Sentences with phrase «as heathen»

grow as jealous of their credit as heathen priests are of that of the jewelry and ornaments that blaze upon their idols.

That means — the God whom we may not use as one uses a porter — as the heathen use their gods.

St Augustine of Hippo, who is a major influence on Calvin's thinking, accepted as part of the Christian Faith doctrines that many of Calvin's theological heirs have regarded as heathen at best and satanic at worst: such as baptismal regeneration.

As a heathen, my interpretation is that you are trying to have it both ways; — whichever is most convenient at the time; — «equivocating» in other words.

How is it that someone who describes themselves as a heathen can grasp something that many Christians fail to grasp — that while Jesus was here He was operating as just a man (whilst still being God).

No complicated or grand allocutions such as the heathen make, because they don't know who God is and have to try to catch him somehow.

6:7; «And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do.

For example, in some families, women were converted to Christianity and the husbands remained as heathens.

About the Jews, for example, he writes: «Among unbelievers there are some who have never received the faith, such as heathens and Jews.

Not exact matches

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Aleheathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name AleHeathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

I'm sure we'd have heard all about the persecution of Christians if any CO so much as hinted that a Christian attend a Muslim, Jewish, Wiccan, etc. event for any reason other than to proselytize to the heathens

Or, maybe you do since Jesus is warning us about heathens such as yourself.

It was enacted as a response to the «heathen» communists.

He is NOT saved and will rot in hell with all the other heathens who were unable to pick the 1 True Faith out of millions of options using only faith as their guide.

Present secular Westerners are incapable to understand their own heritage such as their classic literature because they are thoroughly and willingly heathen.

Or, you can try celibacy along with staying away from male heathens who speak out id both sides of their mouths, never to take responsibility for their thoughts / beliefs, words or actions as they move on down the road to their next victim as soon as the previous one got pregnant.

I would rather be a «heathen»... then a member of the destructive and hateful cult known as christians

It appears that if I am not a CHRISTIAN troll, I am to be condemned as a heretic / heathen while the apologist crowd, no matter how different their beliefs will band together in righteous indignation.

He found the behavior of supposedly Christian people at least as barbaric as that of any «heathen.»

For the Almighty God, who, as even the heathen acknowledge, has supreme power over all things, being Himself supremely good, would never permit the existence of anything evil among His works, if He were not so omnipotent and good that He can bring good even out of evil.

This is not gruesome: as Addis and Arnold wrote in relation to relics in their Catholic Dictionary, because of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body «Christians have lost that horror of dead bodies which was characteristic of the heathen».

These (most) People just use it as a diversion to distract people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each other, while they go around and treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their shoe.

As to heathens and tax collectors: A person who is put out of the church is being loved, no question — but he's being loved by being expelled from the assembly, in order that he might repent and be restored.

The few attempts to systematize mission studies as an academic discipline within or about the movement have been concerned mainly with «how to» convert the «heathen» and expand the Church.

James lends his masterful support as a conservative Jewish Christian to the same position by fortifying it with reference to the prophet Amos, who says that the Lord will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and will gather therein all the gentiles (James in Acts) substitutes «Gentiles» for Amos's «heathen») who are called by God's name (Amos 9:11 - 12).

These may then be seen as the objects of Christian mission, for heathens need to be saved from darkness, ignorance and sin.

However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.

On the one hand, this vision, with the commissions in Matthew 28:18 - 20 and Mark 16:15 as its biblical basis, was used to resist the church leaders of the time who argued that if God intended to convert the heathen He would do it without man's help.

Jeff, while on the surface your comments make sense; however, IF you dig down, and look at the real issues at hand, it is much more often and with much more vehemence, that Christians condemn atheists as «idiots» «heathens» «unclean» and any number of other rather unpleasant names.

The person described as the «heathen» in Christian Discourses is now the despairing individual:

This claim of Christians aroused the anger of heathens and as a consequence of it they began to hate the Christians and persecute them.

But as i read it, and many others, it reads as command toward the heathen ritual, and not against the action itself.

It was more like the ritual bath which converts to Judaism had to take before they could be admitted into the holy people, as a sign that they were purified from the «uncleanness» of heathen ways.

Kind of reminds me of Obadiah 1:15, «For the day of the Lord is near the heathen: As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.»

The journey into foreign parts was in no sense a mission to the heathen; Jesus wished to remain incognito, so far as this was possible for one of his notoriety.

He will no longer say, as Augustine did, that they are certainly only the «specious vices of the heathen».

Have any of you heathens ever considered the vast majority of priests who live their entire lives as virgins and never fornicate?

So Israel kept the war spirit going by characterizing its enemies as godless heathen.

Occasionally heathen individuals sought his help, such as the centurion in Capernaum and the Phoenician woman in the neighborhood of Tyre.

It is not mere «clever evasion» on his part; nor is it mere quibbling about the propriety of handling a heathen coin with its profile of the emperor or its pagan inscription — as has recently been suggested.

Vocations that were related in any way to the powers of evil — such as making idols, being a heathen priest, a user of magic verses, an enchanter, astrologer, diviner, soothsayer, juggler, mountebank or amulet - maker - had to be abandoned, and any lifestyle that led one into immorality was to be rejected.

This God, who condescends to man and comes so near the humankind as though He were one of them — this God the heathen do not have.

This opinion is expressly repudiated as heathenish: «And when you pray, do not babble like the heathen, for they think they are heard if they use many words.»

As the inimitable (and fictional) Rachel Lynde once wrote about a minister, ``... And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost.

e ¯ bha ¯ h is even used as synonymous with «idol» or heathen deity, It is such a shame that some have not come to Love the Lord.

e ¯ bha ¯ h is even used as synonymous with «idol» or heathen deity,

e ¯ bha ¯ h is even used as synonymous with «idol» or heathen deity, John also says that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was no hospitality this is totally bogus, in fact their sin was the very same thing we see today that's why he cant see clearly that they were sinners before the Lord exceedingly, guilty of the most notorious crimes, and addicted to the most scandalous and unnatural lusts that can be thought of; and these they committed openly and publicly in the sight of God, in the most daring and impudent manner, and in defiance of him, without any fear or shame.

Many Southern ministers regarded the war as the supreme test: Either slavery was brought up to «Abrahamic standards» or God would send the heathens to punish the South, as he had done to the Israelites.

Jonah, as an Israelite [sees himself as] superior to the idolatrous Gentile heathen.»

Ware, Mass., Oct. 23, 1845 (Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1845) Reprinted as The Office and Work of the Missionary to the Heathen (Boston: The Board, n.d.).