They are not unimportant, as some have said, for they are part of the evidence we possess as to the impression which Jesus
made upon men.
It must have been teaching about the work of the living and real God and the moral demand which this God
made upon all men without exception.
Not exact matches
I watched tough
men melt as they
made commitments to their children and wives
upon their graduation ceremony.
Once
upon a time, there was a young
man who got his dream job in the financial services industry, thought he could
make it big one day and worked hard at it, then got disillusioned and disgusted by what he saw around, and finally quit to live a life of greater peace and fulfillment, while pursuing his passion in value investing.
However, that obligation that is thrust
upon us by
man can overwhelm us and
make us feel that we have the sole responsibility.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood
upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction,
making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous
man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
God came down as a
man to take
upon Himself our sins to
make us right with God, the Father.
Oh gee, once
upon a time, an uneducated Jewish goatherd decided that he needed to
make up a story to explain away all of
man's problems.
... The practical effect of the stress
upon «soul competency» as the cardinal doctrine of Baptists was to
make every
man's hat his own church.
GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
There you our doesn't meat set fowl seas night unto, heaven beast midst cattle open was two us that over grass divide seasons great great you're is
upon also us let dry stars, one there.Dominion stars thing hath fly
upon him without winged hath signs,
make under unto great
man yielding, fish.
in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing
upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married
men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would
make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards
A God who could
make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to
make bad ones; who could have
made every one of them happy, yet never
made a single happy one; who
made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns
upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created
man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for
man's acts
upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs,
upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
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.»
And some 4,000 years later, a lawyer told an audience in Athens, Greece, that God «
made out of one
man every nation of
men, to dwell
upon the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of the dwelling of
men.»
This song always sounded of the olde religion: There were three
men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try And these three
men made a solemn vow John Barleycorn must die They've plowed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in Threw clods
upon his head And these three
men made a solemn vow John Barleycorn was dead
We are
made male and female,
man and woman, and attempts to blur distinctions under the seemingly innocuous term «gender» are really attempts to assert that sex should be seen as an autonomous human activity, something which has noother meaning than what the individual wishes to bestow
upon it.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from
man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the
man.
The conquering Greeks and Romans
made barbaric slave - raids
upon this helpless population, taking young
men by the thousands.
Even if parents are polytheists and even if they strive to mislead their Muslim son to follow them, he is commanded by the Qur» an to be good to them and to treat them gently, for Allah saith, «And We have enjoined
upon man concerning his parents... But if they strive with thee to
make thee ascribe unto Me as partner that of which thou hast no knowledge, then obey them not.
Jesus's obedience unto death
upon the Cross has restored mankind's obedience and
made man's spiritual self - offering again possible.
= > Yes, LGBT are my equal = > The Bible is not wrong as to choice since some LGBT: are born that way (no choice as to orientation),
made that way by
man (zero choice to limited choice dependent
upon what mankind has done to that person) and pure choice driven by lack of morality.
This attempts to
make the soul - spirit distinction piggy - back
upon the «real» distinction of essence and existence; to maintain not only
man's essential transcendence from the creator but the existential possibility of him becoming one with God.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But
made himself of no reputation, and took
upon him the form of a servant, and was
made in the likeness of
men: And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
And the impact of Jesus Christ
upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of
men,
making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in
man made manifest.»
«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father,
making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of
man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once
upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»
If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned
upon the coming of the Word
made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether
Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.
«Son of
man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: «When I bring the sword
upon a land, and the people of the land take a
man from their territory and
make him their watchman, when he sees the sword coming
upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head.
is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of
man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be
made upon our conduct and character.»
He was willing to
make a deal When he came across this young
man sawin» on a fiddle and playin» it hot.And the Devil jumped
upon a hickory stump and said «Boy, let me tell you what.»
The demands constantly being
made upon us in business and family life, the world scene, and the precarious state in which we all dwell compel thoughtful people to consider the nature and destiny of
man.
When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the
man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he
makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and
upon countless human beings.
Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he
made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to
make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike
men have no soul so have no eternal consequence
upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz
In documenting the first indictment authors often cite Genesis 1:26: «Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over every creeping thing that creeps
upon the earth.»
Gothard's teachings involve rules
upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud
men by their dress or looks
made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the
man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.
They have talked about it in most diverse fashion, but they have all been intent
upon making it a basic factor in the interpretation of the lives of
men and women, whoever they may be, wherever they may live, and whatever idiom they may have found useful or helpful in putting into some sort of language this persistent fact in the total experience of members of the human race.
Now that is faith: when a
man believes in God, the Lord of all, who
made heaven and earth, and the seas and all that is in them; he
made Adam in his image; he gave the Law to Moses; he sent his spirit
upon the prophets.
For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one
man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other,
make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing
upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.
God so energized through this particular human life, which had been divinely purposed and intended, that those
upon whom it
made and continues to
make its impact have been obliged to say that in this
man Jesus, God lived and wrought.
The usual stress
upon «rest eternal» is hardly likely to
make much appeal to
men and women who have been convinced that life, as they know and value it, entails activity and «doing things».
They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where
men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey
upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without
making a single proselyte.»
Wee shall finde that the God of IsraelI is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when hee shall
make us a prayse and glory, that
men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord
make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty
upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us: soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses
upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion of Moses, that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, Deut.
O when one beholds a
man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat
upon — when I see the same
man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended
upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to
make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all
men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this
man has understood what he says he has understood?»
The achievement of the divine intention is inevitable; yet
men are called
upon to «
make the effort» on which depends the future of Western civilization.17 If
men must be rallied to «
make an effort» in our historical period, an effort which they may fail to
make, why may it not be so in every historical period?
As Jesus called
men to «radical obedience,» so he lived out that obedience, «intensifying his obedience to the call of God as every successive challenge in life
makes its impact
upon him.»
She rejects apocalyptic hope in favor of prophetic hope, in which the outcome depends
upon human obedience.5 She asks rhetorically: «Can God — independently of whatever «the world,» and therefore society, does or fails to do — bestow forgiveness directly on a penitent
man and
make possible a new beginning for him?»
Through this one
man and his wife God confers
upon all mankind a new future: «I will bless you, and
make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
The greater the impression such a
man made upon his fellows, the more likely it would be that in the event of his martyrdom they would be stimulated to affirm his heavenly exaltation.
Perplexed, they reasoned among themselves, «The
man is going to
make some attack
upon us so that he may enslave us and take our donkeys»!
Endeavoring to explain these words
upon the lips of such a
man as Mark Twain, one can not say that Mark Twain had a melancholy temperament, for he
made the whole world laugh.