It faced — or seemed to face —
the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.
Not exact matches
While that is not desirable, which is worse: to occasionally fall into sin ourselves, knowing that such sin is covered by the grace of the cross, OR telling the
whole world that although we've been rescued from sin and death and the devil, they can just go to hell because all we care about is our own
eternal life?
that the monads will pour into that place whither they are irrevocably destined by the total maturing of all things and the implacable irreversibility of the
whole history of the
World — some of them spiritualized matter in the limitless fulfillment of an
eternal communion, and others materialized spirit in the conscious agonies of an interminable decomposition.
In the five thousand one hundred and ninety - ninth year of the creation of the
world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty - seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham; the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty - second year from David's being anointed king; in the sixty - fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety - fourth Olympiad; the seven hundred and fifty - second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty - second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus; the
whole world being at peace in the sixth age of the
world, Jesus Christ the
eternal God and Son of the
eternal Father, desiring to sanctify the
world by his most merciful coming, being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary, being made flesh.
We will look at this verse in more detail when we discuss the Calvinistic idea of Limited Atonement, but for now, it is enough to note that even if the
whole world lies under the control of the wicked one, Jesus has done what is necessary to liberate the
whole world from the evil one so that they can respond to the gospel and believe in Jesus for
eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:7 - 13).
Does the belief that the
whole world of nature and history is the creative and redemptive venture of
eternal Love make sense?
We should emphasize the unity of God and see the «natures» as abstractions, descriptions from particular viewpoints of how God as a
whole functions in relation to the
world and to the
eternal objects.
Instead, they should be treated as adjectives describing the character of how God as a
whole functions in relation to the
world and to the
eternal objects.
To go out to the meeting with the
Eternal Thou, a man must have become a
whole being, one who does not intervene in the
world and one in whom no separate and partial action stirs.
Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the
world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging
eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a
whole host of others... and except for... and except for...
Rather, Waldstein has in mind a
world in which «spiritual and temporal authority cooperated together within a single social
whole for the establishment of an earthly peace, ordered to
eternal salvation.»
That is why Whitehead can say that the prehension of an
eternal object (conceptual prehension) occurs in a later phase of the becoming of an event than the immediate and unqualified physical prehension of the
whole given
world of becoming.
Their confidence in his continued life turned their dismay at Calvary into triumph, and without it some of the most characteristic elements in the New Testament — the radiant hope and joy of the
whole Book, the Christ - mysticism of Paul, the shining reality of the
eternal world in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the enthusiastic acceptance of sacrificial hardship exhibited by the early church — are inexplicable.
The
whole world is being exposed to God's message of
eternal life, there for the asking, without measuring up or meeting some kind of impossible criterion (Grace is unmerited favor with God), just as you are.
And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a
whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the
world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the
eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.
the
whole world being at peace, Jesus Christ,
eternal God and Son of the
eternal Father, desiring to consecrate the
world by his most loving presence, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and when nine months had passed since his conception, was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judah, and was made man: