Sentences with phrase «god called down»

Boy, you got that right, They members are so brainwashed from the cult leaders, they actually believe that one day in 1978 God called down to issue that blacks are ok for the priesthood.

Not exact matches

It seems as if since the religious zealots God is unable to call down lightning as they think he should when they feel we have blasphemed him, the zealots enjoy taking matters into their own hands and attempt to bully and persecute and even murder atheists on their God's behalf.

Within the plodding puffball ostrich Is figured those weighed down with growing rich And, hearing God's call, plant their soiled head.

Some awkwardness and misunderstanding is inevitable in relationships, but sometimes, Christian women get so bogged down by the concept of men being «leaders» that we fail to recognize that God only calls us into this kind of «leading» relationship within the walls of a loving, respect - filled, and mutually submissive marriage.

We, who call ourselves God's people should be very careful to be simple and down to earth, with our eyes on the Lord only!.

People who choose to set down their agenda and engage this process are called the Kingdom of God.

Bob, even though you make it your business to come here and blaspheme and curse, and vainly try to tear down the faith... «The gates of hell shall not overcome it»... God is calling all of Mankind into righteousness, even you.

1st of all I try to live my life according to God's word and Jesus's example, laying down worldly things every day and living a set apart life, as us all Christians are called to live.

By explaining away the violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament, or by calling such evil actions as «good,» we are trying to get God down off the cross.

But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision of peace on earth.

I come to wonder, if what we read out of scripture needs a proper interpretation of it following some basic principals to be in the proper context and we don't follow those simple rules, then what we interpret creates in our minds a false will of God and we follow this so called «Gods will» are we going down the wrong path?

so God gave him his own place called hell... y» all think satian is Soo amazing and great ht when you stand before the lord and he cast to down to the pits of hell you'll be burning for eternity and feeling your bodies burn over and over again....

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

So I got down on my knees and prayed for God to teach me to love like Christ loved and that's when it started less than an hour later I was given the chance to love someone that I would call unlovable like christ loved this man was lying about me to the point it could have ruined my career of 10 years.

As God is the sustainer of creation, when He is pushed away, creation starts to break down; this process and the particular acts involved with it are called sin.

Wright notes that «Israel was thus constituted, from one point of view, as the people who heard God's word — in call, promise, liberation, guidance, judgment, forgiveness, further judgment, renewed liberation, and renewed promise... This is what I mean by denying that scripture can be reduced to the notion of the «record of a revelation,» in the sense of a mere writing down of earlier, and assumedly prior, «religious experience.»

His narrative is interlarded with swift, ejaculatory appeals to God, (E.g., Nehemiah 4:4; 5:19; 6:9, 14; 13:14, 22, 29) sometimes ethically dubious as when he calls down divine wrath on his enemies, sometimes high - minded and devout, but always revealing an intimate sense of the spiritual presence and availability of the living God.

In biblical times, the Jews expected a messiah who would come with flaming sword, conquering and to conquer, calling down the hosts of heaven to destroy all who did not bear the mark of God's elect, thereby purifying and clearing the earth for God's Kingdom.

In saying this I am in no sense succumbing to the so - called «unitarian» leveling - down of all God's revelation to one uniform method and way.

To put it another way, if Yahweh was a warrior God, and Jesus revealed this type of God to us, Jesus would have stepped down off the cross, and called a legion of angels to His defense.

I believe in God but im not going to put someone down or call them names because they have a different point of view then me.

James lends his masterful support as a conservative Jewish Christian to the same position by fortifying it with reference to the prophet Amos, who says that the Lord will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and will gather therein all the gentiles (James in Acts) substitutes «Gentiles» for Amos's «heathen») who are called by God's name (Amos 9:11 - 12).

Pride, anger, greed, judgmentalism, and gluttony, for example, are condemned all over the place in Scripture (way more than homosexuality), and yet most Christians are content to live in such destructive lifestyles while they point the finger at homosexuals and call down God's curses upon them.

So... some old men, living two millennia ago, whose ignorance by today's standards was towering, and who wrote about god without putting their own names to it, but demanded that those words be believed, notwithstanding, have collectively written a book we call the «Bible,» and we're all supposed to bow down and believe it.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

And the most incendiary ideas are those that call down the force of God or nation (or both) in the service of denouncing those who follow other gods or belong to other nations.

But to expect that all tasks will get split evenly down the middle and neither spouse will ever do more work than the other is not only unrealistic, it's not the kind of sacrificial love God calls us to in any relationship.

Not the path I pave as I wonder aimlessly through life, but the path that God has called me to walk down.

To summarize briefly, he is one who has been given and has accepted a calling from God, and devoted himself body and soul to his service, bearing witness to the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the end laying down his life for the sake of others.

The same confusion is shown by those who want to pluck out the tares from the field, or by the disciples when they want to call down fire from heaven on unrepentant villages, or by Judas when he too does what God has said will come to pass.

I mean, I go back to the baptism of Jesus Christ where God spoke and His voice was heard from above, Jesus Christ was being baptized on earth and the Holy Ghost was coming down as a dove... well, you so call Christians don't make sense sometimes.

I try to coin words that don't exist and craft sentences to explain how it feels when I look at the curve of my daughter's cheek while she nurses at my breast or how I learned to pray by doing laundry or how dignity is overrated and how the Holy Spirit feels like a bracing cold wind to me and how you only really learn that when you have nothing left or how I believe in a God who climbs down into the obscurity and calls us beloved but I keep coming up with nothing much.

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Also that when Jesus said to call no man Father it was because he knew we'd mess it up with our human concept of hierarchy — and, in our minds, impose harsh, top - down characteristics on God based on those exhibited by human fathers.

In light of the Charleston shooting, God has granted grace on Americans by allowing them to see where they had been «blind,» said Obama, alluding to the recent call by many of South Carolina's politicians to take down the Confederate flag.

When humans persist in sin despite God's frequent attempts to call them toward obedience and to warn them of what will happen if they continue down the path they are on, there comes a point where sometimes, God simply withdraws His hand of protection and allows people to suffer the consequences for their sin, for chaos to reign, and for Satan to bring death and destruction.

But maybe we're not called to fathom the mind of God and instead to double down on what it means to be an evangelical Christian: to confess the faith and pray together, to proclaim Jesus in word and deed as we each feel called, and to live together in the forgiveness of sins.

May God call and send many, but with a new extraordinary awareness that God has heard our cry, seen our plight and come down to deliver by his own phenomenal presence.

But what I call the «A Team» of theologians - Athanasius, Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas - insist that our faith into the Holy Trinity involves absolutely no watering - down of God's Unity.

Also, when his disciples want to call down fire from heaven to incinerate the city that did not accept Jesus (this fit perfectly with God's behavior in the OT, does it not?)

that does not include atheism i hope all atheists would die and be reincarnated as tree's that are then cut down to print «Quran's and bible's on =D that would be awesome that being said i do nt beleive god (meaning the «one» god that is in many religions) would condem postponing your fast untill after the games ive never put much stock in what so called holly men have to say its all about your perseption of your holy book

It came to Peter in the vision of common and unclean animals let down from heaven, and the voice which said to him, «What God has cleansed you must not call common» (Acts 11:9).

If late boomers and possibly Generation X Jesuits are, as Cardinal Dulles suggests, different again, it may be simply that the Society and the culture have settled down considerably and young men are able to make clearer choices about whether to enter the Society or respond to God's call in other ways.

If some visitor from another planet, knowing nothing at all about this world of ours, should drop down upon us, he would surely find that the biped who was erect had a peculiar characteristic marking his behavior — he would observe this creature on his knees in what the creature called «the presence of the invisible God.»

That respect for persons is reflected through the down - to - earthness of the good pastor, and it has its root in a christological analogy: God is empathetic with us in Jesus Christ, therefore we are being called to be empathic toward the lonely or alienated neighbor.

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

Bush after 9/11 bowed down in worship with the Muslim and people called him a man Of God?

The other day I came across a beautiful poem called «God Would Kneel Down» by St. Francis of Assisi.

If we call God's justice down upon the world, we need to be very confident that we can stand with our own head high before the Almighty.

Religion is man searching for God, Christianity is God searching for man Which is why salvation is freely mine, and forgiveness is my own Not based on my merits but Jesus's obedience alone Because he took the crown of thorns, and the blood dripped down his face He took what we all deserved, I guess that's why you call it grace And while being murdered he yelled «Father forgive them they know not what they do.»