For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, `` would show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit ''.

The koinonia of Acts and of the Epistles means sharing in a common relation to Christ.

and ( 3 ) in so doing, frees itself to give appropriate emphasis to the event Jesus Christ by means of statements that, from Bultmann's point of view, are mythological.

If death receives more than its share of attention from the theologian and if sin receives less than its share, the gift of the life eternal through Christ begins to look like the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal, i.e., created, existence.

Joseph Dongell, professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, states " the most conscipuous feature of Ephesians 1: 3 – 2: 10 is the phrase ' in Christ ', which occurs twelve times in Ephesians 1: 3 – 4 alone ... this means that Jesus Christ himself is the chosen one, the predestined one.

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

Rather, the independent congregations are a network with each congregation participating at its own discretion in various means of service and fellowship with other congregations ( see Sponsoring church ( Churches of Christ )).

: the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten God ( μονογενῆ Θεὸν ), the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ ;

Naturally inclined to peace and conciliation, St. Cyril at first took a rather moderate position but ( like not a few of his undoubtedly orthodox contemporaries ) was by no means eager to accept the homoousios ( ὁμοούσιος ) doctrine-that Jesus Christ and God are of the " same substance " and are equally God.

By means of the atonement and his offering of divine grace to humankind, Christ provided access to divinity for humankind.

It maintains Ministerial Partner Standing with the United Church of Christ, which means that clergy ordained in the Disciples of Christ may also serve in the United Church of Christ.

He shows that the means of union with God are, ( 1 ) on the part of Christ, his atoning work ( 1: 7 ; 2: 2 ; 3: 5 ; 4: 10, 14 ; 5: 11, 12 ) and his advocacy ( 2: 1 ); and ( 2 ), on the part of man, holiness ( 1: 6 ), obedience ( 2: 3 ), purity ( 3: 3 ), faith ( 3: 23 ; 4: 3 ; 5: 5 ), and love ( 2: 7, 8 ; 3: 14 ; 4: 7 ; 5: 1 ).

The Council of Trent in 1547 explicitly stated that baptism ( or desire for baptism ) was the means by which one is transferred " from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace, and of the adoption of the sons of God, through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Saviour.

" This merely restating what was said above, suggesting a " hope " that there could be a way of salvation not shown to us through revelation, which hope, being uncertain, leaves in place the urgency of baptism for infants, since this is the only certain means to " not prevent " their " coming to Christ " in order to have salvation.

Galatians 3. 28 and the Gender Dispute, Richard Hove argues that while Galatians 3: 28 means that one's sex does not affect salvation, " there remains a pattern of in which the wife is to emulate the church's submission to Christ () and the husband is to emulate Christ's love for the church.

Mormonism sees Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah and the literal Son of God, while Islam insists that the title " Messiah " means that Jesus ( or " Isa ") was a prophet sent to establish the true faith, not that he was the Son of God or a divine being.

In order for humans to even want to be able to choose, God must empower their will ( so that they may choose Christ ) which he does by means of prevenient grace.

Further, in academic writing, though " myth " usually means a fundamental worldview story, even there it is occasionally ambiguous or clearly denotes " falsehood ", as in the " Christ myth theory ".

In his 1882 book, The Relations of the Church to Society — Theological Essays, a Jesuit theologian, Father Edmund J. O ' Reilly, wrote: "... not that an interregnum covering the whole period would have been impossible or inconsistent with the promises of Christ, for this is by no means manifest.

The majority of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that this great and abominable church includes any organized group of people who fight against God and His divine purposes by means of persecution, false teachings and belief systems, and oppression.

xiii, " Cum ad Sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae ") prescribes their work, determines how much they may charge for their labour, fixes a certain tax for an abstract or abridgment of twenty-five words, or their equivalent, 150 letters, forbids them to charge more, even though the abstract goes over twenty-five words but less than fifty words, enacts that the basis of the tax is the labour employed in writing, expediting, etc., the Bulls, and by no means the emoluments accruing to the recipient of the favour or benefice conferred by the Bull, and declares that whoever shall charge more than the tax fixed by him shall be suspended for six months from office, and upon a second violation of the law, shall be deprived of it altogether, and if the delinquent be an abbreviator, he shall be excommunicated.

Heschel then goes on to explore the problems of doubts and faith ; what Judaism means by teaching that God is one ; the essence of humanity and the problem of human needs ; the definition of religion in general and of Judaism in particular ; and human yearning for spirituality.

His final reference to war and Politik, however, goes beyond his widely quoted antithesis: " War is simply the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means.

This means that any particle that has charge Q, no matter how fast it goes, always has charge Q.

This means that the staining will be brighter even if the excitation light goes through glass or plastic gel platforms.

Saddles are seats for the rider, fastened to the horse's back by means of a girth ( English-style riding ), known as a cinch in the Western US, a wide strap that goes around the horse at a point about four inches behind the forelegs.

As such the prominent anarcho-communist Alexander Berkman maintained that " The revolution abolishes private ownership of the means of production and distribution, and with it goes capitalistic business.

The essay then goes on to explain first utilizing the term " God " for the American audience to get and initial understanding of what he means by " panenthesism ," and then discusses the terms that Buddhism uses in place of " God " such as Dharmakaya, Buddha, and Tathagata.

Although vulcanization is a 19th century invention, the history of rubber cured by other means goes back to prehistoric times.

Collecting engravings and other prints by those whose means did not allow them to buy original works of art also goes back many centuries.

If the vertical temperature gradient is + 12. 9 ° C per 100 meters ( where the positive sign means temperature gets hotter as one goes higher ), then horizontal light rays will just follow the curvature of the Earth, and the horizon will appear flat.

The name " Pogeyan " is derived from the local dialect and means " The cat that comes and goes like the mist "

Kant referred to these objects as " The Thing in Itself " and goes on to argue that their status as objects beyond all possible experience by definition means we cannot know them.

The so-called ' arc of instability ', which basically goes from East Timor through to the south-west Pacific states, means that not only does Australia have a responsibility in preventing and indeed assisting with humanitarian and disaster relief, but also that we cannot allow any of these countries to become havens for transnational crime, nor indeed havens for terrorism.

One theory holds that it means the " speaker within ", and goes back to before the recognition of divine persons.

Latin exhibits verb-framing, in which the path of motion is encoded into the verb rather than in a separate word or phrase ; e. g., exit ( a compound of ex and it ) means " he / she / it goes out.

Should the king ever choose to exercise this privilege, Article 79 provides a means by which his veto may be overridden: " If a Bill has been passed unaltered by two sessions of the Storting, constituted after two separate successive elections and separated from each other by at least two intervening sessions of the Storting, without a divergent Bill having been passed by any Storting in the period between the first and last adoption, and it is then submitted to the King with a petition that His Majesty shall not refuse his assent to a Bill which, after the most mature deliberation, the Storting considers to be beneficial, it shall become law even if the Royal Assent is not accorded before the Storting goes into recess.

where the notation means that d goes through all the divisors of n, including 1 and n.

Should the king ever choose to exercise this privilege, Article 79 provides a means by which his veto may be overridden: " If a Bill has been passed unaltered by two sessions of the Storting, constituted after two separate successive elections and separated from each other by at least two intervening sessions of the Storting, without a divergent Bill having been passed by any Storting in the period between the first and last adoption, and it is then submitted to the King with a petition that His Majesty shall not refuse his assent to a Bill which, after the most mature deliberation, the Storting considers to be beneficial, it shall become law even if the Royal Assent is not accorded before the Storting goes into recess.

* Low-water cutoff: It is a mechanical means ( usually a float switch ) that is used to turn off the burner or shut off fuel to the boiler to prevent it from running once the water goes below a certain point.

Starting with the definition of beauty as " the idea in the form of limited appearance ," he goes on to develop the various elements of art ( the beautiful, sublime and comic ), and the various forms of art ( plastic art, music and poetry ) by means of the Hegelian antitheses -- form and content, objective and subjective, inner conflict and reconciliation.

He goes on to characterize " what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth, the mouth of the first immoralist :"

" Predictability " means that no matter where a person goes, they will receive the same service and receive the same product every time when interacting with the McDonaldized organization.

In the case of computer programs and according to the case law of the Boards of Appeal, a technical contribution typically means a further technical effect that goes beyond the normal physical interaction between the program and the computer.