Sentences with phrase «crucifying christ»

Further, it makes no sense in that verse to understand repentance in that context; how would an inability to turn from sin be analogous to re crucifying Christ, the ultimate atonement for sin?

Most likely good will come by remembering how wicked people can be and how easy for us to turn into a mob that would crucify Christ and burn Jews.

At a climactic point, after Uncle Tom experiences a vision of the crucified Christ in preparation for his own martyrdom, the slave owner Legere begins to beat him and then suddenly realizes that «it was GOD who was standing between him and his victim.»

God, therefore, did not force those who crucified Christ to make the decisions they made — much less did he will their evil deeds.

By following a crucified Christ, we can face our own vulnerability.

We follow the crucified Christ as people of hope.

It addresses the whole man — in his mind (in which he understands what the Sign of the Cross signifies), in his imagination (in which he perceives the crucified Christ), and in his physicality (in which each muscle stretches to bear the passion in his body).

The radical Christian, who is in quest of a total redemption, must repudiate every religious promise resting upon a perpetuation of man's fallen state, and recognize in the orthodox image of the crucified Christ an image of the victory of that Satan who would bind man to a broken and shrunken condition.

Seeing the crucified Christ the Roman centurion said, «Certainly this man was innocent.»

His point is that we worship a crucified Christ.

It was rather that whether you take the story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely, that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

Yeah, that's how they crucified Christ too.

The good news of the crucified Christ as Luther understood it, and as depicted by Cranach, is both present and removed.

We can not here deal with the theory, first advanced by Hans Lietzmann and then by Oscar Cullmann, of two types of Eucharist in the New Testament: a joyful meal with the risen Christ, and a sorrowful meal in which the crucified Christ is eaten.

Greg presents a spectacular vision of the love God has for all people, as revealed in the crucified Christ.

To believe aright means, then to receive the crucified Christ, to apprehend in his cross the end of all our self - redeeming activity, and the beginning of God's creative redemption.

In December 2005, Venezuelan firebrand President Hugo Chávez castigated «some minorities, the descendants of the same ones who crucified Christ, [who] have taken over the wealth of the world.»

Modern Americans cry «give us qu ** rs»... «Crucify Christ»

That promise which is given in the crucified Christ is the determinant of Christian life.

The way of sacrifice and charity is learned from the crucified Christ and turned into reality through the power of the risen Lord.

The Jews cried «give us Barabbas»... «Crucify Christ».

Paul says that the crucified Christ is both «the wisdom and power of God» (I Cor 1:18, 24).

It may not silence all the critics of the cross, but it will undoubtedly give Christians greater confidence in their message of a crucified Christ and a good and loving God.

There the crucified Christ, now risen with God, is affirmed as the source of the love which overcomes all human or cosmic threats to unity with God.

While I know that my proposal wreaks havoc on many traditional ways of reading some biblical passages, please know that just as with Romans 8:34, I am aware of these texts and simply understand them in a different light — in the light of the love and beauty of the crucified Christ.

The sadomasochistic act covers his need to obliterate his judge and to crucify his Christ.

According to Niebuhr, then, the Christian faith asserts that the crucified Christ is both Truth and Power.

Susan Galloway (who is Jewish) and Linda Stephens (who is an atheist) are examples of the godless who continue to crucify Christ.

Process theology may not be true, but those who argue that it is irrelevant or unimportant have chosen the, wrong, ground How can Christians look at the crucified Christ and say that it does not matter if God is the great companion — the fellow - sufferer who understands»?

has continued to be central for me and because the crucified Christ remains a powerful symbol f transforming grace, I persist in thinking of myself as Christian — however liberal and humanistic.

Our answer, which we have been exploring a little here, is that ultimate goodness and power are not as we may imagine them to be, as the crucified Christ makes clear.

Indeed, had the rulers of this age recognized the hidden Wisdom of God they would not have crucified Christ (I Cor.

What was new in the apostles» message was the proclamation of the crucified Christ (I Cor.

And in Christian faith's never fully cherished identification of God with the crucified Christ, the projection is radically dismantled.

Boyd challenges us to view God through the crucified Christ, and this book helps point us in that direction.

The Lamb who is the shepherd, it turns out, is also the crucified Christ.

What we got on the first Sunday of Lent was a dramatic sort of cross, heavy, complete with a realistic, bleeding corpus, a hanging, crucified Christ, blood and everything.

It was rather that, whether you take the empty tomb story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

suffering is the way of the crucified Christ.

The power of the risen and crucified Christ is now released.

All we need to know about God, ourselves, other people, and the world is found in the crucified Christ.

«I think I made it clear that with a «child» the heart is open, not yet filled with the darkness exhibited by likes of those who crucified Christ.

Chuckles So I think I made it clear that with a «child» the heart is open, not yet filled with the darkness exhibited by likes of those who crucified Christ.

Often to accept secular knowledge as final fact is to crucify Christ afresh on the tree of knowledge.

Here the artist depicts a crucified Christ, skirted with a tallith and encircled by a kaleidoscopic whirl of images, that narrates the progress of a Jewish pogrom.

Clarity It would seem they were oblivious to the potential cult like state of the atheist and secular extremists that have replaced the feared Priests that crucified Christ.

The Bible does not say that «the Jews crucified Christ».

It is the simple fact that in the early Church it was not so much the crucified Christ as the risen Christ that the early preachers preached.

So those who chose to continue with this crucified Christ needed to make new sense of the selves they had formed around this illusion.