Sentences with phrase «as the curse of»

The 5 pillars of Islam have not much to do with rightousness, excepted almsgiving (whereby, I would like to know, if a Muslim would give alms to a poor Christian, or if he would regard his poverty as a curse of Allah?).

Other Mormon preachers and writings refer to dark skin as the Curse of Ham, being a punishment for looking at Ham's dad's genitals.

David Cameron is in an almost impossible position ahead of Thursday's EU summit, as the curse of Europe comes back to haunt another Conservative prime minister.

It's a must - play if you enjoyed classics such as The Curse of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle.

After filling in for Orson Welles on reshoots for The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Wise became a director, and soon gained a reputation as a reliable studio hand with films such as The Curse of the Cat People (1944), The Body Snatcher (1945) and the seminal real - time boxing drama The Set - Up (1949).

Which is a shame, because it's unlikely that a diversion so jaw - droppingly and enjoyably preposterous as The Curse of the Jade Scorpion will ever come again from such an honored cinematic icon.

Also known as Curse of Demon Mountain, this supernatural Western stars Joe Don Baker as a Civil War veteran searching for buried treasure on a supposedly cursed mountain.

Like his other explorations into the world of magicians in efforts such as The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Scoop (and New York Stories» Oedipus Wrecks), it's merely meant to entertain, and occasionally dabbles with interesting themes as the icing on the top of this sumptuous dessert of a film.

She's a little girl that awakens inside of this castle and discovers that she has what is known as the Curse of Thorns.

Finally, the second story - based expansion known as The Curse of the Pharaohs takes players to Thebes to investigate an ancient curse that's plaguing the area.

Not exact matches

Wealth management became sexy because of its dependability while trading and banking became curse words as the subpoenas and lawsuits piled up.

But Istanbul's blessing as an entrepreneurial hub is also its curse, with a rising cost of living, epic traffic jams, and a glut of smaller players.

The multifariousness of modern communications can be a blessing as well as a curse.

According to 2009's «The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use,» by Dawn Rae Downton, the actor who played Superman as an infant in the 1978 film, Lee Quigley, died at age 14 from inhalant abuse.

The pressure of the successor's curse can threaten to engulf a successor such as James, leading to what most people see as the stereotype of a family business successor — the entitled next generation member who lives a lavish lifestyle and squanders away the family wealth.

While the successor's curse might lead us to believe that being born into an iconic family such as the Murdoch's means that one can never achieve success in his own right, there are paths out of a parent's shadow that a successor must take.

In a time where working from home is common, polos and khakis are replacing suits and ties, and cursing like a sailor is seen as an expression of passion for your work, the fine line between work and home grows thinner and thinner.

As the country's oil - dominated trade flows have tied the value of the Loonie to triple - digit world oil prices, the resulting strength of the currency has turned into a curse for exporters in general and Ontario's factories in particular.

The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, refers to the paradox that countries and regions with an abundance of natural resources, specifically point - source non-renewable resources like minerals and fuels, tend to have less economic growth and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources.

And so, God made sure I had lots of contact with men that cursed as a matter of normal communication.

I don't often hear any of George Carlin's favorite words in church, but I sure as hell * do * hear a lot of cursing of people, often in the name of Christ — exactly the kind of cursing shown by the men on the left and right in your cartoon.

So god Sent himself to earth as his son to suffered on the cross to relieve us of the curse he imposed on us in the first place because Adam and Eve made a mistake but he won't relieve us of our real suffering.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

It is therefore no surprise that the Gianna Center, where a woman's fertility is recognized as a gift and not a curse» something that indeed even that allows her, with her spouse, to collaborate with their Creator in the generation of life» opened with a waiting list of over 150 patients.

Let's see, I could find a religion that has a long history of treating blacks as inferiors and cursed.

Now, if we are free from the «husband is the head of the wife» factor of the curse, as some fallaciously suggest, why are all the other factors still in play?

Jesus is spoken of as the second Adam, reversing in his physical death humanity's spiritual death — so there is a sense that the fall is also being undone in Jesus, but that this is coming into fruition gradually, in the sense that the kingdom of God coming both has come and is coming — so a gradual progression away from the curse of the fall should actually be the expectation.

I, particularly, don't believe that is essential to demonstrate the point, but you seemed to think it was important, so I thought I'd point out the progression away from the curse of the fall in these areas as well, in case you find that that really is a significant indicator.)

The site promotes «the literal existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant divine curse on the creation, the worldwide cataclysmic deluge, and the origin of nations and languages at the tower of Babel.»

I threw that last part in there because enough of you haters use jesus's name as a curse every day and in every way!

Commemorating its anniversary, Rabbi David Rosen, of the America Jewish Committee, recently said that Nostra Aetate «took us from a situation where the Jewish people were seen as cursed and rejected by God, and even in league with the devil, to a situation now where popes say it is impossible to be a true Christian and be an anti-Semite, and that the covenant between God and the Jewish people is an eternal covenant, never broken.»

Maybe a slave or two could help you with that as you beat them and curse them in the name of your God because they just need some «discipline».

The Book of Mormon is no different than the Bible in describing a curse set upon various individuals and their posterity as a means of setting said individuals and their posterity apart in some way.

When this sentiment is said out loud in groups of Christians, it's usually assumed to be: A) highly sarcastic (as people bemoan their romantic lives and their curse of this «gift» from God); B) highly ironic (as people are obsessively on the lookout for their future spouse);.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

[92] In ancient Rome, epilepsy was known as the Morbus Comitialis («disease of the assembly hall») and was seen as a curse from the gods.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

I don't know how you are doing now or if you will ever see this, but I experienced two weeks of hell, mentally and spiritually, as a demon brought that blaspheming the Holy Spirit passage up in my mind and forced a cursing thought about the Holy Spirit into my mind over and over again.

What we need to do is return the hearts of the fathers to the hearts of the children as Malachai said in the last book of the Old Testament, lest, as he said, we'd be stricken with a curse.

Lord God, my dignity as a man forbids me to shut my eyes to this, like an animal or a child; therefore, lest I succumb to the temptation to curse the universe, and the Maker of the universe, teach me to adore it by seeing you hidden within it.

There are other Biblical verses which call for the killing of children who curse their mother or father such as Exodus 21:17 among others.

... cursing and swearing in a manner so horrid as to convey... an idea of hell.»

Believe it or not, while most people view death as a curse and a punishment from God, a proper understanding of death allows us to see it as a blessing and an act of kindness from God.

Against both the foregoing views, the truth is that life in all of its dimensions occurs under the law of ambiguity; we experience it as both blessing and curse, sometimes predominantly one more than the other, but never exclusively one without the other.

Jesus was sinless and his flesh was cursed as he was born of God.

Alcoholism in the Catholic Church is known, perhaps facetiously, as the «curse of clergy.»

Jeremy how can we be in the book of life if we have no life apart from Christ then when we believe in him we are written into the lambs book of life we can not be in the book of life as we are under the curse of death through sin thats the judgement that fell on Adam and Eve and were cast out of the garden so that they could not partake of the tree of life.To me that your explanation makes no sense at all.brent

At the end of the day, I have come to see wealth as a spiritual DISadvantage, more curse than blessing.

The curse of the white man applied here as with the Negro problem — he felt his color so superior and his civilization so much better that he could not share it in fellowship.

Well, I guess if they are going to throw 4 gospels in the trash «coz the Jews cry about «The Blood Curse» and want to make believe to make it go away, might as well go around edit out anything else inconvenient... Yeah, let's get poor St Simon of Trent and throw that statue in the trash... It used to be «What PART of HIS BLOOD be upon us and our Children's Children's Children until the END of TIME don't you understand!?