Sentences with phrase «blessing of creation»

The violent mystery of sacrifice goes back to the dawn of human time, but it has no purchase on the original blessing of creation that stands even further back still.

He believed diversity was not a curse but a wonderful blessing of creation.

The ambiguity of life in the tension between the blessing of creation and the curse of death means that all of our actions participate in this ambiguity.

Whereas in the Didache the Eucharist was a thankoffering for the blessings of creation and redemption, Justin Martyr thought that the bread and wine were consecrated through the repetition of Jesus» words and thereby became the body and blood of Christ.

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you cant put your finger on it, cant smell it, or taste it, but your soul will rejoice, if you have one left... this is your connection to the world, to the universe... nothing else really matters at all... we see all of this creation, and we've got the math and science to figure out a tenth of it, but if we cant realize that it was put here ultimatly out of love, and saved by the love of ONE true God, then we are blind even to that tenth... God is great, and may he bless you athiest, muslim, christian, jew, gay, whatever... God is Love, but rest assure He is also our Judge, the Judge of our hearts, hope you get them right.

Al - Mulk In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Blessed be He in Whose hands is Dominion: and He over all things Hath Power --(1) He Who created Death and Life, that He may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the Exalted in Might, Oft - Forgiving --(2) He Who created the seven heavens one above another; no want of proportion wilt thou see in the Creation of (Allah) Most Gracious.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

Have a blessed night...@bucky: I'm Muslim, I believe time itself is a creation of God.

Cane wandered the desert and begat himself a wife??????????????????? Where did he get this wife???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? «GOD» sawfit to BLESS the murderer of his creation with a wife and children?

Because Jesus «even as death was coming» knew what was required of him and did what he was called to do, the whole of creation can now sing confidently, «Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!

The hunger of our first parents was for God, who made Adam and Eve priests and told them to bless all creation by acknowledging the Creator.

The humans were to bless, to name, to take responsibility; to eat and drink and partake with reverence and thanksgiving — that was the eucharistic life of humanity in the midst of God's creation.

When Jesus took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and said, «This is my body,» he was only repeating his own words at the dawn of creation, when he foresaw the fractured pieces of the world that would one day host him.

34 «Then the King will say to those on his right, «Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

(Regarding helping others — Matthew 25:34 - 40) «Then the King will say to those on his right, «Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

And in addition, you can't tell me definitively that the yellow, black, and white striped 1000 year old, and 100 foot tall polka dotted vampire lady in black stockings isn't alive and doesn't exist, speaking perfect English even though she has never visited our planet, on the dark side of the moon, and has never been seen by the golden crown of creation, god's highest achievement, man, who dwelleths at the very epi - center of the universe, surrounded on all four sides by the heavenly spheres and angels, and overseen by god in heaven bless her extensive gold threaded wardrobe.

Blessing alludes to themes of creation and goodness; dismissal, to themes of transformation and vocation.

His grace is manifested in our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all in our redemption through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.30

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

Matthew Fox addresses this in Original Blessing (Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1983), in which he criticizes «fall / redemption spirituality» and proposes creation spirituality», a fascinating blend of panentheism.

Come you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

The only connection which would be possible for his thought would be that which is here and there expressed in Jewish apocalyptic, namely, that in the blessed time of the end the first age of creation, with Paradise and its felicity, will return.

(Matthew Fox addresses this in Original Blessing (Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1983) in which he criticizes «fall / redemption spiritually» and proposes «creation spirituality», a fascinating blend of panentheism, feminism, ecology - awareness, and Medieval mystics such as Meister Eckhart and Hildegarde of Bingen.

The truth is what will result from your mind and heart but to think you need to Lisen and Read and ask who know if you didn't know... May God Guide and bless all in faith of God Almighty Allah the One and onoy creator of all creations the God of all (Jews / Christians / Muslims) who worship no one other than God alone and follow the roads leading to learn the truth nothing but the truth, so help me God.

In the Western scholastic tradition this theology has been named «Scotist» after Blessed John Duns Scotus who frames the question in terms of the glorification of the human nature of Christ as the highest good of creation:

She calls us back to our truest identities as men and women: «The Hebrew connotation is that the creation of God's image bearers — a blessed male / female alliance with God at the center — is «emphatically,» or «exceedingly,» or «forcefully» good — the grand equivalent of a divine fist bump!»

Somehow the biblical story of creation that saw all of life, including physical reality, as blessed by God in creation and pronounced good had been forgotten.

It tries to understand creation as a blessing of God entrusted to human beings to take care of it.

Baptism, therefore, means remission of sins, reception of the Spirit, belonging to the Messiah, entry into the new people of God, the true circumcision, sharing in the blessings of the Kingdom, dying and rising with the Christ, rebirth to become a new creation and leading a resurrection existence morally blameless.

But from this, of course, we must go on gladly to recognize and gratefully to acknowledge all that God has done; as the words of the General Thanksgiving in Morning and Evening Prayer put it, «We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life.»

The dimensions of divine blessing on human enterprise and of the vast new responsibility it brings for creation and the quality of human life, have expanded beyond previous imagination.

Jesus, who brings a new creation, a new kingdom, the turning of the ages, lives among the beasts — symbols of temptation and threat — but is blessed by the angels — symbols of astonishing promise.

Not only «our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life» come ultimately through God's working in the world — even when they come by way of other men or from nature, the chief (not the only, since created occasions have freedom to be causative agents) causal agency is the divine Love.

This divine blessing is the gift of God to humans, who are required not to exploit God's good creation.

Israel did not ignore the destructive capacity of creation, but regarded worship as the means by which this destruction could be negated and blessing could he increased.

And work, according to Blessed John Paul II in the 1983 encyclical Laborem Exercens, is an expression of our participation in God's sustaining «creation» of the world.

Allen P. Ross, in Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988, 744 pp., $ 29.99) states that his book is not a commentary of Genesis, but a guide to help teachers and preacher appreciate the richness and complexity of the narratives and to organize the theological teaching for presentation to a contemporary audience.

Blessing is the force of well - being active in the world, and faith is the awareness that creation is the gift that keeps on giving.

This is what happens when theological formation is centered on Original Sin (the story of the Fall) rather than Original Blessing (the Creation Story).

And in keeping with this magazine's prescription concerning Faith and Reason we review a biography of Blessed Duns Scotus, the Franciscan theologian and mystic who so eloquently expounded Catholic belief in Christ as the cornerstone of Creation.

The divine blessing of procreation («Be fruitful and multiply») is spoken to the human male and female in Genesis 1:28, and Adam's rapturous little poem naming woman and man in Genesis 2:23 (which I take to be the way Genesis 2 affirms that creation is «very good») clearly aims at sexual union, as the man is to leave father and mother and cleave to his woman, becoming one flesh with her (Gen. 2:24).

But all of this deterioration of form, this negation and destructive judgment, is seen as the positive work of Yahweh's word toward that original purpose — the creation of a covenant people and through them the blessing of all the families of the earth (Gen. 12:1 ff.)

Matthew 34: «Then the King will say to those on his right, «Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

This particular recipe was brought to us by Kim of the Life in The Van blog, so thank you Kim for blessing us with this mouth watering creation.

Upstate New York is blessed with an extraordinary workforce, but to attract businesses and create jobs for our region we have to maintain and expand our infrastructure to further incentivize the creation of businesses in Upstate New York.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors... in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind.

In these blessings, we tell the story of the universe, from its beginning in creation to its culmination in the redemption of Jerusalem.

Watership opens with a creation story in which sun god Frith creates animals, including our focal rabbits, one of whom gets his bottom blessed.

The resort blessed with two rivers is a creation of authentic of indigenous design, with distinct differences in applying traditional Balinese architecture.