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The existence of divine love in believers, then facilitates the influence of the gospel on the world, and lead to widespread salvation. [ 7 ] 1 John 3:14 then manifests "the already but not yet" acquisition of eternal life by referring to the acquisition of eternal life as a once for all ( ephapax ) event, and the role of love in attaining it ...
The expression therefore signifies the perpetual descent of Christ upon the Eucharistic altar even to the end of the world. For whensoever the priest consecrates the Eucharist, Christ, who after His death ascended into heaven, comes down from thence to the consecrated species of bread, and in them declares His presence." [10]
It is the mere will of God, according to Edwards, that keeps wicked men from being overtaken by the devil and his demons and cast into the furnace of Hell – "like greedy hungry lions, that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back [by God's hand]." Mankind's own attempts to avoid falling into the "bottomless ...
A number of theologians see "example" (or "exemplar") theories of the atonement as variations of the moral influence theory. [118] Wayne Grudem, however, argues that "Whereas the moral influence theory says that Christ's death teaches us how much God loves us, the example theory says that Christ's death teaches us how we should live."
[193] "The Galatians Christians . . . appear to be giving them a careful and attentive hearing, even standing on the verge of being persuaded by them (1:6; 5:1)." [194] These rival teachers are "persuading gentile converts to receive circumcision . . . (explicitly in 5:2; 6:12-13; indirectly in 5:11-12), probably as a means of securing their ...
Parables attributed to Jesus are also found in other documents apart from the Bible. Some of these overlap those in the canonical gospels and some are not part of the Bible. The non-canonical Gospel of Thomas contains up to fifteen parables, eleven of which have parallels in the four canonical Gospels. The unknown author of the Gospel of Thomas ...
Yoram Reuben Hazony (born 1964) [1] is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar, and political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Institute [2] in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. [3] He has argued for national conservatism in his 2018 book The Virtue of Nationalism [4] and 2022's Conservatism: A ...
Examples of early executions under Jewish authority reported in the New Testament include the deaths of Saint Stephen [34] and James, son of Zebedee. [35] The Decian persecution was the first empire-wide conflict, [36] when the edict of Decius in 250 AD required everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods.