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.
Not exact matches
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 for
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 for
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 for
world'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 destructio
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 destructio
in explaining how essentially temporal things like the
world and the body can participate
in God's timelessness without their ultimate destructio
in 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.