Sentences with phrase «understands eternal truths»

I agree if he understands eternal truths in the sense that there are confessions of truth eschatologically valid once for all time, never out of fashion but always worthy to be remembered, confessed, and more deeply reflected upon by the people of God in order to discover always anew their eternal newness (as Pope Francis says in Evangelii Gaudium, 11).

Not exact matches

I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference between how to receive eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ alone for it), and the logical and theological foundations for that truth (deity of Jesus, death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).

But when we understand that the gospel contains both truths, about how to receive eternal life and properly live this life, then we can stop arguing about the role of faith and works in the gospel and see that both have their proper place with proper results.

They too are interventions to be understood indexically and historically, not as though they encapsulated eternal truths about the way things must necessarily be.

The contradiction of our hypothesis is that man receives the condition in the Moment, the same condition which, since it is requisite for the understanding of the eternal Truth, is eo ipso an eternal condition.

Certainly there have always been those Christians who have understood their faith solely in spiritual or personal terms, who have thought of Christianity as the guardian of eternal truths and timeless values in a world of change and decay.

«There exists no absolute understanding and no eternal Truth,» declared a third.

The ultimate reality upon which our hope depends is therefore the eternal truth and power of God, breaking into the flow of historical events, qualifying it, transforming it, yet always to be understood as giving meaning to life through its relation to that which is beyond the time form of the world process.

If one believes all the right things, and can sign on the dotted line of the best doctrinal statements that the church has ever written, but their life is full of hatred, greed, and selfishness, I would argue that while they may have eternal life, and while they may believe some good truths from the gospel, they really have not understood the most essential parts of the gospel.

And I understand why they want to do this — for the sake of the unity of the church — but I think that if we lose or sidestep the truths of eternal security and assurance of salvation, then we have pretty much lost most of the gospel — we have pretty much lost the battle for the truth of the Gospel.

But unless it can be shown that the theopaschite understanding corresponds to the eternal truth about God, then adroit theological shifts to meet the needs of the moment simply validate the atheist's charge that theology is nothing but an endless series of ad hoc rationalizations.

For spiritual communion is by no means merely an act of longing for the reception of the Lord under the sacramental signs; much deeper, and more properly, it is the act of prayer of a living and understanding faith, by which it enters into living communication and communion with Christ, the eternal and living Truth.

If we had to locate Duméry's position in relation to that of his master Plotinus, we would have to say that the sole difference is that for him Christian dogmas, which are only mythical representations of eternal truths, ought not be eliminated, but understood.

If the Preparation truths of the Gospel help people understand why we need to believe in Jesus for eternal life, the proof truths help us explain to people how Jesus can offer eternal life to anyone who believes in Him for it.

There are truths that bring us to the place of understanding that He is the giver of eternal life.

Without explicitly professing his Christian faith, Solzhenitsyn leads the reader to see that the truth about man is the Christian understanding of man as a fallen but redeemable creature with an eternal destiny.

Yes... When I came to faith / trust in Jesus Christ for eternal life, things similar to 7 - 9 were in my head until I had learned / been discipled enough to understand some basic truths and was able to see and discern error.

It embodies an ancient philosophy based on a deep understanding of eternal truths about the human body, the mind and the spirit.