Sentences with phrase «earthly life as»

What I do know, is that Geologically speaking, we are still in an ice - age (inter-glacial period, but still an ice age as we currently have ice - caps), so I know for a fact that earthly life as a whole will be quite happy once we have moved away from the unusually cold climate and can return to a warmer and more fruitful climate instead.

The close marriage of heaven and earth that Bynum describes meant that religion was as much a matter of earthly life as heavenly joy.

The Church naturally looked on his prior earthly life as the decisive preliminary phase of his total career.

He knows the earthly life as a normal and even more than usually humble human life, glorified only in and after the resurrection.

We are mistaken if, with the fundamentalists, we deny or ignore the fact of this transfiguration and imagine that things always were as they later seemed; but we are likewise mistaken if, in the manner of modernists, we deny or ignore the value and truth of this transfiguration and thus fail to recognize the unity and transcendent meaning of the whole event and the exalted significance of the earthly life as a part of it.

4:4), and that the title «Messiah» or «Christ,» that is, Son of God, was rightfully his during his earthly life - though for Paul the word «Christ» is less a title than a personal name — still Paul thinks of his earthly life as chiefly the scene of his suffering, death, and resurrection, not of his messianic career.

Not exact matches

All mankind from Adam date to the last earthly life date will be resurrected and judged on judgment day then only all will be directed to hell and then save those righteous to heavens... as per verses [19:71] & [19:72].

This subtlety is attractive only to those who can live with ambiguity and uncertainty, those who do not see the earthly city as the site within which to enact messianic projects.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

But this new goal, coming «to share in the divine nature», is not tacked on to the end of our earthly existence as an afterthought; rather, this new goal changes the whole trajectory of our earthly lives.

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During his earthly life, did the people of Galilee, or even his disciples, recognize him as divine?

When Jesus speaks of having life more abundantly, this, I think, is the life he means: a life that is not reducible by division, category or degree, but is one thing, heavenly and earthly, spiritual and material, divided only insofar as it is embodied in distinct creatures.

We are so infected by the prevailing atmosphere of thought, which assumes that nothing can enter our earthly lives from outside, that a great deal of what the New Testament takes for granted does not strike us as realistic or practical.

Where the Eternal does not come to heal such a sufferer, what happens, with the aid of cleverness, is about as follows: first, the sufferer lives for some years by an earthly hope; but when this is exhausted and the suffering still continues, then he becomes superstitious, his state of health alternates between drowsiness and burning excitement.

This is the old faith, just as the last problems of our life remain the old ones: that we should become loving and unselfish, that we should bear the darknesses of existence, that we should finally come to terms with death, that we should do our duty also when we can expect no earthly reward, that we should follow our crucified Lord and Saviour.

Nevertheless, as far as we are concerned, it receives its ultimate truth and fulfilment only when it is celebrated as that «communion» which takes place in the daily round of our earthly life.

It is not merely some one part of our make - up which will be brought to life again: naked, as it were, and without any mode of self - identification and self - expression corresponding, in a spiritual existence, to the physical body in our earthly existence.

I know that there are a great deal more stars in the universe then the number you can state, but mine is the one that gives me, us, warmth, air, food, drink, basically — life - and so as i stated its MY GOD — THE SUN... i stated that there may be lesser gods on an earthly realm, but mine created the earth, and keeps it living.

Certainly Christian life, which is nothing other than the acceptance of the ineffable mystery of God as love, must be accomplished in the concrete details of earthly life, which is determined by the secular forces of science, of politics, of power and also of guilt.

As you are truly devoted to living in the earthly ways.

For he who is not himself a unity is never really anything wholly and decisively; he only exists in an external sense — as long as he lives as a numeral within the crowd, a fraction within the earthly conglomeration.

The New Testament is concerned with that part of this endless story which deals with the earthly life of Jesus and the coming of his Spirit to establish the Christian community and sent his followers out as flaming witnesses of their faith.

Whatever transformation has taken place or will take place in her existence, it is a transformation of an actual life that this corpse was integrally part of as her earthly body.

There, he sought to show how Jesus» earthly life «traced out» each man's journey: Just as Christ is the way for each man, each man is the way for the Church, «the way that leads invariably through the mystery of the Incarnation and the Redemption.»

We desire, as Leon Kass has said, something qualitatively different, «some state... toward which our earthly activities are directed but which can not be attained during earthly life.»

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be a part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more conformed to the life of the world to come.

He had been vindicated in his obedience to what he took to be God's will; the love that had marked his earthly life could not be destroyed but was now secure forever in the divine life — and he was known to his people as a present reality.

Q8) Do you as Christians accept any other Race converts as equal as you are in your Earthly life and at the After life what ever their Race is or Christian Doctrine?

We do not live, as our forebears thought, in a permanent, earthly home where our security is assured by the watchful eye and guiding hand of a parental God.

The limerent person regards the object of love as embodying all earthly virtues and as the one person who can give meaning to life.

Yet even the man Jesus is not tangible for the believer, and never has been, for it was only subsequent to the earthly life of Jesus, that Christian faith was focussed upon the risen Jesus as the Christ of faith.

The mstrengthening of the bonds of the body of Christ, stretching as they do across the divide between earthly life and death, should bring tribute to Christ rather than discredit.

For the medieval mind, perhaps, these images would not have been quite so jarring as they are to us today, for in the pre-modern era it was believed much more readily that the human being Jesus shared in the direct knowledge of the Father throughout the duration of his earthly life.

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the book.

Kass, moreover, characterizes the deep longing as something that «can not be attained in earthly life,» which is just where procreation is located.

But what we have established so far is that the exercise of power in history, the expression of the interests, vitalities, and wills which belong to us as human beings, and even the participation in the inevitable conflict of these interests and vitalities, are not in contradiction to the real human good which is the earthly content of our life in the love of God.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

But here, on this day, death and life were bound up together, and we realized that as Elise was entering a new Christian life, Susan, her mother, was leaving her earthly one.

Many scholars have consequently interpreted it as a resurrection narrative which has been read back into the earthly life of Jesus.34 Whether it stems from an actual experience of the disciples, or whether it is a symbolic account of the much more complex spiritual experience of the disciples after the crucifixion, it is very difficult to determine.

The earthly life no longer appeared to them, or could appear to them, as it had originally appeared.

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin), so as to live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by human desires but by the will of God.

My own faith in him and loyalty to him as the Lord Jesus Christ is in no way dependent on these apocalyptic Son - of - man passages; it hinges upon all that he was and did and said during what we know of his earthly ministry and his continuing presence as the living Christ.

St. Augustine referred to this earthly life, marked as it now is by sin, as a regio dissimilitudinis, a region, or state, of dissimilarity or remoteness from God, and the more we allow our hearts and minds to be claimed by this dissimilarity the less capable we become of contemplating God.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

As time passed, and the earthly life faded into the past and the second advent into the remoter future, one of two alternatives was open: Either the whole saving event could be put in the past, in close conjunction with the earthly career, or else it could be entirely postponed to the future, in close connection with the Parousia.

These are important both for the permanent wisdom they yield, as part of our Christian Scriptures, and for the light they throw on the framework of Jewish life and thought in the midst of which Jesus lived and did the work of his earthly ministry.

The acts of the earthly Jesus, for all their remembered beauty, were recognized as but the casual and partial manifestations of a love which only one supreme act had been able fully to express: He who had shared the nature and the name of God had for man's sake denied himself in a sense in which only God could: he had emptied himself, becoming a common man, and as a man had suffered both life and death, even the death of the cross...