Sentences with phrase «just as the prophet»

Just as the prophet warns us against claiming for ourselves tasks that are reserved for God alone, Matthew tells us that we are to take on other tasks on God's behalf, chores we may not want.

Just as the prophet calls upon his hearer to turn away from his immediate existence in the world, the mystic envisions an eternal Now that dissolves the time of duration.

Just as the prophets condemned the false prophets in scathing diatribes, just as Jesus condemned the hypocritical religious leaders of his people in unsparing language, so the early church condemned false teachers that arose in its midst.

So long as men believe in a higher power who is believed capable of revealing himself to man, there will arise those who believe that God has spoken to them and will become his mouthpiece just as the prophets of older religions have done.

According to Shi`a, an Imam is a man who is most learned in all fields of knowledge, and especially in religion; he has the most sublime qualities and must be innocent just as the Prophet was, and he must have been appointed by God and the Prophet to guide the people.

This is why for tradition the sage was held to be inspired by God just as the prophet was.

Just as the prophet Hosea portrays God's excruciating knowledge of love — God can not abandon a wayward, faithless Israel even though he would very much like to — so Luke and the other evangelists portray God's knowledge of loneliness: God knows the absence of God.

14 So God's promise came true, just as the prophet Isaiah had said, -LSB-...]

What a little Shia *: Trump - taunting LaBeouf is a heartless, hypocritical, racist douchebag and he shouldn't work again until he proves otherwise, says Shia Muslims believe that just as a prophet is appointed by God alone, only God has the prerogative to appoint the successor to his prophet.

Not exact matches

Let's put it this way, reality took hold and I realized that what you believe is your own personal choice, however, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Mohammed, Buddha and the many other deities and prophets out there just want us to live our lives as good people.

They are an off - shoot of Christianity with their own new holy book and a bigamy practicing prophet — just like Islam, as it happens.

Joseph Smith was just a man like unto all other men who were called to be prophets throughout time such as Noah, Abraham or Moses.

U r the Robot V and it is an idiot, deceiver, false prophet, man eater that eat human raw just like an Ape Lincoln as Obama and whoever believe the Under god have done the same thing and u r guilty from the beginning and u r still guilty now!

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

As Jesus said, the people before Christ's time had the prophets to know Christ was coming, just like we know Christ is coming again, soon.

-- The King of kings, God in the flesh, came riding into Jerusalem, meekly sitting on the lowly colt of a donkey, just as God's Prophet, Zechariah, had predicted over 500 years earlier!

@» @Naheed and Nonimus» Not sure I completely understand what you are trying to say, but I would ask if you understand that calling Jesus «just a Prophet» may be just as offensive to a Christian as calling Mohammad «just a man» is to a Muslim?

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

The Church of Jesus Christ today has a prophet like Moses, 12 apostles who represent the 12 tribes, and 70 men who also serve the people, just as in the Old and New Testament.

Muslims revere the Hebrew patriarchs and prophets (much as they revere Jesus as a prophet, just not the final prophet and certainly not the Son of God).

Today's Latter - Day saints (Mormons) believe in both the Old and New testaments, and in Another Testament, and they believe in continued revelation from God through a prophet 12 apostles, and 70 men, just as in the times of the Old and New Testaments (see Joshua 4:4, Numbers 11:16, Luke 6:13, Luke 10:1).

Muslim don't just give respect to all Prophet but can not be muslim if they don't accept them as Messenger of God an extraordinary Personalities.

God called Joseph Smith as a prophet to do this great work, just as he had called Moses to deliver the people of Israel out of bondage.

An assenting response will not be universal, of course, just as it was not in the time of the prophet.

Just as the earlier prophets were speaking to their time.

If the people in the days of the prophets failed to recognize them as prophets, but instead condemned, accused, judged, criticized, and killed them, and if the people in the days of Jesus failed to recognize Him as the Messiah, but instead condemned, accused, judged, criticized, and killed him, then maybe... just maybe... the way to recognize a messenger of God to us is to look at who we Christians like to condemn, accuse, judge, criticize, and kill... and then consider that maybe... just maybe... these people are God's messengers to us.

This emphasis on the primacy of belief was the first message of Muhammad to the Arabs, just as it was the message of all apostles and prophets; as the Qur» an says, «Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the Prophets received from theprophets; as the Qur» an says, «Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the Prophets received from theProphets received from their Lord.

it should though when you experience something that is without a doubt supernatural, and anyone with intelligence can understand that a revelation or a message that takes a sovereign «person» to translate something in the near, or distant future, it is PROOF, of God, just is the bible is proof of God, as it is His very Word through the direct revelation to the prophets.

Of course, he also has admitted to driving his truck through several churches and doing jail time for drunk driving, but that just the kind of guy Jesus chooses as his prophet.

Christianity is about 500 years older than Isam, and Judaism is much, much older than Christianity, and yet, with just a little reading one finds that though each religion has its own holy men, many of those who are revered as prophets or knowledgeable men are the same person.

That original Islam is only hinted at in the Qur» an and the Hadith, which were written years after the prophet Mohammed had his mystical experience — just as the original precepts of Christianity are minimized and only obliquely presented in the New Testament and its «authorized» translations, interpretations and commentaries, which were written over many years, well after Jesus» ministry and Paul's mystical experience.

I think what is important here is the fact that David is repenting of his sin and in so doing is confronted with the holiness of God just as Isaiah did when God called him to be the prophet to Israel.

Saying that the false prophet Harold Camping is just like all Christians would be the same as saying that all Italians are just like Al Capone.

Craig i am thinking that even though the promise hadnt been fulfilled through Christs death the act of faith is what saved them.As abraham believed God and was credited to hi mas righteousness.I was thinking though there were different dispensation periods ie pre flood enoch post flood elijah the prophets Moses the law giver and jesus all were taken up to God to heaven not just enoch so in all periods there was a representative of Christ as an example to the people of that time that the messiah was coming.brent

He wants us to see Mary not just as hostess but as prophet.

Now these prophecies were either given by inspiration of God or the prophets just wrote them as they thought they should be.

Just as with his term apostles, Paul has a very specific type of prophet in mind.

If it wasn't for the knowledge that was gathered and passed on from Adam's times then generation after generation to revive, remind, warn the stray against the wish and will of those condemned ones who rejected, killed and exiled the Messengers and Prophets of God, then towards each crime they have made they packed it in a different shiny papers just as of the sweet candies to explain why or for what they did it for!?

Now let us have a cloose look at modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other flesh.

Ezedine Guellouz's account of his pilgrimage to the Prophet's tomb is simpler, but just as moving.

The word translated «trader» could also mean «Canaanite,» the Canaanites (known also as Phoenicians) being the great trading people of the Mediterranean; but the prophet has just invited «all the nations» to Jerusalem, and there seems no reason for a last - minute exclusion of the Canaanites.

In this way, Paul's collection of quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures in Romans 3:10 - 18 is intended to show his objector that despite being the chosen people of God and having the Law and the Prophets, the Jewish people are just as guilty as the Gentiles.

The offices of priest, prophet and king are just as natural to man as a social and religious being as the leader is in a pack of lions or the elements are in a periodic table.

So the choice is either to recognize the Bible as primary authority, and Jesus of Nazareth as just one aspect of it along with Moses and the prophets and the many Old Testament laws not specifically superceded in the New, or to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as primary authority.

But just as certainly, to think of people as worthless in the eyes of God is directly to contradict the insights of the great prophets, the teaching that «God so loved the world», and Jesus» understanding of the great worth of each and every human being.

We believe as the Epistle to the Ephesians says that the church is organized of apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists and so forth for just such occasions.

All things coming to pass just as the Hebrew Prophets spoke.

Study the life and teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith and you can find out as I did when the Holy Ghost confirmed the truth of which I have just written to me and continues to as in our meetings today at church.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

As John Calvin says about this passage, the prophet is speaking not just of historical redemption, for that period in time, but also of «future redemption.»