Sentences with phrase «life and death leads»

Then again, her ritual's long view on life and death leads back to meditation on the sublime in its own way.

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Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

Strategies to live more safely in such an environment abound, and no wonder: The journal Nature recently found that air pollution leads to the premature death of three million people every year, mainly in Asia.

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Conservatives are railing against dual decisions by the British government to prevent Alfie Evans» parents from transporting him to Italy for further treatment, and to order Alfie's doctors to withdrawal life support from Alfie, which they did, and which soon led to Alfie's death.

Safe abortions will never go away as they are still needed to save life (even in the early 1900s doctors had to abort babies so at least the mother could live when tuberculosis was the leading cause of death and it was terminal for a pregnant mother).

If you fear death, then you should give your life to Christ and lead your children also to Him.

But just as other «kidnaps» and «prison round - ups» led inexorably to the deaths of those kidnapped or rounded up, Hitler would never have allowed the Pope to live.

Lent leads to a set of powerful and paradoxical realities manifested in Holy Week and the paschal event: death and life, defeat and victory, crucifixion and resurrection.

It's a story that, with a few different twists, really could have led to a wretched life and a lonely death, as her grandmother warned.

And eating them may lead to an early death, but what good is a long life if you can't spend it eating fries?

The other two parts deal with his earlier life and then his experiences as a stigmatist, respectively, leading up to his death in 1226.

The deists feared that the lack of connection between virtue and reward in this life would lead to social chaos if there were no conviction that justice would be executed after death.

The group then divides into two subgroups, led by the minister and her co-facilitator, for experiential and feeling - level sharing, including debriefing on such between - session assignments as: «Talk to three people about death, being aware of how they respond» or «Imagine that you have only a limited time to live and try to say how this awareness influences your feelings about your lifestyle and present relationship.»

If I was living on the wrong path leading to death with all the dumb things I was doing like listening to bad music, goofing around in class, cussing, acting like I was a gangster, wanting to try drugs, being suicidal and being around with close friends that are doing the bad then he can change you too because, I tell you that if you think that your life will go for the worst if you accept them then you're wrong because, if you have faith in him and you accept him as your savior and follow his ways then he has your road all planned out, he's going to give you such blessings and a happiness and love that compares to none others.

My involvement in Christian - Jewish relations and therefore with the theological implications of the Holocaust have led me to ponder this question and what I learned of the Hindu Trinity, who is Creator, Sustainer and Destroyer, has helped me to believe that God is both life - giver and destroyer, present in life and death, in joy and sorrow.

1 John 5:16 «If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life — to those who commit sins that do not lead to death.

As for death... we are already dead (in our sins) unless we receive the Holy Spirit, are born again to the new life in Christ and follow Him by the leading of the holy Spirit that dwells in our heart.

Gobo had not learned to live within himself, to use the hardships of life and the death to which life leads as training in virtue.

OF course, this is odd since apparently he disagrees with himself where he had previously taught [Romans 5.12 - 21] that «sin and death came to the world through one man's sin»,»... so one man's [CHrist's] act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all.»

The church claims it follows Jesus, but we only want to follow Him if it leads to personal glory, pay raises, a higher standard of living, and the death and destruction of our enemies.

Our sense of wickedness is without repentance, our sorrow over it is not a godly sorrow leading to life, but cynical and accepting, leading to death.

Secondly, and partly as a result of the first, they were led virtually to abandon any interest in an after - life.13 The significance which came to be attached to the death of Jesus, and the resurrection - talk associated with it, need to be understood in the light of this heritage of Israel which preceded it.

When the life and death of Jesus are viewed against the background of this hope (and this is part, at least, of what the apostles did after the death of Jesus) those who have felt the attraction of what Jesus said and did are led to the conviction that the judgment of God is already clear.

Jesus seems to be prefiguring his death with phrases about his «hour» which was to come, and the temple of his body to be destroyed, about the kind of love that leads one to give one's life for a friend and a shepherd to give his life for the sheep.

Living here and now in the Kingdom, living and following Jesus where he is leading us now, rather than focusing on what may happen after the death of this body, however, does make Living here and now in the Kingdom, living and following Jesus where he is leading us now, rather than focusing on what may happen after the death of this body, however, does make living and following Jesus where he is leading us now, rather than focusing on what may happen after the death of this body, however, does make sense.

The Servant / Messiah is not only the Victim, who «never said a mumblin» word,» giving his back to those who strike him and his cheeks to those who pluck out his beard, led like a lamb to the slaughter; he is also the Victor in a life - and - death battle.

Jesus seems to be prefiguring his death with phrases about his «hour» which was to come, and the temple of his body to be destroyed, about the kind of love that leads one to give ones life for a friend and a shepherd to give his life for the sheep.

Interestingly, spiritual dehydration (life without the Savior) can also lead to irritability, pain, our spirits shriveling and shrinking, spiritual blindness and death.

Such a way of living is not possible is the goal of life is living longer, but if the goal of life is to reveal Jesus and love others, then we can live with such principles while knowing that they may lead to our death.

Moses, the most humble man who had ever lived on Earth to that point (Numbers 12:3), follows the Lord's Spirit as the people followed Moses, leading them out from the place in which they were saved from death by the blood of a lamb, through the waters of the Red Sea where their enemies were swallowed up forever, traveling on in a new identity as God's chosen people — free and sent on to serve and worship Him.

I'm sorry you think that we all need to believe the exact same thing that you do in order to lead moral lives, that you need a god (one described in a book written by men yet touted as the word of god as being a genocidal dictator who demands total subservience from his followers and death to those who don't believe) in order to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives.

But not only does my reading of scripture lead me to a different conclusion, where there is uncertainty about such a situation, the safer position is to consider the possibility that renouncing Christ will result in you losing your life and forfeiting your promise of salvation, and determine before hand that you will never renounce Christ even should people threaten you or your families life with death or torture.

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

A life without salvation leads to death and eternal condemnation.

For the Christian, beneath the outward ugliness lies the beauty of the gospel, for the cross brings life, and death leads to resurrection.

= > The Bible says there is way onto man which leads to death and a way onto God which leads to life.

Paul says that since we have the Spirit, we can now live for God (Romans 8:9), but we must make the choice to do so, for even though the Spirit of life is in us, the body of sin is still there as well, seeking to lead us back into death, decay, and destruction (Romans 8:10 - 15).

Everyone on this earthly pilgrimage is presented, sooner or later, with two ways: the easy way of indifference and self - indulgence which leads inevitably to death and destruction and the more difficult way of hard choices and self - denying experiences, the end of which is life.

But sociobiology tells too banal a story to be able to account for radical altruism — the ethical imperative that leads a person to risk his or her own life in the attempt to save an unknown and unrelated stranger from the danger of death.

It is when we come to study the basic conceptions of God, the relationship between man and God, the impact of belief upon social conduct and the view of life after death, that we realize how wide and deep are the gulfs between the leading religions.

The issue i have is that christians stay at the cross and never go any further in there belief that is tragic and if the songs and teachings only lead them to the cross then that is a crime.The cross represents our death as we were crucified with him and after that death we rose with Christ.Sadly many christians are still at the cross still struggling with there demons and flesh life and asking for forgiveness continually pleading the blood.They do nt understand because they are babes in Christ The reality is that Christ died and rose again our life is not in the Cross but is in the risen Christ and in him we are more than conqueres.Lets celebrate our new life in Christ not the death of our old life in Christ.brentnz

as the Bible says Lk 7:35 «But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it» and Proverb 14:12 «There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.»

To walk according the flesh leads to death and condemnation and to walk according to the Spirit leads to eternal life.

In situations of suffering and even death the dominant biblical stories hold up to us a promise that the «God of the living» can never be defeated even by the most hopeless extremes into which our experience leads us.

Make yourselve's feel better by leading a good like and hoping that there is life after death and it will be a better life in heaven then the one we have here on earth.

I must say I was quite confused by it and having it explained to me as a sound bite for leading people to understand going against God is death so choose life, really made the whole thing worse for me.

Many of Christianity's leading theologians in America have wrestled silently and come to no confident conclusion, or have been forced in honesty, not to deny life after death, but to admit frankly that they can not be convinced of it.

To lead a faithful life no longer required a confrontation with torture and death but, rather, the struggle with the hardships and distractions of everyday life.