Sentences with phrase «whole plan of salvation»

Since there is salvation outside the visible church — since, that is to say, Christ is somehow working outside organized Christianity — and if non-Christians have a right to know God's «whole plan of salvation» for Christians, then it follows that Christians have an obligation to know God's plan of salvation for those outside the visible church, for those who are not preordained to become professing Christians.

But if Christianity represents, as it surely does, God's whole plan of salvation for humankind, must not all persons sooner or later accept its authority?

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And it has encouraged me to think of salvation in terms of God's plan to restore and repair the whole world, as opposed to thinking of it in terms of individualistic escapism.

We hope that there remains no quarrel with the orthodoxy of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness of matter and its share in God's saving plans ``; that the flesh is central to the plan of salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about eternal communion between the Godhead and humanity, and thereby the whole of the physical creation which is summed up in Christ.

And the whole of Romans 9 — 11 is devoted to trying to understand God's plan for the salvation of Israel.

«The specific character of the Christian understanding of healing and health arises from its place in the whole Christian belief about God's plan of salvation for mankind,» wrote the draftsmen of the Tübingen conference on the Healing Church.