Sentences with phrase «as divine judgment»

(John 3:17) In so far as divine judgment takes place, it is operative here and now, an inherent testing of life by its responses to opportunity, a constant interior arbitrament by which light shows up darkness — «He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already....

We have to acknowledge this as a divine judgment over ourselves.

Jerry Falwell saw it as a divine judgment and blamed it on the presence of «the abortionists, the feminists and the gays and the lesbians».

Not exact matches

Their awful failures and wrongdoings are part of the story, as are the human consequences, divine judgment and...

And his theory of the secret, like his theory of the parables as purposely meant to mystify those who heard them, (Mark: 4 - 11) and his theory of a divine judgment upon the Jews causing them to be blind to Jesus» true calling and mission (perhaps a Pauline idea, (Cf. Rom.

Since I had, from my initial article, emphasized the element of divine judgment over the nation, quoting the great lines from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address as my central text, I could not but find such an interpretation abhorrent.

No doubt one of tradition's opinions assessed the monarchy as in divine intent beneficent, another as negative divine judgment already taking effect.

We try to avoid divine judgment and the anxiety it brings by refusing to think, by permitting our prepossessions to prevent the emergence of new insights, as the late Bernard Lonergan wrote.

Though Jesus had a realistic sense of divine judgment, as is evident from the parable of the last judgment in Matt.

Whether he dealt with women, children, or slaves, whether the persons in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated with «respectable» people or social outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

The understanding of historical judgment as positive in divine purpose may well be already implicit in Amos (see 4:6 - 11 and the discussion above) But still in the eighth century, it is most warmly expounded in Hosea (see especially 2:14 - 23; 5:15; 11:11) It is a pervasive if often only implicit element in the utterances of Jeremiah and makes possible that stunning declaration of a new covenant with Israel «after those days» of judgment:

For when war is used as a form of divine judgment, a pacifist's opposition to God's rod of correction would effectively be resisting the will of God.

He believed that Paul's interpretation of grace as justification and sanctification were «closely related to Jesus» insistence that the righteous are not righteous before the divine judgment; and to his conception of the suffering Messiah as a revelation of the justice and mercy of God.

But it is the same even with historical interpretation of testimonies; the sort of tribunal before which witnesses are summoned and the sort of trial by which testimony gives proof are placed under the same categories of the modality of judgment as the criteriology of the divine.

Reminding the church that it was still subject to the judgment of God, he said that «every vehicle of God's grace, the preacher of the word, the prince of the church, the teacher of theology, the historic institution, the written word, the sacred canon, all these are in danger of being revered as if they were themselves divine.

They spoke to the conditions of their times from the standpoint of both the judgment and the proffered deliverance of Yahweh, and proclaimed their faith in a divine Ruler who moves within political events as in all other events of human history.

The pre-exilic prophets were already speaking of the judgment to fall «in the latter days» as one in which the God of Israel «will be judge between nations, arbiter among many peoples» 8 and where the divine judgment would result in a new kind of world in which «the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, and a little child shall lead them».9

This has long been emphasized as a phase of the divine judgment in history.

In the form in which this coming kingdom was eventually delineated, as divine victory and the final consummation of Christ's work on earth in both judgment and mercy, the biblical symbolism of Christ's return becomes meaningful.

But as I urged above, it would be wrong (in my judgment) to try to interpret all this too literally and logically; Prof. Hartshorne was right, I said, in saying that the symbol of the divine Triunity, like the «incarnation» and «atonement» as symbols, is much more appropriately retained as a symbol, as imaginative proclamation; it can then retain its indicative and suggestive value without our seeking to phrase it in the idiom of some particular philosophy or world view.

The theory of the Christian revolution is beginning to unfold itself again as the theory of a divine determinism, of the inevitable divine judgment, and of the salvation of men by the suffering of the innocent.

Not sin, for it is thought of as a universal human attribute; nor forgiveness, for it is conceived as a mere event in the world of external objects, on which man by his very theories and proofs exercises judgment, asserting that divine forgiveness can and must be thus and so.

However, its setting, as of the similar parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14 - 30, is divine judgment at Christ's return.

For him the revelation of God as attested by Scripture stands over against contemporary human culture, whether religious or secular, with the divine Word of promise and judgment.

«Remnant» unmistakably implies divine judgment upon the nation and, at least as interpreted by Isaiah's disciples, catastrophic judgment falling upon the whole nation, Jerusalem included.

It may involve (as it sometimes does) a process of extrapolation from the present scene, whereby divine commitment to the future is proclaimed in divine judgment or in redemption, or in both; or it may sweep backward in time to bring past events forcefully into the present with incisive relevance.

Their awful failures and wrongdoings are part of the story, as are the human consequences, divine judgment and forgiveness.

Three sins are seen as ultimately determining the structures of the reigns — disobedience (Saul), violence (David), and now apostasy (Solomon) Three prophets proclaim the divine judgment — Samuel, Nathan and Ahijah.

But as Yahweh is concerned for man in the Garden and man in the Brothers, here also the story affirms a positive theology: the divine response in judgment is not without continuing mercy, since man is now given a fresh beginning.

We pronounce blessing on those who believe as we do and judgment on those who do not by the authority of God; but is that divine authority the authority by which Jesus spoke and taught: We believe that God is always on our side and not on the side of other; but is it not possible that God of Jesus may sometimes be on the side of other rather than on our side?

The afflicted one was always assumed to be punished by divine wrath as well as by unanimous human judgment.