Sentences with phrase «of angelic beings»

There was no mixing of angelic beings and humans in his blood line.

Many of the lectionary texts evoke images of angelic beings who surround God in the heavens (Isa.

The Gospel itself is our final standard for truth about God, not the sighting of the angelic beings or other astounding phenomena.

Not exact matches

Thomas Aquinas has been given some of the loftiest titles of any Christian thinker, including «the Angelic Doctor» and «a model of the right way to do... More

Thomas Aquinas has been given some of the loftiest titles of any Christian thinker, including «the Angelic Doctor» and «a model of the right way to do theology».

It even was the source of Lucifer being thrown down to earth after once being the greatest and most beautiful of all angelic creations.

One explanation for the flood is that the sons of God (as sinister angelic beings) had so polluted the human line that God had to make a clean start.

Though there were dozens of royal rulers and religious leaders within a few miles of Bethlehem, God chose to make the angelic proclamation to people without power, riches, and authority — to poor shepherds in the cold, dark, night.

And stop acting this nation of ours is so angelic.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

I got the impression that if Obama were suddenly surrounded by an angelic host during a press conference, and the voice of God declared, «He is not a Muslim,» some still would not believe it.

Genesis18: 1 word used is translated LORD, a Hebrew form of reference to God Exodus3: 4 «when the LORD... God called to him from within the bush...» Not an angel God Exodus33 reference you have already acknowledged as God Joshua 5: really needed a Bible student to know this one as Christ in angelic form.

Indeed, the angelic annunciation is not worded as a proposal but as an exercise of irresistible power: «The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.»

He was in a cave, praying, when he hears the angelic voice of Gabriel speaking to him, bearing him a revelation from God.

In the UK we think of hospitals as government business, as exemplified by the wonderful National Health Service that ensures each sick child is tucked into bed by an angelic nurse, as the opening ceremony for the London Olympics had it.

Jehovah Witnesses have their Jesus / Michael the archangel, the first angelic being created by God and of course Satan and his demons.

What I gleaned from these pages, in part, is that for Kierkegaard the roots of the comic lie in the inherent contradictoriness of human nature: soul and body, freedom and necessity, the angelic and the bestial, eternity and temporality, and so on.

They are stricken with amazement, as in most stories of angelic appearances.

The metaphysical questions are neither divine nor angelic, but human — because man himself stands at the frontier of matter and spirit.

Angelic visitations end up terrifying the people who are visited... this woman shows absolutely no evidence of that knee - quaking terror that Daniel, John, Abraham, and the rest felt.

The «angelic doctor» arrived just as Christian thinkers were choking on a large piece of conceptual roughage called «the twofold truth.»

It's like she's ashamed of her angelic value.

But still, aside from the hints here and there — maybe some of you know more than I, and if so, I would love to learn from you — to my knowledge, it is a Scriptural mystery what exactly we are teaching the angelic realm — what exactly the lesson is that God wants them to learn.

Had it come in 1954, the world would probably have been treated by Catholic philosophers and theologians to the predictable and now embarrassing explosions of praise for the towering, indeed the «perennial» achievement of the Angelic Doctor, the Common Master, the almost «once and for all» Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Since the temple courts were nearly always filled with people, this angelic rescue would take place in the sight of them all.

And if you consider that science and technology are mere reverse - engineering of angelic faculties employed in Creation, it's no wonder Jewish minds have been so integral in the respective arenas.

Moreover, I shall suggest that if we were to replace his outmoded embryology with what we now know, the Angelic Doctor himself would be more than likely to conclude that ensoulment took place at the moment of conception.

That the angelic spirits and the souls of the just know the very mind of God has not been subject to much academic disputation and debate.

Now there are a number of important footnotes to Aristotle, but I simply wish to draw attention to the point of culmination of the tradition, that period bridging the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that saw the production of the grand synthesis of the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, as well as its poetic embodiment in The Divine Comedy of Dante.

A Baptist Pastor once said to me that when he preached, prayed or sang he used to look up at the empty balcony in the church and see the angelic realms joining in with worship and that this helped him to overcome any issues of how few were there in body.

«We are in a terminal era, close to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, in which angelic forces are warring against demonic forces for the control of this planet that wandered away from the Lord,» writes the Rev. Carlos L. Ramirez in a sermonette in the Amarillo Globe - Times (April 9, 1984).

The reversibility of the evil decision of the first man is only to be explained by the fact that the integrity on the basis of which the first decision was made, was lost by the evil decision (as it would not have been by the good), because, in contrast to angelic integrity, it was an unmerited, preternatural gift.

Since he omitted all references to appearances of Jesus in Galilee, it was necessary for him to change the message of the angelic visitors (now increased to two) so that instead of instructing the women to direct the disciples to Galilee, they reminded them that Jesus, while in Galilee, had foretold that he would be crucified and rise on the third day.

God, always on the safe side, stationed one of his angels with a sword (because guns were not yet invented by men and for some curious reason angelic inventions seem to always lag one step behind human inventions) at the entrance of the garden to keep Adam and Eve and their little youngin's away.

Even his sexual esurience was not just brute impulse, but the darkly distorted image of an angelic liberty.

I'm absolutely convinced that nothing — nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable — absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us (Romans 8:39 MSG)

Children are literally taken into an angelic world by the story of the Nativity.

(311) «Christ is the centre of the angelic world.

It is very interesting that when St. Thomas Aquinas asks if God could have united the nature of an angel to himself, although in the end and on — I think — pretty weak grounds he rejects this argument, he speculates: «There are some who say an angelic nature could not have been assumed because angels not being generated or corrupted are from the moment of their creation perfect in their personality,» (ST III, q. 4, a. 2).

That order includes, or better, is founded upon the Incarnation of The Word as the source and life - principle of the angelic order, and of the life of our own order as Son of God and Son of Man.

Jesus» teaching is eschatological» in outlook, but it is not necessarily «apocalyptic»; that is, it did not take for granted the visions, dreams, chronological calculations and symbols, the vast array of angelic and other supernatural figures, or the mechanical and deterministic schemes of history which were characteristic of the apocalyptists.

This method can be used in a variety of forms — e.g., to enact and work through an unfinished, energy - wasting experience from the past or to enact a polarity in one's life — being devilish or angelic — to help one «own» and integrate both sides.

p. 269 «This angelic guardianship is something natural, something normal, as normal as the great powers of the physical cosmos.»

How (we are tempted to wonder) does an angelic intelligence see our lump of coal?

Abandoning the angelic marionettes who merely echo his thought as further extensions of his own being, God has elected to enter into dialogue with sinful, yet free, men.

And Daniel 10:13 should have been translated as «the guardian angel of Persia» or similarly, to indicate that it is an angelic being, as the reference to the archangel Michael makes clear.

And if we assert that the Word of God was born of God in a peculiar manner, different from ordinary generation, let this... be no extraordinary thing to you, who say that Mercury is the angelic word of God.

In making such arguments Paul was mindful of the law's divine origins (even if it had been given through angelic mediators, as per Gal.

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It was perhaps already in contact with speculations regarding the divine purpose in the creation of the world, the angelic powers, the figures of Adam, Death, Satan or Antichrist, the Heavenly Man, the coming salvation, the relation of spirit and flesh, soul and body — speculations which were at least tinged, no doubt, with Gnosticism.