For example, if you lived in NYC during the attacks, and the plane that crashed into the WTC killed several of your relatives, it would only be natural to celebrate
the death of a man who caused so much pain and suffering for you and your family.
There's no mention of politics (i.e. the merits of the U.S. strategy of «leading from behind» in the effort to oust the longtime ruler) but a general sense that
the death of the man who helped fund the deadly Pan Am bombing in 1988 is a good thing.
Smaller missions, such as to Kenya (1988) to attend an inquest into
the death of a man who had been tortured and document how the court applied the medical evidence, and to the Sudan (1990) to investigate the jailing of physicians and scientists, provided experiences for AAAS to contribute directly to individual human rights cases as well as learn lessons on the political and cultural complexities of human rights work.
This ground was already dedicated, I thought, by
the death of the men who died.»
Should we be less cavalier about
the death of a man who orchestrated the death of thousands?
Not exact matches
This gap surges to over 20 percentage points when calculated to include among the non-employed prime - age black
men who are «missing» primarily due to incarceration or early
death, according to the Council
of Economic Advisers.
Following the
death of a
man in Texas
who was infected with Ebola, hospitals across the country are bracing themselves for the possibility
of having to manage the deadly disease.
The week began with the
death of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black
man who was shot multiple times by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as he lay on the ground outside a convenience store.
The limit
of two five - year presidential terms was written into China's constitution after Mao's
death in 1976 by Deng Xiaoping,
who recognized the dangers
of one -
man rule and the cult
of personality and instead espoused collective leadership.
The U.N in July said it had a list
of more than 640 Sunni Muslim
men and boys reportedly abducted by a Shi'ite militia in Falluja, west
of Baghdad, and about 50 others
who were summarily executed or tortured to
death.
«This
man is going to be the
death of me,» Abedin,
who first worked for Clinton as a 19 - year - old intern in the 1990s, said as her boss hugged her.
Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that
men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk
of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die
of a heart attack».
Kate Steinle's shooting
death on a San Francisco pier in July 2015 by a
man who had been deported multiple times escalated quickly from a crime to the subject
of a nationwide furor over illegal immigration.
-- «State senators condemn fatal police shooting
of Stephon Clark,» by LATimes» Patrick McGreevy: «Lawmakers» tempers flared Monday as the California Senate adjourned in memory
of Stephon Clark, an unarmed African American
man who was shot to
death by Sacramento police officers on March 18.
For God so loved the world, he cursed mankind with bitter labor and womankind with the pain
of childbirth, drowned almost everybody on the planet in a flood, then came down and ra.ped a young girl so she could have his son, so he could make
men torture the son to
death so they would thank him for being awesome like that, and he'll come back later and kill everybody
who didn't worship the son and send them to burn in agony in fire forever.
A vicar in the Pakistani capital Islamabad has told Premier protests over the
death of a Muslim
man who killed a politician defending Christians could turn violent.
Ten years after his holy
death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago: tens
of millions
of men and women around the world
who felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his «Passover» — his liberation through
death into a new life
of freedom in the blazing glory
of the Thrice - Holy God.
A vicar in the Pakistani capital Islamabad has told Premier protests over the
death of a Muslim
man who... More
So basically, a
man who is responsible for the torture and
deaths of millions could end up in paradise if he loves Jesus best.
God Almighty, I am sick to
death of all this speculation about a
MAN who lived over 2000 years ago!
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the
men, leaving the natural use
of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another,
men with
men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense
of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full
of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors
of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32
who, knowing the ordinance
of God, that they that practise such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
By the way, I'm not a Calvinist, not sure what I am, other than trying to be more like Jesus
who I believe was the exact representation
of the father, and what he did through his
death, was enough for all
men for all time!
Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe
man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first
man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book
of rules meant to imprison
man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son
of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book
of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear
death or a spider.
This response was perhaps most poignantly displayed on the vigil
of his
death by the thousands
of young people
who gathered in St. Peter's Square to mourn the imminent loss
of the
man who had become their spiritual father.
The Gospel account
of the
death and resurrection
of Jairus's daughter frames the story about a hemorrhaging woman
who, like Nussbaum, sought healing from a
man she believed had special powers.
Hope amidst suffering, hope when
men know only defeat and despair, hope when
death seems to smother out the shoots
of life springing from the hearts
of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions
of men and women over the face
of this globe
who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords
of this world.
If we are going to say that the
death of Jesus Christ has overcome and transformed the commandment to Noah that those
who kill
men should themselves be killed, so that we no longer have to do this, we can not use St. Paul as our ally, as he clearly believed no such thing.
We can imitate the one
man with the distorted conception
of God, and thus disobey with the consequence
of death, or we can be imitators
of the other
man who came right from the bosom
of God with a perfect, exact conception
of God, and
who trusted his faithfulness in obedience, and received the gift
of life.
Trust
of God's faithfulness, apart from any Law, results in justification, and life from the dead, for all
who trust him; this is the way God has always justified, and this is why there has been
death in the world for all
men.
«If anyone asserts that Adam's sin affected him alone and not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the
death of the body which is the punishment for sin, and not also that sin, which is the
death of the soul, passed through one
man to the whole human race, he does injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle,
who says, «Therefore as sin came into the world through one
man and
death through sin, and so
death spread to all
men because all
men sinned» (Rom.
The God that Christians demand that we love, instructed Moses to order three million people to stone to
death one
man who had upset the «god
of the bible» Guilt is the cornerstone
of the Church, and fear is it's steeple.
There lay a
man who had gone into the mouth
of death and through some combination
of the divine will and his own indomitable will had been snatched out.
Though the phenomena
of the lower world remain the same — the material determinisms, the vicissitudes
of chance, the laws
of labour, the agitations
of men, the footfalls
of death — he
who dares to believe reaches a sphere
of created reality in which things, while retaining their habitual texture, seem to be made out
of a different substance.
But to the young widow with children to raise alone, to the
man dying an agonizing and untimely
death from cancer, to the person full
of life and hope
who is incapacitated by multiple sclerosis, or to the child
who has to start his or her life with an uncorrectable birth defect, the average isn't what matters.
Nor need we dismiss as empty illusion the hopes
of men of other religions
who have trusted in God, or the gods, to renew, after
death, a relation
of grace and communion with their servants.
Per verse 28, «Truly I tell you, some
who are standing here will not taste
death before they see the Son
of Man coming in his kingdom.»
Apart from the obvious fact that if Jesus had experienced the troubles
of old age the Incarnation might have seemed
of little relevance to those
who are cut off in youth by violent
death in battle or otherwise, old age, although a far more general condition in our time than ever before, is still not a part
of the universal lot
of man.
Even though the title «Son
of God» is used in the account
of the Baptism, presumably the origin
of Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea
of his acceptance
of death is formulated in terms
of the heavenly
Man who has power and authority upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28)
who fulfills what is written
of him,
who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.
Five
men have been sentenced to
death in Pakistan for the murder
of a Christian couple
who were burnt alive.
His patience is shown as powerful to the overcoming
of death itself, and his mercy, shown in the hour
of his awful triumph to those
who failed him, is now shown to
men as a final mercy.
True, every
man today
who is open to experience knows that God is absent, but only the Christian knows that God is dead, that the
death of God is a final and irrevocable event, and that God's
death has actualized in our history a new and liberated humanity.
17For if, by the trespass
of the one
man,
death reigned through that one
man, how much more will those
who receive God's abundant provision
of grace and
of the gift
of righteousness reign in life through the one
man, Jesus Christ!
Today, when the world will likely be celebrating the
death of a broken
man who led a movement characterized by deception and disdain, reach out to others and show them what the unconditional love
of God is really like and how it is shown in Jesus Christ.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself
of no reputation, and took upon him the form
of a servant, and was made in the likeness
of men: And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto
death, even the
death of the cross.
I tell you the truth, some
who are standing here will not taste
death before they see the Son
of Man coming in his kingdom.»
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God
of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone
who would not seek the Lord, the God
of Israel, was to be put to
death, whether small or great, whether
man or woman.
I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum
of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty
of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well
of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those
who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a
man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?
For example, Matthew 16:28: «Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here
who will not taste
death before they see the Son
of man coming in his kingdom.»
More was a
man who stood by his principles in an issue unworthy
of martyrdom, while Bonhoeffer stood to the
death for a purpose worthy
of giving one's life — to rid a country
of tyranny.
If by the power
of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal
men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the
death of the Lord, and makes us
men of prayer
who are really conscious
of the future judgment
of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.