Sentences with phrase «old enemies in»

That water stress has been a major factor in the turmoil tearing apart the Middle East, but Bar - Zeev believes that Israel's solutions can help its parched neighbors, too — and in the process, bring together old enemies in common cause.

He has promised dramatic changes to the state's pension system and its formula for funding schools, over the objections of his old enemies in organized labor.

The secret quite obviously lies in religious faith, but, in particular, in the deep - rooted conviction that God had triumphed over all his foes at the beginning and that each succeeding year but witnesses his renewed victory over the same old enemy in his myriad Hydra - headed form.

Rockett sipped some beer reflectively, as if recalling his old enemy in silent respect.

A classic tie at Old Trafford gives a chance for Arsenal to end a terrible run against an old enemy in Manchester United.

Their enthusiasm stems from an inescapable truth: now the old enemy in the shape of the Soviet Union has collapsed, nuclear weapons designers and those employed on projects for the Strategic Defense Initiative are facing redundancy unless they can find a new adversary on which to focus.

And so, soon after going toe to toe with an old enemy in the form of Gray Fox, who has since become a cybernetic ninja after his introduction in Outer Heaven (sound familiar?)

Not exact matches

For me, I'm just one soul that has to be willing to sacrifice something in order to liberate from this thousand year old enemy.

While in the past online and offline retailers tended to be mortal enemies, in China the rapid growth of e-commerce and mobile shopping is encouraging tie - ups like the Alibaba - Suning deal as Internet companies teamed with old - school retailers try to leverage each others» strengths to introduce new, mobile - tech - enabled products and services.

In context the theme is the same yet those older cultures could not have understood love your enemy or slave.

Hey, in the old days it was considered very okay to wipe out an enemy.

How can a God who says «Love your enemies» (Matthew 5:44) be the same God who instructs His people in the Old Testament to kill their enemies?

For Christians, then, to recover and understand the meaning of the command to have «no other god,» it is necessary first to recognize that the victory of the Church in history was not only incomplete, but indeed set free a force that the old sacral order had at least been able to contain; and it is against this more formless and invincible enemy that we take up the standard of the commandment today.

The same God who teaches us to love our enemies in both the Old and New Testaments also commands the death penalty in both the Old and New Testaments.

In sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» togetheIn sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» togethein drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» together.

The insider - outsider premise that undergirds Canaanite slaughter (and the killing of many of Israel's enemies in the Old Testament — see # 3) is the very thing Jesus squashed: «My kingdom is not of this world.»

Anyone who sounds aggrieved or — in the case of Solnit's enemies — more high - minded and principled can always summon an avenging army of supporters from the vast population of Internet - dwellers unwilling to spend more than five seconds trying to understand the dispute at hand, but endlessly willing to get a quick hit of that old self - congratulation.

Kaylee if you have asked Christ into your life then the holy spirit -LCB- he is the spirit of Christ -RCB- dwells within you it is him that changes us all we have to do is tell him that we are weak in whatever area we struggle.You mention alcohol when tempted to drink just tell him Lord i am weak but i am trusting in your strength to empower me and he will thats is how we change.If we try and do it in our strength we might succeed for a couple of times then fall back into our old patterns.Then it becomes forgive me Lord for my sin we feel guilt and condemned and that is the work of the enemy who is out to destroy our faith in God and because of our feelings we go and do the same things all over again.But we have a better way and that is to trust the one who is able to overcome having been set free from my old life style of sin i am grateful each day to be walking in his strength not mine.So the Lord has given you the victory in Christ and even if we stumble sometimes in the process we remember there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus God bless brentnz

Yes, in the old Testament there were specific battles where the Israelites were told by God to kill their enemies.

Just out of curiosity, how many times in the Bible both New and Old testaments did God himself tell the people to rise up and destroy an enemy?

When Jesus tells us to pray for our enemies, he hardly has in mind the sort of prayer for vengeance characteristic of some prayers in the Old Testament (2 Chron.

The 61 - year - old is the spiritual leader of the global Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, whose friendliness toward the West and whose criticism of other Muslims has earned the sect allies at the highest level of the U.S government, even as it faces mortal enemies in other parts of the world.

Scanning it, I notice that not in a single instance was a friendship killed; not in any case did an old friend and I part as enemies.

But the gloating over the enemy's fall is exactly like the gloating of the prophets in Old Testament taunt Songs.

If you check out the Old Testament usage in books that depict Israel as a nation in the land (i.e., not in Egypt, not in the wilderness or during the conquest of Canaan), you find that many of the references in various periods speak of the «enemy from the north.»

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Have you ever noticed that ALL of the characteristic «marks of the victim» are brought forward over and over again in the Old Testament as justification for the violence carried out against the enemies of Israel?

He is, again in principle (but also, in a measure, actually), released from his bondage to his old enemies; he is dead to sin and alive to righteousness.

God commanded Israel to go to war against their enemies many times in the Old Testament.

But that sort of «truth» is all over in the Old Testament as well as people went out in the name of God to slaughter those who they considered to be His enemies.

How is it that Jesus can tell us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, while God in the Old Testament tells Israel to kill their enemies, men, women, children, and animals, and leave none of them alive?

Further fall out from my decision to stop taking his abuse occurred as I was the music minister, and, if any of you've had experience in the church music ministry you may agree with me that the enemy — that old serpent — is heavily involved in wrecking havoc via the music ministry.

Significantly, in both the Old and the New Testaments the central objects of man's love are the poor, the dispossessed, the stranger, the widow, the orphan and eventually the enemy.

How is it that Jesus can tell us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, while God in the Old Testament tells Israel to kill their enemies?

The general consensus among many nonbelievers seems to me to be that the violent God who sent Israel to slaughter their enemies in Old Testament times continued to send his people to slaughter all kinds of people in the millennia following, continuing right up to our time.

Here's an old commie byword I learnt in school back in east germany: «When your enemy praises you, you've done something wrong.»

This distinction appears again and again with regard to treatment of enemies, family relations, slavery, debt, and even to the selling of diseased meat.11 The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk large in all the codes recorded in the Old Testament.

The increasing humaneness and inwardness of moral life under the influence of the great prophets and Jesus is illustrated in the changing ideas about forgiveness of enemies: In the older strata of documents, retaliation was distinctly taught as the proper principle of legal procedure — «Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.&raquin the changing ideas about forgiveness of enemies: In the older strata of documents, retaliation was distinctly taught as the proper principle of legal procedure — «Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.&raquIn the older strata of documents, retaliation was distinctly taught as the proper principle of legal procedure — «Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.»

In the 1520s, Duke George of Albertine Saxony had commissioned Luther's old enemy, «the Goat» Emser, to produce a competing translation of the New Testament, acceptable to Catholics.

For instance, the early Church did teach love of enemies in a way that reflects direct dependence upon the Old Testament rather than upon Jesus (cf. Romans 12:20 - 21, quoting Proverbs 25:21).

I suppose it is a new upsurge of that famous Western rationalism, old enemy of reasonableness, always so right at the time, always so shocking in retrospect.

But I still really struggle with parts of the Bible — particularly the genocidal conquests of the Old Testament (which seem so contrary to Christ's instructions to love our enemies) and what appears to be blatant misogyny in the letters of Paul.

Though the use of «enemy» in the Old Testament often did refer to a nation - state enemy of Israel, Jesus» exhortation was never meant to refer to a public enemy — like another nation's military force — that would let me off the hook.

Scotland, whose religion, laws, customs, and traditions have always been more European than English, and which spent most of the Middle Ages allying with France against the old English enemy, did not join in.

The Tablet (an old enemy of Fr Finigan) naturally supported the CES in all this, noting in shocked tones that «The Catholic Education Service... is being denounced from the Catholic Right for having any truck at all with Mr Balls» proposals, with or without his concessions to faith schools.»

You've expressed your root question as «How can a God who says «Love your enemies» (Matthew 5:44) be the same God who instructs His people in the Old Testament to kill their enemies?»

Even in an age of airtight plastic containers and refrigerated transportation, food manufacturers still struggle against the age - old enemies of freshness — moisture and oxygen being chief among them.

«Your» team fought their arses off against the old enemy and kept a toehold in the race.

As another old enemy, Michael Owen, said about the match in his Premier League betting preview: «Tony Pulis has lost only one of his last six Premier League home games with Arsenal and I expect to see his side bounce back after a couple of disappointing performances in recent weeks,»

With such a need to find a change in fortune, there are certain managers and teams that Wenger would prefer to avoid at times like these, but he has drawn the short straw by being allocated an away match against his old enemy Tony Pulis at West Brom, and Le Prof certainly won't be relishing this game.