Sentences with phrase «not upon man»

Amnon, David's oldest son and heir - apparent, vents a sexual aggression more rampant than his father's not upon another man's wife but upon his own half - sister Tamar, David's daughter and the full - sister of Absalom.

The second conviction is that any enduring hope must be based, not upon man alone, but upon the fact that God is present in human history, and is there creatively and redemptively at work.

Not exact matches

It's our culture, not our libidos, that shapes the way men act upon otherwise healthy, run - of - the - mill sexual desires.

Men may die without incurring the pity of their fellows, sharers in great business enterprises from which their capital can not be, or has not been withdrawn, upon which is left entirely a trust for public uses.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

«It's difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.»

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

His further explanation of this cryptic principle would alienate many who couldn't grasp what they saw as madness: a man calling upon them to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

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.

As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires.

Not just your god, but all thousands upon thousands of gods worshiped by men throughout history.

Religion is the cave - man instinct that comes upon us when we're confronted by something we don't understand.

Think of a woman, together with her children, totally dependent economically upon a man who is not her husband.

For the solidarity which is built, not upon servility, but upon the common loyalty of free men, is resilient and enduring.

What Hilaire Belloc actually wrote (originally in The Path to Rome, page 106 of the Doubleday - Image ed., 1956, later found in his collected poems, a copy of which I do not have at hand) was this: But Catholic men that live upon wine Are deep in the water, and frank, and fine; Wherever I travel I find it so, Benedicamus Domino.

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We are a nation based upon man's law, not someone's interpretation of what they think God says.

Natural disasters and tragedy are not a result of God's action or punishment upon man.

The same with the second man... we can say that it appears that he was doing the will of the Father by loving his neighbor but we do not know what was in his heart upon his death.

Barth gathers the questionings of his friends into one gigantic interrogation point, and flings down to ethical theory the demand that it base itself not upon the conscious will of man but on the uncertainly, though actually, felt will of God.

Isn't it quite obvious and apparent, based upon hearing about all the children, women, and men dying tragic deaths everyday in the news that God does not exist in the form the Bible claims?

It is not smugness, therefore, but sheer rightness that this man should be cheered «not to have exposed my inhibitions but to have hit upon some marvelously practical and obdurate part of myself.»

It was not until July 1969 when astronauts walked on the moon, that man could absolutely verify the earth is» suspended upon nothing».

Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize «winning novelist asked: «Aren't you the child who, having been left an orphan by his poor mother and distanced himself from his father, went off to live the life of the kibbutz?

If, as the Church had always taught, the Bible contained God's revelation to man, every man (they urged) ought to be able to read it for himself, and not to be dependent upon what might reach him by indirect channels.

The tiny dependent state of Judaea was inevitably drawn into these events, but their impact upon the Jewish mind was not such as to raise great spiritual issues, or to provoke new understanding of the ways of God with men.

Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize «winning novelist asked: «Aren't....

Religiois faith is the cave - man instinct that comes upon us when we're confronted by something we don't understand.

Perhaps it is because the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers wanted to engage God only as a concept, and not as the God - man who lays a claim upon our lives.

The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth...».

Man has always given to his deity, not only gifts laid upon the altar, but the gift of his soul in temples of great beauty and rituals of soul - stirring depth.

Even if parents are polytheists and even if they strive to mislead their Muslim son to follow them, he is commanded by the Qur» an to be good to them and to treat them gently, for Allah saith, «And We have enjoined upon man concerning his parents... But if they strive with thee to make thee ascribe unto Me as partner that of which thou hast no knowledge, then obey them not.

If, for example, we no longer expect Christ to return upon the clouds of heaven to hold the Last Judgment, as the heavenly Son of Man of the old Aramaic - speaking communities in Palestine, we do not honor or reverence or even worship him any the less.

In a highly metaphorical and powerful statement he declared: «It is now excruciatingly clear that Christ can not be a light that lights every man coming into the world, if he is not also the light that falls upon the world into which every man comes.

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.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

I am so sorry I can not believe,» and then appeals to us for pity because he can not believe, but when the Holy Spirit touches a man's heart, he no longer looks upon unbelief as a mark of intellectual superiority; he does not look upon it as a mere misfortune; he sees it as the most daring, decisive and damning of all sins and is overwhelmed with a sense of his awful guilt in that he had not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

God literally became a man in order that the human categories of spirituality could be recognized as truly divine, and not the mere invention of a frightened race seeking some means of converting a miserable and ephemeral existence into a dignified and permanent purchase upon the existence of the universe.»

You don't have to be the most educated person in Laodicea to know that the Greek philosophers were rather insistent upon the importance of maintaining a household in which the man exercises unilateral authority over his wives, children, and slaves.

= > Yes, LGBT are my equal = > The Bible is not wrong as to choice since some LGBT: are born that way (no choice as to orientation), made that way by man (zero choice to limited choice dependent upon what mankind has done to that person) and pure choice driven by lack of morality.

Thus in either case the judgment is pronounced upon man not from the human standpoint, as if man» s value were somehow immanent and securely possessed by him, but from without — according to Jesus, of course, God is the only Judge.

Kamlah also is aware that self - commitment is not the natural disposition of modern man, but a demand continually imposed upon him from without.

This attempts to make the soul - spirit distinction piggy - back upon the «real» distinction of essence and existence; to maintain not only man's essential transcendence from the creator but the existential possibility of him becoming one with God.

I believe he did this not merely because of man's short - or long - term effect upon others, but because of his destiny in the dimension which follows what we call «death.»

They are not unimportant, as some have said, for they are part of the evidence we possess as to the impression which Jesus made upon men.

Would not such a man be double - minded if you saw him in his dreams, when in sleep he has cast off the yoke of fear, when all is as he would really have it be, and he is as he really is, as he would be upon waking if fear did not exist?

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.

For example, a wife often wants a masculine, dominant man upon whom she can lean, but who will not interfere with her own domineering behavior.

It's here, in the sermon's second half, that we find what Dominican chronicler Miguel Ángel Medina called Montesino's «arch-iconic» declaration of universal human equality, those rhetorical questions heaped upon the colonists (and all future oppressors): «Are they not men?