Sentences with phrase «passages like»

[1] In a leaked draft of the final text of the G8 declaration the US is trying to delete text passages like «We are committed to taking strong and early action to tackle climate change in order to contribute our fair share to limit global warning to 2o C.

It is well for denialists * never * to risk reading scientific literature that includes passages like:

This isomorphism yields passages like:

Instead, most noticeable is the biting and crisp dialog, which is initially bracing and witty, but deteriorates into too much long - windedness and self - absorption as page after page gets soaked up by passages like this:

Passages like these debate between Fates and faith, reflecting the way science often converges on the spiritual.

In that capacity, his job was to keep the masses of oppressed African - Americans content with their miserable lot in life by reciting scriptural passages like «Submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cruel.»

In fact, First Reformed plays so much like old - school Schrader, you might confuse it for the work of a dutiful grad student: Once again, we get a tortured Travis Bickle voiceover (Hawke's Ernst Toller keeps a journal from which, in between hitting the sauce, he reads passages like «I know there is no hope»); here, too, is a troubled woman who needs saving (Amanda Seyfried, playing a character named Mary), and Toller's own memories of his soldier son, killed in Iraq.

I joined AIM in sixth grade and was quickly informed that «away messages» were the way to make girls flock to me, so I impressed with passages like «do not have a gf.»

There are so many passages like this throughout the Bible that we completely miss the point of because we do not study it in context.

She places the same level of authority in ancient traditions and the personal views of uninspired authors on passages like the Creation account as she does in scripture itself.

First, we can take people to passages like Titus 2:11 - 15 which shows us that when grace is truly understood, it teaches us to obey, not disobey.

It's quite a jolt to go from passages like these to the contemporary reality of disordered, competitive disciplines guided in their work and related to one another by no comprehensive vision of the truth or of the university.

As we discuss passages like these over the next few weeks, I think it's helpful to focus some attention on letting the Bible interpret us a bit.

[2] Passages like Psalm 110 were taken to refer to the Messiah.

Well, I preached this sermon about 11 years ago maybe... There is no explicit reference to it, and I don't recall what I was thinking, but I was probably thinking of passages like Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 5.

The rest of this post is going to question whether or not passages like Luke 17:20 - 24 and Mark 14:62 actually refer to Jesus» second coming.

understanding of passages like Luke 17:20 - 24 and Mark 14:62 is that they refer to Jesus» second coming.

Wright argues that passages like Mark 14:62 do not predict a future second coming of Jesus from heaven to earth, but rather, predict the coming of Jesus from earth to heaven.

It's passages like this that slap me across my religious, pastoral face.

It is likely that some of the first creeds are found in Scripture, in passages like Philippians 2:5 - 11, 1 Corinthians 15:3 - 6, and 1 Timothy 3:16.

The «Left Behind» fiction series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins borrows its title from passages like those in Luke 17 in which Jesus describes events of the end times.

This distinction helps us with passages like James 2.

We see this in passages like Amos 3:1 f., Hosea 11:1 - 9, Jeremiah 31:31 - 34, Isaiah 51:1 - 16.

In fact, in comparison with other passages like Philippians 3:13 - 14 which tells us to «forget what is behind» it seems to contradict.

if this verse really is about how John is going to bring families back together, and reinforce family values, how does this fit with passages like Micah 7:5 - 6, Luke 12:51 - 53, 14:25 - 27, and 18:29 which reveal that Jesus, in some sense, came to tear apart families?

Rare indeed in philosophical works are passages like the one in the City of God where Augustine marvels at how some people can wiggle their ears, others can perfectly mimic the voices of other men, and some can even «produce musical sounds from their behind»!

If we understand baptism as a «full identification» then passages like Romans 6:4 can have meaning and significance for all people in all cultures at all times; not just for the segment of the world that practices burial.

Mohammed's successors, the caliphs, quoted passages like these to inspire Muslim armies as they advanced out of Arabia, imposing Islam by the sword upon a peacefully unsuspecting Middle East and North Africa, as I described in the previous chapter.

Sounds like starting off with your own theology and supporting it with those passages you like, then effectively whiting out the other passages by saying they were deluded there and were making false statements.

So passages like these in Ecclesiastes are not saying we can not believe; they are simply saying that our works are not good.

As for taking up your cross I'd much rather see Christians take up their crosses and be allies to the marginalized then use passages like that to beat people into submitting to a teaching that is self evidently damaging.

They often point to passages like 1 Timothy 4:1 that warns about how doctrines of demons will be taught in churches in the latter days.

According to passages like Isaiah 40:3 - 5, this prophet would be a voice calling in the desert, «Prepare the way of the Lord.»

Through the years, I would encounter New Testament passages like these over and over again, passages that seemed to play fast and loose with the original meaning of Old Testament texts.

But to accept Galileo's thesis, our 17th century forbearers would have had to reject 1600 years of traditional Christian interpretations of passages like Psalm 93:1, Ecclesiastes 1:5, and Joshua 10:12 - 14.

The reason that some people wonder if they can be blotted out of the book of life is because passages like Revelation 3:5 seem seem to indicate that this is a distinct possibility.

Calvinists often point to this text, and then make the comparison between it and passages like James 2:6 and Acts 16:19 which uses the same word for «dragging» or «compelling» people to go where they do not want to go.

Yeah, I can't agree with all of what you say, but I don't know what to do with Biblical passages like this.

I realized that one of the most important features of some of the Advent passages like those cited above is that they show us something about national sin, God's punishment, repentance and hope.

Scripture passages like Hebrews 6:4 - 6 & 10:26 along with 1 John 5:16 - 17 trouble me because I think that it's talking about me.

This is the basic logic, and some Christians occasionally find passages like Jeremiah 10:1 - 5 to support this view.

This is to davidnfran hay David you might have brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,

Such immersion in the biblical world and its language leads to much richer interpretation than either quoting proof texts or picking and choosing passages we like.

So we can look at passages like those mentioned in Genesis, ect.

Passages like James 4; 13 - 17, Proverbs 16:9, and Proverbs 19:21 all reveal that when it comes to control of what happens in our life, control is an illusion.

That this is God's armor is seen from passages like Isaiah 11:5 where we read that God has on a belt of righteousness and faithfulness.

So we can affirm the truth of passages like Psalm 143:2, that before God there is no one who is righteous, without having to add to this core biblical idea the unbiblical concept of total inability.

This lack of righteousness is all that passages like Psalm 143:2 are teaching.

However, the last lunar eclipse on 28 September 2015 should not be identified as the apocalyptic blood moon described in Scripture passages like Revelation 6:12 - 17.

The fact is, most of the defenses of American slavery were written by clergy who quoted Scripture generously and appealed to a «clear, plain, and common - sense reading» of biblical passages like Genesis 17:2, Deuteronomy 20:10 - 11, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2.