I am for discerning what brings about LIFE from what
brings about Death.
Not all of us die of disease, however; murder, accidents, suicide, and euthanasia are alternative ways of dying, and he describes how and why they, too,
bring about death.
But it appears to me that in other areas pertaining to church life, the good Lord actually wants us to participate more aggressively in
bringing about this death that ushers in this eagerly anticipated «new life within the Body of Christ.»
God does not orchestrate suffering, cause death, send storms, destroy lives, or
bring about death.
Despite a gloomy prognosis, he lived eight more happy and productive years before a recurrence
brought about his death.
It was not Herod's fear of John the Baptist that
brought about his death, but Herodias's fear and contempt of John.
Much pressure is put upon this by what the document calls the «problematic features» that «The Act unfortunately retains a feature of recent English Law... acceptance of certain decisions to
bring about death», namely intentional killing by «omission», even and especially «of food and water» (p. 19).
And yet out of this Judaism grew for him the hostility that
brought about his death.
For the first time, scientists have identified the ecological trigger that
brings about the death of tropical rainforest trees during prolonged water shortages.
But the discovery of new documents by University of New South Wales researcher Prof Chris Turney revealed today in the journal Polar Record show how the actions of another expedition member
brought about their deaths and why it has been covered - up for over a century.
But for sheer scary, the section standout was Mike Flanagan's Oculus, in which a brother and sister return to the home where their parents were killed years ago, intent on destroying the malign mind - manipulating antique mirror that
brought about their deaths.
Few have the vision or commitment needed to
bring about the death of a dream, an idea or a future.
Any thug may
bring about the death of a single person.
Because Miles is diagnosed as being in a «minimally conscious state» rather than a «persistent vegetative state,» there is no legal way to
bring about his death, a bewildering paradox that Spinney navigates with compassion and wisdom.
In Rain of Fear the continued story that started with House of Thule — which
brought about the death of Cazic - Thule — takes a unique twist in the storyline.
The award of bereavement damages, it is true, goes to the estate of the deceased, and so not necessarily to those who need the money, but the argument that it is a «windfall» for family members is misplaced, and even if the deceased had no close family that is not something the defendant who
brought about the death should benefit from.
While the use of toxins intentionally and actively to
bring about death is nothing new, the aggressive campaign to institutionalise medically assisted death certainly is.
Not exact matches
Take for example Michael Hebb, the founder of
Death over Dinner, a nonprofit that
brings together people — over dinner — to reflect on the consequential event that happens to us all, but that no one likes to talk
about.
«Chappaquiddick,»
about Ted Kennedy's role in the 1969
death of Mary Jo Kopechne,
brought in $ 6.2 million for Entertainment Studios to land in seventh place.
Although no criminal charges were filed, the
death of Darren Rainey has
brought about major changes in the way prisons across the nation treat inmates with mental disabilities.
Many believe that Judas, along with the Zealots, felt that, if pushed to the brink of
death, Jesus would declare himself King, and
bring about this new kingdom.
What
about the «individuation» of Dasein
brought about by the finitude of Being - toward -
death, where
death is «uniquely mine»; and what
about the whole business of being recalled to «authentic self - being» from dispersion into the anonymity and publicity of everyday affairs?
This self - examination is
brought about by the proclamation that the life and
death of Jesus are a revelation of God's righteousness.
Of those 89
deaths, 64 were
brought about by guns.
Teilhard de Chardin in his Divine Milieu says that our lives have an active and a passive phase: in the first phase we must work with all our heart, mind, and soul to help
bring about the great evolutionary project, while in the second phase we must accept the deterioration and
death that always come (Teilhard 1968b).
As for the real responsibility of Pilate or the Jewish leaders for the crucifixion, perhaps the most we can say is that the Romans crucified Jesus, but the Jewish authorities probably desired his
death and did what they could to
bring it
about.
But tragedy — especially a
death brought about by participation in an inevitable social logic — compels the recognition of fallenness and failure.
And thereby to be
brought to our senses
about the significance of our lives and
deaths.
Under the new covenant
brought about by the
death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, his blood paid it all.
Just remember time is always on the side of the peaceful man, he may be killed by the murder will be remembered, but an angry man
brings his own
death upon himself and is justified in
death for his actions and thats whats remembered
about them.
The overcoming of
death (and sin), he writes, is «simultaneously» the transformation of the creature's natural finitude into the future that the Spirit will
bring about.
We do not
bring about this alteration, but it has been accomplished in the
death and resurrection of Jesus.
As far as Jesus sacrifice goes, I think N.T. Wright hits it on the head in «The Day the Revolution Began» in that in
bringing about the «Law», Sin was
brought out into the open, and Jesus drew that sin upon himself in order to put it to
death in his flesh, and deal with it once and for all.
Yet when most people are reading their Bibles (and they have their spiritual - colored glasses on), and read
about some sort of sin that
brings death, they put a spiritual twist on it, and think it is referring to spiritual
death, or losing your eternal life, or something like that.
One might have expected more emphasis, however, on epiclesis or the invocation of the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic event since it is the Spirit who
brings about the presence of Christ in the memorial of his
death and who unites the faithful participants with Christ's offering of himself.
This is to davidnfran hay David you might have
brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit
about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither
death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor
death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,
And when he was thinking
about human existence itself, he was intent upon saying that a whole human person was compounded of body as well as of soul; in the end, he said, the two would be reunited after the separation which
death had
brought about.
Typical CNN feedback that a story
about a man sentenced to die for being a Christian and refusing to convert to Islam would
bring out all the Christian - haters instead of the
death penalty haters or people pointing out the hypocrisy of Islam.
As a matter of fact — and I know that no one knows exactly when Christ will return — I don't think he will even think
about bringing about that corporate ascension of his spiritual body, otherwise know as the Rapture, until we do go through this much needed
death, burial and great awakening.
It is the female figure in each case who makes the journey to the land of
death, or takes whatever steps are necessary to
bring about the return of natural vitality to the earth.
Such optimism ignores one fundamental problem, hardly ever alluded to, that of the social, not biological, pathologies that have in the past and in the present ruined so much of life and
brought about so much misery and so many
deaths.
Green himself is a subscriber to the belief that the best works of art are partly defined by what you
bring to them, and while on the surface this is a book
about death, it's actually a book
about life, though never a sentimental one.
Consequently we know nothing except that man was created by God as God's personal partner in a sacred history of salvation and perdition; that concupiscence and
death do not belong to man as God wills him to be, but to man as a sinner; that the first man was also the first to incur guilt before God and his guilt as a factor of man's existence historically
brought about by man, belongs intrinsically to the situation in which the whole subsequent history of humanity unfolds.
God allows everything to happen, but is at work, in His mysterious ways, to
bring about repentance,
death to the self (the religious, self - justification project), and new life.
In short, Jesus not only practiced and taught and recommended peace, but in some profound way he
brought about peace for us and for the world through his
death and resurrection.
God wishes to set man free from his bondage to sin and
death and thus
bring about reconciliation.
Sin used what was good to
bring about my condemnation to
death.
Some acts of omission are lethal, because they are adopted precisely as a means to
bring about someone's
death.
It is
about bringing the power of faith to bear on the human experience of dying,
death and bereavement.
Then when this did not take place he decided that his own messianic vocation was to die, for his
death would
bring about the coming of the kingdom and his manifestation as the expected Son of man.