Sentences with phrase «about prophets from»

Most people don't care about reading about prophets from religions they know little about.

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We are warned constantly from scripture about false teachers, shepherds, and prophets that are here in the last days.

AlQasas means «the stories» telling the true stories of the prophets that is pure from Israelites that corrupted the truth about the prophets and messengers of God to look unholy..

In particular, they have reference to the oracles in the exilic and post-exilic prophets about the return of the exiles from Babylonia and the reconstitution of the people in Jerusalem and Judaea.

Christ is all they talk, preach, and testify about above the prophets (including their modern prophets from Joseph Smith until now).

I learned about equality from Peter, who drew from the words of the prophet Joel to describe the post-Pentecost world:

After meeting Jesus, an excited Philip seeks out Nathanael to tell him they have found the one «about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.»

I need to know how I can be a prophet, when everything I know I learned from you and you are about to leave.

Nephi, for example, who is said to have written the first two books of the Book of Mormon and to have been part of the migration from Jerusalem, already knew all about Jesus: «For according to the words of the prophets, the Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God» (2 Nephi 25:19).

When we ask again: «How is it that when he enjoined us in this book of yours not to do anything or receive anything without witnesses, you did not ask him: «First do you show us by witnesses that you are a prophet and that you have come from God, and show us just what Scriptures there are that testify about you»» — they are ashamed and remain silent.

The phrase is used only of prophets when they were about to teach or speak an oracle from God (cf. Ezek 3:27).

That inference is drawn from the verses about the devil, the best and false prophet.

In the Old Testament and the New Testament, since they didn't have the Bible, a prophet would often be called upon to give a prophecy about the future, or perform some sign or miracle in order to prove that they were truly from God.

All three of these ideas» the ultimate possession of the transformed earth by the physically resurrected saints, the explicit prophecies about Christ by pre-Christian prophets, and the deification of man as the ultimate goal of salvation through Christ» are ideas for which Mormons are still deemed un-Christian, because they are distinct from the teachings of most Protestant denominations.

If, for the sake of creating convenient chronological pegs, we center the total exodus event in the date 1200 B.C., we can date the David - Jerusalem (or David - Zion) event about 1000 B.C. Saul, from one of the northern tribes in the confederation of Israelite tribes, formed an uneasy and incomplete monarchy in Palestine in the eleventh century B.C. with the help of the prophet - priest Samuel.

At the time of the Old Testament, God's Covenants were in place for His people of the time, as revealed first verbally from generation to generation, then when Hebrew became a written language, by Moses and the prophets, and through all time the intended audience knew as much about their condition and need for salvation as God wanted them to know at the time.

Even if they attempt to explain away «No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father» (Mark 13:32), they can not explain away that most every Christian, theologian, scholar, and prophet from the first Century until the Nineteenth Century all believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation and not escape through some secret rapture that would leave the world paralyzed.

So if what Jesus said to Philip can't be used to teach us about the nature and character of God because it's historical narrative, then this same argument applies to every text in the Bible, and you can also not use anything from the Law, the Writings, the Prophets, the Gospels, or the Epistles.

Islam mentioned this for the longest time and as you can imagine, at a time when people had no access or means to verify those claims (people like yourself, opted to disbelief and argue about the existence of God) but now that those scientific «discoveries» became realities and the same as supported by the Quran (that was sent to Prophet Mohammed, Peace and Blessings be upon him), from God), it only solidifies Islam as the true religion of God.

Islam today still beheads people for apostacy — if not on the national level then at the village / local level (saudi arabia, Iran), still burn people to death for witchcraft (indonesia and saudi arabia), Draw the prophet and earn yourself a death sentence from the Clergy, Write a book critical of islam and get the same deal, write a magazine article expessing concern about the rise of islam in your country and have your throat slit on a public street in YOUR own country...

Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's teachings about restraint from violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims do to one another.

Hey, after we debate what people in the Dark Ages cobbled together in a book about a ranting, apocrophal prophet from the Middle East 2,000 years ago, lets have another really worthile debate about whether Zeus or Apollo was a more powerful god.

Jews believe in a Messiah, but don't believe it was Jesus (though the passover ceremony is all about Christ); Muslims go back to Abraham but since the prophet Mohammad don't have any recent connection to God; Catholics came from a combination of the Roman and Christian church after the death of Christ's apostles; Protestant's see misunderstandings in the Catholic church and have tried in various forms over the years to correct them without any true religious authority; Mormons believe God restored the truths of the original Christian church back on earth through modern prophets and revelation.

It's remarkable, from what I read, that the problem is not offending someone's feelings about this Prophet Muhammad, but creating an image of him.

This from a person who practices a religion that has millions of it's adherents everywhere calling for the death of anyone who draws their child touching, slave owning prophet, but is upset when new yorkers are mad about the building of a mosque (which as everyone knows, become hotbeds of islamic fundamentalist education) right next to the spot that your pathetic comrades killed thousands of innocent people.

Such things might be included here as natural theology (the making of inferences about God from a study of the natural world); the teachings of other great religions — again, to the extent they are compatible; or even the Old Testament prophets, depending on how you view their relationship to Jesus.

It is where, about 900 years earlier, Elisha the prophet raised the son of a woman from Shunem (2 Kings 4:8 - 37).

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

In particular, I believe that secular studies can benefit from the framework of values and the wisdom about man's ultimate commitments generated over the centuries in the experiences of prophets and saints and articulated in fresh, contemporary language by critical theological inquiry.

They had been informed about his constant association with the Prophet and the careful training he had received from Muhammad.

Among the Jews during Isaiah's time (prophet from about 778 - 732 B.C.E.), they were in a deplorable moral state, so much so that Jehovah God said «when you spread out your palms, I hide my eyes from you.

There in the service folder was the now almost obligatory candle ceremony, a reading from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, and a sentence from Anaïs Nin about the importance of friends.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian man to life imprisonment under the country's blasphemy law for allegedly sending «blasphemous» text messages about Prophet Muhammad from his mobile phone.

Paul shows me, I think, what the prophet has in mind about «seeking the Lord while he is near,» for the interests of my neighbor are always near: But like the prophet and parable, he also reveals how far these thoughts are from being mine.

I get where you are coming from though, I read about metal axe heads floating on water, shadows moving while the sun is not, men running faster than horses and fifty armed soldiers falling dead when they come against one of Gods prophets, it goes on and on, an outrageous affront to any human intelligence, I mean come on!!

Ever wondered why all of the so called «great prophets — Moses, Mohammed, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mahavira, Zoroaster, Mani, Lao Tsu ALL lived within about 1,000 years of each other and all in the strip of land from the Miditteranean to India and South - Western China?

The last one you quoted was from Revelation and God was talking about Jezebel a person but also a spirit this is the first part of that scripture, You are permitting that woman — that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet — to lead My servants astray.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including the virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

The Latin Patriarchal Vicar in Jerusalem, Bishop William Shomali, released a statement to Vatican Radio about the move from King Abdullah, who is a descendant of Islam's prophet Muhammad:

about their being a string of prophets from Abraham on (praise be upon them all) and that the string would continue; but perhaps that was in Sufism or a similar branch of Islam that I read that?

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Ho.rus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

And John, as a prophet of God, understood this from the Old Testament, and he saw how corrupt Judaism had become, and so he went about preaching repentance — telling the Jews to turn from corrupt Judaism, and turn back to what God intended.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

It is, of course, another matter in E, which reflects the period about 850 - 750, and betrays every evidence of stemming from Israel's early prophetic circles.5 In the various E material Moses consistently appears not merely in the role of prophet, but prophet par excellence:

The prophets talk a lot about turning from sin.

We do know that some in the early church were persuaded that Moses and the prophets should be left intact and Jesus added on, while others were equally adamant about cutting free from the tradition altogether.

What we have just been noting about the interrelatedness of the prophetic and teaching functions will suggest the difficulty of separating the teacher and the prophet from each other; and, if they belong together, it seems on the whole more plausible to regard them as belonging to the local ministry.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Dietary laws exist in many religions, but came about so long ago that not even their prophets could have imagined a ready - to - fry beef patty grown in - vitro from the stem cells of a cow.