As a child of God, you have been adopted into the family of God. We have inherited every spiritual blessing in Christ. He has endowed you with benefits that can never be taken away from you. The Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 1:3 that Father God has, “blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.” The Greek word for “blessing” is the word eulogia which means “to speak well of, benefit.” We can say that God has spoken good things about us, or pronounced good things for our benefit.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 shows us how God is our comfort in the midst of suffering so that we can comfort others.
Because of these gifts — both what Christ has done for us on the cross and the future promise of perfect fellowship with God for all eternity — we are free from the old restrictions and requirements of the law, and we are called to present our entire lives as acts of worship to the Lord (see Romans 11:36-12:1). Jesus frees us from the law so that we are free to love Him more — not as condemned rebels or slaves, but as sons and daughters.
The various gifts of the Holy Spirit as listed in Scripture are conveyed according to the will of the Holy Spirit to every man for the eventual purpose of the edification and building up the church body.
Throughout my entire life, my Mom has said, “You’re blessed.” I was born in the middle of a war and there were several times when I could have died, but I didn’t. So that was a big thing for me. My Mom attributes [my life] to God guiding our family and [bringing us] to America. Even not dying the first few months I was in America was a big thing. God has blessed me, and when some stupid shit happens, I know I did something wrong and am going away from the Ten Commandments (Interview 3, 20:20).
The unmerited favor of God expressed unto those who did nothing of their own power to earn this gift. Because of Christ Jesus obedience unto the death of the cross, the grace of God is given unto us through justification by faith unto righteous, when one truly repents for their sins, (Romans 5:17-19).
One of the most interesting and influential thinkers of all time was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning helped form the basis for
President Thomas S. Monson once said, “Your patriarchal blessing is your passport to peace in this life. It is a Liahona of light to guide you unerringly to your heavenly home” (Monson 4). Patriarchal blessing can be so helpful and guide one’s life. Good and effective thinking concerning ones patriarchal blessing either studying or remembering promised blessings can and will change a person’s life if they will allow it.
God’s grace is a word frequently used to refer to “gift from God”. In many circles, it is theological defined as God’s unmerited favor (Hughes, 1998, Ryrie, 1963). Within this
What does your patriarchal blessing mean to you? President Thomas S. Monson once said, “Your patriarchal blessing is your passport to peace in this life. It is a Liahona of light to guide you unerringly to your heavenly home” (Monson 4). A patriarchal blessing can be so helpful and guide a person’s life. Good and effective thinking concerning your patriarchal blessing either studying or remembering promised blessings can and will change a person’s life if they will allow it.
Bravery is a big aspect in the book, “Beowulf” which allowed me to reflect on times I have been brave or could have been. As a kid you found it brave to walk into a room that was dark but as I have grown up, it has become harder to find scenarios to be brave. Spots is a big part of my life. Whenever we would face a good team in football or I knew I would have to wrestle someone who was considered superior to me I would usually have some type of fear or discomfort.
In Plato’s Euthyphro, Socrates and Euthyphro had a conversation about piety. During the conversation, Socrates raised a question which was a challenge to the Euthyphro’s definition of piety. Also, this question is a challenge to the theists’ view of divine command theory. I agree with the arbitrariness objection which succeeds giving a good reason to theists to reject the divine command theory. This objection indicates that the arbitrariness of God’s commands contradicts to the fundamental attribute of God, and God’s commands are unable to make an act morally good or bad.
When Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, sin entered the world and that which was once good became corrupted. From that moment, we were separated from God. Yet because we were made in His image and He love us so much, He gave up his one and only son to die on the cross for our sins. One of God’s attributes is His benevolence, which means that He loves and cares about all His creation. He is also merciful, which means that He is very compassionate and tender-hearted towards us. I mention these specific attributes to emphasize the fact that these attributes were also present in the person of Christ. Jesus said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9), meaning that if we want to personally “know the love, the holiness, the power
offer benefit in a situation that is commonly adverse. The splendor comes from seeing that God
Found in The Old Testament of the Holy Bible is a variety of teaching of Hebrew wisdom. I find Proverbs and Ecclesiastes to lend much instruction to the subject of diligence and laziness. The Hebrew teaching is quick to point out that diligence leads to wisdom and laziness is folly. Choices in life and sinful behavior ends up in disastrous circumstances. In the essence of (The Essence of the Old Testament) Hebrew wisdom literature teaches us how to make good decisions in life, but also how to make godly decisions. This essay will explore how the Hebrew wisdom teaches the repercussions of living wise and diligent verses living lazy and excluding God.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the outstanding figures in American and world literature with all his works ranging from short stories to poems, and he is one of the leading names of American Romantic Movement within literature. He is mostly known with his fictional stories which include Gothic elements; therefore, such dark elements as death, diseases or loss of loved ones are common, many of which could be also observed the life of Poe himself. With his dark style of writing, Edgar Allan Poe is generally accepted as unique since he successfully combines both romantic tradition elements and mysterious and macabre patterns of the gothic elements, which makes him an impressionable writer (Peeples, 2004).