Sentences with phrase «destruction of any beings in the world»

The Church is not responsible for the judgment or destruction of any beings in the world of God, but for the conservation, reformation, redemption and transfiguration of whatever creatures its action touches.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forWorld War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld's last substantial rain forests.
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, a war with North Korea is the markets» biggest geopolitical black swan, because it would likely be cataclysmic, with hundreds of thousands dead, the world's fifth - largest metro area, Seoul, suffering massive destruction, and perhaps even nuclear or chemical weapons unleashed on Japan or U.S. bases in the region.
The statement comes after growing concern that increased demand for cobalt is fuelling exploitation of children and environmental destruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which accounts for 60 per cent of world supply.
This does not create a fair playing field and it pulls the underpinnings out from under the WTO, the World Trade Organization, which is the major element in the destruction of the industrial power of Japan, Canada, the US and Europe.
It makes me very nervous that Islam today finds more and more acceptance in the Western World though it is clear that it is a religion of war, evil, destruction, death, sorrow, torture, pain, doom, darkness, backwardness, hatred, revenge, bossiness, etc..
What in the world are you talking about with all of this «the sin of self - destruction by suicide is going to send you to hell» nonsense?
(Romans 8:22,23) The bloody horror of nature's ways, the destruction and tragedy, the manifest injustices and problems of theodicy — all these must be given full scope in any adequate Christian reflection on the world reality in which we are situated.
God is doing something about all the destruction of this world, and has a solution — Faith in His Son Jesus Christ will get you forgiveness of all your sins, eternal life in an immortal body, and everything good you could ever imagine, both now and in heaven.
A Christian conservation charity has said the level of marine life destruction in the world's oceans is «staggering».
So we see that in the case of standard justice, this phrase is a rule of construction and not destruction as befits the them of justice in pursuit of healing the world.
Cobb does acknowledge that «our task is to become aware of how we, as citizens, as theologians and as churches, share in sustaining and strengthening the structures of oppression and destruction which govern our world
If it is through the suffering faithful believers that this mystery is shared in the world, then perhaps deliverance will come from faithful people of the unshackled East and not from a West anesthetized by material comfort and thus still unaware of its own capacity for self - destruction.
And in his annual Message for the World Day of Peace on 1 January 2009, Benedict XVI noted: «The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings
There is no other group of people in the world today causing the kind of death destruction and evil as the Muslim community.
The dramatic destruction of the Twin Towers in New York so grabbed world attention that it has been referred to as the clash of two civilisations.
Recently, for example, planeloads of American fundamentalists have been travelling to Israel to view the site, Megiddo, where they believe the great clash among the nations will break out, and the battle of Armageddon will bring to an end the world as we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old world.
Process doctrines can go the whole way with existentialism in recognizing that man in his freedom may plunge into self - worship, or self - destruction; but this is because the real world has this risk within it, not because God wills that any creature should lose the meaning of life or decrees that any person should lose his possibility of knowing the good and doing it.
In the traditional view of God's eternity as timelessness, enormous difficulty is created in explaining how essentially temporal things like the world and the body can participate in God's timelessness without their ultimate destructioIn the traditional view of God's eternity as timelessness, enormous difficulty is created in explaining how essentially temporal things like the world and the body can participate in God's timelessness without their ultimate destructioin explaining how essentially temporal things like the world and the body can participate in God's timelessness without their ultimate destructioin God's timelessness without their ultimate destruction.
These studies make it clear that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war and, in particular, about three issues — the link between Iraq and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.
no al queda in iraq... they were in iran no weapons of mass destruction... they are all over the world.
Studies show that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war in Iraq and especially about three issues — the link between Iraqu and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.
Nevertheless, the faith that God is the Lord of history; that even atomic energy is God's energy to be used for human good and not for mutual destruction; that no nation is sovereign in its own right but that God alone is the sovereign Ruler of the world — such a faith makes a vast difference in the way we deal with political issues.
The Bible, and the community of faith which produced it, was concerned with faith in one living God, unlike anything ever known to the world — unlike anything ever suggested before, during or since; and, they were interested in how faith in this one living God was able to transform the lives of individuals and the world and to save both from destruction.
Historian Perry Miller, in Errand into the Wilderness (Harvard University Press, 1956), argues that the belief in impending world destruction has been paramount in the Christian West, and that Newtonian physics provoked a serious crisis by challenging that belief, Newton himself researched the Book of Revelation in hopes of restoring that eschatology.
The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.
However, in the rural areas in the northeast and the north, there is a totally different world where people suffer from economic deprivation and environmental destruction - in other words, all kinds of human rights violations.
Even worse was to follow: the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the Russian gulags, the construction of nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, to say nothing of the breakdown of many marriages and increase in petty crime — and all within the nations of Christendom.
They are in fact, godless people and the same sort of people who brought about destruction and misery every where they've gone; from the French Revolution with it's guilotining of tens of thousands of people a year to those who established the Soviet Union at the costs of millions of lives and kept half the world under its iron fists for nearly a century.
The binding of Satan does not mean the destruction of the demonic force, but it does mean that his power is now significantly curtailed, since he is unable to block the advancement of the gospel in the world.
They will continue in a respectful manner to knock on your door, for just as the days of Noah were so are the days today for a warning of the destruction of this old world, its evil, wickedness and people who have complete disregard and disrespect for Jehovah God's creation will face when God's day comes destruction.
The two most basic ideas in this hope of the «parousia» are that the redemption of the world does not require the destruction of creation since creation is not itself evil, and secondly that redemption must come from God since every human action remains with the contradictions of sin.30
He concludes that the ways in which men will deal with conflict are not determined; and human intelligence and control may make possible a world order which can prevent the terrible destruction of violent warfare.22
So it's a bald - faced lie that erecting a shrine to the diabolical world view that justified 9/11 located directly in the path cleared in the wake of it's murderous destruction is gesture of peace.
That Scofield is really speaking of the end time he makes clear both by the phrase «Gentile world power» and by cross-referencing the Daniel 7 passage with a footnote to Revelation 16:14: «The time of the Gentiles is that long period beginning with the Babylonian captivity of Judah... to be brought to an end by the destruction of Gentile world - power,... i.e., the coming of the Lord in glory (Rev. 19:11,21).
Then comes the final cataclysm when all Hell will be let loose before being vanquished for ever in the utter destruction of the present world.
If we fail to acknowledge the infamy of the Hitler - Stalin pact, which consigned these countries to the meat - grinder, and fail to note that most of the casualties and destruction of World War II involved these countries» peoples and their territories, then our picture of the Soviet Union is incomplete — and so is our understanding of what happened in 1989 — 91.
Fire was the means of destruction Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah faced in the Bible's account of the prophet Daniel and his fellow Hebrew exiles in a dangerous world (Daniel 3).
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.
To take the first live a life full of risk and insecurity To take the first option is mediocrity enslavement to the whims of an inhuman option means following Christ in his tribulations, holding fast to his mission, resisting the forces of destruction, sharing in the building of a new world, in which all human beings will actually be free.»
Religion, and the belief in a god in a world of weapons of mass destruction is dangerous.
Further, our lover, Jesus Christ, the incarnate word of God, is implicated in the creation of a world in which, eons before the first man and woman could think to sin, the destruction of all things, animate and inanimate, was inevitable.
According to Crimond, the only hope for humanity is in the revolutionary destruction of the capitalist world of bourgeois individualism.
There is widespread agreement among futurist writers with respect to the most crucial world problems — issues of such magnitude that failure to resolve them will result in enormous destruction, conflict, and misery on a global scale.
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
So based on what a lot of Christians are posting the world is in the crapper, guess the fruits you're talking about is the destruction of the planet your God gave you.
I am convinced that the continued and increased dominance of the complex of capitalism, utilitarianism, and the belief that the only road to truth is science will rapidly lead to the destruction of American society, or possibly in an effort to stave off destruction, to a technical tyranny of the «brave new world» variety.
But that spirit can not survive destruction of belief in a plan and purpose of the world, for that is the very heart of it.
But it may also be an acknowledgment that there are no easy ways out of the impasse - the danger of intensified violence and environmental destruction - to which globalization has brought the biggest democracy in the world.
The destruction of the U.S. democracy & all other governments in the world with be replaced with a prefect world rulership under Christ.
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