Sentences with phrase «by giving them a passage»

So, for example, if students have learned about World War II, and you test their comprehension or analytical skills by giving them a passage about the War in Vietnam, they may or may not do well.

Not exact matches

The Colorado Republican said passage of his bill is time sensitive given the actions taken by the Maduro regime and the suffering within the country, which he warns could become the next Cuban - style dictatorship.

And yet last week, given an opportunity to tweak their bill before final passage, to make it something the American people might like a little better, the main change Republicans made was to lower the top tax rate — the rate paid by the richest Americans — even more.

Southwest Airlines is joining other corporations in giving its employees a $ 1,000 - bonus, inspired by passage of the Republican tax reform package.

@Russ, Even in the passage you've given, it speaks of the person examining themselves, not being judged by someone else.

We can debate the number or percentage of violent passages that were given by God to his people in the Torah (Bible — Old Testament)(More than 800) or in the Qur» an (a little over 300) during times of War.

In this work he commented one by one on all his writings, giving details about the date and circumstances of the work, noting places where he had changed his mind, pointing out passages where he got things wrong, for example where he had cited a biblical text from memory and not gotten it correct.

It is fatally easy to escape the full impact of a difficult passage by giving it a non-natural meaning.

Left alone like this, these passages would seem to give the lie to my assertion of balance in Newman's sermons on sin, as if all he had to say was that the world was riding a toboggan downhill to hell without help from God, and this despite our infirmities bequeathed to us by our first parents.

Just as St. Paul's letters gave early Christian commentators examples of how to interpret the Old Testament in light of Christ, so the Church Fathers stretch our exegetical imagination by showing how other passages can be read in that way.

Does it not stand to reason that they will find Bible passages that they claim are commands by God, Jesus, Paul or whoever to give them the money they think they desperately need to pay (sometimes) six figure salaries, and mortgages on multi-million dollar properties?

The much - debated Exodus 21 passage gave instruction to ancient Israel about how to handle the accidental killing of a fetus when a pregnant woman is injured by fighting men.

And while the passage does talk about heaping burning coals on the heads of our enemies, the way to do this, according to Proverbs, is by giving them food when they are hungry and water when they are thirsty.

Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 345 - 346 and 435 imply clearly that (b) is the alternative Whitehead had in mind, for in each passage he presents a situation where a given occasion, X, inherits from another occasion, Y, in its past, which in turn inherits from Z, which is in its past — the point of each passage is to say that X inherits doubly from Z, both immediately and as mediated by Y. Z is not in the immediate past of X, and yet X is exhibited as prehending Z directly.

Take, for example, such a passage as the following; it is given by Matthew and Luke with slight verbal differences, but the general structure is unmistakable:

One person said that if Christians would be honest (and stop cherrypicking their favorite passages to live by while ignoring the difficult ones), they would come to the conclusion that God is nothing more than a giant hand that gives and takes away.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

I will complete my remarks by reading an extended passage from Whitehead which presupposes the technical matters I have tried to clarify and which gives something of the flavor of what Whitehead himself might have wanted to contribute to a symposium on evaluating education.

The bible doesn't give the believer a method by which he can tell which passages are to be taken literally or figuratively..

=========== @momoya «The bible doesn't give the believer a method by which he can tell which passages are to be taken literally or figuratively..»

But often these passages in the Old Testament will state that the instructions were given by God, and if we read these texts in the light of Jesus, then we understand that although God was not telling them to do such things, He nevertheless inspired them to write what they did so that He could take the blame for their sinful actions.

My conclusion would be that even if we give full value to the Pauline passages quoted by Neuhaus, the Gospel warnings could still be understood as predictions that some will be condemned.

The question, however, is the acceptability of the picture presented by materialist physicalism, according to which physics is supposed to be able, in principle, to give a complete causal account of every physical occurrence, even when such occurrences occur in human bodies, For example, Kim says, in a parallel passage, that rejecting the closure of physical theory

These passages give every evidence of being crafted by thoughtful and deeply experienced writers who are trying to communicate what it means to live by a radical trust in God in the midst of terror, enmity and death — some of the greatest challenges to faith.

It is sometimes impossible to date a given passage, and prophetic utterances separated in time, and even in reverse order, may sometimes be found side by side.4

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.

A pastor who teaches the passage this way will argue that we give our tithe to Jesus by giving it to the priestly representative, which in our day is the pastor or the church.

He gave them deliverance from the Egyptian army by giving the Hebrews safe passage through the Red Sea.

Given the parallel drawn in the passage by Whitehead between the consequent nature's evolution and the evolution of the world, and given the contrast he made there between the consequent nature's evolution and the completeness of the primordial nature, we can only conclude that since the consequent nature evolves it is incomplete, it grows, and it chaGiven the parallel drawn in the passage by Whitehead between the consequent nature's evolution and the evolution of the world, and given the contrast he made there between the consequent nature's evolution and the completeness of the primordial nature, we can only conclude that since the consequent nature evolves it is incomplete, it grows, and it chagiven the contrast he made there between the consequent nature's evolution and the completeness of the primordial nature, we can only conclude that since the consequent nature evolves it is incomplete, it grows, and it changes.

Given his dipolar theism, Hartshorne must also be interpreted in this passage as affirming not that the «eternal abstractor» has an immutable vision of the categories in every actuality but that each divine feeling recognizes anew that it bears a categorial essence which will also have been borne by all other divine feelings.

Only by taking texts out of context or by giving partial exegesis of passages can one derive an exclusivist, separatist or communal interpretation of baptism.»

He not only used it but also provided the classical proof that it was written by Luke: the detailed information given in the «we - passages» (Acts 16:9 - 18; 20:5 - 21:18; 27:1 - 28:16) proves that it was written by a companion of Paul who went with him to Rome; this companion must have been Luke, in prison with Paul at Rome (Col. 4:14) and later (II Tim.

If people think the initial vision of Whitehead, which reveals such a different vision of nature as given to us in bare sense - awareness, ought to be explored — and if it is explored you get a very new, very wide set of possibilities for science — then one ought to start by flying to find out what his units of the passage of nature are — namely these «factors» which he also calls durations.

But based upon a plethora of New Testament passages, Christians have also recognized that there IS indeed also a technical usage of the term «the gospel» that came into effect after Christ's resurrection that refers not to good news in general, nor to the general revelation of God given through the Old and New testaments, but to the specific message that must be preached to the lost and must be believed by the lost to receive eternal life.

Because the passage in Von Rad is crucial to what I am trying to say, and because it is in my judgment still the best interpretive statement on the primeval story in Genesis, I presume to give here my own translation, indicating and / or retaining a few of the key German terms employed by Von Rad:

Lee Dixon clarified the misquote by giving more scope to the passage by saying that when Wenger initially arrived at Arsenal, Adams, like many of the Arsenal players were not exposed to the training regime that Wenger brought with him.

- A story in the Aug. 7 Du Page section erroneously reported the vote by an informal task force urging support for legislative passage of a bill to give municipalities additional powers to quickly acquire property for flood control projects.

«It is obvious that a serious loss is experienced by the women... who gave birth to children who are subsequently adopted by someone else...» She explains why the grief of these women does not diminish with time, but increases in intensity with the passage of time.

The Assembly gave long - awaited passage to a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice — but not before a lawmaker — Brooklyn Assemblywoman Rodneyese Bichotte — emotionally recounted how as a 10 - year - old she was molested by her pastor.

That amendment was given first passage by both the Senate and Assembly, and got second passage by the upper house in 2007.

New Yorkers favor the passage of a bill to give child sex abuse victims more time to file criminal charges and civil lawsuits by a wide margin, yet that proposal — the Child Victims Act — has once again died in Albany.

State Sen. Marty Golden (R - C - I - Brooklyn) announced that the New York state Senate this week gave final passage to a bill that helps fight the high cost of prescriptions by preventing consumers from overpaying for medications.

The proposal floated by Krueger and Samuels would use licensing fees of approximately $ 8 million a year from each of the seven casinos authorized under the constitutional amendment, assuming, of course, that's it's given second passage by the Legislature this year — not a foregone conclusion — and also passes muster with the public in a referendum vote.

To review: The amendment, which doesn't include any detail about where the seven casinos would be constructed, has been given first passage by the Legislature.

The proposals in the Klein package are sweeping and stringent, but passage of the entire proposal seems unlikely given the opposition by Senate Republicans to public matching and the concerns the influential minor parties that would be hurt by the repeal of Wilson - Pakula.

«Whether it's voting to give free college tuition to illegals or allowing his campaign to be completely taken over by groups pushing for the passage of legislation that would give illegals the right to vote in our elections and serve on our juries, Todd Kaminsky has consistently put the «rights» of illegal immigrants ahead of the rights of law - abiding Long Island taxpayers and their families.

For this amendment to go to the voters for their approval, it would have to be given second passage by the Legislature elected in 2006.

With the transfer approved by the legislature, its final step before passage will be the signature of County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef, a high likelihood given the executive's perceived eagerness to address the financial problems surrounding the facility.

House Speaker Paul Ryan — fresh from celebrating passage of a health care bill in the House that would leave 24 million people uninsured and give a generous tax cut to billionaires — headed to Success Academy I in Harlem on May 9 for a personal guided tour led by Eva Moskowitz.

Jones then proceeded to give Obama credit on the passage of 26 key legislative measures - almost all of which had been pushed by other state senators for years - thus giving Obama a record of sorts to go with all that charisma.