Romans 8:13 For if
ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
When a man chooses to live entirely in and for this sphere, or, as St. Paul puts it, when he «
lives after the flesh», it assumes the shape of a «power».
There are indeed many different ways of
living after the flesh.
If
you live after the flesh, you are none of His.
Those promises are for those that love God, that live by the Spirit, and not the flesh, and obligate themselves not to
live after the flesh.
... They exist in the flesh but they do not
live after the flesh.
They are in the flesh, but they do not
live after the flesh.
They find themselves in the flesh, yet they do not
live after the flesh.
Romans 8:12 - 14 says, «Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to
live after the flesh.13 For if ye
live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Not exact matches
Especially was this true of Paul, to whom the essence of Christian
living was to «walk not
after the
flesh, but
after the pneuma.»
8:14) is not an automatic process of nature, but the fulfillment of an imperative: «
live after the Spirit, not
after the
flesh».
If we ask what he means by «it», he can not precisely tell us; but he is evidently groping
after the idea that «we», that is our personalities, will be re-made by God for a different mode of existence from that of the
flesh - and - blood body, and yet that in some way we shall retain our identity and be the same personalities as those which now
live in the mode of physical beings.
«I calmly let the fire burn, for I see that what is consumed is only the fanciful portraits of
Life - of - Jesus theology, and that means nothing other than «Christ
after the
flesh.»
It strongly suggests that God was mistaken in making us bodily, sensual, temporal and subject to nature's cycles of
life and death, and that Jesus was not made
flesh after all.
Before death, while we are still in mortal
flesh, we eat the labors of our hands, we swallow with an effort the food so gained; but
after death, we shall begin eagerly to drink in the spiritual
life and finally, reunited to our bodies, and rejoicing in fullness of delight, we shall be refreshed with immortality.
nah — they believe that grocary store bread and wine becomes the
flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus - pocus over it in church of a Sunday morning; that a being reads my mind whenever I pray and intervenes to change what would otherwise be the course of history in small ways to «answer my prayers»; and that I will survive my own physical deathand
live happily ever
after if I follow some rules laid down by goat herders in Bronze Age Palestine.
The Messiah indeed had Himself passed into the eternal order, but His followers still
lived «in the
flesh» (though not «
after the
flesh»).
Of course Paul was
living with this inheritance as a Pharisee before conversion, and the possibility of walking in this inheritance remained
after his conversion hence his exhortations to walk in the Spirit and not in the
flesh.
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?].
After all, when God became
flesh and
lived among us, the religious accused him of hanging out with «sinners» (even gluttons!)
After Peter proclaimed Jesus to be «the Christ, the Son of the
Living God», the Lord answered him and said «Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for
flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father in Heaven.
8:14) is not an automatic process of nature, but the fulfilment of an imperative: «
live after the Spirit, and not
after the
flesh».»
After sharing about her own sexual assault, Joy Beth Smith writes: «The message in some churches may be wrong, but the message of Christianity is right: My faith insists that my body is
flesh and blood, animated with the breath of
life, and instilled in that moment with an imprint of God.»
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
After a mediocre first half, the game burst to life in the second half, as Michu proved to be the thorn again in Arsenal's flesh, giving the lead in the 58th minute, moments after coming on as a
After a mediocre first half, the game burst to
life in the second half, as Michu proved to be the thorn again in Arsenal's
flesh, giving the lead in the 58th minute, moments
after coming on as a
after coming on as a sub.
Bullets ripping through
flesh, blood flowing in currents, limbs blown off,
lives snuffed out in split seconds, and wave
after wave of young men mowed down and butchered up as the events of June 6, 1944 took place.
Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (
Live Flesh), Assayas (Cold Water), Bellochio (Fists in the Pocket), Breillat (Fat Girl), Coen Bros. (Burn
After Reading), Demme (Something Wild), Denis (Friday Night), Herzog (The Wild Blue Yonder), Leigh (Another Year), Skolimowski (Four Nights with Anna), Zulawski (She - Shaman)
There's
life on the moon
after all, and the astronauts in «Apollo 18» (Sept. 2) discover it has a taste for human
flesh.
The DLC opens up directly
after the end of the game where Frank hangs onto his dear
life on a chopper only to fall to a horde of
flesh eating zombies.
Under the ground in a research base
live a number of soldiers, doctors, and even teachers, who look
after a range of children who display independent cognitive thought, but also crave human
flesh when struck by the smell of humans.
Like Happy Death Day, many of the year's highlights, which toyed with or injected
life into often - tired subgenres, came in smaller packages, such as the home - invasion thrillers Better Watch Out, The Babysitter (another Netflix original), and Jackals; the clever zombie - in - the - desert flick It Stains the Sands Red (much better than the silly cannibal - in - the - desert - flick The Bad Batch); the
flesh - eating family drama Raw; the blood - sucking confused - teen drama The Transfiguration; the sci - fi / fantasy / horror hybrids The Void, The Untamed, and The Lure, which also had elements of the musical; and the ultra-disturbing tale of youth Super Dark Times, about the unraveling of a group of friends
after the accidental killing of a classmate, which offers a significantly more satisfying experience than It.
I might never know if I am myself or an unholy doppelganger
living off the memories of a dead man
after having my soul placed in a
flesh puppet carnival prize using esoteric black rituals but one thing I'm sure of is Wesley Scott is a great writer.
After feeding on the
flesh of the dead they hunt the
living.
This game will be a zombie survival RPG title where you will play as one of the few survivors
after the end of the world happens and the dead begin to rise back up for a snack of
living human
flesh.
The first game for feels - central developer Dontnod to release
after Life is Strange is, obviously, about consuming the
flesh of the
living for sustenance.