Sentences with phrase «as a curse from»

[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.

By episode's end, Frankenstein's monster is alive (and surprisingly vulnerable), the vampire corpse's hieroglyphic tattoos have been identified as a curse from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (a mummy vampire?)

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In one concept, 72andSunny pitched having Tom Cruise reprise his character from the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder as a brash, cursing movie studio executive, and equip him with a PlayBook to run his corporate fiefdom.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.)

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.»

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);.

I love hearing about girls who save their brothers from curses and trick the villain to get to their happy endings, and I appreciate fairy tales even more as I get older.

Duet 11; 26 God gives man a choice to be blessed or cursed same as Adam there are consequences when we chose not to heed Gods word.Did God curse Adam yes he did both he and eve died spiritually they lost that constant fellowship with God that relationship was broken.So he was cast out from the garden from under Gods protection.Adams love for Eve was his downfall he chose her love over Gods love and When we chose anything else other than him for our security we fall into the same trap as Adam.and we also must deal with the consequences.He most definitely is a jealous God.brentnz

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.

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

The myth that gay and lesbian people are child molesters often goes unchallenged when spread from the pulpit, and in the 80s and 90s, many Christians refused to support efforts to curb the HIV / AIDS crisis as they believed it to be a «curse from God» that gay people deserved.

That would include the ones who come into my business and curse me out, and especially those who direct bad behavior toward LGBTQs, such as screaming at us, trying to get us fired from our jobs (you can be fired in over thirty states just for being gay), threatening us, hitting us, throwing us out of our homes and the other behaviors mentioned in these posts.

Galatians 3:13 Christ has REDEEMED us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, «Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree»), Galatians 4:5 to REDEEM those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

How we recall the struggle so manifestly going on in their minds as one after another spoke; their great fear of the Poonyatt Rajah, that he might curse them and turn them from the lands on which their ancestors had lived for centuries; their fear of the wrath of the demons; their hesitation to forsake what they and their ancestors had held sacred for centuries.

Humanly speaking his destruction is the most certain of all things — and the despair in his soul fights desperately to get leave to despair, to get, if you will, repose for despair, the consent of his whole personality to despair, so that he would curse nothing and nobody more fiercely than him who attempted (Or it may be the attempt) to prevent him from despairing, as the poet's poet so capitally, so incomparably expresses it in Richard II, Act 3, Scene Z:

It will demand from us a spiritual effort; we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life, where our physical nature will not be cursed, as in the Middle Ages, but even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon, as in the Modern Era.»

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communitFrom this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communitfrom the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

It was an ending that brought tears to my own eyes as I watched Diana, both blessed and cursed with immortality, realize that she will mourn Trevor literally forever as she takes on the noble but never - ending task of rescuing mortals from their own appalling pickles.

Like the ancient dybbuk separated from its body and consigned to wander the world, modern man senses his detachment from life as the peculiar curse of his modernity, the price paid to Satan in return for distance.

If being gay has been proven as a medical physical condition that one is born with, as I've said before that this all stems from our generational curse from doing wrong, and calling it good, straying away from the righteousness of life, doing what we are suppose to and that is living a clean, and wholesome life, for ourselves, and towards others, equally, not just for some but for all.

Little wonder that ethics as much as medicine is cursed by abstractions that separate them from the richness of human existence.

Give a (brave) listen to his album «Curse Your Branches» — the narrative inherent in the songs is hard, and then liberating, as he wrestles with the «coming out» journey from a wounded / wounding faith experience.

Yesterday, in Sunday Superlatives, I included a quote from Mark Twain in which he referred to a snake oil salesman as an «idiot,» but no one left an angry comment warning me of hell based on Jesus» teaching in Matthew 5:22 that «if you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court; and if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.»

The prints feature two quotes from the book and also my «life verse,» Proverbs 27:14 — «If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.»

And have we not as Christian been redeemed from the curse of the LAW.that could even stipulate then that God would not want women to teach men because He knew of man's attitude towards women and that man wanted to RULE (dominate) women.

While initially an influx of people into your church from another church seems like a blessing, it often turns into a curse, especially if they left in anger or as a result of a major disagreement with the pastor or elders of the previous church.

Just as God did not stop Adam and Eve, He does not stop us from saying mean things to our spouses, cheating on our taxes, overeating, or letting a curse word slip every now and then.

As David evacuated the city of Jerusalem, a man of the house of Saul, named Shimei, cursed and threw stones at David as he and his men went along the way from the citAs David evacuated the city of Jerusalem, a man of the house of Saul, named Shimei, cursed and threw stones at David as he and his men went along the way from the citas he and his men went along the way from the city.

It is not «lawful,» he continued, to say that the Jews are ««repudiated or cursed» as if this were taught or could be deduced from the sacred Scriptures of the Old or the New Testament.»

Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and dehumanization which is the curse of existence in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).

On the cross, as He died, rather than call down curses and destruction from heaven, He asked God to forgive those who killed Him (Luke 23:34).

You posted Quran 2:62 which says Christians and Jews who believe in the lord shall enter heaven and so on, that was when Mohammed was trying to fool Jews and Christians to follow him as a prophet when they refused you know then Mohammed starting giving other verses where he attacked and cursed them to hell, this is how you know the Quran is nothing more then words of ONE MAN AND NOT OF ANY GOD, after all Mohammed began his new religion in a cave when he said some spirit choked him home told his wive and she seeing dollar signs tellls Mohammed you aree a great men lol you must be a prophet, and the con game began from there, Mohammed thought he was possed bythe spirit, by the way which was unnamed, and 13 years later Mohammed would call the spirit Gaberial lol copied from the Bible.

As Christians, we're admonished & promised being cursed if we ever add to or subtract from what's written in the Bible.

Is it not possible with the eyes of faith to see in every Christmas tree, in every wreath, in every exchange of gifts, in every instance of generosity to the needy, in every family reunion of loved ones from far and near» to see in every Christmas celebration, even of those who do not acknowledge him, remote outposts of his blessings that flow as far as the curse is found?

As I re-read the story it seemed obvious it couldn't really be history — or if it was, it was completely unverifiable: Eve is created from Adam's rib; a snake converses with and tempts Eve; God puts a very desirable fruit tree in the garden then commands man not to eat it; eating this fruit causes all the world's pain and suffering; God curses Adam, Eve, their descendents, and the earth; «every living thing» is destroyed by a worldwide flood; all our modern animals descend from the originals on Noah's Ark; and so on.

«I am convinced,» he wrote, «that every deep or delicate treatment of the magical theme, from the lightest jingle of Peacock Pie... to the most profound shaking of the phenomenal world... will always be found to imply an indirect relation to the ancient blessing and cursing; and it is almost as vital that it should be moral as that it should not be moralizing.»

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».

I fought the heat as I cursed the leather couch when I laid across it, too exhausted from the temperatures to pry myself off of it.

A handful of chiles together with other condiments such as curry leaves and a little ash from the hearth is waved over a person's head to create a shield against curses and bad spells..

Poor decisions from the referees as well as tough draws in our recent groups and play - off games have had most Gooners thinking that we were cursed in the competition.

I see THAT as the only to lift the Wenger Curse from Emirates.

The players who should be sold to man city should be Mertesacker, Joel Campbell, Giroud, Welbeck, Jenkinson, Debuchy, Ospina and the like.These are players I don't rate and will not continue to rate no matter what happens as unlike some I don't change my mind over one game or over one tournament but I judge them after a season or after long period weighing their effect.I however rate Chamberlain, Wilshere, Ramsey and the like as I think if not for injuries they would all have been world class.As a result they should also be sold to better teams who can relieve them of this curse and help them fulfill their potential so as to save them from ungrateful fans and keep mouths shut.

Just when Arsenal fans were left cursing our luck yet again after the news was revealed this morning that our Brazilian centre back Gabriel has gone back home to South America as he recovers from injury, we got some better news on the injury front from our next Premier League opponents Manchester United.

There will be plenty of reasonable suggestions put forward as to why this might be — from subtle points about counter-pressing and team shape and the difficulty of translating club systems over to the international game, to snarky ones about Theo Walcott being no Erik Lamela — but ultimately everybody will realise, even if they don't vocalise, that the England shirt is a cursed object that destroys every beautiful thing that it touches.