Sentences with phrase «acting as a prophet»

In the light of the message entrusted to it the church is called to act as prophet, pastor and priest at the same time for the same people.

She's not claiming revelation or acting as a prophet.

Not exact matches

In short, dwelling in the land should be — must be — an act of imitatio dei, and, as the Hebrew prophets taught, to fail to embody that religious precept is to forfeit the right to dwell in that sacred place.

What is here said of the eschatological meals open to all is then generalized to an interpretation of Jesus» conduct as a whole: «This conduct is neither that of a prophet nor that of a sage, but rather the conduct of a man who dares to act in God's stead, by (as must always be added) calling near to him sinners who apart from him would have to flee from God.»

Like the Old Testament prophets, he predicted the fall of Jerusalem because he saw it as the inevitable result of acts and attitudes already evident.

These attacks are the act of people following Satan not God and those claiming responsibility for the attacks need to be recognized as agents of Satan — God did not cause these attacks — he judges each according to his merits — anyone that ridicules God or his prophets will be dealt with by him not humans — these attacks are the works of the followers of Satan.

About a century later another king - to - be, this time Jehu, is confronted by the Word (II Kings 9:6) Elisha and his young man, the prophet» act upon and pronounce what is represented as the Word with, again, radically effective results.

The prophets, on the other hand, looked for the activity of God in specific events, tending to regard history as an arena in which God «acted».

In the Pauline churches official leaders such as apostles, prophets, and teachers were present, but in the act of gathered worship their role as leaders was muted by the Spirit's urging and prompting of contributions by every group member.

Craig i am thinking that even though the promise hadnt been fulfilled through Christs death the act of faith is what saved them.As abraham believed God and was credited to hi mas righteousness.I was thinking though there were different dispensation periods ie pre flood enoch post flood elijah the prophets Moses the law giver and jesus all were taken up to God to heaven not just enoch so in all periods there was a representative of Christ as an example to the people of that time that the messiah was coming.brent

The prophets had known God as present, living, acting reality, but for the Jews of the postexilic period, God was silent and remote.

In verse 17, after being questioned by the Jews about the Sabbath violation on Jesus» part, he defines Jesus as a prophet because of his act of healing.

The Hebrew prophets who were his predecessors were accustomed to perform symbolic actions to reinforce their words — «acted parables» as they are sometimes called.

I'm a muslim and i respect and love moses and jesus (peace be upon them) and as a muslim respect and recognize all the prophets that came before islam, what i want to say is, Islam has come to stay and it will stay, and all the others will embrace islam finally, its better for them to stop criticizing Islam, better criticisize muslims, because some have gone fanatic, but majority is acting the real role.and i can predict that after embracing islam these critical jews and christians would act more precisely on the rules of Islam.God doesn't depend on arab muslims or indian or Pakistani or african muslims to worship Him all the human beings and creatures are His property and He may chose some others to worship Him more well.So we muslims should not be in any illusion.

’14 In popular Jewish thought Elijah came to be regarded as «the ever - present prophet, wandering incognito over the earth, sometimes in the garb of a nomad, to aid in moments of distress and danger, appearing to mystics and scholars to teach them hidden truths, and acting as celestial messenger».15 He was thought to be present at every ceremony of circumcision as the guardian spirit and witness, and on such occasions a special chair was reserved for him.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

And all too often we act as if that is true, and the body of Christ is just another marketing tool, useful to ideologues but having little place for poets, let alone prophets.

The Qur» an instituted the fast during the month of Ramadan as training in piety and patience and an opportunity to express thankfulness for divine blessings; the Prophet added the requirement that alms be given at the end of the fast of Ramadan as an act which is an additional means of accomplishing those purposes.

The fast of Yowmul Arafah has been emphasized by the Holy Prophet, Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa Sallam, as a Mustahab (desirable) act.

That is to say, the prophets see God in control of the world, but still present in the world and involved in the world; the apocalyptists see God as withdrawn from the world and acting on the world from outside.

The prophets sometimes did bizarre and attention - arousing things, acted out parables as it were, to get their message across, to demand decisions from their hearers.

Even so great a prophet as Ezekiel indiscriminately mingled moral and merely ritualistic acts as alike indispensable in the avoidance of Yahweh's wrath.

The Old Testament prophets, for example, experienced their historical situation as one in which they were living under the sovereign claim of God, and in which the appropriate way for them to act was as God's agents.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

During the final three years of Zedekiah's reign, Jerusalem remains under Babylonian siege and Jeremiah remains the outspoken prophet of the impending tragedy as Yahweh's act of judgment.

However, I do think any Eurosceptic will end up in in reactionary territory were they to take Powell seriously as a prophet on the substance of what «national independence» means, not least because this was already a self - professed reactionary project in 1968 (with Powell believing the British Nationality Act of 1948 was the root of all of our troubles).

He has described prophets who engage in such acts as charlatans who need psychiatric treatment.

«Adherents of the faith should leverage this festive moment to foster unity and continue to live up to the tenets through the acts of charity, peaceful co-existence with our neighbours, obedience to the injunctions of the Holy Qura»n and sacrifice as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim whose spirit of obedience was demonstrated through his submission to the will of Allah even in very difficult situation.

A Prophet should have been released before the end of the year because it might have gotten a director and screenplay nomination as well as one for acting.

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.