Sentences with phrase «man has no power over»

Perhaps the contradiction in his behaviour is born from the Christian belief that man has power over animals as his dialogue makes reference to the slaves being comparable to baboons.

Dworkin views the power of men as a class issue: because men belong to the privileged class, each man has power over every woman.

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In the BBC article, Eden King exposes a root cause of sexual harassment: «A belief that women are inferior to men, the belief that men should have power over women,» and, she adds, a belief that «men should be aggressors and women should be gatekeepers.»

But your right I'm sure this has been going on since the first man put on a robe and claimed spiritual power over other people 1000's of years ago.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Do men have more power over women or do women have more power over men.

Through it man has abandoned himself into the eternal absolute over which he has no power.

It is a dangerous thing to deny the presence of evil spirits in the world, but it is equally dangerous to think that man, by the performance of some ritual, has some power over them.

Out of the ruins, once more, God would raise up those who should truly serve and obey him; and this divine Rule was to be inaugurated — so Mark and his fellow Christians believed — when the Son of Man, who was identical with Jesus crucified, raised from the dead, and exalted to heaven, should return on the clouds to hold the Last Judgment, when he should come «in power» with the angels of God to reign with his elect over a renewed earth.

Anyone who uses religion or ethnic cleansing as an excuse to have power and dominion over thier fellow man like Iran, Pakistan, and the Sudan does internally and through importing terror through the likes of aL - Qaeda, Hezbollah or the Janjaweed.

Man was free from his own past, because the Spirit placed him on a new level of existence in which that past had no power over him.

The man has become a noble man, who leaves to receive some sort of royal power over subjects.

Some have supposed that he changed God's attitude toward man or effected some alteration in the power of evil over the world.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

However, today those hostile to modernity have argued that Western power leads only to the mastery of some men over others.

How ironic that you would post «The reason 90 % of the entire membership does not agree with Kate Kelly is because she paints the Priesthood as a power that man have over women.

But as Bill maher once said: «I could believe in the Bible if it would mention one of the following words: electricity, nuclear power, computer, laser and evolution... Instead the god in the OT kills over 2 million men, women and children for being disobedient or collecting sticks on a Sabbath.

Although biology and psychology recognize that man is a highly dependent being, that does not mean that he has been handed over to powers outside of and distinct from himself.

The scientist, like the doctor, has power over the life and well - being of man, and so, it is argued, the public is particularly vulnerable to his code of ethics.

Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.

I have been told (by female leaders) that there is a «real concern over my insensitivity», that they were talking to me in a particular way because «men have the power and that I am speaking to you prophetically because that is how God deals with things by adressing the men first».

Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook mistakes.

The growth of modern scientific civilization has brought both opportunities and perils for democracy: opportunities in the vast new resources made available to mankind, and perils in the increased power men can use against and over one another.

No one, Jew or Gentile, would have been taken aback at a statement that the power of God is greater than men; Paul's scandalous proposition is that the weakness of God reveals His true power, including the power to triumph over sin and death.

Israel, however, was not beast but «son of man,» the people of the one true God; Israel alone had incarnated Yahweh's purpose and at a definite date in the future would sweep into world power over the ruins of the fallen heathen realms.

I am no Scholar but, I believe God has the power to change prophecy the way that he did with Hezekiah, his intentions for a perfect people in the beginning changed due to disobedience so who's to say our men or intended leadership has overall been disobedient, and many women have been forced to lead and in that leading women have been more obedient.We all need each other if my husband was a pastor and I'm his help mate if he for some reason can't teach or preach who else other than myself would be the closest to him.I don't believe GOD changes he's always the same but, he does have the power to make changes and he does not need our permission to do so, instead of debating back and forth over our version of the Bible we should be sure we have the Holy Spirit and real relationship with GOD because he will reveal to us his truths but, please know he's not the author of confusion

«If [the president] has that power, which is really the power of life and death over the human family, then obviously that power has to be watched with the greatest vigilance and skepticism — including the psyche of the man who uses it.»

Although Christ was filled with the form of God and rich in all good things, so that he needed no work and suffering to make him righteous and saved (for he had all this eternally), yet he was not puffed up by them and did not exalt himself above us and assume power over us, although he could rightly have done so; but, on the contrary, he so lived, laboured, worked, suffered, and died that he might be like other men and in fashion and in actions be nothing else than a man, just as if he had need of all these things and had nothing of the form of God.

Since the start of man, people have also killed over land, power and so on, so it's not just religion; though people typically have an easier time believing some crazy person's claim that they represent their faith in their violent acts... somehow?

Man also has been given power over nature, our second position.

In my writing, which Colson professes to have followed «over the years,» I affirm in many places that man has a spiritual soul not reducible to matter, one that is conferred on him directly by God and is responsible for his spiritual powers of intellect and will.

There are men who have power — there are mayors over cities, police commissioners, United States marshals, governors; there are legislators, both in the Senate and Congress; there are members of various courts and cabinets.

So to blame the «masculinity crisis» on the few women who have managed to ascend to significant leadership positions in the Church in recent years, especially when men continue to dominate the field, grossly overstates the amount of power women have over the institution and turns them into unnecessary scapegoats.

This theme is the Lord's astounding victory over Pharaoh, the latter having at his disposal all the wealth, all the power, all the resources that man, earth, the world, and his Egyptian gods could create.

Now when [many] others came in crowds about him, for they were very greatly moved [or pleased] by hearing his words, Herod, who feared lest the great influence John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise a rebellion, (for they seemed ready to do any thing he should advise,) thought it best, by putting him to death, to prevent any mi - schief he might cause, and not bring himself into difficulties, by sp - aring a man who might make him rep - ent of it when it would be too late.

In some churches, where the minister has traditionally been a strong, dominant figure with significant power and influence over all decisions affecting the church, many men feel extremely threatened by a woman holding that degree of power and influence over church life.

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

Women have power, great power, over men.

It may not be polished literature, it may not be learned writing, but judged by its power over the minds and hearts of successive generations of men and women of many races, it would be difficult to give it a lower classification.

The board has no power over Wenger, and he is his one man show.

Your powers have been removed and handed over to Modern, professional, forward thinking experts in Sven and Raul.If you can't see that you are the Dead Man Walking then you really have lost what's left of your decrepit old mind.

This allowed the Palace man to hit it over the wall accurately without much power, and not have to worry about the 27 - year - old getting a hand to it.

Skipper John Terry had claimed player power had not played a part in Thursday's decision to axe the Portugese but Fabregas and Costa's names were booed by large parts of the home support before the action started, while Chelsea fans were soon singing in support of a man who led them to three league titles over two spells.

Gazidis warned that the new man will not have any of the sole power over transfers and recruitment that Wenger had.

Meanwhile, men's posts reinforce hegemonic norms — they're stronger, have more power over and are the caretakers / providers of their wives, maintaining the «institutional dominance of men over women.»

Women have that power over most men but not over guys like me.

Despite the row over Welsh income tax between David Jones and Andrew RT Davies, both men agree that there should be a referendum on giving the Welsh Government income tax raising powers - and that the Conservatives would campaign in favour.

Checks show that in the absence of the three men, the power of state ought to have been provisionally handed over to the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, who [constitutionally] is the fourth in the line of succession to the Presidency — in the absence of the President, the Vice President and the Speaker of Parliament.

Under that iteration, Klein played a role in the budget talks — the so - called «three men in a room» grew to four — and had veto power over which bills come to the floor.

But it was also bigger than the two men running: it was the distillation of a struggle over where the seat of power would reside in the 13th Congressional district.