Others who overtly accepted this position were no doubt really
mockers of the faith.
Whether or not your crass description of the Gospel is from significant ignorance of Scripture or simply because you are simply
a mocker of that which is foriegn to you doesn't matter.
I posted my christian beliefs, how its a faith based religion and how I empathize with there skepticism, having been converted from an ex
mocker of the bible.
The former assistant secretary of defense is no pacifist, no advocate of dismantling the world's superpower,
no mocker of the value of order in world affairs.
Member of the TiX team, borderline obsessive gamer and
mocker of motion control.
Not exact matches
The cross is serious business as can be witnessed by the two types
of people next to Christ one a
mocker the other a sudden realization
of what was taking place.
Although he often expressed this vision obliquely, he was relentless in his criticism
of those who despised faith as an anachronism: «I am not afraid to say that a devout and God - fearing man is superior as a human specimen to a restless
mocker who is glad to style himself an «intellectual,» proud
of his cleverness in using ideas which he claims as his own though he acquired them in a pawnshop in exchange for simplicity
of heart....
Judgment is coming to the
mockers and those consumed with the things
of this world and it will be sudden and final.
3 Know this first
of all, that in the last days
mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4 and saying, «Where is the promise
of His coming?
Look man, none
of it has been proven wrong over the period
of any amount
of time through any generation
of mockers and doubters, including this one.
It's a board
of Mockers.: Proverbs 21:24 The proud and arrogant man — «
Mocker» is his name; he behaves with overweening pride.
But there's no shortage
of mockers out there among the religious or non-religious.
The focused image
of an exemplary man not walking with the wicked or standing among sinners or sitting with
mockers — «Happy is the man who...» — is turned into the bland self - help didacticism
of a second - person pronoun in order to avoid the dread masculine reference: «If you would be happy: / never walk with the wicked...» (1:1).
Here's just one example
of such a
mocker who nails it on the head: http://youtu.be/KAvDtPz33w0
«He saved others; he can not save himself», was the Word
of God which came from the very mouths
of mockers.
Unfortunately, the New Testament has two verses (Jude 1:18 and 2 Pet 3:3) where they describe «scoffers and
mockers» as rejecting the gospel simply because
of their «ungodly lusts» and many Christians interpret this to mean that any criticism
of their faith comes from some desire to be immoral and can thus be deemed groundless without any examination whatsoever.
There's the other bit where these «scoffers and
mockers» are supposed to show up during the last days, and the people who wrote that
of course believed that they were living in the those last days just as strongly as the faithful do today.
2 Peter 3:3, for example, points out that «
mockers will come with their mocking» and asks, «Where is the promise
of His coming?»
Jude 1:17 - 23: But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
of the apostles
of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be
mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Later (vs 21) after reminding us that Jesus warned us that the church
of the last days would be full
of mockers, sensual and separating themselves from the rest
of us (as McArthur just did, and we do in response) he says» BUT YOU, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love
of God, looking for the mercy
of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Acts 13:41 «Now therefore be ye not
mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD
of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.»
for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning
of the creation» 2 Peter 3:3 - 4 «How that they told you there should be
mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
All right all you God -
mockers out there, I would like you to consider the following, even for a fraction
of a second, which is probably your attention span: You are all suffering from what the ancient Greeks called HUBRIS.
Some
of them only come on here during the transfer season trying to put the
mockers on any deal they'd hate to see Arsenal make.
Im guessing that @rahman is one
of those superstitious fans who believes if he comes out saying Arsenal will win, would put the
mockers on it.
If he had
of said his target will be reached Im sure
of it well then he'd be putting the
mockers on the whole thing.
It's so poor, that you need a much better comedian and
mocker than I am to reveal all
of its flaws.
It's never shocking, never anything more than a chuckle's worth
of funny as it struggles to mine some laughs out
of how obnoxious the French are (and isn't the
mocker unable to let a mediocre joke die the more obnoxious?)
So try to remember that as I approach Lucio Fulci's Contraband and Conquest on DVD after having sampled from his supernatural films (led there initially by an admiration
of the early films
of Dario Argento and George Romero), I'm doing so from the perspective
of a half - reformed
mocker.
Based on the extraordinary true story
of how Jenkins husband, the society in which she existed, worked to keep the monkey sounding songstress away from critics and
mockers.
«The fact remains that there is still a large gap in the quality
of active ingredients being used even in natural products,»
Mocker says.