Sentences with phrase «idea of death in»

sense, Edith Finch explores the idea of death in it's most simple and realistic terms.

In Britain there is a tradition of admiration for the glorious failure, a Nelsonian idea of death in the hour of triumph.

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Davidson came up with the idea this summer, when she volunteered on a farm in upstate New York to mourn the sudden death of her best friend.

Phase III funding, the round where ideas are validated with up to $ 10 million in funding, is the very center of the valley of death, because it's the biggest test for early - stage companies.

But with lots of ideas, such a phase doesn't render a simple death sentence; after being rejuvenated and reappearing in a slightly rejiggered state, some ideas return to pass with flying colors.

Big Idea: Stepping up from being executive chair of Santander's U.K. unit on the death of her late father, who turned a family - owned regional bank into one of the 20 biggest banks in the world, she will need to consolidate her father's post-2008 acquisitions in Europe, Latin America and the U.S.

The idea that a huge portion of the world that believes in things that can not be proven nor seen nor understood by reason, is affecting the life and death of the rest of the world that doesn't find those things based in truth or reality... IS WRONG, AND IS RUINING LIVES AND DESTROYING OUR PLANET...

and the idea is not so much simply that something else has to die as it is that my own sins warrant death (a repeated theme in the OT, as many of the atheists on this blog often point out).

I can understand why some people can not handle the idea of death's finality and therefore require a belief in some afterlife, including a glorious reunion with lost loved ones (which is not mentioned in the Bible, by the way, contrary to popular belief).

I have no idea of what part of mankind should not lie with a man as with a woman that this is an abomination committed, and in those days was punishable by death, that you people don't understand.

The basic idea of a Non-Violent view of the atonement is that God did not want or need the death of Jesus in order to offer grace or forgiveness of sins.

And, Jeremy, would you please look at topic of commonly - heard ideas that may or may not have biblical basis — one mentioned in these comments — is that God chooses the time of our death.

It has been common in recent years for scripture scholars to tell us that the idea of the separation of body and soul after death — indeed that any systematic distinction between body and soul — was alien to the Hebrew vision of the Old Testament.

The sayings in Mark 13:9 - 13 all reflect detailed knowledge of events that took place — or ideas that were current — after Jesus» death: trial and persecution of Jesus» followers, the call to preach the gospel to all nations, advice to offer spontaneous testimony, and the prediction that families would turn against one another are features of later Christian existence, not of events in Galilee or Jerusalem during Jesus» lifetime.

The late «60s in this country will be remembered in theology chiefly for the remarkable public attention directed to radical theology and especially to the idea of the death of God.

Even though the title «Son of God» is used in the account of the Baptism, presumably the origin of Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea of his acceptance of death is formulated in terms of the heavenly Man who has power and authority upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28) who fulfills what is written of him, who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.

For you too, as for all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit of prosperity, the demonism of greed, the hell of passion, the decay of faith, the long postponement, the fossil - like lethargy, the ceaseless need of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms, deaths, births, new projections and invigorations of ideas and men.1

Today there is some doubt among scholars as to whether the idea of an end - time was actually taught and shared by Jesus, but it certainly became dominant in the rise of Christianity after his death.

Akin to this is the idea of spirit as that which leaves the body at death, as in the common expression rendered by the KJV (Job 3:11 etc.) «gave up the ghost» (RSV «expire» — i.e., ex-spire, breathe out).

Even if you accept the idea that a person can take end - of - life pills (death with dignity or whatever), it is impossible to stay robust and in your prime.

Furthermore, ideas such as death and resurrection in pagan religions usually related to the crop cycle rather than the idea of a god dying to pay for someone's sins.

Homiletically speaking, in the midst of life we are in death; and only if we learn to tolerate death — a Book and not an angel, an idea and not just a feeling, a conviction and not merely a charitable impulse — can we approach life.

The idea presented here resembles that found in John 8:52: «whoever keeps my word will never taste death» — along with the notion that the words of Jesus have a hidden meaning (cf. Mark 4:10 - 12, 33 - 4).

Some influential books fade as their ideas become conventional wisdom, but Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities remains as startling as when it appeared in....

In the United States, IQ scores of «approximately 70» are generally considered to constitute a level of mental disability severe enough to preclude the death penalty — the idea being that the person in question's mental level is too underdeveloped for execution to constitute a proper «punishment.&raquIn the United States, IQ scores of «approximately 70» are generally considered to constitute a level of mental disability severe enough to preclude the death penalty — the idea being that the person in question's mental level is too underdeveloped for execution to constitute a proper «punishment.&raquin question's mental level is too underdeveloped for execution to constitute a proper «punishment.»

In the background there is usually some idea of heaven and hell as places we go at death or at the end of history.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

The silence is defening and because of this, I'm beginning to lean more towards the idea of not wanting them in the U.S. I have no use for extreamists, Muslims, Christians or otherwise as such offers nothing to the world, in general, only suffering and death.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.

That was an idea a Roman could grasp, and it certainly threw light upon the mystery of the Messiah's death, otherwise the blindest act of fate in all human experience.

«Paradise» is a Persian word, and it reminds us that in Jewish thought was emerging — along with the older idea that the spirits of the dead would dwell in Sheol until the final resurrection and judgment — this newer idea that the righteous went immediately to their reward after death.

The idea that «the wages of sin is death» and that death is in the world because of the fall of man is one theme in the structure of salvation history in the Scripture (Rom.

From Monday's article: «Fred Phelps has health issues,» the church said in a statement Sunday, «but the idea that someone would suggest that he is near death, is not only highly speculative, but foolish considering that all such matters are the sole prerogative of God.»

The prince's escape and death in a foreign land led the chronicler to the idea of using the text about Antiochus, whose death was similar.

If Paul had frequently imaged Jesus» death in terms of temple sacrifice and the Day of Atonement elsewhere, or if he had elaborated this idea in Romans, seeking an alternative interpretation of his teaching would be a waste of time.

As this statement occurs in the exordium of the epistle, where Paul may be supposed, according to his practice, to be recalling ideas familiar to his readers, we may take it that it was in some such terms that he spoke of the significance of the death of Christ when he preached in Galatia.

Granted there are passages in the Bible that on the surface appear to support the idea of immediately going to Heaven at the time of death, but there are several passages that clearly support soul sleep!

The idea of the shedding of blood hints that aphesis forgiveness is in view, since the death of Jesus is one way we learn about how to gain release from our sins.

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

Goguel pertinently remarks, «The first germ of the idea of resurrection must be found in the thoughts of Jesus» disciples before their master's death.

When the wheels hit the runway, everyone applauded and it occurred to me in that moment that maybe human beings just weren't meant to fly; maybe we're pushing the limits of what God designed us to do; maybe it's not a good idea to live in such a way that not falling from the sky to your death is an occasion for celebration.

You don't have to feel small in order to come to terms with an idea that we will once again become part of the universe in death, and give nutrients back to the ecosystems that have helped sustain life as we know it.

It's like they've never bothered to challenge their brains over the idea of «death to self» that is taught time and again in both scripture as well as other Christian traditions such as the catechism.

Shoehorning that, in turn, gave birth to whole new theologies, like the spinning of the fact that Jesus would have been «cursed» for having been hung on a cross into the idea that his death removed the curse of death from humanity.

So, in short, this «evidence» that proves Christianity isn't so much scientific evidence as it is idealistic / philosophical / rhetorical resonance that may or may not occur when an individual encounters the Christian idea of Jesus and the death / resurrection story.

The content of revelation includes at its very core the idea of a self - humbling God who experiences suffering and death in the crucifixion of Jesus.

Barfield's conception of the incarnation as a freeing of man, in the course of time, to say the Divine Name («I am...») here coalesces with Altizer's idea that the death of God frees us to see the contemporary reality of a continuing incarnational kenosis leading to a nonhubristic apotheosis of man.15 Barfield has achieved with his metaphorical sensitivity a pre-view of a «final participation» which is the coincidentia oppositorum Altizer was insufficiently able to apprehend with his dialectical method.

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This is not to say that faith hangs upon the question in the history of ideas as to whether Jesus appropriated any specific title available in his culture, or whether he ever spoke as does the kerygma in terms of his death and resurrection.