Sentences with phrase «on fleshly»

This is essentially what Paul is saying in Romans 8:5 - 7 when he talks about the mind set on fleshly things.

Not exact matches

(Matt 23:37 - 39) The nation of fleshly Israel were murderers, as corrupt as any other nation on earth.

«Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self - abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind and not holding fast to the head, Christ, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.»

And the saddest thing about having to be on that «demigod» pedestal is that there are too many people in the pews who forcibly place you up there because it's easier to follow a fleshly person than it is to follow Jesus.

Your comments suggest that you dismiss anyone with a different take on at least this topic as just catering to their fleshly desires and not being sincere in their searching of scripture or their desire to honestly follow God.

Everyone could observe his fleshly form, but very few — only the elect — received the grace to recognize his divinity», (Commentary on Matthew).

Since the Greeks (as indeed most of the ancient world though often in vague and undefined ways) were accustomed to think of death in terms of the survival of an immaterial soul, the Jewish emphasis on the resurrection of the fleshly body seemed not only unnecessary, but unspiritual and even repellent.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

Two faiths — one fleshly, one spirit Two sights — one fleshly, one spirit Two Jerusalems — one earthly, one Heavenly Two baptisms — one earthly with water, one spriit by the Holy Spirit And on and on.

- correct ministry... teaching on how one overcomes their fleshly challenges!

If we set our mind on things of the flesh, even if we are setting our mind on not doing things of the flesh, we will face the constant struggle of falling into fleshly things, and will frequently stumble.

He goes on to explain that when believers live according to the flesh, we are carnally (or fleshly) minded, which leads to death.

If Christianity is based on the virgin birth of the son of God, who is in fact a miracle and the fleshly manifestation of god, and that actually never happened... then you tell me.

Gnostic teaching, with its emphasis on spirit and its condemnation of matter, came preaching either that it did not matter what a man does with his body, or that it was nothing less than a duty to give the fleshly nature its full sway.

On the lower grounds of the park, a new, stainless steel sculpture, Lick Your Throat and Cut Your Feet, 2017, a fragmented assemblage of body parts and abstracted, fleshly forms, emerges from a secluded location in the trees near Lake Austin.

But unlike those comparatively inviting works, Marden's early pictures have an almost fleshly density that offers the solitary viewer a stark choice: Exercise the patience and inward silence they recommend or move on.

The surfaces are predominantly painted black; projected on these dark backgrounds like fleshly X rays are translucent, ghostly - white figures, their heads always cropped by the canvases» top edges.

His images, with their emphasis on redemption through fleshly mortification, suggest sources in heroic epics and penitential religion, filtered through Sade and extreme sports.