Sentences with phrase «disobedience which»

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Stop trying to find loopholes in His word and using those defenses as a stepping stone to disobedience which is sin in the eyes of God and for which there is discipline brought on by our own choices.

Jonah's disobedience which lead to the belly of a whale is another example of how God exercised control.

Not exact matches

«But if there was a situation in which employers decided to knowingly continue to hire someone illegally — for example, as an act of civil disobedience — then they could be prosecuted for a felony for harboring illegal workers.»

His comments came the same day First Nations chiefs from Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia held a news conference in which they vowed to resort to large - scale civil disobedience if Kinder Morgan's controversial Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast goes ahead without the consent of local First Nations.

On Monday, Varoufakis formally launched the European Realist Disobedience Front, or MeRA25, which he said would press for restructuring Greece's bailout debt.

For this reason, anyone considering civil disobedience should inform themselves about the consequences, which can be serious.

Disciplinary reports obtained by the Herald show that at Westglades Middle School, which he attended in 2013, he'd been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations.

The difference that Paul points out is that Jesus had a true understanding of God, and thus Jesus trusted God's faithfulness leading to obedience in contrast to the distorted view of God that Adam had which resulted in disobedience.

But there are natural consequences to our disobedience, one of which is broken fellowship and communion with God, which may reveal itself in our inability to pray.

An» «angry Father» [contemplates] the disobedience of man in human sin, decrees to condemn [us] to eternal death... Against which sentence of divine justice the Son interposes Himself... so that in His total sacrifice «the Father is appeased».»

All the acts which I have done expressly to serve thee, and also all the acts which I believe to be neutral and purely human, and also all the acts which I know to be disobedience and sin, I put in thy hands, 0 God, my Lord and Savior; take them now that they are finished; prove them thyself to see which enter into thy work and which deserve only judgment and death; use, cut, trim, reset, readjust, now that it is no longer I who can decide or know, now that what is done is done, what I have written I have written.

Much civil disobedience today, which may look in part to Gandhi for its inspiration, lacks this concern for the conversion of the opponent and even when it is successful creates the potential for future conflict.

And he leaves out the serpent entirely, passing over the lie which motivated their disobedience.

By passing over him as if he weren't a factor, she tacitly points out his culpable silence, without which their shared disobedience was impossible.

So, it says - IF THEY CONTINUE IN FAITH AND CHARITY AND HOLINESS WITH SOBRIETY SHE (EVE) WILL BE SAVED DURING CHILD BEARDING - WHICH WAS HER FORM OF PUNISHMENT FOR DISOBEDIENCE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

and Muhammad subsequently delivered Qur «anic verses 3:152 which indicated that their defeat was partly a punishment for disobedience and partly a test for steadfastness

The underlying theological dynamic here is the sovereign act of creation which brings human beings into being as God's children in spite of their anxiety, disobedience, and guilt.

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

Disobedience to God's will is, therefore, a human choice for which human beings are held responsible.

The decision for obedience or disobedience, which, as late as the eighth century, remained primarily communal, now became primarily individual.

But is not this definition, even though in other aspects it may be conceded to have advantages (and among them this which is the weightiest of all, that it is the only Scriptural definition, for the Scripture always defines sin as disobedience), is it not after all too spiritual?

The civil disobedience was only one part of a larger protest event, Appalachia Rising, which had the support and involvement of other Christian organizations, like Restoring Eden, and even more Christian individuals, like myself.

The condition of the wedding garment is given as solid interpretation [cf. Matthew 21:31, 21:43], but because he brings disobedience to the wedding, and does not have the conduct which corresponds to blessing, he can not be a real participant.

God allowed slavery in that case, which was borne out of Israel's disobedience.

At the end of the passage, Paul listed some of the many sins these people were involved in,» which include gossip, slander, envy, hate, disobedience to parents, etc. (p. 179)

The Devil, on the contrary, is the counterforce which renders man conscious, through disobedience.

Anselm's theory, stated in his classic Cur Deus Homo, runs as follows: because we can not satisfy God's honor, which our sin has violated, Christ volunteered to become human and die for us — thus making good our past disobedience and satisfying our debt to God.

The woman, for her part, also says the thing which is not, albeit in innocence: she answers not the question that was asked, says more than was called for, identifies the forbidden tree as the one «in the midst of the garden,» adds «neither shall ye touch it» to the prohibition, and, most importantly, converts the predicted consequences of disobedience («for in the day thou eatest thereof, dying you will die»; 2:17) into the reason for obedience («Ye shall not eat of it... lest you die»; 3:3).

We do not venture into the way of disobedience though, doing that which we are commanded not to, but rather listen to God, no matter who it offends or what man made laws are broken.

Disobedience to God's word is a sin of course, which we know now because Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and from them we got this so called knowledge.

In conclusion, there is a saying of Jesus which perhaps can show how little it is possible to seek for an ethic of Jesus in the sense of an idealistic doctrine of duties and virtues, or in the sense of an ethic of goods or values; how, on the contrary, the responsibility for all concrete moral decisions is thrust upon man, and these decisions are bound up with the one Either - Or, obedience or disobedience.

Man's sin had deeper roots than willful disobedience; it was, as it were, a demonic power so that it was not Paul who did evil but «sin which dwelleth in me.»

Their «summons to disobedience», Pope Benedict preached, went «even to the point of disregarding definitive decisions of the Church's Magisterium, such as the question of women's ordination... Do we sense here anything of that configuration to Christ which is the precondition for all true renewal, or do we merely sense a desperate push to do something to change the Church in accordance with one's own preferences and ideas?»

An absence of this virtue of faith would seem to be illustrated by another recent Tablet editorial (14 April, «Listen to the People») which affirms: «Disobedience, in theory, includes a rejection of the arguments... against the ordination of women.

Too often there has been a polite acquiescence which either hid grudging acceptance or even worse, what is oxymoronically described as loyal disobedience.

But when they are challenged because of their disobedience they respond, to the great delight of every narrator and hearer of the tale throughout the history of Israel, in the competitive key in which the whole story is played: You've asked the impossible!

His attitude may be called passive resistance, but there is no indication that he practiced civil disobedience, which would have been both futile and fatal.

As they saw it, Israel's immediate destiny depended on a choice in which obedience would lead to freedom and disobedience to slavery, and this choice they set in the mouth of Moses.

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Adam's sin of disobedience to God was imitated by his descendants, but the penalty of death which was given him affected even those who did not, like him, sin.

Our current definition of sin, falls woefully short of dividing that which is simply not as God intended it to be and willful disobedience to a command of God.

(I take your point that failure to achieve this might legitimate peaceful civil disobedience; I wouldn't see that it could legitimate prioritising climate change over democratic means, which has been argued eg by Mayer Hillman).

Another short documentary called Singapore Rebel by Martyn See, which documented Singapore Democratic Party leader Dr Chee Soon Juan's acts of civil disobedience, was banned from the 2005 Singapore International Film Festival on the same grounds and See is being investigated for possible violations of the Films Act.

Even Mayor de Blasio praised the councilmembers» feckless manifestation, citing proudly his own «civil disobedience» arrest in 2013 when he protested the closing of Long Island College Hospital — which wound up closing anyway, after he was Mayor.

Some of the grounds the Federal Government is seeking the revocation of Kanu's bail are that; the offence for which he is standing trial is not ordinarily bailable; that among other conditions for the bail of the 1st defendant is that he should not be seen in a crowd exceeding 10 people; that he should not grant any interviews, hold or attend any rallies; that he should file in court medical updates of his health status every month; that rather than observing all of the conditions listed above, the 1st defendant in flagrant disobedience to the court order flouted all conditions of the bail.

Onnoghen, who had served in acting capacity for four months, had his appointment confirmed by the Bukola Saraki - led Senate after series of questions which bordered on independence of the judiciary, judicial reforms, corruption in the Judiciary as well as disobedience of Court orders.

This follows the recommendation by the House Committee on Public Petitions, which conducted investigative hearing into the «illegal» closure of Peace Corps facilities and the alleged disobedience to subsisting court orders to unseal the premises.

She listed some factors in the current administration which necessitated the petition including «sectional tension, deliberate acts of inhumanity and dehumanisation, gender injustice, presidential profligacy and budget 2016 and disobedience of court orders.»

Lelio, who also directed the excellent «Gloria» and last year's Oscar winner for best foreign film, «A Fantastic Woman,» never shortchanges the desire or the faith, a neat balancing act between the competing elements at the heart of Disobedience, and the success of which makes it so compelling and worthwhile.