Sentences with phrase «earthly ways of»

But God doesn't operate by earthly ways of doing things; in the Bible, He declares that «as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts» (Isaiah 55:9).

Your second option is to throw out all that evidence, say it rained for a really long time to create the big flood and have no earthly way of explaining how it could happen and then your only real issue is the explanation of how noah was able to fit every piece of flora and fauna onto his ark, his family and enough food to survive for 40 days at sea.

This is the earthly way of thinking of a lord: first he has all power and then perhaps he can be merciful — but then again, perhaps not.

Not exact matches

If the West is to recover from the crisis of civilizational morale in which it has been immolating itself, it is Christ who will help humanize the earthly city through the agency of the City of God, present in an anticipatory way in the counterculture that is the Church.

Even having faith is an action, and living that faith for the benefit of one's earthly brothers and sisters is the greatest way to do God's word.

Neo-Platonism held, among other things, that the most perfect being was the least physical, and had the least to do with the physical; that the way of salvation necessarily leads from the body, from the earthly - historical, to a realm of pure spirit.

The only way to endure suffering when earthly life can give us nothing more is the redemptive love of Our Lord.

Doesn't «rub poor lil» Judas's head» get in the way of justice being done in the earthly communities where people live their daily lives?

The church applies its teachings in ways that amass it unconscionable wealth on the backs of its faithful, who seek to please God by devoting time, energy, and wealth to the construction of earthly empires.

Such texts imply that the invisible God is made visible through the incarnation in a concrete and not simply mystical or anagogical way — that those who saw Jesus in his earthly life also «saw» the first person of the Trinity.

The belief in a world beyond, where life may continue past its earthly span, unthreatened by the hazards of this world, is one of the ways in which this demand for preservation finds expression.

Thus such traditions become kerygmatic, not by appropriating the traditional language of the Church's kerygma, but in a distinctive way: They retain a concrete story about Jesus, but expand its horizon until the universal saving significance of the heavenly Lord becomes visible in the earthly Jesus.

The way in which Mark interprets the earthly life of Jesus is messianic; Jesus became Messiah not at his resurrection but at his baptism.

I love that Young portrays God in this way, particularly for Mackenzie, a character who struggles with bad memories of his earthly father.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

But while the Christian believes that God is a wholly reliable «shelf» on which unsolved problems and difficulties may for the time be safely deposited, he does not find himself in any way excused from attempting to relieve suffering and pain and to play his part in rebuilding the true order amid the chaos of earthly conditions.

Is because the earthly ways are full of sin.

He goes his way indifferent to the distribution and division of earthly goods, as one who has no possessions and desires none; he is not concerned for his daily bread, like the birds of the air; he does not trouble himself about house and home, as one who neither has nor seeks a shelter or a resting - place; he is not concerned to follow the dead to the grave; he does not turn his head to look at the things that usually claim the attention of men; he is not bound to any woman, so as to be charmed by her and desirous of pleasing her.

It has some earthly rewards along the way, but it is actually quite desolate and void of real meaning and substance.

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

In my randiest, loneliest moments, I can certainly wish for a different conviction, but even then, what I most desire is not the freedom to masturbate with a clear conscience, but to be married and near enough to that spouse to once again fumble our way through the best earthly picture we have of the Trinity's penultimate love.

It is clear that he is refuting those within the church who didn't believe in the resurrection of the dead, perhaps they hoped to practice Christianity as a way of gaining earthly benefits and no more, as had been common in many early religious practices.

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.»

When we are in Adam (ie when we have an earthly father) we are in sin, it was therefore the only way for Jesus to born without sin... Nothing at all to do with weakness of woman but rather the headship of Adam.

If this the way we act with our earthly family, why is it we refuse to extend this level of patience and perseverance to our eternal family, the Church, when the time comes?

Our spiritual family is no different than our earthly family, yet why do we give up, hang our head in disappointment and walk the other way at the first sighting of flaws and inadequacies?

Even if we were to grant (for the sake of argument only) that God could or would intervene in this way in earthly affairs, God's resurrection of this one person can not logically support the likelihood of salvation for the rest of us: (A) It can not prove that God is able to save us from death and grant us eternal life; (B) it can not guarantee that God is interested in doing this; and (C) it does not even show that God will forgive our sins.

It does not know its own earthly future but pursues its pilgrim way because, guided by the incomprehensible God, it only seeks to be the guide of humanity into the mystery of its God.

Each in its different way invites us to attend to that God whose goodness (like that of the dentist) sometimes hurts, who offers only heavenly comfort (because there is finally no earthly comfort), and who wounds our grasping and possessive nature simply by being Goodness itself.

In the careworn, bedraggled old man of At Eternity's Gate, van Gogh portrayed a soul at the end of his earthly journey on his way to «reach a star.»

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.

And from this point of view it can and must be said that the way man's earthly origin affects the «soul» and how it affects the «body» are specifically different.

The problem we are attacking can be formulated in the following way: Can it be shown that the interests of man, the creature, and the earthly efforts of man to increase values in this life, bear a positive relation to the work of God's love looking toward His Kingdom?

The latter was not intent upon finding a way for people to reach the safe haven of a heavenly world, leaving the earthly world to carry on in its own merry way.

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.

By the way Joel there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and unrigtheous here on earth, the earth will be brought back to its orginal state, you are not going to heaven, a mere young boy will touch the head of a cobra, this good news of the kingdom will be preached throughout the entire inhabited earth, seek first the kingdom (God's earthly government) try to put a few of these points together in its proper context Joel.

In other cases the NRSV translators have hit on brilliant phrasing: «super-apostles» (for «superlative apostles» — II Cor: 11:5); or «to be our way of life» (for «that we should walk in them» — Eph 2:10) Advice for slaves has been clarified, now that there is fortunately no need for such advice: obey your earthly master «not only while being watched» (RSV: «not in the way of eye - service» — Eph 6:6) But the prize for straight talk goes to Galatians 5:12: «I wish those who unsettle you [with the demand that they be circumcised] would castrate themselves» (RSV: «mutilate»)

This summary of certain phases of the Pauline theology — a summary much too brief to do even scant justice to the power and majesty of Paul's thought — is necessary as a background for the fuller discussion, to which we now turn, of the way in which Paul interpreted the significance of the earthly life of Jesus as related to this saving act of God.

The «two ways of looking» at woman opens the possibility of real tension between an earthly and a supernatural vocation.

On balance we can say that in choosing the way of the prophets Jesus was more comfortable with visions of the future that pictured the direct rule of God (the kingdom of God), or the gift of that rule to an apocalyptic Human One, than with the vision of a kingdom ruled by an earthly king of David's line.

Starting some two centuries before, as a way of stating the long but limited extent of the Messiah's earthly reign, the millennium had been formalized and made literal in Jewish thought.

the same way when every single human regarless of faith in this earthly life will be stainding in front of The Almighty, there will not be any counsalor or helper, you are on your own... so we should ask ourselves how much preparation we are doing for ourselves...

Jesus moved through the violent crowds, and He calmed the fears of his followers because the true power He possessed was in no way threatened by earthly insults.

Everyone on this earthly pilgrimage is presented, sooner or later, with two ways: the easy way of indifference and self - indulgence which leads inevitably to death and destruction and the more difficult way of hard choices and self - denying experiences, the end of which is life.

Our earthly experience and whatever similar experiences may be in store for us beyond death exist for the sake of our free choosing of God as we learn from the consequences of our action that God and his way alone are worth having.

God is what you believe in your soul and Lent is supposed to bring you closer to God in a human way of fasting or giving up your earthly wants.

The dream of an earthly kingdom gave way to an other - worldly kingdom, a Holy City, Jerusalem, in the heavens, which God, if not man, would establish.

Thus it was possible for Jesus to speak in such a way as to suggest the contrast between the obscurity of his indigent earthly existence and the glory of the «Man» from heaven — the contrast and at the same time the connection — for the needy life belongs to the concealment of the Son of Man and points to the future.

What I mean is that God wants us to love him eternally with our whole hearts - not in such a way as to injure or weaken our earthly love, but to provide a kind of cantus firmus to which the other melodies of life provide the counterpoint.

And the fact that Trump calls it that suggests he has no earthly idea what data mining, microtargeting and the thousands of other ways that data can inform campaign decisions actually are or do.