Sentences with phrase «only as a witness»

In turn, the People of God of the flesh stand surety for the People of God in the spirit, not only as witnesses to scriptural promise but as the living root of the Church.

Should the pope speak always and only as a witness expecting martyrdom?

Then faith could be understood not only as a witness to or participation in the reality of God but also as an actualization and realization of the life and movement of God.

Only as witness to God's intervention in history could the myth or symbol be the good news that eschatological existence is possible within history.

8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

But he said he testified only as a witness.

Tony Blair was interviewed three times as Prime Minister, though only as a witness and not under caution.

It is closer to the movie «Forrest Gump» which inserts a fictional Everyman into the highest reaches of power, but only as a witness and not as an actor who might change events.

However, to the extent that the medical records are unclear as to the source of the statements contained therein, such statements may be utilized only as a witness» prior inconsistent statements if additional foundation testimony is presented on remand to establish that the witness was, in fact, the declarent of such statements.

SRLs should definitely be included in the database as persons willing to sit in a court room even if only as witness to what happens there.

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Caputo has only been interviewed by the House committee as a witness, meaning he is not suspected of committing any crimes.

But the key factor for von Holzhausen is that as Tesla rolls out its Model 3 sedan, attacking the mass market, he's witnessing the return on his risky decision to join CEO Elon Musk back when Tesla was selling only one car, the original Roadster.

Some argue what we're witnessing is «peak Apple,» and that it's only a matter of time before it's overtaken by a smaller, more nimble competitor — just as Apple overtook BlackBerry so many years ago.

The week witnessed a slump in the startup deal activity with only seven firms raising capital, down from as many as 20 that had...

As the report inter alia notes, while the 2017 run - up in BTC had all the hallmarks of a major bubble and big setbacks have to be expected, in many other ways we are witnessing an experiment that is only at its very beginning and will offer a great many opportunities.

Corn futures in the May contract were unchanged for the trading week reversing some of the sharp losses we witnessed earlier in the week as the Chinese tariffs sent corn prices at one time lower by $ 0.16 only to rally towards the closing bell.

The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power.

@sleepytime No I am not God, only a messenger, or a «witnesses» who likes to testify in behalf of him who is often painted as cruel and uncaring.

Obviously jesus didn't have the same historical recording devices as I do, however the only thing that we have to go off of that jesus existed was a book of eye - witness accounts designed by a council that specifically was formed to prove the validity of this specific individual.

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

EEOC is trying to make the case that while the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses would never accept employment as a gift wrapper continuously wrapping birthday and holiday gifts, their JW Client's personal religious beliefs allowed her to do so, thus the only legal issue is their client's personal religious belief against wearing the Santa Hat and Apron.

Not only did he have a really awesome name, he witnessed — as a journalist — first hand, Russian communism, World War II, and the liberalization of morality in Europe and America following that war.

«We receive all these books, and these only, as holy and confirmation of our faith; believing, without any doubt, all things contained in them, no so much because the church receives and approves them as such, but more especially because the Holy Ghost witnessed in our hearts that they are from God, whereof they carry the evidence in themselves.»

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

[Then we continue:] «Although you may not marry a wife without witnesses, or buy, or acquire property; although you neither receive an a-ss nor possess a beast of burden unwitnessed; and although you do possess both wives and property and as - ses and so on through witnesses, yet it is only your faith and your scriptures that you hold unsubstantiated by witnesses.

Only 37 % of all those who say they were raised as Jehovah's Witnesses still identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses.»

She was dying, there were only days left, and we were coming to bear witness, to sit the vigil, to tell stories, to hold each other as much as hold her.

«Troops fired shots to allow the singers to leave first as thousands of people were already pushing to leave through the stadium's only exit, which led to shoving and trampling,» said a witness.

The first is Caravaggio's «The Flagellation of the Christ» and shows a chilling and private event; we are the only witnesses to the three men, half hidden by darkness, who force the Lord against a pillar, grabbing His hair and kicking Him as they prepare to beat Him, the cruelty in their faces contrasting with His own quiet dignity.

Therefore it was also natural that the kerygma as we find it in the New Testament should not only be couched in biblical terms but also that these terms require for their proper understanding an awareness of the whole Old Testament witness and record.

Only as Bonhoeffer helps us to answer that question, Naudé insisted, does his theology remain of any use for the task of Christian witness and theology.

Thus, like Luke, Matthew embodies in a Resurrection story the conviction of the Church that the raising of Jesus from the dead, as the Lord of all men, meant that its task must be to witness to him and to preach him as Lord to all the nations, although, as Acts shows, the realization that the gospel was meant for all nations, and not only for the Jews, came gradually as a result of further revelation, and could not have been an instruction given at Easter.

It looks much more as though these texts caught the eye, and were regarded as prophetic, only because it was already known, on the testimony of witnesses of the Resurrection appearances, that Jesus was actually encountered as the living Lord on the third day after his death.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.

He has witnessed not only God's dreadful power but also His insight into men's souls, as well as His solicitude, honesty, justice, restraint, and providence.

Other branches, such as Seventh - day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and more exotic groups like (but not including) the now - infamous Branch Davidians, receive only passing attention, as do secular doomsday warnings of nuclear holocaust and environmental destruction.

Acts 10:40 - 42 also indicates that Jesus only appeared to believers, not to the general public or any impartial witnesses that could be cited as dependable due to they're being unbiased.

As in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claiAs in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claias witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claim.

Systematic theology aims to formulate not only critical but constructive proposals that comprehensively integrate both the ways in which probes of the fruitfulness, truth, and fittingness of the witness envision the «Christian thing» as a whole and the ways in which these probes discern particular instances of the «Christian thing.»

George Weigel calls for the Church to «discipline itself» into a narrow public witness addressing religious freedom and life issues only, what he sees as «the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

To declare as the sole and final truth a single - track, authoritarian body of belief is not only to commit before God the sin of self - righteousness but to weaken one's witness before men by an offensive dogmatism.

There is only one explanation for what I experienced, and Sheldon Clay can confirm that I was going on and on in the first place about all this, and then God involved 3 other people right beside me as beneficiaries and witnesses to a 3rd party leg of the revelation.

If you look at the resurrection there are only close associates as supposed «eye witnesses,» unless you count the highly supicious 500 people that Paul, at least I think it was Paul, talks about several years, if not decades later.

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

One of the most constructive emphases of the Amsterdam Conference was that it is the whole Church — not professional evangelists or even ministers only, but laymen as well — that is called to witness to the gospel and transmit it to others.

Only in this way can the church's witness to the wider society avoid being compromised and its life together as a fellowship be strengthened (cf. 1 Tim.

Not only must the voices of contemporary congregations be heeded as we train those discerning their vocation with the church, but we must listen to that «great cloud of witnesses» who call to us and challenge us from across the centuries.

It also declares that «several violent actions motivated by religious intolerance against non-Catholics have been committed» in Bolivia» giving as its only example a stoning incident from 1949 that was, according to «some witnesses» left unnamed in a local newspaper account, instigated by a Catholic priest.

As he explained it, «the only way for us to give witness is... to be what we are in the midst of banal, everyday realities.»