Sentences with phrase «as against the love»

There is however no sharp difference in the usage of this word for love of the brother, as against the love spoken of as agape.

Not exact matches

Entrepreneur, to me, means someone who is an out - of - the - box thinker, loves having the odds stacked against them and is driven by creation and problem - solving as opposed to monetary compensation.

Turns out those human aliens don't love Earth very much, as the off - world Settlement Defense Front decides to wage war against the third rock from the sun.

And maybe Brigitte would have loved him as a pastor following his teaching and preaching against Jews at his time.

Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life.

I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master... no christian can argue against this, as far as «turning over all logic, your mind, and your powers of thinking, your power to love»..

On one hand God is a behemoth of dirty done deeds against much of humanism's dispositions while on the other hand God shows little to practically no love to all our civilizations» ongoing trials of which we steadily reshape as the needs arise.

This paraphrase is, I know, a parody that is both unfair and unnuanced, but it serves well enough to make the point that to espouse as one's purpose the promotion of the knowledge and love of God is, in our time, an act that runs against both theological fashion and the spirit of the age.

We battle and fight against Satan only as an expression of love for our Redeemer.

But as you mentioned with # 2 and # 4, there are biblical passages that offer support for loving, redemptive, discipline and for controlled anger against sin.

«Isn't the simplest touch of a child's arm on the face more important, isn't the good meal, the brush against a thigh, a hand held during a movie, a swim in the sea, aren't those things of equal importance as the sands of time come rushing down on our heads burying ambition and love, good and evil, breath, blood, brains, waste, memory, alike in the oblivion?»

32.35) And, «Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.»

Any society, Christian or not, has both a sacred sphere and a profane sphere, a sphere in which love and obligation determine who gets what as against the sphere in which prudence and courage do so.

While it took me some time to work through the theology around it, once I accepted it as loving there was no further doubt in my mind that I could never go back to believing that God was against that love.

Once I accepted it as genuine love, I had no choice but to accept that God, who is love, would not be against me expressing that love and would in fact help me to walk in that love.

We must set against this rather daunting prospect Teresa of Avila's seemingly casual description of prayer as «simply a friendly and frequently solitary conversation with him who, as we know, loves us.»

The problem with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy, which leads to the commission of sins against the law of love, which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other laws.

«Insofar as God is a lover, He must also be a sufferer when His love comes up against the No of sin.»

Such civil righteousness is not the same as spiritual righteousness, namely, the true pure love which only the Holy Spirit can work in human hearts against the impulses of the flesh.

So long as we embrace marriage with the same standards as any monogamous, loving heterosexual relationship there should be no barrier against us.

I'm guessing, as Willow implies, that you are subconsciously rebelling against an image of a threatening, fearsome, judgmental, vindictive and hurtful god, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were born.

For otherwise the Church would have acted against its duty and capacity in a way and to an extent which the theologian can not ascribe to a Church which as a whole is indefectible in the love of God and not only in its truth.

But if God truly does have a violent and bloody side then Jesus was being deceptive, for nowhere in His life or ministry did He reveal God as someone who goes to war against His enemies or commands the genocide of people who do not love or obey Him.

It was the book, taken as a whole, held up against history, held up against decency and hope, held up to the person I desired to be... I had to choose to cling to belief despite all of that and continue to fail to be a person of compassion and love or to begin to let go of that belief and make room in my heart for compassion and love.

The realization that God loves Hitler as much as S / He loves Mother Teresa goes against the grain.

The preferred Eastern Orthodox understanding of hell, one with profound patristic pedigrees, defines hell as something self - imposed, a condition of the soul that freely refuses to open itself in love to God and neighbor, and that thereby seals itself against the deifying love of God, thereby experiencing divine glory as an external chastisement.

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)

I always love how people who oppose the Church's teaching on genetic engineering, hom0s3xuality and marriage turn around and use them as slurs against someone.

They have turned their back against God's most important commandment - love thy neighbor as thy self.

and Leviticus 19:18» «Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.»

We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.

Mr Graham taught us that the bible commands we love all people regardless of race yet Mormons believe that blacks are the incarnated spirits of those people that turned against God as part of the insurrection.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

As Calvin Seerveld notes,»... allegorical exegesis of The Greatest Song originated as a defense against the complaint, «How can such worldly love poetry be holy and a norm for the faith?&raquAs Calvin Seerveld notes,»... allegorical exegesis of The Greatest Song originated as a defense against the complaint, «How can such worldly love poetry be holy and a norm for the faith?&raquas a defense against the complaint, «How can such worldly love poetry be holy and a norm for the faith?»

So, many of the clergy and Churches reacted against the laborers without ever posing the question of justice or the love of one's brother as oneself.

But their faces showed resistance to authority, not love of peace; they were screaming No in the same way they fight deadlines for term papers or rules against pot - smoking — to protect what they perceive as their autonomy.

The high moral standard (love your enemy and do good to those who do evil to you) was unattainable (and obviously unacceptable as well) by Jefferson — who was in fact in rebellion against a government in which the Bible demands he should have been submissive and subject to.

They saw clearly Jesus» struggle against Mammon and all forms of exploitation, and his vision of virtue as love leading to effective sharing in community.

He sides against the faux - bohemian sophisticates devoid of real virtue and so who have no idea to how to live well as beings born to love and die.

Yes, there are damaging consequences to adultery (which you are experiencing), which is why God warns us against such behavior, but God still loves you as His very own daughter.

There are many positive principles you can glean from it, such as turning the other cheek, loving those who hate you, and casting no stones of dispersion against others.

Just as when armies crash against each other, the victory is that of superior power, so also the victory of love and grace against the very real force of evil, is a victory of a real superior force.

It is this picture which confronts us powerfully with the choice for or against God and love, this understanding which serves as our focus, our compass, our Christ.

Kaiser understands God's wrath as an act of love against sin which hurts those He loves.

What if we were just as much against colonization, imperialism, and war, as you are, and that when we told people about Jesus and His love for them, we let them maintain their culture, their identity, and who they were as people?

Noni and all those who find themselves ostracised or slandered unfairly firstly God loves you and you are special to him you are his children his daughters and sons do nt ever forget that so you are not alone in fact you are the apple of his eye and he loves you.No matter what people say about you it does nt change the fact that he loves you and will protect you just abide in him he will strengthen you in your weakness.Never think you are alone we have the holy spirit and have other believers even though we may not go to church together we love the Lord just as much as you do which means we are brothers and sisters in Christ.Just trust him and take each day as it comes he promises to never leave us or forsake us.He has given us his strength in our weakness so that like him we are overcomers the head not the tail.Keep asking the Lord what it is he wants you to do and be obedient though it may be hard but in the end it will prove good for you for the Lord is for you not against you.regards brentnz

Indeed, those who think of marriage as only about love tend to argue against these duties, since they are regretted when feelings change.

Life that posits, affirms, and defends all we believe in and hold dear — loving justice and tenderness against all attempts by the Enemy, who always appears as an angel of light, to wipe them out and return the world to the power of death, to the anarchy of «might makes right» and «only the fittest deserve to survive.»

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

He loved the legalist in me as He loved the rebel who, honestly, didn't want to rebel against God, but against a disease - causing religious system with its spiritual abuse and against those who once abused me sexually.