He, the embodiment of the unique and final presence
of God among men, plumbs to its depths the distress of our human life.
It was in Jesus as known in the church, both before his death and afterwards, that the fresh activity
of God among men, which we call the revelation in Christ, first occurred.
Mohammed established a theocracy, the rule
of God among men.
Not exact matches
In his book, Angry White
Men, which came out in 2013 but seems even more relevant now, Kimmel surveys the growing rage among neo-Nazis, gamers, right wing talk radio hosts and men's rights activists who define their masculinity and manhood in terms of dominance and power and who believe in their «God - given right» to rule the wor
Men, which came out in 2013 but seems even more relevant now, Kimmel surveys the growing rage
among neo-Nazis, gamers, right wing talk radio hosts and
men's rights activists who define their masculinity and manhood in terms of dominance and power and who believe in their «God - given right» to rule the wor
men's rights activists who define their masculinity and manhood in terms
of dominance and power and who believe in their «
God - given right» to rule the world.
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.
Deuteronomy 17:2 - 5 Suppose a
man or woman
among you, in one
of your towns that the LORD your
God is giving you, has done evil in the sight
of the LORD your
God and has violated the covenant by serving other
gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any
of the forces
of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden.
He said: «You only had to have half an hours conversation with him to realise that he was a
man of passionate Christian belief and conviction and what is more he believed entirely in the incarnation, that
God comes
among us fully in the person
of Jesus, and he believed entirely in the resurrection.»
Deuteronomy 15:7 - 8 If there is
among you a poor
man of your brethren, within any
of the gates in your land which the Lord your
God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.
20 For the invisible things
of him since the creation
of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing
God, they glorified him not as
God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory
of the incorruptible
God for the likeness
of an image
of corruptible
man, and
of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore
God gave them up in the lusts
of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored
among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth
of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
At Psalms 139, the
man David was inspired to write that «your (
God's) eyes saw even the embryo (comprising 56 days)
of me, and in your book all its (the human body) parts were down in writing (our DNA), as regards the days when they were not formed (before becoming a fetus), and there was not yet one (complete organ)
among them.»
Indeed the only claim
of priority for
man in the disclosure
of universal Being I know
of that is as far - reaching as Heidegger's is the Augustinian treatment
of man as imago Dei, which explicitly holds that
among all created natures
mans is the most embracing and intimate reflection
of divine freedom and that all other natures must be referred to
God in the light
of that reflection.
In fact, his reference to «soft
men» (malakoi) in 1 Cor 6:9,
men who actively feminize themselves to attract male sex partners,
among those who will not inherit the kingdom
of God makes pretty clear where Paul stood on the question
of transgendering.
Or how was a
man named David, a simple shepherd at one time some 3,000 years ago, able to specify that we are formed by means
of a set
of detailed instruction within our DNA, that makes each
of us unique, saying: «Your (
God's) eyes saw even the embryo (up through 56 days after conception)
of me, and in your book (the instructions in DNA) all its parts were down in writing, as regards the days when they were formed and there was not yet one (organ)
among them»?
Through this revelation, therefore, the invisible
God out
of the abundance
of His love speaks to
men as friends and lives
among them, so that He may invite and take them into fellowship with Himself.
«But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted
man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all; the secrets
of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship
God, declaring that
God is certainly
among you.»
A
man is taken from
among the people
of God, transformed into a living icon
of Christ and given back to the people in this new relationship.
Have this mind
among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form
of God, did not count equality with
God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself taking the form
of a servant, being born in the likeness
of men.
The gospel is nothing other than the proclamation
of Jesus Christ himself, in the fullness
of his historic human life
among us, apprehended and declared as the definitive and focal operation
of God in the affairs
of men.
He is the one
of whom the apostle Paul wrote, «Have this mind
among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form
of God, did not count equality with
God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form
of a servant, being born in the likeness
of men.
The changing meanings
of holiness in the Bible are thus
among the most indicative signs
of progress, and obviously by the time the Isaiah
of the Exile wrote, some
men were praying in secret to the holy
God.
He is the Living Mind
of God coming into his own things and gathering it to himself in order to complete their communion with the Father and, because
of the Fall, also to buy back and restore his broken inheritance
among men.
In regard to the comparatively minor moralities
of life, there is a wide difference
among men, but the thief who rejects Christ and the honest
man who rejects Christ are alike condemned at the great point
of what they do with
God's Son, and this is the point that the Holy Spirit presses home.
The greatest expression
of Caritas as gift and relationship lies in the Eucharist, which is why the «holy communion»
of God with
men is realised most fully on earth
among those gathered around the altar for the Eucharist.
Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last Year's Islamic Open Letter «A Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch
of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like
God,
Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence
of the role
of religion in social life, the opposition
of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion
of common initiatives for peace»
A recurring theme throughout the book is Muhammad's own admission that he was not divine, but merely a prophet
of God and «a
man among men.»
It is typically from
among the rejected and despised things
of men that
God chooses to draw humble good.
Not all
of the people now calling for a new spirit
among men believe in a personal
God, or would counsel prayer in the Christian sense.
Christ came
among men with a simple ministry
of teaching whose main purpose was to confirm that the kinds
of ways in which
God had been understood in Natural religion, and the very language used to express those insights, were broadly right.
When in the course
of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume
among the powers
of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws
of Nature and
of Nature's
God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all
men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.
In view
of the central importance
of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens
man to
God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community
among men.
But only in Jesus
of Nazareth, «the Son
of God, the eternal divine Word made flesh and dwelling
among men,» do we see
God as he really is.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (
Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infid
Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all
men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infid
men, keep women, children as spoils
of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (
God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (
Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay
men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infid
men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws
of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins
of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers,
among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
(See Acts 14:17) Because
God has been doing this
among every people ever since the beginning
of mankind's existence on earth,
men have many times worshipped him without finding him through Christ.
Fulton Oursler has called it «The Greatest Story Ever Told» — this story
of the coming
of Jesus to live
among men the life
of God, to save
men from their sins and inner defeat, and to impart new life through faith.
Among his publications are: Keep in Step with the Spirit, Revell, 1984;
God's Words: Studies
of Key Bible Themes, InterVarsity Press 1981; Beyond the Battle for the Bible, Cornerstone Books, 1980; Knowing
Man, Cornerstone, 1979; I Want to Be a Christian, Tyndale House, 1977; Knowing
God, InterVarsity Press, 1973; Evangelism and the Sovereignty
of God, InterVarsity Press, 1961; «Fundamentalism» and the Word
of God: Some Evangelical Principles, Eerdmans, 1958.
If there is
among you a poor
man, one
of your brethren, in any
of your towns within your land which the Lord your
God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need....
In his famous book,
God and
Man at Yale (1951), William F. Buckley lamented the collapse
of Christian consciousness
among higher academics, and hoped conservatives could reverse the trend.
The time
of natural history — that is, the time between the creation and the consummation — is the time in which peace between
God and
man, between
man and his fellow
man, and
among animals, has been shattered.
Phillipians 2:5 - 11 — Have this mind
among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form
of God, did not count equality with
God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form
of a servant, being born in the likeness
of men.
Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws
of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications
among nations or even
among the nations
of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or
God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code
of understanding
among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not
of words
of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions
of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside
among the mixed culture and beliefs
of the nation or nations under one country flag...!
Then obey the law
of God; seek those affairs that make for law and order and peace and honor
among men.
The closest Niebuhr came to offering such a goal orientation was to suggest that the work
of the pastoral - director is «the increase
among men of the love
of God and Neighbor.»
In their classic study, reported in The Purpose
of the Church and Its Ministry, H. Richard Niebuhr and his collaborators concluded that «no substitute can be found for the definition
of the goal
of the Church as the increase
among men of the love
of God and neighbor.»
For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one
man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves
of our superfluities, for the supply
of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members
of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie
of the spirit in the bond
of peace, the Lord will be our
God and delight to dwell
among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more
of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.
Yet
God is the One who values and uses, because
God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and
God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination
of foolish
men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose
among relevant possibilities.
God is alive, and Christ is alive in
God, in whatever mode or manner is appropriate to
God's way
of remembering and treasuring the achievements wrought out in creation and
among men and women in their concrete existence.
* Correction
of a typo / mistatement: I meant to say «
God's activity
among men is ANYTHING but boring and predictable.»
How else can we believe in
God or speak
of the
gods, unless we conceive
of him or
of them as working and having their being in this world
among us
men in the same mode as
men speak and work?
These and other less central activities
of the ministry
of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care
of a church, the administration
of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose
of the Church, namely, the increase
among men of the love
of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.
Wee shall finde that the
God of IsraelI is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us: soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion of Moses, that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, De
God of IsraelI is
among us, when tenn
of us shall be able to resist a thousand
of our enemies, when hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that
men shall say
of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that
of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies
of all people are uppon us: soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our
god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion of Moses, that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, De
god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall shame the faces
of many
of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till wee be consumed out
of the good land whither wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion
of Moses, that faithfull servant
of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, Deut.