Sentences with phrase «rests upon the person»

Not exact matches

God intimately chose His people, and this foreknowing is the foundation of His predestination, so if we were to translate the Biblical meaning of foreknowledge into Romans 8:29 it would read like this, «For those whom God intimately set His affection upon beforehand, He also predestined...» And this meaning is in sync with the rest of the Bible.

The cosmology of a people, its common sense, is thus foundational for it, the solid ground upon which its meanings, its presumptions about reality and its sense of purpose, rest.

Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.

And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar... [The rest he] threw upon the people, and said, «Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you...»... Then Moses and... the elders of Israel went up... they beheld God, and ate and drank.»

The facts only take a person so far, and the rest is left to conclusions which are based upon belief.

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

Some people are disturbed by the idea that Christian faith may rest only upon the testimony of certain individuals to have experienced a vision of Jesus after his death.

The merit of this would be to show that the basic helping function of ministry comes from and through the fellowship, with group attention resting, according to need, upon individual persons, under the pastor's chairmanship.

To «do unto others as you would have others do unto you» implies that people are all alike, and that one proceeds by projecting one's own preferences upon the rest of humanity, then treating everyone else as a replica of oneself.

The common faith of the church — even though it is expressed in terms of belief about the person — rests always, and only, upon the common memory of the event and the common experience of the Spirit.

We can not do otherwise: no man can fashion world - history or the history of peoples unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessings of this Providence.»

The logical necessity of mathematics rests upon the basic «laws of thought,» which define not how people actually do think, but how they ought to think, if the goal of universal understanding and agreement is to be achieved.

The moral obligation for the advancement of health thus rests upon the duty of becoming integral persons, with the human powers fully operating and cooperating in accord with their proper natures.

If you read his parable about the sheep and goats, it's easy to walk away with the impression that eternal life rests entirely upon whether or not a person cares for the poor.

Historic Christianity rests back ultimately not upon a teaching but upon a person, but teaching and person belong together and neither can be understood or even examined without the other.

Thus the obligation to take the Gospel to the world, and the obligation to draw all Christ's people together both rest upon Christ's work and are indissolubly connected.

If you read His parable about the sheep and the goats, it's easy to walk away with the impression that eternal life rests entirely upon whether or not a person cares for the poor.

Specifically, it rests upon the dignity of the human person.

And that righteousness was interpreted, in such great figures as Jeremiah, Hosea, and the two or three men whose oracles have been put together in the Old Testament book we call Isaiah, as resting back upon and expressing the divine chesed — the faithful loving - mercy of Jahweh not only for his own people but for all the peoples of the earth.

America, I don't plan to let you rest until you live it out that you believe what you have read in [people] to dwell upon the face of the earth.1

Some Atheist angles may be content to allow the rest of the world believe whatever it wants, but so long as those beliefs are hoisted upon others as a burden to bear, used to judge and separate people who are unlike others, and make absolutely no sense whatsoever... I personally will always crusade for the destruction of this plague.

This faith, which sees Jesus as revelation of God in action in history, rests upon the commitment of men to the life which the story unfolds, or rather, to the person of Jesus himself — grasped in the depths of each man s existence as being what Whitehead said it was: «the revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world».

They are, however, a fair summary of the truth upon which the existence of the church rests, the word the church has to speak that will not be spoken if the church does not speak it, the word that contemporary people, despite all of the attractions and distractions thrown up by contemporary culture, still long to hear.

Those of us who have had much to do with the sick and suffering know how common it is for people to tell us that they have drawn upon reserves outside themselves or rested their hopes and fears upon a serenity apparently quite independent of their own minds.

It's hard to think about anything other than the current political climate and all of the horror that is being inflicted upon people, from this ban to the struggle of so many other people in this country, but it's important to rest and stay focused and spend some time re-energizing yourself.

Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

Studies have shown that taking a dietary supplement containing 5 - HTP can help people feel more rested upon waking up and can give people an increased energy level during the following days.

The rest of the decision on whether or not you want to connect with a match is based upon looks, mutual Facebook friends, Bible verse, and — if the person gives you more information — the basic «about you» paragraph.

Every week thousands upon thousands of people are doing Internet searches for Russian girls and Russian women looking for that potential girl that will love them for the rest of their life.

If Secretary Duncan is irritated that so many people are now opposing the standards and the accompanying testing, he might want to learn that, in general, people do not like turning around and finding out that the entire basis upon which they thought their children's education rests has been changed without public discussion.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees... Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities.

I was the boy in the family and therefore, statistically, the person most likely to seize upon the computer culture, the child to wire the household, tune it into our century, keep the two systems, one for me, the other for the rest of the Shaws, up and running.

If you consider fragrance to be the perfect way to relax and have a proper rest after the hard working day, you can speak in your culture essay about the ceremony of perfuming the room with some herbals and flowers and its effect upon the people.

Whether it's making a soft knit blanket for a dog to rest upon, or a fun crochet toy for a cat to bat around their kennel, making these handmade items is a great way for people to enrich a shelter animal's stay.

The theory is that this spike was caused by bots and / or fake accounts downloading the game thousands upon thousands upon thousands of times, in order to elevate its store ranking to a point where people would see it (with the crowd and media then doing the rest of the work).

Given the far reaching implications of the decisions that will be reached through interpretation of this data, FOR EVERYONE IN THE WORLD, I fail to see how the financial interests of the people who collected it can outweigh the invested interest of the rest of the whole world, who's economical and climatological futures hinge upon it.

Also, some people believe science without question, because science has a solid foundation upon which it is built, the rest is idiot media sources perverting what science has to say to reach some end goals.

«In America, where the stability of courts and of all departments of government rests upon the approval of the people, it is peculiarly essential that the system for establishing and dispensing justice be developed to a high point of efficiency and so maintained that the public shall have absolute confidence in the integrity and impartiality of its administration,» the canon stated.

To say that we should value aspects of governance that promote the clarity and determinacy of rules for the sake of individual freedom, but not the opportunities for argumentation that a free and self - possessed individual is likely to demand, is to slice in half, to truncate, what the Rule of Law rests upon: respect for the freedom and dignity of each person as an active intelligence.

The National Prohibition Act, to the extent that its provisions rested upon the grant of authority to the Congress by the Eighteenth Amendment, immediately fell with the withdrawal by the people of the essential constitutional support.

I've been reading that in the US there's a thing where certain kinds of people leave fake bills with just a corner showing just the dollar amount and the rest hidden under a napkin or peeking out of the check holder, but upon closer inspection turns out to be not real money.

Contrast that to a whole life policy which is intended to be in force for the rest of a person's life, and whose investment value depends in part upon dividend rates paid by the company.

They rest upon the idea that each individual family member has a unique role and identity from the family, and people are best understood in the context of their family.

The rest of the population, the non-mercenary actors (non professional sales people) ideally will try to act out their entire lives in a manner worthy of self - respect for self - respect's sake... depending upon one's upbringing.

Upon that problem rests the improper designation of said «profession», being «sales person», whereas the proper definition should be «consultant».