Sentences with phrase «not bearers»

16:3 - 5)- who seem to have shared the mission fully with him though they were not bearers of any office.

Animals need to be treated with respect, but [an animal] is not a bearer of rights.»

However, the main stream of theology preferred to think of Jesus Christ as a divine person, one who was not the bearer of God's Word but was, ontologically, the Word or Son, one who was God concretely manifested.

He wasn't the bearer of good tidings.

Not exact matches

«Not to be a bearer of bad news for Tangier, but that would suggest that sometime in the next 50 to 100 years the island would basically be underwater.»

In Pai's case, though, the source of indoctrination is not Marxism, but the University of Chicago, which is the standard bearer for law and economics.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the majority of the time, those things have more to do with you and the habits you choose to put into place — not what your employer promises.

Occasionally, in this era of gloomy nest egg prospects, Dallas Salisbury gets to be the bearer of good news and point out retirement benefits that people have overlooked.

Since Bitcoin is a digital bearer instrument, the receiver of a payment does not get any information from the sender that can be used to steal money from the sender in the future, either by that merchant or by a criminal who steals that information from the merchant.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but on December 25th a fat man with a red suit doesn't come down your chimney with gifts.

The Bible doesn't simply address man as a cognitive process but as a complex image - bearer who recognizes truth not only through categorizing syllogisms but through imagination, beauty, wonder, awe.

Notice that his emphasis is not on the bearers of truth but on the source of truth.

The Mormon men need the priesthood in order to compensate for not being the child bearers.

One need not be a saint, or a mother, to become a bearer of God.

The last factor I would mention is monasticism, which throughout the great upheavals of history continued to be the indispensable bearer not only of cultural continuity but above all of fundamental religious and moral values, of the ultimate guidance of humankind.

If I make you light - bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you?

theo «I don't think you understand what it means to be the image - bearer of God» Neither do you... all you know is what it is to BELIEVE you are the image bearer of god.

You made several good points, the one that intrigues me most is the comment that Adam and woman were not God - like or image bearers in the sense that Jesus was.

All three speakers granted that some kind of reunion with Rome (and with Orthodoxy) must be eventual goals for Protestantism, which could not think of itself as the sole bearer of the church's future.

As we have seen, however, this «everyone» is not an isolated, solitary bearer of rights but the person in community.

A woman who is held back, minimized, or downplayed is not walking in the fullness God intended for her as an image bearer (for instance, take a look at Carolyn Custis James» excellent discussion about being an «ezer kenegdo» in her book, «Half the Church.»)

But to return to my childish rumination: gifts are not simply the bearers of words.

Not only that, but you assume that Calvin was the bearer of all truth, but you and the rest of his followers can't even all agree on what that exactly was, so that makes each Calvin follower equally wrong, all based on the ramblings of a random religious agitator who lived centuries ago.

We readers who are gratified by this result should not underestimate the difficulty Abraham probably had in, as it were, «sacrificing» Ishmael his first - born, the first bearer of his great hope for posterity.

They realized that the church as a self - regarding community and the church as the dynamic bearer of universal salvation would not go together.

(55) We send not the messengers save as bearers of good news and warners.

He is interested not in promoting himself but in inviting others to live in a way that acknowledges Jesus as the «bearer of a new possibility of human, social, and.

He bears bad news, but one's reaction to bad news should not be directed against its bearer.

If we are to have confidence that Christ is the bearer of the good news of the gospel, must we not also trust him in regard to his claim for the authority of Scripture?

He means by this idea that the true character of Christ as Son of God and bearer of the kingdom, as suffering and dying Messiah, is not obvious to everyone.

Struggling to give revelation its proper place, they also lost (not at first, and never altogether, but at length) fifteen hundred years of Catholic intellectual tradition, a tradition that bothered itself with the iotas, and whether or not Mary should be referred to as the God - bearer (the Theotokos), and what precisely is the Pelagian error and what is not, and whether the two natures of Christ conflict with the unity of his person, and so on.

It may not be necessary for democracy to destroy communism (the sole bearer, in its view, of a «materialistic» philosophy) by force.

«Reassertion» is a decisive term here, for fundamentalism seems to rise when the authoritative bearers of a religious tradition are perceived as falling into intellectual drift — when those responsible for cultivating and propagating the vision do not, can not or will not defend the fundamentals that give the vision articulate form, or when they begin to advocate changing the definition of what is fundamental.

In the Kingdom of God, we don't have to choose between lifting up men or lifting up women, it's not one or the other: it's both together, it's the sacred union, the created purpose as co-image bearers of God.

If Paul could not himself render the gospel, could he be deemed an authentic bearer of the good news?

The list of names is not intended to be exhaustive, nor does the omission of any name imply that the work of its bearer is not of primary importance.

It is written in the book of Dawkins 2:28 - 34 «Then shall the bearers of false witness claiming supernatural phenomenon and worshipers of deitys fall upon the righteous with their knives and swords, tearing my people apart who did nothing but point out that their God's did not exist.

Be a torch bearer of Islam and don't let Ahmadis out do you... Spread the message of love and peace and harmony, i.e. true Islam.

Solovyev believed «that man is the highest revelation of the true bearer of existence, that all the roots of his own being are in the transcendental sphere and that because of this fact he is not bound with the chains, which school philosophy wants to put on him» (FNCZ 225).

Thus, this event, Jesus Christ, not only belongs in a peculiarly intimate and important sense to the stream of history which is the bearer of our spiritual life but it also imparts to that stream its distinctive character.

There is indeed one estimate of him which is consistent with his own view, the estimate of him not as a personality, but as one sent by God, as bearer of the word.

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

In doing so we are reminded that the Church is his, not ours, «and the bearer of faith does not sin» (RR, p. 52).

Samuel is soon to be established as the rightful bearer of God's word and authority, one whose words God will not let «fall to the ground» (3:19).

Pastoral theology during this period became not only the bearer of the Christian tradition but also of ancient culture and philosophy.

There is no exegesis without a «bearer [teneur] of meaning,» which belongs to the text and not to the author of the text.

In the Gospels, Jesus not only proclaimed the kingdom — he was the bearer and the inaugurator of it.

For example, in the Old Testament the Yahwistic theologians do not simply conform to the new social reality, but make a strong case that in the new situation Israel must understand itself as the bearer of a blessing.

The fact as such, therefore, can not be a bearer of meaning.

«Hurredly, he called to his armor - bearer, «Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can't say «a woman killed him».»