Offerings of food and drink by the relatives appeased
the spirits of the dead in this dark and gloomy realm.
Not exact matches
Located
in Manhattan's historic financial district, The
Dead Rabbit is a classic Irish pub that embodies the
spirit of Old New York.
Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that
in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your
dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed
in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the
spirit of freedom
of religion
in what it advocates.
Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is
dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith
of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident
of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not
in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
in faith: Our hearts are far from the life
of Words
of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am
of Christ; how was that???
In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
In and by the Holy
Spirit, even
Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words
of the Lord to have us established
in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
in the truth: The Word
of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times
in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher
of our faith, to them who believe:
In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compare
In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.
Let me just ask one question: Can we PLEASE start the debate
in the country about how «God», «Hell», «Heaven», «Satan», «Muhammad», «Jesus», «Angels» «Ghosts» «Demons» and «
Spirits of the
Dead and or / Nature / Mother Earth» do not exist
in any rational form as the way they are presented throughout world history?
Baptism
of the
Dead does not mean that the
Dead wil accept it
in the
Spirit World..
Romans 8:11 If the
Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells
in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his
Spirit who dwells
in you.
The timing
of what you post today goes with the section talking about «he will come again to judge the living and the
dead» which is where I would guess that there'd be that change
in the axis on your theory from things understood
of Jesus to things understood
of the Holy
Spirit.
In fact, methinks, instead
of maintaining an openness to the
Spirit, it tends to enshrine the opinions
of men — particularly
dead, white ones.
2.9 - 11); he is made «Lord and Christ» as the inauguration
of eschatological existence at Pentecost (Acts 2.36);
in this sense he is «appointed Son
of God according to the
Spirit of holiness by the resurrection
of the
dead» (Rom.
But Sir, God never intended to cause pain to people.Our
spirits were
dead after we sinned (became self loving) because we were designed to exist
in the love
of christ.
The Fourth Gospel attributes to Jesus the words, «Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born
of water and the
Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom
of God»; (John 3:5) the Epistle to Titus says the same thing
in other language — «He saved us, through the washing
of regeneration and renewing
of the Holy
Spirit»; (Titus 3:5) and
in the Shepherd
of Hermas, which
in some
of the earliest canons was included
in the New Testament, the baptismal water is called «the seal
of the Son
of God» into which they descend «
dead,» and out
of which they come «alive.»
Or was it only an event
in the lives
of the disciples — a change
in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their
dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was
dead he must still be revered
in their memory as their Lord whose
spirit could still be recreated
in themselves
in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim
of following
in his footsteps?
Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but
in the scriptures when a person
in the old testament touched a leper or a
dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the
dead they came to life that is the power
of the holy
spirit and that power is
in all
of us who believe by faith
in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered
in Christ.brentnz
Indeed, it is You who is Knower
of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son
of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure
Spirit and you spoke to the people
in the cradle and
in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form
of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the
dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children
of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
As for death... we are already
dead (
in our sins) unless we receive the Holy
Spirit, are born again to the new life
in Christ and follow Him by the leading
of the holy
Spirit that dwells
in our heart.
Gazing into the depths
of the immense complex
of which he is a part, whose roots extend far below him to be lost
in the obscurity
of the past, he again fortifies his
spirit with the contemplation and the feeling
of a universal, stubborn movement depicted
in the successive layers
of dead matter and the present spread
of the living.
As the Church celebrates the Resurrection for fifty days, the Church also ponders the first evangelization: the primitive Christian community,
in the power
of the
Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history - shattering news that Jesus
of Nazareth, having been raised from the
dead, has been constituted Lord and Savior for the forgiveness
of sins.
«But if the
Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells
in you, He who raised Christ from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His
Spirit who dwells
in you.
If that man chooses to do any
of the works
of a regenerate believer
in Jesus, he can — from his
dead spirit and from his natural soul, ultimately from a source
of fleshly self - pride.
O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms
of their patriot
dead; help us to drown the thunder
of the guns with the shrieks
of their wounded, writhing
in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane
of fire; help us to wring the hearts
of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended
in the wastes
of their desolated land
in rags and hunger and thirst, sports
of the sun flames
in summer and the icy winds
of winter, broken
in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge
of the grave and denied it --
Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy
Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind
in the cradle as
in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape
of clay as it were the likeness
of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the
dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children
of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those
of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe
in Me and
in My messenger, they said: We believe.
At the season
of the Bon dance
in mid-July — when, according to Buddhist belief, the
spirits of the
dead return to visit the living — Watanabe honors his father according to Buddhist custom by placing fruits before his picture, symbolically to nourish his soul.
The congregation may burst forth
in exuberant
spirit (Acts 2) or they may drop
dead of fear (Acts 5).
«God is
dead» are words that may only truly be spoken by the Christian, not by the religious Christian who is bound to an eternal and unmoving Word, but by the radical Christian who speaks
in response to an Incarnate Word that empties itself
of Spirit so as to appear and exist as flesh.
In Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira are struck
dead for the sin
of lying to the Holy
Spirit.
«Paradise» is a Persian word, and it reminds us that
in Jewish thought was emerging — along with the older idea that the
spirits of the
dead would dwell
in Sheol until the final resurrection and judgment — this newer idea that the righteous went immediately to their reward after death.
Prayer for First Sunday
of Advent: «Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works
of darkness, and put on the armor
of light, now
in the time
of this mortal life
in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us
in great humility; that
in the last day, when he shall come again
in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the
dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Just as
in so much
of Paul's language the Jesus who was raised from the
dead must be understood
in terms
of spirit, so also this remains the most satisfactory, if not indeed the only, category
in which to understand the nature
of the risen Christ.
Whatever one thinks
of cockfighting, the suggestion is that a
spirit is alive and well
in Oklahoma that is largely
dead in other parts
of the country that are inclined to look down on the likes
of Representative Martin Odom
of Hitchita who says a ban on cockfighting could lead to outlawing «the rifle for hunting, the hook for fishing, the rope for rodeo calves, and the spurs on cowboys.»
Rauschenbusch wrote that on the eve
of the Twentieth Century's birth, it is left to us to imagine what the
Spirit of the Twentieth Century will testify
in the gathering
of the
Spirits of the
dead centuries when this one comes to a close, and what searing questions will be asked
in response.
What could have inspired these men to willingly die as martyrs preaching peace and forgiveness from God through Jesus Christ and preaching the invitation from Jesus Christ to call God «Our Father
in Heaven» by means
of the Holy
Spirit among us other than the historical reality
of the Resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the
dead — proof that Jesus is both God and Man?
In Rauschenbusch's report, the Spirits of the dead centuries sit in silence for a while, «with troubled eyes.&raqu
In Rauschenbusch's report, the
Spirits of the
dead centuries sit
in silence for a while, «with troubled eyes.&raqu
in silence for a while, «with troubled eyes.»
In a dramatic demonstration that the kingdom
of heaven meant the defeat
of the powers
of evil and death, Jesus raised the
dead, cleansed lepers, and cast out evil
spirits.
Yet paradoxically the post-conciliar reforms were sometimes implemented
in a
spirit of philistine dismissal
of «tradition» as nothing more than the
dead hand
of the past.
And yet, I think that if one
of the apostles were present at such a baptism, they would tilt their head quizzically and say, «I know I've been
dead for almost 2000 years, so please forgive my ignorance... But why are you baptizing someone
in the name
of the Father, and
of the Son, and
of the Holy
Spirit?
The idea
of a temporary state
of waiting is all the more repugnant to those who would like fuller information about this «sleep»
of the
dead who, though stripped
of their fleshly bodies, are still deprived
of their resurrection bodies although
in possession
of the Holy
Spirit.
«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible
spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered
in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth
in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the
dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades
of incest... am I getting this?»
Sick, creepy, and absolutely no different than Thugs that drank the blood
of the fallen for their Prana, or cannibals
in Borneo consuming the
spirits of their enemies by eating the
dead.
Therefore something is indeed changed for the
dead, for those who really die
in Christ, i.e.
in possession
of the Holy
Spirit.
In each case these holy people treated the bodies
of the
dead neither as a bother or embarrassment, nor an idol or Icon, nor just a shell, They treated the
dead like one
of our own, precious to the people who loved them, temples
of the Holy
Spirit, neighbors, family, fellow pilgrims.
Not all
of us are called to preach publicly, but all
of us are called on to play our part
in spreading the Gospel - the «Good News» that Jesus Christ is God with us, that he died to reconcile us to the Father, and that he is risen from the
dead and has poured out the Holy
Spirit on his chosen ones.
That Word or
Spirit most certainly is not
dead; and Altizer's «gospel» is precisely the reality
in human experience and
in the world - order
of that Word or
Spirit with whom men must reckon whether they wish to do so or not.
And if the
Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead is living
in you, he who raised Christ from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because
of [e] his
Spirit who lives
in you.
I have christian friends from other churchs and there women do these things and they do it because that is how they interpret the word.Its optional and not inforced by the church or by there husbands.They do it as an act
of worship to the Lord.The point is how you interpret the word that was what i was getting at as we know the word is the inspired word
of God to understand it we need the inspiration
of the holy
spirit otherwise the word is
dead and brings no life.
In the case
of mother etta she was called to preach and God used her as an evengelist
in her day her ministry grew she witnessed to thousands she healed the sick and saved the lost you can argue over a point but the proof is there that God uses women just as he uses men
in ministry today.
It is worth noting, however, that
in one passage the privilege
of being made alive again is apparently confined to those «that are Christ's»; (I Corinthians 15:22 - 23) that,
in another, attaining «unto the resurrection from the
dead «is represented as the prize
of high endeavor rather than as a universal fact; (Philippians 3:10 - 11) that,
in a third, an essential relationship is announced between the indwelling «
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus» and the possibility
of resurrection.
It is within the human
spirit that the voice
of Christ sounds and the
dead rise to a new life which is eternal; there,
in quality
of living, men pass «out
of death into life»; there, as the first Johannine Epistle puts it, «He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son
of God hath not the life.»
By the way Peter never identified himself as the rock... Explain to me these passages, Acts 4:8 - 11» then, Peter, filled with holy
spirit, said to them: «Rulers
of the people and older men, 9 if we are this day being examined, on the basis
of a good deed to an ailing man, as to by whom this man has been made well, 10 let it be known to all
of YOU and to all the people
of Israel, that
in the name
of Jesus Christ the Naz · a · rene», whom YOU impaled but whom God raised up from the
dead, by this one does this man stand here sound
in front
of YOU.
At the beginning
of Romans — the epistle
of justification by faith — Paul introduces himself as an apostle set apart for the gospel and explains the gospel as a message about God's Son, born
in the flesh as a descendant
of David and raised from the
dead by the power
of the
Spirit.
Any
of these names makes sense
in terms
of the church's emphasis on the «fire»
of God's presence and baptism
in the Holy
Spirit, a fire that is burning away the
dead underbrush
of cultural Catholicism; on the outward expression
of this personal experience, especially glossolalia; and on the inner work
of sanctification, which preachers describe as the process
of being conformed to Christ or Christ being formed within us.