 | John Timothy Stone - 1908 - Страниц: 120
...his simple impressive style: What is the chief end of man? It is neither his head nor his feet, but the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. What is meant by glorifying ? It means to do our very best to praise the one who has helped us. For... | |
 | William Azel Cook - 1909 - Страниц: 592
...some religious acts. The prostitution of religion, and of Deity, is the degradation of humanity. " The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever." It is also a beautiful and inspiring truth that the chief purpose of God is to glorify man and enjoy... | |
 | Geoffrey Wainwright - 1984 - Страниц: 626
...Christian identity, Vatican I was rejoining the Westminster Assembly and its Presbyterian catechism: the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him for ever. Worship embodies, and doctrine subserves, the diviDe kingdom and human salvation. In their... | |
 | Walter Brueggemann - Страниц: 212
...12:2). It is an act of self-abandonment that embodies the first answer of the Westminister Catechism: "The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. " The hymn is the way in which the faith community does its glorifying and enjoying in that specific... | |
 | Alan Richard Tippett - 1987 - Страниц: 488
...health that we do not have in religion? Therefore, it is open for the Christian apologist to argue that the "chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever" and also that, if this be so, God must be able to enter the human context to save individuals from... | |
 | Waldo Beach - 1988 - Страниц: 160
...night/ as the psalmist says, "The Lord's name is to be praised.* To put it in Calvinistic phrasing, 'the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.' But the order of creation as gift and endowment is given as a sacred trust to human beings who have... | |
 | Edward R. Dayton, David Allen Fraser - 1990 - Страниц: 372
...purposes. The Shorter Catechism of the Westminster Confession gives a wonderful purpose statement: "The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." It is hard to think of a better purpose statement for Christians. But how do we glorify God? What does... | |
 | Darrel Trulson - 1990 - Страниц: 242
...someone else?" These are important questions which deserve answers. The Westminster Confession of Faith says that the chief end of man is to glorify God and serve Him. We are here on this planet to glorify God. Our purpose is to serve Him in the way that He... | |
 | Stephen Eyre, Stephen D. Eyre, Gladys Hunt, Keith Hunt - 1992 - Страниц: 68
...pleasure that the world will never know. The seventeenth-century Westminster Catechism said it this way: "The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. " 1 . What do you look forward to on Sunday morning as you leave to go to church? 2. Read Psalm 100.... | |
 | Lewis A. Drummond - Страниц: 900
...doctrines of grace. What was the purpose of God's redeeming act in Jesus Christ? The answer for Spurgeon: "the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever," the great Calvinistic Westminster Confession. That is where Spurgeon rested his theological case. SPURGEON'S... | |
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The catechism says that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, which of course is applicable mainly to God as seen in his works. 
