There are, of course, some important differences between Australia's whaling industry and our current trade
in live sheep and cattle.
Not exact matches
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The Labor party has pledged that
in government it would phase out the
live sheep trade, but has not tied itself to a specific timetable.
We that believe are also «
living temples», «wells that spring forth water», «
sheep in a pasture», «branches on a vine», and so forth.
I know it's impossible not to grieve... we are going to do that no matter what because it always hurts and if you didn't hurt at all that would sort of mean you didn't have any true love for these
sheep or significant investment
in their
lives.
We are
living in the end times of all these
sheep herder religions, now, go back to church and wave your hands like a zombie worshipper...
He
lives in his mom's basement, and she lets him out about once a month to «play» with the neighbor's
sheep.
You
live in fear of being a sinful individual who your god rejects should you not adhere to his words and so you judge others based off of what
sheep herding freaks from 2000 years ago said.
Wonderful teacher... get out your Bible and start reading... this guy is a wolf
in sheep's clothing leading millions to an eternity
in hell... the prosperity gospel he teaches is contrary to the teachings of Christ... Christ talked about abundance
in life but he was speaking of spiritual abundance not material things... Scripture and Christ said
in this
life you will have trouble... Christ suffered
in this
life as did each of his Apostles... open your eyes before it is too late for you.
Just like the protestant preachers with their $ 20 million $ churchs that stand as monuments to themselves while not a mile away people starve everyday and
live in cardboard boxes and the dumb
sheep keep giving to these conmen.
and a scholar who
lived there for many years suggests that it would be very nice if we could understand the reference to the hills / wilderness as indicating where the shepherd went to look for the lost
sheep, assuming that he had left the flock safely
in the fold (E.F.F. Bishop, «Parable of the Lost or Wandering
Sheep», ATR 44 [1962], 44 - 57.)
Life listening for God is not so much different than tuning
in to a radio station, Jesus said, My
sheep know my voice».
t its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal
life and sent its son to Earth to talk about
sheep and goats
in the Middle East.
@ «Mort will fail
in life» — you're so used to being an amoral
sheep, even your screen name is based on what other people are doing.
Were we all
sheep in another
life Anyway, I'm for our present President.
In their error, the Good Shepherd seeks His lost
sheep, gives even His
life for them.
He expresses it as «the good
life», «the
life worth
living», evoking the biblical images of a tree by streams of water and
sheep in green pastures.
To call those who actually reflect on their own spirituality and make conscious efforts to
live based on a moral compass, rather than as herded
sheep, self - obsessed is not only pretentious but a reflection of your indoctrination
in the school of those who believe out of fear — which is worse?
Until then, I choose to believe
in what I see, feel, and experience and will shape my
life based on morals and ethics which I create for myself and not act like a
sheep.
Didn't jesus base judgement (seperation of
sheep / goats) on what we did for the least... visit those
in prison, feed the hungry etc... nothing to do with what we believed... but how we
live.
The parables which best illustrate the divine initiative that stems from the yearning love of God for every person, whatever one's moral status or station
in life, are the trilogy of the lost
sheep, the lost coin, and the lost boy, ordinarily called the prodigal son.
The pre-exilic prophets were already speaking of the judgment to fall «
in the latter days» as one
in which the God of Israel «will be judge between nations, arbiter among many peoples» 8 and where the divine judgment would result
in a new kind of world
in which «the wolf shall
live with the
sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, and a little child shall lead them».9
When Jesus related the parables of judgement, such as the talents, and the
sheep and the goats, he was teaching his hearers how to discern the significance of their own actions
in the
life of each day.
In John's story of the good shepherd, Jesus is portrayed as the good shepherd because when the wolf comes he does not flee like a hireling, but because the
sheep are his own he lays down his
life for his
sheep.
High school is short but
life is long and having belief
in your principles and capacity for rational thought are going to mean a lot more
in the long run than being popular with the vapid
sheep you are currently surrounded by.
Instead, they are
sheep who have believed
in the grace and mercy of God, and as a result have received eternal
life from God, but who must now recognize that the true source of their eternal
life is Jesus Christ, God
in the flesh, their good and true Shepherd.
We grow
in our ability to actively give mercy, encourage faithfulness to Him, and to
live Matt 25, parable of the
sheep and goats.
Furthermore, anyone who has studied ancient Near Eastern culture knows that the familial structure we see represented
in scripture was nothing like the nuclear family epitomized by the Cleavers, but would rather have included multiple generations and relatives
living together
in clans, with women working long hours «outside of the home»
in the fields, tending
sheep, gathering food, trading goods, etc..
We didn't see any scary
sheep (just rugged ones)-- they must only
live in North American churches.
«We also take more seriously the right of the small
sheep - owners
in big forests to continue to
live «where they belong» on a traditional level as ecologically on a higher level than their urban critics» («Encouraging» 54).
These
sheep are not righteous because of their good works, but because they believed
in Jesus for eternal
life.
First, just as the
sheep of God should
live for Jesus during the tribulation period, we as the
sheep of God
in this age, should
live for Jesus as well.
I know it is hard after a
life of being
in a society of
sheep it is hard to understand like SOCIETY.
90 %
lives in this modern day society of
sheep.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years for h.omo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal
life and sent its son to Earth to talk about
sheep and goats
in the Middle East.
If people want to «man up» or «woman up» for that matter, stop sitting
in the pews every week like stupid
sheep and stop allowing some nitwit (who's probably got his own closetful of skeletons) to tell you how to
live your
life or raise your children.
At its most fundamental level, Catholicism requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years for h.o.mo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal
life and sent its son to Earth to talk about
sheep and goats
in the Middle East.
At its most fundamental level, it requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago, sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years, waited for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years for h.omo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal
life and sent its son to Earth to talk about
sheep and goats
in the Middle east.
The infinitely old super-being did all this, waited 10 billion years, created the Earth, then waited another 4.6 billion years, causing
life to slowly evolve into humans and then sent its «son» to Earth to talk about
sheep and goats
in the Middle East.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal
life and sent its son to Earth to talk about
sheep and goats
in the Middle East.
At its irreducible minimum, Catholicism requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal
life and sent its son to Earth to talk about
sheep and goats
in the Middle East.
When I try to describe the spirit - filled
life of
living loved, I resort to metaphors and stories: I'll stumble through the words of John 15 about
life in the vine or say phrases like «
live and move and have our being» and sometimes I talk about Isaiah or maybe shepherds and
sheep who know His voice, but usually I am left saying «it's like this...» and then I am only bearing witness to the Spirit's movement
in my own
life and the Love who transforms me.
But the sun on the mountains and the plains and on the woolly
sheep, the total security and satisfaction of
life in the home of the priest and
in the love of his daughter - all this, under rational scrutiny by a superior mind with superior ability to rationalize, might very well have been retained.
2017 UPDATE: After further study and discussion with people
in the RedeemingGod.com discipleship group, it is interesting to note that the word for «hell» is Gehenna, which is the smoking trash valley outside of Jerusalem, and the word for «destroy» is appolumi, which is used
in Matthew 10:6
in reference to the «lost»
sheep of Israel, and then also
in 10:39 (cf. 16:25) when Jesus says if you «lose» your
life for his sake, you will find it.
Those who
live a
life of poverty and are
in the religion biz are either not skilled at fleecing the
sheep or just nice people.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point
in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal
life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about
sheep and goats
in Greco - Roman Palestine.
He runs to discourses of some length, as for example, concerning the new birth,
in his conversation with Nicodemus (chapter 3); on the bread of
life after the feeding of the five thousand (6:22 ff); on the true children of Abraham (8:31 - 59); on the shepherd and the
sheep (10:1 - 18); and particularly his forceful discourse after eating the Last Supper with his disciples, which include some of the most highly cherished utterances recorded of Jesus.
His parables reveal a close and sympathetic observation of everyday
life: the farmer's sowing and reaping, the shepherd and his flock, the house built on the rock, the leaven
in the dough, the lost coin and the lost
sheep, the father's joy
in the return of a wayward son and the elder brother's peevish jealousy, the mother forgetting her agony for joy that a man has been born into the world, the workers standing idle
in the marketplace because no one has hired them, and many other instances.
The Festival of Sacrifice is responsible for untold suffering of cattle,
sheep and goats — millions of whom have been sold for profit through Australia's
live export trade; closer to home,
in the name of Christmas, highly intelligent pigs and turkeys not only experience the terror of slaughter, but entire lifetimes of suffering
in factory farms; and sporting events such as bull fights and rodeos still present cruelty as «entertainment»...