Sentences with phrase «of rain gods»

In its aftermath, Holland encounters a vibrant cast of characters — including Anton Ling, an enigmatic woman whose home is a place of refuge to desperate immigrants, and the riveting Preacher Jack Collins, a terrifying serial killer, who had seemingly died at the end of Rain Gods.

Ancient peoples practiced this ritual with a goat or sometimes with a human sacrifice to appease the volcano gods anger, or because of the rain god hadn't come etc..

Not exact matches

I can kind of see where you get this from — Matt 7 — God makes sun and rain go to both the unrighteous and righteous... I think it is an accurate view of the teachings we have been given (and it's humble).

We got rid of the Sun gods, the rain gods, the cult of Mithrias is gone, all the gods in Norse, Greek, Roman, Egyptian mythologies have been disavowed.

Yet in Genesis 2 we have this: ----------- — 5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

The rightly ordered joy of our senses in this world — the scent of spring, warm rain in the summer, the music of Mozart or Beethoven, the face of a beloved — is a foretaste of the glory God made for all of us to share, when we one day stand in his presence.

good job assh * le you couldve been praying for all the dying starving children of the world but instead you wasted god's effort on some rain.

If those in the rain forest were given the image of God they have opportunity if they have not the image of God they are a blank slate as to soul i.e. they do not have capacity to love

Noah appeared foolish as did Gods story of a flood in the days and place where there was no rain.

The same God that makes it rain on the righteous also makes it rain on the unrighteous (and the same for the sun shining)-- God is not a respecter of people that anyone should be treated better than the next.

Why do you suppose that there are so many gods of thunder or rain, birth or death?

I also read somewhere, Michener I think it was, that when we started learning agriculture, and the role of the sun and the rain, we created sun gods and rain gods to help us with the crops, and that was the beginning of religion.

«But we can debate the true reasons for God's wrath raining down upon the people of Sodom.»

So for example, if you were an early American Navajo indian you would have believed Tonenili was the god of rain.

What a reasonable and liberal religion we could have if Jesus had limited his remarks concerning the love of God to his lovely rain analogy.

He said they also felt the same way in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, until God rained down fire and brimstone and destroyed them as well.

We must seem very strange to Christians of the Third World, for example, in talking about love but then building economic dams so that we can control those rains God sends from heaven on the just and on the unjust.

Since God makes the sun to shine on the good and the bad, the rain to fall on the good and the bad, he is just and fair and lets the consequence of Adam's curse on mankind to take its natural course.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

But in the final analysis it can only mean «Save all those whom it is possible to save,» for the salvation of those who are finally impenitent is an intrinsic impossibility (just as it would be an intrinsic impossibility for God to send rain and withhold rain in the same place simultaneously).

and asked God to either take her talent away or show her how to enjoy it without the miserable weight of contradictory expectations that had rained down on her for as long as she could remember.

If there was a god and he cared so much about those starving, don't you think tthe alleged creator of the universe couldf make it rain and crops grow?

Is that the God of whom Jesus taught that he makes his rain to fall upon the just and the unjust, that he causes his sun to shine on the evil and on the good?

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you — The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.

God can tolerate the malice of a people up to a certain degree, and up to this degree he is ready to give the rain despite the misbehaviour of the people.

The words of Christ in Matthew make it plain that Christ knew that God loves His enemies, and even blesses them by sending them rain and sun even though they do not «deserve» His love and blessings.

Honestly man, the number of people I've seen attribute a well - timed rain shower or instead - of - ticket police warning to god's benevolent intervening is appalling.

However, I've come to realize that when the torrents of tragedy and despair rain down on me, I have a sort of «spiritual amnesia» and I forget that God promised me the exact opposite of a «happy go - lucky» life.

There is a verse that applies to all mankind, this is not about the harshness of an Eternal God, this is a reality all mankind must deal with no matter ones faith or non-faith: The Rain Falls on the Just and the Unjust... God did not cause cancer!

It's difficult to believe in Jesus the healer of the leper and cripples also believe in the God who rained fire on Sodom, and demanded adulterers to be stoned and disobedient children to be put to death.

But these same gods can also represent cosmic forces, and Zeus is the god of the sky and of weather, the one who causes thunder and rain.

Jewish teachers saw rain as one of God's ultimate acts of blessing.

He entered on the 17th day of the 2nd month (Gen 7:11) and left on the 27th day of the 2nd month of the following year (Gen 8:14) There were 40 days of rain, 150 days of drifting, 150 days of receding water, 4 weeks for the recon birds to find land, 10 days between coming ashore and getting God's OK to disembark.

Every drop of rain falls precisely where God intends it.

When I took questions, the first one was from a pastor in the back of the room who said, «Yes, Professor Fredriksen, but now that Saddam Hussein is raining nerve gas down on Israel, now that he's the power from the north raining fire from the sky on God's elect, isn't it clear that now is the time of the Second Coming?»

The Father sends His rain and sunshine down on the evil and the good, and simply goes on being God, giving Himself, however unthankful and churlish the recipients of His bounties show themselves to be.

Rain falls on all of us, whether we believe in God or not.

Sitting next to a soot - covered survivor on a bench who was screaming hysterically as bodies rained from the sky, a pastor's wife (who had just escaped from Tower One) takes her hand and quotes Romans 8: «Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.»

It is the providential care of God that sends the rains both on the godly and the ungodly making the seeds to germinate and grow and dew for the growth of the fruit.50 Unfriendly climatic conditions so common in the context of Palestine where rains were scanty and seasonal, each time there was a delay of rain, there was crop failure.

Rain, the fact that we are here is not evidence of a god.

Jesus» own vision of God is that God causes «the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous» (Matt.

If we who believe are correct, and one must accept Christ to be rewarded in eternity while those who reject Him will be punished for eternity ------- What if I'm a human being (creation of God) born into a primitive tribe that lives in the South American rain forest?

The land where you arc going over to take possession is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water from the rain of the heavens, a land which the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning to the end of the year (Deut.

One obstacle in his way was Mot, god of death, who caused the deaths in those times of drought when Baal failed to provide the rain.

The poem revolves round the struggle of Yam - Nahar (god of seas and rivers), Baal (god of rain) and Athtar (god of springs, wells, and perhaps irrigation channels) as they each lay claim to the vacant post of viceroy to the kindly old god of heaven called El.

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

G. R. Driver comments, «As thus interpreted, the poem depicts the introduction of the youthful Baal as a god of fertility into the Ugaritic pantheon and the establishment of his supremacy, under El's suzerainty, over all the other gods, exercising power over earth as god of rain; for rain is the ultimate source of the life - giving water which is essential to the whole of nature, however it may be distributed.»

«It will come to us like a shower, like spring rains that water the earth» is an affirmation which could equally well have been made about Baal, for he was the god of rain, and when he ascended from the underworld in the spring, rain accompanied his return.

In previous generations God has left the gentiles without revelation, only intimating his power by his gift of rain and of the seasons which produce food and consequent gladness for men (Acts 14:15 - 17).