Sentences with phrase «begotten by»

When, not long after his retirement, he appeared in full wig and gown on Jim'll Fix It and tried Little Noddy for knocking down PC Plod, what stuck in the mind was not the incongruity but the homogeneity of it - the same benign moralism as the legal profession had known for 40 years, in prose begotten by Samuel Smiles upon Enid Blyton.

His tenacious hold on life was partly begotten by the conviction that his life must have accrued some value over time.

Furthermore, Xbox One X owners will gain the benefits begotten by the most powerful console.

In the readings at Mass today Saint John tells us that loving God is keeping his commandments, «and his commandments are not difficult, because anyone who has been begotten by God has already overcome the world; this is the victory over the world — our faith» (1 Jn 5:3 - 4).

But, of course, every assessment of what is coming to be begets and is begotten by an interpretation of what has been.

The Son is «begotten by the Father from eternity,» and to this reality the metaphor draws our attention.

Now, remember from this time forth, and for ever, that Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.»

You have been begotten by your father and your mother; therefore in you the mating of two human beings — a species - act of human being — has produced the human being.

This oneness is still emphasisedwhen the Creed goes on to show how it is a real Person, a real Divine Person, who is begotten by the Person of the Father: «God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made.»

Does the Mormon position» that Jesus was begotten by an immortal (but not immaterial) father» contradict the ancient Christian doctrine that Jesus had no natural father?

Stephen Webb writes that Mormons «deny the virgin birth, since their materialism leads them to speculate that Jesus is literally begotten by the immortal Father rather than conceived by the Holy Spirit.»

He is like the «elected» son of Hagar, a child «begotten by determination and planning.»

They also deny the virgin birth, since their materialism leads them to speculate that Jesus is literally begotten by the immortal Father rather than conceived by the Holy Spirit.

And he who is begotten by a progressive dying away from self, of him it becomes increasingly clear that he can less and less be said to be begotten, since he only becomes more and more clearly reminded of his existence.

«Christ was begotten by an Immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers,» (Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce McConkie, 1966, p. 547).

Jesus was not begotten by the Holy Ghost,» (Journal of Discourses, vol.

But, like many other nations, it suffers from «a failure of the state» begat by «bureaucracies at local, state, and national levels» that remain either too corrupt or too incompetent to supply citizens with decent public services.

No maker did it better than Lexus, which grew the RX from its popular ES sedan, which in turn was begat by the ridiculously successful Camry sedan of parent Toyota.

That moment of recognition begat by logging in and communicating with Ruby falls apart, a reminder of the fragility of the lonely world we inhabit and the structural impossibilities of seamless interpersonal communication.

But in this case, it's very much a case of long - term progress begot by short - term frustrations and limitations.

Not exact matches

Using «adult» as C.S. Lewis described it, a term of approval, can beget the idea that adulthood carries a sense of gravitas lacked by childhood.

Death has been overcome by Christ's sacrifice on Calvary, and those who put their trust in Him will live again, «For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).

«Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.»

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Regarding your second fold, God Himself is unchanging; it is out of His Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants with man who could not keep and broke them until He (God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption is what changed.

They are made - but made by God through human begetting.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

We can not remove sin from this world but we can be moved by the love God gave us, in his only begotten Son, to share this love, which is eternal, forgiving, and powerful, so powerful that it can not be removed by, even, the taking of life — for no sooner do you take the life of such young ones away that, in the next moment, they are with Christ.

Prayer of the Day: «O God, who before the passion of your only begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

In the new humanity which is begotten today the Word prolongs the unending act of his own birth; and by virtue of his immersion in the world's womb the great waters of the kingdom of matter have, without even a ripple, been endued with life.

Downing writes that «based on his reading of all the «begats» in the Bible, along with the stated ages of Old Testament patriarchs, Usher systematically reinforced time frames suggested by earlier Christian leaders to conclude that the world was created on October 23, 4004 B.C. - at 9:00 a.m., no less.»

True faith (therefore «begotten / born again by the Spirit) irrespective of bloodline became the precondition and all humanity would have this freedom to choose.

So I'm telling people to get ready for the return of Jesus Christ in October 2014, by turning to God through Jesus Christ and accepting that he is the only begotten Son of God who suffered for the sins of the world, and who will give to those who believe in him, when they are raised up at the last trump, his righteousness, so that they will no longer be sinners but sons of God.

Most fathers have had the last of their children by the time they are 40 years old, a few have had the last of their children by the time they are about 50 years old, and very few beget any children after they are 50 years old.

I live by one verse and one verse alone, John 3:16 «For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, and that «whosoever» believes in Him, shall not perish, but have ever lasting life.»

Yes, division begets division, but Matt threw the first volley by taking the comic way too far out of context.

The bodily act of begetting, by which parents transmit their humanity to their children, can become an act of technical mastery over that part of nature which happens to be the human body.

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

It teaches that he was begotten in heaven as one of God's spirit children (See the Book, Jesus the Christ, by James Talmage, p. 8).

Violence sanctioned by the community begets more violence.

By mine Only Begotten I created these things.

Note: the late Bruce McConkie who was a member of the First Council of the Seventy stated «There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events...» (Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce McConkie, p. 742).

To suggest that they could — by, in effect, serving time — would seem to imply that there is a second path to salvation other than through the only begotten Son of God.

The classical description of the Father begetting the Son before all worlds can also describe the way in which God, in the Whiteheadian conceptuality, creates himself by envisaging all the pure forms as constituting the metaphysical order God and the world exemplify.

Begotten not made, consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things were made.

This general view finds its fullest and clearest New Testament expression in the Fourth Gospel, was elaborated in the great creedal discussions of several centuries later, and was finally and definitively formulated by the Council of Chalcedon in 451: «One and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of the natures being by no means taken away because of the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved and concurring in one person.

In Ohio, a group called Catholics United released a letter this month signed by 36 Cincinnati clergy and lay leaders, including 11 Catholic nuns, denouncing allegations that Driehaus» healthcare vote begat government - funded abortion.

From A Star Begotten; quoted by Halford E. Luccock in Unfinished Business (New York: Harper and Bros., 1956), p. 162.

1Jn 4:9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

On the other hand, there is the being constituted by this becoming, the unity produced by this unification, the concrete satisfaction, or what has been called the «concretum» of this concrescence.4 The concrescence «begets» the concretum in this metaphysical sense that it produces it as a formally distinct aspect of its own actuality.