Sentences with phrase «in fleshly»

Finally, there's the romance, which is historically fanciful, dreamy and lacking in fleshly immediacy.

The «gospel is excellently received by the common people, but they receive it in a fleshly sense; that is, they know that it is true but do not want to use it correctly.»

(Thou shalt not be mixed together with a man, like in fleshly coupling with a woman, for it is an abomination.)

To him it was not a physical affair in any fleshly sense — «Flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God» (I Corinthians 15:50)-- but it was a bodily affair.

«There is a danger of reacting in the flesh, of responding not in a scriptural, spiritual way, but in a fleshly way.

That includes you, who were once alienated, enemies in your own minds to God's purposes, immersed in evil actions; but now you are bodily reconciled in his fleshly body which has tasted death.

They are only concerned about forgiveness, and have no concept that repentance is not just saying «Ooops, oh well God will forgive so I can continue in my fleshly ways».

To persecute the house of Israel is to persecute Christ, not in his mystical body as when the Church is persecuted, but in his fleshly lineage and in his forgetful people whom he ceaselessly loves and calls.

And since our hope is to participate in his Resurrection life, and since we clearly can not expect to be raised in our fleshly bodies, then our resurrection from death (which will not be physical) can not be different in kind from his.

Not exact matches

Ezekiel 37 is not applying to the nation of fleshly Israel returning to their homeland in 1948.

I've actually dealt with a large number of homosexual individuals (worked in an HIV program) plus in various other ministries... the whole «wired» thing I get but it isn't any different from other «fleshly» wiring that anyone else has... everyone has fleshly challenges that pull them from «The Way».

«Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self - abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind and not holding fast to the head, Christ, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.»

However, I (or rather Ratzinger / Pope Benedict) did not cite 1 Corinthians 15 in order to subvert the idea of material continuity, but rather to support the idea that resurrection will involve a profound transformation and not a mere «return of the «fleshly body,» that is, of the biological structure» in the form that we know it today.

Catholicism is a fleshly (i.e., incarnational) thing, and this book exults in that truth.

And the saddest thing about having to be on that «demigod» pedestal is that there are too many people in the pews who forcibly place you up there because it's easier to follow a fleshly person than it is to follow Jesus.

Today, the vast majority of mankind are in no way imitating our Creator, but are permitting fleshly tendencies to dominate, casting aside «love of God» and «love of neighbor».

Ah, yes, and this is what happens when people are choosing to do whatever they want to please their fleshly desires, without discerning right, from wrong as taught to us they would do, prophesied in Malachi 3v13 - 15, and is why we have the troubles, and sufferings of today.

That is just plain old fleshly, lustful crap, in the guise of spirituality.

That's what you're teaching; that even though a person begins in the Spirit they have to be made perfect by their fleshly efforts.

At one end of the gamut is Acts 20:10, where Paul, finding a supposed dead man still breathing, cries, «Make ye no ado; for his psyche is in him»; at the other is I Peter 2:11, where the full spiritual meaning of the term is evident — «Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.»

Steven thanks for your testimony I agree with your view that homosexuality is not an orientation we are not born that way but its a choice.We can choose to live by what our flesh dictates or we can live by what God reveals through his word and by his holy spirit.If we are serious about following God we chose to follow him so it does nt matter whether gay or straight our choice is to follow God with all our heart.I have never been gay but have battled and was overcome by my fleshly desires not until i turned from them and asked the holy spirit to help me have i been changed for that i will always be grateful to the Lord.So in that sense we are no different our testimonys are important and are powerful.Thank you for your witness and may the Lord continue to use you as his vessel to touch lives and hearts for him.brentnz

refer to idle speculation, or, in the phrase «fleshly mind,» (Colossians 2:18, 21 - 23.)

Paul and others worked hard to get believers to think in spiritual, not fleshly, terms.

«We know that if our earthly house, this [fleshly] tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.»

Your comments suggest that you dismiss anyone with a different take on at least this topic as just catering to their fleshly desires and not being sincere in their searching of scripture or their desire to honestly follow God.

So before God had created the universe, let alone humanity and thus His own fleshly incarnation in the form of Jesus, He wanted to show His love for Himself by giving Himself a gift.

1:27) Can that be said of those whose clergy and other members are involved in politics, or whose lives are largely built around materialistic and fleshly desires?

If that man chooses to do any of the works of a regenerate believer in Jesus, he can — from his dead spirit and from his natural soul, ultimately from a source of fleshly self - pride.

If we find that we are really fleshly, worldly persons, we need to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith!

In working through my experience I have come to realize that Christianity is trying to achieve the same thing which eastern meditation practices are trying to achieve — the purifying / purging / cleansing / emptying of our minds of selfish, fleshly thoughts to increase spirituality, decrease self - centeredness, transcend self and thereby achieve behaviour modification.

Here, Paul is referring to such fleshly sins that disqualify a man from preaching and leading the church, particularly being blameless and above reproach in the sexual area, since such sin is a disqualification (see Ps.

The unequivocal way the Word is actualized in flesh directs us to see that the Word, far from being fundamentally alien to flesh, is itself the source and ground of fleshly realities within which we find ourselves.

Since the Greeks (as indeed most of the ancient world though often in vague and undefined ways) were accustomed to think of death in terms of the survival of an immaterial soul, the Jewish emphasis on the resurrection of the fleshly body seemed not only unnecessary, but unspiritual and even repellent.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservatioin the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservatioin physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservatioIn order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservatioin his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservatioin a remarkable state of preservation.

Actually, I think that our natural imprint is always fleshly and sinful as long as God has not yet opened our inner eyes so that we can discern what would be really good — in His sight.

had abandoned the fleshly view in favor of a spiritual interpretation of resurrection.

The third and most important reason was that the Resurrection of Jesus, so central to the Christian faith, had now come to be understood in such physical, fleshly terms, that it was naturally taken to be the model of the destiny that awaited his followers.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

It follows also that our mortal flesh can not perceive the risen body of Christ, and so it is not our fleshly body that is eating the body of Christ but our eternal spiritual person who is becoming united with the risen Christ (body, blood, soul and divinity) when our mortal bodies eat and digest the sacred species in the Eucharist.

From our fleshly desires to the whim of our other desires to what we want in life all these rule our lives.

Neither in this passage nor elsewhere is found any more detailed information about this intermediate state in which the inner man, stripped indeed of its fleshly body but still deprived of the spiritual body, exists with the Holy Spirit.

The idea of a temporary state of waiting is all the more repugnant to those who would like fuller information about this «sleep» of the dead who, though stripped of their fleshly bodies, are still deprived of their resurrection bodies although in possession of the Holy Spirit.

In fact, the resuscitation and glorification of Jesus» physical body was an impossible conception, for it would still be, «flesh,» not, «spirit»; and the whole force of his argument in I Corinthians 15 involves the substitution of a glorious spiritual body for the earthly, «fleshly» body in the ResurrectioIn fact, the resuscitation and glorification of Jesus» physical body was an impossible conception, for it would still be, «flesh,» not, «spirit»; and the whole force of his argument in I Corinthians 15 involves the substitution of a glorious spiritual body for the earthly, «fleshly» body in the Resurrectioin I Corinthians 15 involves the substitution of a glorious spiritual body for the earthly, «fleshly» body in the Resurrectioin the Resurrection.

For not only must we wrestle with the paradox of the world's light shining unnoticed, but we are confronted by the seemingly contradictory assertion that though the «world» (presumably everybody) knew him not, nevertheless some received the light, some «believed in his name» and became «children of God» — not of their own fleshly will but by the power of God.

Their power and foundational role in experience account for Merleau - Ponty's descriptions of fleshly ideas such as those of music and literature possessing us, rather than the other way around.

The word pharmakia is used 5 times in the NT, incl Galations 5:20 where druggery is listed with drunkeness as feeding one «s own fleshly desires rather than treating any sort of ailment.

This is essentially what Paul is saying in Romans 8:5 - 7 when he talks about the mind set on fleshly things.

Just thought I would point that out in the category of not being unaware of how the enemy operates whether it be through fully yielded willing vessels or ignorant, fleshly, and oblivious ones.

Paul, the apostle of human openness and freedom in Christ, when envisioning the drastic liberty implied in such freedom, sometimes seems to have become fearful of the dizzying prospect and reverted to a reassertion of that fleshly thinking which takes comfort in imposing the «law of commandments and ordinances.»

If Christianity is based on the virgin birth of the son of God, who is in fact a miracle and the fleshly manifestation of god, and that actually never happened... then you tell me.