Always Being Reformed: Faith for a Fragmented WorldWestminster John Knox Press, 2008 |
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Page 57 - ... there is no God but one." 'For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth — as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords" — ""yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
Page 135 - For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Page 94 - My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Page 57 - And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Page 19 - God's holy word, that it would please him of his gentleness, and for Christian charity's sake, to admonish us of the same in writing ; and we, upon our honour and fidelity, do promise unto him satisfaction from the mouth of God, that is, from his holy scriptures, or else reformation of that which he shall prove to be amiss.
Page 23 - The Scriptures, given under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, are nevertheless the words of men, conditioned by the language, thought forms, and literary fashions of the places and times at which they were written.
Page 31 - God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 17 - All Synods or Councils since the Apostles' times, whether General or Particular, may err ; and many have erred. Therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith or practice, but to be used as an help in both.
Page 95 - The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
Page 22 - Jesus Christ, as he is attested for us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God which we have to hear and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death.