Sentences with phrase «even crucifixion»

Certainly, faith in God as provider and protector is there — but so are the shadowed valleys, surrounding enemies, potential lynch mobs, ordeals and even crucifixion.

Justin goes on to say that even crucifixion has its parallels.

Even crucifixion has nothing on what some societies in our not so distant past dished out as capital punishment.I don't wish to depict those methods here because if you desire you can look them up for yourself and be sick as a dog if you want.

There are critical differences amongst these copies, such as the divinity of Christ and even the crucifixion....

Not exact matches

None of the «four gospels were even written contemporary to Jesus» lifetime, the oldest being Mark, which was written 35 - 42 years after Jesus supposed crucifixion.

Jesus foreshadowed the emotional pain of a loss even though you may «know» someone is in Heaven with the story about Lazarus and his sisters; being the one who set the ball in motion for Jesus» crucifixion wore heavily on Judas (if their beliefs were correct, he still had to do with the physical loss of Jesus; had they been wrong about the «divinity» of Jesus, he helped get his friend killed).

(Isaiah 55:6) Indeed, even the two thieves on the cross on either side of Jesus at His crucifixion found in those last moments where they stood in terms of their relationship to God: to the one, repentant, «today you shall be with me in paradise»; to the other, mocking and indifferent, Jesus offered no such comfort.

God loves us and always has... even prior to the crucifixion — however prior to that crucifixion there was no real inclusion for the Gentiles into the «Holiest place».

Many Jews today even now agree that at the time of the crucifixion the Jews got it wrong.

Steve G — really, «MANY Jews today even now agree that at the time of the crucifixion the Jews got it wrong.»?

Up until the crucifixion of Jesus, and even in the minds of most today, humanity believed the essential lie of the devil, that if someone was attacking you, you attack back.

Jesus was in eternal unity with the Father until during His crucifixion, and as an eternal Person that time of being forsaken and isolated will always be with Him even though it long ago passed in our linear time.

Yet even if they tried, the evangelists could not put aside their knowledge of the crucifixion and resurrection and feel what the people of Galilee felt, any more than someone writing today about Jewish history in the 1930s can put aside their knowledge of the horror of the Holocaust or of the creation of the state of Israel.

Tons of people that have a problem with a Good Friday crucifixion do not even consider the darkness (noon to 3 pm) as a part of the «reckoning».

Though Jesus never needed any reminder, I can't miss the irony of Him stopping to heal Blind Bartimaeus on the way to His crucifixion and resurrection (Luke 18:31 - 33), showing us that He never lost His heart for the one, even on the way to give His life for the many.

Mary was not only still alive at the crucifixion, it's clear in Acts that she herself was a follower and adherent — which says A LOT, considering women had no leadership powers (so no special treatment) and normally family members are the first to expose charlatans (note: even his brothers came to believe in Acts 1, after being skeptics earlier).

The crucifixion must therefore have been on Friday, and the last supper was eaten Thursday evening.

What I can't understand is how you can have knowledge of what typical Roman floggings were like, but apparently be unaware that the typical Roman crucifixion took days, and that people even survived.

Since a reenactment of the crucifixion was neither practical nor seemly and one of the nativity difficult and somewhat undramatic, the first such «play» and the only one for a century or more — and the one that remained the most popular, even in the 14th century when there were many — was the scene of the three Marys at the empty tomb.

After the awful crucifixion was over, none of the Twelve even attended to Jesus» body.

Even though Jesus had told his disciples that he would rise again after the crucifixion, they could not understand it.

Without even recounting the crucifixion, Bell presented such vivid images of the patterns of sacrifice in the ancient Near East (the cultural setting for the sacrifice of Isaac) that by the time we got to the story of Jesus, our hearts and minds were connecting the dots.

He was already Messiah as he went about Galilee; for he had been proclaimed the Son of God at his Baptism; the demons had recognized him as divine; the disciples had confessed him to be the Messiah, their conviction voiced by their spokesman, Peter; at the Transfiguration the chosen three «beheld his glory,» to use again the more explicit Johannine idiom, ordinarily hidden but now momentarily revealed; finally even the centurion in charge of the crucifixion had confessed him «a Son of God.»

The crucifixion opened even more profoundly the hearts and minds of the disciples to all they had experienced with Jesus.

But even the «appearances» came only to men who had close association with Jesus during his ministry, and who, since his crucifixion, had had time to wrestle with the shock of his death in the various ways we have outlined.

even though the crucifixion psalm that Jesus begins to quote on the cross ends with verse 24 saying the opposite of forsaken has occurred, and then in 2 Cor 5:19 again we see that the father was IN and WITH the son on the cross in the act of reconciling the world to himself.

Even though Jesus climactically fulfills the Servant figure [of Isaiah 53] in his crucifixion, this does not mean that there is no longer any application of it to anyone else.

All in all, the problems are such that we have felt it necessary to ignore the Johannine material altogether, even in the case of the Son of man teaching, and the only major reference to be found on the fourth gospel in what follows is one of the account of the crucifixion where it does seem apparent that John is referring to a Christian exegetical tradition.

Or to take an even more explosive example, when the Gospel has a «crowd» demanding Jesus» crucifixion from Pilate, how many extras will you hire?

We must still try to build God's Kingdom, even though we know that it does not come without public crucifixion before the triumph of grace.

We reflect upon the awful event of his crucifixion, even to the point of sometimes becoming unduly preoccupied with the morbid aspects of the liturgy.

On one side, Jesus» body is real «flesh and bones»; (Luke 24:39) it is the body that was laid in the tomb revivified so that the tomb is empty; it can be seen and handled; it bears still the wounds of the crucifixion; it can even eat food, and Jesus partakes of «a piece of a broiled fish» to prove it.

These reports are so numerous and the surrounding circumstances so clear that even atheist and agnostic scholars say Jesus» crucifixion is among the surest facts of history.

Even if they hated jews, the Romans would still remark on the natural phenomena the bible claims happened during the crucifixion.

Even historians who share the same faith disagree about many details, such as the time and place at which Jesus was born, the duration of his public ministry, his messianic or divine claims, his intent to establish a Church, the dates of his Last Supper and of the crucifixion.

Calvin thus perceived in the crucifixion not only the price of redemption, but also the archetype of faith as he understood it: seeing God even in the midst of agonies of body and soul, when every natural feeling cries out that God must be against me.

Jesus» anointing by the holy Spirit, and his consequent power over the demons, over diseases, and even over death; his ministry of compassion and help; his death at Jerusalem, through the «envy» and hatred of the «rulers,» that is, the Jewish authorities who denounced him before Pilate and so procured his death by crucifixion as an insurrectionist and disturber; his resurrection on the third day, when he became Messiah or Son of God and entered into his glory; (Cf. Rom.

They will be received just as Jesus has been received, and in the hindsight of the crucifixion, these words must have had even greater meaning.

An awareness of promise often miraculously blossoms even amidst the most absurd circumstances: barrenness and infertility; conditions of oppression and slavery; exile from homeland; death by crucifixion.

Even the fact that the baptism or crucifixion are historical events is not to be derived with any certainty from the gospel narratives; it has to be argued on other grounds.

The Gestalt is recognizable even when the symbols are radically transformed through metaphorical power (as in G. M. Hopkins» metaphor of the death of a windhover to evoke Jesus» crucifixion).

The only clue in G. M. Hopkins» poem that the windhover is a metaphor of the crucifixion is in the subtitle, but the clue is not necessary, even if one were to approach this poem cold and knew nothing of the poet.

Once you have decided what a «Christian» is and I assume you have weeded out those who do not believe the way you do Chad, even if they claim to believe in Christ like so many German nationals during WW2, then you can say «Okay, this is what the crucifixion means to THIS Christian or THAT Christian...»

This is even more clearly true of Paul and John, both of whom require no more of history than the «that» of the life of Jesus and his crucifixion for their proclamation.

So even if Paul, and the creed he quotes, use «on the third day» to mean a great and decisive day, no one can show any reason to doubt that they also meant to pinpoint a particular day shortly after the crucifixion.

This is a world with which Blake, Hegel, and Nietzsche are in deep continuity, and a far deeper continuity than is present in all manifest or ecclesiastical modern Christianity, and if modernity has been wholly unable to envision resurrection, it has profoundly envisioned crucifixion, and even envisioned crucifixion as an absolute and total event.

even if there was a crucifixion, Pilate demanded all jews on crosses remain.

Even at the point of arrest and subsequent crucifixion, the last miracle of Jesus, the Christ, did was restoring a cropped ear — a big blow for non-violence, no matter the provocation.

But even as he referenced the crucifixion of Christ, the darkest day of the church's year, Cardinal Dolan said the good news of God is never erased, «for a believer.»

It may not be especially unique, even in concept, and its scripted interpretation may be a mess of contrivances and fat around the edges, but this story is a thoroughly intriguing one, which juggles epic sweep with rich intimacy as a study on the man behind Christ's crucifixion's coming to embrace the sacred man he killed through a guilt which drives him into dangerous circumstances, thus, there is a rewarding potential that would have been lost if it wasn't for Henry Koster.