Sentences with phrase «as a sword for»

Robin is a cheerful yet raging alcoholic that makes a living as a sword for hire and bounty hunter in a remote country village.

Not exact matches

«It looks like it will continue to rage on so long as patents are viewed and wielded as swords and shields in the ongoing fight for supremacy in this intensely competitive space,» Santorelli says.

The victim, Timothy Caughman, who was remembered as a gentleman and a good neighbor, was alone and collecting bottles for recycling last week when he was attacked from behind with a sword.

If all the indicators so far are right, the Republicans will take the Senate, which will possibly pose as a double - edged sword for the agricultural sector, according to DTN Washington editor Chris Clayton.

For instance, Dean Baker, a liberal economist, sees the stock market rise as a double - edged sword, leading to the bursting of the bubble in 2001 and perhaps helping shape a subsequent decade of only modest job growth.

For all its advantages, virtual currency can be labelled as a double - edged sword.

Ron also looks at Markel, and why the double - edged sword of a rising interest rate environment will hold more good news for the company than bad, and he closes by telling investors why PotashCorp (NYSE: POT) and Titan International (NYSE: TWI) are two companies he has as interesting stocks on his radar today.

As for the sword idea, Jesus never used one â $ «I donâ $ ™ t care what he said â $ «he never used one.

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

If you were a real Christian you would know Christs words speak for themselves and the fact that he didn't take the sword away and turn it into a pruning shear right then and there does not mean he was saying «I mean all this stuff is for later after I come back and kill all the evil people and those who haven't accepted me as their savior so you won't have to fear anyone so you can finally give up your guns and weapons of war...» You disgust me chad.

In the modern battle for the soul of Islam, ISIS propaganda can be as potent as swords, according to counterterrorism officials.

The series comes to a dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records of this dark land».

The prophecy about the sword that would pierce her heart was given in the same breath as the recognition of Jesus as The One destined «for the rise and fall of many» (Luke 2:34).

According to this view, God is glorified in seeing swords driven through the chests of curly - haired toddlers, in pregnant women being stabbed in the belly before being murdered themselves, and in old men and women begging for mercy but being denied it — just as God was glorified in the death of all the firstborn Egyptian males (Exodus) and in the taking of twelve and thirteen year old girls as spoils of war (Numbers).

In the list of spiritual armor, we read about the sword, but as we will see when we study that item, it was a short sword used primarily for defense, not offense.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

As Aquinas summed it up in the Summa Theologica, for a resort to the sword to be justified it must be on the authority of a sovereign, for a just cause rightly defined, and for a right intention, which included both avoidance of evil intentions and the positive aim of securing peace — peace understood, after Augustine, as tranquillitas ordinis, the tranquillity of a just political ordeAs Aquinas summed it up in the Summa Theologica, for a resort to the sword to be justified it must be on the authority of a sovereign, for a just cause rightly defined, and for a right intention, which included both avoidance of evil intentions and the positive aim of securing peace — peace understood, after Augustine, as tranquillitas ordinis, the tranquillity of a just political ordeas tranquillitas ordinis, the tranquillity of a just political order.

He is God incarnate, to whom all authority is given (Mt. 28:18), and from whom the power of the sword is delegated to the civil magistrate as God's deacon for the reward of good and the terror of evil (Rom.

See, that is the case here, at least for me, how do Christians practice their faith, is it as a true belief in a Christ, or as a sword to condemn and chop away at those who do not believe as they do?

We know that «Science as the only begetter of truth» falls on its own sword, for science can not beget the truth that science is the only begetter of truth.

Insofar as the need for defense provides just cause for public use of the sword, it comes from the responsibility of government to protect order, justice, and peace, not simply from the right to respond to an attacker in kind.

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

(4:23) For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two - edged sword.

Muslims can not be counted as worshiping «the only true God», for they fail to use his personal name, Jehovah, but use the Aramaic word Allah, meaning «the God» and are as mixed with the «world» and violence as are the churches of Christendom and Jews, not having» beaten their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning shears» whereby «nation will not lift sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore».

Besides the Wahhabiyah movement, there are also other groups within Islam who subscribe to the jihad of the sword as a religious belief for the protection of community and faith.

Dante, weep not for Vergil's going — keep As yet from weeping, weep not yet, for soon Another sword shall give thee cause to weep...

At the beginning, Yahweh is pictured, not only as indignant at man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.»

As YHWH made them to be, punishment for us all leaving Him for idols, religions, and wrong doing against righteousness, prophesied that their descendants would reach dominion in Genesis 27, the «sword» prophesy fulfilled.

This student could have ignored the armored man, or taken up his own sword for a fight, or pushed him aside as an insignificant bother.

No lesser a Christian than Martin Luther understood our predicament: Anyone, he wrote in ìOn Temporal Authority, î who tried ìto rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and the sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword» or the need for either»... would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds.î I do not believe that Hauerwas sees America's enemies as harmless, tame, and gentle creatures.

When, as a young man, he refused a dish a mushrooms his father the emperor Vespasian joked that it was more in keeping with his destiny for him to be afraid of swords.

But the structures of MacArthur's consciousness — which was built over a long period of his life with guns and swords — were full of ruling ideologies, which wrongfully justified using the oppressed people as scapegoats for what he supposed to be justice, peace, and order.

the context of the whole narrative suggests to me that Jesus is saying in effect...» get a sword, becuz without one, what is about to happen will not be fulfilled»... these details seem to be important to the gospel writers... as well.compare Matthew's version of the story where the response suggests more non-violence...»» Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Another time which shows an institution as a thing detached from the people is when someone has to «fall on their sword» or «bite the bullet» for the sake of the institution.

The rest support unnecessary mass - murder and torture for profit based on lies as in the War of Choice in Iraq in direct contradiction to the spirit and literal teachings of Jesus (turn the other cheek, blessed are the peacemakers, love your enemies, repay evil with good, he who lives by the sword will die by the sword, forgive seventy times seven, thou shalt not kill, etc.).

Lou — For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two - edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

If he was really killed then God must have wanted him dead for a reason otherwise no one dies before his date or hour as a normal life or as a fighter on the field... God could have had him die by any reason or sleep with out waking up... but God wanted him to die as a martyr since he lived by the sword he died by the sword...

We have no sin God created Adam & Eve to rule Earth... Jesus was Assassinated by conspiracy among those from the Children of Israel who took him for a Corrupter corrupting their beliefs... and since Judaism did not invite converts they had to officially establish a new religion to convert non Jews to it and then use them as a sword in their hands to fulfill their prophecies of ruling the world...!

The church order as he saw it was to be based on the following principles: The government is responsible for the temporal and eternal welfare of its subjects, because it is endowed with the sword, and has power over life and death.

This was meant in order that the executioner would not be able to reach its base and shorten Joan's torture and dispatch her as done usually, but instead that she would literally burn alive for everyone present in the market place to see, above the encircling spears and swords.

Its Grilling for the Greater Good program offers a variety of fundraising events such as Guest Griller, Benefit Night and Dueling Swords.

And for a while it looked as though City would put us to the sword and the game to bed but fortunately for Arsenal they did not and them seemed happy to sit back.

Totals: One burning horse; a sisterly prison slap; a wicked backhand as punishment for hitting a prince; one scaly princess burned at the stake (NOT OKAY); a cornucopia of violence in the Meerenese fighting pits: one totally bitchin» decapitation, one Dothraki impaled, an over-the-shoulder stab to the heart, another guy speared through the chest, a deus ex machina back - stabbing, one combat roll leading to a sword in the gut and an Olympic - worthy javelin toss to kill an assassin.

It was a horrid night for West Ham at Goodison Park and Rooney put his former Everton and Manchester United boss David Moyes to the sword as he captained the Toffees to a convincing three points.

It was a rare moment of light relief for the home supporters, as well as the Belgian centre - back across a two - legged tie in which his defence were put to the sword by Aubamayeng and friends.

Former Gunner Nicholas insists that their role as underdogs may well aid their bid for glory, and the fact that Liverpool recently put them to the sword could guide the way.

The counterpoint to that claim is if and when Arsenal fall to the mighty Barcelona sword and potentially struggle down the stretch for the Wenger 4th place crown, will world class players such as Sanchez and Ozil commit there futures to the Emirates and Wenger.

For, the Arsenal team he has and will play against Forest in this 3rd round tie at the City Ground is not a weaken team as thought by Gary Birtles but a very strong team that will put Forest to the sword in the game.