In comparison to the New Testament where Paul's letters were written starting 15 years after Jesus» ascension, the first gospel, Mark written 25 years after (Peter was the source of Mark), Matthew who was an eye witness at 35 years, and Luke 35 years as a careful Roman / Greek trained historian who interviewed
living eye witnesses such as Mary, mother of Jesus.
Not exact matches
The Carpenter, the Nazarene, the Messiah can fix anything, I've
witnessed enough with my
eyes wide open to be utterly convinced after being an atheist for most of my
life.
You however don't see your own hypocrisy in greater depth when you say that the bible was deliberately written to be sacred and holy, without ANY sourcing and you take the word of people who
lived a really long time ago who also can not provide you with anything more than «
eye -
witness accounts» which have undoubtedly been changed, tweaked or even just falsly made up in order to cement their point.
You have
eye witness accounts in the bible, you have present day people telling you he's there, knowing he's there, not belief, knowing, you have vast supernatural events like the big bang that happened once and never again, you have
life starting up, species forming, male and female that have to be there for offspring, and lo and behold... you deny all of them because God being there, isn't what you wanted.
All this happened during the
life of the
eye witnesses of Jesus» ministry.
It looks much more as though these texts caught the
eye, and were regarded as prophetic, only because it was already known, on the testimony of
witnesses of the Resurrection appearances, that Jesus was actually encountered as the
living Lord on the third day after his death.
Many accounts of Jesus
life were written, the most ancient ones written by
eye witnesses (luke is the only one that wasnt written by an
eye witness) were canonized.
We Homo sapiens are
witnessing the greatest annihilation of species in the last 65 million years, and our children may
live to
witness ecocide with their own
eyes.
8... «do not even claim to have been
witnesses» 1 John 1:1 «That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our
eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched — this we proclaim concerning the Word of
life.»
But we have to distinguish atheism from atheists; atheists are our fellow creatures, like us the children of Adam, and we do well to listen to them with care, to confess our shortcomings, and also to look them in the
eye with cheerful confidence and friendliness and explain as simply as we can how the gospel
witnesses to God's gift of
life.
But in my heart I know that my vindicator
lives and that he will rise last to speak in court; and I shall discern my
witness standing at my side and see my defending counsel, even God himself, who I shall see with my own
eyes, I myself and no other.17
He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the
eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had
witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that
life might once more return to the world.
Recall the opening words of the First Epistle of John: «We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our
eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of
life» this
life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal
life that was with the Father and was revealed to us...» First John states the primal truth that Christian faith rests on
witness to what has happened in history, hence the honored place of the martyrs (
witnesses) in Christian memory.
It is judged by many scholars to have been written by one who had
lived as an
eye -
witness through that critical period, and who gathered the necessary information together to write this account of that important crisis.
But in my heart I know that my vindicator
lives and that he will rise last to speak in court; and I shall discern my
witness standing at my side and see my defending counsel, even God himself, whom I shall see with my own
eyes, I myself and no other.9
I was also able to
witness, with a keen
eye, the birth of both the Colorado Rockies and Avalanche as I grew up -
living in history if you will.
«Shark's
eye» view:
Witnessing the
life of a top predator.»
And despite having an
eye like Walker Evans's —
witness the somber, still images of dilapidated houses, churches, food shacks, and deserted Main Streets that multiply throughout the film — Wilkerson isn't interested in capturing a stable picture of this
life.
Vera defies her old - fashioned parents and wins a place at Oxford, only to drop out to become a military nurse and do her part for the war effort; through her
eyes, we
witness the devastation and destruction of warfare on a personal, intimate and
life - changing scale.
In an attempt to bring a more human face to the slaughter, Saroyan brings in a historian, an Armenian woman named Ani (Khanjian, Irma Vep), to serve as an advisor to the film, since she is an expert on the
life of painter Arshile Gorky (Abkarian, When the Cat's Away), reported to have
eye witnessed the events, and who is to be featured in a supporting role.
For the real -
life story behind TWA 800 see http://www.twa800.com, which includes summaries of some of the 755 accounts by
eye -
witnesses who claim to have seen a missile shoot down the plane.
Allison Smith, who has an
eye on both history and the politics of identity, was brought up in Virginia, where she spent a fair amount of her childhood visiting
living - history exhibitions and period houses, and
witnessing Civil War reenactments.
His artistic pursuits
live as witty and informative interventions into contemporary culture at a time when we
witness its rapid and frequent obsolescence before our
eyes.
EYE Witness Boots on the ground Alberta Foreclosure
LIVE Training in the foreclosures supreme court