Sentences with phrase «claim upon her life»

Perhaps it is because the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers wanted to engage God only as a concept, and not as the God - man who lays a claim upon our lives.

The first commandment is nothing less than a command to acknowledge the reality of God's total claim upon their lives.

In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

He believed that as long as he clung to the Good, he possessed a claim upon life.

Not exact matches

The first product he claimed would save lives was a set of sweatbands that he said would inflate upon impact.

While it is true that our past sins are remitted upon redemption, no such claim is made that any single sin committed in the future automatically disqualifies one from eternal life.

He was bitterly opposed to all organized Churches and said that «Moses, Mohamet, and Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit, or to the character of the benefactors of mankind, as any three men that ever lived upon the face of the earth....

John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

The God of the Covenant laid claim upon his people pointing them to a new life and a new destiny.

Some people can live in such tension and find it fruitful, but many find it bewildering, and the church as a whole, even when it has goodwill toward the many claims placed upon it, becomes confused about its mission.

Because we live in a democracy, we bear the burden of persuading our fellows of the worth of our claims upon them.

but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.

Erik Erikson's description of Luther captures several elements in the lives of the «more unique»: «An individual is called upon (called by whom only the theologians claim to know, and by what only bad psychologists) to lift his individual patienthood to the level of a universal one and to try to solve for all what he could not solve for himself alone» (Young Man Luther [Norton, 1958] p. 67).

The only claim the Scriptures have must rest upon the long experience of the group whose religious life is nourished by them.

Recently Western modern theologies heavily dependent upon modern philosophical (epistemological or other) concepts for theological interpretations; and this trend, too, neglected the religio - cultural and intellectual life of Asian peoples for theology, while claiming universality of Western theologies.

The incoherence within the technocratic view of political life is that it simultaneously denies a politics based on the love of honor but showers honor upon those who claim a greater share of reason.

We discover its claim upon us whenever we think the problem of the value of life through to the end.

What is demanded of Christian ethics in our time is to show how we can hold together the absolute claim of the God of love upon every life amidst the ambiguities of our moral situation.

The fact that personal identity in this life depends so little upon the relation to a common body and so much upon unmediated hybrid prehensions of past occasions of the soul's life strengthens the plausibility of the claim that continuity may occur after bodily death.

The language of vocation is problematic not just in its churchly usage (where the distinctions and congruities of «inner» and «outer» calls can trip us up) but in the more common reality of a multiplicity of calls with competing claims upon the stewardship of our lives.

I do not propose to embark upon any analysis or defense of the very particular kind of optimism which does not for a moment claim that we are living in the best of all possible worlds, but only (a quite different matter!)

If this had been an attempt upon Churchhill's life then people would likely have claimed divine intervention.

By the revival of religious emotions, by surrender to God, by commitment to an unselfish life of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, by a renewal of the practice of confession and by the sharing of religious experiences, by reliance upon divine guidance and by a revivification of first - century immediacy and spirituality, it proposes, and claims to solve, the problems of the religious crisis in a practical manner.

He could find them only in the moral demand, the ethical claim, made by the living God upon all mankind.

The principle claims that «a people» has the right to determine its destiny and the disposition of the land upon which it lives without the intervention of outside parties.

Men, women and children continue by the grace of God, to come into a deeper knowledge of themselves, of the meaning of life, and of his claim upon their own lives.

Once the Church had claimed to be the body of Christ, it had already set upon the imperialistic path of conquering the world, of bringing the life and movement of the world into submission to the inhuman authority and power of an infinitely distant Creator and Judge.

It claims that by rooting around in our own egos or by reflecting upon our life experiences as men or women, whites or blacks, we really won't discover much that is worth knowing, unless we know this Jew from Nazareth who is the way, the truth and the life, and are part of a people who follow him.

In the experience of morality we are awareof a claim made upon our consciences to do the good, whatever the cost, even if our lives have to be forfeited.

I know how life on Earth started And in each case provide no evidence whatsoever for their claims, but base them entirely upon Bronze and Iron Age Palestinian writings.

They are to be honored in acknowledgment of God's claim upon every individual life, in acknowledgment that all life is his and therefore sacred; and that the holiness of life can best be affirmed by honoring and respecting those two persons through whose combined life the divine image and animating breath are given.

Though Calvinists may claim that Noah was only «perfect in his generations» because of God's irresistible grace upon Noah's life, the text of Genesis 6:8 indicates that «Noah found grace» in the eyes of God, not that God irresistibly gave grace to Noah.

There will always be new claims upon our attention, new demands for help, as long as we live.

The children may back up the mother's claims, both because they depend upon her and want her love, and because she has control over most of their lives.

Backing his claim with Article 13 of the Constitution which says «no person shall be deprived of his life intentionally except in the exercise of the execution of a sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence under the laws of Ghana of which he has been convicted,» the caucus leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs said, «I do not think that the constitution, in so far as a matter is criminal, frowns upon the use of force to the extent that it may even deprive some other people of their lives.

Journalists at News International could, she claims, call upon this network in «strategic places» across public life.

This horror thriller is based upon the final chapter of the Bible and centers upon Abby Quinn, a pregnant woman living in Venice, California who leases her garage apartment to mysterious David, who seems to be trying to claim the soul and the life of her unborn child.

The laws of reality soon collapse as a nightmare takes hold and claims the lives of those within, one by one, threatening to unleash a supernatural pestilence upon the world.

Maybe some reviews are right about the fact that while Tropic Thunder claims to be a mocking look at the movie industry, it never touches upon the nitty - gritty of their gags (the actors, agents and producer are always comic book figures, rather than clever dissections of real - life counterparts), yet in never being anything less than entertaining, you never realise these problems until reflecting on the movie at a later date.

Advertising executive Cecile (Deborah Twiss, who wrote and directed the film and upon whose real life experiences it claims to be based), therapist Jonathan (Eric Roberts «The Expendables»), and their children...

Blue Ruin is a thriller focusing on the life of a curious man who returns home to claim vengeance upon hearing the news of a recent release of a prison inmate.

«I finally decided upon the latter, because regarding myself as relatively indolent, I... chose the area that was of greater intrinsic interest to me, and thus could claim a greater fraction of my attention throughout my life.»

The «several months» thing for battery life is considerably less attractive when you realize that this is based upon an AMAZON month and an Amazon month is 10 — 15 hours (15 claimed; 10 closer to the truth, at least IME).

The new NOOK Simple Touch Reader has a touchscreen sunlight readable dispay, available in charcoal grey color, weighs 7.5 oz making it 35 % lighter than the original NOOK, has Wifi, a claimed battery life of up to 2 months depending upon usage, and is 15 % thinner than the original NOOK.

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Death benefit payments are dependent upon the claims - paying ability of New York Life Insurance and Annuity Company.

Depending upon what state you live in, you can often claim your itemized deductions in your state even though they were lost on your federal return.

The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) is working with fishers and scientists to halt it in its tracks because the bill (a) risks jobs all across the islands, (b) is based upon activists» unscientific claims that ornamental fishing is environmentally unsound and (c) will leave divers without qualified partners — thus risking their lives.

Back in February of 2007, a car - bomb in Baghdad claimed the lives of sixty men and women and left a number of American soldiers, upon returning home, with severe mental and emotional trauma.

If you have, those who have not are to have an undeniable a claim upon you, your life, and your property you produced by expending that life.