Quotes about Universal

On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.

And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’”

For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.

Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

This means we do not ignore the particularity of biblical commands (and apply them to our own day as if they were timeless universals). Nor are we paralysed by their particularity (and thus unable to apply them to our day at all). We rejoice in their particularity because it shows us how the will of God was expressed in their context, and we take them as our paradigm for our own ethical construction.21

It is, moreover, of the greatest importance for every believer, particularly for the dogmatician, to know which Scriptural truths, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have been brought to universal recognition in the church of Christ. By this process, after all, the church is kept from immediately mistaking a private opinion for the truth of God.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.