Sentences with phrase «as near death»

This may include peak and spiritual experiences such as near death phenomena and the expansion of awareness beyond the usual remits of individuality, which may be brought on by experiences of crisis related to the spiritual, ethical and relational extremes of contemporary life.

Story one: Brian Piccolo used to shake his head and laugh about it, even as he neared his death.

Increasing a cow's comfort as it nears death may seem like a futile subtlety to many humans.

Looking at the patients» blog posts over time, the researchers also found that their use of positive emotion words actually increased as they neared death, while their use of negative emotion words did not.

Be careful, dodge, roll and beware that as he nears death Nergigante gets very aggressive and will begin to use his attacks way more often, especially the body slam.

Not exact matches

Howard described it as a «near - death experience» and went on to lead for a further nine years.

I don't understand how as a chaplain the author will just listen to stories of love and family being told and retold by these people so near to death.

I have been an ICU Nurse for many years, people who die are not as interested in religion as their families are... people even near death are often just in the moment and just want to be comfortable

Kerry Egan observed something as a divinity school student that escaped her divinity school professor... that at or near the moment of truth \ death, up to a lifetime of religious dogma evaporates, and only reality remains.

Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.»

I have straddled both sides of this fence, having had a near - death experience myself at age 29 (when my daughter was 3 years old) and, years later, at age 46, when I served as a student chaplain in a Level - One trauma center during graduate school.

That's why all accounts of people coming back from the brink are classed as near - death experiences.

In terms of possible physiological triggers, life - endangering events such as falling and a sudden drop of oxygen to the brain are thought to be potential causes - something which would correlate with a previous study which found that 1 in 5 people who'd suffered a heart attack and were resuscitated had reported a near - death experience.

No Shane — it is said that by those who have had a near death experience that they had no desire to return to earth and, amazing as it sounds, no sadness that they wouldnt see their children (those that had them).

The last sensation I remembered had been incomprehensible pain, then a tunnel, and a grinding noise as described in other «near death experiences.»

People having near death experiences has been going on for a while and hasn't stumped scientists as much as it's accepted that people hallucinate when the brain is randomly firing off synapses in it's death throes,.

There are many near death experiances that can not be explianed, and there are just as many or more that believe in existance after death.

That only leaves when you are separated from him as though by death, when in earthly or temporal fashion you do not come too near him, but only forever remember what he himself would have termed the best thing in his nature!

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

Not to mention the reports of some having seen things that could only be seen by a «soul floating up out of the body»... such as near - death victims identifying items on hospital rooftops where their physical bodies had never been...

If other Gospels had been canonized, Christianity perhaps would not have anywhere near as strong of a focus on the very exclusive belief that one must embrace the death & resurrection of Jesus in order to be saved.

If other Gospels had been canonized, Christianity perhaps would not have anywhere near as strong of a focus on the very exclusive belief that one must embrace the death and resurrection of Jesus in order to be saved.

It is not implausible to believe that after preaching in Gundaphar's kingdom in the North, Thomas moved on as all traditions affirm, to preach the Gospel to other kingdoms as well, the kingdoms of south western and south eastern India, until at last he was put to death, perhaps near Madras.

People nowadays are having visions and «near - death experiences» that science can not explain away as a hallucination because of the lack of brain activity, and people from all walks of life are confirming similar experiences.

Gilbert Meilander's Meditations on Christ's Words from the Cross relates the death of his grandfather and his father as they lay ««laboring» just to draw a breath near the end of life»:

This view comes very near to my own conception; however, it differs, because Schlick also writes (p. 293): «Consciousness can not be the essence of the brain particles for they are present even when consciousness is absent, as in death or sleep.»

God's loving kindness is enough to sustain me in my unbridled stamina... As I near my ending day, my loving wants to be with God and all God's family members can not be over-run or compromised by others salt ladled wounds... As I progressively near death's gate, my love for Life weakens me and I am found understanding God's mercies... Alone nowadays, my heart flutters with every beat as I become ever more humbled by mankind's tribulationAs I near my ending day, my loving wants to be with God and all God's family members can not be over-run or compromised by others salt ladled wounds... As I progressively near death's gate, my love for Life weakens me and I am found understanding God's mercies... Alone nowadays, my heart flutters with every beat as I become ever more humbled by mankind's tribulationAs I progressively near death's gate, my love for Life weakens me and I am found understanding God's mercies... Alone nowadays, my heart flutters with every beat as I become ever more humbled by mankind's tribulationas I become ever more humbled by mankind's tribulations.

If Dunne is reckoning correctly, the age when people take death seriously as a personal reality, a point that today occurs before midlife, was near the end of the average life span for people in the ancient world.

Birth shall forever be as an enigma by those nearing their death.

They treat the cure of disease, the prevention of death and the extension of life as near - absolute values.»

The second clause, «The Kingdom of God has drawn near,» is expanded in the account of the ministry and death of Jesus, His resurrection and exaltation, all conceived as an eschatological process.

What if Jesus was nailed to a cross, suffered a near - death experience, but was revived and / or survived (he wouldn't be the first, nor the last, to survive a Roman crucifixion) and personally interpreted his experience as death and resurrection?

Some of the poets have been far from good, but greatness and beauty could not pass by without their seeing them, and they have known infallibly that greatness and beauty never passed so near as in the brief life and tragic death of Jesus of Nazareth.

If you wish to receive power from God, you are not to go to distant places, but to go to a very near place, a holy family, a simple human life, a death, such as all men must experience.

your explanation of near death as proof for an existence of god?

The plot of the series as such is the ongoing efforts of Voldemort to reorganize his scattered followers and return to power as he recovers from near - death.

In 2 Corinthians Paul narrates his ministry as a continuous near - death experience, as if ministry consists of thousands of mini-funerals and mini-Easters — moments of truth when this heartbreak or that betrayal, this breakthrough or that triumph puts the crucified and risen Lord right there with him on the razor's edge of ministry.

For example, as Shakespeare's famous Sonnet XVIII nears its end and we are unsure of how the speaker's love will overcome death or how «in eternal lines to time [she will grow],» there occurs a tiny typographical indentation and line space.

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

A second is the Catholic doctrine of baptism, especially its emphasis on the regenerative quality of the sacrament and its possible domestic and political implications, which the Church continues to acknowledge in her codified counsel regarding near - death situations, as well as in her use of the Pauline privilege, which allows for the dissolution of a marriage between two non-baptized persons if one of them should subsequently receive baptism.

As Herb neared the bedroom to see if anything was wrong, he saw that Dad was obviously in that twilight zone one experiences before the final slumber of death.

And Darwin recanted his own «theory» as the hour of his death drew near.

Neither one of you would have had his courage to face roman soldiers ready to beat him to near death, and then nail him to a cross to die as he bled to death, naked.

Viewing both stories as being about «near death experiences» could help Christians avoid expecting special exemption from sickness and death if they trust God.

Modern cosmological sciences, near death experiences and statistically reliant PSI data (All three subjects have been in numerous peer reviewed science journals such as the Lancet) give God quite a large playground to exist in..

It seems to the writer rather unlikely that so dynamic a figure and influence in the early church as Paul was should have faded into near oblivion, only to be revived by the publication of a book about him, nearly a generation after his death.

When Wenger is sacked, it will not be beaten, as we still have a cancerous owner and board, BUT it will be a landmark day in our revival from near death, caused (though not entirely alone) by Wenger.

Despite the minimal amount of text, the book does manage to convey a real sense of the passage of time, as well as a sense of dread over the near - inevitability of his death.

Deaths in low risk pregnancy as a result of hospital routine: Inductions with prostaglandin and Pitocin, epidurals, rupturing membranes, forceps and anesthesia have been documented to cause rare but serious complications including death or near death of the fetus.

Just as we pore over the work of Dr. Sears and Dr. Weissbluth as if it was the Talmud, act as if sleep training and toileting are matters of life and death, obsess about whether our little angel is hitting his developmental milestones faster than the nearest similarly - aged baby at Tot Shabbat, drey about getting our kid into the «right» school, we want to excel at nursing.