Sentences with phrase «of heathen»

But they were so honest that at daybreak it was discovered that one of the little canoes of the island was coming to the ship, and that one of the heathen was carrying in his hand the staff with the holy cross.

We are now faced with the painful realization that the iPad has not cleansed the world of the heathen eReaders.

I'm so tired of heathen tales — especially the ones posing as Christian fiction.

A great famine immediately followed these signs, and a little after that in the same year, on the eighth of June, the ravages of heathen men miserably destroyed God's church on Lindisfarne.»

** A non-pushover «nice» guy part - time intellectual with a healthy side of heathen.

In addition to well - preserved sections of the wall enclosing the Roman sanctuary, further parts of a Christian abbey, founded on the mountaintop after the end of the heathen cult, were excavated.

People were made aware of their responsibility as converted Christians for the conversion of the heathen.

Lev 25:44 [KJV] Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

The gods of the heathen are partly constructions of human fantasy, partly surmise of the true God, a wild combination of both.

5These twelve Yeshua sent and he commanded them and he said, «You shall not go by a road of the heathen and you shall not enter a city of the Samaritans.»

Regardless of whether or not the tree was a carved idol, or a tree decorated, the Word of the L - rd spoken by Jeremiah states, «Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them» (Jer 10:2 KJV).

Hoekendijk explains that in the New Testament, Oikumene stands for the communion of the heathen, the humankind destined to perish, which in utter self - confidence, stands opposed to the Gospel.

It had cast down the local high places, had centralized worship in Jerusalem, had eliminated the worst abominations of the heathen cults, and in the ethical realm had put in force the admirable law code of Deuteronomy.

The difference between the predictions of the Spirit and the oracles of the heathen is remarkable; the Spirit speaks expressly, but the oracles of the heathen were always doubtful and uncertain.

In reality such descriptions have only the negative significance that in the promised day all the misery of life, its poverty and sickness, will end; the foreign rule of the heathen will be over.

2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Of heathen oppressors it is said, «They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise.»

But among the people themselves, and especially in the strictly legalistic group, the Pharisees, there grew out of the Messianic hope a flaming activism, which itself undertook to end the rule of the heathen.

Because of the close connection between obedience and hope, one particular expectation especially filled many minds: the hope that God would destroy the rule of the heathen, that He would again make of Palestine a completely holy land in which only the law of their fathers would prevail.

Where I live and work, we have had to have special toilets constructed which are segregated from the rest of the heathen toilets.

A wife by the sheer radiant loveliness of her life must, without a word ever being spoken, be the means of her heathen husband's conversion (3:1, 2).

My common sense tells me that you had better repent of your heathen ways and offer a sacrifice to Zeus before he strikes you down with lightning.

But I wasn't so sure about some of my heathen friends.

the inability of heathen and infidels to present one intelligent argument to substantiate their bull is fascinating.

What kind of heathen heretic are you, anyway?

The baptism is not the ritual bath that was required of every heathen converted to Judaism, and of every Jew who had become unclean by contact with something heathen.

Why not do both What if, instead of practicing «apologetic evangelism» where we are always trying to defend the faith against the heresies of the heathen, we loved people and served people?

Would he really condemn some children to eternal suffering just for the accident of a heathen birth?

He will no longer say, as Augustine did, that they are certainly only the «specious vices of the heathen».

It was more like the ritual bath which converts to Judaism had to take before they could be admitted into the holy people, as a sign that they were purified from the «uncleanness» of heathen ways.

The persuasion that the gods of the heathen are idols (Ps.

The Judaism of that time, however, had no other arm than to save the tiny nation, the guardian of great ideals, from sinking into the broad sea of heathen culture and enable it, slowly and gradually, to realize the moral teaching of the Prophets In civil life and in the present world of the Jewish state and nation.

God should be protecting them and killing all of us heathen Liberals!

What kind of heathen doesn't recognize prayer when he hears it?

The gods of the heathen are not truly God.

We were even encouraged to give a lot of money to save the souls of the heathen.

I've known many rentboys back in my youth, which I spent stealing to «survive» aka live the life I wanted, in all of its heathen glory.

This is not gruesome: as Addis and Arnold wrote in relation to relics in their Catholic Dictionary, because of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body «Christians have lost that horror of dead bodies which was characteristic of the heathen».

Was this idea in Paul's mind when he implied that eating of the heathen feasts was a real «communion with demons,» and that in the same mystical sense the «cup of the Lord» and the «table of the Lord» conferred on Christians union with Christ?

Yehovah commanded the Israelites not to learn the ways of the heathen and apply false worship to him.

After all didn't God clearly say «learn not the way of the heathen and don't worship ME the way they worship their gods?»

Let her fight against heresies, expound the Catholic faith, trample on the rites of the heathen, strike down thy idols, O Rome, devote song to the martyrs, and praise the apostles.»

A truly Christian country would not have the problems of those heathen nations you listed.

According to the Odinist Fellowship website Odinism is an ancient «indigenous form of heathen religion» practises by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.

For you are a thankless, godless, amoral generation that has been raised by the philosophies of the heathen and I will challenge your philosophies till you hate me and my people.

They offer nothing to a society.time for a resurgence of heathen might.

«Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars.

I know that wearing my sacred underwear 24/7 and not drinking coffee nor beer makes me a better person and protect me of all you heathens.

What's even more sad and pathetic is that people continue to believe that the actions of these heathens is actually part of the religious faith that they falsely claim.

This claim of Christians aroused the anger of heathens and as a consequence of it they began to hate the Christians and persecute them.