Sentences with phrase «unbelievers so»

In 2 Corinthians 4:4 we read that the god of this world, Satan, has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they might not see the light of the Gospel and believe.

Ultimately, our mission is to make disciples (Matthew 28:19 - 20) which includes everything from serving unbelievers so they are drawn to Christ and saving Christians so they become more like Christ.

Acts 16:14 is not talking about God regenerating an unbeliever so that she can believe, nor is there any mention anywhere about God giving her the gift of faith.

Not exact matches

To unbelievers their God is the adversary the devil that blinds them to God and His way,... so how can they hear Him unless they sincerely seek Him?

The problem is, most obviously, that the right, reverend, the last and definitive revelator Mohammad has said to kill, persecute and subjugate the unbeliever and the lapsed, so the contradiction to reform is inherent.

They are ones we should be aggressively pursuing with Christ in our hearts, so that the love and grace of Jesus being real and here on earth right now, can not be ignored by the people who may be on the fence with who Jesus is and IF he is, and especially not by the unbelievers who happen to walk through the doors.

All who were in the Bible spoke in and by the Holy Spirit in boldness when it came time for them to minister the Word, even as it is with me, also to bring forth my testimony as a witness: I can not fellowship with unbeliever's because all they do is cause division, and Christ is not divided: Therefore; remain as you are: This is the third time I have come to you, and you rejected me for the Word of God: Many did not even know that Jesus spoke the Word of God through Holy Spirit, so how is it that you are to know unless it be given to you to know: My God is Just and He is right, He knows the hearts of man are wicked and have turned from Him: Thank - you all, there are some that did get it: Thank - you Father in Jesus name Alexandria:

Actually, to blasphemy against the Holy Ghost might require true faith first, so being an unbeliever and saying might not mean nothing.

Yet so - called «loving christians» say worse than that regularly in these blogs against «unbelievers», so don't act all offended and shocked.

Naming / defining is an exercise of power over others, so perhaps naming other persons made in the Divine image, with the potential to become godlike, by labeling them «believers» or «unbelievers» is a failure to see all people as God sees them, children of the one true God.

Also, if Christianity is so effective at brainwashing, why are there unbelievers?

Unbelievers I've found to be people who know this life is it and so enjoy it.

I didn't believe Christ is who He says he is because my parents said so...... they were unbelievers.

Those of us who believe will never stop because an unbeliever has a difference of opinion, so I guess we're even.

So you're saying you know what a «despairing grief that unbelievers without hope experience.»

It all ways amazes me how unbelievers care so much what followers of Christ do.

The unbeliever who commits this sin has become so morally and spiritually blind that their heart is hardened to the point that they no longer care about spiritual things and will never believe in Jesus.

But unlike the the unbeliever who fails to recognise God's blessings, the believer goes back to Jesus in deeper prayer and gratitude, so we grow in love of God, humility of heart, joyful trust and inner peace.

«But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all; the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you.»

So who is the church service for — believers or unbelievers?

So in reality, unbelievers are really not being reached by seeker sensitive churches either.

If he does not go so far as that, the unbeliever frequently looks upon his unbelief as, at the very worst, a misfortune.

It has always astonished me that so many churches and individuals who are «missions minded» rarely engage in the mission of Christ that requires them to come face to face with an unbeliever and love that person into God's kingdom (p. 125).

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they can not see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.»

Unbelievers don't have the same definitive objective, and so their choices are affected by their earth - bound ties.

On this level, the division between believer and unbeliever ceases to be so crystal clear.

My question was aimed for the majority of peope that also disagree with you as much as me and cling to their faith so violently that if someone even broaches the subject, they immediatly lash out and try to either convert the unbeliever, condem him, or bring up the inane, breathtakingly stupid argument of «I can't prove there is a god, but you can't prove there isn't so we're at an impass» — I think that argument is probably the most frustrating thing EVER

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they can not see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God - 2 Corinthians 4:4

So what you're telling me by repeating the statement that jesus isn't going to prove himself to unbelievers is that the ONLY way I can have proof that god exists is if I already believe in him?

the funny thing is one day when they / those unbelievers encounter judgement they can never say, no one ever told me so... Yes it was done thru the blog of CNN... =) no excuse.

2 Corinthians 4: 3,4 3 If, in fact, the good news we declare is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God,

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

so will the unbeliever recognize the Spirit - filled believer when confronted, when its the Spirit of God in them anyway.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

So actions of lying, murder against unbeliever have been justified by clerics within their faith.

Sorry to say that there are so many unbelievers who comment on CNN that you are going to get a bunch of worldly backlash.

Very well said Tim — You forgot to mention to have the unbelievers explain fish skeletons scientists have found over the years in the clefts of mountain top ranges, shark teeth discovered all in the Arizona deserts — Of course we know it was the flood — To a lot of non believers I speak to; it's sad because as opposed to looking / researching God's many evidences that He has left there are so many willfully ignorant in listening to modern man's (& I might add) opinion with nothing to back up evolution theories.

So in the end, 1 Corinthians 2:14 is not about an unbeliever's inability to understand the things of God, but about the incapacity of reason and emotions to understand the things of God on their own.

So, I'm going to continue teaching Biblical evangelism to every believer that I can, and explain the Gospel in a way that makes sense to every unbeliever that I can, all to the glory of God.

And it is also the reason why so many unbelievers mock Christians — because Christians are often fiercer than wolves, despite the fact that Jesus told his disciples to be innocent as doves.

So just because we are believers, that don't mean we should allow unbelievers and atheists to run amok and do and say whatever you want.

It concerns itself with the condition of man apart from Christ, so that by illuminating that condition for the unbeliever, he may be brought to a sense of his need for Christ and to a willingness to acknowledge that need.

As an unbeliever, I very much try to value every second I have on this planet as I feel this is my one shot to experience something so infinitely beautiful.

Missionaries did bring disease everywhere they went, cuz you know, the local peoples weren't naturally ingrained with reistsances to them... either that or maybe the missionary brought god's punishment with him un to the unbelievers, so they all converted?

I can see smirks spreading across the faces of unbelievers and confess to having invoked the other principle process philosophers so often use: the «god» principle.

2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they can not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

All unbelievers disagree with God's word too, so what is your point, Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son?

I have met so many believers who — when times got tough or lonely — ditched that rule and started a relationship with an unbeliever.

Note that I have never asked any of these questions to unbelievers, nor do I recommend anyone doing so.

So make sure you balance that line between God's wrath toward His enemies and God's mercy toward those who are still unbelievers very well.