Sentences with phrase «call down judgment»

But He doesn't actually call down this judgment right then.

To preach justice, to call down judgment: For the Christian, this universal vocation does not have its origins in history but in the one who broke into history.

When Paul introduces his letter to the Galatians, he is not calling down judgment and condemnation upon his theological opponents.

Not exact matches

According to the Gospel of John (19:13), when Pilate finally decided to have Jesus crucified, «he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha.»

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.»

John used this metaphor to call on people to bear fruit resulting from repentance, warning that if one did not produce good fruit, one would soon be chopped down at the judgment like a diseased tree (Q 3:8 - 9).

written or handed down in tradition and proposed by the church — whether in solemn judgment or in the ordinary and universal magisterium as divinely revealed and calling for faith tamquam divinitus revelata credenda).

Therefore, he sat down in the judgment seat in the courtyard of the Antonia on what was called «the Pavement» (19:13).

There's almost no point in trying to break them down in too much detail because doing so just reminds everyone that these are total judgment calls.

NYC Patrolmen's Benevolent Association boss Pat Lynch referred in an open letter to reporters to the mistaken - identity apprehension of retired tennis star James Blake and called those casting judgment on the officer who took Blake down «un-American.»

Playing Nice Although some questions will ultimately come down to a judgment call, amicable solutions are not a fantasy.

The question comes down to whether you're willing to wait an unknown amount of time to save a couple (or perhaps a few) hundred bucks; it's really a personal judgment call.

It really comes down to a judgment call, he says, noting we're often too quick to dispose of leftovers.

In the end, the decision to let your children watch you play is going to be a judgment call, but if you let them watch the Marvel films and other similar action titles, then it really comes down to your opinion on guns.

This is always a personal judgment call, but if the judge has made your points, then you should slim down your argument.

The Supreme Court has handed down its judgment in Jones v Kernott [2011] UKSC 53, [2011] All ER (D) 64 (Nov) and I for one called it wrong.

They'd have to sit down and figure out how much value that lawyer delivered to clients and to the firm, a difficult exercise that requires a lot of research and judgment calls.

«Obviously» is more a judgment call, but comes down to the question of whether there is a path between the datum and the specific person which a person of average intelligence can see, versus (non-obviously) a hypothetical scenario whereby one might be able to connect a datum to a specific person.

They look at the overall facts and circumstances, and in many cases it comes down to a judgment call.