Salvation Sentence Examples

But man's salvation was to be gradual.

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In the council lay now, to judge from his words, the only chance of salvation; and, in view of the requirements of the case, he began to argue that, in case of schism, a council could be convoked by any one of the faithful, and would have the right to judge and even to depose the rival pontiffs.

Society, he earnestly pleaded, can only find salvation by a return to Christianity and to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church.

This philosophical sceptic is full of humble joy in salvation, of deep love for the Saviour.

We may note in this connexion that the system of Basilides ascribes the many battles and quarrels in the world to the privileged position given to his people by the God of the Jews.2 It is at this point that the idea of salvation is introduced into the system.

Salvation consists in this, that that which was combined for evil is once more separated.

He also had to deal with a wizard, who deceived many by promising them salvation and release from evils, if they would follow him into the desert.

So in Scotland, Thomas Erskine and Thomas Chalmers - the latter in contradiction to his earlier position - hold that the doctrine of salvation, when translated into experience, furnishes " internal evidence " - a somewhat broader use of the phrase than when it applies merely to evidence of date or authorship drawn from the contents of a book.

A note of Fox, however, on the margin of a copy of The Decline and Fall records a very distinct remembrance of the historian's previous vituperation of the ministry; within a fortnight of the date of his acceptance of office, he is there alleged to have said that " there was no salvation for this country until six heads of the principal persons in administration were laid upon the table."

The first principle to which he looked for national salvation was, that the"duties of governors are strictly and peculiarly religious, and that legislatures, like individuals, are bound to carry throughout their acts the spirit of the high truths they have acknowledged."

Flagellation was occasionally practised as a means of salvation by certain Jansenist convulsionaries in the 18th century, and also, towards the end of the 18th century, by a little Jansenist sect known as the Fareinists, founded by the brothers Bonjour, cures of Fareins, near Trevoux (Ain).

Their idea of attaining salvation is self-mutilation according to the counsel of perfection implied in Matt.

He differs from Schopenhauer in making salvation by the "negation of the Will-to-live" depend on a collective social effort and not on individualistic asceticism.

Motives of self-interest may have lurked in them - otherworldly motives of buying salvation for a little price, or worldly motives of achieving riches and acquiring lands.

Salvation is attained not by believing but by the perception of what is right; wisdom is resident in the soul and identical with the thought of man.

When all seemed lost salvation was near.

The knight who joined the Crusades might thus still indulge the bellicose side of his genius - under the aegis and at the bidding of the Church; and in so doing he would also attain what the spiritual side of his nature ardently sought - a perfect salvation and remission of sins.

But besides an immense resort to Benares of poor pilgrims from every part of India, as well as from Tibet and Burma, numbers of rich Hindus in the decline of life go there for religious salvation.

In 1765 he said it "contains all that I now teach concerning salvation from all sin, and loving God with an undivided heart."

When admitted they were to give evidence of their desire for salvation "by doing no harm; by doing good of every possible sort; by attending upon all the means of grace."

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An external conformity was possible, inasmuch as speculation, proceeding from the higher to the lower, could keep by the stages of the regula fidei, which had been developed into a history of salvation.

Therefore it is that Ormazd in his grace determined to open the eyes of mankind by sending a prophet to lead them by the right way, the way of salvation.

Christianity is at once a revealed law which a man must keep, and by keeping which he earns salvation, and a supernatural power whereby his nature is transformed and the divine quality of immortality imparted to it.

The object of philosophy, according to Porphyry, is the salvation of the soul.

Overpowered by the majesty and novelty of the Christian message of salvation, too conscientious to rest satisfied with the ordinary attempts at the solution of difficulties, while prevented by the limitations of his time from reaching an historical insight into the relation of Christianity to the Old Testament and to Judaism, he believed that he expressed Paul's view by the 1 Esnik's presentation of the Marcionite system is a late production, and contains many speculations that cannot be charged upon Marcion himself.

The belief in them probably arose out of the doctrine of the older school, which did not deny the existence of the various creations of previous mythology and speculation, but allowed of their actual existence as spiritual beings, and only deprived them of all power over the lives of men, and declared them to be temporary beings liable, like men, to sin and ignorance, and requiring, like men, the salvation of Arahatship. Among them the later Buddhists seem to have placed their numerous Bodhisats; and to have paid especial reverence to Manju-sri as the personification of wisdom, and to Avalokiteswara as the personification of overruling love.

He edited his father's incomplete History of the Work of Redemption, wrote in answer to Stephen West, A Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797), which defended his father's work on the Will by a rather strained interpretation, and in answer to Chauncy on universal salvation formulated what is known as the " Edwardean," New England or Governmental theory of the atonement in The Necessity of the Atonement and its Consistency with Free Grace in Forgiveness (1785).

The later books say that they were all converted at once; but, according to the most ancient Pali record - though their old love and reverence had been so rekindled when the Buddha came near that their cold resolutions quite broke down, and they vied with each other in such acts of personal attention as an Indian disciple loves to pay to his teacher, - yet it was only after the Buddha had for five days talked to them, sometimes separately, sometimes together, that they accepted in its entirety his plan of salvation.'

Indeed, nearly all the Christian Gnostic systems clearly exhibit the great difficulty with which they had to contend in order to reconcile the idea of an historical redeemer, actually occurring in the form of a definite person, with their conceptions of salvation.

In Gnosticism salvation always lies at the root of all existence and all history.

In fact salvation, as conceived in Gnosticism, is always a myth, a history of bygone events, an allegory or figure, but not an historical event.

The Gnostic ideas of salvation were in the later schools and sects transferred to these persons whom we must consider as rather obscure charlatans and miracle-mongers, just as in other cases they were transferred to the person of Christ.

Gnosticism was also the pioneer of the Christian Church in the strong emphasis laid on the idea of salvation in religion.

He did not minutely analyse the doctrine of predestination as Luther, Calvin and Zwingli did, contenting himself with the summary "Our Salvation is of God, our perdition of ourselves."

On being assured that he would not, he stepped out again and declined their methods of salvation.

The prayers are addressed to the God of light, to the whole kingdom of light, to the glorious angels, and to Mani himself, who is apostrophized in them as "the great tree, which is all salvation."

The hope of the advent of an ideal king was only one feature of that larger hope of the salvation of Israel from all evils, which was constantly held forth by all the prophets, from the time when the seers of the 8th century B.C. proclaimed that the true conception of Yahweh's relation to His people could become a practical reality only through a great deliverance following a sifting judgment of the most terrible kind.

All such passages are frequently called Messianic; but the term is more properly reserved as the specific designation of one particular branch of the Hebrew hope of salvation, which, becoming prominent in post-canonical Judaism, used the name of the Messiah as a technical term (which it never is in the Old Testament), and exercised a great influence on New Testament thought - the term" the Christ "(6 xpccrros) being itself nothing more than the translation of" the Messiah."

Amidst the last convulsions of political Judaism a new spiritual conception of the kingdom of God, of salvation, and of the Saviour of God's anointing, had shaped itself through the preaching, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Churches now became, in form and decoration, epitomes of the Christian scheme of salvation as the middle ages understood it.

The Old and the New Covenants are related to one another as imperfect (earthly) and perfect (heavenly) forms of the same method of salvation, each with its own type of sacrifice and priesthood.

Its doctrine of salvation was a guide to, if not absolute non-existence, yet cessation of all consciousness of existence (Nirvana).

While Irenaeus held fast the traditional eschatological beliefs, yet his conception of the Christian salvation as a deification of man tended to weaken their hold on Christian thought.

The priest too in putting it on prays, "Place on my head the helmet of salvation, &c."

As contrasted with the colossal display of power on the part of the Church of Rome, it must be allowed that the churches which in the 16th century broke off from their allegiance to the Latin centre at first showed no great anxiety for the extension of the gospel and the salvation of the heathen.

For now the corporation was styled " The Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the parts adjacent in America," and its object was defined to be " not only to seek the outward welfare and prosperity of those colonies, but more especially to endeavour the good and salvation of their immortal souls, and the publishing the most glorious gospel of Christ among them."

The Salvation Army also has missions in India, Ceylon and Japan; but these cannot be called " non-denominational," because the Army has gradually become a very strict denomination itself.

In the East the festival is known as the avitXi t ' cs, "taking up," or E rtcrco oµELn, a term first used in the Cappadocian church, and of which the meaning has been disputed, but which probably signifies the feast "of completed salvation."

In 1888 (before the similar work of the Salvation Army was inaugurated) the Church Army established labour homes in London and elsewhere, with the object of giving a "fresh start in life" to the outcast and destitute.

The dogmas of Epicurus became to his followers a creed embodying the truths on which salvation depended; and they passed on from one generation to another with scarcely a change or addition.

This abnormal condition necessitates a fresh creative act, that of salvation, which was, however, from the first, part of the divine plan.

As a preparation for this salvation supernatural revelation was required for the purifying and revivification of the religious consciousness, and the Saviour Himself had to appear in human history as a fresh miraculous creation, born of a woman but not begotten by a man.

This stage of development inaugurated by the Saviour is attained by means of His kingdom or the community of salvation, which is both moral and religious, and in the first instance and temporarily only religious - that is, a church.

All were universalists in so far as they believed in the ultimate salvation of all men.

In spite of all, the dominant fact remains, that to the end he was zealous for his God and for the salvation of his people, nay, of the whole of humanity, and that he never lost the unconquerable certainty of his divine mission.

There is, for instance, no difficulty in deriving the Arab meaning of " revelation " from the common Aramaic " salvation," and this transference must have taken place in a community for which salvation formed the central object of faith, i.e.

Revelations of the kind which Mahomet uttered, no unbeliever could more probably, among Christians, since Christianity is in a very peculiar sense the religion of salvation.

Thus he allowed the necessity of good works to salvation, but not in the old sense; proposed to allow the seven sacraments, but only as rites which had no inherent efficacy to salvation, and so on.

In the Loci of 1535 Melanchthon sought to put the fact of the co-existence of justification and good works in the believer on a secure basis by declaring the latter necessary to eternal life, though the believer's destiny thereto is already fully guaranteed in his justification, In the Loci of 1543 he did not retain the doctrine of the necessity of good works in order to salvation, and to this he added, in the Leipzig Interim, "that this in no way countenances the error that eternal life is merited by the worthiness of our own works."

Speaking at Sheffield on the 13th of October he criticized the scheme in more detail, and, as an Imperialist, warned the country against it, emphasizing his own ideal of the future of the empire - "a strong mother with strong children, each working out his own political and fiscal salvation."

And the previous history of religious belief in India would tend to show that emphasis was laid on the fact, less as an explanation of the origin of evil, than as a protest against a then current pessimistic idea that salvation could not be reached on earth, and must therefore be sought for in a rebirth in heaven, in the Brahmaloka.

Themselves giving up this world as hopeless, and looking for salvation in the next, they naturally thought the Buddhists must do the same, and in the absence of any authentic scriptures, to correct the mistake, they interpreted Nirvana, in terms of their own belief, as a state to be reached after death.

It should be added that the belief in salvation in this world, in this life, has appealed so strongly to Indian sympathies that from the time of the rise of Buddhism down to the present day it has been adopted as a part of general Indian belief, and Jivanmukti, salvation during this life, has become a commonplace in the religious language of India.

And even the old ideal of life, the salvation of the Arahat to be won in this world and in this world only, by selfculture and self-mastery, is forgotten, or mentioned only to be condemned.

In the convent Luther set himself to find salvation.

The last word of that Scotist theology which ruled at the close of the middle ages was that man must work out his own salvation, and Luther tried to do so in the most approved later medieval fashion by the strictest asceticism.

It was held that the good deeds over and above what were needed for their own salvation by the living or by the saints in heaven, together with the inexhaustible merits of Christ, were all deposited in a treasury out of which they could be taken by the pope and given by him to the faithful.

Hence for the indifferent Christian, Attrition, Confession and Indulgence became the three heads in the scheme of the church of the later middle ages for his salvation.

The wildest confusion prevailed, and the lazzaroni massacred numbers of persons suspected of republican sympathies, while the nobility and the educated classes, finding themselves abandoned by their king in this cowardly manner, began to contemplate a republic under French auspices as their only means of salvation from anarchy.

The reliance upon ritual - seeking salvation through outward acts.

Bancroft, " was to make the savages work out their own salvation and that of the priests also."

Some of these divisions are mutually antagonistic, denying to each other the name of Christian and even the hope of salvation.

The conception of salvation was mingled with ideas derived from the East during and after the period of captivity.

Salvation was for the nation, and the individual was not necessarily participant in it.

Hence he attains salvation, being delivered from sin and fear and death, for the divine attributes are not ontological entities to be discussed and defined in the schools, but they are realities, entering into the practical daily life.

Salvation is the comprehension of this fact, and in the apprehension of our essential oneness with the absolute.

By baptism and the Lord's Supper grace is given (ex opere operato), so that man is renewed and made capable of salvation.

Salvation henceforth is not the descent of the New Jerusalem out of heaven, but the ascent of the saints to heaven; for the individual it is not the resurrection of the body but the immortality of the soul.

These hopes and theories of salvation, however, do not explain the power of Christianity.

None the less the first place is given to the salvation of the soul, since, created for an unending existence, it is of transcendent importance.

This is the charter of the Church, and its acceptance is the first requisite for salvation; for the Church determines doctrine, exercises discipline and administers sacraments.

He is dependent, therefore, not upon nature, but upon God's grace for salvation, and this comes through the Church.

What was said above of the Christology of the Petrine speeches applies to the whole conception of Messianic salvation, the eschatology, the idea of Jesus as equipped by the Holy Spirit for His Messianic work, found in these speeches, as also to titles like " Jesus the Nazarene " and " the Righteous One " both in and beyond the Petrine speeches.

It is believed that such souls continue to be members of the Church of Christ; that they are helped by the suffrages of the living - that is, by prayers, alms and other good works, and more especially by the sacrifice of the Mass; and that, although delayed until "the last farthing is paid," their salvation is assured.

Hence also sick persons are frequently conveyed long distances to a sacred river to heal them of their maladies; and for a dying man to breathe his last at the side of the Ganges is devoutly believed to be the surest way of securing for him salvation and eternal bliss.

The difference lies essentially in the belief held as to the means by which the truths defined in these dogmas are to be made effective for the salvation of the world.

Half Europe was full of waverers between Protestantism and Catholicism tolerably certain to decide for the Church that offered them the cheapest terms of salvation; and even in wholly Catholic countries many, especially of the upper class, might easily be scared away from the confessional by severity.

I am converted, I am no longer liable to be reborn in a state of suffering, and am assured of final salvation."

Abandoning truth and falsehood, pleasure and pain, the Vedas, this world and the next, he shall seek the Universal Soul, in knowledge of which standeth eternal salvation."

It was in 1648 (the year which Kabbalists had calculated as the year of salvation) that Sabbatai proclaimed himself Messiah, and in Constantinople came across an able but somewhat unscrupulous man, who pretended that he had been warned by a prophetic voice that Sabbatai was indeed the long-awaited Redeemer.

Nathan of Gaza assumed the role of Elijah, the Messiah's forerunner, proclaimed the coming restoration of Israel and the salvation of the world through the bloodless victory of Sabbatai "riding on a lion with a seven-headed dragon in his jaws" (Graetz).

To the mob the mob-leader is mysterious in his power of bringing luck and salvation; to himself also he is a wonder, since he wills, and to !

For what to the others was chiefly a promise of personal salvation became for the indomitable will of Knox an assurance also of victory, even in this world, over embattled forces of ancient wrong.

They bear in themselves irrefutable proofs of their authenticity, bringing us face to face not with the Zoroaster of the legends but with a real person, announcing a new doctrine and way of salvation, no supernatural Being assured of victory, but a mere man, struggling with human conflicts of every sort, in the midst of a society of fellow-believers yet in its earliest infancy.

Gnostic. For he ascribed salvation, not to " knowledge " but to faith "; he appealed openly to the whole Christian world; and he nowhere consciously added foreign elements to the revelation given through Christ.

The prophets and patriarchs, having been often deceived by the Demiurge, suspected a trick and would not avail themselves of the promised salvation, remaining content with the bliss of being in Abraham's bosom.

Milner practically confined his demands to a five years' franchise, which he helped would enable the Uitlanders to work out their own salvation.

In this effort he was defeated, mainly because the Revolution, for lack of experience in the right use of liberty, changed into a military despotism which allied itself with the spiritual despotism of Rome; partly because, when the Revolution was overthrown,, the parties of reaction sought salvation in the "union of altar and throne."

For the former several of the arches of the city railway have been utilized, and correspond in internal arrangement to like shelters instituted by the Salvation Army in London and various other cities.

The leaders of the Great Vehicle urged their followers to seek to attain, not so much to Arahatship, which would involve only their own salvation, but to Bodhisatship, by the attainment of which they would be conferring the blessings of the Dhamma upon countless multitudes in the long ages of the future.

We find long treatises on the nature of being, idealistic dreams which have as little to do with the Bodhisatship that is concerned with the salvation of the world as with the Arahatship that is concerned with the perfect life.

Of his numerous other Bohemian works we may mention the Postilla (collection of sermons), the treatises 0 poznani testy grave k spaseni (the true road to salvation) and O svatokupectvi (on simony), and a large collection of letters; those written in prison are very touching.

He was born in 1852, of an old Somersetshire county family, and, after a varied career as university man, sailor before the mast, soldier, coffee-planter, curate in the Church of England and evangelist in the Salvation Army, was converted about 1897 to the views of Prince.

In order to attain to salvation, man is justified, and when SO justified CAN DO NO More Than The Commands Of God.

Without this visible Church there is no salvation.

Occam was a sincere Franciscan, and believed with his master that salvation was won through rigid imitation of Jesus in His poverty and obedience, and up to his days it had always been possible for Franciscans to follow the rules of their founder within his order.'

One may divine in all this an intention to "justify the ways of God" to the Jew, by proving that God in His faithfulness to His ancient people had given them the first opportunity of salvation through Christ, but that now their national privilege had been rightly forfeited.

According to Calvinism God's election unto salvation is absolute, determined by His olyn inscrutable will according to Arminianism it is conditional, dependent on man's use of grace.

That God desires that all should be saved, and that the salvation of each depends on his own choice - these are the general convictions of modern theology.

His principles alienated him from the Kossuth faction, which looked for salvation to a second war with Austria, engineered from abroad; but he was equally opposed to the attitude of resignation taken up by the followers of Szechenyi, who, according to Deak, always regarded the world from a purely provincial point of view.

The Unitarians are an important body with (1908) 350 ministers and 345 places of worship. Most numerous, probably, are the adherents of the Salvation Army, which with a semi-military organization has in Great Britain alone over 60,000 officers, and " barracks," i.e.

Wherefore he himself had come to free her from her bonds, and to confer salvation upon men through knowledge of himself.

He also published Sermons for the New Life (1858); Christ and his Salvation (1864); Work and Play (1864); Moral Uses of Dark Things (1868); Women's Suffrage, the Reform against Nature (1869); Sermons on Living Subjects (1872); and Forgiveness and Law (1874).

He had long been an eager seeker after salvation and was not fully satisfied as to his own " conversion " until an experience in his last year in college, when he lost his feeling that the election of some to salvation and of others to eternal damnation was " a horrible doctrine," and reckoned it " exceedingly pleasant, bright and sweet.

On the 30th Garnet addressed a letter to the government in which he protested his innocence with the most solemn oaths, " as one who hopeth for everlasting salvation."

It should be noticed in passing that the idea of a priesthood with mystical powers is altogether repugnant to Buddhism; every one's salvation is entirely dependent on the modification or growth of his own inner nature, resulting from his own exertions.

At the upper end of Castle Street stands the Salvation Army Citadel, an effective castellated mansion, the most imposing "barracks" possessed anywhere by this organization.

The catechetic course included instruction in monotheism, in the folly of polytheism, in the Christian scheme of salvation, &c. (c) They were again and again exorcized, in order to rid them of the lingering taint of the worship of demons.

Let people first learn to feel their need of salvation, so that we may be sure of giving it only to those who really want it.

A second lapse from the state of grace entailed perpetual exclusion from the sacraments, the means of salvation.

In the Salvation Army people are continually invited to come forward to the "penitent form," and admissions of past evil living are publicly made.

It was by suppressing, through such self-torture, the influence on his soul of all sensations that the Jain could obtain salvation.

Harnack takes a different view of Origen; the certainty of ultimate salvation overbears free will with a sort of physical necessity.

Yet, in contrast with the doctrine usually ascribed to Ulrich Zwingli, Calvin teaches that grace does come through sacraments; but then, nothing comes beyond the fruits of faith; from which grace all salvation springs 1 Roman Catholic scholars naturally hold that Paul was misconstrued, but they cannot deny that Protestant theology was directly a version and interpretation of Paulinism.

Again, Western theology, very roughly summarized, while accepting the earlier doctrinal tradition, has broken new ground for itself, in affirming as rational necessity that God must punish sin (this is at least latent in Aquinas's - doctrine of natural law), but as contingent fact of revelation that God has in Christ combined the punishment of sin with the salvation of sinners; this is the Reformation or postReformation thought.

Gregory of Nyssa's Great Catechesis is an instruction to catechists how they should proceed - though of course stating the writer's theology and apologetic, with his belief in universal salvation.

He preached the strict unity of God, the subordinate nature of Christ, and salvation by character.

They were subsequently carried to Rome by Aurelian, and at length presented to Justinian by a lady named Marcia, to be erected in this church " for the salvation of her soul."

Passing on to Anselrn (1033-1109), we observe that the Augustinian doctrine of original sin and man's absolute need of unmerited grace is retained in his theory of salvation; he also follows Augustine in defining freedom as the " power not to sin "; though in saying that Adam fell " spontaneously " and " by his free choice," though not " through its freedom," he has implicitly made the distinction that Peter the Lombard afterwards expressly draws between the freedom that is opposed to necessity and freedom from the slavery to sin.

The assurance which the believer has of salvation he receives from the operation and witness of the Holy Spirit; but this again rests on the divine choice of the man to salvation; and this falls back on God's eternal sovereign purpose, whereby He has predestined some to eternal life while the rest of mankind are predestined to condemnation and eternal death.

It appealed to and evoked a high order of intelligence, and its insistence on personal individual salvation has borne worthy fruit.

It is the religion of mediatorial salvation, and, as Schleiermacher emphatically taught in his riper works, of salvation through the mediation of Christ; that is, its possessors are conscious of having been delivered by Jesus of Nazareth from a condition in which their religious consciousness was overridden by the sense-consciousness of the world and put into one in which it dominates, and everything is subordinated to it.

The "grace of truth" (the charisma), which the apostles had called down upon their first disciples by prayer and layingon of hands, and which was to be imparted anew by way of succession (&aSoxii, successio) to the bishops from generation to generation without a break, makes those who receive it living witnesses of the salvation offered to the faithful by written and spoken tradition.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, rightly expounded by the church alone, give us an insight into God's plan of salvation for mankind, and explain to us the covenant which He made on various occasions (Moses and Christ; or Noah, Abraham, Moses and Christ).

Hence he lays the greatest stress on the conception of God's disposition of salvation towards mankind (oeconomia), the object of which is that mankind, who in Adam were sunk in sin and death, should in Christ, comprised as it were in his person, be brought back to life.

The climax of the divine plan of salvation is found in the incarnation of the Word.

Salvation came from the very excess of the repressive measures.

He was a fellow of the Royal Society, a writer on varied topics to the reviews and the author of the hymn "Lord of our Life and God of our Salvation."

He denied the salvation of Adam.

But the practical end of all his writings is to inculcate bhakti addressed to Rama as the great means of salvation - emancipation from the chain of births and deaths - a salvation which is as free and open to men of the lowest caste as to Brahmans.

She still saw him as the lost kid that could be saved, not the Black God who was past salvation of any kind.

This appears to me faint sketch of a system of Salvation which does not affront our reason and humanity.

Athanasius charges Arianism with dualism, and even polytheism, and with destroying the whole doctrine of salvation.

The Bible says " behold now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.

The musical biopic is hardening into a formula of lots of suffering and then final salvation.

He is among us and none are safe - sadly for some of ye Bonnie lasses there is no salvation.

Even many devout churchgoers do not understand God's plan of salvation.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Rather, since Jesus Christ was fully divine in human flesh, his salvation is divinely secure for us.

Hence, the key elements of the biblical doctrine of salvation are excluded from the Islamic idea.

Q. How are we to use the word, if we would have it made effectual to salvation?

Anyone may employ as many exhortations and arguments as he pleases, toward the promoting of another man's salvation.

With a number of twists and turns the story winds to a conclusion that involves exorcism, multiple deaths, salvation and demonic trickery.

There are elements of our salvation, as I told you last time, that are not experiential.

Because had the way to God been open through wisdom, Christianity would have opened the way to salvation only to the intellectually gifted.

The three exchanged worried glances, then they heard the sound of salvation.

Let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in thy goodness.

Pub grub goes gourmet With a smoking ban looming and beer sales dwindling, pubs are seeking their salvation in food.

In all other religions salvation is sought by self-effort, because God is not conceived of as absolutely holy.

The gospel of salvation by faith in Christ does not jeopardize right living.

Is it any wonder then, in verse 21, God gives Him the name Jesus - Jehovah is salvation.

Each led the life of a simple mendicant, preaching that individuals should seek their own salvation.

The shortness and uncertainty of life are strong reasons for seeking pardon and salvation now.

Do not refuse the free pardon, the full salvation which Jesus grants to all who trust Him.

For our problem, this means that the historical particularism of the divine election and rejection must serve the universalism of salvation.

They would hold that salvation comes from Gods choice of us, before time, and enacted out by Gods decree called predestination.

Salvation was chosen to be carnival queen one year.

If my identity is fundamentally relational then salvation must take the form of restored relationships.

Those who preach a salvation that you can lose, are preaching a perverted gospel.

On the surface the woman is proclaiming the salvation of God but here seems to be where the story ends.

Would you ask at Adam, would he not say, 0 embrace this great salvation?

It is the Gospel of Christ because it is about what Jesus has done in accomplishing the salvation of God's people.

In his resurrection is our hope of eternal salvation.

It is a case of the greatest moment, where everlasting salvation or damnation is to be determined.

Certainly it is clear from the overall teaching of Paul in his letters that he does not affirm universal salvation.

The listing of the building also paved the way for its eventual salvation.

The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.

We cannot go further than this and say that salvation or liberation is available to nonhuman sentient beings.

Without the full deity of Jesus Christ, God the Son, our salvation or guarantee to get into heaven becomes shaky.

There again, when have you done enough in Allah's sight that he will give you salvation and eternal life.

Paul was fully aware that faith was not itself an eternal guarantee of salvation unless it remained sincere.

Perhaps they were denying the sufficiency of salvation for all men.

The hero demonstrates the tenacity of God to pursue the plan of salvation despite repeated failures in the plan.

You have no burning thirst for the salvation of others.

The forgotten truth is that both myths celebrate the triumph of Good over Evil and promise an eschatological salvation.

On top of the wardrobe was his father's Salvation Army model small bore trombone.

How then do the unrighteous receive the salvation that comes by faith 'through the righteousness ' of Jesus (as Peter says here )?

You could not have security, for salvation is only vouchsafe to you through the sealing of the Spirit.

God had a plan of salvation from the moment that sin entered the world.

After a long interval salvation came from Scotland, somewhat unexpectedly, because although, along with its winter analogue of curling, bowls may now be considered, much more than golf, the Scottish national game, it was not until well into the 19th century that the pastime acquired popularity in that country.

It is quite true that Paul does not directly attack the speculative position, but rather indicates the practical dangers inherent therein (the denial of the supremacy of Christ and of full salvation through Him); he does not say that the errorists hold Christ to be a mere angel or an aeon, or that words like pleroma (borrowed perhaps from their own vocabulary) involve a rigorous dualism.

Yea, I will make you a light to the Gentiles that my salvation may be unto the end of the earth."

Cassianus was one of the first and most prominent of the Semi-Pelagians, maintaining that while man is by nature sinful, he yet has some good remaining in him, and that, while the immediate gift of God's grace is necessary to salvation, conversion may also be begun by the exercise of man's will.

It is only after the service of consecration and the mass are finished that the consecrating prelate asperses and blesses the mitre and places on the head of the newly consecrated bishop, according to the prayer which accompanies the act, " the helmet of protection and salvation," the two horns of which represent " the horns of the Old and New Testaments," a terror to " the enemies of truth," and also the horns of " divine brightness and truth " which God set on the brow of Moses on Mount Sinai.

As an orthodox traditionalist Origen holds that Christianity is a practical and religious saving principle, that it has unfolded itself in an historical series of revealing facts, that the church has accurately embodied the substance of her faith in the regula fidei, and that simple faith is sufficient for the renewal and salvation of man.

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death."

On the one hand, it may be said that one general theme - the salvation and final prosperity of the righteous - is visible throughout the work, that God is everywhere represented as the supreme moral governor of the world, and that the conception of immortality is found in both parts; the second part, though differing in form from the first, may be regarded as the historical illustration of the principles set forth in the latter.

The Army proclaims the supreme duty of self-sacrifice for the sake of the salvation of others.

His fundamental religious conception was his own hard-found answer to his own agonized question as to the nature and assurance of salvation.

The pursuit of salvation does not dominate by any means the whole life and ambition of even ardent believers; statesmen, philosophers, men of letters, scientific investigators and inventors have commonly gone their way regardless of the particular form of Christianity which prevailed in the land in which they lived.

Christ's principle of love was widely interpreted to mean chiefly love for the Christian brotherhood, and within that circle the virtues of hospitality, charity and helpfulness were widely exercised; and if the salvation of his own soul was regarded as the most important affair of every man, the service of the brethren was recognized as an imperative Christian duty.

Thus the clergy as distinguished from the laity became true priest ' ', and the latter were made wholly dependent upon the former for sacramental grace, without which there is ordinarily no salvation (see Holy Order).

At this crisis Poland owed her salvation to two events - the formation of a general league against Sweden, brought about by the apprehensive court of Vienna and an almost simultaneous popular outburst of religious enthusiasm on the part of the Polish people.

As in many mystical religions, so in Gnosticism, the ultimate object is individual salvation, the assurance of a fortunate destiny for the soul after death.

This we may consider as one of the striking parallels which meet us in other religions to that "hope of the advent of an ideal king which was one of the features of that larger hope of the salvation of Israel from all evils, the realization of perfect reconciliation with Jehovah and the felicity of the righteous in Him," to which reference was made in an early portion of this article and which constitutes the essential meaning of Messiahship. The form in which the Indian conception presents itself in the above quoted lines is more closely analogous amid many differences to the later and apocalyptic type of the Messianic idea as it appears in Judaism.

The orgies or mysteries were open to all, freemen or slaves, who had duly performed the preliminary purifications, and secured to the participants salvation and remission of sins.

In spite of his hostility to the Jesuits, his dislike of friars in general, and his jealousy of the Inquisition, he was a very sincere Roman Catholic, and showed much zeal in endeavouring to persuade the pope to proclaim the Immaculate Conception as a dogma necessary to salvation.

While all are elected to salvation, only the regenerate may receive baptism, and those who sin after regeneration sin against the Holy Ghost, and cannot be saved.

In his reign (813-833) Aristotle was first translated into Arabic. Orthodox Moslems, however, distrusted the course on which their chief had entered, and his philosophical proclivities became one ground for doubting as to his final salvation.

We must repent of sin, or we cannot receive the blessings of salvation.

I.e. Jesus tells us here that without repentance from sin, there can be no salvation.

He now understood what the gospel of grace and salvation through faith in Christ alone really meant.

Blessed be the god in his names, salvation of preists and goatherds, king of kings, lord of lords.

I believe that peace and purpose is the reward for inner growth, and that inner growth is the goal and salvation of mankind.

The passage explains how the stumbling of Israel has resulted in the salvation of the Gentiles.

God 's great plan was the salvation of souls from the judgment their sin deserved.

The present salvation from sin was not thought of under that term.

Redemption is not, first, an easy way of salvation for the sinner, and then a display of the character of God.

There again, when have you done enough in allah 's sight that he will give you salvation and eternal life.

It is the same name with Joshua (who was a type of him) which properly signifies, The Lord, Salvation.

So look for someone who 's single-minded about salvation.

Demonstrating its Christian principles through social welfare provision, The Salvation Army is one of the largest providers of social welfare in the world.

This cultural preoccupation with personal salvation stymies collective reform, and places an onerous burden on the individual.

We come then into a submissive role in terms of the cause of Christ at the point of salvation.

Only a few days ago have I listened to two young men preaching the good tidings of salvation.

How then do the unrighteous receive the salvation that comes by faith 'through the righteousness ' of Jesus (as Peter says here)?

O quench not this fire till you get water out of the wells of salvation !

As we can have no well-grounded hope of eternal salvation without obedience, so we can have no sure rule of obedience without knowledge.

The sacred writings are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

You can always donate used baby toys to places such as the Salvation Army or a women and children's shelter.

Depending upon your own religious affiliation, your baptism may occur when you are an infant or very young child, or it may not occur until you are much older and are expected to understand the implications of baptism for your salvation.

In some cases, baptism is believed as an essential step in the plan of salvation.

Salvation Army Angel Tree-This seasonal program provides toys, clothing, books and other items for needy children.

Families who qualify must sign up through the Salvation Army.

These bins may be run by the Salvation Army or Goodwill, as well as by Planet Aid or other organizations.

If there is a Salvation Army or Goodwill near you, they also accept larger items at the facility, or arrange for pick-ups.

All staff and volunteers believe in the conception, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the church believes that salvation and eternal life are found only through Him.

Instead of throwing the apparel into a bag for the Salvation Army, a teen can exchange it for something he or she really likes with a gift receipt.

Many Goodwill and Salvation Army stores even offer half-off days to help make your used prom dress that much more affordable.

A Christian faith-based organization, the Salvation Army, offers six-week Family Education classes for parents, siblings, and spouses of those taking part in Salvation Army recovery programs.

For example, The Salvation Army Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation program offers a free or low-cost alternative that is available in many communities.

Salvation came in the form of an NBC sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, which was written around Smith.

Stores like Goodwill and the Salvation Army typically offer some great bargains, and you can also access Goodwill online for more bargains.

Popular sites include Mommy Auctions, eBay and even the Salvation Army's online auction site.

It developed over the course of the Christian religion as an icon associated with love, devotion, and salvation.

Often the world is in distress and a group of misfit heroes are unwillingly charged with its salvation.

Ascend the tower, then take the door to the Corridors of Dark Salvation.

Talk to him, then re-enter the Corridors of Dark Salvation.

Some nonprofits, like The Salvation Army or the Red Cross, have hundreds of employees with multiple branches of service, while other charitable organizations are small and focused in nature.

During the holidays, you can bring new, unwrapped toys to the Salvation Army, which welcomes donations geared toward children during the Christmas season.

Thrift stores like Goodwill or the Salvation Army are the first places to go.

Anyone who has ever visited a charity thrift store, like the Salvation Army or Goodwill, recognizes that charities take used furniture.

Or, if there is a Goodwill or Salvation Army in your area, they can also help you determine how your gently used furniture can be put to the best use.

You can also donate a car, truck, RV or boat to the Salvation Army, and receive a tax break in the process!

Salvation Army has family stores that accept donations of household goods, clothing, books and even furniture.

Purchases made at the stores help fund The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers.

The Salvation Army operates stores that accept donations of household goods, clothing, books and even furniture.

When figuring out your donation estimates for your yearly taxes, you may want to use the valuation guide provided by the Salvation Army as a way to determine the value of your donation.

In the case of the Salvation Army, various donations are assigned specific values depending on the quality and condition of each item.

Donations are sold at Salvation Army Thrift Stores and Salvation Army Family Stores throughout the United States.

The money raised helps fund the Salvation Army's Adult Rehabilitation program.

If you have clothing to give as a donation, use the following Salvation Army valuation guide.

There is a range of values set by the Salvation Army for furniture donations.

Appliances have values set by the Salvation Army.

Vehicle donations are used to help rehabilitate people through the Salvation Army's Adult Rehabilitation Centers.

The Salvation Army provides an online donation valuation guide that can be beneficial when determining an appropriate value for donated items.

The Salvation Army Chicago accepts donations of furniture.

For example, the Salvation Army has a designated area on their home page to help you find a pickup service near you.

The Salvation Army is known for their response to disaster situations.

Examples of property donations could be furniture donated to the Salvation Army, a building donated for an after school tutoring program, or clothing donated to a women's shelter.

Most of our partners are churches that run a food pantry, but they also include the Salvation Army and the like.

If you don't have the time to organize your own collection, partner with a local group such as Toys for Tots, The Salvation Army, or Angel Tree to find out how you can help this Christmas.

Some of the charities it helps are Guide Dogs of American, AmeriCares and the Salvation Army.

The Salvation Army's Angel Tree program gives gifts at Christmas time to needy children and senior citizens.

Many Salvation Army locations announce when and where they will be accepting applications for the Angel Tree program in local newspapers, on radio stations and in community newsletters.

For more specific requirements, check with your local Salvation Army branch.

There are Angel Tree programs other than the one sponsored by the Salvation Army.

If volunteering is of interest to you, contact your local Salvation Army to find out about volunteer opportunities in your area.

The Salvation Army Angel Tree is an annual charity event helping to provide children with gifts and supplies needed.

The Salvation Army Angel Tree program relies on volunteers and gift givers to make it work.

The Salvation Army was established in 1865.

In order for the program to be a success, the Salvation Army needs help.

Individuals who are interested in volunteering for the program can do so by visiting the Salvation Army's website.

You can find out more about this perk at the Salvation Army's website.

For those who are in need, especially during the holiday season, the Salvation Army Angel Tree program can be a resource.

The Salvation Army requires personal identification for parents or guardians of those signed up for the Angel Tree program.

The Angel Tree program is just one of the many services that the Salvation Army offers to those in need.

Most Salvation Army locations and Goodwill Centers do not accept building materials as a donation.

The Salvation Army is one of the largest organizations to collect many types of goods.

These items are then sold through the local Salvation Army shops to the general public and those in need.

Contact the local chapter of the Salvation Army to learn about the types of donations allowed and those it cannot accept.

The Salvation Army - This organization accepts car donations in four different regions of the United States.

Thrift stores - check out your local Salvation Army stores or other local thrift shops to find parts of a costume you need.

You know you'll be shipping it off to the nearest Salvation Army donation site in the morning, but for now, the most important thing is Aunt Marge's feelings.

In other myths, Mary was a murderer of children who now seeks salvation by helping other children.

For more deals on discount furniture, try yard sales, or charitable organizations such as Goodwill, the Disabled Veteran's Store, and the Salvation Army.

When you're on a tight budget, Salvation Army thrift stores can be a wonderful resource for making the most of your money.

The Salvation Army is a Christian charity founded by William and Catherine Booth in 1865.

The name of the organization comes from the fact that they aspire to bring Christian salvation to those in need.

The Salvation Army began in London, but today there are branches around the world.

Christmas charity collections, typically done through volunteer "bell ringers" at local malls in November and December, are also part of the Salvation Army's mission.

One of the ways the Salvation Army helps to raise money for its programs is to sell donated clothing, furniture, and household items at its thrift stores.

The stores are open to anyone who is interested in obtaining a great bargain; you do not have to be a Christian or meet any income requirements to shop at a Salvation Army thrift store.

Like most retail establishments, Salvation Army thrift stores are listed in your local phone book.

However, the Salvation Army Web site also has a store locator that you can use if needed.

While shopping at Salvation Army thrift stores can certainly be a rewarding pastime, don't forget that these stores require plenty of donations in order to stay in business.

The Salvation Army Web site provides detailed information regarding the procedure for donating clothing, furniture, and other household items.

The Internal Revenue Service recognizes the Salvation Army as tax-exempt organization under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

For example, if you don't care about your clothes, but you're passionate about horror movies, it's fine to shop for your wardrobe at the Salvation Army so you can splurge on a deluxe DVD box set for your movie collection.

The Salvation Army has always been on the forefront of holiday giving.

Just about anyone who has ever gone holiday shopping can recognize the tell-tale sound of the Salvation Army bellringers standing outside in the snow near the red Salvation Army donation kettle.

The Salvation Army is a faith-based organization that provides year-round support for families in need, but especially during the holidays.

In some areas, LIHEAP grant funds are supplemented by donations from groups such as the Salvation Army and other community non-profits.

If you're in need of food assistance, the Salvation Army food pantry is a helpful resource.

Founded in 1865 by William and Catherine Booth, the Salvation Army is a universal Christian Church organization and has quite a rich history.

It's probably most associated with its annual red kettle Christmas fundraising campaign and the Salvation Army thrift stores.

However, there are guidelines in place to make sure that all people in need will have the opportunity to use the Salvation Army food pantry as a resource.