Sentences with phrase «human ruler»

No human ruler has ever had to make that kind of a decision.

You don't have to give any human ruler the respect that should only go to the Eternal.

Many Christians believed that since Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, and it is to Him alone that we must swear fealty, then any such oath to a flag, or a human ruler, is idolatry (cf. similar concerns raised by Greg Boyd in The Myth of a Christian Religion).

An omnipotent ruler probably wouldn't need to kill a whole bunch of infants to try (unsuccessfully) to make a point to some human ruler — but maybe he's just a sick and twist omnipotent being...

Gods and human rulers interacted in a sacred sphere to sustain this order.

Human rulers have failed to eliminate war, crime, injustice, and disease.

After this amount of time, the evidence is clear that «man has dominated man to his injury» (Ec 8:9) and that human rulers have failed to eliminate war, crime, injustice or disease.

Not exact matches

It is a human disease as they think they should be the rulers of earth But not God himself.

NT Wright says that humans are meant to be Rulers and Priests.

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

For the salvation of the human race, Jesus had to be given up, yet, as St. Paul writes, if the rulers of this world had known him, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Nevertheless, the faith that God is the Lord of history; that even atomic energy is God's energy to be used for human good and not for mutual destruction; that no nation is sovereign in its own right but that God alone is the sovereign Ruler of the world — such a faith makes a vast difference in the way we deal with political issues.

In any case, it will be evident by now that the relationship between God and the created order is much more like that between the human mind and the human body, as we commonly conceive it, than it is like that between an earthly ruler and his subjects.

God is nothing more than a projection of human traits onto an all powerfull image of a ruler from that period.

Did you know the Middle East is where mathematical calculations, algebra, geometry, etc. started??? Did you know it was an ancient Iranian who discovered alcohol??? Did you know that the earliest known Bill of Human Rights was written by King Cyrus, ruler of the Persian Empire?

The spiritual rulers are also in awe looking down on we puny humans and God's mercy towards us expressed in all clarity and purity.

In that earlier work, Locke offered a detailed refutation of the views set forth in Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarchia, where Filmer argued in favor of monarchial power exercised by rulers who have inherited their authority from Adam as the primal parent of the human race.

The faith of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures is that God is ruler of all creation and all realms of human life - economic, political, cultural and personal.

They spoke to the conditions of their times from the standpoint of both the judgment and the proffered deliverance of Yahweh, and proclaimed their faith in a divine Ruler who moves within political events as in all other events of human history.

What has happened is that he has entered into the life of the human world as the most persistent of rulers, the most inescapable of companions.

Rather, it is for him a profoundly spiritual question, because he finds behind authoritarianism an image of God which refers to a severe ruler who does not support humans in their own being but hinders them.

Neither the «violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind» nor «the mean rapacity... of merchants and manufacturers» can be «corrected» (though the latter «may very easily be prevented from disturbing» the tranquillity of others) because they are evils for which «the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy».

Thus a ruler is called khalifa when «he replaces the one who was before him, and takes his place in the affair, and is his successor (khalaf)».68 There are many contemporary thinkers who opine that human beings are the vicegerents (khalifa) of God on earth.

When scientists frame human beings as neural machines, recall the hyper - rational rulers of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels, whose instruments of measurement fail utterly to capture the whole person and turn the rationalists themselves into twisted souls.

This reality is constantly personified in religious imagery as Yahweh, Varuna, Ahura Mazdah, Allah, Vishnu, Krishna, Buddha, Kali, Kwan Yin; it appears under the human imagery of the ruler, the father, the mother, the friend, the savior, the bridegroom, and the bride.

It seemed to be a given situation, allowing some room for human decisions, especially by rulers, but basically decided for all.

These selfish rulers acted in accord with universal human impulses.

I pretty much became a human mattress for my baby; I'd put pillows all around me then place a baby mattress cover over the pillows to keep them in place and so that my baby wouldn't fall between pillows, etc (my poor hubby had to sleep straight like a ruler, due to my pillow queen and I taking over most of the bed).

Ikedife said «the two bodies made up of traditional rulers, religious leaders, academicians, technocrats and leaders of thought in many fields of human endeavour in Igbo land were concerned about the ethnic group, Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the world.»

In a press statement made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday, Chairman of CEDRA, Dr. John Danfulani, said «President Buhari's conscious refusal to include visiting of Southern Kaduna to commiserate with the immediate family, Chiefdom, and the good people of Southern Kaduna for the brutal and gruesome murder of a First Class paramount ruler of Numana Chiefdom in Sanga local government and his wife by the «unknown known» gunmen is a gargantuan contradiction to the recently released commentary on his human side.

More than once, Clegg opposes Osborne for pursuing a too - narrowly pro-trade and pro-investment approach to China, leaving readers to infer that Clegg would have preferred some kind of more robustly human rights - driven policy towards China: «too many of our politicians have rushed to embrace authoritarian capitalism: George Osborne's gratuitous pandering to China's rulers in Beijing in pursuit of commercial advantage springs to mind» (226).

In fact traditional rulers, religious leaders, human right activists and even some school operators would have gone to heaven not to talk of contractors and politicians.

«Recently, a prominent traditional Ruler in the State, King Dakolo of Ekpetiama raised an alarm on human trafficking activities in parts of the State by oil workers and Expatriates and appealed to NAPTIP to intervene.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bowl.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Rulers of the Three Kingdoms, of India, China, and Japan.

The visions of the ruler on the Nile opened up a new chapter of human history.

Regardless of loyalty, the arrival of the Pevensies looks like the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy foretelling her doom at the hands of four humans who would come to assist Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson), the rightful ruler.

Some of Morgan's best writing lies here, within a conversation shared between Elizabeth and the abdicated Edward; where he describes the nature of a ruler as, «half - people... the two sides within us, human and crown engaged in a fearful civil war, which never ends.»

It seems that a prophecy in this world, called Narnia by its inhabitants, foretells of a group of four humans that would arrive into the land and become rulers.

Nightmare is a ruler of the «Dream Dimension» who torments humans in their sleep — like the villainous, Marvel counterpoint to DC Comics» Sandman.

The conference was opened by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, where Mr. AlQasimi delivered with a powerful opening address, stressing that there had been many conferences as matter to human nature and human values adopted by all peoples of the world, regardless their identities and civilizations.

The few remaining human children must find and destroy the «Grand Projector» in order to release themselves from the mutant rulers of Earth.

Our two dogs and two dogs all think they're the rulers (of each other and their humans).

You'll then fight a Koopa Kid at the end of each world, taking back the magic wands and restoring the ruler of each land to their human form before you finally take on Bowser in Dark Land.

Just when rulers of the world get close to finding a way to banish all evil from humans, an army of the long - ago defeated god attacks the human realm.

The game is set in the distant future, where the world is ruled by intelligent animal - like forms that evolved from the machines responsible for the fall of an advanced human civilization centuries ago; the former rulers of the world survived, but their lifestyle was reduced to that of primitive, isolated tribes.

In Vertebrae, a human spine made out of paper and string is hung onto the wall with a metal nail or a glossy graphite paper curls around a bent wooden ruler in Serpentine.

Repeating an array of eight colors and angles, the work presented here possesses the subtle, hypnotic quality found in Sol LeWitt's wall drawings, though Horwitz art is tempered by a quality not found in his ruler - derived compositions: The grids, at first glance seemingly automated, reveal on closer inspection imperfections that bring a necessary human element to the work.

Notice also that human vs rulers feeling is so strong in Canada that their government has passed a law to limit freedom of speech on the subject.

The truth is, I am not human — I am a man - god, son of Zeus, born to mortal woman but fathered by the ruler of the gods, lord of thunder.»