Not exact matches
When you go into a man's blog and make offensive and ridiculous accusations, and then call him a
blasphemer, you reveal yourself to be controlled
by hate and fear.
God had seen fit to judge this
blasphemer named Jesus
by hanging Him on a tree, for as the Scriptures say, «Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.»
I think, judging
by your comments, that «we
blasphemers» can go on with our lives very confident that we have nothing to worry about.
After a period of about thirty years, Jesus was arrested
by the leaders of the people and tried before them as a
blasphemer; evidently he had spoken about God in so familiar and intimate a manner that these leaders were scandalized and regarded him as a threat to their position and authority.
Even according to the heretics, Christians, he died a heretic, a
blasphemer, a traitor, a sorcerer, yet despite this he as executed as a non-citizen common criminal
by the Romans on a stick.
The sign of Jonah is in One who was rejected as a
blasphemer by the religious leaders of his time and condemned to death as a criminal
by the political leaders, rising up from the dead and sitting at the right hand of God, and being given a name that is above every other name, so that «at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth» (Phil.
The shocking reversal of the gospel, underscored
by John, is that God is most decisively glorified to us in this execution of a criminal and
blasphemer.
Still, the drama focuses on the seemingly endless torture inflicted upon Jesus
by Roman soldiers at the urging of the Jewish crowd that considers him a
blasphemer, despite the attempts of a sympathetic Pontius Pilate (Hristo Naumov Shopov) to spare him from death.
The
Blasphemer,
by John Ling, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 117 customer reviews.