Sentences with phrase «into flesh and blood»

According to the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia, Simons was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest at Utrecht in 1524, but quickly began to question some of the church's beliefs and practices when, «while he was administering the Mass he began to doubt whether the bread and the wine were actually being changed into the flesh and blood of Christ.»

Author James Ellroy reflects on the completed film, saying, «My characters are now Hanson's and Helgeland's characters — and a brilliant ensemble of actors have turned them into flesh and blood.

Clowes turned ink into flesh and blood for his 2001 screenwriting debut Ghost World.

Somehow, Calvin's imagined literary creation has materialized into flesh and blood, even sparing him the dating process he hates and fears.

actually, according to scripture, the bread and wire actually CHANGE INTO flesh and blood at the moment you swallow them.

At one point they actually believe that grocery store bread and wine changes into the flesh and blood of Jesus because their priest performs some special ceremony over it.

While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference).

It means that Jesus elevates the relationship between a man and a woman in the order of creation, making it into a flesh and blood living symbol of His love for His Church, «a sign of a sacred thing.»

While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over grocery store bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus, because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» if you prefer the more euphemistic term).

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

At Advent we remember that God will make good on His promise to redeem this screwed up world, even if He has to squeeze Himself into flesh and blood to do it.

Not exact matches

The very truth that God put on flesh and blood and moved into the neighbourhood through birth, even — especially — that experience of birth, now showing us what it means to be truly human.

Forgive us for the times we have allowed our pain to lead us into sin and thinking that we are wrestling with flesh and blood instead of principalities and powers.

The Message says it best in John 1:14 - «The Word put on flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.»

«Unless you drink my blood and eat my flesh (John 6:53 - 6), you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven (Matt.

Millions and millions of Christians believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because:

The definition therefore certainly embraces every conceivable and actual form of sin; it certainly throws into relief the decisive fact that sin is despair (for sin is not the wildness of flesh and blood, but it is the spirit's consent thereto), and it is... before God.

Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because:

Of course, there are things we can be unified on with people who do not follow Jesus, for Paul wrote that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, which means that if we find ourselves struggling with flesh and blood, we have been tricked into fighting the wrong thing.

The imagination which was supposed to possess universal qualities capable of inspiring flesh and blood men of all lands and races to enter into a common faith turns out to be a specific American imagination.

The Message renders the first part this way, «The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.»

Because that's exactly what happened after I descended that platform and walked into a world inhabited not by the straw figures I'd been taught to defeat and convert, but by flesh - and - blood human beings who didn't stick to the atheist / Muslim / feminist / gay / liberal / poor / skeptic / foreigner script, a world less characterized by black and white certainties than by mile after mile and year after year of thick, impenetrable gray.

Surrounded by up - and - coming critics wearing a variety of bright yellow ties (it was rumored that Borges, blind for over 20 years, could still see patches of yellow), he clutched and caressed a favorite cane, offering few insights into himself, the man of flesh and blood.

The Son of God was truly born into the flesh, into the blood and sweat of man.

(11) Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay); (12) Then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm in a place of rest firmly fixed; (13) Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump; then We made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed out of it another creature: so blessed be Allah, the Best to create!

So, if you have dropsy, gout, or jaundice, by including some of your warm blood in the shell and white of an egg, which, exposed to a gentle heat, and mixed with a bait of flesh, you shall give to a hungry dog or hog, the disease shall instantly pass from you into the animal, and leave you entirely.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

«The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood (John 1:14 / The Message).»

He was falsely accused, arrested, slapped, spit on, had His beard pulled out of His face, sent to court where though no guilt was found was sentenced to be beaten to within an inch of HIs life, struck with rods, whipped with a weapon that had sharp bones and different pieces tore large chuncks of flesh off, drug back to court wearing a robe which when the blood dried to it became its own bit of torture, the first beating not good enough so sentenced to die, had a crown of thorns pressed down into his skull causing much more blood loss, beaten some more, forced to carry an extremely heavy wood beam as he marched toward His death, whipped and beaten along the way, had huge nails driven through His hands and feet, and had a shoulder separated.

I find it fascinating when writers and directors and even producers of films about real people in the Bible read into what the people were like and how they fill in the gaps of the dialog, some I like, others I disagree with, but it allows me to put flesh and blood on their bones.

Instead, we came to see him as our flesh and blood who we brought into the world; a future brother in Christ, who needs our loving response and comfort just as much as he needs food and shelter.

How can you be jealous of someone pouring time and love into your own flesh and blood!

Here celluloid's gift for facsimile achieved its ultimate expression, the complete transmutation of reality into illusion, as three - dimensional flesh - and - blood beings were transformed into two - dimensional ghosts shimmering on a screen.

There's still dread animal flesh and «white blood» in the picture, but the USDA has kowtowed to vegan mythology, buying into their belief that vegan diets, if carefully planned, can be healthful.

In a future world where flesh - and - blood boxers have been replaced by towering mechanized fighters, pugilist - turned - promoter Charlie Kenton reconnects with his estranged son, Max, to convert a discarded machine into a World Robot Boxing contender.

Much as the move to PlayStation marked the series» transition into the «solid» realm of 3D, REX marked a paradigm shift within Metal Gear's world fiction where weapons and technology supplant flesh and blood soldiers.

With a soundtrack consisting of nothing but the squeaks of sneakers and slaps of flesh, Miller choreographs a primal ballet of bodies, with gentle, brotherly bear hugs evolving into brute maneuvers, until Dave is suddenly tasting blood from a hit he takes to the nose.

Colorlessly directed by Colm McCarthy in his feature debut, this overlong contribution to the genre is set in the not - too - distant future, when a fungus has turned most everyone into brain - dead «Hungries» feasting on flesh and blood.

You're there as the blood sprays in the air as the lashes strip away flesh and rip into the bone.

Filmgoers States - side can at the moment choose between James Franco hacking at his flesh, Mark Wahlberg landing a blood - spattering punch or two, and a seriously grizzled Jeff Bridges going none too gently into the good night.

Flesh and Blood: A man just released from prison returns home to his impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia and attempts to rebuild his life and reintegrate into the community, but he struggles with staying sober, forging a bond with his half - brother, and mending a strained relationship with his mother.

It's music that hits every aspect of a video game mythos unlike any other with impressively sweeping, metal - clanging devotion that turns CG into musical flesh and blood with a true sense of choral majesty.

Garrone, who has a touch of Fellini in his blood, turns the screen into a carnival of flesh: He has a sensualist's eye for the female form but also a vulgarian's appreciation for the unloveliness of mottled skin and sagging limbs.

(It's equally disturbing to know that the MPAA has concluded, by giving this flick a PG - 13 rating, that people burning or exploding into clouds of blood and flesh is more suitable for children than one too many utterances of the work fuck, which is always enough to earn an otherwise innocuous movie an R.) And to indulge in an ending that is quite literally pulled out of the thinnest of aand flesh is more suitable for children than one too many utterances of the work fuck, which is always enough to earn an otherwise innocuous movie an R.) And to indulge in an ending that is quite literally pulled out of the thinnest of aAnd to indulge in an ending that is quite literally pulled out of the thinnest of air.

Like Happy Death Day, many of the year's highlights, which toyed with or injected life into often - tired subgenres, came in smaller packages, such as the home - invasion thrillers Better Watch Out, The Babysitter (another Netflix original), and Jackals; the clever zombie - in - the - desert flick It Stains the Sands Red (much better than the silly cannibal - in - the - desert - flick The Bad Batch); the flesh - eating family drama Raw; the blood - sucking confused - teen drama The Transfiguration; the sci - fi / fantasy / horror hybrids The Void, The Untamed, and The Lure, which also had elements of the musical; and the ultra-disturbing tale of youth Super Dark Times, about the unraveling of a group of friends after the accidental killing of a classmate, which offers a significantly more satisfying experience than It.

Aaron Taylor - Johnson returns as the titular teenaged vigilante, as does Chloë Grace Moretz as the pint - sized Hit Girl, once again squeezed into skintight purple leather that suggests a flesh - and - blood anime figure.

Instead of pouring money into bricks - and - mortar schools, we would direct the funding toward flesh - and - blood students.»

Chasing the Ripper offers a surprisingly personal and revealing look into what it has been like for Cornwell to pursue the most sensational murder case in criminal history — even as she continues to thrill her fans with a steady diet of new Scarpetta novels, including Flesh and Blood, her latest New York Times bestseller.

These stones create wretched beasts and the blood of these beasts turn human flesh into the undead.

Bringing into focus the flesh - and - blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists.