Sentences with phrase «bestowed upon man»

For those that like to Bible thump, the second greatest gift God bestowed upon man was Free Will.

«Messiah» was the highest title the Jew knew how to bestow upon a man.

Not exact matches

We are made male and female, man and woman, and attempts to blur distinctions under the seemingly innocuous term «gender» are really attempts to assert that sex should be seen as an autonomous human activity, something which has noother meaning than what the individual wishes to bestow upon it.

She rejects apocalyptic hope in favor of prophetic hope, in which the outcome depends upon human obedience.5 She asks rhetorically: «Can God — independently of whatever «the world,» and therefore society, does or fails to do — bestow forgiveness directly on a penitent man and make possible a new beginning for him?»

In the story The Giving Tree, we have a pure and selfless giver bestowing gifts upon an ungrateful, spoiled, and demanding boy / man.

St. John says by implication that this power is not found in men naturally; it is bestowed upon them by grace.

God had mercy upon his creation and bestowed upon them a new salvation through His Word, that is, Christ, so that men might learn by experience that they can not» attain to incorruption of themselves, but by God's grace only.»

The antithesis here seems to be between not faith and works but, by implication, grace and works; that is, the ground upon which God freely bestows his grace and gifts to men and what is apparently the (failing) attempts by men to earn that bestowal and ground the divine bestowal on merit.

The only Priesthood authority that can be given to man has to come after the Restoration of Christ's original Church and gospel (which can not come from the Catholic Church or any splinter group from this Church), so any claims to having divine endowments of authority are void because those who bestowed this upon you did not possess any priesthood themselves.

Of course, no one is expecting Keita to replicate the heroics of one of the club's greatest ever players, even with a club record price tag around his neck, but becoming the first man to take the number eight shirt since Gerrard is still a major honour to be bestowed upon a player.

The former Labour Party Leader is worthy of all the tributes that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (who hails her former rival as a «great parliamentarian» and man of «high principle») and so many others are bestowing upon his memory.

That honor, instead, has been bestowed upon incumbent state comptroller Alan Hevesi, a man surrounded by much unwanted attention of late.

[O] ur harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a more special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain, and others.

But Buck's a «man's man», and his boy will enjoy this hyper - masculine, chew - spitting, venison - skinning lifestyle he's trying to bestow upon him, whether he likes it or not.

The muzzle houses the complex system of «turbinates» which bestow upon dogs the amazing ability to smell tiny traces of substances completely undetectable to man.

The Iraqi people have a different title for the man: the Devil of Ramadi, and bestow upon him a hefty bounty.