Sentences with phrase «when biblical people»

When biblical people want God's redemption they cry out: O God, rescue me.

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How do atheists explain the obvious benefit, both economically, educationally, socially, and spiritually, that America receives when its people are walking with God, ministering through church and missions, and creating and basing laws and moral conduct on Biblical teachings?

Clearly, there is biblical precedent for calling people out when they use the name of God to cover their own selfish or malicious intentions.)

In fact, by failing to do so, you become a culprit by not probing their minds to make sure that whether they are aware of this biblical truth and hence being perished and away from that everlasting love for eternity — and for this very reason and negligence or misguidance, you will be responsible and accountable when you meet with your creator God of love whom he also loved you so much that if you were the only person living on the face of this earth and planet, still he would have come and died for you and the forgiveness of your since and loving you unconditional.

And after that, I thought about the Biblical admonition: «When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.&raWhen the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.&rawhen the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.»

One thing that often throws people off when I write is that I will sometimes discuss my beliefs from a position of biblical authority when I am speaking with one who has that belief system.

There are facts - such as fulfilled Biblical prophecies and the effects in people's lives when they follow God - that indicate that God does exist.

5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans in Acts 17, who «examined the Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.

9 — You feel insulted and «dehumanized» when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

Jeremy as usual you blow the dust off biblical concepts and when you do those people who read your writings find truth and revelation.

So I am always delighted when I come across a biblical passage like that in Isaiah 25:6 - 9 where the prophet says: «On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of fat things....

We had more than 300 people apply to be part of the launch team for A Year of Biblical Womanhood, and because I absolutely hate not including everyone — especially when just about everyone had amazing ideas and meaningful words of encouragement — I've left the selection process to my team at Thomas Nelson.

So when a gay person says he loves his partner, that is the same kind of love the pedophile is speaking about because it's not biblical.

Using a broad sweep of biblical history from Genesis to Revelation, Dr. Streett shows that the concept of the Kingdom of God on earth was at the center of the hopes and dreams of Israel, and when John the Baptist and Jesus carried out their ministries, they were announcing the arrival and inauguration of this Kingdom in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

What those who try to explain events from a biblical context often overlook is when they attempt to explain something and come up short, it regularly opens the door for people to refute their inadequate explanation.

It's very easy to calm yourself when you listen to people attacking the messengers and lazily relying on pastors who are insisting «peace and safety», but to me it's so regrettable and heartbreaking that hardly anyone seems to care enough to actually look at the Biblical message that these believers are all trying to bring.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents insisted that the traditional biblical formula, «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» could not be dispensed with, because it is not merely a metaphor but God's own name.

The truth is that we have no business trying to impose our falsely fabricated morality on other people by claiming it is «biblical» when (1) it is not biblical and (2) when we don't follow it ourselves.

Another problem is that when people calk for biblical literacy and then see pain and problems in the lives of others, they either think that a Bible verse will help the other person, OR that the other person wouldn't be having these problems if they had just known the Bible better.

I've heard or read varying degrees of that same attitude when it comes to some of the conversations about «biblical» womanhood as people heap guilt on mothers or fathers for everything from choosing public school education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family structures.

Historically and Biblical, it is recorded and significant that when a people or a nation forsake God; in compromise; they forsake His love and His presence.

People often ask me what on earth was going through my mind when I decided to try a year of biblical womanhood.

There were about 200 million people alive on the planet when the biblical events supposedly transpired.

We also need to remember the biblical stories and the times in the past when God has worked on behalf of His people.

If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejecWHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejecwhen his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejecwhen He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.

When pastors and professors bemoan the lack of biblical literacy in the church today, they are telling people that the most important part of the Christian life is knowing more.

A Biblical example of one who has taken the red pill would be Ezekiel, who prophesies against something quite similar to the Matrix in Ezekiel 13:10 NLT, «evil prophets deceive my people by saying, «All is peaceful» when there is no peace at all!

When CNN and other media sources get behind a movement, and when people grow up in a «Christian» home learning two Worldviews (moral relativism and love means affirmation from TV and schools vs. biblical Christianity from the Church) you get the confused Rob Bell and the generation he has influenced through his books and vidWhen CNN and other media sources get behind a movement, and when people grow up in a «Christian» home learning two Worldviews (moral relativism and love means affirmation from TV and schools vs. biblical Christianity from the Church) you get the confused Rob Bell and the generation he has influenced through his books and vidwhen people grow up in a «Christian» home learning two Worldviews (moral relativism and love means affirmation from TV and schools vs. biblical Christianity from the Church) you get the confused Rob Bell and the generation he has influenced through his books and videos.

I think most of us can all agree that homosexuality and abortion are sin according to the Bible but when we decide to put people in power who are willing to evict people from houses and refuse to serve them at restaurants because of their orientation and boldly proclaim pro-life values but want to leave these children left at the border out to dry we do evil in the name of biblical truth.

I believe form the Biblical prophecies, that there will come a day when the American government will «try» to enforce false Christian religious beliefs and teachings on the people.

Many times, when people of faith are challenged about their anti-gay views, they cite biblical verses or other religious texts as a safe haven when they are unable to articulate why they hold prejudiced atudes toward LGBT people.

Throughout biblical history, when people spoke and wrote about salvation, they were referring to physical deliverance from some sort of temporal calamity, such as sickness, premature physical death, enemies, and natural disasters like storms, floods, and famines.

When a person truly dies a Biblical death (By Biblical, I'm referring to the fact that they are not coming back any time soon), they will stand in judgement before the Lord.

The biblical ignorance of claiming people are adulterers for lusting after others is actually so foolish that it, in effect, says everyone who ever fell in love with their future spouse was an adulterer when they married.

When I read books of people writing about how they understand the task of the church (Brian McLAren, Bob Roberts, Eric Bryant, Ron Martoia, Scot McKnight, to name but a few) I find that all of them are actually propagating a return to the Biblical principles.

This is, of course, the issue addressed on a more personal level in Rabbi Harold Kushner's highly popular When Bad Things Happen to Good People, reassessing a conflict at least as ancient as the biblical Book of Job.

From the biblical prophets, to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, to Swift, to Twain, to Orwell to our beloved Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, satire works best when the targets are the powerful and elite — be they institutions or people.

When someone says «This is what the Bible says about Christian use of mass media,» it generally says as much about the context and agenda of the person doing the interpreting as it does about the biblical message.

«When we study biblical writings about marriage and celibacy the question is not whether Jesus, Paul, or anyone else endorses same - sex marriage,» he writes, «or whether they instead enjoin gay people to lifelong celibacy.

As far as evidence goes, he was written about in multiple biblical sources, which obviously you won't take into account because you believe the bible to be fantasy, but when you think about how all biblical books were written at different times, in different places, by different people, you can at least say there is a decent chance he lived.

The first and most glaring assumption that «scholarly» people often make is that somehow their opinion is always the right one which begins a «philosophical» debate rather than actual «Theological» discussion, especially when it comes to matters of religion and biblical facts.

In light of our conversation about Anne Frank yesterday, I thought I'd re-post this rather lengthy piece from 2008 (back when I thought people liked to read 1,000 - word blog posts) that details some of the biblical support for a more inclusive view of salvation.

The question I always ask when the issue of biblical illiteracy comes up is: why, after decades of people sitting through week after week, hour after hour of sermons allegedly done to educate Christians on scripture, do some make a case that there is a «crisis» of Christians being biblically illiterate.

While there is nothing sinful about needing separation from people in order to rest, my introverted personality is prone to certain temptations when it comes to the biblical command to love my neighbor.

When my research team and I arrived at the northern end of Tahiti in May 2005, we were greeted by media and a crowd of onlookers that included elected officials, scientists and people who just wanted to be rid of the «pissing fly» that swarmed the island like a biblical plague.

Especially when we've spent days immersing ourselves in a country rich in tradition and culture, fascinating Unesco World Heritage Sites, archaeological ruins, historic biblical sites, tantalising food, and the warmest most welcoming people I've had the pleasure of meeting.

A problem could arise with biblical literalists, but one could address that by suggesting that some fictional stories have great value in teaching some lesson or illuminating some aspect of the «human (or other sentient being) condition», and also address actual historical events in the translation of the bible — or one could be more abbrassive and ask «do you believe deaf people can't be saved» (see one of Paul's letters, and the history of the Catholic Church)-- oh, you don't — so when you said you were a literalist, you were speaking figuratively?»

FALSE PROPHETS, a biblical test would be that if what they say and prophesy comes to pass regard what they say but if it doesn't then don't listen to them.This seems to me the obvious approach to climate science and in fact all science and self evident as the way in which most people react.Crying wolf even if the wolf was there but keeps disappearing will lose the present scientific comunity credibility.Credibility in science is more important than risky prophesy which may give people a warning and may not, so that when scientists are reasonably sure [as in beyond reasonable doubt] they will be believed and their warnings acted upon.Better be an honest scientist than a lucky guesser.