Sentences with phrase «god by prophecy»
«We believe that a man must be called of God by prophecy and by the laying on hands, by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
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Even though we are not trying to reconcile scriptural prophecies with the message of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, the principle outlined in Acts 17 by the Bereans gives us hope that God can lead us through the discernment process in our information - saturated world.
But I suppose I just don't see why a prophecy can't just be enforced by an omnipotent being.If God wants it to happen humans can't stop it.
The Bible is a book by which God speaks to us in various ways, historical narrative, poetry, instruction, prophecy, figurative language... etc..
But we do see things consistent with the Bible, To take a concrete example, the Bible states that Israel wold be destroyed as a nation, but after a long period of time would become a nation again, It's a matter of belief whether the Bible made a God - inspired prophecy or a lucky guess, But it's a matter of objective fact that Israel was destroyed by the Romans and became a nation again in 1948.
Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.
Matthew 27:25 - 26 (NIV) Indeed, Jesus was flogged by men which when we read again what God stated in the prophecy in 2 Sam 7:14: «I will be his father, and he will be my son.
2 Peter 1:21 For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
God never promised that Messianic prophecies in Scripture will be fulfilled in earthly life, only that they will be fulfilled by the Messiah.
Who would be interested in a book supporting and trying to gain acceptance for the doctrine based on biblical and historical evidence that Jesus died on March 25, 31 CE, at 15.00 hours, on a TUESDAY and was resurrected by His Father, Yahweh God, at about 18.00 hours, on a FRIDAY, thus fulfilling His own prophecy contained in Mat 12:40, whereas He would be three days and three nights in the tomb?
Prophecy illuminates the past, present, and future by employing story and poetry to bring into sharp contrast the way things are with the way things should be with, the ways of power - hungry people with the ways of a loving God, the path of cruelty and injustice with the path of righteousness, the kingdoms of this world with the coming Kingdom of God.
To interpret acts of violence by those who oppose God's people as fulfillments of prophecy is to believe that God has something else in mind.
Yea verily, I as infallible Pope, hereby excommunicate Chuckles forever from the purgatory of raving nincompo < b?ops where he was infallibly put by mistake, which was a divinely - inspired infallible mistake, much like Jesus» prophecy that the Kingdom of God would come down on the Earth with a cool laser light show and dancing poodles and other things that didn't happen within the lifetimes of his audience.
I stated that the prophecy you reference was borrowed from the legend of the Egyptian god Horus which pre-dated the text you reference by about 2200 years.
i already knew this was a prank from the beginning just by the fact that you stated that god chose you to tell the prophecies of the lord, when in reality only god knows, and only god will show the signs of the lords second coming, the rapture and the great tribulation is imminent, and i have but one question for you jeremy.....
«Salvation history,» not because every moment of this world is willed by God in a direct manner — the bloodletting of Herod is not intended by God as the flight of Jesus is — but because the voice crying out in Rama is as much the subject of sacred prophecy as Jesus's flight.
As Joan Didion has documented (New York Review of Books, November 6, 2003), Bible - prophecy believers constitute a vital segment of President Bush's supporters, and Bush himself seems convinced that his elevation to the Oval Office and his every action since have been determined by God.
In the five thousand one hundred and ninety - ninth year of the creation of the world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty - seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham; the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty - second year from David's being anointed king; in the sixty - fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety - fourth Olympiad; the seven hundred and fifty - second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty - second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus; the whole world being at peace in the sixth age of the world, Jesus Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to sanctify the world by his most merciful coming, being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary, being made flesh.
Topher, maybe I've misinterpreted Christian views, but If I'm correct, as you stated the world is turning away from God and by Biblical prophecy the world will continue to do so.
God has given sufficient evidence of His existence and of the divine inspiration of the Scriptures by means of fulfilled prophecy.
as for proving Jesus is alive, no worries, He will be back in the flesh as soon as all the prophecies of these days of distress are fulfilled, so stay alive until He arrives... however, should Death claim you before hand, you will know the truth anyway... and every aethist comes to know if God exists by the time of their funeral... unfortunately, they can't tell their friends the truth they have found then.So God is patient, for He knows the days of a man are short.
Since the Catholic theologian Schillebeeckx basically ruled out prophecies by concluding God does not know the future, one can rule out the infallible nature of this verse.
«For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost» (2 Peter 1:21, KJV).
Now these prophecies were either given by inspiration of God or the prophets just wrote them as they thought they should be.
But apart from any particular applications of prophecy, we are to understand that everything else that the Proclamation contains is governed by this maxim: «The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand».
21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Similarly, 2 Peter 1:21 states that prophecy has come not by the impulse of man, «but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.»
The truth is that there are tons of prophecies that are completely misunderstood by everyone in the church because God has lots of mysteries.
Churches and pastors who participate in miracles and prophecies don't like to be told that they are being controlled by the devil, and so they often counter with the argument that anyone who says that something is of the devil when it is actually from God is committing a blasphemous sin against the Holy Spirit and will never be forgiven of such a sin.
It's written by various people and it describes their walk with God but also other things like law, family trees, history, prophecy, story...
However, if the Fourth Servant Song was really to be understood as a prophecy of the crucifixion of Jesus, and if this meant that by means of this scripture God was declaring that his death was not a miserable failure but a victory, in that it was becoming a source of blessing to men, then the rest of the Song had some suggestive things to say about this same Jesus.
As God's legate, His trustworthiness is proven by miracles and fulfilled prophecies, especially the resurrection, a stupendous miracle which He predicted.
Thus it is possible that Huldah's prophecy concerning Josiah properly reflected the aims of God, in this case frustrated by Pharaoh Necho and the king's own miscalculation as to the probable consequences of that confrontation between Egypt and Israel.
2 Peter 1:21 «For no prophecy was ever borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God while being borne by the Holy Spirit»
I've listed this several times, but apparently Atheists seem to want the clouds to open up for them for proof of God's existence, but prophecy fulfillment is excellent proof for the divine authorship of Scripture... I could talk about prophecies regarding Israel's captivity to Babylon, Cyrus called out by name hundreds of years before his birth as the one that will rescue Israel from Babylon, the destruction of Babylon foretold, the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple foretold, the destruction of Tyre and specifically how it was to be done, how the city of Petra would be destroyed... These are just a few verifyable examples...
It is unclear whether these efforts are deliberate, to make the theory work, or simply self - fulfilling prophecy; but the result is a de-divining of man by way of the removal of all that makes us created in God's image.
Bernard Orchard OSB writes that the account of the birth of the God - Man in the Gospel of Matthew clearly states that Mary was a virgin when she conceived by the Holy Spirit and that this fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14 in which it is stated that the Messiah would be born of a virgin.
She told me all about the prophecy from my uncle; it was just completely dumbfounding me that there was this whole divine conspiracy that had been worked out by God.
By the way, I agree with your comment on jc knowing the prophecies, and the NT being written, around 200bce, 1st, and 2nd centuries to «seem» to coincide with the OT books, is exactly what the jewish writers did not realistically (jc) compared jc to horus, and isis the zodiac sun gods (Egyptian stuff), but they the hellenistic jewish writers twisted a few things, changing the OT, adding, and taking away, which was warned to us not to do in Deut.4: 1 - 4, but these are YHWH enemies taught in Psalms 83.
For prophecy was at no time brought by man's will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.»
She was being insulting, practicing false prophecy, using God's name in vain an according to someone here and affirmed by you, being abusive.
The Transfiguration, the preliminary appearance or epiphany of the Son of Man in glory, takes place not in Jerusalem — contrast Malachi 3:1 and other prophecies — but in a secret mountain fastness in the remote north, in Galilee, a land despised by men but graciously favored and chosen by God.
«No prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.»
To the extent that God is characterized by attributes such as uniqueness, omnipotence, foreknowledge, justice, mercy and the revelation of his will in prophecy and scripture, then Jews, Christians and Muslims can easily detect the selfsame God in the LORD of Judaism, in the triune God of the church, and in Allah (which is simply the word for «God» used by Arabic speakers in all three traditions).
His prophecies are dominated by the conception of the «Servant of the Lord», a figure embodying the ideal of absolute devotion to God in service, suffering and sacrifice.
The main reason that I believe that this collection of historically contingent documents is the inerrant revelation of God is because I believe Jesus rose from the dead and I have experienced the power of that event: therefore the prophecies weren't empty promises, the conquest of Israel wasn't just a powerplay under the masquerade of a divine mission, and the apostles really were guided by the Holy Spirit to expound further on all matters leading to salvation.
That such inspired («God spoke... moved by the Holy Spirit») origins of prophecy could not extend to the written Word seems, to me, to be a bit picky:).
Hi Jeremy, I have been thinking and trying to put all the pieces together... I still believe that Jesus flesh was still struggling through the ordeal but His Spirit was willing... I agree that Jesus wasn't asking to be saved and was in fact saying He is ready to drink the cup but It appears that's Jesus was asking for strength and that God will give Him the power to endure... Such as Heb 5:7 says that Jesus prayer was heard and that God was able to save Him from death meaning Jesus wasn't allowed to die until He fulfilled the prophecy of the cross... I believe Jesus had the power to lay down His life and the strength was given by God the Father.
Prophecies made by Ezekiel against the city of Tyre start in 26:3... God would move «many nations» (Ezekiel 26:3 - 4) to invade Tyre beginning with Nebuchadnezzar, followed by successive attacks pictured by wave upon wave.
We can, in a word, show Messianism in its full sweep, a direction by God not only of the teaching, and the looking forward of prophecy, but also a Messianism of type, and ritual, which is not reasonably explicable as an accident.