Sentences with phrase «by commanding people»

«so there was NO REASON for him to take vengeance on sinners by COMMANDING people to KILL THEM.

«Vengeance is mine said God», so there was NO REASON for him to take vengeance on sinners by COMMANDING people to KILL THEM.

Not exact matches

By Saturday up to 200 employees drafted from merchandising, logistics, supply chain and human resources teams were marshaling people and goods from Home Depot's buzzing five - room command center filled with monitors tracking the storm and maps of the hurricane region pasted on walls.

The California startup is good at what it does, commands an eye - popping valuation, and is led by a mercurial CEO whose aggressive tactics sometimes rub people the wrong way.

Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own life.

Horror, murder, devastation, cruelty and debauchery all committed by god's chosen people and at his command.

For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people.

LOOK: PROPHECY: The Prophet Zechariah commanded the people by the Spirit of the Lord to: «REJOICE GREATLY, O daughter of Zion!

They fail to distinguish two types of religious persons who may be part of this group: the first, who depend completely upon the literal interpretation of Scripture and tradition by an authoritarian pastor, and second, those who undertake rescue activity as the command of God, based upon a thoughtful and self - ratified interpretation of the ethical imperatives of the gospel.

You are bound to offend people and be rejected by the world, you may even commit social suicide by being a good shepherd, but if your not just a hireling you will do as Jesus commands.

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

If a person thinks that nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

If many, many people are deserting the institutional church as Jeremy Myers claims, perhaps this is not disobedience to a command but a latter day reformation driven by none other than the Holy Spirit.

His basic argument seems to be that although the people from Adam to Moses did not sin by breaking a command (as Adam did), they still suffered the consequences of sin (death).

Again, the Christian religious practice of going back to the Old Testament to relive the archaic events Yahweh performed on his people, a practice which was commanded by both Yahweh and Christ, is really a call for the people of God to move forward and continue the march toward the Promised Land.

The Fifth Commandment, «Honor your father and your mother,» could not be shrugged off; neither could the command to love your neighbor, represented by the people Jesus was teaching.

The fundamental source of Islamic legislation is the Qur» an, which has been proved beyond all doubt as God's own book brought down by His Prophet to guide the people to obey its commands and to refrain from actions which it prohibits.

2 Chronicles 7:13 - 14 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Following the way of Jesus, we see Muslims not as enemies, but as people we are commanded by God to love and reach with a life - changing message.

Yes it does, God specifically commands his people to kill pregnant women via what what might be termed... death by abortion: «The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God.

That is where the disconnect occurs — some people believe that the government allows us to bear arms rather than understanding that the government is commanded to do so by the Bill of Rights.

They include: the command of the sovereign; the majority of the voters; the principle of utility; the Supreme Court's varying interpretations of the Constitution's great but ambiguous phrases; the subtle implications of platitudinous shared values like «equality» or «autonomy»; and even a hypothetical social contract that abstract persons might adopt in the imaginary «original position» described by John Rawls.

Because Jesus Christ is present with all people as the Giver of food and drink and as the Bread of life, and because his presence is revealed to his congregation by the Holy Spirit, and because he permits and commands us to eat and, drink, therefore we may and must eat and drink all things with Jesus in faith, love and hope.

Since authority is defined by its right to command, and since only persons command, only persons have authority in the proper sense of the word.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

@snowboarder Bull sh it Joseph Stalin atheist murdered by his own command upwards of 60 million people.

What is happening now is the displacement of a constitutional order by a regime that does not have, will not obtain, and can not command the consent of the people.

Martyrs, near - martyrs, risk - takers and sufferers command our attention when they say they have seen the resurrected Lord, or led people on exodus or through exile, or been spit back into life by the great fish of illness.

He is specifically cited in Reformation arguments, especially by Calvin, and both Luther and Calvin recognized that the themes they emphasized as the essential gospel had been stressed earlier by Augustine: the universality and depth of the problem of sin; the consequent incapacity of even the «best» persons to follow the law commanding inward love, the possibility of salvation — of escaping condemnation and of gaining blessedness — through God's grace alone.

Simply by its continued presence, the church defied the ideology that every person and every institution exists to serve the nation at the command of the Führer.

The dream of the abolition of war is given us in the Bible, but the reason most Christians hesitate to accept that dream and act upon it comes also from the Bible, from all the wars that are recorded and celebrated by God's people, all the wars that are authorized and even commanded by God.

Early in his career as prophet, Mohammed is commanded by Allah to make his will known to the people, and the judgment that will fall upon them should they not obey his commandment.

If God says «destroy these people» then it is HIS command, not something done arbitrarily by the people.

In social life, God commands that all cases shall be judged with equity; justice and charity are required; no injustices shall be done to people because of hatred toward them; all life is made sacred by God and may not be ended except through justice.

But when they are devoted to establishing growing churches, then they create partners in the task of proclaiming the Gospel, making disciples of all people and teaching them all things commanded by our Lord».11 McGavran was critical of the social activities of missions as a preparation for the Gospel.

When people see God taking the blame for the violence and evil of His people (sometimes by «commanding» them to do it), they feel that they must somehow justify the violence and explain how it is really «good.»

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

64 Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night [m] and steal Him away, and say to the people, «He has risen from the dead.»

Jeremy i think satanic forces is more likely in that particular storm with Jesus and his disciples in the boat that was to test his disciples faith and they failed the test.Jesus rebuked the storm there was a power that was out to destroy them why else would he rebuke it maybe he was waiting foir them to rebuke it themselves they had prayed for people and seen healing they had commanded evil spirit to come out of people so they were aware of the power of God.Yet they were in fear of there lives faithless and afriad.Paul on his way to rome was caught in a storm and through an angel paul was told many would die Paul interceeded for the crew and lives on board and God promised that all would be spared.Paul had warned them before the voyage that it would end in disaster but they did not listen.Satan wasnt happy with that plan because he had hoped to kill as many people as possible there was over 300 souls on board and many had been expected to die.So satan attempted to kill Paul and he was bitten by a snake but satan is no match for Jesus Christ he has been defeated and so Paul lived and continued to preach the gospel was many being saved.brentnz

Jeremy I believe you answered the question in another discussion why God seemed evil by punishing other nations i prefer the word you used which is judgement.God weighs up the hearts and then judges fairly thats not evil in fact he weighs up all the factors before he makes his decision and his decisions are perfect and wise.When he commanded Israel to wipe out other nations it was Gods judgement on these nations because of the evil they had committed in alot of ways its exaggerated because they did nt have Christ to shield them like we have if anything it shows how merciful God is towards us today.In those days gods judgement was quick and immediate.What happened to Israel when they broke the laws God gave them they immediately fell into judgement often resulting in many deaths to there own people until the sins of the people were dwelt with.So even for Gods people it was a conditional on there attitude and actions towards God.Again we see God is merciful to these previous nations that were destroyed as Christ after his crucifiction went and preached to them giving them the opportunity to repent so again we see God is still merciful.His word is true The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.

In both passages, however, there are no instructions or commands for God's people, either then or now, to give a portion of their income to God by giving it to the priests.

The mandate is to go with every sense of having been fully commanded by God, allowing no place or persons to be excluded, and making plain the whole of Christ's teachings.

During the days when Hebrew speaking peoples were the only ones obeying God's commands, when a man fell on hard times provision was made for him to sell himdelf into slavery to another man, who was bound by law regarding the treatment of his laborers.

By the machinations of this anarchic and arbitrary spirit, for a time wholly in command of the executive power, the strongest bulwark of any government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed — I mean the attachment of the people.

Paul argues that we do not have a licence to sin.because of grace If christians continue to sin and grieve the holy spirit they clearly arent walking by faith or abiding in Christ.There has to be an ongoing repentence in the christians walk that leads that person to become more like Christ.It is true that salvation is a gift of grace received by faith however the word also says that we called to walk by faith otherwise it is impossible to please God and if we love him we follow his commands not willfully disobey.If we do nt continue to abide in Christ and turn from sin then i think we can risk Christ saying to us that he never knew us.Like everything that God offers us we must meet his conditions that are only possible in Christ..

, just published in paperback by ISI: «As more and more populations are added to the immense «global middle class,» each people is commanded to divorce itself from its culpable past» one said to be defined by intolerance and oppression.

According to chapter 1, in which Hosea appears in the third person, the prophet is commanded by Yahweh to marry a prostitute and to accept offspring of this union whose paternal status must in fact remain in doubt.

Developed through the four cardinal virtues — prudence (practical wisdom), justice, courage, and temperance (perhaps better styled today, «self - command»)-- freedom is the method by which we become the kind of people our noblest instincts incline us to be: the kind of people who can, among other possibilities, build free and virtuous societies in which the rights of all are acknowledged, respected, and protected in law.

Luther was beginning to sense the growing power which his person now commanded, as fragments of news were brought to him by Hans von Berlepsch.