Sentences with phrase «passions of the flesh»

The cross of Christ signifies not only the way of peace but the way to peace, for it is only as we grasp the meaning of the cross that we are enabled to die to the passions of the flesh and live and walk in the way of righteousness.

254) thought it absurd to maintain that the resurrection body would be involved in the passions of flesh and blood, and developed a view much closer to the Pauline teaching of the «spiritual body».

In their biblical heritage they are urged «to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul» (I Pet.

Virtually all attitudes about sexual and family ethics are related to the belief that the passions of the flesh are the source of sin.

Paul reminds the Ephesians that before the experience of transforming grace, both he and they lived among the disobedient, «gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature (epithumiais tais sarkos, «strong passions of the flesh») and following its desires and thoughts.»

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Not exact matches

Having the same passion and similar inclinations, the difference between Christians and non-christians: Christians expose the problems and fight against the flesh's improper desires and evil, and many of them overcome as a result and establish good laws.

In fact, those who understand it will see the event in its present context immediately following the first prediction of the passion and Peter's confession of that which never comes by observation of flesh and blood but only by revelation (16:17).

When we pledge our faithfulness to another on our wedding day, we're mocking the changeableness of life, saying that we trust in the covenant of marriage to transcend the weakness of our flesh, the fickleness of our passions, and the fragility of our egos.

In order to be reborn we must sacrifice our flesh with its passions and desires, ALL of them.

«They that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof» (Gal.

This is because the movement of the energy of passion is kenotic or sacrificial, both in origin and in goal: therefore an energy becoming actualized or incarnate in the flesh must be self - subdued in self - annihilation.

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.

It is a claim that God's grace is mediated through the material: in the incarnation, God became human flesh and dwelt among us; in the Passion, it was Christ's body that was crucified; in the Eucharist, Christ is truly present in the elements of bread and wine; as we partake of these elements, approaching the altar with our bodies, eating and drinking, we become the very body of Christ; and in the eschaton, it is this very materiality of creation that God will transform and glorify.

Appollonius continued to explain incarnation, the Word becoming flesh and the revelation of God through Jesus Christ and his passion, victory over sin and went on to say that,» He has taught us to rein in our anger, to direct our desires, to restrain our instincts, to dissipate our sorrows.

You hold the firmest convictions about Our Lord; believing him to be truly «of David's line in his manhood», yet Son of God by the divine will and power; truly born of a virgin; baptised by John «for his fulfilling of all righteousness»; and in the days of Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch truly pierced by nails in his human flesh (a fruit imparting life to us from his most blessed passion), so that by his resurrection he might set up a beacon for all time to call together his saints and believers, whether Jews or Gentiles, in the one bodyof his Church» (Smyrna I, 1 - 6).

I heard hundreds of personal stories of passion and crucifixion from people who had experienced in the flesh of their own families and communities the terror, torture, rape, and murder that accompanied attacks by U.S. - backed contras.

The flesh can not simply mean the body, since the works of the flesh include idolatry, enmity, jealousy, and the like — passions not obviously rooted in our biological makeup.

Many who found the holy blood and gore of Mel Gibson's Passion quite acceptable will find the all - too - human flesh and blood of Ball's cast of characters unacceptably disturbing in its aching, uncertain, struggling humanity, weeping and giggling at the awkward facts of life and death.

Yet he was notoriously reclusive, working at the Institute for Advanced Study in a darkened room, never attending other scientists» lectures, solitary, obsessed, half - mad, consumed from within by the fires of an intellectual passion so powerful that by the end of his life they seemed quite literally to have consumed his frail flesh entirely.

There are points at which Unbroken reminds us of Mel Gibson's unbridled display of the mortification of the flesh in The Passion of the Christ.

That those moments, and the film as a whole, register so strongly directly derives from the simple core of the lead trio, and how Advani and Johar not only draw them so distinctly and realistically, but also flesh out each one's unique relation to the others: the affectionate comfort between Naina and Rohit; the more impetuous passion between Naina and Aman; the «bromance» between Aman and Rohit; and the playful cameraderie when all three are together.

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly - fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

Shifting from teen emotions triggered by high - school bullying, sexual attraction, and musical passion to deeply disturbing revelations of a macabre fascination with putrefying flesh, Joey is crafted by reader Heyborne as a complex character whose naturally youthful voice taps a core of utterly audible horror.

Rather than mere depictions of the female form, the artist saw his paintings as energized marks of the «moment states of the flesh,» seeing in them a direct connection with his other great passion, judo.

Painting with a flesh - like treatment of forms, Cecily Brown explores the emotions associated with touch, pleasure, and passion.

«Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, knew from the outset, with a sublime compromise, how to fuse the entirety of their personality with the flesh of their subject sitting before them, how to animate it with their passion while it resembled others, to glorify their dreams or their sadness.