Sentences with phrase «not oracles»

Newspapers are not oracles!

Pope BEnedict XVI has even said, «The Pope is not an oracle; he is infallible in very rare situations, as we know.»

He's not the oracle or fountain of all knowledge footballing or otherwise so don't be taking his crap

After all, you are not an oracle and technical analysis is based on statistics.

Science is not an oracle.

Cochran was not an oracle.

Not exact matches

One of the things Buffett likes to remind audiences of is that when he was growing up — long before Dad became America's economic oracle, adviser to Presidents and writer of op - eds reassuring a depressed nation that all is not lost — his father was a supremely successful but largely anonymous investor.

If you've seen the movie 300, you might remember the scene in which Leonidas has to consult the oracle, which will decide whether the Spartans will go to battle or not.

He feels powerless, as he has to follow whatever the priests might say to him about the oracle's thoughts, which eventually is not to go to battle.

You don't become a legend or an oracle by not watching the little things.

By providing only fragments from biblical books (in this case part of an oracle from Isaiah, a reassurance from Paul, a parable from Jesus), they leave a suggestive opening, not only to other texts...

«For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways — oracle of the LORD.

Why do we not consult oracles as well as weathermen?

All that is important, but the counselor is not related to a patient primarily as an illustration of a general principle or as an oracle of wisdom.

Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Prophets» oracles are located in the context of narratives describing how God is related to Israel, and who Israel is - and is failing to be — in relation to God, and construed as announcements of promise and not simply as predictions of doom.

Similarly the word of God is not some mysterious oracle, but a sober, factual account of a human life, of Jesus of Nazareth, possessing saving efficacy for man.

There is reason to think that both these passages reflect Israelite prophetism no later than the ninth century, 7 and it is not impossible that the Balaam oracle rests upon a much earlier original form.

Hays also seems narrow when he encourages readers to read the OT principally as narrative and not as a «source of oracles, prooftexts, or halakhic regulations,» apparently disqualifying many early Christian authors who cited Scripture in this way.

For he [Mark] had neither heard the Lord nor been his personal follower, but at a later stage, as I said, he had followed Peter, who used to adapt the teachings to the needs of the moment, but not as though he were drawing up a connected account of the oracles of the Lord: so that Mark committed no error in writing certain matters just as he remembered them.

The explanation of a thunderstorm is to be found in meteorology, not theology; by studying humidity and air pressure, not by casting lots or seeking oracles.

-- but later on followed Peter and became his interpreter; and Peter «used to adapt the teachings to the needs of the moment, but not as though he were drawing up a connected account of the oracles of the Lord,» so that Mark was perfectly justified in setting them down «just as he remembered them.»

By providing only fragments from biblical books (in this case part of an oracle from Isaiah, a reassurance from Paul, a parable from Jesus), they leave a suggestive opening, not only to other texts but also to the even more fragmented tissues of our individual lives.

One can not but be impressed with its clear expression in a document so relatively early as one of the Balaam oracles: «Lo it is a people that dwelleth alone and is not reckoned among the nations» (Num.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the prophetic utterance, the oracle of a mere man, Le'ithiel: Indeed I am a subhuman brute; I have not the intelligence of a man.

We are not surprised, then, to find the translation «integrity» used in a remarkable oracle addressed to the priests by the prophet Malachi:

«And even if we supposed (as is probable) that many oracles were not cooked to order, but were expressions of the individual or group unconscious, or of the prophet's «sincere conviction»... even this account of the cause permits, and indeed, requires naturalistic, psychological analysis and explanation.

They come streaming to Zion, not bringing tribute or bringing back captives, as in so many prophetic oracles, but seeking instruction.

The oracles of the Isaiahs were preserved, if not all originally created, in circles of prophetism which knew a common and sustained theological discipline.

The fact that Aeschylus believed in the Delphic oracle and we do not does not make the tragic view of life any less true; it simply compels us to discuss its claim to truth.

It will continue as long as those without the Spirit of Christ speak as though they speak the oracles of God maybe what we need is not a different view if Biblical inerrancy but better discernment of man's errancy.

The remarkable oracle (19:20 - 28) attributed to Isaiah (and if not from him certainly from a contemporary) states this faith with explosive force (cf. Isa.

(b) The present order of oracle and incident within these collections is not chronological.

This is not to say that Isaiah presents here — or in the sum of his oracles — a systematic theology.

Of the conspiracy between Syria and Ephraim, Isaiah declared to Ahaz, «Thus says the Lord God: It shall not stand... (7:7); and in a recorded oracle already quoted (the authenticity of which has sometimes been questioned), the prophet directs this word of Yahweh to the besieging Assyrians:

As reconstructed by Begrich from the words of Second Isaiah, with an occasional assist outside, the priestly oracle usually began with the words, «Fear thou not» (Isa.

And that righteousness was interpreted, in such great figures as Jeremiah, Hosea, and the two or three men whose oracles have been put together in the Old Testament book we call Isaiah, as resting back upon and expressing the divine chesed — the faithful loving - mercy of Jahweh not only for his own people but for all the peoples of the earth.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk, not solid food.

The word of God is not a mysterious oracle, but a sober, factual account of a human life, and this word, it is claimed, possesses saving efficacy for man.»

We do not know exactly what «oracles» means; it usually is used of Old Testament prophecies understood in relation to Jesus, but by extension it may also have included the words of Jesus himself:, or the fulfillment of the prophecies.

This full prophetic faith is given climactic summary in the floating oracle; and even more eloquently, movingly, in this phenomenal utterance originating probably in circles of prophetism subsequent to Isaiah, but, perhaps not without some justification in view of his tremendous influence, attributed to him in Isaiah 19:23 f.

Yet the case does not rest here; for it must be recognized that the Psalms are historic documents in much the same sense as the prophetic oracles have long been known to be.

This new Priest is not merely an instrument of the oracle of God, He is not merely the vehicle through which God's will is expressed, He is not merely the channel for the blessings of God.

The three short oracles in 24:204 are of other and later origin than the four major oracles, which (conventionally seen as E or JE) are certainly not later than the eighth century, betray characteristics of the tenth - century monarchy, and may rest on still older oracular models.

A handful of scholars have argued that Deuteronomy was not in existence in Josiah's day and that Josiah's reform program was shaped by the J legislation in Exodus 12 and 32 - 34; or a brief collection of Jeremiah's oracles; or the Holiness Code of Leviticus 17 - 26 (conventionally dated in the sixth century, of course); or, if any part of Deuteronomy, then chapters 5 - 11 only.

Of a vicar of Newcastle, it is reported that «his known abilities in resolving cases of conscience drew after him a great many good people, not only of his own flock but from remoter distances, who resorted to him as to a common oracle, and commonly went away from him entirely satisfied in his wise and judicious resolutions.»

On the other hand, we read here several poems hardly distinguishable from the work of Second Isaiah; and we must conclude, therefore, that Isaiah 56 - 66 comes out of continuing Isaianic circles of prophetism surviving the sixth - century debacle, and had as its nucleus a small collection of Second Isaiah's oracles not incorporated in 40 - 55 and perhaps of somewhat later origin (see especially the three chapters, 60 - 62, and the Servant Song in 61:1 - 4).

I want vardy badly... need a «unpredictable» cf who defenders will be afraid of not «Mr hold - up play» all that twitter whatever is bs... I'm pretty sure, we wld have been on his case for a long tym b4 any silly newspaper / reliable source wld know... Wenger likes his business done privately and will only give out wat he wants out... remember Sanchez, elneny, even xhaka... their photo - ops were done in London but no 1 will knw they r in london... it would have been a surprise when we announced xhaka if not for his wife and I'm pretty sure Wenger was pissed... even xhaka said he had to keep it quiet... Im still waiting for d supposed «oracle» in bbc... he's been unreliable this past few days... that tells u how secretive arsenal is... y have Leicester not said anything????

He said (quote): we missed something.Team played 5 games in two weeks time -LSB-...] I can give you the link for the video because clearly you didn't listened to it and take whatever retards like leo say as the oracle of EPL.

To obscure them behind a layer of enigmatic anonymity, so that decisions are handed down not by fallible people, who can be criticised as such, but mysterious oracles, who toy with the fates of footballers for their own inscrutable ends.