Not exact matches
If Mother Theresa (The most
angelic person
in modern history) had,
in her last moments, decided that she believed, not
in JC after all, but
in the eternal Bhudda,
is she
in heaven or hell?
In ancient days, there
were prophets and apostles who held authority that
was granted them either directly from God, Jesus Christ, or from
angelic ministers.
Though there
were dozens of royal rulers and religious leaders within a few miles of Bethlehem, God chose to make the
angelic proclamation to people without power, riches, and authority — to poor shepherds
in the cold, dark, night.
satans aim
was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations
in Gods eyes.They also
were a threat to Gods people as can
be seen by the giants
in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there
is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines
were still untainted by
angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that
is also why the genealogy of Christ
is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two
were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace
was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have
been widespread after the flood these
beings were present but
in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they
were abominations but they
were a threat to Gods people.It would
be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have
been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time
is coming when the earth will
be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus
is our ark and we
are safe
in him.brentnz
Genesis18: 1 word used
is translated LORD, a Hebrew form of reference to God Exodus3: 4 «when the LORD... God called to him from within the bush...» Not an angel God Exodus33 reference you have already acknowledged as God Joshua 5: really needed a Bible student to know this one as Christ
in angelic form.
He
was in a cave, praying, when he hears the
angelic voice of Gabriel speaking to him, bearing him a revelation from God.
«Right,» he said, «for they have an
angelic face and it becomes such to
be co-heirs with the angels
in heaven.»
In the UK we think of hospitals as government business, as exemplified by the wonderful National Health Service that ensures each sick child
is tucked into bed by an
angelic nurse, as the opening ceremony for the London Olympics had it.
What I gleaned from these pages,
in part,
is that for Kierkegaard the roots of the comic lie
in the inherent contradictoriness of human nature: soul and body, freedom and necessity, the
angelic and the bestial, eternity and temporality, and so on.
They
are stricken with amazement, as
in most stories of
angelic appearances.
It also said revile
angelic majesties which would mean that
in this occasion they
were so blinded by their lust that they repulsed or assailed the angels no where did it state that there
was intercourse or that it
was even a option.
Had it come
in 1954, the world would probably have
been treated by Catholic philosophers and theologians to the predictable and now embarrassing explosions of praise for the towering, indeed the «perennial» achievement of the
Angelic Doctor, the Common Master, the almost «once and for all» Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Since the temple courts
were nearly always filled with people, this
angelic rescue would take place
in the sight of them all.
And if you consider that science and technology
are mere reverse - engineering of
angelic faculties employed
in Creation, it
's no wonder Jewish minds have
been so integral
in the respective arenas.
Now there
are a number of important footnotes to Aristotle, but I simply wish to draw attention to the point of culmination of the tradition, that period bridging the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that saw the production of the grand synthesis of the
Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, as well as its poetic embodiment
in The Divine Comedy of Dante.
In the paper printed here on Thomas, Hartshorne refers to the
Angelic Doctor's claim that we can not know what God
is but only what God
is not (cf. Summa Theologica I, question 3).
A Baptist Pastor once said to me that when he preached, prayed or sang he used to look up at the empty balcony
in the church and see the
angelic realms joining
in with worship and that this helped him to overcome any issues of how few
were there
in body.
«We
are in a terminal era, close to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
in which
angelic forces
are warring against demonic forces for the control of this planet that wandered away from the Lord,» writes the Rev. Carlos L. Ramirez
in a sermonette
in the Amarillo Globe - Times (April 9, 1984).
The reversibility of the evil decision of the first man
is only to
be explained by the fact that the integrity on the basis of which the first decision
was made,
was lost by the evil decision (as it would not have
been by the good), because,
in contrast to
angelic integrity, it
was an unmerited, preternatural gift.
Since he omitted all references to appearances of Jesus
in Galilee, it
was necessary for him to change the message of the
angelic visitors (now increased to two) so that instead of instructing the women to direct the disciples to Galilee, they reminded them that Jesus, while
in Galilee, had foretold that he would
be crucified and rise on the third day.
Many of the lectionary texts evoke images of
angelic beings who surround God
in the heavens (Isa.
When you consider the brightest
Angelic beings and the first humans had God with them, walking among them, communicating directly yet,
in short order they turned to some other desire than God.
It
is very interesting that when St. Thomas Aquinas asks if God could have united the nature of an angel to himself, although
in the end and on — I think — pretty weak grounds he rejects this argument, he speculates: «There
are some who say an
angelic nature could not have
been assumed because angels not
being generated or corrupted
are from the moment of their creation perfect
in their personality,» (ST III, q. 4, a. 2).
Jesus» teaching
is eschatological»
in outlook, but it
is not necessarily «apocalyptic»; that
is, it did not take for granted the visions, dreams, chronological calculations and symbols, the vast array of
angelic and other supernatural figures, or the mechanical and deterministic schemes of history which
were characteristic of the apocalyptists.
This method can
be used
in a variety of forms — e.g., to enact and work through an unfinished, energy - wasting experience from the past or to enact a polarity
in one's life —
being devilish or
angelic — to help one «own» and integrate both sides.
And if we assert that the Word of God
was born of God
in a peculiar manner, different from ordinary generation, let this...
be no extraordinary thing to you, who say that Mercury
is the
angelic word of God.
If that
is a fair statement, where does it leave Phaeroh, who not only
was chosen from all time to persecute Hebrews but had to have some additional heart - hardening work done by God to stop him caving
in after the
angelic hitman had plagued his kingdom and slaughtered all the eldest kids?
In making such arguments Paul
was mindful of the law's divine origins (even if it had
been given through
angelic mediators, as per Gal.
Is angelic / demonic spiritual warfare a matter of numbers, as it is in physical warfar
Is angelic / demonic spiritual warfare a matter of numbers, as it
is in physical warfar
is in physical warfare?
It
was perhaps already
in contact with speculations regarding the divine purpose
in the creation of the world, the
angelic powers, the figures of Adam, Death, Satan or Antichrist, the Heavenly Man, the coming salvation, the relation of spirit and flesh, soul and body — speculations which
were at least tinged, no doubt, with Gnosticism.
If you believe that Jesus miraculously rose from the Dead, if you believe God miraculously parted the Red Sea... if you belief
in angelic interaction with humans, if you believe
in Manna sent from heaven to the children of Israel... why would you deny a creation devoid of evolution and scientific processes???? Robertson
is getting senile.
There
was no mixing of
angelic beings and humans
in his blood line.
No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse
is found, Far as the curse
is found, Far as, far as, the curse
is found Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled» Joyful, all ye nations rise Join the triumph of the skies With the
angelic host proclaim: «Christ
is born
in Bethlehem» Hark!
This fact together with the revealing of many other frauds has caused a movement OPPT that
is working for the goal of people awaking to create a world where it
is possible to live a life
in harmony and peace
being what we really
are:
angelic beings.
He concludes: «That
is why this writer will continue to wish his Christian friends a «Merry Christmas» at Yuletide, and rejoice
in the fact that those friends join the
angelic choir
in proclaiming glory to God
in the highest, and peace among humankind on earth.
That earned him the attention of President Gilman, and Gilman convinced a group of businessmen to contribute enough money for Royce to do graduate study
in Germany, which
in the mid-nineteenth-century
was the
angelic realm for aspiring American intellectuals, from historian George Bancroft to theologian Charles Hodge.
So, as the Biblical records present the picture, Yahweh, whether
in his proper person or by deputy
in an
angelic representative, traveled with his nomadic devotees, and of his abiding presence the Ark
was the visible symbol and vehicle.
But to make it «right»
in quality and context
is not easy when the contracting parties
are not
angelic beings but simply human
beings who
are mixtures of good intentions and sin.
Moreover, since it can
be applied to divine and
angelic individuals as well as human, it defines the human
being not only as he
is knowable
in his relation to the rest of created reality — as one biological species among others, i.e. as a rational animal — but also as he
is knowable
in his relation to other personal
beings,
angelic and divine.
St. Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican friar known to the history of theology as the «
Angelic Doctor,»
was born c. 1225
in his family's castello near Roccasecca
in the Roman Campagna, and died
in 1274 at the abbey of Fossanuova, southeast of Rome, en route to the Council of Lyons.
the entire interpretation of the texts
are a mess,,, if i considered the case of Soddom and Gomorrah for example (Genesis 18:20 - 33) The Lord already tells Abraham of his intention to punish Soddom,,, and Abraham actually pleads with Him and bargins with the Lord,,, (
in other words the decision to burn Soddom & Gomorrah
was not because of the offense against the Angels,,, not to mention that there
is no indication what so ever, that the Lord appeared
in an
Angelic figure!»
Living
in this detached and uncommitted — indeed, this almost
angelic — state, Ivan makes qualifications that
are altogether as important as his affirmations.
Stay
in Alcaufar Vell, run by a woman named Rosa, who
is basically the sweetest, most
angelic woman on the planet.
Former Chelsea midfielder Oscar may look like an angel but his behaviour
was far from
angelic earlier today as he played his part
in one of the ugliest games
in Chinese Super League history.
But last night we tried again, and Laurel rewarded us by
being an
angelic dinner companion for nearly an hour and a half at Tamarind House
in Porter Square.
Quite often, first children
are somewhat
angelic, at least
in the eyes of their parents.
This
is the very reason why most newborn photographs happen between five and twelve days old, and by the time your child can move around, even just a little, it
is too late to get them
in those
angelic little poses.
or some
angelic version of a mother that
is never seen breastfeeding because she hides
in the back, or never talks about it because it
's unimportant?
Modern artist Damien Hirst, open - mouthed
in a blurred Edvard Munch - style scream; pop artist Andy Warhol, mouth languidly open, dark eyes right up near the lens; Meryl Streep mussing her hair; David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve
angelic and near - identical; a pensive Bob Dylan; Ralph Fiennes with a skull, both looking sleepy; Jack Nicholson looking aggressively cheeky; a young Mick Jagger with his pillowy lips slightly parted... It
's a bacchanalia
in black and white.
It seems to
be the same whether you feel a spark of lechery, a surge of jealousy, or the sudden desire to pop somebody
in the mouth: The two sides battle it out, the devilish reward system versus the
angelic brain regions that hold us
in check.