Sentences with phrase «ancient gods living»
The Scoobies arrive at their abattoir and promptly get naked enough to swim in the lake while, far beneath them in a secret underground bunker, pocket - shirts Sitterson (Richard Jenkins) and Hadley (Bradley Whitford) push levers, pull switches, and reveal that the whole movie is about the manipulation of an annual blood ritual sacrifice meant to appease Ancient Gods living in the abyss.
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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
Yeah, she should stop following ancient fairy tales about gods that don't exist and just live in the real world.
Writing in the New Statesman Tom Holland said that the more he studied ancient history, the more he saw that pagan gods and followers did not value human life equally, routinely upholding the strong and rich above the weak and poor.
As for silly people who spend a year or any amount of time trying to live exactly as the ancients lived, by re-enacting practices found in the Bible, they do a great disservice to God's Word and His people.
What you call peering into the mind of god thru this ancient books is simply peering into the minds of primitive humans that lived in darkness, both literally and mentally.
Religious folks tend to think humans have some kind of divine character given to them by God whereas we tend consider ourselves as members of the ancient primate family of life.
However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.
And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.
I'd point to a whole life of unremarkable moments and the ancient streets in Rome and the night sky and dead languages, to all of the ways we defiantly choose life over death, the ways that our everyday lives testify to the victory of God's dream for us.
poor kid has been brain washed all his life - been told he'll burn in hell for all eternity if he doesn't believe in jesus, sing songs of praise and kiss his feet - hopefully he'll someday realize that the flying spaghetti monster is the only true god and the rest is just ancient bs
For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Thus the last is once more the ancient constant faith which is also the most new: God, Jesus Christ, his grace, his forgiveness and eternal life.
If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.
What is decisive for the Church and hence also for us Catholics is the ancient teaching, because it is fundamentally ever - new, for it is what decides our life, our salvation, our eternal future and our situation before the judgment seat of God.
The man of faith lives in the new world without appealing to the ancient gods of heaven, for the very spirit of God is within him.
Recalling the lives of the consecrated virgins who lived during the few centuries prior to the emergence of structured religious orders, Dohen claimed for herself an ancient precedent for the life of freedom and union with God.
Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.
Without a living experience of God, then the pagan claims seem convincing on their own, especially those incomplete (often misquoted) stories on the web about who and what were those ancient pagan frauds (horus, mithra et al).
I am very sad for you, Reverend, for wasting your life over imaginary gods, prophets and ancient «scriptures.»
As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.
The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.
The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.
but notice that in Leviticus 17:14 we are provided with an explicit explanation of what the Hebrew nation was discussing when blood came into the discussion: In plenty of ancient rituals it was clear that blood was a physical manifestation of life - force and consuming blood of another was an attempt to steal the life that God had given that individual being.
Wilson can not grasp anything but corniness in a trope that goes back to Ancient Greece, resonates through the Middle Ages, and informs the social preaching of our day — the presence of God in a beggar that binds him into a community with me despite our radically different lives.
A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.
Pious heathen of ancient and modern times all want to come to God themselves, by prayer, by a virtuous life, by stern discipline, by a holy life.
Rosenzweig argues that while all peoples appealed to all three elements, only the ancient Jews saw a relation among these three» a relation in which man and God and world all lived in response to one another.
The Emersonian mystic «consciousness of the divine life flowing through and around him, making him one with the Godhead,» fought in him with the Calvinistic theocrat; and Calvin won; the new churchman, opening the doors of the sanctuary to all seekers after peace, contradicted in him the loyalist to ancient discipline, for whom the company of the faithful was the selected band, the trained shock troops of the kingdom of God in a rebellious planetary province.
The Deuteronomic commandment, in other words, is God's inspired revelation to his people - it is trustworthy and authoritative - but it must be understood both in terms of the historical realities of life in ancient Israel (the people's sin) and in terms of God's wider revelation in the whole of Scripture.
Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.
Instead, the most ordinary realms of life — what the ancients would have regarded as realms that have «an infrastructural relation» to the good life — can now be sanctified by a God - fearing spirit.
The ancient Hebrew loved God for the sake of a long life in which to enjoy creation, but she also was to love the Lord for the Lord's sake.
You are actualy no different than an ancient Greek or Roman, who lived thewir lives according to what THEIR «gods» wants.
Were Jesus to arrive at many of our congregations today he may find us no more inclined to embrace his vision of God's domain in everyday life than his peers in ancient Galilee.
It is evident from this long and tedious record that warfare was a way of life for the ancient people of God.
Whereas the ancients simply had to obey the dictates of their gods (as known within their traditions), we now find that, as a very important part of nature ourselves, an increasing measure of responsibility lies upon our species for the future of all planetary life.
The church is organized on the same principles as the original and ancient church of Jesus Christ on the foundation of living apostles and prophets and with priesthood authority from God.
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.
If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.
As the Word springs forth from the vortex of its ancient setting to express itself through the vortex of text / preacher / people in social context, the Word of God happens; it becomes a proclamation event in the lives of the people experiencing the sermon.
I have now finished studying «Genesis 1 — 11: A Real History of the Ancient World» facilitated by brother Tim Patterson whom God has brought to our lives at a time as this for divine purposes.
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But, the lessons of Jesus (whether they came from God or from the mind of an ancient author) are indeed life changing if you allow them to be.
To these examples (or their ancient equivflents) and countless others, the eighth Commandment called Israel and later called the Christian community to live out a standard of radical personal honesty in obedience to the God who established our Covenant.
We have known for a long time that the ancient Israelite believed that through certain actions or rites he was able to be present at, and actually share in, the events of the past which had created his people's life and thus had made him what as a member of that nation he was: a man who belonged to «the chosen people of God».
And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.
We are spirit as well as matter, and as St Paul said when he was talking to the best minds of the ancient Greek world in Athens, it is in God that «we live and move and have our being», and in communion with God through Jesus Christ lies our personal and social destiny.
It is a mighty god and, like more ancient ones, gives people a measure of control over their lives.
Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.