Sentences with phrase «people as cursed»

There are many many more passages in the Mormon scriptures that condemn dark skinned people as cursed.

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The pressure of the successor's curse can threaten to engulf a successor such as James, leading to what most people see as the stereotype of a family business successor — the entitled next generation member who lives a lavish lifestyle and squanders away the family wealth.

I don't often hear any of George Carlin's favorite words in church, but I sure as hell * do * hear a lot of cursing of people, often in the name of Christ — exactly the kind of cursing shown by the men on the left and right in your cartoon.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

The site promotes «the literal existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant divine curse on the creation, the worldwide cataclysmic deluge, and the origin of nations and languages at the tower of Babel.»

Commemorating its anniversary, Rabbi David Rosen, of the America Jewish Committee, recently said that Nostra Aetate «took us from a situation where the Jewish people were seen as cursed and rejected by God, and even in league with the devil, to a situation now where popes say it is impossible to be a true Christian and be an anti-Semite, and that the covenant between God and the Jewish people is an eternal covenant, never broken.»

When this sentiment is said out loud in groups of Christians, it's usually assumed to be: A) highly sarcastic (as people bemoan their romantic lives and their curse of this «gift» from God); B) highly ironic (as people are obsessively on the lookout for their future spouse);.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Believe it or not, while most people view death as a curse and a punishment from God, a proper understanding of death allows us to see it as a blessing and an act of kindness from God.

If we rightly understand this psychological relativity, we will not be so easily tempted to consider the atheistic possibility as something totally alien to us, as a curse which only drives and threatens other people.

The myth that gay and lesbian people are child molesters often goes unchallenged when spread from the pulpit, and in the 80s and 90s, many Christians refused to support efforts to curb the HIV / AIDS crisis as they believed it to be a «curse from God» that gay people deserved.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

Stranger than that was that he asked the people of Damascus to curse and hate Ali as a part of their daily prayers.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

But as usually happens in such situations, people started looking for someone to blame, and in this town, because the Jewish people were seen as «outsiders under the curse of God,» they became the scapegoats.

It seems that when people look at the passage relating to the aftermath of eating the forbidden fruit, that the assumption is that Adam and Eve were cursed by God as a punishment.

This is not to deny that the Afrikaners felt that they were God's Chosen People, nor to deny that they saw blacks as being a cursed race, based upon injunctions in the Bible.

While initially an influx of people into your church from another church seems like a blessing, it often turns into a curse, especially if they left in anger or as a result of a major disagreement with the pastor or elders of the previous church.

In a day when people hurl curses around all the time, maybe it is good to pass around blessings as well.

«God bless you» is a wishing clause, short form of «may God bless you» Because of God's grace and blessing, we could continue life as a believer on earth, Instead of saying «God curse you,» wish people «may God bless you» It's not a greeting words but words of bid farewell to any one we love.

Learn the history of the Jewish people, that is all the evidence you need, if you reject this evidence then you reject Life, you are living in Denial, you are lying to yourself stop bothering us faithful believers cause you will be cursed by the God of Israel, simple as that.

And so, in general, the imprecatory psalms heaped curses on the heads of all and sundry whom the psalmist regarded as enemies of his people --

I guess I have seen people «cursing» God / Jesus as well, for their — cancer, loss of job, bankruptcy, and all kinds of horrors and disasters.

One of the great curses of Christianity today is that people see it as «us versus them».

The language of the rebuke might have still contained elements of blessing for obedience, and cursing for disobedience, as these were consequences stated within the law (Deut 28), but it is doubtful that God would have accused the people of robbing Him in the same way that He was accusing the priests.

Austin and I are usually cursed with terrible service because it seems as though people feel like all they have to do is show up for work and get paid and not worry about anyone else.

A handful of chiles together with other condiments such as curry leaves and a little ash from the hearth is waved over a person's head to create a shield against curses and bad spells..

I've been here on this site for a few years and I saw so many people curse me, calling me names and whatever because I kept saying Wenger's the problem, and as much as I don't like sounding like a broken record, it's necessary.

There is no gain saying that Buhari and his followers are not only a curse and a terrible affliction on our nation but they are also a very real danger to our unity as a people.

But the leader of the GFP in denial of the story making rounds in the media said:» the person behind this mischief would be drowned for peddling such untruth about me; some people don't respect at all, hence the curses will serve as a deterrent to them,» Akua Donkor told a local Journalist in the Brong Ahafo region.

Many people in rural African communities still believe that disability is caused by supernatural forces, curses and as «punishment» for wrongdoings — according to University of East Anglia research.

The ugly truth was that we were bitterly cursing all of the people who had «wastefully» thrown their trash onto the ground, yet we were just as wasteful.

I won't go into detail on this one as we'd be here forever but a quick google search and you will be met with lots of information on the REAL doll which is currently encased away in an Occult Museum in Connecticut US, to prevent people from touching the doll and being cursed.

That's because most of the people think of age as amore of a blessing that comes in the form of a curse.

Good luck to him but your curse can hurt him if you forgiveness then that's still okay to me as a loving person.

After filling in for Orson Welles on reshoots for The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Wise became a director, and soon gained a reputation as a reliable studio hand with films such as The Curse of the Cat People (1944), The Body Snatcher (1945) and the seminal real - time boxing drama The Set - Up (1949).

The movie treats Thanos as an agent of pure chaos, like an Old Testament curse come to life, picking people up by their skulls, deconstructing them into three - dimensional puzzles with a wave of his hand, even rupturing the structural integrity of the universe.

Hi people it's 178 here.I'm just informing that Viscount attack «Served Rare» is quite incompleted as it does not show on wiki the chance to inflict Crimson Curse and I do not have Game Maker to check that myself.I think that Countess probably has the same thing.

And so it comes to pass in a picture in the mold of such horror franchises as «Final Destination» and «The Ring»: A group of young people falls prey to an occult curse that knocks them off one by one.

This is evident almost immediately, as the film tells its one joke (these medieval people talk like modern people and also they curse a lot) before it establishes anything else about the world it's proposing.

Two days into the Venice Film Festival, and still the only film I consistently hear people talking about is «Black Swan» — even as the film accrues its share of detractors, it seems Venice fest director Marco Müller has broken the traditional curse of festival curtain - raisers, kicking off this year's Lido activity with a film -LSB-...]

In Ghana, where Wife of the Gods is set, many people believe that spells, curses, witchcraft and the power of various gods can bring about misfortune - disease, suffering, and as in this story, murder.

Sure, there are darker elements such as the humans» struggle for survival after whatever curse or virus has been unleashed, turning all people who die into zombies, and the Gothic horror element of «debraining,» in which your close friends will remove your brain in the event of your death, just to keep you from becoming one of the undead.

The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.

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Although I didn't know it then, growing up in a small city of only 40,000 people, dreaming of world travel, it was a blessing as much as a curse, which has turned me into something of a beach snob.

In the present, as in the past, Dillion arms Senua with the tools to challenge those people and voices who try to silence and subjugate her by revealing the truth that she is not cursed, but ill and misunderstood.

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey Of The Cursed King may have been released way back in 2004, but it still holds a special place in many peoples hearts as an excellent RPG with a unique charm.

The signs that a Reaping will come have already manifested: people are being affected by searingly painful ulcers on the back of their necks, a curse which turns men into violent lunatics, and the appearance of a strange, murderous, masked race known as the Ense.