God says my body is a temple.
Not exact matches
People who believe in
God as Creator
say look around you, in fact look at your
body.
I know even some believers are offended by some of the things I write, but to them I'll simply
say this: the Word of
God is the most powerful thing that exists - both the written word and the Living word; and it's time to start believing
God and to take hold of the ident.ity that He has given you and live and use that ident.ity Lance Wallnau calls it the «believers edge» which unfortunately only 8 % of the
body of Christ ever gets into - that rare realm that individuals mature to the place where they have the power to co-create with
God and bring the future into the present.
Jesus
said that the greatest commandment is «Love the Lord your
God with all of your heart, mind,
body, and soul».
Forsooth unto all the faithful it was
said, Do you not know that your
bodies are a temple of the Holy Ghost within you, Whom you have from
God?
They seem to be mostly about priest abusing little boys, Westboro Baptists
saying God hates the families of fallen soldiers, politicians deciding that women now need two (not just one) unnecessary medical procedure before they can be allowed to make decisions about their
bodies, and Christians telling couples who want to legally commit their lives to each other that they aren't allowed to do that.
«Jesus
said to them, «My wife...»» < — Wife = bride, That's
Gods Church NOT an literal wife but the
Body of Christ the Church, Why the confusion?
Your
body will always ask for food, but your mind is set towards
God, as Jesus said when he was tempted «man does not live by bread itself but by the words from god» You could fast the whole day just by drinking wat
God, as Jesus
said when he was tempted «man does not live by bread itself but by the words from
god» You could fast the whole day just by drinking wat
god» You could fast the whole day just by drinking water.
As this woman
said, she believes that
God made her
body just fine the way it is.
At times brahman is
said to be the
body of
God or his womb out of which he creates.
Does this mean that anyone who has given their lives to Christ and rejects Him to live a life of sin and open destruction to Christ will be absent from the
body, and in the next breath praising the very
God they
say they do not believe?
Past the verse where Jesus
says to respect your temple (the human
body) because that's where
God dwells.
As actual,
God includes creativity within himself and could be
said to have it as his
body or mode of being.
What your not grasping is Jesus also
said to take care of your temple (your
body) because that's where
God dwells (with in us).
«Mary has left death behind her; she is totally clothed in life, she is taken up
body and soul into
God's glory and thus, placed in glory after overcoming death, she
says to us: Take heart, it is love that wins in the end!
«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.
Only when what we offer — bread and wine — is connected with what the priest offers to the Father after the consecration, namely the
Body and Blood of Christ, can we truly
say that this is our offering to
God.3
If
God, though at risk and dependent on others, is not reduced to the world in the metaphor of the world as
God's
body, what more can we
say about the meaning of this model?
The
body of
God, as theologians would
say, is creation, understood as
God's self - expression; it is formed in
God's own reality,
bodied forth in the eons of evolutionary time, and supplied with the means to nurture and sustain billions of different forms of life.
The model of the world as
God's
body encourages holistic attitudes of responsibility for and care of the vulnerable and oppressed; it is nonhierarchical and acts through persuasion and attraction; it has a great deal to
say about the
body and nature.
I guess they forgot that
God said «Do not cut your
bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves.
30 When the king heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes — now he was passing by upon the wall — and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his
body — 31 and he
said, «May
God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.»
[57] St Paul
says the same: «Present your
bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to
God, which is your spiritual worship.»
A woman is willing to
say yes to the purposes of
God and to make a place of welcome in her
body.
According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of
God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of
God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be
said, «Know ye not that your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»
I wanted to twist that
saying a bit by
saying that those who lower the standards that
God places for us in their heart or who confine the
body are actually the pirates that are stealing from
God.
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.
Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; that is to
say, there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is
God: eternal, without
body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
First, let us look briefly at how, given the discussion of the self in the previous Section, it would be true to
say «the world is my
body,» and then show how the Zen way of thinking might help us imagine the world as
God's
body, too.
Not to mention, We are but buildings,,,,, For what purposes and why and how are our
bodies as buildings and does
God dwell inside our
bodies He
says are buildings?
To expand this more relational way of
saying the world is
God's
body, Zen can be helpful.
Mary is the rebuttal to the despair that
says human
bodies and souls can not participate in
God's supernatural life.
This is not to
say there is a literal
God in heaven, nor that there is a literal heaven, nor that we inhabit literal
bodies after we die, nor that all our questions are...
You know dayum well no
body is
saying there could never been any evidence for
God, just that no credible evidence has been provided.
It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in
saying that
God loves the world as a self loves a
body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).
If in
saying that the world is
God's
body, we mean that
God controls the world in the same way that we control our
bodies, then we have the same moral problems with
God that we have with humans who rely on coercive power.
Did not Christ
say that He would come as a thief in the night and did not Christ
say that the kingdom of
God is INSIDE YOU wherein our Temples /
bodies / Claymationed Being does reside One
God and or Goddess each to
GOD's Accords and in our Death we will enter into this Kingdom whether we want to or Don't want to! -RCB-
3:16 - 17,
says we are
God's temple to live in when we are on this earth (if we have asked Jesus to save us), and not to defile the temple or He will destroy us — cause the death of this
body, our soul and spirit will still go to Heaven.
Well, he
said that cancer was the weapon, but that her
body and life here on earth wasn't what Satan was aiming for... it was her faith in
God that he was after.
Thomas Merton
says: «Prayer is then not just a formula of words, or a series of desires springing up in the heart — it is the orientation of our whole
body, mind and spirit to
God in silence, attention, and adoration.
In her 1992 book The
God of Thinness, Mary Louise Bringle similarly denounced the Christian diet industry for «feeding off the facile conflation of fat and sin (and forgetting that the traditional teachings of the church condemn consumptive behaviors but
say nothing about cosmetic matters of
body shape and size).»
«The minister
says that baptism is an outward and visible sign of a gift, the gift of the Spirit of
God brought into the
body and mind of the person being baptized.»
Their way of thinking was in terms of the older Jewish belief in «resurrection of the
body» — and hence the only manner in which they could proclaim that Jesus had not been put out of the way through death was to
say that he had indeed been «raised from the dead», that he was in and with
God, and that those who belonged to him were granted a share in the risen life which was properly his own.
As I have quoted on other occasions and in other writing, St. Thomas Aquinas made the point with his usual precision in an incidental remark — provided perhaps that we change his word «soul» to the word «mind» Aquinas
said, «In his «rule»
God stands in relation to the whole universe as the soul stands in relation to the
body.»
When you see a young woman, addicted to drugs, living on the street, selling her
body for the next hit, though you should judge her actions as wrong, be merciful and
say, «There, but for the grace of
God, go I.» Such an attitude will enable you to help her rather than condemn her.
The Lord Jesus, on the night of his arrest, took bread, and after giving thanks to
God, broke it and
said: «This is my
body, which is for you; do this as a memorial of me.»
MereChristian» The Bible
says God is a spirit, and has not a
body like man.
One translation
says that not only did David «eagerly» seek
God but that his
body «faints» for Him.
I'm an atheist, too, and I find displays of religion as a response to an attack motivated by religion somewhat ironic (though not quite as perverse as stepping over 2500 dead
bodies to find a 90 - degree angle and then hoisting it up and
saying «see,
god is here!)
Our remaining alternative is to
say that
God in fact did raise Jesus from the dead, changing his «physical
body» into a «spiritual
body,» and in this latter form he appeared to his followers.