Sentences with phrase «anathema if»

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The «p» word is anathema to anyone who's serious about getting important things done, but if you've ever been slammed with work, there's a good chance the environs surrounding your desk only add to your stress and feelings of being overwhelmed.

If judicial punishment is the overriding goal of the liberal peace, a legal grant of pardon to a suspected war criminal can only merit the judgment: Anathema sit!

Session VI, Cannon 18 of the Council of Trent states: «If anyone says that the commandments of God are, even for one that is justified and constituted in grace, impossible to observe, let him be anathema.»

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

The Council of Trent makes this clear: «If anyone shall say that a marriage contracted, but not consummated, is not dissolved by the solemn religious profession of either one of the parties to the marriage, let him be anathema» (Sess XXIV Can vi).

'' If any one asserts, that this sin of Adam, which in its origin is one, and being transfused into all by propagation, not by imitation, is in each one as his own, is taken away either by the powers of human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ... let him be anathema.»

When Paul writes about being anathema from Christ, he is not stating a desire to be eternally cut off or separated from Jesus, but is instead stating his desire, if it were possible, to give up his life and his ministry within the Kingdom of God if such a sacrifice would help Israel come to the knowledge that Jesus is the Messiah.

When people believe that the word anathema, or accursed, means «going to hell when you die,» they think that Paul is wishing he could go to hell if only all his fellow Israelites would receive eternal life instead.

If you do that, then you are an outsider, and this places you under cherem, under anathema.

Instead, he is saying that if they are right in what they teach, then we must go back to the old way of dividing the world, and if we do that, then they will be cherem, anathema.

The idea of a change in God was anathema to classical theists because it was viewed as a kind of metaphysical virus that infects the whole of the divine reality; if God is in any sense contingent, then the very existence of God is contingent.

Personally, the official stance of any religious organization that you will not reach heaven if you do nt believe in a specific God is an anathema to spirituality.

If Barth lovers can feel the need to put this colossus at a distance, it is easy to understand how Barth's theology could be anathema to those who could not even begin where he began — i.e., in a trinitarian adherence to the authority of the Scriptures.

Also, polygamous and polyandrous relationships were the norm for thousands of years, and are still practiced in many parts of the world, so, if they become legal (which to you would be truly anathema, I know) it won't change things very much.

This thought pattern, which has been dominant in the Church for centuries, was clearly expressed by the Council of Trent when it declared «If anyone says that baptism is optional, that is, not necessary for salvation, anathema sit.»

As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.

Of course culturally speaking, declaring someone's mere comments anathema and casting them from one's church is totally Christian, Pauline in fact, as if there aren't enough electrons for both of us on the internet, as well as the Christian practice of burning books, and Christian emperors declaring non-Trinitarians demented and insane and subject to the emperor's wrath right in the opening pages of Justinian's Laws, and executing people for keeping copies of Prophyry and Arius.

I see my Song of Solomon info was also deleted as if the Anchor Bible Dictionary was anathema as well.

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of the threatened anathema, and by counter-attacking as a last resort by a question such as: «Dven if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

The Magisterium claims if one has understanding of the doctrines and chooses to disbelieve them, then they are anathema.

In addition, in Canon XXIV of the Council of Trent we read: «If anyone says that the justice received is not preserved and is also not increased before God through good works, but that the works are only the fruit and the signs of the justification received, not also a cause of its increase, let him be anathema.»

Therefore, if you are a former RC and you refuse to submit your will to accept all the added doctrines of the RC church (beyond the Apostles» Creed), and you have a full understanding of those additional doctrines, then you are anathema.

If all else fails, Paladino is planning to petition his way onto the ballot as an independent candidate, although he will not be naming his self - created line the «Tea Party,» because that would be seen as «an anathema» to activsits, Caputo said.

But if you're one of many politicians who claims to support the working poor in this city, a Republican - aligned conference should be anathema to everything you hold dear.

Even if Collins is not in immediate jeopardy of losing his House seat, said Gerald Benjamin, a longtime professor of political science at State University of New York at New Paltz, his warm embrace of Trump is ideological anathema for a candidate with statewide ambitions.

I asked him, If you will not draw lines against an organization such as REBNY, whose position is anathema to that of the Progressive Caucus, then what does it mean for there to be a Progressive Caucus?

«If he wants to go out and support people taking positions that are anathema to the people we represent across the state of New York, he can do that.

«This year, it was anathema to be connected with Shelly Silver and he knew that if he supported anyone, it might be the kiss of death.

If «anathema» is now considered appropriate to scientific discussion in certain circumstances, then it must have a meaning quite...

If you read sites like radiantrecovery where women are trying to moderate sugar urges with 3 meals a day, no snacks which helps over eating, depression, levels of seratonin in the brain the idea of having a fast would be anathema.

It's clever, and «clever» being anathema in today's romantic comedy genre (if ever it held currency), now it's gone.

If Trump's America has taught us anything, humility and emotional expression can be anathema — especially to a white, mainstream public increasingly identifying as outcast themselves.

I realize that's anathema to many of you code geeks, but the ePUBs out of InDesign are now more than good enough — if you design within its limitations.

At other times, your emotional investment in the characters actually proves counter-productive — for example, when you can choose between multiple courses of action, yet all are complete anathema to what you would do if you were him or her.

But, as Ruby says, «If you're queer, you can't apply to the extra 60 seats... We find that just to be anathema.»

Viewed from the perspective of an English court the notion that a prosecutor might seek to induce a plea of guilty on the basis that substantial benefits would be withdrawn if one was not forthcoming was anathema.

Now, keeping birds captive, actually any free spirits captive, is an anathema to me, but the cage has a beautiful structure and I thought it might make a great screen between me and the neighbours if I filled it with plants.