Not exact matches
Located in Manhattan's historic financial district, The
Dead Rabbit is a classic Irish pub that embodies the
spirit of Old New York.
Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your
dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the
spirit of freedom
of religion in what it advocates.
To think that some bunch
of people, from one particular religious sect, can unilaterally decide to say some
dead person is «baptised», and to think that such a declaration means anything at all for the
spirit (if any)
of the deceased, is bizarre.
Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is
dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith
of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident
of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life
of Words
of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am
of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy
Spirit, even
Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words
of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word
of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher
of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.
Let me just ask one question: Can we PLEASE start the debate in the country about how «God», «Hell», «Heaven», «Satan», «Muhammad», «Jesus», «Angels» «Ghosts» «Demons» and «
Spirits of the
Dead and or / Nature / Mother Earth» do not exist in any rational form as the way they are presented throughout world history?
Notice that He (Jesus) spoke directly to the (
spirit) person
of the
dead childs body (her corpse), not to her parents according to their faith only.
The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf, died on the Holy Cross for the remission
of our sins (became sin and curse for us) descended to hell and defeated death (keys
of which were held by Satan,) rose from the
dead on the third day bringing us eternal life and reconciliation with God the Father, then ascended to Heaven promising us the Holy
Spirit and preparing the place for us.
Spirits of the
dead do not exist.
He has worked powerful miracles down through the ages through people who claim to receive their power from the
spirits of the
dead.
Baptism
of the
Dead does not mean that the
Dead wil accept it in the
Spirit World..
Romans 8:11 If the
Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his
Spirit who dwells in you.
The timing
of what you post today goes with the section talking about «he will come again to judge the living and the
dead» which is where I would guess that there'd be that change in the axis on your theory from things understood
of Jesus to things understood
of the Holy
Spirit.
The Holy
Spirit is with millions (just ask) at this moment and Christ rose from the
dead about 2,000 years ago which is close to the end
of what is typically considered ancient history (476AD).
In fact, methinks, instead
of maintaining an openness to the
Spirit, it tends to enshrine the opinions
of men — particularly
dead, white ones.
At the word
of God the scattered bones come together and clothe themselves with flesh and skin, and at the blast
of a great wind (which is the breath, or
spirit,
of God) the
dead bodies come alive, «an exceeding great army».
I also think that we've been given the Holy
Spirit through Jesus and the fruits
of the
Spirit taste like paradise to me and I am satisfied to eat His flesh and Drink His blood to be one with His body... which seems to be both
Spirit and flesh as He reunites the
dead and the living.
concerning his Son, who was born
of the seed
of David [as far as his human nature went], but who was marked out as the Son
of God with power [by the holy
Spirit] through resurrection from the
dead — Jesus Christ our Lord.»
2.9 - 11); he is made «Lord and Christ» as the inauguration
of eschatological existence at Pentecost (Acts 2.36); in this sense he is «appointed Son
of God according to the
Spirit of holiness by the resurrection
of the
dead» (Rom.
159:4.7 «The authority
of truth is the very
spirit that indwells its living manifestations, and not the
dead words
of the less illuminated and supposedly inspired men
of another generation.
He is surrounded by an entire society
of magical beings — his son Merlin, the Holy Leprechaun
Spirit, the good fairy Mary, thousands
of other fairies, pixies and the souls
of many millions
of dead people.
«Because the Orthodox Faith affirms the fundamental goodness
of creation, it understands the body to be an integral part
of the human person and the temple
of the Holy
Spirit, and expects the resurrection
of the
dead.
But Sir, God never intended to cause pain to people.Our
spirits were
dead after we sinned (became self loving) because we were designed to exist in the love
of christ.
The Fourth Gospel attributes to Jesus the words, «Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born
of water and the
Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom
of God»; (John 3:5) the Epistle to Titus says the same thing in other language — «He saved us, through the washing
of regeneration and renewing
of the Holy
Spirit»; (Titus 3:5) and in the Shepherd
of Hermas, which in some
of the earliest canons was included in the New Testament, the baptismal water is called «the seal
of the Son
of God» into which they descend «
dead,» and out
of which they come «alive.»
Even so, the
spirit of the academic community as a moral community, or, as Josiah Royce put it, a community
of interpreters, is not entirely
dead.
From this perspective it would even be possible to understand Christendom's religious reversal
of the movement
of Spirit into flesh as a necessary consequence
of the Incarnation, preparing the way for a more comprehensive historical realization
of the death
of God by its progressive banishment
of the
dead body
of God to an ever more transcendent and inaccessible realm.
Or was it only an event in the lives
of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their
dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was
dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose
spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim
of following in his footsteps?
Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a
dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the
dead they came to life that is the power
of the holy
spirit and that power is in all
of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz
Indeed, it is You who is Knower
of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son
of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure
Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form
of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the
dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children
of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
As for death... we are already
dead (in our sins) unless we receive the Holy
Spirit, are born again to the new life in Christ and follow Him by the leading
of the holy
Spirit that dwells in our heart.
Gazing into the depths
of the immense complex
of which he is a part, whose roots extend far below him to be lost in the obscurity
of the past, he again fortifies his
spirit with the contemplation and the feeling
of a universal, stubborn movement depicted in the successive layers
of dead matter and the present spread
of the living.
As the Church celebrates the Resurrection for fifty days, the Church also ponders the first evangelization: the primitive Christian community, in the power
of the
Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history - shattering news that Jesus
of Nazareth, having been raised from the
dead, has been constituted Lord and Savior for the forgiveness
of sins.
«But if the
Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His
Spirit who dwells in you.
The
spirit of an unregenerate man is
dead.
If that man chooses to do any
of the works
of a regenerate believer in Jesus, he can — from his
dead spirit and from his natural soul, ultimately from a source
of fleshly self - pride.
O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms
of their patriot
dead; help us to drown the thunder
of the guns with the shrieks
of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane
of fire; help us to wring the hearts
of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes
of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports
of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds
of winter, broken in
spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge
of the grave and denied it --
Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy
Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape
of clay as it were the likeness
of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the
dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children
of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those
of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.
Scripture is quite clear that a man's
spirit is
dead, or spiritually non-existent, rendered incapable
of somehow mustering up an ability to believe God.
At the season
of the Bon dance in mid-July — when, according to Buddhist belief, the
spirits of the
dead return to visit the living — Watanabe honors his father according to Buddhist custom by placing fruits before his picture, symbolically to nourish his soul.
Pulaya medicine men and witch doctors claimed secret and close communion with the
spirits of the
dead and performed mantravadam or sorcery.
The congregation may burst forth in exuberant
spirit (Acts 2) or they may drop
dead of fear (Acts 5).
A
dead spirit perceives only the things
of man and Satan (Spencer, TULIP, 34).
«God is
dead» are words that may only truly be spoken by the Christian, not by the religious Christian who is bound to an eternal and unmoving Word, but by the radical Christian who speaks in response to an Incarnate Word that empties itself
of Spirit so as to appear and exist as flesh.
Many ancestral «religions» (a relatively new contrived word) have not gods, just
spirits of dead ancestors or places or things.
In Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira are struck
dead for the sin
of lying to the Holy
Spirit.
«Paradise» is a Persian word, and it reminds us that in Jewish thought was emerging — along with the older idea that the
spirits of the
dead would dwell in Sheol until the final resurrection and judgment — this newer idea that the righteous went immediately to their reward after death.
Folklore and religion, therefore, emphasized the «
spirit of the soil» as against the scientific view that saw soil as
dead matter.158 It is this close relationship between humankind and the earth that led L. H. Bailey to remark,
«To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the
dead according to the Scriptures, and that He now offers the forgiveness
of sins and the liberating gift
of the
Spirit to all who repent and believe.»
Prayer for First Sunday
of Advent: «Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works
of darkness, and put on the armor
of light, now in the time
of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the
dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Just as in so much
of Paul's language the Jesus who was raised from the
dead must be understood in terms
of spirit, so also this remains the most satisfactory, if not indeed the only, category in which to understand the nature
of the risen Christ.
If you had had sufficient faith to follow the rainbow's
spirit - path, it would have taken you to its heavenly end, where the pot
of gold is — along with the souls
of dead people.