Sentences with phrase «death as a curse»

Believe it or not, while most people view death as a curse and a punishment from God, a proper understanding of death allows us to see it as a blessing and an act of kindness from God.

Not exact matches

Jesus is spoken of as the second Adam, reversing in his physical death humanity's spiritual death — so there is a sense that the fall is also being undone in Jesus, but that this is coming into fruition gradually, in the sense that the kingdom of God coming both has come and is coming — so a gradual progression away from the curse of the fall should actually be the expectation.

19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.

Randy Alcorn says as much, writing, «Shouldn't we find even greater pleasure in anticipating the day when God will swallow up death forever (Isaiah 25:8), permanently reverse the curse (Revelation 22:3), and unite us with our Savior and eternal family?»

Jeremy how can we be in the book of life if we have no life apart from Christ then when we believe in him we are written into the lambs book of life we can not be in the book of life as we are under the curse of death through sin thats the judgement that fell on Adam and Eve and were cast out of the garden so that they could not partake of the tree of life.To me that your explanation makes no sense at all.brent

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

And it condemned any attempt to blame the death of Jesus «upon all the Jews then living, without distinction, or upon the Jews today,» insisting that «the Jews should not be presented as repudiated or cursed by God.»

«I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;» (Deuteronomy 30:19)

As a result, they brought death upon themselves, a curse upon creation, and surrendered dominion over the earth to Satan.

Thus, it is even more important that we carefully monitor our thoughts and words, as that which comes out of our mouths not only has the power to produce life or death, blessing or curse, but it actually becomes a magnet for whatever realm we align ourselves with.

The alteration of the original curse, which threatened death, to one of profound sleep suggests that the two are not all that different If we do not want to change and develop, then we might as well remain in a deathlike sleep.

Death is prescribed as the punishment for a host of crimes including murder, treason, kidnapping, idolatry, blasphemy, false prophecy, witchcraft, breaking the Sabbath, rape, adultery, incest, perversion, uttering a curse, striking a parent, bearing false witness in a death penalty tDeath is prescribed as the punishment for a host of crimes including murder, treason, kidnapping, idolatry, blasphemy, false prophecy, witchcraft, breaking the Sabbath, rape, adultery, incest, perversion, uttering a curse, striking a parent, bearing false witness in a death penalty tdeath penalty trial.

Explaining death as a magical curse that entered the world because someone ate a forbidden piece of fruit is not even an explanation — it is a childish folktale.

In this respect it is of the same mind as the Deuteronomist, that there is the way of blessing and life and alternatively the way of curse and death.

As he is released from his cursed death and begins transforming his victims into dusty, mummified corpses, the Mummy has the power to be surprisingly terrifying.

The sequence on the ship, in particular, is a vivid existential nightmare unto itself, as the Christians, hovering near death, believing they've been cursed, wonder what God has in mind for them — or if He even exists.

Perhaps in part it's because Death Proof has the curse of second billing, but Tarantino isn't as in on the joke as Rodriguez.

One after another, her closest friends die horrendous deaths, leaving Laura with only a few days to solve the enigma of this haunting curse to save the few friends she has left, as well as her own life.

But Maleficent interrupts the proceedings to grant her own gift: a curse that will sentence the new princess to death upon her sixteenth birthday, a curse that can only be reversed, as she gleefully tells Stefan, with «true love's kiss.»

Alex Pettyfer also stars as a popular but arrogant playboy who is cursed until he can find someone to love him in Beastly and as a young teen who becomes a spy after the death of his uncle in Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker.

Sure, there are darker elements such as the humans» struggle for survival after whatever curse or virus has been unleashed, turning all people who die into zombies, and the Gothic horror element of «debraining,» in which your close friends will remove your brain in the event of your death, just to keep you from becoming one of the undead.

The pace and intensity are still every bit as frenetic; enemies fly at you from all directions and there are frustrating trial and error deaths as one learns the attack patterns of bosses, but Cursed Castilla's finesse strikes a balance that feels almost rhythmic to control while still testing the skills of veterans and newcomers alike.

Giant Sparrow's What Remains of Edith Finch is as much about fear and death as it is about curses.

Controls are tight and responsive on a control pad, a necessary requirement for a precise platforming game such as this, and I never found myself cursing the controller as a result of a cheap death.

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This background as gesture is one device that Mutu often repeats in works such as Riding Death in My Sleep (2002) and Your Story My Curse (2006), lending the images a storybook feel — more a fantasy space than a tangible environment.