Sentences with phrase «heaven seems»

A new heaven seems to shine upon a new earth.

I would add however, that the eternally and bliss of heaven seem juxtaposed to the eternality and suffering of where the lost go.

992 In November, for three Nights successfully, the heavens seemed bloody.

Not exact matches

Fast food chains and factory farms, in other words, seem like a match made in heaven.

To him, the internet had always seemed like a gift from heaven.

When it comes to Al - Qaida, we don't seem to understand that it is based on the individuals, willingness to die for a caused that is maid all the stronger when it is steeped in religion with the promise of not only Great reward in heaven but also great rewards to the family here on earth.

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

As you seem to have an idea of what heaven is..

seems like an awful lot of people not going to heaven, bonnie.

, a concept which seems quite at odds with the importance of humans regarding heaven.

It seems to me that the right - wing Christians view heaven as a fundamentalist state and want to pass laws to make the here and now in heaven's image.

What finally emerged in the summer of 1518 from this frantic rethinking — recall that Luther was trying to work through the theological issue while at the same time explaining to the world why he shouldn't be burned at the stake for heresy — seems to have been shaped primarily by reflection on texts such as Matthew 16:19: «Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven.»

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers but there is heaven and afterlife for the souls or the personalities that lived behind those computer but not the actual hardware of the computer... after all if you had the soul you can fix it to any more developed hardware that is suitable to living heaven or hell... Though all people hated dark and favored light for it... but as seems that Mr.Stephen Hawking is favoring the Dark over the Light which he named as «Fairy Tales» or «Tales of the Ancient»...!

killed any hope of my ever being reconciled to them... the only thing I would add to this, David, is: «Invade their personal and emotional space as often as possible, and pour salt into their jagged open wounds» as a couple seem to be doing here, and many more are doing so on Facebook... heaven forbid they should just let you have some space to yourself and others who have the same experience, and not harrass you even there...

It seems that in the kingdom of heaven, the cosmic lottery works in reverse.

(The people who talk about heaven always seem to assume they are going there.)

We must seem very strange to Christians of the Third World, for example, in talking about love but then building economic dams so that we can control those rains God sends from heaven on the just and on the unjust.

Topher — you seem to be implying that there was no «god» in heaven while Jesus walked the earth.

For years, I have besieged heaven with thousands of prayers that seemed to go unanswered.

But, as a «seeker» of truth which your seem to be, what would happen if you for a moment let go of the idea of god, a higher power, and heaven?

It seems that you view God as some kind of «cosmic vending machine» where you can get certain outcomes (like going to heaven) by pulling certain levers (like trusting Christ).

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.»

Not surprisingly, after Jesus ascended into heaven, the apostles who had been with Jesus seem to have followed the example of Jesus in their own preaching and teaching.

The flame of young life seems to melt the chilly promise of techno - magic and charge Jeffrey with non-transcendent purpose: «I didn't need heaven's light.

Then, having insinuated himself into the good graces of the people by a show of seeming piety, he gave out that a certain book had been sent down to him from heaven.

James Tolhurst claims that «it would now seem entirely reasonable» to tell the parents of infants who die without baptism that «their unbaptised children are now in heaven» (Other Angles, Faith, July / August 2007).

He does say no one will get to the father except through me, but it seems like that could mean that he meant he might be the way to heaven but the ones that do nt believe may just remain in the grave.

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.

Perhaps this prophecying is good... each time a nutty preacher reads the heavens trying to tell the future (that doesn't seem Christian actually, more like fortune - telling), several people who were credulous before really begin to wonder if their preacher is a nutcase.

@islamistheanswer, Sure, while the poster seems to think that «parting» means the Big Bang, to me it seems silly to think that the Big Bang would come after heaven and already exist and likely was just and rationalization of where land came from, i.e. splitting the oceans from the sky.

In fact Jesus» own words seem to preclude the possibility: «No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven - the Son of Man» (John 3:13).

As regards the earth, the Genesis accounts reveals that God created the heavens and earth in the beginning, this seems to be before the creative days actually began.

Because it doesn't seem to me like you actually want someone to join you in heaven, you seem to get excited by the fact that you'll be able to look down and jeer at those that didn't make it into your special club.

(Revelation 18:20)[+] After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, «Hallelujah!

It would seem to me, that the fear of hell and delight of heaven might be used, to compel people to accept Christ and this new religion.

Now, doesn't God, heaven, and cheating death seem too good to be true?

They seem to focus on who goes to heaven.

This seems to imply that a person who breaks the law and teaches others to do so may nevertheless be in the kingdom of heaven.

How you can break the word «sozo» down to where going to heaven, and being saved, healed, and delivered seem to be able to exist separately is beyond me.

One reason here, I believe, is that the somewhat crude way in which the rewards and punishment motif was presented seems nothing short of ridiculous — and in any event, not very appealing, even when «heaven» is talked about.

Luke begins the paragraph with a direct command and seems to have a note of more immediate urgency: «Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys,» ending with the comment about heart and treasure.

Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»

We worship a lot of things down here on planet earth (new gadgets, nature, etc.)... seems to me that if we were to actually behold (there's a word I don't normally use) God and heaven, we would not be able to look at Him because He would be so beyond anything we could imagine and so holy.

The plain fact seems to be that both the Personhood of God and the doctrine of God's creation of heaven and earth were accepted by the authors of the New Testament with little question because they were already accepted in Judaism.

Oddly, expressing faith can allay that fear by assuring people they will go to heaven (illogical as that may seem).

Admittedly, there seem to be no brave Wordsworthian souls announcing, «Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!»

But, Jesus seems to think that our real charge for the here and now is to be «doing the desire of My Father in the heavens» [matt 7:21].

Religion seemed to be a part of the «superstructure» which sanctioned the existing order, promised rewards in heaven for enduring the pain on earth, and therefore suppressed any attempt to change the real social condition of this world.

It is a state that is more imaginary than heaven itself and we see this life as more real than heaven sometimes because we experience this life as a dream that only lasts a minute or two, but at the time it seems real.

It would now seem entirely reasonable that we can tell grieving parents — especially those who are practicing members of the Church — that in God's mercy, their unbaptised children are now in heaven.