Ad
related to: god ordains suffering for his people and the world of power comes
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Sight of God's supernatural works and retribution would militate against faith in God's Word. [5] William Lane Craig says, in Paul's view, God's properties, his eternal power and deity, are clearly revealed in creation, so that people who fail to believe in an eternal, powerful creator of the world are without excuse. Indeed, Paul says that ...
In the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, God "freely and unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass." [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The second use of the word " predestination " applies this to salvation, and refers to the belief that God appointed the eternal destiny of some to salvation by grace, while leaving the remainder to receive eternal ...
During his ministry, his words, just as God's, will not pass away (Matthew 24:35) and he, like God, forgives sins (Matthew 9:6), but only after the resurrection, his spheres of exercising absolute authority can be said to include all heaven and earth (that is, "the universe"). [2]
For example, God's omnipotence is his quality of having unlimited power. This attribute is not contingent upon something else other than God himself, and is therefore one of his eternal attributes. [8] God's sovereignty, as the right to exercise his ruling power over his creation, is contingent upon his creation. God's sovereignty only takes ...
Article 6 confesses the doctrine of three divine hypostases of the one divine essence: God the Father, the first cause, the basis and the source of all that exists; God the Son, his eternal Word of Wisdom, eternally begotten by the Father; God the Holy Spirit, his energy and power, proceeding from the Father and the Son. This article rejects ...
Pope John Paul II stated, "Each man, in his sufferings, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ". [2] (cf. Colossians 1:24) Like an indulgence, redemptive suffering does not gain the individual forgiveness for their sin; forgiveness results from God's grace, freely given through Christ, which cannot be earned. (see Romans ...
James's reference to "God's lieutenants" is apparently a reference to the text in Romans 13 where Paul refers to "God's ministers". (1) Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
According to the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Christ’s humiliation "consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time." [2]