Sentences with phrase «god speaks with the authority»

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The prophet, like Jesus, claims to speak as «one with authority» — that is, precisely as a prophet, one who brings from God a new and life - giving word.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright in Scripture and the Authority of God, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings.»

Jesus spoke with an authority uniquely related to that of God because Jesus» existence was uniquely related to God's.

We owe obedience to Jesus because He speaks with the authority of God.

So, although the law of which Antigone speaks somehow has divine authority, she has not learned it by reading something like a Bible, with moral rules delivered by the gods.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

«How shall I know in a given case what I ought to do,» he can always turn to the Church which claims to possess the infallible truth of God and which therefore claims to speak with final authority on every moral situation.

God didn't seem to need them to agree with me in order to speak to them and tell them he loves them, in a way that they know, deep down, that it's true... Later when I met my father in law I became familiar with a saying of his in his book Authority to Heal and it rang true from my experience.

Hence it is drawn into the conflicts of human life to such a degree that it can no longer speak with that authority or objectivity which ought to be expected of those who believe in God.

If you never really knew God to begin with, than by whose authority should you be speaking as if you do?

In the Gospel of Matthew, even as Jesus contests with the Jewish teachers of his day for authority to speak God's Word, he affirms their rabbinic role.

Ingest regularly Ephesians 1: 18 - 2:10 which speaks of «His incomparably great power for us who believe» and how His grace makes us «alive in Christ even when we were dead in transgressions, seating us in heavenly places with Christ, far above all other rule and authority, power and dominion...» Receive God's resurrection power to give you the strength to fight this creeping addiction.

And he believed that in all this he was speaking and acting with the authority of God; that this was the real truth about the way things are.

The fact that he can speak with full authority as he does, that he can ask men to recognize the forces of God's Kingdom in his healings, even now before this Kingdom has appeared — that is in itself a proof of the fact that God's Kingdom is drawing near.

The Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, is the sole and final source of all that we believe.