Sentences with phrase «heathen nations»
In other words, their loss of a few decades of life on Earth to typify the removal of sin from one's character (i.e., the Israelites were instructed to obliterate the heathen nations among them to picture a Christian's need to obliterate sin in their lives today; 1 Cor.
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It embarrasses our missionaries when the so - called heathen nations ask about the behavior of the so - called Christian nations.
Would you campaign to have capital punishment everywhere in the world like all the heathen nations have done and are doing?
Also, «mercy» in dealing with heathen nations like these often resulted in the corruption of the Hebrew nation (this happened multiple times in the Old Testament).
A truly Christian country would not have the problems of those heathen nations you listed.
Not exact matches
However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.
The Judaism of that time, however, had no other arm than to save the tiny nation, the guardian of great ideals, from sinking into the broad sea of heathen culture and enable it, slowly and gradually, to realize the moral teaching of the Prophets In civil life and in the present world of the Jewish state and nation.
Jesus looked into the future and saw the rising tension of his day culminating in the destruction and desolation of the people and the land he loved; like the prophets of old, he foresaw the doom of judgment meted out, not on the heathen only but upon his own nation, its leaders, its people, its temple.
In the Book of Maccabees it is written: «At the time there were bad people in Israel who persuaded the people by saying, «Let us make a covenant with the nations around, for we have experienced much suffering since we separated ourselves from the heathens.
Not one penny of American treasure should be granted to any nation who harbors these heathen animals.