Sentences with phrase «as a sword in»

on its side, and use it as a sword in an ongoing war against the poor.

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...!

In Sony's Sports Champions, the Playstation Move acts as a sword in of the mini games.

Not exact matches

Skurge spends much of «Thor: Ragnarok» as an unlikable coward, but he attempts to redeem himself in the end by betraying Hela... who then launches a sword through his chest.

Todd Zenger, a professor at University of Utah's Eccles School of Business, wrote in the Harvard Business Review last year that pay transparency is «far from a panacea... [and] a double - edged sword, capable of doing as much — or more — damage as good.»

«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.

As a result, some top Chinese leaders have urged party officials «not to hesitate to show their sword» — a phrase that, in Chinese, means using violence against one's opponent.

As Nixon said to David Frost in 1977, «I gave them a sword and they stuck it in and twisted it with relish.»

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.

Of course that would contradict the «right to choose their own faith» aspect, as it should be well known that there was plenty of conversion by the sword / gun in those days.

(Revelations 19)(when jesus comes back to earth) «And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war», «His eyes were as a flame of fire», clothed in a vesture dipped in blood ``, and «out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.»»

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.»

In fact, they would have» beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears» and as a result, «they will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.»

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

Not sure if you were referring in your second post to my reference of the sword as an incongruent weapon.

In speaking of a sword, Jesus is using hyperbole and exaggeration to make the point that as a result of what He taught, there would be strife and division among people; yes, even among family members.

But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision of peace on earth.

It is thus seen that Islam has not allowed divorce in order that a man may use the threat of divorce as a sword which he waves in the woman's face.

Though we do not see how our actions might affect the future, though we may not receive our inheritance right now, though we might go through persecution and trials and nakedness and danger and sword, if we just put our faith in God, as we keep our eyes on Jesus, «Keep the Son in our eyes,» as we, like Peter, keep our eyes on Jesus rather than on the rolling waves around us, we will walk by faith.

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)

The Gospel is the sword of the Church within its God - given domain, and if the Church is doing its job faithfully, it will be exalted as a prophetic advisor to the State, which will result in the State wielding a just sword within its God - given domain.

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.

The government, as Paul said, does not bear the sword in vain.

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?

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.

With the knowledge of Enlightenment thought as a double - edged sword, the FF realized that the ONLY way we could have universal rights that were not subject to debate was to establish them as Divine in origin.

«If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came,» Lincoln continued, then what other sense can this war have, except that God has willed that the war should be a mechanism of justice, «until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword»?

Over a century ago, Ahmad (as) emphatically declared that an aggressive «jihad by the sword» has no place in Islam.

In short, the classical contexts of Christian theologies and theoria historically witnessed the recurrent betrayals of the Cross by the sword, Christianity by Christendom, as colonizations brought new peoples and lands into the orbit of the dehumanizing power games of Europe's so - called Christian cultures and nations.

They are the fundamentalists or purists of the faith, and believe in their mohammad's mandate to spread Islamic rule by the sword, putting to death those who will not «submit nor surrender», as per the definition of the word «muslim».

The State bears the sword, and at the best, as seen in Romans XIII, it does not wield it in vain.

Those who stay in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but those who go out and surrender to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have their lives as a prize of war» (21:8 - 9).

(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.

Mohammed's successors, the caliphs, quoted passages like these to inspire Muslim armies as they advanced out of Arabia, imposing Islam by the sword upon a peacefully unsuspecting Middle East and North Africa, as I described in the previous chapter.

In this case, if the symbol is Jesus riding on a white steed like a warrior, His robe dipped in blood, pressing the winepresses of God's wrath as Rev 19 says, and slaying with the sword from His mouth — are we REALLY going to suggest that the symbol is conveying a peaceful, inclusive JesuIn this case, if the symbol is Jesus riding on a white steed like a warrior, His robe dipped in blood, pressing the winepresses of God's wrath as Rev 19 says, and slaying with the sword from His mouth — are we REALLY going to suggest that the symbol is conveying a peaceful, inclusive Jesuin blood, pressing the winepresses of God's wrath as Rev 19 says, and slaying with the sword from His mouth — are we REALLY going to suggest that the symbol is conveying a peaceful, inclusive Jesus?

We journey in joy and to joy on feet fitted with the peace of our good news gospel, warding off every attack against that joy with the shield of faith, and wielding the sword of the Spirit, the very Word of God in whom we abide as He makes our joy complete.

was ordained by God and given the «sword» to punish the evil and promote the good in society as His Minister of Justice (Rom.

But he has left something out: namely, he does not believe that the will in itself is, or indeed should be, the most solid of all, that it should be as hard as the sword that could hew stone, and yet be so soft that it could be wrapped around the body.

It is depressing that humankind has not yet learned to beat swords into plowshares, but while the world remains in this fallen condition, it is just as well that our soldiers are not taught to love those against whom they must fight.

This idea, enshrined in our Constitution, was inspired by the Judeo - Christian vision of an impartial tribunal that would allow states to «beat their swords into plowshares,» as Isaiah pictured it.

Isaiah envisioned Israel's mission as entailing in part the mediation of conflict among nations under impartial international law; a world court in Zion, judging by truth and justice under due process, would enable warring factions to «beat their swords into plowshares» that is, to give up conflict and concentrate on economic development.

There is no «arise and thresh, O daughter Zion... beat in pieces many peoples,» as in the prophets (Micah 4:13); no «let the high praises of God be in their throats and two - edged swords in their hands, to execute vengeance on the nations,» as in the Psalms (Ps.

As I was about to shut my eyes I see in the corner of my room a double edge sword shows up from no where.

So with that in mind, it is as Harry Ironside has said: «The Bible is not the sword of the Spirit, it is the armory.

As is said in the Bible, Jesus also carried his own sword.