But the resurrection teaches us that life has an inherent and persistent capacity to rise again after defeat, even to bring new
life out of death.
But today, when Jesus and the Samaritan woman meet, they conspire to bring
life out of death.
Not exact matches
Anna Sale hosts this podcast,
Death, Sex & Money with Anna Sale where she explores the deeper questions and unsaid truths that are sometimes left
out of the polite conversations in
life.
From the
deaths of 26 at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, to the 2016 massacre
of mostly Latinx people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, to the loss
of 58
lives at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas last year, we've seen mass shootings play
out again and again and again.
The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks
out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter
of life or
death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»
The end result over the next 30 years was a variety
of corporate managers cashing
out and
living well and a corporate entity that died a slow
death until they shut their doors completely.
«The minister
of justice said we'd see a report
out on what progress has been made on implementing these
life and
death recommendations in October.
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I am saying if there is no
life after
death and eventually the sun itself goes
out our existence is meaningless.Everything we know cries
out there is something outside
of ourselves and more to
life than this existence:.
This aura is our spirit and when
death occurs, it is called back to its» origins within our cellular embodiment to
live out its» remainder
of life.
I believe in Him and He died for the sakes
of All
Life to be given an eternity
of many
lives /
deaths lives /
death ad infinitum to be
lived out within the eons
of Time the only thing that is truly Immortal.
lkewise, failing to share God's promise
of eternal is to leave
out the assurance
of life after
death.
There is always the need for a person (who is facing
death) to satisfy themselves in the context
of «you have
lived out a good and decent
life».
I put to
death and I bring to
life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver
out of my hand.
In looking for sources
of inspiration for the White Rose, Inge Scholl quotes at length the protests from the 1942 sermons
of Count Galen, Bishop
of Muenster, who forcefully spoke
out against the Nazi
death sentence for «
life which does not deserve to
live» (Unwertesleben).
Life rings have been thrown
out to you time and time again, but you are free to continue to choose to drown in this ocean
of death.
The micro-genesis
of an object is a microcosm
of its birth,
life and
death, a surge
of the object into actuality
out of abstract, timeless potential.
Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when
death seems to smother
out the shoots
of life springing from the hearts
of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions
of men and women over the face
of this globe who simply want to
live out their
lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords
of this world.
Instead, God is to be found in the self - sacrificial
death of a lamb, who pours
out His blood for others, so that
death and destruction, when it comes, passes over the house and can not touch those who
live within.
With Jesus» exodus he was rescuing us, God's people,
out of slavery by releasing us from all those things that have an unholy hold on us — work or money or
death — and by placing his own blood on the doorposts
of our
lives.
If the Obama administration gets away with forcing Catholic institutions to step across lines
of life and
death in the name
of «health,» the federal government will have a precedent to legislate Judaism
out of existence» as several other countries have already tried to do.
«Never say, «Matter is accursed, matter is evil»: for there has come one who said, «You will drink poisonous draughts and they shall not harm you», and again, «
Life shall spring forth
out of death», and then finally, the words which spell my definitive liberation, «This is my body».
Obviously, men could not pass through the experience
of death and
out again into a resurrected
life in masses;
death in any generation is not like a wide thoroughfare but like a turnstile, through which men go one by one.
Thomas's answer to this question (in ST1.75.6) sounds occasionally like the position Plato sets
out in the Phaedo, where the character Socrates argues that the concept
of the soul — and, presumably, also its being — is so tied up with
life as not to admit
of its opposite,
death [105C8 - E10].
The only thing he can do is to admit that he is acting so
out of his own fears and emotions (not to defend oneself in battle is difficult, more difficult than to accept a
death sentence calmly); or else he can say that he is fighting for others, not to save his own
life.
While none
of Jesus» twelve apostles were women, Mary Magdalene was considered an important figure in his
life, and it was the ladies who first found
out about Jesus» victory over
death.
The promise
of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel is eminently applicable to the preaching in which he is proclaimed: «Verily I say unto you, He that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me, hath eternal
life, and cometh not unto judgment, but hath passed
out of death into
life....
So Christ «descends into hell» to carry us
out of degradation and spiritual, as well as physical,
death and back into
Life.
A quick about Abba Pambo — a contemporary
of Origen: «If we asked [him] for a word from scripture or some other thing, he would not give us an answer right away but would say, «I haven't figured
out the meaning
of this word yet»... It normally happened that he spent two or three whole days, or a whole week without giving us an answer saying «if I do not know what sort
of fruit this will bear, whether it is a fruit
of death or
life, I will not speak.»»
Jeremy how can we be in the book
of life if we have no
life apart from Christ then when we believe in him we are written into the lambs book
of life we can not be in the book
of life as we are under the curse
of death through sin thats the judgement that fell on Adam and Eve and were cast
out of the garden so that they could not partake
of the tree
of life.To me that your explanation makes no sense at all.brent
society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising
out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure
of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite
of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are
life - and -
death matters, that Christians are made, not born.
I only wish to point
out that the particularity
of Jesus's salvific
life and
death can not be understood apart from the particularity
of Judas's sin and betrayal.
Personally, the existence
of the
death penalty, which is supported by most «godly» people leads me to believe that we humans are just one more animal species
living in a godless jungle, although having ruled
out the existence
of God, I can't yet rule
out the existence
of Satan.
These are matters
of life and
death and eternity, yet here we are trying to figure
out if our interpretation is correct or not, and looks like we will not know for sure until we die (which could be too late).
By having a swift
death penalty that is justly meted
out, we are giving everyone the best chance to see the high value
of life — theirs, and the
lives of others.
If our hope is solely in what we can get
out of this
life, we're going to miss the primary promises that have empowered men and women throughout history to be willing to advance the Gospel through their
lives or their
deaths.
If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises
out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner
of God's presence and the way
of his working in the strange person
of Jesus
of Nazareth, in his
life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy
of his
death.
As the «outpouring»
of the Spirit had come, unsought, in consequence
of the
life,
death and resurrection
of Christ, so the «indwelling»
of the Spirit was the means by which He continued to form, guide and govern His Church
out of the unseen world, where He was now invested with divine authority «at the right hand
of God».
But to call the album autobiographical misses the point that Stevens himself lays
out in Pitchfork's review: «It's something that was necessary for me to do in the wake
of my mother's
death — to pursue a sense
of peace and serenity in spite
of suffering... This is not my art project; this is my
life.»
Their way
of thinking was in terms
of the older Jewish belief in «resurrection
of the body» — and hence the only manner in which they could proclaim that Jesus had not been put
out of the way through
death was to say that he had indeed been «raised from the dead», that he was in and with God, and that those who belonged to him were granted a share in the risen
life which was properly his own.
There have been many other theories
of atonement, each picking
out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action
of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal
death, met in Christ with healing and eternal
life....
Creation from nothing, the origin
of death among humans, the murder
of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood
of judgement, the righteous judgement
of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin
of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability
of Deuteronomy, the driving
out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship
of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went
out of their way to validate all
of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make
life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.
The question arising
out of this experience is not, as in the Reformation, the question
of a merciful God and the forgiveness
of sins; nor is it, as in the early Greek church, the question
of infinitude,
of death and error, nor is it the question
of the personal religious
life, or
of the Christianization
of culture and society.
God is all powerful and therefore there is no hell or satan... those who do wrong such as killing
out of their own free will are simply neglected upon
death and those who
live good
lives will rejoice.
And this is where the story would end for all
of us were it not for God snatching us
out of that
living death, opening our eyes to His glory, revealing Himself to us, giving us new
life.
But one thing we may say with reasonable certainty: quite apart from the question
of time authenticity or the verbal accuracy
of this or that reported saying, the idea
of new
life through
death,
of victory coming
out of defeat, is an inseparable part
of the thought
of Jesus about his destiny.
Thus, our words, what we say, anything that comes
out of our mouths, has the power to create either
life... or
death.