Sentences with phrase «king god figure»

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In the last century, one of those messiah figures was Haile Selassie (1892 — 1972), King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, who is revered as the returned messiah of the Bible, God incarnate, by Rastafarians.

I call this the King Cyrus argument, that God's used imperfect people in the past, that [the president] is sort of this King Cyrus figure — that God may be using to do some really good things.

Again, at the beginning, we have that mysterious figure Melchizedek, King of Salem, «priest of God Most High», with his offerings of bread and wine.

Coronation implied adoption by God, because in the ancient world a king was regarded as a quasi-divine figure.

If God was completly removed we would not have such an intellectual book to even believe in... God can speak through man and many predictions that were in the bible came true already... How can men that have no back grounds of science or physics and basic understand of the world and how it works be able to come up with half the stuff in the bible... Really hard to come up with the figures when your just a fisherman or even a king... Only explains God even more

Consequently it made sense to explain a severe storm by casting lots to determine who had angered the gods, or by trying to figure out what the king had done wrong, or by consulting a prophet or perhaps an oracle who would read the entrails of a sacrificed goat.

Returning to Cyprian, he then goes on to pick up the figure of Melchizedek of Salem from Genesis 14: 18 - 19a: «And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine, for he was a priest of God Most High and he blessed Abraham.»

He preferred to see himself as the apocalyptic figure of Daniel 7, whose coming would spell the end of the bestial earthly kingdoms, and to whom the Ancient of Days would give the kingdom of God, rather than seeing himself a king in David's line, even an apocalyptic one.

p. 428: «The Moses of the prophets is not a figure of the past through whose mediation Israel was established once and for all as the people under Yahweh the King, but the first of a line of prophets who in the present, under the revelatory word of Yahweh, continued to bring Israel up from Egypt into existence under God.»

Atmospheric and melancholic, Lê's 35 new, original works (all 2017) at STPI include large - scale wall mural weavings in which he again elides Angkor Wat's bas - relief elephants, kings and gods with the more infinitely fragile figures of genocide victims.

We went through the sanctuary and couldn't figure out why God wouldn't send the King of the World to such a fancy place.