Not only does it reduce damage
done by enemy melee attacks and incoming bullets, but it's especially important for dealing with explosives, fire, and dropping from huge heights.
There's no way to block incoming damage and the amount of damage
done by an enemy attack seems entirely random.
Not exact matches
Scientists don't want to douse half the country in pesticides, so they're trying a craftier approach
by enlisting the emerald ash borers» natural
enemies.
But as Bharara said, «Sometimes you want to judge a person
by their
enemies, and I don't mind that so much today.»
In so
doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the
enemy that we brought into the world
by our rebellion, which is death itself,
by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!
By locking out Israel and opening negotiations with Islamic terrorists, what kind of a message
does that send to our allies and our
enemies?
And when one
did get used in a story (
by Peter on a Roman guard) â $ «Jesus â $ ˜healedâ $ ™ his
enemy â $ «not struck him down.
Sorry to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used
by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition
did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor
did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to
do so.
My last tour an
enemy soldier was shot
by my squad as he lay dying and as all solders will
do, I stayed with him.
Luke 6:35 But love you your
enemies, and
do good, and lend, hoping for nothing... John 13:35
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have... Ephesians 5:1 Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children; 1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God
does not commit sin; for his seed remains....
Do you understand that enmity makes us
enemies of God
by nature, especially when we rationalize a life apart from God.
SO FAR WE HAVE BEEN OUR MOST POTENT
ENEMY LETTING THIS GUY
DO WHAT HE PLEASES
BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.
Christians who want to defend our faith are being duped
by the Father of Lies into falling for a story that says Islam is the
enemy and therefore anything we
do to fight Islam (including posting obvious lies, including inciting hatred for men and women made in God's image) is justified.
We don't want to compromise their situations still more
by making them seem a kind of
enemy in the camp.
Since we also want to be drawn closer to Jesus, we recognize that we
do not yet have all the truth, and anyone — absolutely anyone, even our worst
enemy — can be used
by Jesus to draw us closer to Him.
I
do, however, want to offer this as gently and as lovingly as an anonymous blog - comment will allow: It seems as though you have been defining yourself, in part,
by your
enemies.
They call me the King of Darkness, when I offer you no pain Why would they label me heartless, when your love is my cocaine And your soul is my Rogaine, I have a thirst to know your brain When you enter my domain got ta take this number for your name But you don't have to drink cyanide, I'm gonna be right
by ya side If we got ta take that riot ride, on the
enemy and defy your side Fight for the place we're building, for the reproduction of more children Trying to get that number back around 6 billion, I'm gonna rule until then Founded this colony like a pilgrim, anybody try to penetrate this section or threaten we KILL THEM
Only
by loving our
enemies and praying for them
do we act as children of God.
The truth is that you atheists / unbelievers are humiliated, and never cease to be humiliated
by the
enemy of your souls, and don't know that he's MAKING FOOLS out of you!
But I forgive my
enemies for they know not what they
do, and I would kill them if they were trying to kill me, or you, but there would be no malice in my heart, only thoughts of preserving your life, mine, or any other threatened
by those who choose to violently take that which God intended to live.
It has to eliminate its
enemies, set up new structures; and that, of course, can be
done only
by violence.
It's like saying that, while Vlad may have been a pretty bad guy who impaled his
enemies by ramming poles up their wazoos, that doesn't mean that we should believe that he could turn into a bat at will and didn't cast reflections in mirrors.
«if your
enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for
by so
doing you will heap burning coals upon his head.»
That is —
by doing good to your
enemy, you are
doing the very thing that will cure him of being your
enemy.
When asked
by his allies and
enemies alike as to their purpose, president Ahmadinejad
did say that they were «purely decorative.»
Even, at times when I truly begin to feel intensely guilty for my thoughts and fear punishment, I remind myself that God even has mercy towards Satan, the very
enemy of God,
by not utterly and completely destroying his existence but given him free will to operate in this world and to
do evil.
Yet the country is, perhaps unavoidably, being subjected to confusing messages: be vigilant but not afraid; be prepared to sacrifice, but
do your patriotic duty
by going on a shopping spree; everything is different now, but defy the
enemy by returning to business as usual.
Christians are called to treat their
enemies in the same way that God
did in Christ, not to distort that example
by appealing to reason or prudence.
To the contrary, «if your
enemy is hungry, feed him, if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for
by so
doing you will heap burning coals on his head.»
Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates
by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them
by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the
enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he
does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz
The words of Christ in Matthew make it plain that Christ knew that God loves His
enemies, and even blesses them
by sending them rain and sun even though they
do not «deserve» His love and blessings.
In sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough
by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand -
by, the
enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» together.
Vegetius tells us that when arranged in this way, and when each soldier understood that all he had to
do was stand his ground, his little six -
by - six foot section of ground, that those 16 men could stand up against 500 attacking
enemies!
For though we were His
enemies, and He had the only «just cause» in history, He
did not seek to defeat His
enemy by putting us to death, but
by facing death Himself.
So stop
doing that and it will be possible again» (of course you can't repent while you're in the middle of siding with Christ's
enemies by taking refuge in the their tents — whether it be
by going back to the Law for the Jews, or going back into a life of sin.
I
did not think that God prove retaliation... (
by our own hand anyway) In the case of Samson tied torches to the tails of three hundred foxes and set them loose in the fields of the Philistines to set the fields afire, I
did not see that God told Samson to
do that... so, God
does not contradict with Jesus regarding treat the
enemy...:)
And while the passage
does talk about heaping burning coals on the heads of our
enemies, the way to
do this, according to Proverbs, is
by giving them food when they are hungry and water when they are thirsty.
I acted nice to my
enemies hoping that
by doing so, they would roast and burn in hell forever.
But he
does so poorly
by taking a very complex issue, oversimplifying
by taking only a few specific passages into consideration (i.e. «Love your
enemies,» «Bless those who curse you,» and «Turn the other cheek»), and reaching a single, all - encompassing conclusion.
«The greatest crimes, the greatest «sin» of Mohammed in the eyes of Christian West is that he
did not allow himself to be slaughtered, to be «crucified»
by his
enemies.
Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their
enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain
by reacting and not
by words and cries since words and cries seem
does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?
It is Calvin who writes in May that year: «My very dear Brothers: the king has peremptorily refused all the requests made
by Messieurs of Berne... All earthly hope is gone; they will be executed:»... let
enemies do their utmost, they never shall be able to bury out of sight that light which God has made to shine in you...» (Ibid., p. 148, 150).
The high moral standard (love your
enemy and
do good to those who
do evil to you) was unattainable (and obviously unacceptable as well)
by Jefferson — who was in fact in rebellion against a government in which the Bible demands he should have been submissive and subject to.
Tacitus
does not appear to believe the charge of incendiarism, but he comments brutally that they were anyhow
enemies of society (and so
by implication deserved what they got).
He is not a god of springs, of a mountain, or of a place (once he was called «God of the mountains,» but this expression was used
by an
enemy of Israel who
did not understand this God!).
Where Plinio Correa de Oliveira focussed on an
enemy which put itself forward in open hostility towards the Church and civilisation as traditionally understood, Trower takes aim at a vague, ill - defined and chameleon - like philosophy which is hard even to identify clearly, a philosophy which
does not really have a name, a philosophy which is frequently embraced
by Catholics and other Christians all unawares that it is not compatible with their faith.
«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts
by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan
does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the
enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the
enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to
do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz
Jack you cant sell what you
do nt have satan already had us under his control through our sinful nature once we give our lives to Christ we are Christs and then are protected from the
enemy he also empowers us so we walk according to our new nature so we wont be influenced
by satan.That is why we must be born again.You need to be saved
by believing in Jesus Christ that he was the son of God and died for our sin then you wont be worried about what you think you have
done or might
do once you believe in him there is no doubt that you are forgiven and saved through the blood of Jesus.jOHN 3:16 say that if we believe in Jesus Christ Gods son we shall have eternal life.brentnz
And if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; not that they were hereby warranted to drink poison, to show what power they had; but should they accidentally drink it, or rather should they be forced to it
by their
enemies in order to destroy them, they should find no hurt
by it: and Papias F24 reports of Barsabas, surnamed Justus, who was put up with Matthias for the apostleship, (Acts 1:23), that he drank a poisonous draught, and
by the grace of the Lord, received no hurt: and the Jews themselves report F25, that «a son of R. Joshua ben Levi, swallowed something hurtful; and one came and whispered to him in the name of Jesus, the son of Pandira (so they call our Lord), and he
did well.»
It is odd that the NCC should expect (if indeed it
does expect) that Americans will be persuaded to repentance
by the declared
enemies of almost everything that constitutes their experience of America.