Sentences with phrase «jesus after the flesh»

Indeed, Paul tells us in so many words that he has «known Jesus after the flesh,» and it is almost certainly to this kind of indirect, but not on that account less clear and lively, knowledge that he is referring.

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Did Jesus Christ really come to South America and was seen in the human flesh, hundreds of years after his death and was sitting at the right hand of God.

You can not deracinate Jesus, removing him from his given setting in history and among his own people «after the flesh,» without at the same time making him a meaningless monstrosity.

There is only eternity with Jesus to look forward too after our flesh body dies, goes back to dust, and our spirit goes back to God, who created ALL.

But when we do not abide — walk after the flesh, not being who Jesus has made us — then we choose to sever our relationship with Him.

«I calmly let the fire burn, for I see that what is consumed is only the fanciful portraits of Life - of - Jesus theology, and that means nothing other than «Christ after the flesh.»

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.

It strongly suggests that God was mistaken in making us bodily, sensual, temporal and subject to nature's cycles of life and death, and that Jesus was not made flesh after all.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

Romans 8: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

My first thought after reading your review is that his view of the Bible as dialog would seem to deny the Holy Spirit as being the author of Scripture, and would attack the idea that the Word — a.k.a. Jesus — became flesh and pitched his tent among us.

Nor was it about his redemption of our sins (a theology developed to its current form only centuries after the facts primarily from the epistles of Paul, who never knew or spoke with Jesus personally, in the flesh.)

This is made clear through the fact that even after the resurrection, Jesus «ate and drank with them as a being of flesh, although spiritually united with the Father,» [29] thus denying any docetic tendency to spiritualize the resurrection.

After Jesus» death it reawakens three days later and tells its followers that if you telepathically promise that you accept it as your master, symbolically eat its flesh and drink its blood it will accept you and cleanse you of an evil force you inherited from the dirtman who was convinced by a talking snake to eat a fruit from a magic tree.

After Peter proclaimed Jesus to be «the Christ, the Son of the Living God», the Lord answered him and said «Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father in Heaven.

Jesus certainly knew of better ways of traveling than by walking (and after His resurrection, He shows one of these by appearing and disappearing at will), but as God in human flesh, He limited Himself to walking because this was the available method for most humans at that time.

«In the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears... He learned obedience through what He suffered; and being made perfect He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.»

This is a discussion that he and I have had before in the pages of First Things (August / September 2012), after I reviewed his book Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter, in which he proposed a rapprochement between creedal Christianity and Mormon materialism.

We need to separate Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus in the flesh) from the Crucified and resurrected Christ for Paul says in 2Cor 5:16 «wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh (ie Jesus of Nazareth), yet now henceforth know we Him no more».

In one of the most controversial scenes in Martin Scorsese's landmark examination of the duality of flesh and spirit, The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus (Willem Dafoe) speaks to Judas (Harvey Keitel) after addressing a fanatical crowd out for blood.