Sentences with phrase «about apocalyptic»

When we hear about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, it's usually through sensationalist articles that either declare it to be the economic savior of mankind or warn about the apocalyptic risks of not shifting away from fiat currency.

You obviously want to imply, like Cook et al, that it means that humans are responsible for most global warming, cause if they ain't nobody cares about the apocalyptic stories.

I don't know about apocalyptic, but people are noticing an increase in the global average annual temperature that is roughly 0.15 deg; C per decade so far.

Mr Cox said his study showed there was less need to worry about apocalyptic visions of the future, such as those presented in the 2007 award - winning science book Six Degrees — Our Future on a Hotter Planet, which had an image on the cover of a tidal wave breaking over Big Ben.

When a young man living in a converted goldmine suspects the shocking truth about the apocalyptic event that destroyed the world generations ago and tries to reach the surface in search of a better life, he unleashes a torrent of secrets that changes his world forever.

30 years after the iconic role that put Arnold Schwarzenegger on the map, the actor returns to the franchise with Terminator Genisys, the first in a brand new trilogy about an apocalyptic future where Read More →

Premise: Michael Shannon plays a husband, father, and pillar of his community who risks his job and his family when he begins to obsessively plan and build a well - stocked shelter in his backyard, prompted by a vivid recurring dream about an apocalyptic storm.

He was in this motel room in El Paso with his son, and he was looking out the window while his son was sleeping when that story [about an apocalyptic natural disaster] came to him.

But should we really be concerned about apocalyptic asteroids?

«The «Divine Image» dies in Jesus so as to abolish the solitary and transcendent [150] God who is the source of judgment and bring about an apocalyptic union that is a full coming together of God and man.»

As I assess my own understanding of the kingdom, I find myself accepting all three, except for some serious questions about an apocalyptic end of history.

THIS, faithless, is the nature of so much belief: «The amazing thing about apocalyptic thought is that a specific prophecy can be disconfirmed, but the idea can never be discredited.

I was talking to these churchmen about apocalyptic and I did this liberal arts, comparative, secular review of the Book of Daniel, the Book of the Apocalypse, and he was wrong and these people and Montanus, they were wrong, on and on and on and on; four days of listening to these wrong prophecies that described the history of Christian apocalypticism.

Dear Rev Blair you are not much better than Rev Camping (who you criticize) with all of your fear mongering of hell and torcher; then you have the nerve to be selling a book for profit about apocalyptic doomsday perdictions.

Before the flourishing of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret of how the texts were compiled; by investigation of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the early church, as part of a sociological critique of the history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content of the teaching of Jesus as a first century Jew.

Any doubt about apocalyptic climate scenarios could remove many troughs.

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In a panel discussion in Silicon Valley Saturday, however, Musk took a more measured tone on AI, encouraging members of the audience to think about how to prevent it from progressing along a potentially apocalyptic path.

The Mozilla Foundation has hidden pieces of fake apocalyptic scripture, including lines about «the beast reborn» and a battle that «plunged the world into a new darkness» in every one of its browsers, including Firefox.

Amid sweeping changes to how apps can interact with Facebook's platform, the mood among developers ranges from optimistic about potential announcements to verging on apocalyptic.

Asked about a major tariff on Chinese goods, he waxed apocalyptic.

Even in a song like «Ruby's Arms,» about a tough soldier crumbling under the weight of apocalyptic sadness, there's a sliver of hope.

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

We tend to have a basic knowledge of history and know that there is nothing magical or special about the supposed history of the Jews, gospels, letters, apocalyptic story (Revelations) and other materials that found their way into the Bible, in that they are largely indistinguishable from the other mythology and religious writings of the Greco - Roman Mediterranean.

These days we have apocalyptic pinheads trying to seize control of gov» t and military to bring about the end times.

He noted that «Those who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the future course of history are bound to be disappointed.

The classical presentation of the critical position divides the «Son of Man» sayings into three groups: apocalyptic sayings about the future «Son of Man»; sayings in which Jesus» passion is spoken of as the passion of the «Son of Man»; and miscellaneous sayings in which Jesus refers to himself during his public ministry as «Son of Man».

She carried a very complex narrative that addresses common humanity and big ideas about how and why we communicate, while also exploring space travel and even an apocalyptic world in some ways.

The specifically apocalyptic or eschatological ground of the Christian faith demands that it be a forward - moving process revolving about the absolute negation of the old cosmos of a totally fallen history.

Journalists have lately been writing about the Watergate syndrome in almost apocalyptic terms: as not merely the worst political disaster in U.S. history but also the nemesis of U.S. world power and effective leadership in government at home.

This book is more than a collection of apocalyptic horror stories; it is in the authors» characterization a «can - do» book: a book about what you [meaning all of us] tan do to help restore the work ethic.»

Some attention to the story form in apocalyptic can show us some of the reasons why the narrative form is in trouble, while process theology has some fundamentally useful hints about how we may re-imagine the story, or grasp a new narrative vision of the world, which will enable us to set the new into a meaningful framework and respond to it with hope.

Eschatology is concerned about the goal of humanity and the world; apocalyptic is consumed with the actual end of the planet earth as it is presently constituted.

In any case, we know nothing about him until he left home to join the apocalyptic movement of John by undergoing John's initiation rite, baptism in the Jordan.

That is what apocalyptic is all about: God's sovereignty in spite of the present power of evil and God's final vindication of the faithful and just.

It is doubtful that all the theologizing in Hebrews, the remarks by Paul about women and slaves, or the apocalyptic horrors of Revelation will be found to be consistent with Jesus» message.

It may be that his reflections about the evil of the evolutionary viewpoint and the desirability of renewing the apocalyptic one constitute his reaction to what others are saying about the threat.

Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet that believed God's reign was about to break in soon (not 2000 yrs later) and so a lot of his statements have a very dire and urgent as well as end - of - the - world tone.

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

We tend to have a basic knowledge of history and know that there is nothing magical or special about the supposed history of the Jews, gospels, letters, apocalyptic story

Any passage from the prophets or apocalyptic writings can be used by dispensationalists as if it were speaking about the millennial reign of Christ.

Prophecy is about sin and repentance, action and decision, here and now in the human situation; apocalyptic is about wars in heaven, divine actions and purposes, and events of a future beyond time.

He was probably an apocalyptic prophet who felt that some huge change was about to occur.

Though our author, and other proponents of «Five Year Plans,» may wax apocalyptic about the dangers of overpopulation, it is impossible for us to imperil the environment by testifying to the Incarnation that undergirds creation.

For some time now many scientists, even and perhaps especially those connected to the climate alarmism movement, have worried about the exaggerations and downright apocalyptic scenarios which have come out of the writings of some of their scientific colleagues like James Hansen or James Lovelock,....

It is an apocalyptic act, creating a new way of envisioning and thinking about the world.

How about the marvelous apocalyptic novels by Michael D. O'Brien (published by Ignatius), which, like LaHaye, purport to give plausible scenarios for end «time events?

He writes about prophecy and apocalyptic literature.

The fact that there are pessimistic and apocalyptic «minded Catholics does not prove anything about dispensationalism, but says much of the dangers of straying from the norms of Scripture, Tradition, and authoritative teaching.

Historicism and rationalism in their understanding of this apocalyptic literature, have completely lost such a depth of understanding about power.

The apocalyptic literature should be regarded as the story of politically oppressed people about the dominating powers.