Sentences with phrase «descending upon man»

The word «grace» has been almost mined for many thoughtful Christians because it has been mistakenly interpreted as if it means the sheer mercy of God descending upon man apart from any moral demand or human effort.

Sometimes they held that, since the true God can never suffer, the spiritual Christ descended upon the man Jesus in the form of a dove at his baptism; Jesus then perfected his virtues and announced the Father; but before his sufferings and death the Christ withdrew again from the man Jesus, and it was only the man Jesus who suffered and died and rose again.

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The author of the Fourth Gospel, at the point at which he is about to launch Out upon his account of the public career of Jesus, tells his readers what they are to look out for: «You will see heaven wide open, and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.»

All of them, both the women and the men, receive empowerment through the same gift of God's Spirit that had descended upon Jesus at his baptism.

When the Holy Spirit descended upon the first Christians at Pentecost, Peter drew from the words of the prophet Joel to describe what had happened, saying, «Your sons and daughters will prophesy... Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy» (Acts 2:17 — 18).

The Spirit descends upon 120 praying men and women filling them with itself.

Jesus recalled Jacob's vision to Nathaniel, telling him, «You shall see greater things than these... You will see heaven thrown open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man» (Jn 1:50 - 51).

If, in turning to this theme, we could descend upon our subject from above like Catholic theologians, with our fixed definitions of man and man's perfection and our positive dogmas about God, we should have an easy time of it.

Yet he remains always in God and in his love, as Christ says in John: «Truly, truly I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.»»

Compared with such a noble complexity, in which ascending and descending movements seem in no way to jar upon stability, in which no single item, however humble, is insignificant, because so many august institutions hold it in its place, how flat does evangelical Protestantism appear, how bare the atmosphere of those isolated religious lives whose boast it is that «man in the bush with God may meet.»

In the last three weeks a curious sort of fame has descended upon a tall, dark - haired young man named Dick Ollen, and with it a nickname that could stick to him for life.

Coralie Fargeat's aptly - named feature film debut follows Matilda Lutz as Jen, initially drawn as a shy wallflower who is desperate to be loved (especially by her boyfriend, played by Kevin Jannsens), who is pushed to wild extremes when she's violated by the man she loves and his loutish group of friends who unexpectedly descend upon what was meant to be a quiet weekend away.

The shifting surface of «Blue Devils» reveals a black man in a hooded sweatshirt inset with a design that almost resembles a medieval suit of armor, standing in the center of the frame surrounded by indistinct policemen, who descend upon him in an anonymous, hostile mass.

If you know anything about native americans from the southern tip Argentina to the northern tip of Canada, (both which are farther in either direction then Chile and Alaska,) there's two things that are striking very few city civilization like ancient Egypt or ancient India, and very few farmers up until the white men descended upon their poor ar — .