But that truth revolves around theological realities about how one secures salvation or lives the Christian life that must be defended and upheld no matter what, along with the institutions that contain those same realities.
He now hoped, with French help, to dismember Portugal and to secure personal salvation in a principality.
There is nothing to prevent you from sinning, if you wish to sin; at the same time, there is nothing to prevent your approaching the channels of divine grace that will secure your salvation.
But Titian realised that he needed to diversify his market and combine elite patronage with a broad studio practice like that of Bellini, whose altarpieces catered to wealthy Venetians keen to secure their salvation by donating art to churches.The real prize for Titian, as for Michelangelo before him, was an aristocratic patron.
As William Lane Craig once put it, "for some people the degree of revelation that would have to be imparted to them in order to secure their salvation would have to be so stunning that their freedom to disobey would be effectively removed" (Craig 1991, 300).
Many believe Christ lost his life to secure humanity's salvation.
Many Southern Protestants advocated the repeal of laws banning slave literacy, so that slaves could read the Bible as a means to securing their eternal salvation.
Rutebeuf's Miracle de Théophile is an early version of the Faust theme, in which the Virgin Mary secures Théophile's salvation.
Luther was protesting against the idea that the route to salvation could be secured by payments to those at the top of an ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Conveniently, as one of the elect, his lies, cruelty and murders cannot be held against him, since his salvation is already secured.
