Not exact matches
While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over grocery store bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus, because of the priest's magic
powers (or «
sacred powers» if you prefer the
more euphemistic term).
In sustaining and becoming ourselves in relation, we are giving birth to
more of this same
sacred power who needs us, her friends, to bring her to life and help nourish her life on the earth.
By the strength of his own person and the
power of his own commitment to Yahweh, he returns again, descending the
sacred mountain with the new tables of the covenant - law in his hands; and he does not know — tradition elsewhere insists that «the man Moses was very meek,
more than all men that were on the face of the earth» (Num.
In place of the person of Jesus who once housed the kenotic
sacred, the universal humanity now assumes the reality and dynamism of Christ and activates that
power by ever becoming
more conscious of its divine nature.