That is so true David... church is yet another of many divisions and a way for many to close themselves off
from the rest of the world, especially parts that do not share their beliefs.
Once the tomb pericope is separated
from the rest of the Gospel it is seen that it could not have existed in this form as an independent tradition, for the mention of the women with which it begins has had to take the form it does in order to link what follows with the preceding Passion story.
But I think some sort of term is appropriate and necessary to give Christians a sense of community, and to help help differentiate
ourselves from the rest of the world, while at the same time inviting them to join us in our mission.
What distinguishes man
from the rest of creation is the share he has in God's thought, that is, reason as distinguished from mere perception, which the animal also possesses.
On the given day princes and kings arrive, among them Nala and the gods, but they have all made themselves to appear exactly as Nala so that she may not be able to distinguish
him from the rest.
There is just no such thing as a «Jew», no such thing as a «pure» and «separate» race
from the rest of humanity, and no god AT ALL in the FIRST FCUKING PLACE!
Is this what I can expect
from the rest of you Atheists?
How does this explain the seeming contridicting acts of God in Job
from the rest of His acts in the Bible?
Neither one of us of the privilige of living apart
from the rest of society.
Because leprosy was such a dreaded disease, those who had leprosy were cast off
from the rest of society.
We know
from the rest of the New Testament, and from church history, that this is exactly what happens.
More than 100 have reopened, including some in Kaliningrad, in the section of the Smolensk diocese lying beyond Belarus and Lithuania — a region cut off
from the rest of Russia.
If we teach the children at church, and this doesn't get reinforced at home, all we are teaching our children is to compartmentalize their Church life
from the rest of their life.
Detached
from the rest of the plot, it can only produce confusion and unfaithfulness.
I like reading and hearing
from the rest of us as well as The Experts.)
The four opening words perhaps should not be separated
from the rest of Paul's sentence, but if they are so separated the phrase «God was in Christ,» still more God was in the historical Jesus,» is not a mythological statement: it corresponds to what I earlier called ontological reality.
Where we have set church leaders apart
from the rest of humanity, and projected onto them the moral rectitude we wish somebody would embody, we have a set - up for a crisis of trust.
When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity
from the rest of nature.
«The admonition Know yourself was carved on the temple portal at Delphi, as testimony to a basic truth to be adopted as a minimal norm by those who seek to set themselves apart
from the rest of creation as «human beings», that is as those who «know themselves.»»
Mark 16:9 - 20 is said to be by a different author
from the rest of the Gospel, and the implication is allowed that the author of the rest of Mark (who actually appears not to be the Mark we meet in the NT) perhaps leaves belief in the Resurrection as a matter of opinion.
This further seperates Islam
from the rest of the world, that is their goal.
Instead, I find increasingly within the animal rights movement and within discussions of environmental ethics (although less so there) a perspective that illustrates just how alienated
from the rest of nature the human species has become.
The inside of the castle was insulated
from the rest of the world by a single high wall, with square towers at the corners.
The tax collector isolates
himself from the rest of the worshipers and confesses his unworthiness.
The capacities for abstract reasoning, symbolic language, self - and death - awareness set mankind apart
from the rest of the biological world.
To be oriented towards the second coming does not mean that we despise the world or run away from the affairs of this world or separate
ourselves from the rest of humanity.
Zen will have nothing to do with a «holiness» which is holy by virtue of being apart
from the rest of life; it must be «sacred» by being intrinsic to life, or it is not sacred at all.
When the Church is regarded as exclusive, separated
from the rest of society, an ark of salvation in a great flood of destruction, then the emphasis falls on service to the elect few.
So why do I think that grace separates «Christianity»
from the rest of religions?
Although Viola and Sweet are primarily using the four Gospels as their source material for retelling the life of Jesus, they also include theological material and ideas
from the rest of Scripture.
Out of the many occasions for sharing in the early stages of intimacy there gradually develops a community of experience which sets that marriage apart
from the rest of the world and produces the «we - ness» of the marriage identity.
He's a pandering politician no different
from the rest.
But we know
from the rest of Scripture that becoming a son of the Most High is not a reward, but is one of the gifts that comes with eternal life.
The antibodies will first: surround the germ; isolate
it from the rest of the body;...
For Jews, it's the place where, at the End of Days, the Messiah will appear; rebuild the Holy Temple, twice - destroyed; and sort out the righteous
from the rest.
Maybe you should now sit down and shut up and learn
from the rest of the planet.
As for truth, Santayana speaks of this as subsisting, holding that it has an intermediate status between pure being and existence as that segment of the realm of essence which is distinguished
from the rest by its role as a description of what exists.
When looking at the Obamacare case, many wondered if the individual insurance purchase mandate was severable
from the rest of Obamacare.
From the letter of Methetes to Diognetus, c. 170 AD: For Christians are not distinguished
from the rest of mankind either in locality or in speech or in customs.
Cut off
from the rest of the human race, we stand frozen in our tracks, left to mourn what was but is no more while the rest of the world goes on without us, oblivious, helpless and, as far as we can tell, uncaring.
And, after World War II, there was simply nothing in this country to resemble a group that was not only closed to outsiders, but whose members were immediately distinguishable by speech, dress, and manner
from the rest of the population.
We shut ourselves off
from the rest of the world or we give ourselves over entirely to its excesses.
From the rest of the pulpit, silence reigned.
Although relatively isolated
from the rest of world Christianity and fully integrated into Indian culture as a separate caste, it maintained a strong Christian identity that reached back through memory and tradition to St. Thomas, the apostle to the East.
Precisely because it has largely isolated
itself from the rest of America, Belmont can get on quite well without the strict judgments of the old moral codes.
Christians are not distinguished
from the rest of humanity by either country, speech, or customs.
I find that Whitehead's exposition is question - begging and seriously misleading.4 The exposition is misleading insofar as it suggests that belief in either a specific or generic causal nexus is adequately justified by a subject's experience of CE alone and not ultimately by systematic considerations, particularly those related to prehension.5 If Whitehead's theory of perception was intended to stand alone without support
from the rest of his system, as Ford suggests (EWM 181 - 182), then I claim that it is insufficiently justified insofar as a part of it, the theory of CE, is inadequately justified.
It is striking that mention of the «Kingdom of God» - so central to Jesus's preaching according to the Gospels - has practically disappeared
from the rest of the New Testament.
American Muslims don't separate
themselves from the rest of us any more than Jews or fundamentalist Christians or various ethnic groups.
It could undo any welcome or thoughtful input
from the rest of the service.