Sentences with phrase «god as warrior»

I can not deal with the portrait of God as warrior so easily.

If Jesus is the exact representation of God and is the image of the invisible God (John 1:14, 18; 14:9 - 11; 2 Cor 4:4; Php 2:6; Col 1:15; Heb 1:2 - 3), but during His life and ministry never revealed the aspect of God as a warrior, then there are only two options: either God is not a warrior and Jesus did truly reveal the Father to us, or Jesus was being deceptive.

Not exact matches

With a firm and simple belief in God which could be understood by the humblest and least educated, with a fiery confidence in Mohammed as the supreme prophet of God, with reverence for Jesus but declaring that Christians had misrepresented him, that he was not the unique Son of God, and that to Mohammed had been given a later revelation, with the type of fatalism and belief in heaven which reinforced ardor in battle, Islam proved the faith of warriors.

But don't be deceived: anything that steals the very essence of God's calling on you, God's shalom, God's justice, God's way of life and living as a warrior, as a prophetess, as a mother, as a teacher, whatever - your - vocation - or - calling as a woman after God's own heart, is a liar.

evidently, so does common sense as the Judeo / Christian / Islam transcendent, earth - repudiating, warrior God will naturally attract those of similar inclination.

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

We identified the warrior God as our God, and when we came into political power we frequently claimed God's support for military conquests.

Isaiah describes the coming Lord as a tender, loving warrior: «Behold, the Lord God comes with might, with an arm to rule... The Lord will feed the chosen flock like a shepherd; God's arms will gather the lambs.

Although God is certainly admired as a warrior who leads armies into battle, God is far more centrally the giver of the law.

There can be no question that Yahweh, like other tribal deities was understood in some of these scriptures as a warrior God.

By the time I was a teenager at the Jesus camps, pledging my life to being a warrior in God's culture army, I had memorized Bible verses as answers, and developed a pretty major evangelical hero complex along with my superiority and false sense of control.

For instance, we must wrestle with the idea of the God of peace and forgiveness acting as a heartless warrior who endorses the Israelite massacre of three thousand Levites and the population of Canaan.

I see it as an advocate or a peace maker or a shalom prophet, a warrior living into the Kingdom of God, a worshipper, a disciple — courageous and unafraid.

In The Old Testament and Theology, 34 Wright maintains that the Old Testament understands God in three primary ways: as creator, as Lord, and as warrior.

It interpolates at the precise moment when the battle lines are drawn and the warriors await only the blowing of the conch shell as signal to charge upon the enemy, a discussion running through eighteen chapters on very profound religious themes between Arjuna the warrior and Krishna the god, disguised as a charioteer.

The God of the Apocalypse can hardly be recognized as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, nor has the fierce Messiah, whose warriors ride in blood up to their horses» bridles, many traits that could recall Him of whom the primitive kerygma proclaimed that He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

In this case, if the symbol is Jesus riding on a white steed like a warrior, His robe dipped in blood, pressing the winepresses of God's wrath as Rev 19 says, and slaying with the sword from His mouth — are we REALLY going to suggest that the symbol is conveying a peaceful, inclusive Jesus?

My answer is the same as last year, I am waiting for Greg Boyd's «Crucifixion of the Warrior God».

Is this a transformation of the holy war motif, with Jesus as the Divine Warrior, doing battle for God's little people, the marginalized whom we also described earlier?

Here we often make the connection that both masculine and feminine aspects of God's creation must therefore be reflections of God's character, a point that isechoed throughout Scripture as God is poetically depicted as both Father and Mother, seamstress and warrior, compassionate (from the feminine rehem, for womb) and just.

Tacia you are a prayer warrior and prayer is central to our relationship to God as someone mentioned talking to God it should be natural as speaking to someone you care about.It does nt have to be fancy it is from the heart and he understands.The holy spirit is there to comfort and the empower us when we feel weak or when we experience a break through.He is always there to encourage us and to support us in what ever we are going through.brentnz

Just to refresh minds what «Ghazis» used to mean; Ghazi (warrior); The Ottoman poet Ahmedi, writing ca. 1402, defines a gazi as «the instruments of God's religion, a servant of God who cleanses the earth from the filth of polytheism.»

The temptation of our current culture is to cast the Church as a bureaucratic obstacle to wounded persons» desire for God, and her pastors as «cold warriors» — but this, to put it kindly, is less than honest.

In their perceptions of the Middle East conflict, they might, consciously or unconsciously, think that the Jews abused their power and incurred God's punishment millennia ago when they failed to heed the prophetic warnings, and are now returning as warriors and oppressive rulers.

There are hundreds of instances of unnamed angels, as well as the famous ones (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Satan), appearing and working for God as messengers and warriors.

I had many many prayer warriors sending up their prayers for me during labor and I could feel God's presence in the room as little Elijah made his way into my arms.

Enter the world as Caos, a gigantic breed of mighty warriors created to serve the will of the Gods.

Skyforge is a highly - stylized MMORPG featuring exciting dynamic combat inspired by console action games, where players develop from immortal warriors protecting their homeworld into powerful gods dominating the battlefield as invincible giants.

Played by Jeff Goldblum with all of his quizzical, hesitant Jeff Goldblum - ishness, and sporting a golden wizard's outfit that would have been rejected as being over-the-top by Elton John in the 1970s, The Grandmaster forces Thor to take part in a brutal gladiatorial contest, but the thunder god runs into two people who might just help him get back to Asgard: a mysterious warrior (Tessa Thompson) with a link to his past, and his old pal the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

It stars Eddie Redmayne as a monk who leads Ulric (Sean Bean) and his band of warriors to a remote village rumored to have renounced God and house a necromancer, someone with the ability to raise the dead.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

«First Reformed» thus becomes a bitterly corrosive portrait of the conscientious Christian as environmental warrior - revolutionary, in which a lonely man of God is not just disillusioned but radicalized against the institution that called him forth.

Steve's not so convinced of that stuff about ancient gods and eternal Amazons but he has no doubt as to her abilities as a warrior or her commitment to justice and he knows a valuable ally when he meets one.

Ragnarok wastes no time kicking into high gear, opening with nothing less than the foreshadowing of the termination of Asgard, home to the alien warriors that we, the people of Earth, once canonized as gods.

If Demeter takes us back to an agricultural way of life that imagined Earth and its manifestations as aspects of maternal nurturing, the strident gods of Olympus, challenging and overthrowing one another, males always primed for battle and sexual conquest, females seizing control only by wheedling indirection, are projections of a warrior culture that set victory in armed combat above all other goals — or at least seemed to, for there are always, deep within any society, dreams that run in another, even in a contrary, direction from its articulated purposes.

This sport was developed as a part of the worship practice in honor of the warrior god «Mithras».

Waging War - In Norse legend, the Northern Lights were associated with war and were said to appear when the sun reflected off the armour of the god's warrior daughters (also known as Valkyries) as they prepared for combat.

Across from El Castillo, atop the Temple of Warriors, is a stone where human hearts were left as offerings to the gods.

Known as the Island of Gods, Bali has been seducing sun - seekers, scuba divers, surfers, and spiritual warriors for decades.

In Skyforge, you will walk the path from an immortal warrior to a mighty God, gaining followers as you fight to protect your world.

God of War is a soft reboot of the series, taking Kratos from the world of Greek mythology — which he subsequently killed all of the deities within — and planting him years later as an older and wiser warrior in the world of the Norse.

As well as the regular story mode (and New Game +), players can also test their mettle in the «Trials of the Gods» — a special challenge mode that rewards the best warriors with special equipment and runes.&raquAs well as the regular story mode (and New Game +), players can also test their mettle in the «Trials of the Gods» — a special challenge mode that rewards the best warriors with special equipment and runes.&raquas the regular story mode (and New Game +), players can also test their mettle in the «Trials of the Gods» — a special challenge mode that rewards the best warriors with special equipment and runes.»

You can also see the heavy development of Bayek as a person compared to when his journey first began; his stoic and almost short tempered nature from all he has seen is a cumbersome burden, one that — if he were pushed a little farther — I might dare compare to a certain raging Greek warrior who also took on the gods.

Not only had Kratos, a former Spartan warrior, become an unmerciful Greek god at the end of the first God of War, but he was a very angry one as he went back in time in the sequel to change his hideously violent pagod at the end of the first God of War, but he was a very angry one as he went back in time in the sequel to change his hideously violent paGod of War, but he was a very angry one as he went back in time in the sequel to change his hideously violent past.

Unleash the power of the Gods and embark on a merciless quest as Kratos, an ex-Spartan warrior driven to destroy Ares, the God of War.

You play as Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla.

You play as Thora, a Viking warrior maiden who, after dying an inglorious death at sea, is given a chance to ascend and join her ancestors in Valhalla by impressing the gods.

Tomb Raider is still rocking the number one spot in the UK charts as we hit mid-March, joined by new entries in the form of Starcraft: Heart of the Swarm, God of War: Ascension, and Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2.

When the pantheon of gods is swallowed by a being known as the Devourer, they use their cunning to trap great warriors and zealots on a world known as Forge to do battle in their name.

A TRULY MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE ● Join a GUILD and dominate the leaderboards ● Team up with friends, or go head - to - head in the ARENA ● Ride epic MOUNTS like the fabled Pegasus into battle BEGIN A HERO AND BECOME A GOD ● Earn Godly Powers and expand your SKILL TREE ● Unlock the path to Mt. Olympus and the WINGS OF A GOD ● Enlist Centaurs, Phoenixes and Griffons to join you on your quest to godhood CUSTOMIZE YOUR CHARACTER ● Become a legendary WARRIOR, deadly ARCHER, or powerful MAGE ● ENHANCE your strength and appearance with epic weapons and armor ● CRAFT enchanted gear and grow your Might ● COLLECT rare loot drops as you explore Ancient Greece BECOME GREECE \»S GREATEST HERO ● Team up with HERCULES and PERSEUS ● Enter the LABYRINTH and fight the mighty MINOTAUR ● Fight infamous Monsters like MEDUSA and the CYCLOPS ONE GAME — MANY WAYS TO PLAY ● ACTION — Command your Hero in strategic battles ● STRATEGY — BUILD your city and expand your FARM ● ROLE PLAYING — Explore STORY MODE and brave dungeons solo Legacy of Zeus — Begin a Hero, Become a God!