This week I am appropriately traveling to Hollywood, a town that owes its fortune to the Western more than to any other genre, for the Western Political Science Association meeting, where I will be presenting a paper titled «Cowboys and
Corpses: The Moral Perils of the State of Nature in the....
It appears that those who insist on the idea of the lost as
corpses that can not respond in any way to God, seem to be not listening to Jesus» parables.
Apart from Jesus Christ, these sinning human
corpses are «the living dead» (Boice, Doctrines of Grace, 74).
During the Korean war, it is reported, inexperienced American troops confronted war's horror in the form of a mound of bloody
corpses by the roadside.
1) FOSSIL RECORD: made of not only bone to stone fossils, but also amber, dehydrated
corpses, footprints in mud / ash to stone fossils, leaf and insect imprints in various forms of stone, along with many other forms of preservation of dead animal / plant life from times long ago.
It was a welcoming scene that would have been familiar in many U.S. homes, except that the pictures were not of smiling family members but of mutilated
corpses and tortured bodies of men, women, and children.
He is more death - conscious than ever, thinking constantly of
the corpses that stare up at him from the ground.
You can eat cookies and drink wine in a temple, not eat meat or eat fish on friday, mutilate your penis, follow an old book, poke yourselves with pins, pray to rotting bits of
corpses... none of us atheists care.
Once the mind is poisoned, then the virgin birth and the reanimated
corpses and the demons are thrown in.
One of Buddhism's most powerful practices is meditation in a cremation ground amid still - smouldering
corpses.
I guess the ruins of the roman emperior in Biblical time, the actual
corpses and burial places of Biblical people, and the places you can see and feel with your own feet and hands, Iserial and Persia, is all an illusion and made up by man.
Since the creatures may have died in less traumatic events left
corpses, the
corpses may have been eaten and then its bones exposed to the weather and then no fossils — But this is only one of many possible answers.
Instead the birds ate the chemical and died en masse,
their corpses littering the parade route.
I found the vision of a bishop falling to the ground after clambering over
corpses rather dramatic.
Resurrection is God's re-creation of the deceased elect, those who are identified in Isaiah 26:19 as the dead who belong to God: «Your dead shall live;
their corpses shall rise.»
She recommended getting rid of both caskets and
corpses, and letting convenience and cost efficiency replace what she regarded as pricey and barbaric display.
The story of man is strewn with
the corpses of his gods just as the victorious march of Sennacherib was littered with shattered idols.
If I lived in one, I would often be using the stand your ground rules, and the lobby would be filled with
corpses.
And at a much cheaper price than if we did it with explosives and bullet ridden
corpses of our young men and women.
Far from being self - righteous toward such living
corpses, she asks God to make her a latter - day ascetic who atones for their deadly self - indulgence.
I had seen lots of
corpses during my career as a reporter, and none of them ever regained life, especially after three days.
Hand - written on old - fashioned four-fold notepaper, it revealed an extraordinary vision that the children had seen, involving a «Bishop dressed in white» whom they took to be the Holy Father, who was shot and fell to the ground as he climbed over a ruined city filled with
corpses.
Does He want anyone to live a rubbish life, walking round like living
corpses and then to die to nothing?
Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, piles of dead, heaps of
corpses, dead bodies without end — they stumble over the bodies!
Weren't reanimated
corpses approaching zombie - apocalypse numbers back then?
Thus says the Lord: «Human
corpses shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves behind the reaper, and no one shall gather them.»
my understanding is that the Greek work can be used to reference either, but the context lends itself to vultures sense vultures are scavengers and the birds Jesus has in mind are eating
corpses.
There could be no doubt about it: The two twin horrors of Soviet power, Marxism - Leninism at home and expansion abroad, were
corpses, irrecoverably dead.
Garbage haulers are to be told that they are carrying
the corpses of babies.
They hewed
the corpses limb from limb, and disembowelled clean, And there was sodden meat and roast, to blunt their hunger keen: Right savory fare it seemed there; they smacked their lips and spake, Farewell to fasts: a daintier meal than this who asks to make?
Even mountains of
corpses and emaciated, half - dead survivors prove nothing for the deniers, who say simply that these are unfortunate victims of typhus or cholera epidemics.
Almost continually we see Jeremiah standing amid a multitude of
corpses:
It is the human endeavor to apply the tests of coherence and comprehensiveness in drawing conclusions about the veracity of certain phenomena — that, for example, axheads do not float on water and the sun does not stand still, that conceptions are not immaculate, that
corpses do not rise from graves.
But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of
corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.
When three sailors were sentenced to 440, 500 and 600 lashes, mates flogged at upright
corpses.»
The game theory seems an embarrassing frivolity in a world where not long ago
corpses were piled like cord - wood.
When dissection of
corpses began to be publicly practiced in medical theaters, medical illustrations — such as those in Vesalius's 1543 De humani corporis fabrica — drew public interest to mapping the interior of human bodies.
«There are people who basically look like animated
corpses.
Just wondering how many people in «the pit» complained about the cross when they were removing
the corpses and twisted steel and breathing toxic dust?
I can't prove that Jesus didn't walk on a lake, transmute water into wine, dispel a rainstorm, wither a fig tree, cure blindness and muteness with his magic spittle, or reanimate a few
corpses, although we call these acts miracles because they're impossible.
«Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead
corpses.»
Aldous Huxley and other science fiction writers imagined that atheistic societies would use human
corpses as fertiliser, but they misunderstood the human psyche.
Actually, this law warned Israel against following the barbaric practices of surrounding nations, who defiled
the corpses of criminals and enemies by displaying them until they rotted.
Respect for
corpses is now much more important than ever.
HeavenSent — that passage from Isaiah talks of rotting
corpses, and therefore death, not of everlasting pain of a still - living body.
It's amazing how «logical» you sound when you defend your own faith... that has had quite a violent history and has left millions of
corpses in its path!
The smell of rotting mice
corpses is not recommended for romance.
For if the mind were the same thing as the brain, then
corpses would have minds, which they do not.
Human history is littered with
the corpses or dead religions, all of which were false according to todays followers.
Ah, so things exist, which clearly indicates a Transgendered Frankengod cobbled together from
the corpses of dead Gods by Bronze Age simpletons created it all?