Sentences with phrase «among ancient gods»

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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

Whereas ancient man yearned for an immortal existence among the gods, the prophets declared that YHWH had chosen to dwell among men.

Together they form the account of an ancient, sacred dialogue a giant conversation initiated, inspired and guided by God with and among humanity about God, his creation and our role in it as his partners.

You know all of that, but you're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that Jesus is the light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods of this world constantly seek to destroy that which is born of God.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

The ancient Hebrew transition from henotheism to monotheism is an excellent example of such progress; the God of Israel was adequate for the confrontation between Israel and Egypt, but the God who could intervene in the long struggle among Israel, Assyria, and Babylon had to be the God of the whole world (cf. e.g., Amos 9:7, Isaiah 10:5 - 15).

Rosenzweig argues that while all peoples appealed to all three elements, only the ancient Jews saw a relation among these three» a relation in which man and God and world all lived in response to one another.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

Because It was not created for that reason whether were males or females... nor it was meant that men go for men or women go for women... And those laws were among God's commandments to mankind which he had narrated as a sin within his Holy Scriptures and the Holy Quran giving examples of ancient generations that were doomed for disbelieving and breaking heavenly laws... those narrated tales were for us to learn and take heed rather than repeat same ill doing...

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

Perhaps in this process we have some hint as to the way in which the mind of ancient man, less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen forces about him in the form of stories of the gods and spirits.

For the God of Israel, alone among the gods of the ancient world, had no visible image in his temple.

Among the ancients, knowing the name of a god gave one divine power.

Jesus could name such an apocalypse as the Kingdom of God, and it is all too significant that Jesus is alone among ancient prophets in naming the «Kingdom of God,» a naming that was at the very center of his mission, but one which soon perished in ancient Christianity.

According to the Ancient Greeks, Constellation Triangulum may represent the island Sicily, having been honored by Zeus (the chief of the Greek Gods) with an eternal position among the stars.

Walk among gods through stunning botanic gardens and rainforest as you find yourself in an ancient labyrinth and unwind along the Damanhur Spiral.

The essential gist of things is that you're descended from some ancient god whose entire bloodline has been banished from Olympus, and after having died in some horrific way you find yourself in the Maze of Hades, given a chance to avoid a eternal damnation and reclaim your place among the gods.

2006 Spank The Monkey, Baltic, Gateshead, UK Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London, England Out of Place, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK Under Gods Hammer: William Blake versus David Shrigley, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Humor Me, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, USA David Shrigley & Peter Land, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Dear Friends, D.o.m.a.i.n.e. d.e. K.e.r.g.u.é.h.n.n.e.c, Centre d'art contemporain, Bignan, France Humour Me, Artspace Kansas City, USA The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Defamation of Character, MoMA PS1, New York, USA Old News, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

In a similar vein, the ancient Norse — drawing, perhaps, on some racial memory of climate change in the prehistoric past — insisted in their eschatology that the end of the world (Ragnarok, marked by warring among gods and men and great natural disasters) would be preceded by three great winters or «fimbulwinters.»