Sentences with phrase «which believers»

If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?

There is a kind of folk religion or domestic religion in which believers use God as a means to achieve their own ends.

Creeds are not simply confessional formulas by which believers declare their loyalty.

Catholics have always known that the bride of Christ is His Church of which any believers are an integral part.

Religious claims, in this regard, are a series of propositions which are coherent in their own terms and which generate a historical tradition in which believers struggle to reconcile their understanding of truth - claims with the pressures of life and experience.

Each had a young pig to which the believers» sins would be transferred.

Critics of Hinn note his embrace of the Word of Faith movement, in which believers verbally claim blessings for themselves in faith that God will provide.

Did Jesus create a big ocean of good works which believers can draw on?

The task to which I would like to see Christians the world over commit, themselves during the next three decades is to formulate visions of a good future in the light of which believers can learn to cause, to celebrate, and to cope with change.

Which believers?

I very much like Heather's main point, about the common strait in which believers and unbelievers often find themselves.

Even the Europe of the Reformation may be seen as a commonwealth in which believers maintained communal horizontal bonds with one another on the plane of culture while establishing independent bonds between themselves and God.

Pentecostals also affirm that their hope in the Second Coming of Christ implies that Christians currently find themselves in an active waiting period, in which believers collaborate in the church and participate in social life.

The precise form of evangelization to which believers are called depends upon their particular vocations.

There is probably no greater cause for the ease in which believers are being misled by the teachings of others (however well - intended and sincere such teachings may be), than the fact that they have for all practical purposes never been taught how to rightly divide the word of truth themselves.

It would seem that Paul Tillich is correct in saying that there are several different theological views which believers have held in this respect.

But I think it is a grave mistake to confine all your ideas to a single source which believers say is unchanging.

A megachurch is a wide screen behind which believers can hide, and avoid the responsabilities of being part of a genuine spiritual family according to the Head, our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

'» (90) The prevailing attitude, he shows, is heavily influenced by the Platonic concept of an evil material world and a perfect immaterial soul, as well as a misunderstanding of Scripture in which heaven, (as a kind of final resting place for the soul), is emphasized over the clear biblical picture of a new heaven and new earth for which believers will be physically resurrected.

If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?

The number of abortions had by believers and the rate at which believers have abortions should significantly less than for godless, immoral non-believers!

There is for Lutheran Christians no secular world in which God is dead; there is no empty world into which believers have to introduce the law of God for the first time.

To affirm, for example, that the essential elements of Christianity in the first century were only those items which believers of that day have in common with the «liberal» theologian of the twentieth century, is to eliminate as unessential to first - century believers their realistic eschatology, their belief in demons and angels, their vivid supernaturalism, their sacramentalism, their notion of the miraculous content of religious experience, and various other features of similar importance.

Related to this, the idea of being born (Gk., gennaō) in John's letter is the way he is describing the new life which all believers share with God and through which we come to know Him more intimately.

«The policy should give guidelines to chaplains that say, «Stay away from points in which believers are known to disagree,»» said Douglas Laycock, who represented the two women objecting to the prayers.

Faith has be some been called the hand or instrument by which believers lay hold on and receive Christ.

Paul did not emphasize the divine basiliea as Jesus did, but in the lectionary reading from Colossians, we read of the basiliea of God's beloved son in contrast to the «power of darkness» from which believers have been rescued.

The list of questions for which believers have rationalizations but no good answers supported by any evidence is quite long.

Without religion, in which the believers are deluded into thinking they are chosen by their God and everyone else is a piece of s ***, the world would be free of wars and hatred.

What most distinguishes the Jewish and Christian believer from the secular materialist is the frequency and the authenticity in which the believer responds to everyday events with deeply felt gratitude.

In the book's final pages Martin delineates what he regards as the only three possible solutions: «Only Faith,» in which the believer is dismissive of the expert opinions of the historians; «Only Reason,» in which the believer is «totally submissive to the historians»; and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faith.

Activity within the world, motivated, informed, and sanctioned by Christian faith, was the supreme means by which the believer could demonstrate his or her commitment and thankfulness to God.

The grace conveyed to the believer in sacraments is the presence of God symbolized by water, oil or food, from which the believer takes strength and comfort.

And this presupposes that legend has to do with a «saintly» life and a blessed death, by which the believer can be edified and inspired to emulation.

The result was a phenomenology of the religious experience that began with the objective data of religion (in the Rav's case halakah), which the believer must appropriate for himself.

The standard is very high... one which no believer ever completely attains....

When the proclamation of the «good news» has ended, there is no conclusion of the matter in a very serious sense the proclamation continues to be effectual as both requiring and empowering a life that is «in Christ» and hence a life in which the believer is to express in all that he or she says or does the reality of the divine Love in which that person is now a participant.

The assurance in which the believer knows and rejoices in his Lord's nature and purposes is threatened when the reliability of Scripture is questioned.38

The life of faith makes itself manifest in the kind of decision and the quality of action, which the believer makes in all the events of life in which he is involved.

in which the believer finds himself a participant.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

The attractive figure of Jesus which each believer holds in his imagination must not be confused with the historical figure of Jesus, for it can not even be reconciled with the New Testament, where there is not just one picture of Jesus, but several, all of which conflict at certain points.

«Christ» here stands for the new order of relationships between men and God and among men, the new and divine community, which is preeminently heavenly and eschatological but which in a real though partial sense has come into historical existence with the event and in which the believer is already incorporated.

Secular man finds it hard to be convinced that there is a chain of cause and effect which follows a channel leading from the believer to God, and from God to the physical context to which the believer directed his prayer.

There is the well - known «one cake» in which believer and Christ are «baked» into union.

But the main answer to this objection is that faith is not the kind of response to which the believer is led by means of rational argument or the production of incontestable historical evidence.

The mental picture of the risen and ascended Christ, which the imagination of the Christian believer developed from the memories of the crucified Jesus of history and from the initial apostolic experience, expressed the sense of faith, hope and victory to which the believer had been led.

The Bible is a storehouse of proof texts into which the believer may dip when seeking «biblical warrant» for his or her own views on current issues.

Since faith — to be true — must be good for everybody, the encyclical turns in this chapter to the manner in which the believer translates the interior experience of faith into a tangible expression befitting the common good.

By being prepared to think of decisions which Jesus himself made and in which the believer imitates him, they have reached a point at which they are restating a position which Schleiermacher and Harnack would surely have recognized, despite the difference in conceptualization.