Sentences with phrase «rather than a flesh»

Beck sometimes depicts Adam as an otherworldly savior rather than a flesh - and - blood kid, and her syncretistic Mormon / New Age theology is eccentric, to say the least.

But, it is the Holy Spirit in us, walking by the spirit, rather than the flesh, as the flesh was shucked off.

And while Hannah's traumas are authentically dramatized, she's forced to endure so many indignities that, in total, she occasionally comes across as a symbolic vessel for an important message, rather than a flesh - and - blood human being.

Susannah Grant's by - the - numbers screenplay sees the characters as markers on a storyboard rather than flesh - and - blood humans.

Lili Elbe is a technical accomplishment rather than a flesh - and - blood person, a pure image, an artwork, emphatically a girl rather than a woman, who ends the film resembling nothing more than one of those fragile beauties who die of tuberculosis in 19th century novels.

They do a great job, of course, but they are more symbolic, archetypes, rather than fleshed out characters.

Possibly because they're made of pixels rather than flesh, but there's little that reality kings won't do for ratings.

Matheson often ignores the rules and opts for color rather than flesh hues to expand on form and shadow.

It's the rind you use with the preserved lemons rather than the flesh and they are super salty, giving a real zing to a dish.

Not exact matches

Rather than throwing all issues of spirituality out of the door at work, it would be beneficial to us all if we could freely flow and be connected in our jobs, not only on a mechanical, flesh - y level, but also on a spiritual level.

Ultimately, I'd rather be moving forward with the wrong messaging and getting the feedback I need to iterate it than standing still because I'm afraid my buyer persona isn't fleshed out enough to do anything.

Read Revelations and look this up * Spirit to be poured out on all flesh (Joel 2:28) * Universal apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 4) * The watering down of the gospel, teaching the doctrines of man rather than those of God.

TO me it shows the far further importance of eternity rather than the temporal flesh.

All have sinned; all are in bondage to sin till Christ frees us; all pursue the works of the flesh rather than the Spirit; evil behaviors come from within the heart rather than from the outside; good deeds are done more often to salve the conscience than please God.

Sarah Bessey makes me want to get to know Jesus all over again, but this time specifically through my womanly flesh, embodied as Christ self was embodied, engaging God with the glorious gift of BEING a woman rather than in spite of it.

Its instinctive tendency, therefore, is to become a religion of the Word alone rather than of the Word made flesh.

Only so is God able, through sharing our human flesh in the Incarnation, to impart eternal life to that flesh, rather than succumbing to our death and being extinguished by it.

This was an asceticism of a novel sort, worldly and systematic, looking forward to the time - and - profit calculus of industrial life rather than backward to the flesh - denying torments of the desert hermits.

I have admitted that this may only show that mind is different from flesh in degree, rather than in kind.

The factions, divisions, and lusts that were present in the community were further signs that some in Galatia were living according to the flesh rather than according to the Spirit.

As Paul writes elsewhere, the mind that is set on the flesh (rather than the Spirit) is hostile and antagonistic toward God (Rom 8:7).

Here's a thought: rather than following a group of men who play with little boys or believing in a religion which has you eating flesh and drinking blood every sabath or believing in a divine being that calls for you to stone disobedient children, why don't you simply think for yourself.

We see the hurt in the world and walk out Gods love in flesh and blood even though it hurts like hell... we live the life God gave us rather than the one the world offers us.

What do you think it means to have no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God due to regular practice of the works of the flesh rather than the works of God?

Confessional postmodernism, with its emphasis on images and narrative — which are more evocative and efficacious than concepts, touching deeper recesses of our psyches — fleshes out what tends to be rather abstract in the process - relational vision which, on the other hand, provides the former with a cosmological complement.

Right at the time when they were bemoaning the fact that God's Word had failed them, and they had been rejected by God, there was God's Word in the flesh standing right before them, showing them that rather than rejecting them, God himself had come to deliver them.

Most people would rather serve their flesh and so they construct intellectual hurdles to faith that allow them to serve one master (self) rather than another (God).

So isn't it correct to say that when I am controlled by my flesh rather than by the Spirit my faith is at that time inactive, inoperative?

Rather than discounting the authority and inspiration of Scripture, Smith provides better, more constructive and honest ways of reading it that put Christ at the center of our faith as the Word made flesh.

His desperation of mind and body were poured out: «It seems that that demon, which till now has beaten me with fists, has given up as if broken by your prayers)... instead another one has followed which will wear down my body... I would rather tolerate this torture of the flesh than that executioner of the spirit.»

These «Fathers» spoke of the specific activity of God in Jesus Christ as being indeed the fulfillment, completion, and adequate expression, vis - à - vis men, of the Eternal Word of God, but they did not regard salvation as available only through Jesus; even in the Fourth Gospel, it would seem to be the writer's intention to have the Word speak, rather than the historical Jesus in isolation from that Word «who was in the beginning with God», «by whom all things were made», «who was the light of every man», and who in Jesus Christ was decisively «made flesh and dwelt among us».

However, if this is to be more than a mere switch in poles, then both spirit and flesh must pass into one another and become some third thing (a synthesis or coincidence of the two that is a new identity rather than a tensive relation of the two in union and distinction, since Altizer appears to reject the latter idea of coincidence).

Along comes the New Covenant, the Law of Love (rather than the Law of the Flesh), and within the freedom established by these absolute boundaries, establishes the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, and the 7 Sacraments through which we become United to that Body of Christ, of which, one is Marriage.

This Word - flesh typology was at the heart of the controversy at the Council of Ephesus, wherein the orthodox Cyril of Alexandria insisted that Jesus was the Word made flesh, not the Word united to a human man — a subtle distinction, but one that places the emphasis on the complete assumption of human nature by the Word rather than the particular choice of a man by God.

The Word made flesh hangs from the cross as though God is saying «I would rather die than be in your sin accounting business anymore».

Rather than focusing our mind on things of the flesh, we are focusing our mind on the things of the Spirit, and especially the main truth of the Spirit - filled life, that God loves us and is on our side.

But rather than referring to same - sex relationships, the phrase «strange flesh» seems to refer to the attempts to rape angels instead of humans.

Right at the time when they were bemoaning that God's Word had failed, that they had been rejected by God, there was God's Word in the flesh standing right before them, showing them that rather than rejecting them, God himself had come to deliver them.

1 COR 6:19 To me relates to this issue of masturbation is that our bodies are not our own but were bought at a price therefore we honor God with our bodies.We submit our fleshly desires to him rather than gratify the lusts of the flesh he has given us marriage as the proper place to enjoy sexual desires they are natural and bring joy and fulfillment within marriage.

It is no exaggeration to say that, rather than values, they are «anti-values»; concretely, the three spirits of a godless world listed in the Bible: the concupiscence of the eyes, the concupiscence of the flesh, and the pride of life (cf 1 Jn 2:16).

(2) «Confessional postmodernism, with its emphasis on images and narrative, which are more evocative and efficacious than concepts, touching deeper recesses of our psyches, fleshes out what tends to be rather abstract in the process - relational vision which, on the other hand, provides the former with a cosmological complement» (90).

Though we celebrate the Word becoming flesh, modem Christians tend to emphasize verbal rather than physical expressions of faith and worship.

Self - righteousness, whether of the flesh or from God, and self - abnegation are both sides of the same self - centered coin and therefor signs that our spirituality is still dominated by narcissistic self - absorbtion rather than Christ - centered gratitude and joy.

Swearing is just a part of being real flesh and blood people rather than disembodied pure spirits.

You're definitely right on the pumpkin craze here and most people just throw them away after carving anyway, rather than baking with the flesh like they do stateside.

While seasoning, pay special attention to the thicker sections of the bird rather than the skinny ankles and wings, which crisp easily since there's not much flesh in their way.

Choose a crisp, flavorful cucumber with pale green (rather than watery white) flesh for optimal flavor.

According to Julia Child «Fish is done when the flesh has turned from translucent to opaque and, rather than feeling squashy to the touch like raw fish, it feels lightly springy.

[Maimonides says that circumcision is good because it decreases sexual pleasure for the man and the woman, so that they will keep their minds on God rather than the unclean flesh.]

He covers the historical background of Grey's period of 11 years as foreign secretary and the accusations of secret diplomacy, but fleshes out the details, particularly of his private life, affairs and preference to be in the country rather than Westminster.