Resisted the temptation to say, when
faced with death, «It's obvious you want to destroy Christianity.
The Qur» an illustrates this sudden, instinctive faith in Allah by describing in detail Pharaoh's feeling when he was
faced with death by drowning and realized the impossibility of escape, «And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, Pharaoh with his hosts pursued them in rebellion and transgression, till, when the (fate of) drowning overtook him, he exclaimed: I believe that there is no God save Him in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of those who surrender (unto Him).
And Norbert Lohfink expresses a similar viewpoint in the chapter «Man Face to
Face With Death» in his book The Christian Meaning of the Old Testament.
You would have said so, even when
faced with death.
When
faced with death even mighty rulers would readily swap «their kingdom for a horse».
Like any Christian individual
faced with death, the church then realizes that the important question is not how to save its life but rather how to keep its soul, how to face loss, impoverishment, and even death without surrendering its self, its work, and its service.
When we come face to
face with death I don't think we can say to ourselves, as it were: «Well, all right.
Most of them were well meant and carefully prepared, but they showed little indication that the preachers had been face to
face with death in the company of men to whom the Bible was an utterly foreign world.
• Don't rely on charms to protect you from death — Scientist Kunle Falayi In May 2017, three months after 34 - year - old police corporal, Ade Daniel (not real name), was posted to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Ogun State Police Command, he came face to
face with death.
The second existential system is vivid, concrete and highly personal; it is triggered not by subtle and abstract thoughts but by actually coming face to
face with death.
Also, experts worry that individuals perhaps should not be allowed to make donor - related decisions when
faced with the death of a loved one, although denying someone the opportunity to save a loved one's life is sub-optimal as well.
Miracles tells the story of a Fort Worth family whose daughter develops a rare disease, leading her to experience a Heavenly journey when
faced with death.
I feel that you find out the difference when faced with life's most difficult choices, such as when
faced with the death of a family member for example.
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For the soldiers
faced with death, «survive» was experienced as a thoughtless reflex; for the citizens at home, the keepers of the feeble political order, the command «go on» is heard with much less certainty.
When you are
faced with the death of a loved one, you are not only faced with a process of grieving, but you may also have to put the person's affairs in order and plan for a funeral.
Not exact matches
The series of hearings will determine whether he
faces life in prison or the
death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions
with the mystery man.
Bradley has been charged
with knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally, and if convicted could
face the
death penalty.
«The shameful scale of the public health crisis London
faces,
with thousands of premature
deaths caused by air pollution, must be addressed,» Khan said.
She shared a recent conversation she had
with Sheryl Sandberg about her new book Option B, in which the Facebook COO writes about resilience in the
face of her husband's sudden
death.
Faced with the crucible of his mother's accidental
death and the crisis at his company, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick wisely decided to accept his investors» advice to turn the fledgling company's leadership over to a new CEO.
Even when
faced with the worst of tragedies, such as a
death in the family, resilient people collect, plan, and act until things are back to normal.
Her husband Carl (who's also the company CEO), added: «Most of us have
faced hardship, and some of us combat and that «near
death experience» Mayor Landrieu spoke of, so we can identify
with what New Orleans went through, and how it can distill and clarify for you what you really want out of the future.
Coral Gables police officers won't
face charges for
death of Aviel Gutierrez, who died in December 2016 after he was shot
with a Taser stun gun during a bizarre confrontation.
In the case that you pass, the policy beneficiaries should file a claim
with the insurer, after which point the circumstances of your
death will be reviewed and receive the payout (also called a
death benefit or the
face value of the policy) so long as everything is in order.
The percentage of the
death benefit you can receive is generally less than 50 %, what qualifies as a terminal illness varies depending on your policy, and the payout you receive may be deducted
with interest from the
face value of your policy.
can I pray that if all else fails that I
face death and the end of my time on this Earth
with the dignity that I may have done all I need to do and that I will see his or her
face and hear that I did go?
When
faced with our own mortality, when the undeniable finality of
death is understood to be real and true, God, such as he is, disappears.
I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree
with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved
with... on the
face of
death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the
face of
death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...
The latter group may have a particularly hard time
with religious issues when they
face the prospect of
death; their anger at the church may deepen.
God has redeemed the crucifixion so that we now sing songs about it and listen to sermons about the horrible
death of an innocent victim
with smiles on our
faces.
After months of uncertainty and trial, the Sudanese women who once
faced a
death sentence for apostasy and adultery arrived in the U.S.
with her family Thursday night.
Under the spotlights and surrounded by ruddy -
faced Irishmen, burdened
with emotional and physical pain, he looked like
death.
To multitudes of people today independence does not mean Socrates,
facing death and saying, «Men of Athens, I honor and love you, but I will obey God rather than you»; it means, «The heck
with old rules!»
At first, in the
face of persecution, torture and
death, Christians of the first three centuries continually relied on their faith and their communities to endure
with the result being a rapid growth of Christianity throughout the empire.
After various struggles
with the unromantic
face of persecution and martyrdom, Garrpe dies trying to save apostate Christians from
death, and Rodrigues chooses to apostatize to save others from torture and
death, urged on by the apostate Ferreira to this «greatest act of love.»
You whose loving wisdom fashions my being out of all the forces and all the hazards of earth, teach me to adopt here and now, however clumsily, an attitude the full efficacy of which will be plain to me when I am
face to
face with the powers of diminishment and
death: grant that having desired I may believe, and believe ardently, believe above all things, in your active presence.
When the thief on the cross says, «Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom» (Luke 23:42), the moment is a decisive break
with the values of the other thief, and a definitive statement of faith in the
face of
death — not just his own, but Jesus» too.
The sick person
faces death in the company of the church militant and triumphant through viaticum and the anointing
with oil.
When he
faced death by crucifixion, he spent the night in prayer and told his disciples, «My soul is overwhelmed
with sorrow to the point of
death.»
Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human
face of the
death -
with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of
death.
The point for us is that for these two 20th century professors — as much as for any mystic wrapped in contemplation in some more remote ashram — the inevitability of
death brought one
face to
face with the question of whether his existence had any point.
Buchanan depicts,
with the help of depressingly indisputable data, the apparent
death wish of European countries that have stopped having babies and
face the prospect of losing their national identities under the pressure of Muslim immigration and EU homogenization.
If there is some kind of continuation after
death I would imagine that it would be of such a different nature as not to resemble at all anything thought up in Christian theology and i would
face it
with a curious mind, not a fearful mind.
To respect your spouse fully, means to respect them
with your words,
with your actions,
face to
face and online, until
death do you part.
We must
face the Anti-Christ (whomever he may be) and undergo the persecution, then at God's appointed time, Christ will take His people up (the Rapture) to be
with Him, but the Anti-Christ will remain on earth, and those «left behind» will have an opportunity to accept Christ as Savior, but will
face death for doing so.
If we were in Martin Luther King Jr shoes and
facing death threats, would we back down and save our own skin or would we continue
with the cause, come what may?
A possible real connection
with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in
face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to
death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.
Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to
face life and
death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»
There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us
faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree,
with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4)
death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over
death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.