What is necessary for one to have eternal life? 17:3. Bruce, p. 329. The knowledge of the only true God and the one he sent forth-Jesus Christ. 24.
Luther’s Definition of The Ideal Christian Life Luther has a very specific idea of what the ideal Christian life should look like. The instructions and guidelines for the life of a Christian are clearly presented in Luther’s writings with references to the Bible. Luther writes, “A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to every one.” (Modern History Sourcebook: Martin Luther: On the Freedom of a Christian) The Christian man is free in the sense that his spirit is free because his sins are wiped clean and forgiven when he receives salvation in Christ. A Christian man is called a dutiful servant because he diligently strives to grow and strengthen his faith in Christ. According to Luther, a strong faith is the foundation and necessity for a good Christian life.
Isaiah 44:6 states: “I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.” James 2:19 states, “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:” In the book of John, we can read John quote Jesus saying,” I and the Father are one.” Jesus also preached the Holy Spirit of being part of the Godhead, “"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you." ... "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him." (John 14:16-17, 23). In the above paragraph, you can clearly see how the God is the one and only, and that the one and only God is actually pieced together by three main characteristics. In the Mormon dogma.
He sticks to the Bible and does not care what others think about him or his beliefs. Billy Graham is a fabulous role model and I have a desire to have a faith as strong as his. He has proved throughout the years that he stays true to his faith and he has taught thousands of people the word of God. He believes the Bible to be 100% accurate. We both believe the Bible comes from God and that he created the universe and everything in it.
Statement of Faith Submitted by Isaac Thomason to Dr. Earl Kellett in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for CST 3090: Christian Theology Shorter University ▪ Rome, Georgia November 12, 2012 God I believe that there is One God, existing in three Persons. He is living and the only true God, being all-knowing, all-powerful, and personal in the deepest sense. His knowledge of both the past, present and future are perfect and infinite. This also includes the foreknowledge of the free will of humans, as well as all other created beings. He is omnipresent and dwells in every part of the believer.
Each of Aquinas’s three ways established a different role of God. His first way, the unmoved mover, follows this set structure of premises; Everything that moves must haves a something that moves it. He rules out the possibility of infinite regress because he believes you cannot have an infinite chain of events without something which at first caused it. Therefore there must be a prime mover, a first mover to which Aquinas states must be God. Thereby the first role of God established by Aquinas in his first way is that God is the ‘prime mover’.
However, at the end of the book, even though he has been forever changed by his Holocaust experience, Elie remains with his faith intact. First, Elie is closely in touch with his religion and the study of his religion. Elie grew up thinking that nothing could exist without god. His faith is based on an idea that God is everywhere all the time . Elie soon begins to question his faith in god, by the inhumanity and evil he witnesses during the Holocaust.
The Bible takes for granted that every person in their desire to excuse their actions makes a decision as the free act of an intelligent, moral, responsible being, asserting himself against the will of his Maker. The Bible also assumes that every person must learn either from the law that is written on his own heart (Rom.1:15) or from the revelation furnished by God to mankind, first to the Hebrew church in the Old Testament Scriptures and then to the Christian Church and through it to the whole world. The nature of sin is usually described in Scripture in terms that clearly indicate its relation to the Divine will or law and leaves no uncertainty as to its character. (Whitelaw) Most Christians believe that sin originated with Adam and Eve but according to Scripture, sin first made its appearance in the angelic race. Nothing more is recorded than the simple fact that the angels sinned (2 Pet.2:4).
(Heb. 6:1 faith is the substance of things hope for and the evidence of things not seen. I would answer the Axiological question by saying, “God is the creator of the for universe.” Not only does he creates everything, he is everything. So that means because God is of value, we are of value too.We have to always keep God center. (Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other Gods me.)
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