Sentences with phrase «about damnation»

While the religious or the ecclesiastical Christian has increasingly become incapable of speaking about damnation, the radical Christian, who has been willing to confront the totally alien form of God which has been manifest in our time, has known the horror of Satan and Hell, and can all too readily speak the language of guilt and damnation.

Irony besets every action of that strange creature man, and we can only wonder that the ecclesiastical Christian should have ceased to speak about damnation in a century in which guilt and damnation have become an overwhelming motif in so many of the most creative expressions of consciousness and experience.

If we give priority to these passages, Neuhaus argues, we have to interpret the Gospel passages about damnation as «admonitory and cautionary, solemn warnings of a terrible possibility.»

A highly popular, widespread impression of Jonathan Edwards is the one expressed in verse by Phyllis McGinley: «Whenever Mr. Edwards spake / In church about Damnation, / The very benches used to quake / For awful agitation.»

So I Listened to all of his sermons read all of his blogs and than decided to leave my number to see if he would really call as he says on his web site, With in 2 hours I recieved a call and DR. Collins never rushed me off the telephone answered all my questions, And After just that one call you can tell he loves and believes in what he does, He wont be for everyone, Because he does talk about damnation and what it takes to get to heaven, And its not from giving ministers our money > I watched the you tube videos of many and he is just for me, everyone has a choice but in listening to his sermons and reading his blogs and than the telephone call this guy is the real deal.

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Instead of talking about their families you should preach the gospel of salvation to them, and save their souls from eternal damnation in hell.

They have heard so many stories about hellfire and damnation and the price of sin that they are terrified of what lies ahead.

Damnation isn't being burned in a hell fire (though it might be described as such, but think about it — you feel no physical pain when you are dead).

The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion about the Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.

But when Christians talk about getting saved from their sins, more often than not, they are referring exclusively to what they believe are the eternal ramifications of sin — damnation in hell.

At this point, we got into some of the nitty gritty, as I asked him about things like the Problem of Evil and the preordained damnation of the non-elect.

But it has taught one reader, at least, more than many sermons about the potential of intercession, about the possible workings of redemption beyond the grave, and about the ways of salvation and damnation.

On several occasions, and notably in a general audience of July 28, 1999, John Paul II has cautioned against excessive certitude in speaking about hell and damnation, while emphasizing that «eternal damnation remains a real possibility.»

But if they're in your community collecting a salary, I can guarantee they're in it to win it baby and they will never preach about the evils of greed or else they'd be preaching damnation to themselves.

If we know that totalitarian mass murder is evil, and that those who acquiesced in it deserve damnation, then we know something about that absolute evaluator as well.

For some people, Memphis, Tennessee, conjures visions of southern religion: folks hootin» and hollerin» about God, eternal damnation and hell; sweating preachers thundering on about sex, drinking and Democrats.

It encouraged me to learn more about the bible simply to counter their never - ending claims to my damnation.

«The trouble with this approach, of course, is that despite the veneer of civil religion, most people in America aren't worried about whether they break one of the Ten Commandments now and then, and they certainly don't see the logic behind the claim that infractions of that sort warrant everlasting damnation.

Or some hear the gospel as a metaphorical message about how to live a better life in the here and now and view any talk of after - lives, eternal damnation, and saving as only metaphor that tends to get abused when it is used to stir up fear in order to get converts and tithing members.

No, because the end justify s the means and you have already made up your mind that you are right about Jesus and there can be no other truth, and it's never about learning more about different people and cultures and religions, it's about making sure anyone who is different knows you are a Christian which is the only sensible way to live and anyone who is not like you is either converted, attacked, pitied or dismissed as a fool who awaits eternal damnation.

Is it possible that the exclusionary language Jesus uses, the rejection He speaks of, is about something other than eternal damnation?

Here's a question: Is it possible that the exclusionary language Jesus uses, the rejection He speaks of, is about something other than eternal damnation?

But for years now it's been about hell, damnation, the Apocalypse, controlling others and trying to make everyone to be in the same mold.

Jesus talked about Hell quite a bit, and eternal damnation is infinitely worse than a mere death sentence of a mortal that had a 100 % chance of dying at some point anyway.

So when we, in the Church, discuss homosexuality as though it were an issue faced by «other people» who are «out there,» when we resort to stereotypes and language about hell and judgment and damnation, we may be doing serious damage to the most precious and vulnerable among us.

Finally, Anselm's thought about the atonement, so centered in an awe - full sense of human sin, always left unanswered the question: If the human creature is subject to eternal damnation for having eaten of one miserable apple, how much more unforgivable is the murder of God's son?

Which is the more loving... To not say anything to a non Christian about sin in their life that separates them from God and salvation because we don't want to offend them and let them go to eternal damnation, or show them that are a sinner deserving of hell, but that Jesus loves them and that He died in their place to give them true life and bring them into eternal salvation?

How many people would go to church every week and worry about the issues that seem to drive Christians if the threat of eternal damnation is removed?

So even before you start to quibble about» by Christ» or «in Christ» or how some people being saved not by anything they do while others are not and how damnation by default slips around Augustines or Calvins problems you seem stuck with the trap of people being chosen from before creation to do something or other.

If one is not stuck with Luke 21:25 - 36 on the second Sunday of Advent he is not thereby released from the thundering New Testament words about the signs of the times, the invasive and convulsive power of the kingdom, the perils of drunkenness and stupidity in the midst of crises which are rich in threats of damnation and promises of redemption.

How about pointing out your own flaws instead of teaching eternal damnation

We're talking here about spiritual death or eternal damnation.

Why, he wanted to know, was so little being said about «the eternity of hell» and the possibility of «personal damnation»?

Frayed Knots point is that your god has no business threatening people about an eternal damnation.

If in our heart God makes us to see the sinner that we are, that we deserve damnation, then the gospel of God is good news, including the warning about hell and the salvation that is promised to those who believe.

Is it because the Church can no longer speak about Hell and damnation that we hear so much foolish ecclesiastical chatter about forgiveness?

I don't believe we can scare people into loving God or that an uninformed, frantic, fearful knee - jerk prayer to avoid damnation is what this is all about.

Re-marriage and / or thinknig about s.ex with anyone other than your ex-spouse = eternal damnation.

He said, «There was a man, a Frenchman, you wouldn't know about him... He was a good man, a holy man, and he lived in sin all through his life, because he couldn't bear the idea that any soul should suffer damnation.»

«The Bible is not about offering things like a biblical view of dating,» he says, «but rather about how God the Father offered his Son, Jesus Christ, to death to redeem a rebellious world from the slavery and damnation of sin.

This is that elections are supposed to be won in the centre ground, but the one party that occupies precisely that territory is facing damnation — meaning to be cut by about half — in next year's election.

This isn't simply about one man's struggle with society but an astute, psychological character study that ambiguously treads a fine line between redemption and damnation while leaving us to question our interpretation of events.

Starting with Gordon's segment, «Dreams, Darkness, and Damnation: An Interview with Stuart Gordon» (21 mins., written and directed by Perry Martin) shows the director to be articulate about Lovecraft's work and his own role as a modern horror movie director.

Following this mini-monologue that sounds and looks like a crazed preacher going on about hellfire and damnation, Shannon recedes.

The sense of earth - shattering importance in Dwight's vendetta is dispelled at the end with ironic knowing insouciance — a little sign - off to show that our hero has stormed his way to hell, brought damnation upon himself and everyone else in sight, and that all there is to show for it is a postcard that we'd forgotten about, finally reaching its destination too late.

The series stars Killian Scott, Logan Marshall - Green, Sarah Jones, Chasten Harmon, Christopher Heyerdahl, and Melinda Page Hamilton; watch it below... An epic saga about the secret history of the 1930's American heartland, Damnation -LSB-...]

The gaming press talked about GG again, briefly, in the context of explicit damnation.

Dehner addressed her conflicted feelings about Bolton Landing and their marriage in two series of drawings: Life on the Farm, idyllic representations of everyday life, and Damnation Series, featuring «demonic figures surrounded by vultures and bats....

Further, your statement is the ultimate tell, that's precisely what this is about, politics and power, NOT science — more damnation and disgrace for the good professor.

neither do those uncertainties allow scientific closure — as long as models of the climate system's behavior decay into chaos on shorter time scales than human history, climate modeling will remain prey to misrepresentation by those well enough paid, or ideologically bloody minded enough to do so: the trouble with the climate wars is that neither political side, activist or obscurantist, really gives a damn about the science, and those presuming to speak for it invite damnation by both.