I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

The Arian concept of Christ is that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by — and is therefore distinct from — God the Father.

Arians taught that the pre-incarnate Jesus was a divine being created by ( and therefore inferior to ) God the Father at some point, before which the Son did not exist.

Open theists claim that the future is not completely knowable because people have not made their decisions yet, and therefore God knows the future in possibilities rather than certainties.

* Nature of grace – Arminians believe that, through grace, God restores free will concerning salvation to all humanity, and each individual, therefore, is able either to accept the Gospel call through faith or resist it through unbelief.

) that " the glory of God " is concerned in this matter, and that therefore he cannot be silent.

God ’ s disappointment towards Israel is therefore expressed through the broken marriage covenant made between husband and wife.

The God who raised Jesus from the dead would also give new life to the " mortal bodies " of Gentile Christians, who had become with Israel the " children of God " and were therefore no longer " in the flesh ".

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Eddy argues that given the absolute goodness and perfection of God, sin, disease, and death were not created by Him, and therefore cannot be truly real.

Eddy therefore called evil " error " and felt it could be remedied through a better spiritual understanding of one's relationship to God.

Williams maintained that because the subject of inoculation could not be found in the Bible, it was not the will of God, and therefore " unlawful.

As an alternative to a school-sponsored Day of Silence opposing bullying of LGBT students, conservative Christians organized a Golden Rule Initiative, where they passed out cards saying " As a follower of Christ, I believe that all people are created in the image of God and therefore deserve love and respect.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

Although Christians generally believe their religion to be very inclusive ( since not only Jews but all gentiles can be Christian ), Jews see Christianity as highly exclusive, because some denominations view non-Christians ( such as Jews and Pagans ) as having an incomplete or imperfect relationship with God, and therefore excluded from grace, salvation, heaven, or eternal life.

They regard the Bible as inspired by God and, therefore, believe that, in its original form, it was error free ( errors in later copies are thought to be due to ' errors of transcription or translation ').

In one version, Christ was so divine he could not have been human, since God lacked a material body, which therefore could not physically suffer.

In religious terms, divinity is the state of things that come from a supernatural power or deity, such as God, and are therefore regarded as sacred and holy.

" Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the graving of art, and device of man.

Chapter 1, Article 3 of the Confession reads: " The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the Canon of Scripture ; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.

And therefore I say again, I will marry as soon as I can conveniently, if God take not him away with whom I mind to marry, or myself, or else some other great let happen.

This Logos, the Son of God, owns divinity for participation ( and not originally like the Father ), could therefore change ( Eusebius, with most early theologians, assumed God was immutable ), and he assumed a human body without altering the immutable divine Father.

The sign of peace is exchanged and then the " Lamb of God " (" Agnus Dei " in Latin ) litany is sung or recited, while the priest breaks the host and places a piece in the main chalice ; this is known as the rite of fraction and commingling.

: God breaks no his promises.

After centuries of idleness as a God he eventually breaks with the rest and helps Sam.

In the first story he appears in disguise attempting to find out what Yama is doing, but when confronted, apparently unable to use his powers of illusion effectively against Yama within a limited space, the Death God breaks his neck, thus killing him.

In the Vedas, Narada is described as a saintly traveler who sometimes while remembering Vishnu by singing His Glories his Brahminical holy thread breaks, because of bodily expansions through the emotions he feels of pure bhakti ( love of God ) in separation, which he derives from his unalloyed devotional service.

Stu breaks his leg en route and convinces the others to go on without him as they promised, telling them that God will provide for him if that's what's meant to happen.

Norman Osborn breaks him and the rest out of the Triskelion, and after their escape, Osborn informs them that God wishes for them to kill Peter Parker.

; The lazy person breaks again the commandments of God

Whoever is lazy ( slack ) in his work becomes brother to one who destroys ( meaning The Evil-One, the devil because the devil is murderer ) for the second time He breaks again the command of God, Who sent him to work this time, for not obeying God, Who forbids them to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

kindles the fiery wheel of the essence in the soul when it ' breaks off ' from God ; whence come desire and sin, which are the " wrath of God.

It is the discussion of what God is not, or the investigation of how language about God breaks down ( see the nature of God in Western theology ).

Norman Osborn breaks him and the rest out of the Triskelion, and after their escape, informs them that God wishes for them to kill Peter Parker.

In 2003, he authored a book called There's a God on the Mic ( ISBN 1-56025-533-1 ), which breaks down his 50 favorite MCs in terms of originality, concepts, versatility, vocabulary, substance, flow, flavor, freestyle, vocal presence, live performance, poetic value, body of work, industry impact, social impact, longevity, lyrics and battle skills, where he ranked himself as number # 5, ahead of MCs such as The GZA, and Tupac Shakur.

At this, Myles breaks down, saying " Oh, my God!

At the Fraction, which follows the Lord's Prayer and the Elevation, the celebrant breaks the Lamb into four portions along the cuts already made, as he says the words: " Broken and divided is the Lamb of God, which is broken and not disunited, which is ever eaten and never consumed, but sanctifieth those that partake thereof.

Eclipso persuades the Spectre that magic is evil because it breaks the laws of nature set by God.

Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water ( symbol of the Word of God, see Ephesians 26 ) and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered and said to him ( Nicodemus ) `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God ''.

`` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, who could not lie, said, `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God '' ( St. John 3: 3 ).

Schweitzer, however, writes: " The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of heaven upon earth and died to give his work its final consecration never existed.

" There be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom " ( Matthew 16: 28 ) ( or, " until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power " ( Mark 9: 1 ); or, " till they see the kingdom of God " ( Luke 9: 27 ).

If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.

God speaks to Amos, a farmer and herder, and tells him to go to Samaria, the capital of the Northern kingdom.

As it is with all nations that rise up against the kingdom of God, even Israel and Judah will not be exempt from the judgment of God because of their idolatry and unjust ways.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

Daniel 7-12 focuses on God ’ s plan for the future in regard to the fate of world kingdoms being replaced by His kingdom.

Chapters 7-12 contain four visions of Daniel that parallel Nebuchadnezzar ’ s dream in Chapter 2 where the fate of four great empires meet their downfall and are replaced by God ’ s kingdom.

The first 39 chapters prophesy doom for a sinful Judah and for all the nations of the world that oppose God, while the last 27 prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel and a new creation in God's glorious future kingdom ; this section includes the Songs of the Suffering Servant, four separate passages referring to the nation of Israel, interpreted by Christians as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ.

Chapters 24 – 34, while too complex to characterize easily, are primarily concerned with prophecies of a " Messiah ", a person anointed or given power by God, and of the Messiah's kingdom, where justice and righteousness will reign.