Sentences with phrase «way to salvation for»

The only way to salvation for man was his faith in God's promise of salvation.

Not exact matches

In many ways, coworking could represent salvation for such incumbent corporations as they struggle to remain competitive in an increasingly disruptive set of markets and industries.
so in your spare time of denial read Romans chapter 10 verses 9 thru 13 and give your life to Jesus Christ the one and only God that gave his life for all mankind, rich or poor that we may be forgiven of our sins and have power over the devil, and help the lost to find their way to salvation through the power of the Holy Spirit... so rebuke the devil and be free, give your life to Christ so you can begin to sleep at night... I love you all with the love of Jesus Christ...
However, it is far beyond a blind leap of faith, as the Bible and the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus are evidence that there is a God and that He loves us enough to provide a way for salvation even though we as sinners don't deserve it.
The first step in salvation is the confession that we are ALL sinners, then to realize that we can NEVER earn our way into Heaven regardless of how good we were, what or how much we did for others, how much we loved or were loved.
God is interested in the salvation of the soul of every man and woman, so, what good would it do for a person to have an arm or a let to grow again when he / she is living in sin and in his / her way to hell?
Most Christians don't understand how others might see it as hate when they make the claim that their heaven & heII exists and that those not invited to heaven are going to go to heII to be tormented and tortured for eternity and the only way to salvation is to accept their God as your Lord and Savior... They think to themselves that they are just trying to help by condemning those they dislike and who don't worship the same way they do, but that doesn't change it from what it is, «hate filled».
Then goes on to say that if you don't believe the story, you basically will be punished for eternity because he is the best way to salvation and it doesn't matter that none of it makes sense.
He also expressed a personal opinion that it could be dropped if necessary and he went on to show how this would in no way compromise the necessity of baptism for salvation.
Francis's love of the Bible as a way to receive the medicine of salvation was another anticipation of Vatican II and its restoration of the Scriptures to a central role in Catholic life; and here, too, is a Franciscan lesson for the Church of the twenty - first century.
But it would not be possible to hope for the salvation of the complete collective if we knew that the possibility of such a future state of affairs was already nullified by, for example, someone exercising his freedom in such a way as to cancel out that possibility.
First, for the salvation that is to come through the Messiah (Luke 1:68 - 75), and second, he has some praise for his own newborn son because he will be the prophet who will prepare the way for the Messiah (Luke 1:76 - 79).
However Mormons believe this is a way to provide salvation for those who are dead.
Once we establish the idea that Eden was perfect, rather than it being Good and at best, Very Good, we begin a frantic journey of a restoration of perfection and salvation is finding a way to forgive fallen broken creation for its lapse from perfection so we can be loved by «God» again.
We must help them to tell their story, for, whether they know it or not, their story is the story of God's ways with His creatures, the story of salvation.
Jesus came to rid the world of ritual so belief in Jesus dying for your sins as a way to salvation is anti Christian doctrine.
Here was a situation in which the reality of God and his love was being revealed in a new and decisive way, and in which, therefore, the joys of the salvation time were suddenly available to those who had longed for them so long and so earnestly.
Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by which to live.
So, to me, the real question becomes do you, as a devout Christian, vote for someone that has rejected the Bible and its Christian tenets in favor of a different path to salvation, or someone that actually does believe in the Bible and its Christian tenets but interprets those tenets in a less literal way that seems to run counter to your more literal beliefs?
If you do not believe Jesus is the only way to heaven, then, it makes it very easy to deny that water baptism is essential for salvation.
The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.
Yet another suggestion of the total image concerns the way in which living and non-living realities are to be joined in human life and for human salvation.
I'm now saved (for the 1st time) because I have truly seen the error of my ways (Need of a Saviour), repented to God, turned from all known sin, and have trusted in Jesus Christ's atoning sacrifice as the only means of my salvation.
For example, Jesus is said to be unique as the revelation of God or the way of salvation.
only reason y i say this is because of Santification, once we give our life to the Lord, we streight way (so to speak) begin the process of Santification, this is Christ making us like him, and this Is SUFFERING It does nt happen over night, but for the duration of our time here, as you have said, its sort of like sin being done unto us, and we are handleing it just like Christ did, (with Love) of coarse with the help of the Holy Spirit, This Does NOT feel Good At ALL since our soulful flesh is Corrupt, (but our spirit is saved) This is were your trails and tribulation, your own desire, and All play apart, Now Moment by Moment we choose by our own will, And Jesus helps in these times, as he was tempeted, but without sin, The devil can do nothing but try and decieve the Christian into thinking that he has to work for his salvation as you have said, this thing here is about your Inheritance In Christ, Its gonna be some show nought broke christian in Heaven, because their trying to set of for themseleve trasure on earth, and their is going to be weeping and gnat of teeth, but it wont be, because of their going to Hell, It will be cause they miss out on what they could have had, and it is Devistation, cause they waste so much time, and they wont be able to attend the wedding, supper of the lamb, they wont be, getting the position over city, galacy, ectt... just check it out some of the points i have made, God Bless you!
We are assured that the only way to make sure you are prepared for this event (when it actually happens - whatever the day) is to obey the scriptures related to your salvation.
Yet much can be done in the way of making clear the understanding of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this life for its fulfillment, the meaning of the Kingdom for this life and the next, the Christian concepts of judgment and salvation with eternity in their span — in short, the goodness and power of a God who, having given us this life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer happiness, and do his will more perfectly.
Whether the totalitarian governments collapse or change their ways and whether the change comes soon or late, the epidemic of purges and the spreading disaffection of once enthusiastic followers reinforce the old lesson that power in itself is no cure for man's ills, and that human institutions are not equal to the task of assuring human salvation.
Perhaps this is an advantage in some way, but I think it's laughable to compare any so - called advantage of redemption or salvation through faith for non-white Christians to that of caucasian Christians, who have enjoyed all the systemic advantages that caucasian non-Christians have throughout United States history.
Even if we were to grant (for the sake of argument only) that God could or would intervene in this way in earthly affairs, God's resurrection of this one person can not logically support the likelihood of salvation for the rest of us: (A) It can not prove that God is able to save us from death and grant us eternal life; (B) it can not guarantee that God is interested in doing this; and (C) it does not even show that God will forgive our sins.
They present the Church as the Church of those who as sinners accept in faith the human life of all, with its ordinariness and its burdens, so that we experience our own lot as that of the Church, and ourselves as its members in that way; as the Church which is believed because we believe in God, the Church whose belief is not to be identified with what it experiences; above all as the Church which is the promise of salvation for the world which has not yet expressly recognized itself as part of the Church, the Church as the sacramentum of the world's salvation.
Tom Wright explains it this way: «Heaven's rule, God's rule, is... to be put into practice in the world, resulting in salvation in both the present and the future, a salvation which is both for humans, and through humans, for the wider world.»
Brentnz, I like the way you are working out your salvation and it seems to be working for you.
It follows that the highest command can no longer be the attainment of individual salvation — as Pali Buddhism formulates the goal of its way of life — but rather the imitation of the Buddha, who in turn is understood to be not merely a model for the attainment of one's own salvation, in the Hinayanist autosoteriological sense, but a universal world savior.
It seems like Satan likes to attack Christians this way by causing them to doubt their salvation and ultimately doubt God himself and his love for his children.
For Gnostics, the spiritual is what is good, so the way to gain salvation is to move toward a purely spiritual state.
It was an event in the history of salvation, in the realm of eternity..., in an analogous way, history comes to an end in the religious experience of any Christian «who is in Christ»... For although the advent of Christ is an historical event which happened «once» in the past, it is, at the same time, an eternal event which occurs again and again in the soul of any Christian.»
It is decisive for the Christian that this objectivation comes to pass precisely through freedom, for only in this way will doctrine, rites, etc., truly belong to the free person who realizes himself before God, either towards or against him, and thus becomes the person who will be able to work out either his salvation or his eternal loss.
Jesus is not a failure; he is on the way to becoming king (Acts 2:32 - 36) The risen Jesus must teach this lesson to his confused disciples (cf. Luke 24:26) The criminal recognizes both the justice of his own sentence and the true possibility for salvation in Jesus.
This means that if something happens to him it becomes important for his subjective salvation only if it is freely understood and accepted by a free subject in a very special way.
Ritschl was one of the few theologians to expand on his insights,» considering the solidarity of the race as the fundamental condition of religion, plunging us corporately into sin and making way for a new corporate reality of righteousness in Christian salvation.
Like the way «god» gave the world «salvation» only tens of thousand of years LATE, we are to believe that «god» also gave us «medicine,» but only after we had suffered for TENS OF THOUSANDS of years AND only after we figured everything out ON OUR OWN??? That is one sadistic «god» to put us through all that deception... making us merely think it was solely by our own efforts that we could even... oh say, IDENTIFY things like heart disease and cancer and have even a chance to combat them.
We discovered that in situations like Vietnam, the priority for salvation was peace and that the only way for Christians to act credibly was to fight for peace.
One may, in other ways, feel sorrow for sin (the sorrow of regret, or remorse, or despair); but one can not feel the sorrow of repentance (which alone leads to forgiveness and salvation) unless one knows that God suffers because of our sin incalculably more than we — and that he suffers willingly and out of love for us.
Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz
Yet if salvation is genuinely social, then there can be no place for a distinction that invites us to assume, for example, that we have ownership over our bodies and possessions in a way that is not under the discipline of the whole church.
Hebrews 6:4 - 6 ESV This passage is saying IF a person could lose their salvation the only way they could be restored would be for Jesus to die again which isn't going to happen since His death once and for all suffices.
Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!
I was impressed by the breadth of Paul's concern for their well - being; he wanted God to help them grow in many ways to be able to live their faith, to bear fruit in good deeds, and ultimately to come to salvation.
Islam — has one god that you must please so that he will let you into paradise Buddism — similar to Hindu, but no actual god just lifestyle Christianity — God loves you and He makes a path for you to salvation by paying for your evil ways.
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