Sentences with phrase «from fear of death»

Some researchers explain this wanton violence through «terror management theory»: To buffer ourselves from fear of death and reinforce our self - esteem and worldview, humans construct elaborate and sometimes violent defense mechanisms.

Christ alone can overcome doubt, Christ alone can really free us from the fear of death.

Thus he is freed from the fear of death and hence from self - centeredness.

Like many great books, Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption has a stunning first line: «From death, from the fear of death arises all knowledge of the All.»

«For certain people we might tell the gospel as the message of deliverance from the fear of death, loss, and failure and all that that entails.

Not exact matches

Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility for everything from the Black Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way for Fascism here as they paved the way for Hitler in Germany.

The number of cases has been considerably less than that initially feared and much less than the 250,000 to 500,000 deaths that occur worldwide from influenza each year.

Straightway he goes down on his knees, does not recoil from hot dry skin, begins to tug one of a pair of stained white socks around those death - puffed toes and nonchalantly smiles and says «fear not.»

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

I think they have not for so long because of fear from powerful religions that could hurt them in business or just being stoned to death.

Where sin, death, and the devil are no longer the bondage in question and where fear of God's judgment has been diluted or dissipated into political correctness, then justification becomes liberation from anything that anyone experiences as bondage.

fear comes from the devil Heb 2:15 with the threat of death but Jesus came to break that fear and set us free John 8:36.

Hence his death was seen as the realization of his eschatological selfhood: free from the demonic power of the fear of death, he was free to give his life for his neighbour.

We might invent other new religions out of fear of death and fear of our own insignifigance, but Jesus (apart from being a real guy who got killed 2000 years ago for saying we should be nice to each other) exists only in our minds.

Again the trouble may lie in factors harder to cope with — domestic disharmony, friction in one's work, a job one loathes but fears to leave, worry about the future, lack of success in some pivotal enterprise, separation by distance, by marriage, or by death from one who is deeply loved.

Recently, for example, planeloads of American fundamentalists have been travelling to Israel to view the site, Megiddo, where they believe the great clash among the nations will break out, and the battle of Armageddon will bring to an end the world as we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old world.

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

Men's hearts will fail them for the fear of things coming upon the earth, people who have been provoking on the day of the Lord, will seek to die, and death will flee from them in that day.

It is love to obey God, and by having a swift death penalty we love the people in our society [many of whom are our enemies also] and offer them the best chance for a life free from fear and crime.

And can you imagine how many great minds were lost because of fear from prosecution and back then that meant DEATH to them and their families.

God becomes the Mascot of Careerism, the Guardian of the Good Life, who frees his people from all worry, business failure, ill health, fear of death, loss of vitality, and heartache.

And while Jesus, like Sarpedon, endured the death of the body, he ultimately was saved from death at his resurrection: «Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one.

One is called upon not to fear physical death, so as not to lose one's very self, panicked by fear of death (Q 12:4), which is the greatest threat of evil forces, from unbearable pain to dictatorships.

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.»

If the only thing that prevents you from beating your wife or scorching an innocent puppy to death is fear of HELL, then there is something seriously wrong with you.

This strange freedom that comes to those who, in the face of death, say «Here I stand» is the freedom to live free from fear.

Quite aside from hard - to - measure traumas such as the drawn - out anticipation of an impending catastrophe, the incarceration itself, the dehumanization, the sustained fear of death, I could point to some very tangible assaults upon my health in the concentration camp.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Life apart from faith is a life of anxiety and fear, of bondage to the past, to corruption, sin, and death.

The joy of the new life in Christ includes a very sensual pleasure in life that accompanies freedom from fear of sin and death.

To be sure, the sources and manifestations of violence are complex But what do we make of competitiveness, the cult of winning, the armoring of emotions, the tendency to dichotomize reality, the abstraction from bodily concreteness and the exaggerated fear of death that is manifested in a morbid fascination with it?

Here we find fear of a bodiless condition associated with firm confidence that even in this intermediate, transient condition no separation from Christ supervenes (among the powers which can not separate us from the love of God in Christ is death — Romans 8:38).

The difference is you choose to hide from that fear with the promise of an after life while non-believers face that fear knowing death is all there is.

The fear of death is from a lifetime of worry over «Will the big scary guy in the sky who supposedly loves me see that candy bar I ate during lent when I was 7, and force me into an eternity of torment for it?»

This hate mongering derived from fear of people's differences be they racial, religious, or lifestyle has only led to unnecessary violence and death since the dawn of recorded history.

ok so the year is circa 73 ad and the jews have been scattered, skip ahead to year 81 ad and emperor Domitian is in power, what he does is out of fear of death — exerp from a page i lost years ago, but i have it saved on my hard drive at home — For years the emperor Domitian knew exactly when he was going to be murdered: 18 September 96 A.D. during the 5th morning hour.

We would flee from the hard truth that just as death follows birth as surely as night day, so the Christian promise of rebirth is inseparable from, even dependent upon, the very death we fear.

Fear of punishment in some imagined afterlife isn't stopping people from behaving badly any more than imprisonment or a death penalty is stopping murderers from killing.

In a world in which we inevitably suffer from illness and disease, in which many fear that they will also suffer from the technological expertise of their caregivers, and in which some therefore seek death on their own terms and at a time of their own choosing, it is good to be reminded that affliction by itself does not necessarily produce good character.

hatred comes from anger which comes from fear... fear of the unknown... death is unknown....

Living in Christ frees us from the power of death over us, from the ways fear of death and avoidance of it control and limit our lives, our relationships and our actions.

Again he must not be a magistrate, and when Paul of Samosata, in the late third century, became a Ducenarius of Zenobia of Palmyra the very pronunciation of his title evoked a shiver of disapprobation.6 The objection arose largely from the fear that the magistrate might have» to pass sentence of death or torture.

Living with the reality of loss and death — and our absolute fear of that — can keep us from getting close to others.

No matter what the circumstances were surrounding the loss of your last baby, whether it was an early miscarriage, a stillbirth, or an infant death, I know that much of the joy of pregnancy has been stolen from you and replaced with fear — a fear that can't be reasoned away until and unless you are holding a healthy baby in your arms.

He said due to the fear of death, the oldest of the victims, escaped from the house to Kumasi and informed their mother who upon her return to Elmina, took the victims from Prophet Manso's House and lodged a complaint at the police station on Sunday June 7, this year.

The least likable have always been those driven by the power that comes from perpetuating church empires built on the fear of death.

The discovery took on greater significance in light of the September 11 attacks, with the ensuing fears of crop duster - borne pathogens and the swift, unexpected deaths from mail - distributed anthrax.

A practical dirty bomb's main effects would be from fear, not radiation, with both the Department of Homeland Security and the American Institute of Physics predicting few deaths from cancer or radiation poisoning, even in densely populated areas.

Whether this anxiety is triggered by the fear of death in a major life threatening illness or whether it is a pattern of worrying about the future or dwelling in past traumatic events, it gets more intense at night as the unconscious mind needs to take over from the conscious mind for sleep to happen.

The purpose of the workshop is to help you eliminate fears, to identify and recognize the process of death, to answer questions, and to give yogic training to prepare for death during this lifetime using methods from Kundalini Yoga.