There is not one shred of truth from science to account for the presence of
life upon the earth by any means other than a special creation by the great original first Cause - God - Who is life and the fountain source of all life!
Must he not already have been Messiah, and not merely Messiah - designate, Messiah - elect, while
he lived upon earth?
Actually, I have the hope that the second group spoke about in the book of Revelation has, to
live upon the earth.
This was no creation of the Gospel of Mark — indeed, Mark steps back from it, in the act of trying to prove that Jesus was secretly the divine Son of Man during
his life upon earth.
Yet of two things the Christian can be confident: that the way of brotherhood and mutual understanding is God's way, which if followed leads to justice, security, and peace; and that if man does end his collective
life upon earth, God will still reign in his eternal Kingdom.
Secondly, we must say that the evolution of galaxies, the development of
life upon earth, and the story of man are part of one show.
What is distinctive and most striking about this exegesis — «the one unheard - of novelty» — is the conception of the Son of Man
living upon earth prior to his coming in glory: he not only will come, sometime in the future, on the clouds of heaven; he has already come, has suffered, has died, has risen again!
Then he fixed the responsibilities of the various gods, before proceeding to the creation of
life upon the earth.
Not exact matches
As I sat alone in a room wondering f I was
living my last day on
earth — the things that went through my head were exactly what this author touched
upon in her article and that I had felt during my illness in my younger days.
In order to right the balance and place proper emphasis
upon the importance of
life here on
earth, they have focused attention on the second rather than the first commandment.
And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that
life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine
upon the
earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.
Of GOD was all CREATION's Celestialness established and By the Gods was such a mission carried out but somewhere along the way, these Gods of GOD did find GOD's Creations of
Life upon a placed called
Earth and saw that men's daughters were of Fairness and they did seduce them and these maidens did create the monsters we know of as being the Dinosaurs!
For example, a man named Job, who
lived some 3,600 years ago and was «the greatest of all the people of the East», made a startling statement, saying that God «stretches out the northern sky over empty space, suspending the
earth upon nothing.»
They are worried that, by setting fully autonomous military drones loose
upon the
earth, we are valuing too cheaply the human
lives that may be taken, primarily those taken by mistake.
At Genesis 1:28, God gave Adam and Eve this mandate: «Be fruitful and become and fill the
earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every
living creature that is moving
upon the
earth.»
(Gen 3:20) And it will depend
upon us as to where we are personally going, be it
life in a paradise
earth forever (Rev 21:3 - 5) or return to ground from which we came when we die, having been just a speck in the time line of history.
«And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the
earth shall die.»
Our nuclear weapons could destroy every
living thing
upon the
earth.
He was bitterly opposed to all organized Churches and said that «Moses, Mohamet, and Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit, or to the character of the benefactors of mankind, as any three men that ever
lived upon the face of the
earth....
7:21 And all flesh died that moved
upon the
earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the
earth, and every man: 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of
life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Further, as I have said before, if this little precarious foothold
upon earth is all that we are ever to know of conscious
living, if in fact there is no
life except the material and physical, those of us who are not particularly altruistic by nature would hardly think our labors and struggles worth while.
Therefore, the realization of the existence of this Kingdom, working for its expansion,
living according to its principles, and, if necessary, dying for it, is the real significance of man s temporary existence
upon the
earth.
Certainly, Jesus changed some of the Kingdom expectations through His
life, teaching, and ministry, especially in the areas of what sort of Messiah King He was going to be, and how the Kingdom of God would exist and function
upon the
earth, but the overall hopes and dreams of Israel, especially as presented within the Prophets, remained intact through the teachings and ministry of John, Jesus, and the Early Church.
When Jesus said that to the disciples of his day of this generation he was talking figuratively i believe of born again believers born of the spirit not a physical generation.Because the holy spirit was prophetic of the spirit coming
upon the nation or nations as spoken in Joel that occured at pentecost and that established the kingdom of God on the
earth through believers so we have always been the last generation because we never know when the Lord will return but we
live as if it was tomorrow.brentnz
It's a wonderful clever way to never have to prove anything, «just die and you'll see»... but make sure you give plenty of your gold to the Priests... for they inform God
upon your death that you have paid your monetary dues on
earth as a Christian and then ~ * boom * ~ eternal
life.
Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the
earth would not bear you one moment; for you are a burden to it; the creation groans with you; the creature is made subject to the bondage of your corruption, not willingly; the sun does not willingly shine
upon you to give you light to serve sin and Satan; the
earth does not willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lusts; nor is it willingly a stage for your wickedness to be acted
upon; the air does not willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of
life in your vitals, while you spend your
life in the service of God's enemies.
The sun is not perfectly positioned
upon the
earth by accident it was placed there for a reason and purpose to support
life which is God attended... We are not on this planet on accident we did not evolve from a single cell that theory has been debunked for many years...
Some also quote Genesis 1:29: «Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every
living thing that moves
upon the
earth.»
Matthew Henry commented «The righteous are as trees of
life; and their influence
upon earth, like the fruits of that tree, support and nourish the spiritual
life in many.»
It is a union which is not of divine will and origin but founded
upon earth and therefore is the «veil of corruption» The body must be cleansed, «the veil of corruption» must be taken away, before the divine
life can enter as the spirit enters the temple.
For Mark's «theological idea» was not so much the present reality of the divine person, the exalted Lord of his community, nor yet was it the glorious and unique historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, but the mysterious, half - divine, apocalyptic «Son of Man» who had
lived incognito
upon earth, died, and risen again.
But since we both have such a short amount of time on this
Earth how about we
live it based
upon the truth.
We then go about our day after this
earth life as angels to God, remembering this
life here as a simple dream and reflect
upon it every now and again.
Remember that we all came from the same place, we are here now sharing this
Earth, and we will go back to where we came from very soon... So lets spend our time wisely... We must use the gift given to us and choose to think for ourselves, by not allowing the past or others to dictate how we should
live our
lives... lets practice recognizing ourselves in each other... It may not always be easy... but each new day we can choose it... and that choice has an intrinsic value,
upon which great things will be borne...
But he was a real
live person who walked
upon this
earth.
For I know that my Redeemer
lives, and at last he will stand
upon the
earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then without my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another [or, not as a stranger?].
We all have read those books of Mark Twain which so have added to the merriment of nations, but it would be profitable at least once to read Mark Twain's final summary of
life's meaning, his deliberate and well - considered statement of mankind's significance
upon this
earth:
He had fallen
upon the
earth a weak youth, but he rose from it a resolute fighter for the rest of his
life, and he realized and felt it suddenly, at the very moment of his rapture.
Whether we consider the rocky layers enveloping the
Earth, the arrangement of the forms of
life that inhabit it, the variety of civilizations to which it has given birth, or the structure of languages spoken
upon it, we are forced to the same conclusion: that everything is the sum of the past and that nothing is comprehensible except through its history.
To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of
Life on the surface of the
earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect
upon our private post-war
lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.
A billion - plus people around the world are trying to
live with Christ as their Lord and the Church as their mystical home
upon the
earth.
Nor will its use demand payment of fare, and no longer will His children need travel across land or sea, no, but
upon the winds of the air as like He does, and shall dwell
upon the clouds in great floating cities away from the foulness of the
earth's sand
upon which will crawl the wicked children, and the wicked hostesses except those which He sees fit to allow to visit the cloudy cities for reasons of firm discipline... (10:45) Round shapely... (10:63) And as it is written so shall it come to pass while I do
live.
These lines are a tight counterpoint in which a big theme is condensed:
life's affirmative fire is only to be redeemed from self - incineration when it is met by, controlled, and purified by the God who is a consuming fire, in his concreteness of love in Christ («I come to bring fire
upon the
earth») and mediated by the Spirit,
I am a monotheist who believes God to have had immeasurable numbers of His Sons and Daughters
living all,
upon the inner frames of all celestial based
life - formations from the very beginnings of
earth - based
life of the celestial kinds.
According to what he calls the «first degree of humility,» which is the lowest degree necessary to attain salvation, it is incumbent
upon the Christian «to obey the law of God our Lord in all things, so that not even were I made lord of all creation, or to save my
life here on
earth, would I consent to violate a commandment, whether divine or human, that binds me under pain of mortal sin» (Spiritual Exercises # 165).
Upon an imaginary
earth of constantly increasing extent,
living organisms, being only loosely associated, might well remain at the mono - cellular stage (if indeed they got so far); and certainly Man, if free to
live in a scattered state, would never have reached even the neolithic stage of social development.
The bottom line up front is the
earth we
live and thrive
upon is ancient in terms of our
lives, so are all the heavens.
For example, according to many translations, the first part of Genesis 6:13 says that because God saw the great evil and violence that was
upon the
earth, God decided or determined that He would destroy everything
living upon it.
And when the flood actually does come
upon the
earth, the text pretty clearly states that God destroyed all
living things that were on the
earth (Genesis 7:23).
It is a breath - taking perspective of which the fuller sense is of Mary, as «The Woman clothed with the sun», the fullness of grace, Mediatrix indeed of all graces, whose womb is the vessel of
life, offered to God «to come
upon thee» for the crowning of the
Earth and mankind with the Universal King, Heir of the Age all things visible and invisible.