Sentences with phrase «living upon the death»

Priests in the pulpit never inform church people how a person can be born again, or have everlasting life upon their death.

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He Himself would live a human life in the person of Jesus Christ, yet a completely sinless life, and take all the wrath of God upon Himself, dying the death that those who believe in Him and confess Him as Lord and Savior would have had to die.

They talk about their families because that is what really matters in a person's life... that is thier true legacy and their only real immortality... most people, I am fairly sure, know deep down that god is a fairy tale, a cushion, and that death is truly the end... what this very excellent young woman heard from these dying people makes perfect sense... death is a time to end the bs and look at and reflect upon what was real and important in that individual's life

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on.»

Upon her death, Mother Pascalina's Order described her life as one of «prayer and indefatigable commitment to others.»

To my mind, it accords better with what we know about the laws impressed upon matter by the Creator that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual... There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one...»

Our buildings» spiritedness of souls are to be given up upon death to the Holy Spirit and in so doing we will be afforded another Life within the domain (s) of the Kingdom of God!

Human beings naturally cling to life, and the witnessing of the death of others, especially those near and dear, and the anticipation of one's own passing away compel reflection upon the meaning of these events.

That hope was based, like our own, on confidence that God would not abandon, even in death, those whose lives had been centered upon him and who had responded faithfully to his call to serve him.

That so to reason and so to perceive requires a great relearning which is never completed in their lives; that for the most part they do not reason and interpret on the basis of the new premise but on that of the old; that they tend to interpret the action upon them by which they are and by which they cease to be as inimical or indifferent; that they respond therefore for the most part in the manner of an ethics of death, Christians agree.

We see those consequences beating upon the Christ in the story of his life and death.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

In one sense it is that quite literally, the death of that self - interpretation which he has lived upon and cherished through the years.

It is at once intellectually satisfying and spiritually enriching - a worthy meditation upon the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ; a meditation which should bear much fruit in the lives of the faithful for many years to come.

The trend of modern thought, with its concentration upon making the most of this present life and the tacit assumption that death means extinction, makes it particularly easy for people to disbelieve in, or to ridicule, life after death.

This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

The energy form that is life, if it is an energy does not just vanish, but there is no reason to think that the energy would remian as a coherent sentient being upon death.

Short as the span of our national life has been, already have death and downfall crowded close upon us — and will again crowd close, no doubt, even if warded off.

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.

Am not sure if you are in the dark or the Darkest of all Darks and only God would judge that and may have mercy upon your soul which is clearly suffering the emptiness in life and would do be in pain after death and again on judgment day but the hardest is when you are to pay your dues in the Hells of Fires where it is said that every time skins are burnt they are replaced with other fresh skins to no end if no mercy from God?

We also may be said to live after death as church members related to the person of Jesus and dependent upon the church's unity and prayers for our continued existence.

And it condemned any attempt to blame the death of Jesus «upon all the Jews then living, without distinction, or upon the Jews today,» insisting that «the Jews should not be presented as repudiated or cursed by God.»

The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

Its effect upon one who takes it seriously is well expressed by Paul, in a passage where he has defined the meaning of the Christian life precisely in terms of the Gospel, as sharing Christ's sufferings, being conformed to His death, and experiencing the power of His resurrection.

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

For this extremity of pessimism to be reached, something more is needed than observation of life and reflection upon death.

«Thus I hang upon the boughs of life, knowing that the inevitable dragon of death is waiting ready to tear me, and I can not comprehend why I am thus made a martyr.

Death becomes in Lohfink's phrase the «frontier situation» which forces Qoheleth to reflect upon life.34 Life is to be loved; its present happiness and joy cherislife.34 Life is to be loved; its present happiness and joy cherisLife is to be loved; its present happiness and joy cherished.

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.

If active euthanasia» e.g., lethal injection» and physician - assisted suicide are legally sanctioned, even more patients could couple organ donation with their planned deaths; we would not have to depend only upon persons attached to life support.

There are those for whom death is regarded as a natural experience and accepted without either regret or support from any religious belief; and others for whom death is a door opened upon a new adventure of life with God.

All I can do here is to suggest that there is a place today for a general concept of resurrection that sees permanent meaning and value in our lives without depending upon belief in individual life after death.

In A Married Man (1979), the barrister (trial lawyer) John Strickland, after reading Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, feels that his life is becalmed and embarks upon both a love affair and a political career.

The darkest fear of all, the fear that has the power not only to shape a life for death - dealing, but also to distort an entire community, is the fear that lurks beneath the pretense of power and privilege, the fear which crouches behind the doorways of prejudice and preys upon the least of those in the community.

One crosses from death to life instantly upon believing in the one who paid for my sins on the cross.

The darkest fear of all, the fear that has the power not only to shape a life for death - dealing, but also to distort an entire community, is the fear that lurks beneath the pretense of power and privilege, the fear which crouches behind the doorways of prejudice and preys upon the least of these.

It is the way life makes way for more life.9 Death establishes a common fate for every living thing, and thus gives a decisive character to our dependence upon God and our unity with all His creatures.

The fact that personal identity in this life depends so little upon the relation to a common body and so much upon unmediated hybrid prehensions of past occasions of the soul's life strengthens the plausibility of the claim that continuity may occur after bodily death.

First of all, we may say that in our personal lives we are called upon to resist the powers of death, disease, and evil.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

I would rather live my life believing there is Heaven and Hell to find out upon death that there isn't one, than to live my life not believing there is a Heaven and Hell discovering that there is but had wasted any chances to dwell in Glory eternal in the former, instead of gnashing of teeth eternally in the latter.

You said «I would rather live my life believing there is a God to find out upon death that there isn't one, than to live my life not believing there is a God or higher power and discovering that there is.»