Sentences with phrase «regard to the story of»

Even with regard to the story of Sodom and Gomorah what we know is that God is condemning se - xual immorality.

It is notable, too, in regard to the stories of the Pharaoh and of Ahab that the monarch's normal freedom is clearly implied.

343 has dug a massive hole for itself with regard to the story of the game and how to deal with it in Halo 6.

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From the CEO of a Texas - based shop who sent his regards to the selection committee via video from his yacht, to the mesmerizing story spun by a strategist from New York using nothing but a Sharpie and a pad of paper, there was never really any doubt about what these teams would be like to work with.

Based on dozens of interviews with insiders, the story covers Zuckerberg's slow, reluctant shift in attitude regarding the platform's status as a publisher — something Facebook refused to acknowledge until things started to go terribly wrong.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

«There is no more safe haven with regard to the federal government and marijuana, but it's also the beginning of the story and not the end,» said Kevin Sabet, president and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, who was among several anti-marijuana advocates who met with Sessions last month.

For example, at ProPublica, «that bastion of old - school journalism values,» reporters have to submit 5 possible tweets when they file stories, and editors have a meeting regarding social strategy for every story package.

Indeed, its precepts have come to be widely regarded as a model for «good governance» and for the brand of investor activism illustrated by the Allergan story.

PayPal (PYPL) shares are down 3 % after Bloomberg's story regarding Amazon's (AMZN) strategies to pass on discounts to retailers to increase adoption of Amazon Pay, the company's competing payments system.

The Wall Street Journal had a story on the front page of the «B» section Wednesday morning about banks getting some relief with regard to counting municipal bonds among their «liquid assets.»

Regarding complaints to human resources, Mr. Wilkins said: «We're not going to comment on individual cases, but cases are often more complicated than simply listening to one side of the story.»

Many people have expressed concerns regarding a recent media story about the dismissal of an associate from our Kemptville store as well as Walmart's commitment to supporting animal...

aims to bring home the debate regarding the perceived benefits of the Canadian government's support for an unregulated overseas mining sector by presenting first - hand the stories and voices of those affected by Canadian policies and investment.

I have read a lot of CNN stories they are always unbiased with regard to religion.

Biblical interpretation naturally absorbs a lot of ink; but «modern biblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radical stripe.

But then, of course, the seminary's opponents would use similar reasoning to suggest that the church's public teaching must regard the Jonah story as a straightforward historical account, and soon no distinction at all would be possible between what the Bible records and what it teaches, what is central to the faith and what is not.

Unlike Superman whose creation can actually be traced back to a couple of young Jewish men in 1938 for the purpose of providing a sellable fictional story line to Detective Comics, there is no such evidence in regards to religious belief; especially since in this case being that this is about a God who does not want to be made known but who would rather have us develop our faith.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

The stories of jesus can not be true in many regards... jesus would know better than to put if back onto the «non believers» he was trying to send a message to..

The author of this modest but rewarding volume sets out to examine these and four other stories that have taken the form of conventional wisdom regarding history, Christianity, and Western culture.

However by what you have stated in regards to what jesus apparently wanted / said, you are showing a tendency towards believing the bible (the main place to find stories of this creature).

We certainly have every reason to suspect he had a low regard for the set of third - tier artistic and literary talents that had emerged in 1830s - 1850s Paris, the prototype «bohemians» portrayed in Flaubert's A Sentimental Education and especially the Murger stories that later became adapted into the Puccini opera La Bohème, the set most like our indie - alternative rockers.

J. W. C. Wand, an Anglican theologian, wrote several decades ago that «it is actually possible to regard transfiguration as the fundamental idea in the Christian religion and as placing in a nutshell the whole story of the individual Christian life as well indeed as that of society as a whole.»

Personally I have never been that impressed with the stories of answered prayer in regards to getting a new car or whatever material thing it is they have been praying for.

Craig both seventh day and anglican are believers they are saved by faith in the death of Jesus Christ and they believe in the forgiveness of sins sactification and the resurection at Christs return.This is what i meant regarding theology one has to be careful otherwise you exclude groups of christians because some of there other theology may not be the same as ours.They still hold to the central truths of the bible but have differences ie like sabbaths or baptism but that does not mean they arent saved or are christians.What church denomination do you belong to if you mentioned jehovah witness or mormons that is a different story as they do nt believe that Jesus Christ is central to there faith they have relegated him to nothing more than a prophet so there is no salvation in those religions.brentnz

This may be difficult to reconcile with Wilson's statement that Lewis had already begun trying to write the first of the Narnia stories in 1939, but, in any case, he regards its psychological impact as crucial.

I hope that the foregoing criticisms of Hauerwas regarding his seeming adherence to a substantialist view of the self will be further clarified in the ensuing discussion of his understanding of the Christian story, the relationship between the church and the world, and the alternative process - relational view that is presented.

The story itself is nowadays usually regarded as fictitious, and one of its purposes was to explain the origin of the feast of Purim.

In many ways it constituted the prototype for the books of Christian martyrs, and Origen regarded the story of the seven brothers as a wonderful pattern for Christians to follow.

’41 Stories which originated as signs, or confessions of faith, now came to be regarded as historical testimonies.

During the long period when these narratives were regarded as historically accurate, based, as it was thought, on the memories of the apostles, all kinds of ingenious explanations were offered in an attempt to fit all the stories into one composite and complete picture.

I'd refer you to «Who Wrote the Bible» by Richard Elliott Friedman, a biblical scholar who is the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia regarding the authorship of the flood story in the Bible, specifically pages 53 to 60 in the «The Story of Noah — Twice&rastory in the Bible, specifically pages 53 to 60 in the «The Story of Noah — Twice&raStory of Noah — Twice».

By the time Luke was writing, the story of the empty tomb had come to be regarded as an established fact, and this is the reason why he felt free to describe the risen Jesus in clearly physical terms when he came to report a tradition that Jesus had appeared to the eleven in Jerusalem.

If there is a need regarding the reclamation of the story, it has much more to do with our reverence for and submission to the authority of Scripture than anything.

tried to show that we can trace in the Gospel according to Mark a connecting thread running through much of the narrative, which has some similarity to the brief summary of the story of Jesus in Acts x and xiii, and may be regarded as an expanded form of what we may call the historical section of the kerygma.

Concert in an Egg, in regards to Genesis 1:27, which was written by the Priestly Source, stating the first man and woman were created simultaneously, whereas the Genesis 2 creation story, written by the Yahwist, which is the older of the two creation stories, has Eve formed from Adam's rib, there are other early Jewish myths that provide an explanation, i.e., that Eve was not the first woman Yahweh provided for Adam.

The media has lost any semblance of balance, fairness, and reporting the news as they now look to create news, mostly «news» regarding negative stories about conservatives based on lies, rumor and innuendo, such as the alleged McCain affair that the NYTimes ran shortly before the election, or the obviously forged National Guard docs about Bush CBS ran shortly before he was re-elected.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

It is a story of what marriage is; the public forging of family to family out of the carnal longings of bride and bridegroom and also out of their regard, respect, and, ultimately, love for one another.

Whatever might be the case about gender differences in desire, there is — now returning to our story — no difference regarding consciousness of desire: it is virtually absent.

Phrygian to me i sense that you are struggling with issues in your mind that you cant reconcile and these issues are affecting what you believe in your heart and therefore your faith in God.I had something similar happen to me recently regarding the story of the demon possessed man at one point the demons begged Jesus to cast them into the pigs does that mean that Jesus was implicated with the work of satan.It cast my mind into doubt and then i began to question who God is.I prayed and sort the holy spirit for an answer the answer i got was that Gods character never changes he is always holy righteous and sovereign why else would satan ask for his permission.So the answer was that he allowed satans purpose to prevail so that we can see that satans intention is always to destroy it may well have been that the pigs were his anyway.As they were for the gentile nations who offered the pigs to their demon Gods.Just as satan can not change who he is the destroyer the thief the liar God can not change who he is when we realise that despite what we see going on in the world God is still the same yesterday today and forever.The time is coming when those that have hurt others will be judged for there wickedness as we serve a holy and just God.Just as it was in the times of Noah so it is with this this generation that as the wickedness reachs its zenith then the Lord will return to judge the nations.He is coming again and we need to be ready it is not a time to be caught sleeping.brentnz

Even many of today's Christians, who in other respects may be regarded as being very liberal in their outlook, have been inclined to rest their faith on the historical reliability of the resurrection narratives, as pointing to at least one incontestable miracle of a supernatural character, and they have been alarmed when the «Empty Tomb» stories came to be regarded as legendary.

The story ends with a vision of the all - merciful God, compassionate over Nineveh and calling his representative to a similar outreach of saving goodwill — «And Yahweh said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that can not discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?»

The Rich Man and Lazarus story backs up the futility of relying on the Law regarding Hades and Death, notably in the messages that there was a great (un-bridgable by the Law) gulf fixed which Jesus was yet to bridge and that the mention of Moses not being able to prevent both the rich man and his relatives being in the same predicament.

The formal character of the story conceals a crucial point with regard to naming.

It seems like Pixar has a saner and healthier viewpoint than other animators, and they turn out better stories all around (though Cars was a bit of a disappointment in that regard ¯ only in comparison to the terrific earlier stuff, that is).

not a spec of proof any of you «hypo - christians» have a leg to stand on regarding existence of «GOD» or anyone else from that book of ghost stories you use to keep from having to think on your own.