrorist» today.
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.
I believe a believer when in a lukewarm stage / faith will become bipolar due to their disobedience towards the ultimate truth of God's word and commandments.
To the thousands who were reached and electrified by his words it meant the difference between the suffering of a meaningless fate and the liberating insight into the ultimate triumph of Jewish spirit which knows no defeat....
But the picture is so utterly lacking in any serious theological vision that all the audience hears is a mishmash of words gleaned from popular culture's assumptions about the man called Jesus — references to love, kingdom, power, sin, guilt, anger, forgiveness, not to mention that constant, most oppressive of all forces, the one who makes ultimate demands, God himself.
In other words, he assumes that accepting the fact of reasonable pluralism entails denying that differences on what he labels «ultimate questions» can be accounted for by saying that somebody has made what he calls «mistakes in reason.»
Because it is «God's Word,» it is the ultimate norm of evangelical theology.
Marx points out that the ultimate proof of this assertion is found in the word of Christ himself in the parable of the Vine and Branches.
I am the truth; I am myself the totality of the Word which denotes, expresses, relates, and contains the ultimate truth, of which every human word is a reflection, stammering, and repetitWord which denotes, expresses, relates, and contains the ultimate truth, of which every human word is a reflection, stammering, and repetitword is a reflection, stammering, and repetition.
This is, of course, an opportunity for the Church to show by word, sacrament and service that there are answers to ultimate human questions that are not, and can not be, answered by the current scientism.
Whether or not one uses the word God, we are all engaged in a discussion about the nature — the ultimate nature — of reality.
Although Jesus is the ultimate revelation of God — the Word of God incarnate — many Bible teachers and writers allow the violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament to override and trump the completely non-violent revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
If the Word of God must necessarily speak with the mythopoetic words of men, it is all the more inevitable that this should be so where the ultimate issues of existence are in question.
Under his ultimate government all roles are subject to his discipline and none of us are required to bear the state's sword (we bear the sword of the Word); we simply observe that the state has the sword and uses it with alacrity against all.
The value of the human word depends on the Word of God, from which it receives its decisive and ultimate characword depends on the Word of God, from which it receives its decisive and ultimate characWord of God, from which it receives its decisive and ultimate character.
Nor is Austen concerned merely with the personal fulfillment of the domestic hearth, for behind almost all her plots lurks the question of property, to which a young woman's propriety was also indissolubly linked (that fascinating etymological link between the two words property and propriety gets its ultimate elucidation in her novels).
It is in the Bible that we read about the Word of God — Jesus Christ, who Himself is the ultimate revelation of God.
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