and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Body piercing has become pretty much acceptablejust in the last ten years. Studs are placed in a hole or piercing to make a permanent decoration. I have seen a fair amount of it, and I think that a stud in the tongue has got to be the most intrusive. (I recently read of a young ...
Together they suggest how Orthodoxy presents in Christendom the fullest and truest and deepest view of relationality in the Trinity, which is the source of the beauty of the apostolic living Christian faith, and how we find this rooted where we are in God’s Creation in the local Church that...
"But isn't the real meaning of salvation 'being forgiven of your sins and going to heaven when you die?'"Most church-goers ask this.Forgiveness of sins = restoration to fellowship with God, Forgiveness of sins = restoration to our original Edenic Mandate to build the Kingdom of God....
"Hosanna" is a powerful and ancient expression of praise and adoration in Christian worship, originating from the Hebrew liturgy. Its meaning has evolved from a plea for salvation ("Save us, we pray") to a joyful declaration of salvation and deliverance. Frequently used during Palm Sunday servi...
【128-9】(The Western tradition does not allow of a synthesis of its two elements, but only of their tension: this is the secret of the vitality of the West. p.73.)【政治史观念或论题】与哲学或科学及启示信仰一样,政治史也是西方传统的特征;它起源于希腊而非希伯来。【129-130】(As the ...
Azazel is a very special Hebrew noun meaning dismissal or entire removal. The entire removal of the sin and guilt of Israel is symbolized by the High Priest laying both his hands on the head of this live goat, confessing over it all the transgressions of the children of Israel. The goat...
"But isn't the real meaning of salvation 'being forgiven of your sins and going to heaven when you die?'"Most church-goers ask this.Forgiveness of sins = restoration to fellowship with God, Forgiveness of sins = restoration to our original Edenic Mandate to build the Kingdom of God....
and that means we have a duty to honor moral reality and truth. There is an “ethic of belief,” or a moral imperative to ascertain the truth and reject error in the realm of the spiritual. Since God holds us responsible to repent and believe the truth of salvation, He must have made...
My purpose has been, and is, philosophical, in the proper meaning of the word. And when stressing the Bible as poetry, my main concern was to persuade people to read it as we read poetry, to realize that, as with a sonnet of Shakespeare, for instance, the text itself is what matters...