Sentences with phrase «akaka falls state»

In our fallen states, the Bible has given us a form to follow.

As humans created in the image of God we are capable of divine expression even in our pitiful fallen state; even the soldiers in World War 1 had a brief respite on Christmas and walked out of the trenches to greet each other only to return to the trenches the next day and resume killing each other.

Is it seen as wisdom to remember our fallen state and realize that even Adam (in a sinless state) needed to rely on God to truly know truth — ergo (or Erkl) even more so, we (fallen) need to rely on God to truly know truth?

They are working to tear down roadside memorial crosses built to commemorate fallen state troopers in Utah, to strip «Under God» from the Pledge of Allegiance, and they recently stopped a protester from entering an art gallery because she wore a pro-life pin.

That said, I currently believe we are still born a sinner (missing mark of Gods glory, fallen state, lacking life and inheritance from God) with the promise of salvation already solved and available for us to receive.

If it is true that Jesus did not know the day or the hour of the kingdom's consummation, that would be because in his full assumption of our fallen state he has assumed the limits of human knowledge that go along with it.

So then if we prove that there is a genetic reason why people are born with same sex attraction, it would not be sinful... just the result of our fallen state?

Every human being is on the same level... homosexuals and heterosexuals and all others... including those with syndromes or diseases or malformed... We're all on equal footing in our fallen state.

So... in other words... we are all in a fallen state.

The radical Christian, who is in quest of a total redemption, must repudiate every religious promise resting upon a perpetuation of man's fallen state, and recognize in the orthodox image of the crucified Christ an image of the victory of that Satan who would bind man to a broken and shrunken condition.

You may be in a fallen state and need a crutch to help you live, good for you, I hope it works out well for you.

As Son of Man He is the exemplar and root of our humanity, the Head and identity of every man who sets Himself to be a living apology for the blasphemy of our fallen state and medicine for our wounded lives.

Do we want to remain in a fallen state or do we want to obtain a restoration of what Adam lost?

The truth is we are all born into a fallen state of depravity and enmity against our Holy Creator, so to be proud of that is no different than a mule being proud of refusing to till its master's field on a hot day.

We all are born in a fallen state.

As much as we despise the evil in the world and in our own lives, think of the horror of being in a fallen state, but without sin.

So sin, too, is god's grace to us in our fallen state.

Azazel means strong mighty El but with reference to mountain state to valley state, so the meaning of the name signifies fallen state.

I believe, like Ellul, that the church is horribly apostate and debilitated and borders on complete collusion with its fallen state among the principalities and the powers.

This is about the spiritual condition of humanity in its fallen state, and our need to be cleansed from sin and re-connected to our Source, who is God, through the sacrifice and atonement completed at the cross by Jesus Christ.

and yet that view of «mankind in a fallen state» is detrimental and negative.

We then develop our understanding by considering specific biblical figures, where we see this transition occur from a fallen state to a redeemed state.

He speaks of the need for concealment — e.g., God made clothes for man in a fallen state — in which, although evil can not be eradicated, «it is at least to be kept hidden.

The picture painted by Augustine is that in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve committed the first sin, the original sin; and through procreation they have passed this fallen state on to each subsequent generation.

• Confession is the greatest mercy God has ever provided for us, given the fallen state of human nature.

Jesus and Mary were also actualised in the fallen state according to the divine decree of original unity, but unlike us, are always immaculate in the totality of their bodies and souls.

Bonhoeffer refers to this as well when he says that these «right / wrong» rules we live by actually separate us from god and define our fallen state.

The difference between them lies rather in the different ways in which they offer man deliverance from their fallen state.

The relationship between our original parents in paradise (God's kingdom) could not be replicated in our fallen state (the kingdom of this world).

If we mean by «free will» that man in his fallen state has the moral power and ability to choose righteousness, then «free will» is far too grandiose a term to apply to fallen man.»

Beyond that our main concern must be to see that man, whose folly drove him from the Garden of Eden, does not commit the blasphemous act of destroying, whether in fear or in anger or in greed, the great and lovely world in which, even in his fallen state, he has been permitted by the grace of God to live.

God is credited with success rather than the individual who strove to overcome adversity and blame for failure is laid at the feet of a fallen state of man.

If man were capable of right action on his own then Christ died for nothing but that all have sinned and are godless seems to put the right action beyond our ability in our natural state (or fallen state).

And if there was no point in time when man first fell into sin, what does it mean to speak of man in his fallen state, and how did sin, if this is still the proper term, come to enter the human scene?

By ignoring the strong leadership roles that women like Deborah and Phoebe and Priscilla played in the Bible (what McKnight calls WDWD passages) because of what Paul said to specific churches about silencing means reverting to our fallen state rather than our new creation state.

Last time we went to the McKinney Falls State Park, not too crowded.

It seemed to whisper that, even as nature re-created a little patch of Eden for the playing of games, mankind still ginned up reminders of its fallen state.

NIAGARA FALLS — John D. Ceretto lost his re-election race for the Assembly, but he's back on the state payroll, working at Niagara Falls State Park in a newly created post of project coordinator that pays more than $ 80,000 a year.

Cuomo joined Mayor Paul A. Dyster and other officials in cutting a ribbon on the $ 37 million DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, a 192 - room hotel at 401 Buffalo Ave.. They used the event to trumpet state and city efforts to rebuild tourism in the City of Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls State Park.

The final phase of a $ 70 million reconstruction at Niagara Falls State Park is underway, state officials announced Thursday.

Niagara Falls State Park was packed with visitors around 4 p.m. Saturday when foul - smelling, black discharge came billowing out into the Niagara River within sight of the base of the American Falls, alarming city businesses and tourists as it engulfed the shoreline from the Rainbow Bridge to the Maid of the Mist boat dock.

You can once again walk a historic trail in Niagara Falls State Park and soon, there may be more bikes and biking trails to go with the Green Trolley system serving tourists.

On the local side, seven bills renaming bridges around the state have passed, including one bill to rename the Ballard Road bridge over the Northway at Exit 16 after fallen State Police Trooper Timothy Pratt.

This is the case made by politicians from Niagara County, where Moses was the primary mover behind a hydroelectric power station, Niagara Falls State Park and a parkway, and where they say his name is actually a detriment to their tourism industry.

Wicks worked on Obama's 2007 - 08 campaign starting as the campaign's Western region field director in Chicago, then as field director in California, deputy field director in Texas, director of the campaign's national volunteer program («Obama Organizing Fellows»), and in the fall state director for Missouri.

Niagara Falls State Park will see an additional $ 15 million in renovations through the end of 2017, on top of the previously announced $ 25 million in work.

The eastern edge of Niagara Falls State Park soon will be the site of a state Superfund investigation.

In answer to mounting outcry, Mayor Paul Dyster issued a statement stating he remains «confident» that discussions between the city and state officials will find a different, more «suitable» location for Cuomo's proposed Niagara Falls State Park lodge.

The problem gained the attention of Governor Andrew Cuomo after a July 29 discharge turned the Lower Niagara into a black, smelly disruption for tourists on a busy Saturday at Niagara Falls State Park.

In 2018, visitors can expect even more improvements and additions at state parks, including the completion of the $ 70 million transformation at Niagara Falls State Park and the debut of the Watkins Glen State Park entrance transformation in the Southern Tier.