Sentences with phrase «man took it upon»

When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
As cats became more and more popular, man took it upon himself to encourage traits in our felines that were naturally occurring in some litters.

Not exact matches

God came down as a man to take upon Himself our sins to make us right with God, the Father.
the christians were bad during the crusades, stirred up by Pope Urban II into going and taking land the ROMAN EMPIRE, not christianity, had lost, and these same «holy crusaders», upon taking Jerusalem, massacred men, women, children, muslims, jews, christians, everyone just because they were different.
Exodus 21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
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
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.
One can not but be surprised (when one looks at it with a mind not dulled by habit) at the extraordinary care taken by Christ to urge upon men the importance of loving one another.
Then, too, demons used to deceive men's minds by taking up their abode in springs or rivers or trees or stones and imposing upon simple people by their frauds.
One might almost say that what «determines» God's action in a given circumstance is that God takes upon himself the evil and the misery of man.
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.
Whereas ancient man attempted to bring some influence to bear upon the unseen world by taking his offerings to the holy place where he believed the gods to dwell, the prophets proclaimed that YHWH had come to man where he was.
«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.
No mere man could take upon our death.
Nevertheless, the Church has there stated unequivocally that she must serve men and will courageously take upon herself all the risks of this service and enter the changing history of our time.
Abram, who initially had prudently sat out the war, now, upon learning that his nephew was taken captive, leads forth his band of 318 men into battle and wins a mighty victory: He smites the enemy, pursuing them past Damascus, and brings back all the goods, all the people, and his kinsman Lot (who promptly returns to Sodom).
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.
4 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 and lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
So the basic christian story of some alleged but never proven god impregnating a virgin with himself so that his son can die and take upon it the sins of all men is not true?
He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....
The scripture of old claimed that a man would come to suffer and die and take the sins of the world upon himself he would be bruised beaten and crucified and then He would come a second time as a conquering messiah.
The man Jesus would not have become the Christ of faith, if he had not been crucified, or at least taken death upon Himself in some similar way.
It is God's will only to the degree that he takes upon himself the chastisement that he wills and ordains, the chastisement of man, his suffering and his death.2
And in the next place, describing what properly is defiance, it teaches that a man does wrong although he understands what is right, or forbears to do right although he understands what is right; in short, the Christian doctrine of sin is pure impertinence against man, accusation upon accusation; it is the charge which the Deity as prosecutor takes the liberty of lodging against man.
Sometimes it takes the form of a logical argument — a syllogistic proof or an argument based on analogy — but more often it adopts the rhetorical style, calling on man to reflect upon himself and the wonderful world around him so that by means of such reflection he might know his Lord.
Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 10 We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them.
But the only reason people looked upon Jesus in this way at that time (few look upon Jesus in that way now), is because Jesus had incarnated Himself among men and had taken the sin of the world upon Himself so that He died among the wicked (Isa 53:9), bearing upon Himself the curse of the cross, and even crying out that He had been forsaken by God (Matt 27:46).
I heard upon his dry dung heap That man cry out who can not sleep: «If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God; Take the even, take the odd...&raTake the even, take the odd...&ratake the odd...»
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»!
Since this out - of - court settlement implies some guilt (probably 100 % guilt), this «man», who preyed upon young men, who were taken in by his ostentatious lifestyle and his aura of power, were purchased for a price.
In taking the sins of men upon himself, Jesus, however, had done more than Moses and Elijah.
In the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believe.
I mean if God did well enough to see fit to install this perfect plan called salvation before the foundation of man, that who so ever believes that Jesus took not only one for the team or mankind but all of the sins of mankind upon Himself, that in this gift provides freedom liberty and justification?
So the incarnation of God becoming a man through Jesus is unique, and what Jesus did was take the penalty of the crimes of man upon himself so that human beings could be freed.
First the horrible sacrilege must take place --» the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not,» and then will come the final tribulation, the collapse of the physical universe and the appearance of the Son of Man upon the clouds of heaven.
They understand that the dependence of man upon God and the orientation of man's work by reference to God's work require that theology must take the place of the psychology and sociology which were the proper sciences of a Christianity which was dependent on the spirit in man.
And no man is ready to make an attack upon that problem who has not in sadness and clarity taken the measure of it.
This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
It is that crucial motif in Christianity that theologians have called the kenosis, the humiliation of God: The same God who has all power, who created this world and all possible worlds, has taken upon himself the form and the fate of an ordinary man, and indeed a man who suffered the most agonizing afflictions of betrayal, torture, despair, and death.
When God wills that, for the perfection of the work of creation and the salvation of mankind, he should take upon himself a created nature, he wills that T shall be a man, so that the human nature of God lives through the Divine 1», through the DivinePerson of the Word, who subsists in the Essence of God.
We asked the young man from Kinghorn in Fife for his personal reflections upon the eve of ordination, as he prepares to take one step closer to the priesthood.
«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.
Then finally, the clear - ness of morning before the sunrise, the New Testament in the midst of the Old, the promise of the coming servant of God, who takes upon himself the guilt of His people, bears their grief and through his suffering atones for the sin of man (Isaiah 53).
Now clearly James is thinking of a much later stage in the Christian life; he is thinking of the man who has taken that decision, who has made that committal, and who has set out upon the Christian way.
One of the key characters in the book is disgraced «faith healer» Holy Wayne (played by British actor Paterson Joseph); a once - average man, bereaved on October 14th, who realises he can take other people's pain upon himself, like a kind of emotional sponge.
Jesus was a real man in the sense that He took upon him a real mortal body.
By his sufferings and death Jesus satisfied the righteous judgment of God and took upon himself the punishment for sin that man deserved.
10:7 - 9) He took a body in order that He might suffer; He became man, that He might suffer as man; and when His hour was come, that hour of Satan and of darkness, the hour when sin was to pour its full malignity upon Him, it followed that He offered Himself wholly, a holocaust, a whole burnt - offering; - as the whole of His body, stretched out upon the Cross, so the whole of His soul, His whole advertence, His whole consciousness, a mind awake, a senseacute, a living co-operation, a present, absolute intention, not a virtual permission, not a heartless submission... His passion was an action.»
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