Not exact matches
Under the air
conditioning vent in his office, i.e. Lane Pryce's old office (Bert Cooper reminds him brutally
of the «
dead man, whose office you now inhabit»), Don happens upon the crumpled Mets pennant that had been an emblem
of Lane's affection for New York, the city that killed him.
We are forever putting
conditions and qualifications on the love
of God: «If you rid yourself
of your racism, if you vote Democratic, if you accept Jesus as your savior, if...» Such conditional, achievement - oriented, self - made -
men religion certainly doesn't need Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the
dead to make itself plausible and reasonable in an achievement - oriented, you - get - what - you - deserve capitalistic culture.
But death is not simply the inescapable end
of each
man's life; it is also the plain demonstration
of his mortality, a mortality which both
conditions and characterizes everything that he is and does up to the moment when he is pronounced
dead.
As time goes buy the kind defenders
of free will over their rejection to «
dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that
of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense
of many christians.
Dead may i suggest is
dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because
of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning
of dead to fit a view point - because natural
man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this
condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things
of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural
man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the
man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.
The West Indian Day Parade, a rollicking, colorful celebration
of Caribbean culture, music, style and food, rolled through New York City's streets Monday but, once again, was marred by violence that left one
man dead and an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in critical
condition.