Sentences with phrase «by a revelation from»

Rather it came by a revelation from Christ.

«After having been informed by a revelation from God what sin is, then before God in despair not to will to be oneself, or before God in despair to will to be oneself,» is to sin — and certainly it is rare for a man to be so developed, so transparent to himself, that this can fit his case.

The definition of sin which was given in the preceding chapter therefore still needs to be completed: sin is, after having been informed by a revelation from God what sin is, then before God in despair not to will to be oneself, or before God in despair to will to be oneself.

12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ...» (1:11,12).

[40][41][42] Towards the end of the campaign, on October 27, 2017, Astorino was damaged by revelations from testimony in the Norman Seabrook trial.

AS CLIMATE negotiations grind on in Cancún, Mexico, this week, the atmosphere has not been improved by revelations from WikiLeaks of hardball tactics by the US during and after the abortive talks in Copenhagen a year ago.

Its protagonists are long - married couple Geoff (Tom Courtenay) and Kate (Charlotte Rampling) who find their relationship rocked by a revelation from the past on the eve of their 45th anniversary.

Not exact matches

The revelation came after a recent class action lawsuit suggested losses stemming from the breach were greater than that suffered by retailers Target and Home Depot.

CBA's announcement, which was made in a YouTube video by a senior bank executive a day after BuzzFeed Australia reported the data breach, puts further pressure on Australian banks already reeling from revelations of widespread misconduct in a judicial inquiry.

The development could bring an abrupt end to the high - stakes legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on data privacy in the United States, which was inflamed by revelations in 2013 from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs.

Thanks to bold self - revelations from some top names in the industry, greater media coverage (such as this award - winning story from Inc. magazine by Jessica Bruder) and, sadly, the tragic loss of several members of the startup community to suicide, the curtain that once completely walled off founders» mental health struggles is starting to crack open.

Following the revelations, YouTube said it would step up its efforts to prevent children from seeing that type of content by restricting access to inappropriate videos to users that are logged into the site and are older than 17.

The new revelation about Comey's uneasiness with Trump brings to mind a posting last month by Comey friend Benjamin Wittes on his Lawfare blog, in which he said Comey «saw it as an ongoing task on his part to protect the rest of the Bureau from improper contacts and interferences from a group of people he did not regard as honorable.»

Spying by the National Security Agency is another concern in light of revelations coming from Edward Snowden, the former agency contractor turned whistleblower.

New revelations from The New York Times and an admission from Facebook about the improper use of user data by Cambridge Analytica have once again thrown a spotlight on the technology industry's inadequate privacy protections.

[These are the comments I made on a press call just now about the revelations from this article by Ben Penn..

In a tweetstorm this morning aimed at containing the fallout from Wednesday night's revelation by Rudy Giuliani that Donald Trump repaid Michael Cohen for hush money Cohen paid to Stormy Daniels, the president attempted to thread the various legal needles involved in trying to explain how this arrangement did not violate campaign finance law.

President Trump tried to contain the legal and political fallout from his attorney Rudy Giuliani's revelations that Trump paid hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels, which the president had previously denied, by posting a series of tweets early Thursday.

In a hearing held in response to revelations of data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, faced questions from senators on a variety of issues, from privacy to the company's business model.

The company's growth does not appear to have been stalled by privacy concerns, although the revelations about Cambridge Analytica and a #DeleteFacebook campaign that followed from some irate users did not occur until late in the quarter, and could be reflected in future earnings.

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

Perhaps not as drastic as the Dow falling by 8 %, but to see the percentage of marketers who believe their content marketing was effective drop to 30 % from 38 % in one year is a revelation.

Zuckerberg is trying to restore public confidence after recent revelations that information from up to 87 million Facebook users was shared with Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm used by the Trump campaign in the 2016 election.

By returning to the basics of our faith, the fundamentals of what we believe, we open ourselves up to a fresh revelation from God — a new glimpse of His glory and majesty.

Unless of course, you agree with the RCC's response (from your link): «Indeed, the Vatican's early response to the 2002 revelations of widespread Church cover - ups of se -LSB--RSB- xual abuse by priests was to declare that gay men should not be ordained.»

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

They try to explain it away by the «revelation from God» the leadership received in the 1970's.

hey G, I am acquainted with your theory there... it is called Preterism... it is the standard interpretation of Revelation given by liberals... I walked away from that belief and the church I was raised in when I found out what they are teaching... Nope, the book of revelation is not a «code» for the events of the day at the time of the fall of Jerusalem.

Which is to say that the path which the individual life must take is one of growth from nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third, by acting upon its discovery.

For Reid and those of his persuasion, George Bush's suggestion that a precipitous American withdrawal from Iraq would lead to bloodbaths similar to those in postwar Vietnam and Cambodia is blasphemy by a political heretic and usurper against the canonical account of America's Vietnam and its revelation of the perils of American hubris.

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

They differ from other men in that they have been selected by Allah and authorized to receive His revelations through His Angels in order that they may proclaim them to mankind and lead men in practicing their teachings.

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

Wright notes that «Israel was thus constituted, from one point of view, as the people who heard God's word — in call, promise, liberation, guidance, judgment, forgiveness, further judgment, renewed liberation, and renewed promise... This is what I mean by denying that scripture can be reduced to the notion of the «record of a revelation,» in the sense of a mere writing down of earlier, and assumedly prior, «religious experience.»

But again, by Mascall's own account, such a vision apart from philosophic sophistication leads to a fundamental understanding of God that was absent apart from the special historical influence of revelation.

After all, the very Jesus who promised us that «the gates of hell shall not prevail against» his church was transformed by Smith's revelations into a muddled mountebank: The church was indeed quickly prevailed against and taken from the earth.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?).

Nevertheless, in order to understand the genuine sources from which theology legitimizes its irreplaceable intuition, and in order to preserve the revelation - theological relevance of process - theological theory, we may contrast the main position of process theology by identifying the counter question: Can there be found any genuine place for a revealed theology within Whitehead's work so that theology does not have to be subordinated to general metaphysics but, rather, finds its connection to metaphysics in mutual influence?

As Man receives progressive revelation from God, as His Plan for Man is unfolded, He necessarily appears differently because Man is being changed by God's Plan, and as Man changes and Man's understanding of God changes, Man needs to see Him in changing ways.

My experience from helping people struggling with life and misery bears out what you described when you said «He destroys sin by tearing it apart from the inside, not violently, but through love, grace, mercy, forgiveness, and revelation.

Read the whole surah of The Table Spread, especially from verse 47 up to 51; God is revealing a mighty truth: every group will be judge by its own knowledge (its own revelation; its own book).

It means that each soul, redeemed from self - interest by The revelation of Divine Love, is taken and used again for the spread of that redeeming work.»

This guy claims to have been inspired by the scriptures of his choosing, but how that does that differ from anyone else drawing upon their personal revelations of what God is to them.

The Bible was written by many men all with revelation from God not one illiterate prophet.

The 15 % by modern scholars is a view by the more publicized secular scholars who simply work from the premise that the Bible can't actually be a Divine revelation.

Precisely the concept by which Christianity distinguishes itself qualitatively and most decisively from paganism is the concept of sin, the doctrine of sin; and therefore Christianity also assumes quite consistently that neither paganism nor the natural man knows what sin is; yea, it assumes that there must be a revelation from God to make manifest what sin is.

Previously, we mentioned the problems that arise in a situation of religious plurality whenever one religion claims that it is founded by a special revelation withheld from others.

By the way why didn't you quote the scripture from the book of revelation where it talks about Jesus sporting a tattoo on his thigh when he returns?