Sentences with phrase «of human kings»

But just as God provided a human king in part to show the failure of human kings, so also, God provide a human religion in part to show the failure of human religion.

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.

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The team has already engraved the quarter - size discs with full copies of the King James Bible, the Magna Carta, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

All of em, making King look like the perfect human.

Rev. 19:19: «I saw the wild beast [human political rulership as a whole] and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage the war with the one seated on the horse and with his army.»

The beautiful and dignified celebration of the liturgy remedies the dulling of Christian and human sensibilities, motivates Christian mission and service, and reminds us that the disciples of the Lord are ambassadors of the King of Glory, who bear witness that the present things are passing away in light of the radical reordering of history and the cosmos by the Paschal Mystery.

No one ever existed by the name of Jesus in human history, but hinduism, fabrication of hindu's, criminals of hinduism, racism to hind, fool humanity in to gentile ism, slavery of other human as their god, such as King's and their hindu criminal Prophets, criminal fortune tellers, profession of writers of book of hindu Mithraism, savior ism, called Bile.

Today, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues Robert King and a group of U.S. diplomats will leave for Pyongyang in an effort to secure the release of an...

King writes using basic human arch types of good vs evil which far predate Christianity.

Today, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues Robert King and a group of U.S. diplomats will leave for Pyongyang in an effort to secure the release of an imprisoned American missionary.

In his speech «The Future of Integration,» Martin Luther King Jr. said, «Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.»

I wonder if in 2000 years from now, King's books will be the cornerstone of human faith.

Indeed, Dr. David King, director of Human Genetics Alert, recently warned a Reuters reporter that CRISPR could «create this new form of consumer eugenics in which people choose the cosmetic characteristics and abilities of their children and enhance them to perform better than other people's children.»

Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of se - xual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.

In Jeremiah's time the people's understanding of kingship was tainted by human kings who had led them to the point of imminent destruction and deportation.

Shiaism hindu Mithra ism, savior ism invented little over 100 years after Sydana Mohammad pbh by tribes of Kujar of north Africa and imposition as Fatmid Khalaphit by force by denial of Hidth and Quran, justified by hindu Judaism, pagan secularism to impose hinduism, racism by hindu, fabricated relationship with Family of Syadana Mohammad pbh to justify existence of hindu criminal Kings, a violation of fundamental commandment, human equality under the LA.

The miracle lies in the fact that God shares the potential hopelessness of the human situation, but does so as king, as the source of our hope and life.

Even the noble king could perceive the difficulty of such a method, for he was not without insight into the human heart, and understood that the maiden was at bottom deceived; and no one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it, but is as if enchanted by a change in the outward habiliments of his existence.

These men and women have fought for the abolition of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (Mother Teresa), created places of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).

I understand the Dogma aspect of it is observable evidence for something is king however, that in no way shape or form changes that various activity that Atheists preform which which reflect the human activity that people of faith preform.

It is no coincidence that most religious traditions turn to personal and public human relationships to serve as metaphors and models of the relationship between God and the world: God as father, mother, lover, friend, king, lord, governor.

The upshot of this doctrine, perhaps the most disturbing that the human mind can hold, is that king and commoner are equally subject to the moral law.

The Leprechaun King lives in Leprechaun Heaven, where he busies himself answering prayers, running the Universe and recording the lives of humans for their final judgment before him.

His statements about priest and king being bound to the land and the people ultimately point back toward a view that sees social and moral responsibility for the common welfare as stemming from a prior relational view of human persons.

The differences of opinion among Muslims as to whether or not God resembles human beings, and the opinion of some common people that God resembles a medieval absolute king, arise only from different patterns of education; they are not fundamental to Islam.

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Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of sexual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

We are reminded of the great warning words of Hosea that have echoed throughout human civilization: «they have set up kings, but without my consent, and appointed princes, but without my knowledge» (Hos.

If this means that a normal, sane, rational, loving human being would NOT accept any god that relishes babies being ripped out from their mothers» wombs, who orders his chosen guys to eat barley cake and dung sandwiches, who slaughters infants because their country's king is being a dick, and all the rest of the vile pornographic bloody primitive B.S. in the «Good Book,» but that nevertheless it's the «truth... welcome to it.

And finally human existence, too, is emptied of any intrinsic divinity — while at the same time all human beings, from the greatest to the least, and not just pharaohs, kings and heroes, are granted a divine likeness and mediation.

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

-- King Lear For much of human history death was associated at least as much with infancy and youth as with old age.

Burke's Tory counterpart Dr. Johnson shared an undeniably Lutheran view of human expectations when he rhymed: «How small, of all that human hearts endure, / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.»

No reference to God is necessary to account for the magnificence of «King Lear» — Plato's account of divine inspiration does not speak to our age, not only because nothing in our experience resonates to the vibration set up by Plato's account, but also because our experience finds the Platonic account demeaning, destructive of a sense of both human responsibility and the openendedness of human achievement.

It's not just life / human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot of beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side as well... and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?

As Martin Luther King, Jr. aptly said, «There are no gradations in the image of God... God made us to live together as brothers (and sisters) and to respect the dignity and worth of every human.»

The idea is that God, the eternal King of the Universe, intervenes in human «affairs to set up a certain enduring relation of a unique character between Himself and those men who will accept His terms.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

Did you know the Middle East is where mathematical calculations, algebra, geometry, etc. started??? Did you know it was an ancient Iranian who discovered alcohol??? Did you know that the earliest known Bill of Human Rights was written by King Cyrus, ruler of the Persian Empire?

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Thereafter it is the created matter of each day that comes bursting into existence shouting its praise until finally, after the animals, it is the turn of the humans, the kings and the commoners.

This belief in the ability of the human body to be filled with the divine is one reason that we revere the mortal remains of saints, and find them to be miracle - working (as with Elisha's bones, 2 Kings 13:21).

Scripture's primary means of describing God's self revelation is through that of human relationships, and nost of these descriptions are obviously patriarchal: Father, Master, Lord, King.

I've read that the whole idea of hierarchy in the Bible was man - made and used by human kings (think Henry VIII) to justify their despotism.

And so, just as God later provided a king to the people because they wanted a human king instead of God as their king, He also provided religion because they wanted a human priesthood and physical tabernacle instead of a daily, intimate, direct relationship with God.

For the one who was destined as King of Creation from the first poising of matter can not be ultimately frustrated by human sin.

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

The latter conception, presented in a speech before King Agrippa, may be no more than an abbreviation of the former; or Luke may intend to show that Christ's work can be described either in relation to human intermediaries or apart from them.