Sentences with phrase «called wrath of the gods»
Along with such visible manifestations of judgment there is that condemnation in love which has traditionally been called the wrath of God.
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22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?»
(Revelations 19)(when jesus comes back to earth) «And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war», «His eyes were as a flame of fire», clothed in a vesture dipped in blood ``, and «out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.»»
His narrative is interlarded with swift, ejaculatory appeals to God, (E.g., Nehemiah 4:4; 5:19; 6:9, 14; 13:14, 22, 29) sometimes ethically dubious as when he calls down divine wrath on his enemies, sometimes high - minded and devout, but always revealing an intimate sense of the spiritual presence and availability of the living God.
The vessel of dishonor which the potter makes is still something that he wants, and that has a definite use... The instruments of wrath... were what the New Testament calls «vessels of dishonor,» serving God indeed, but with no exalted service.
Romans 1:18 KJV For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Isaiah 5:20 KJV Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
He did not call down the wrath of God on those who seized him, nor summon legions of angels to defend him from the soldiers.
By choosing to live through the flesh, we invite the natural consequences of sin down upon our heads (Paul calls this wrath), which saddens and troubles God.
In this case, furthermore, the intended violence of Christians against other Christians and against non-Christians is something whose «results» include the calling down of God's wrath upon the Church, part of which may well include the secularized crucible of what was once a «Christian culture.»
King may describe his theology as Christian — «this long tale of dark Christianity,» he called The Stand — but his God is one whose power is unmatched but whose wrath exceeds his love, a God with a taste for blood sacrifice, and a God who is prepared to let his people perish for purposes beyond our understanding.
In his 1934 book, The Kingdom of God in America, H. Richard Niebuhr depicted the creed of liberal Protestant theology, which was called «modernism» in those days, in these famous words: «A God without wrath brought man without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.»
TO CALL the Higgs boson the «God particle» is to invite the wrath of many a physicist.
Fight other players to dominate the exiled lands, and even call upon the wrath of the heavens to aid you by sacrificing enemy players on the alters of the gods.
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