Sentences with phrase «own body of flesh»

If a spirit is a being without a body (See Luke 24:39), why do Mormons teach that God the Father has a body of flesh and bones?

Further to this belief is that these three are resurrected beings that have bodies of flesh and bone.

21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Because it was a material being who died on the cross, rose from the tomb, and ascended into heaven with spirit and body inseparably united, Latter - day Saints have no difficulty believing also that «the Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit.»

But we do believe in the eternal significance of the condescension of God, the glorious Incarnation, the singular moment in time when the God of the ancients came to earth to take upon him a body of flesh and bones.

And yet the new form of existence, the «spiritual body» (that is, a body made for life on a different plane of existence, life with the risen Christ), is not entirely unrelated to the body of flesh and blood.

Such an interpretation, too, would seem inconsistent both with those narratives which speak of a material body of flesh and bones being seen by the disciples and also with the insistence of later Christian preaching (e.g. in Luke's speeches in Acts) that the flesh of Jesus was raised without having seen corruption (in fulfillment of Psalm 16:10).

Paul is quite clear that the body of flesh and blood no more emerges from the grave than the seed itself comes up out of the ground.

For it is demonstrable that our bodies of flesh and blood will be dissolved, and that in whatever mode of existence we may be raised from death it will not be by either the resuscitation of this mortal body or its transformation — unless, indeed, we follow the speculations of some of the Fathers concerning the reassembling, by God, of the dispersed molecules of the flesh, which I am not inclined to do.

They believe God the Father has a «body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's.»

«Gentiles and Jews, he has made the two one, and in his own body of flesh and blood has broken down the enmity which stood like a dividing wall between them (Eph.

Mormonism teaches that God the Father has a body of flesh and bones (D. & C. 130:22) and that Jesus is a creation.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

For it is demonstrable that our bodies of flesh and blood will be dissolved, and that in whatever mode of existence we may be raised from death it will not be by either the resuscitation of this mortal body or its transformation.»

It is by atoning sacrifice of God's Son, who took upon himself the body of flesh, to become one of us, that HE may become the sacrifice for our sins, and that whoever takes refuge in Him, will not stand before God in his / her own righteousness, but in Christ Righteousness.

We believe that Jesus rose from the dead with a physical body and that he still has that body of flesh and bones today.

To learn from others, apes need to see actual fellow apes: Imitation requires identification with a body of flesh and blood.

and in Him you were also circumcised, with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with Him in baptism, and raised up with Him through faith.

The garments are stretched and worn to capture and extend the body of flesh, resulting as an organic, ephemeral sculpture that manifests its own space of duration.

However, Isaacs» sculpture exists beyond the mere effect of visual provocation; it subtly refers to Rembrandt and Soutine's paintings of flayed ox carcasses that inspired Bacon and those alike, alluding to the fragility and pain of a being that exists within this body of flesh.

Another issue is thinking about how contemporary galleries and arts institutions can become more accessible to diasporic bodies of flesh and praxis — and is there a way to sympathetically re-imagine these sanctified temples of modernity?

Not exact matches

If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

notice that if the soul was not part of the flesh, and emotions and feeling were a part of it and not the body, they would not be affected by drugs or brain injury, but we know that they are.

Our flesh bodies, which causes sin, are only used while we go through this test of life on earth.

Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

Many rabbis interpret fasting as a sacrificial offering to God, of the flesh of one's own body.

Metropolitan Theoleptos writes, «The vanquishing of the flesh secures the victory of the soul and the reasonable distress of the body can bring forth an outpouring of joy for the spirit.»

But the flesh is also made to be controlled and ruled by the soul, and the fallen intellect has now imposed its own conflicting «law» of self - adoration and lust within the body.

At the word of God the scattered bones come together and clothe themselves with flesh and skin, and at the blast of a great wind (which is the breath, or spirit, of God) the dead bodies come alive, «an exceeding great army».

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.»

I also think that we've been given the Holy Spirit through Jesus and the fruits of the Spirit taste like paradise to me and I am satisfied to eat His flesh and Drink His blood to be one with His body... which seems to be both Spirit and flesh as He reunites the dead and the living.

«My SPIRIT shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh:...» God's SPIRIT departs at death of the body, He departs with the soul.

To eat Christ's flesh, incorporating it into yours (or yours into his, as some see it), involves a physical intimacy through which you participate directly in the Incarnation and anticipate the promised resurrection of your body from the grave.

When he used «flesh» as the seat of sin he was not, after the Hellenistic fashion, thinking of the material body as essentially evil.

I think the «temple» of our bodies is so important to God, because He is not only desirous of dwelling with and in us in Oneness in Spirit, but in flesh and Body as well.

It involves the body of Christ in people, in gestures of charity, in priests, rites, vessels and vestments and the very «making flesh» of the body of Christ for us to consume.

How little they are confined to the events of the first Good Friday is amply illustrated by the words which a disciple of St. Paul puts into his master's mouth: «Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church» (Col. 1:24).

There is no doubt that they have always in the feast of Easter Night celebrated the real, and physical body of Our Lord: «feel my hands and my side, that it is Myself indeed, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see Me to have».

But we know, as they could not, that honouring the natural law of marriage can lead us, by grace, to the eternal banquet where all are made «one flesh» — one body, one spirit, in Christ.

It was the body which linked him with the animals; it was made of similar flesh and bone, and lived only for the limited period between birth and death, at which point the body fell into decay.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

From this perspective it would even be possible to understand Christendom's religious reversal of the movement of Spirit into flesh as a necessary consequence of the Incarnation, preparing the way for a more comprehensive historical realization of the death of God by its progressive banishment of the dead body of God to an ever more transcendent and inaccessible realm.

But if the body of the risen Christ could be handled, and if he truly ate food, then this is untrue; flesh and blood manifestly did possess the kingdom of God.

Thomas, who was absent, is told about this, but refuses to be convinced of the living presence of the Lord unless he can see and touch the wounds in the body of Christ's flesh.

If we ask what he means by «it», he can not precisely tell us; but he is evidently groping after the idea that «we», that is our personalities, will be re-made by God for a different mode of existence from that of the flesh - and - blood body, and yet that in some way we shall retain our identity and be the same personalities as those which now live in the mode of physical beings.

He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body.

True and when the bible speaks of death it also has more than one meaning, physical death of the body or the flesh and spiritual death.

but we will have new bodies... made of flesh... with no corruption

Rom 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.