Sentences with phrase «foolishness as»

Switch is foolishness as a home console.

So, it makes me wonder... does consumer confidence measure our foolishness as a country?

I have as much patience for that type of foolishness as it seems you do.

Not exact matches

This isn't all reactionary foolishness: There is a well - documented history of companies using their own blunders as springboards for growth.

Monasticism looks insane to anyone committed to a material rendition of rational choice theory, but as St. Paul writes, «The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.»

Yes, it sounds like a fairy tale or foolishness to the lost, but for those who truly repent and profess Jesus as their savior will be forgiven.

It sees the left's struggle for social justice as mere trouble making, as utopian foolishness.

In our world it is not easy to see this kind of compassion as anything other than foolishness or weakness.

it amazes me that religious folk see this word as a badge of honor while any logical thinking person sees it as a mark of foolishness or insanity.

And this is so, not merely because then he would not betray his foolishness, but also because this self - control would help him to become conscious of himself as an individual, and would prevent him from adopting the crowd's opinion.

Another one bites the dust such as this professor who is wiser than God, using the foolishness of men to support ungodliness.

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

I know that the message of enemy - love strikes those who are suffering as complete foolishness, but to those who have forgiven, it is a gift of liberation and life.

As I noted elsewhere, this continuing foolishness given the dropping advertising revenue (not slots, but the amount they charge based on viewership) is actually kinda fun to watch.

And to paint nearly half of the nation as racists is pure foolishness.

(It is worth pointing out, as Koerner does, that a depicted crucifix is itself an image of a negation, simultaneously an icon and an iconoclasm, an image of God that violates all expectations about God, «a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the gentiles.»)

The sooner your bronze age voodoo is looked on as a quaint historical foolishness and your god and jesus looked on as we do Thor and Odin and Zeus and Apollo, the sooner America has a chance in the 21st century.

They are surrogates, which is a way of saying that they are agencies by which God works; they are not substitutes, although much of the time, in our foolishness and defection, we regard them as such — and in so regarding them bring about a state of affairs which is disproportionate and destructive.

They know in their hearts what foolishness the bible is and they suspect that there really is no god, but they know that all their friends and relatives will react very negatively if they ever voice their thoughts (Christians are very cultish in their reaction to those who do not believe just as they do).

Creflo Dollar is a total scam and there are plenty of them and always will be, as long as there are those who wish to follow foolishness.

MormonChristian Paul also said «but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,» 1 Corinthians 1:23 It was foolishness then as it's foolishness now: because it just doesn't make any sense!

As you begin to practice reading this letter, note the weaving between «foolishness» and strength of conviction and character that emerges from the text.

ALL the things I had been worrying about as to whether I was «Good Enough» were total foolishness.

In fact, some have been so foolish as to believe and say that a black skin is a blessing, and that the ne.gro is the finest type of a perfect man that exists on the earth; but to us such teachings are foolishness.

Viewed in light of its aftermath, the Easter event, the cross stands as a signpost on the path to understanding God's true power not in crushing evil but in surmounting its finality in what appears to human wisdom as foolishness and weakness.

Foolishness, in this way of thinking, is not so much a disease of the intellect as of the will.

The reason you follow Christ is that you are a sheep that doesn't have the ability to take a long hard look at foolishness that has been passed off as a belief system.

It was that message, the «word of the cross» preached by Paul, that struck both Jews and Gentiles as scandalous foolishness, as an offense against both the wisdom of the educated and the common sense of ordinary people.

Alas, in regard to things spiritual, the foolishness of many is this, that they in the secular sense look upon the speaker as an actor, and the listeners as theatergoers who are to pass judgment upon the artist.

As my friend Dennis Venema noted, the Apostle Paul faced a somewhat similar conundrum when he wrote, «Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.»

If I were your priest, I'd give you a thundering condemnation for your ignorance and foolishness and put the fear of «god» in you and the fear of «hellfire and damnation» in you as well.

(John 12:24) Affliction, being thus redemptive, was in consequence itself redeemed; «Christ crucified,» whom Paul rightly called a stumblingblock to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, was proclaimed as the wisdom and power of God; (I Corinthians 1:23 - 24) and, not stopping with any negative apologetic to explain the cross, the early Christians positively gloried in it (Galatians 6:14) and made it their ambition to know «the fellowship of his sufferings.»

The missionaries were eager to attribute this to religious reasons by comparing «the foolishness of the Hindu Gods» «with the purity and holiness and love» of Christ or by suggesting the priests were tired of «vainly striving to please by frequent offerings 40 Matthan's report about an «intelligent Pulaya priest Choti reads as follows:

For God's wisdom, like King's teaching, often appears to both religious and worldly persons as foolishness and weakness.

To believe in anything other is foolishness, read the bible, study, we are living in the last days, and no matter who is running for president, what is written is what is going to happen, as it has been for some time... so when our time comes the Lord is not going to ask, did you run for president?

The problem arises when such foolishness is portrayed as truth.

Topher Foolishness is the belief in mythical creature such as the easter bunny, leprechauns and god.

They preach all this bronze age foolishness and judge, judge, judge people based on their story book but as soon as it is shown to be scientifically and historically flawed foolishness they panic and dodge and throw out «then who created the universe?»

Well, in one of Paul's letter to the Corinthians, the apostle speaks of the Gospel as «foolishness.»

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human wilAs time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human wilas «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human wilas «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

It took several generations for those anti-intellectual strains to play themselves out as the foolishness that they were.

As the Apostle Paul would later write, «the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.»

I am as sure of my salvation in Christ as you are of my foolishness.

As for the rest, to you apply the verse of Scripture from the Word of God where it says «For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of God unto salvation..»

As Erasmus noted, foolishness is the eternal human plight.

Then there is the foolishness of lawyers who learn the law so as to break it more skillfully, or of preachers who follow the Suffering Servant while wearing silk and gold robes.

For instance, Paul talks about it as a stumbling block for Jews and as foolishness to Greeks.

As the parable of the prodigal son makes clear, Abba rejoices in our coming back when we finally acknowledge the foolishness of our ways.

Homosexual relationships are unnatural as is lying, envy, jealousy, anger, swearing, injustice, irritability, gluttony, drunkenness, rudeness, bullying, torture, theft, pride, foolishness, slander, self embellishment, ignoring the poor, destitute, widows, the lonely, thirsty, hungry and naked, servitude, slavery, low wages, exploitation, pornography, pollution of the atmosphere, drinking water, the oceans and land, greed, licentiousness, unprincipled actions etc. all these things separate us from the love of Christ and therefore stop us from being Christ like.

It is all of these failures, rank bad amateur failures, at top PREM LEVEL plus the foolishness of those who have not been calling for his head, as I and many thousands of Gooners have.