Sentences with phrase «of earthly life»

But at the end of His earthly life He sent His disciples in His place.

I often tell clients to think of earthly life like an old - fashioned sea voyage.

In the name of earthly life, he wages a frontal attack on any metaphysics of being and against being's essential tool, reason.

You'll get all the proof you need one day, hopefully not the day after the end of your earthly life.

It appears then that for Paul at least belief in the preexistence of Christ was not the result of a progressive exaltation of the earthly life.

The genuine desire to transcend the limits of earthly life stands at the vital center of Christianity in general and the Episcopal Tradition in particular.

But this new goal, coming «to share in the divine nature», is not tacked on to the end of our earthly existence as an afterthought; rather, this new goal changes the whole trajectory of our earthly lives.

If St Paul's disciples lived in a constant eager yearning for the great day of the second coming of Christ it was because they looked to the Son of Man to give them a personal, tangible solution to the problems and the injustices of earthly life.

If Jesus adorned a wedding ceremony with his presence, he also adorned the celibate state by adhering personally to celibacy all the days of his earthly life.

They are promised that no circumstance of earthly life can defeat them in spirit and that the resources of God are always available for them.

But from the sufferer, if he shall in truth will the Good, it is demanded that he must be willing to suffer all for the Good, or, as was previously explained, for the expression is essentially the same (and therein lies precisely the equal participation of the Eternal in the differentiations of earthly life), he must be willing in his decision to be and to remain with the Good.

Nevertheless, as far as we are concerned, it receives its ultimate truth and fulfilment only when it is celebrated as that «communion» which takes place in the daily round of our earthly life.

Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be a part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more conformed to the life of the world to come.

The last words of His earthly life are «It is finished» (xix.

Mark takes with full seriousness the reality of the earthly life of Jesus, but for him this lowly man of suffering is of supernatural origin.

The most valuable texts are those which look for the «undiscovered country» and have no illusions about the contingency of earthly life and power.

The prosperity gospel — which declares that God's grace is manifest in gold faucets, private jets, and multimillion - dollar homes — has no answer for the countless agonies of earthly life.

I. Jesus, risen from the dead, still bears the marks of His earthly life.

For the medieval mind, perhaps, these images would not have been quite so jarring as they are to us today, for in the pre-modern era it was believed much more readily that the human being Jesus shared in the direct knowledge of the Father throughout the duration of his earthly life.

Therefore, To Say, «Of GOD (ALL Of CREATION), By God (Christ Jesus the King of His Brothers, and otherly Gods living inside of all Earthly Life Forms) and In Ending; I am but a lowly god as are all men of this world's Past and Now Age!

To acknowledge the reality of living systems, and especially the ultimate system which links all systems of earthly life, the word eco-sphere is now often preferred to the earlier word biosphere.

At the end of his earthly life Christ brought all this to a climax, and you can read about it in the 6th chapter of St. John's Gospel, where He explained just how He was the very Bread of Life.

The belief in the pre-existence of Jesus was not the end result of the supernaturalizing of the earthly life (never complete except in Docetism), but the beginning of it.

A common view of how adoptionism became incarnationism is that the moment of «adoption,» which was originally the resurrection, was, as the early communities reflected on the meaning of Jesus, moved forward into the historical life, and there pushed to an earlier and earlier point — from transfiguration, to baptism, to birth — until finally it was pushed out of the earthly life entirely and Jesus was conceived of as having been the Son of God before his birth.

The story of the suffering Son of God caught up into itself and transfigured every remembered word and event of the earthly life and in so doing conveyed, not less but more truly, the value and meaning which they had actually possessed for those who first witnessed them.

But there are those who, in the name of spirituality, reimage the gospel to make it fit a particular moral view of earthly living.

The resurrection must always be the logical outcome of the earthly life of Jesus, of his power over sin, disease, and death, and of his uniqueness.

«Christ for Luther was like a campfire projecting a circle of light against the vast dark of earthly life,» Marius states.

He is calm through being satisfied with the conditions of earthly life assigned to him, be they those of distinction or of poverty, and for the rest, he allows every earthly distinction to retain its power, and to pass for what it is and ought to be here in this life.

The close marriage of heaven and earth that Bynum describes meant that religion was as much a matter of earthly life as heavenly joy.

Again, since Jesus was unmarried and was executed while still a young man, we are provided with no divine exemplar for the good marriage, for the successful coping with the problems of middle age, or for the gracious acceptance of the closing phases of earthly life.

This does not mean that they are not true, but, rather, that if true, they are true in a different way from that in which the account of the earthly life and the affirmation of the resurrection are true.

According to this emerging viewpoint, in contrast to the Sadducees, Jesus is asserting that there is a life after death and, in contrast to the Pharisees, he is saying that it is not a carbon copy of earthly life.

Newman taught that to be a child of God in baptism means to become in a wonderful way, His members, the... sacramental signs, of the One Invisible Ever - Present Son of God, mystically reiterating in each of us all the acts of his earthly life, His birth, consecration, fasting, temptation, conflicts, victories, sufferings, agony, passion, death, resurrection and ascension.28

Doctrine is the timeless beam that skirts like steel girdles this mansion of our earthly life.