Sentences with phrase «of ancient prophets»

20 But unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant who had defiled themselves while in the flesh, his voice was not raised; 21 Neither did the rebellious who rejected the testimonies and the warnings of the ancient prophets behold his presence, nor look upon his face.

zip — If Christians believe in the Bible then they must not have a problem with polygamy since most of the ancient prophets had multiple wives.

In the light of this disclosure the hopes and aspirations of the ancient prophets took on a new significance.

There was widespread discussion as to who Jesus really was, and some said, «A prophet, like one of the prophets of old» or «one of the ancient prophets» who had risen from the dead (Mark 6:15; Luke 9:8).

One of the ancient prophets — the same, indeed, who spoke of the «king coming in gentleness» — also drew a picture of a good time to come when men of all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is here.

In terms reminiscent of the fervor of ancient prophets, the writer proclaimed that the current epidemic of venereal herpes was...

The cautionary voices warning us of these are the modern equivalent of the ancient prophets.

In terms reminiscent of the fervor of ancient prophets, the writer proclaimed that the current epidemic of venereal herpes was a direct punishment by God for people's disobedience of the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae.

There is Another Testament on earth today, called the Book of Mormon (like the books in the bible it is a collection of ancient prophets speaking about their day and prophesying about our day).

First of all, the nickname of the LDS Church is «Mormon,» derived from what Mormons believe to be the name of an ancient prophet.

Liberation theology looks to the words of Jesus in Luke 4 where he describes his call to ministry (echoing the words of the ancient prophet Isaiah) and at the ways that he included many of the outcast (women, Samaritans, tax collectors, etc.) in his ministry and parable.

Not exact matches

therefore belief and worship of a middle - eastern ancient prophet is not necessary to understand the universe.

Yet millions of Latter - day Saints, «faithful» Romney included, fervently believe the BoM to be what Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and eight generations of Mormon «prophets» since his day have said it was (is): a history of the ancient Americas spanning some 26 centuries.

she may have prayed to know if the Book of Mormon is really a book of scripture a record written by ancient Prophets just like the Bible was.

God also commanded Joseph Smith to translate a record of the ancient inhabitants of the Americas, written by prophets who believed and taught the Savior Jesus Christ established his church under his direction.

There are no precedents by which to discern its meaning, hence the readiness of some Christians to apply the ancient words of the prophets to events in our time.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

Dr. Gafney is the author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel, and the Peoples» Bible, which she co-edited, available through Fortress Press.

Listen to the prophets of old and connect their ancient poetry to the hopes and fears, injustice and grace of the present day.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

If the term «ecstasy» is applied at all to the giant figures in the succession from Amos to Second Isaiah, I would want to insist on Lindblom's distinction between ecstasy of the absorption type (involving loss of rational control) and that of the concentration type, and a very clear further distinction between the circumspective religion of the prophets and the more common ancient Eastern type of introspective, mystical piety.

8Aubrey R. Johnson, The Cultic Prophet in Ancient Israel (Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 1944), p. 60.

Historically, eschatological faith was born in the reform prophetic movement of the Old Testament prophets, at a time when the world of ancient Israel was crumbling.

Together with the opening line of the Letter to the Hebrews («In ancient times God spoke to man through prophets and in varied ways, but now he speaks through Christ, His Son...»), as well as many other biblical texts, this passage reveals to us a startling truth.

Even if we were certain of the original meaning of the root underlying the Hebrew noun we could hardly take this as conclusive evidence of the basic understanding of the Old Testament prophet in the middle centuries of the first millenium B.C. Rather, we will have to understand the sense of the term nabi» from the person of the prophet himself as he appears and functions in the community of ancient Israel.

Indeed, the modern mind misjudges the ancient situation when it centers attention on the prophets as the creators of the dominant attributes of Judaism.

In Jesus of Nazareth we find the true successor to the prophets of Israel, whose concern for the common man, and whose unconcern for the forms of ancient religion, He not only shared, but took to their logical conclusion.

That the worship of Yahweh was at times associated with this ancient abomination is clear from the indignant protests of the prophets.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

We have another heritage, however, springing from the great Hebrew prophets, coming to its fulfillment in Christ, gathering up the best of ancient Greece, a heritage of faith in God and man, of humaneness and goodwill.

I honestly don't care if Mitt Romney wears Mormon undergarments beneath his Gap skinny jeans, or if he believes that the stories of ancient American prophets were engraved on gold tablets and buried in upstate New York, or that Mormonism's founding prophet practiced polygamy (which was disavowed by the church in 1890).

Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.

Cause if yeshua was here today I believe he would follow the laws of Moses and the prophets and still do the holy days of ancient Israel.

Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.

Jesus did indeed stand in direct succession to the prophets of ancient Israel, whose message is preserved in the Old Testament.

The ancient prophet Elijah made a pilgrimage to the holy mountain of God and looked for God in the tornado, the earthquake and the fire.

This formidable ascetic, haunting the wilderness in his uncouth garments, revived the popular image of an inspired prophet, and like the ancient prophets he announced the impending judgment of God on a recreant people.

As the ancient prophets had pointed to a threat from Assyria or Babylon, so in the time of Jesus the Roman peril loomed.

Again, like the prophets and like Jesus, the early church preserves the ancient idea of Cod's antagonistic warfare against his own rebellious people and against all who are sinful.

The word spoken in ancient times by the prophets becomes fully the Word of God because it refers to the incarnate Word.

You might be surprised to find that there are actually more records related to this ancient prophets than most of the things you believe as history.

You have a strange way of expressing «love, value, and respect» for the Jewish prophets and the ancient Jewish people.

It is important to recognize that notwithstanding our easy castigation of certain ancient individuals as «false prophets,» the distinguishing mark of all three classes of religious leaders was, in the main, their high sincerity.

By this time there were tons of sects in Judaism because nobody understood the Law and the prophets properly because it was so confusing and written in ancient Hebrew that had probably been modified so many times that nobody knew what it said in the original anyway.

It was the kingship of Yahweh that had constituted Israel, and Israel would survive only as that imperium continued, overarching and overruling the power of human kings.1 So when the prophets said, «Thus says the LORD,» they were representing the ancient, original, final, and legitimate authority in Israel.

On the corporate dimension of prophecy in ancient Israel, see John S. Coalman, «The Social World of the Israelite Prophet — A Review Article,» Religious Studies Review 11/2, April 1985, 120 - 29.

In view of the fact that Israel pioneered a new road in the ancient world, abandoning the nature myths, and concerning herself with the events of her own history, it is not surprising that the myth of the «dying - and - rising god» found no place at all in the thinking of her prophets.

If we will trouble to listen, to bend an ear to this Sunday's readings, we hear from a prophet, a psalmist and the writer of an ancient epistle that no matter what befalls us, God is faithful, and God's promises are true.

What he presupposed was (a) the truth of the ancient revelation, (b) the final arrival of that stage in the accomplishment of the divine will which the prophets had predicted as coming to pass in «the latter days,» and (c) the validity of his own insight into and declaration of the divine purpose and commandment.

We hear from a prophet, a psalmist and the writer of an ancient epistle that no matter what befalls us, God is faithful, and God's promises are true.