Sentences with phrase «by ancient prophets»

she may have prayed to know if the Book of Mormon is really a book of scripture a record written by ancient Prophets just like the Bible was.

Not exact matches

God also commanded Joseph Smith to translate a record of the ancient inhabitants of the Americas, written by prophets who believed and taught the Savior Jesus Christ established his church under his direction.

There are no precedents by which to discern its meaning, hence the readiness of some Christians to apply the ancient words of the prophets to events in our time.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

Whereas ancient man attempted to bring some influence to bear upon the unseen world by taking his offerings to the holy place where he believed the gods to dwell, the prophets proclaimed that YHWH had come to man where he was.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

I honestly don't care if Mitt Romney wears Mormon undergarments beneath his Gap skinny jeans, or if he believes that the stories of ancient American prophets were engraved on gold tablets and buried in upstate New York, or that Mormonism's founding prophet practiced polygamy (which was disavowed by the church in 1890).

The LDS were considered heretical for their additional texts; their view on God the Father, Son, and Spirit; Christ's visit to the ancient Americans after his resurrection as translated by their prophet Joseph Smith; and so on.

In terms reminiscent of the fervor of ancient prophets, the writer proclaimed that the current epidemic of venereal herpes was a direct punishment by God for people's disobedience of the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae.

The word spoken in ancient times by the prophets becomes fully the Word of God because it refers to the incarnate Word.

By this time there were tons of sects in Judaism because nobody understood the Law and the prophets properly because it was so confusing and written in ancient Hebrew that had probably been modified so many times that nobody knew what it said in the original anyway.

For instance, the books of the prophets must be studied with one eye on the history of the ancient Near East because these men spoke to the problems posed by international affairs.

The ancient monks saw zeal as the virtue opposed to sloth, and in the Christmas readings we find the «zeal of the Lord» invoked by both the prophet Isaiah and the author of the letter to Titus.

The ideas on which the formula was based came out of ancient ancestral traditions; the logic of the doctrine was unassailable once the premises were granted; great prophets, such as Amos, Micah, and Jeremiah, held stoutly to it; and the formula was confirmed and solidified by the final rewriting of the Hebrew historical narratives to illustrate the thesis that every calamity in Israel's record had been a definite punishment for Israel's transgression.

By contrast, the old - fashioned Jesus of the canonical Gospels stands with the ancient prophets to condemn the misuse of power, the failing of community and the pretension of religion.

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

Consider for example the vigorous denouncements by the Old Testament prophets of idols and idolatry among the ancients.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

WHAT: When an ordinary LEGO construction worker named Emmet (Chris Pratt) stumbles upon an ancient artifact, he's declared «The Special» by an underground group of rebels led by the blind prophet Vitruvis (Morgan Freeman), who believes that Emmet is the only one capable of stopping the evil President Business (Will Ferrell) from destroying their world.

The Kaaba (literally «the cube» in Arabic) is an ancient stone structure that was built and re-built by prophets as a house of monotheistic worship.

Like ancient prophets, Gleick prophesied that, without repentance by politicians, «it» was going to get «worse and worse, faster and faster»:

The ancient sages and prophets have been telling us for eons that the awareness created by a deeper level of consciousness, and the resulting «common good» that comes from thinking of others, benefits us all - including you.