Artists sought to bridge the gap between
heaven and earth by fashioning special containers for holy matter.
With Luther and Zwingli, he stressed the sovereignty of God, declaring that God is omnipotent and that, «governing
heaven and earth by His providence, He so overrules all things that nothing happens in it without His counsel.»
It means, obviously, that whatever science may tell us about the processes by which creation takes place, science can never take the place of the Lord of
heaven and earth by whose wisdom and power the processes were initiated and continue.
For he is deemed omnipotent... because, governing
heaven and earth by his providence, he so regulates all things that nothing takes [82] place without his deliberation... there is no erratic power, or action, or motion in creatures, but that they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by him.42
Those who were baptized as infants have a right to know what happened theologically: they were «glued» to the maker of
heaven and earth by the Holy Spirit.
To sustain
the heavens and the earth by the fiat of his omnipotent word, so that if this word were withdrawn for the fraction of a second the universe would be plunged into chaos — how light a task compared with bearing the burden that mankind may take offense, when one has been constrained by love to become its saviour!
Jeremiah proclaims, «It is you who made
the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm!»
Not exact matches
In a statement, President Obama said of the astronaut
and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers
and astronauts who will take us to Mars
and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled
by their example we know that our future here on
Earth compels us to keep reaching for the
heavens.
My elect are not the people, the church in America; but my elect are the people of the world that are called
by my name
and do my will on
earth as it is done in
heaven.
5:18;»; till
heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will
by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.»
I tell you the truth, until
heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of the pen will
by any means disappear fro the «law» (teachings of G - d) until everything is accomplished.
Colossians 1:16 - 17 «For
by Him were all things created, that are in
heaven,
and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.&raq
and that are in
earth, visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.&raq
and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created
by him,
and for him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.&raq
and for him:
And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.&raq
And He is before all things,
and by Him all things consist.&raq
and by Him all things consist.»
The only king of kings is the creator of everything between the
heavens and the
earth, the master of the day of judgement, the one who does not have parents, wife, or children, the one who does not get sick, forget, the one who forgives
and punishes,
and the one who creates life
and take life away, the creator of Adam from the mud in the
earth can create anything
by just saying, «Be
and it becomes», the Creator who gives live
and takes life also created Jesus without needing the help of a man,
and th owner of everything between the
earth and heavens, is Allaah / God.
But they deliberately forget that long ago
by God's word the
heavens existed
and the
earth was formed out of water
and by water.
Christian, far - right, conservatives are damned to eternal «no - fun» for fun on
earth; when they get to
heaven for following their obsessive «no - fun, living
by misconstrued, so - called gospel agenda they'll cultivate new customers cultivating protein
by worms
and other parasites preparing the living
earth for new life!
It is obvious that the major majority of the posts I have read are submitted
by those who do not have a clue of what the Bible teaches, nor what the
earth and the
heavens actually teach.
God created Adam from a handful of dirt
and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge
and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on
earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed
by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach
heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates
and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves
and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat
earth.
And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of tru
And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did
by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very
heaven whence sun
and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of tru
and moon
and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of tru
and stars shine upon the
earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet,
by inward musing,
and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of tru
and discourse,
and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of tru
and admiring of Thy works;
and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of tru
and we came to our own minds,
and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of tru
and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.
If
by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker of
heaven and earth, who redeems his children
by the atonement
and sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan of salvation revealed in the Bible
and ascribed to
by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.
For everything was created
by Him
and for Him, in
heaven and on
earth, the visible
and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created through Him
and for Him.»
«The God who made the world
and everything in it is the Lord of
heaven and earth and does not live in temples built
by human hands «Acts 17:24 «Then I heard another voice from
heaven say: ««Come out of her, my people,» so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;» Revelation 18:4
The obvious answer if it was to convince others then, is to take that massive build up to
heaven opening up
and the wrath of God right there ready to wipe them out...
and wipe them all out,
earth opening up, people exploding, being run through
by angels... but nothing happens, they watch
and Stephen dies with no help to stop them or anyone in that opened up
heaven telling them to stop.
God created the
heavens and the
earth and everything that is in the
earth by His words (Heb.
And not by just a little, here and there, now and again, but apparently, «My thoughts are not your thoughts», every time and everywhere, without exception, by an immeasurable difference, «as high as the heavens are above the earth» according to His very own unimpeachable Self - Expert testimo
And not
by just a little, here
and there, now and again, but apparently, «My thoughts are not your thoughts», every time and everywhere, without exception, by an immeasurable difference, «as high as the heavens are above the earth» according to His very own unimpeachable Self - Expert testimo
and there, now
and again, but apparently, «My thoughts are not your thoughts», every time and everywhere, without exception, by an immeasurable difference, «as high as the heavens are above the earth» according to His very own unimpeachable Self - Expert testimo
and again, but apparently, «My thoughts are not your thoughts», every time
and everywhere, without exception, by an immeasurable difference, «as high as the heavens are above the earth» according to His very own unimpeachable Self - Expert testimo
and everywhere, without exception,
by an immeasurable difference, «as high as the
heavens are above the
earth» according to His very own unimpeachable Self - Expert testimony.
Colossians 1:16 «16 For
by Him all things were created, both in the
heavens and on
earth, visible
and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through Him
and for Him.»
We thus find the typical ancient picture of a domed canopy over the sky, supported
by pillars, with a flat
earth below floating on a watery abyss, with sun, moon
and stars moving in the
heavens relative to the
earth,
and with the world axis intersecting the sacred center of one's nation.
Is it biblical to say that the
earth will be destroyed
and replaced
by a new
earth and heaven.
In Colossians 1:19 - 20, Paul writes, «For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him [Jesus],
and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on
earth or things in
heaven,
by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.»
And we are the new creations, and His cruciform sacrifice forms a new heaven and a new earth and new ways, and in the form of a Gardener, He returns again to walk in the garden, not in the cool of the evening, but in the rising warmth of the dawn, and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first by the Resurrection Wom
And we are the new creations,
and His cruciform sacrifice forms a new heaven and a new earth and new ways, and in the form of a Gardener, He returns again to walk in the garden, not in the cool of the evening, but in the rising warmth of the dawn, and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first by the Resurrection Wom
and His cruciform sacrifice forms a new
heaven and a new earth and new ways, and in the form of a Gardener, He returns again to walk in the garden, not in the cool of the evening, but in the rising warmth of the dawn, and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first by the Resurrection Wom
and a new
earth and new ways, and in the form of a Gardener, He returns again to walk in the garden, not in the cool of the evening, but in the rising warmth of the dawn, and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first by the Resurrection Wom
and new ways,
and in the form of a Gardener, He returns again to walk in the garden, not in the cool of the evening, but in the rising warmth of the dawn, and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first by the Resurrection Wom
and in the form of a Gardener, He returns again to walk in the garden, not in the cool of the evening, but in the rising warmth of the dawn,
and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first by the Resurrection Wom
and on Resurrection Morning, the Practice of Resurrection is begun first
by the Resurrection Women.
Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The God who made the world
and all things in it, since He is Lord of
heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served
by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life
and breath
and all things; 26
and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the
earth, having determined their appointed times
and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him
and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live
and move
and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, «For we also are His children.»»
5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the
heavens existed long ago,
and the
earth was formed out of water
and through water
by the word of God, 6
and that
by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water
and perished.
7 But
by the same word the
heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment
and destruction of the ungodly.
Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal
and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of
heaven than a son of
earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes
and the miseries of my mother;
and there — empowered
by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.
For
by Him all things were created that are in
heaven and that are on
earth, visible
and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
By a divine invasion of the world, stopping history in mid-course
and suddenly inaugurating the new age, God, not man, would bring the kingdom of
heaven to
earth.
On the face of it the passage is a mystical experience; but the way Alyosha got to it was
by way of Father Zossima's putrefying body: he had to go through that experience of radical dissociation, accept it
and take it with him, an experience fully described in the earlier part of Book VII, in order to come to the insight that «the silence of
earth seemed to melt into the silence of the
heavens.»
The prediction is followed
by a solemn assurance that even when
heaven and earth are no more, Jesus» words will endure (Mk 13:31; Mt 24:35; Lk 21:33).
«Allah it is Who hath made the sea of service unto you that the ships may run thereon
by His command,
and that ye may seek His bounty, and that haply ye may be thankful; And hath made of service unto you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; it is all from H
and that ye may seek His bounty,
and that haply ye may be thankful; And hath made of service unto you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; it is all from H
and that haply ye may be thankful;
And hath made of service unto you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; it is all from H
And hath made of service unto you whatsoever is in the
heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; it is all from H
and whatsoever is in the
earth; it is all from Him.
It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass
and giving to each one status, meaning,
and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality
and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered
by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls;
and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation
and human hope the kingdom of God in «new
heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
I have turned my face toward Him Who created the
heavens and the
earth, as one
by nature upright,
and I am not of the idolaters» (Surab VI, 80).
If I think that I can not reach others except
by participating in their revolt, their anger
and hatred; if I think that Christ's consolation is a deluding lie
and reconciliation a hypocrisy, then I no longer believe that the coming kingdom is truly present (but it is a kingdom of
heaven, not of
earth),
and I no longer believe in the Resurrection.
I tell you the truth, until
heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will
by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Myth
and fact are inextricably entangled,
and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian
by being more firmly grasped
by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of
heaven and earth: Perfect Myth
and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love
and our obedience, but also our wonder
and delight, addressed to the savage, the child,
and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar,
and the philosopher.»
I thought: He is «not now that strength which in old days moved
heaven and earth,» when, for several years, he accompanied his old blind father to the synagogue
and, for an hour, whispered in his ear every word of the prayers the old man did not know
by heart, then going off to another service to fulfill his own duty to pray.
19 For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; 20
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross,
by him to reconcile all things unto himself;
by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in
earth, or things in
heaven.
Western theology has committed a terrible disservice to this imagery of a potter
and clay
by making it seem as if God is a deterministic puppet master up in
heaven pulling the strings of people
and nations down here on
earth.
Joel 2:30,31 «
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.&raq
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal,
and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.&raq
and a great earthquake occurred;
and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.&raq
and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair,
and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.&raq
and the entire moon became as blood,
and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.&raq
and the stars of
heaven fell to the
earth as when a fig tree shaken
by a high wind drops its unripe figs.»
'» (90) The prevailing attitude, he shows, is heavily influenced
by the Platonic concept of an evil material world
and a perfect immaterial soul, as well as a misunderstanding of Scripture in which
heaven, (as a kind of final resting place for the soul), is emphasized over the clear biblical picture of a new
heaven and new
earth for which believers will be physically resurrected.
The basis of your belief system appears to be that, you will go to a place of eternal fire
and torture, unless you accept that 2000 years ago god sent a piece of himself to
Earth in human form (Jesus) knowing in advance that this Jesus would live, be crucified, died, then come alive again, then ascend to
heaven to rejoin himself,
and that this was the only way that humans could be cleansed of the evil that is inherent in them because a rib woman was convinced
by a talking snake to eat an apple.
For
by Him all things were created, both in the
heavens and on
earth, visible
and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through Him
and for Him.