But, wait a minute — highly - processed (junk) food causes
way more death and destruction than gun ownership — why don't we ban fast food restaurants?
Not exact matches
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More than anything, Peter Thiel, the billionaire technology investor and Donald Trump supporter, wants to find a
way to escape
death.
The US is unique in two key — and related —
ways when it comes to guns: It has
way more gun
deaths than other developed nations, and it has far
more guns than any other country in the world.
That
way, if there are
more pressing expenses at the time of your
death or your family decides not to keep the house, they can use the full payout however they choose.
Now that I have put to
death my old sin nature, by the grace of God, I will become
more Ch - r - i - st like in my
ways and in my whole being.
Even as a young Catholic student I was always taught that, while giving up something for Lent is a
way to mimic Jesus» 40 days of fasting before his
death, a
more modern — and
more true to the spirit of Jesus — approach is to find a
way to DO something that has a positive impact on someone else and yourself.
By the
way, I'm not a Calvinist, not sure what I am, other than trying to be
more like Jesus who I believe was the exact representation of the father, and what he did through his
death, was enough for all men for all time!
Without the truths of the
death and resurrection of Jesus, there is no gospel, but the gospel is
way more than a message about justification and how to get eternal life.
In fact, in some
ways his birth and his life — and eventually his
death — introduced new forms of suffering, making these people's lives
more difficult than they otherwise would have been.
It is not necessary to the completeness of the humanity of the second Adam that he should have suffered in this particular
way, any
more than that he should have experienced every kind of
death that may befall us.
And choosing to stay in a fire and burn to
death gets you
way more martyr points than just having the Romans kill you.
This is just another
way of saying that God loves every man at every moment in every specific situation as he loved his Son Jesus Christ: not
more (for Jesus Christ was delivered up to temptation, to testing, to fatigue, to hunger, to suffering and to
death), but not less.
From this perspective it would even be possible to understand Christendom's religious reversal of the movement of Spirit into flesh as a necessary consequence of the Incarnation, preparing the
way for a
more comprehensive historical realization of the
death of God by its progressive banishment of the dead body of God to an ever
more transcendent and inaccessible realm.
It moves from concrete experiences of
death through theological reflection on them in order to enter new experiences in a
more integrated, faith - filled
way.
In some
ways we might even say that the preoccupation of our culture with the different stages of life and with growing old is simply one
more mechanism for the «denial of
death.»
there simply is no
way to divide up the
deaths such that Christians killed
more than atheists..
He was able to picture early Christianity this
way with the
more assurance because he did most of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time of Jesus (thanks in part to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes of light against darkness, life against
death, came in the 1960s to be understood as first century Jewish themes.
Death is then, another instance of the
more general
way in which all history and all events move backward in time «from the Sasa period to the Zamani, from the moment of intense experience to the period beyond which nothing can go» (ARP 29).
The persecution of people of «the
way» has begun, and though we may wish to only show love we will eventually be pushed into taking a stand, much like those in Muslim countries who are being confronted with
death for nothing
more than saying they love Jesus.
Why didn't Peter enable them to find
more meaningful and productive lives rather than confront them in such a
way as to shock them to
death?
She puts the
death toll nearer to 60, with potentially many
more on the
way.
You seem to have highlighted particular sins as though some are worse than others all sin leads to
death not just the big ones because we all are sinners.All have gone astray none are righteous.I believe the worst sin is pride idolatry is the first commandment we set ourselves as Gods.Regardless of what the sin is, our hearts are condemned by our pride.It wasnt the sin of homosexuality or sexual deviance that destroyed sodom.It was there pride and it is one of our biggest stumbling blocks in our christian walk or it certainly was for me.We look at the story of the adulterous woman and we think adultery is a terrible crime but the story is for our benefit to show that we all are sinners that Jesus does nt condemn us but came to save us.And when Jesus says go and sin no
more he was not only talking to the woman but everyone else that was around judging her for her sin its a universal message that we all need to see that we all are condemned because of our sin that Jesus came to save us and that we turn from our sin and follow him.Because he is the
way the truth and the life.brentnz
It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free
way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the
Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems
more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.
But here we may reasonably suspect a certain amount of embroidery, the
more so since Matthew has also an edifying story about the traitor's remorse and grisly end — a story, by the
way, inconsistent with another account of his
death which is found in the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention a third divergent account which we know to have been handed down traditionally in the early church.
As Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and
more appropriate
way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and
death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixion.
Marcia Dixon reviews the latest BBC documentary on Christianity - Life and
Death the Pentecostal
Way More
The
death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything
more in the
way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.
For Rousseau and (in a
more ambiguous
way) Locke, love,
death, and freedom are unnatural, and for Darwin, strictly speaking, they, being unnatural, don't exist at all.
This was thought by some to be another seasonal myth describing the
death and resurrection of the vegetation god, but the myth is not tied to an annual cycle and is much
more concerned with the threat of periods of drought and the
way to ensure the supply of the lifegiving water on which men, animals and all vegetation alike depend.
Because the
death of Jesus on the cross was the very fact that sparked off the development which led to the Easter message, it came to determine the
more precise meaning of the exaltation of Jesus in a
way that had no parallel in the tradition of Elijah, for he was thought never to have died.
It is the
way life makes
way for
more life.9
Death establishes a common fate for every living thing, and thus gives a decisive character to our dependence upon God and our unity with all His creatures.
I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness,
death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give
way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no
more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give
way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.
So we move directly from a consideration of the
death of God overall to inquiries into the demise of a God of strictly male qualities, whose obituaries point the
way forward to a
more encompassing grasp of the fullness of Who God Is.
No, due to the
death of men through constant warfare with other tribes, these Native Americans always had
way more women in the tribe than they had men.
Imprecations about the yawning jaws of hell gave
way to a
more pastoral concern with loneliness, meaningless and the fear of
death.
They tell us what separates us from him and from happiness is, first, self - seeking in all its forms; and, secondly, sensuality in all its forms; that these are the
ways of darkness and
death, which hide from us the face of God; while the path of the just is like a shining light, which shineth
more and
more unto the perfect day.»)
Right alias, science has given the wurld
more efficient
ways of
death, even by accident, like the unwise use of antibiotics.
Gil if we only received one blessing in this life and that was eternal life in Jesus Christ that alone would be enough but we are blessed
way more than that because we have been sent his holy spirit to help us overcome our old nature.He never leaves us nor forsakes us whether good or bad happens he strengthens us in our weakness.It says in the bible that the rain falls on both the righteous or the wicked God is fair to all whether they deserve it or not he can not be anything else than a holy righteous loving and fair God.I do nt need to convince you to believe about God he will reveal himself to you if you are seeking the truth as he is the truth.I do nt try and make others believe its pointless.I know without a doubt that i am saved and my sins are forgiven.As a christian it will a joy to be with the Lord there is no fear in
death for those that love him.In the meantime i serve him with all my heart until he calls me home.I love talking about the Lord but each of us must walk according to what we believe.I trust my life to Jesus Christ and i choose to follow him who do you follow?
Taylor devotes the final two chapters of his book to a discussion of how Christians can engage in a «
way of the cross» — in movement - building and a «theatrics of counterterror» — as a
way to «take on the
death penalty,... working for a time when it is no
more.»
This is what I've been experiencing in my own
way for the past 7 months,
death and resurrection, some deeper healing I asked for and then so much
more than I ever expected.
Everyone on this earthly pilgrimage is presented, sooner or later, with two
ways: the easy
way of indifference and self - indulgence which leads inevitably to
death and destruction and the
more difficult
way of hard choices and self - denying experiences, the end of which is life.
Theologically, we shall seem to have gone absurdly far in a Pelagian direction; and all the
more so if our descendants have been driven the other
way by the grief and pressure of events, and have come to remember that this religion of the Resurrection starts with the Cross, has evil and suffering and
death as its raw material, its prime subject - matter.
My grandmother died at age 47 after giving birth to 14 children... and I'll bet that there are
more statistics leaning that
way (early
death) than the
way of your relatives» longevity.
In response to our reader's objection, Mr. Solomon writes: «While I would not wish to oversimplify the case, and though I recognize that there are many liberal Catholic thinkers who are tolerant on this subject, the Catholic Church as an institution remains singularly and aggressively antagonistic on the subject of euthanasia, and does
more than any other organization in the world to stand in the
way of
death with dignity.»
«Weary of self and laden with my sin, I look to heaven and long to enter in...» So runs one of the most popular of those hymns; and there were many
more which in one
way or another focused on
death as release from this life into one which was painted as inevitably a happier state.
He was falsely accused, arrested, slapped, spit on, had His beard pulled out of His face, sent to court where though no guilt was found was sentenced to be beaten to within an inch of HIs life, struck with rods, whipped with a weapon that had sharp bones and different pieces tore large chuncks of flesh off, drug back to court wearing a robe which when the blood dried to it became its own bit of torture, the first beating not good enough so sentenced to die, had a crown of thorns pressed down into his skull causing much
more blood loss, beaten some
more, forced to carry an extremely heavy wood beam as he marched toward His
death, whipped and beaten along the
way, had huge nails driven through His hands and feet, and had a shoulder separated.
For example, whether I believe we will be «judged» at
death or not — and I don't believe that at all — upit us
more important that I can not think of a single
way my life is affected by that lack of belief.
As we enter a new year, our resolutions to eat healthier, lose weight and exercise
more begin to slowly lose momentum on their
way to a slow
death by February.
There's really no
way to know just how much
more thick your blood needs to be before you block a blood vessel and cause a heart attack or
death.