Sentences with phrase «as eye witnesses»

Remember also that the Apostles spoke as eye witnesses.

It appears that as eye witness are dying, the recollection of the events seems to fade out, threatening to be expelled from the collective consciousness.

Are his fabrications justified, even as a piece of theater, when people believe he speaks as an eye witness?

Previously shark monitoring has been accomplished through helicopter and boat patrols as well as eye witness reports, but that information traveled slowly.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, frustrated by what they see as GOP inaction and with an eye on midterm elections, on Tuesday held the first of what they hope to be several interviews with witnesses who have not been interrogated in the Republican - led Russia investigations.

Obviously jesus didn't have the same historical recording devices as I do, however the only thing that we have to go off of that jesus existed was a book of eye - witness accounts designed by a council that specifically was formed to prove the validity of this specific individual.

[130] While not personally an eye - witness of Jesus» ministry, Paul states that he was acquainted with people who had known Jesus: the apostle Peter (also known as Cephas), the apostle John, and James, the brother of Jesus.

The Jewish regulations were dealt with in Acts pretty thoroughly with eye - witness accounts and clear messages such as the sending over to Cornelius, etc..

'' «If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, 13 and a man has intercourse with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is undetected, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act, 14 if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has not defiled herself, 15 the man shall then bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring as an offering for her one - tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, a reminder of iniquity.

They were all eye witness accounts as well, but you selectively pick and choose which ones to believe and which ones to ignore.

You do realize there are eye witness accounts of all the greek and egyptian gods as well right?

In comparison to the New Testament where Paul's letters were written starting 15 years after Jesus» ascension, the first gospel, Mark written 25 years after (Peter was the source of Mark), Matthew who was an eye witness at 35 years, and Luke 35 years as a careful Roman / Greek trained historian who interviewed living eye witnesses such as Mary, mother of Jesus.

It looks much more as though these texts caught the eye, and were regarded as prophetic, only because it was already known, on the testimony of witnesses of the Resurrection appearances, that Jesus was actually encountered as the living Lord on the third day after his death.

steelerguin, «Snowboarder, the gospel of John is recognized as being written by an eye witness of Jesus.»

So he was astonished as a young man, new to the sophisticated imperial capital of Milan, to witness Bishop Ambrose reading silently: «When he read his eyes would travel across the pages and his mind would explore the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent.»

But my faith demands me to do so as my eyes were a witness to the scattered bones of those heroes who died on the sands of Punnappra and Vayalar.

Final Authority = B I B L E! One needs to see the 4 Gospels as the sworn affidavits of eye witnesses.

If you look at the resurrection there are only close associates as supposed «eye witnesses,» unless you count the highly supicious 500 people that Paul, at least I think it was Paul, talks about several years, if not decades later.

If the meaning of our principle of historical aetiology, as opposed to an eye - witness report by someone who was himself present at the event, has been understood, we presumably also possess a criterion for judging what was correct in the description given by traditional theology of the blessed, supernatural, original condition of man, as opposed to what was a simplified projection into the past, into human beginnings, of the state of man as it ought to be and will be in the future.

as well as personally being a eye witness.

What I find so intriguing about Christians is the fact that they act as if they were eye witnesses to everything that SUPPOSEDLY happened in the Bible.

Their witness could be called «catechesis with a punch» - the outstanding content of their teaching is hammered home by the enthusiasm and energy of the teachers who as college students are usually seen as «cool» in the eyes of their youthful audiences.

This is combined with an alarming tendency to make sweeping statements such as; «New Testament scholars sometimes say that the Gospel accounts of the appearances of the risen Christ are false and his followers did not intentionally claim to be eye - witnesses to his resurrection», without references to back it up.

But we have to distinguish atheism from atheists; atheists are our fellow creatures, like us the children of Adam, and we do well to listen to them with care, to confess our shortcomings, and also to look them in the eye with cheerful confidence and friendliness and explain as simply as we can how the gospel witnesses to God's gift of life.

Yet, as we have already pointed out, there is good evidence for concluding that they are not only not narrated to us directly by eye - witnesses, but that, in addition, they are not even independent of each other.

The argument, as outlined above, therefore collapses and we are left with the striking fact that the later the Gospel the more elaborate becomes the story of the empty tomb, 9 a phenomenon which is perfectly consistent with a developing and expanding tradition, but one which is inconsistent with eye - witness accounts, where one expects more detail and more reliability the nearer one is in time to the event being described.

In the first place, as we have seen, the four evangelists were not themselves eye - witnesses, but writers depending upon the traditions received from others.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

A large number of leading New Testament scholars have now rejected these traditions as unhistorical, leaving us with two conclusions: the first, that none of the Gospels was written by an eye - witness of the events described in it, and the second, that the earliest Gospel, that of Mark, was written thirty - five years or more after the death of Jesus, and the other three Gospels were written nearly sixty years or more after the same point.

You might as well admit that you don't support the teachings of Jesus Christ as chronicled by four of his apostle - eye witness biographers.

Ever since the end of the first century the traditional view of the resurrection appeared to embody reasonably clear and final answers to these questions and it was supported by the New Testament records, which quickly came to be regarded as historical evidence written by eye - witnesses.

They all have the same amount of physical evidence (0 %), they all have eye witness accounts as to their existence and they are all just as likely to exits

Once Stockholm syndrome style brainwashing stops, critical thinking will win out as we are now witnessing before our eyes.

After this point begins the part of Acts with which Luke as an eye - witness was directly concerned (unless, as is possible, he is the Lucius of Acts 13:1), for in Acts 16:10 we find the first of the «we - passages», presumably from his diary.

It is judged by many scholars to have been written by one who had lived as an eye - witness through that critical period, and who gathered the necessary information together to write this account of that important crisis.

What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness of feeling when His name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say) of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»

Israel, Maritain held, intending by this name not the present state of Israel but the Jewish people as a whole, is «a witness to the Scriptures,» holding the Bible before the eyes of the world.

Some profess to have witnessed other supernatural events and miracles, such as the visage of Mary appearing in the sun, or the sacred heart pulsating in the sun — and that their lengthy staring at the sun does not damage their eyes.

Without significant dissent scholars have long regarded it not only as the oldest extant poem of any considerable length in the Old Testament, but also as the work of, if not an eye - witness, then one who was nevertheless close to the event and intimately informed about it.

And as every mother knows, Mary also experienced the quotidian sorrows of motherhood: the first bruised knee, the unkind words of other children, the frightening illnesses, the surprised eyes of a little boy the first time he witnesses injustice, cruelty, or the suffering of another, the gifts she wished she could give him, the memories she wished she could preserve forever, the disappointments she wished with all her heart she could stop.

Initially your cashews will get all chunky, then after a minute or two they will break down into a fine looking flour, then the real magic happens, the heat and friction from all that blending will extract the natural oils from our beloved cashews and in mere minutes, you will witness one of the most beautiful transformations of all time as your golden, delicious cashews are whipped into a smooth and creamy, deliciously dreamy nut butter right before your pretty little eyes...

As you may have read in a recent piece I wrote about Baynuls, I drank a bunch of Grenache that I did not realize was 16 % ABV and almost peed my pants on the highway in France while behaving «like a rabid cat someone let out of a cage in the car,» according to eye witnesses.

The students described being able to witness the packaging machinery in action as «amazing» and «a really eye - opening experience that demonstrates what's involved in the creative process on a professional level.»

I was also able to witness, with a keen eye, the birth of both the Colorado Rockies and Avalanche as I grew up - living in history if you will.

His body language as he walked back to the portakabin, arm in arm with Pochettino is one of the most eye opening experiences in coaching I've ever witnessed.

not just a genuis but a leader... As for Mr Pulis, I had tears in my eyes listening to his heart breaking story about poor Ryan going home with Mummykins... except I hadn't because again we witnessed the product of the «kick Arsenal» media campaign..

We witness it in the eyes of our nursing infant child as he gazes up at us with unquestioning faith, and again in the wild abandon with which our toddler runs and leaps into our arms, never for a moment imagining we won't be ready to catch him.

Thirdly, eye - witnessing will be revealed as a practice and a state.

An eye witness, Bukar Fantai, told newsmen that the bomber managed to sneak into the village disguising as a grain merchant.

Like other people; as a record, the desire for immortality, to be a witness, as a confessional, to let offsteam, and of course with an eye to publication and profit.