Sentences with phrase «stories of those births in»

A second possibility is that Jesus was born in Nazareth, but the story of his birth in Bethlehem arose because of Bethlehem's significance in the Hebrew Bible.

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KCNA's top stories Saturday afternoon were — typically — a report about the anniversary of Kim Jong Il's birth being observed last month in Russia, Mongolia and Guinea, and another about Kim Jong Un's work being posted on an African website.

TIFF organizers told THR in a statement: «TIFF is proud to help bring Birth of a Nation and the important story it tells to audiences.

A version of this article appears in print on June 11, 2013, on Page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: Cryptic Overtures and a Clandestine Meeting Gave Birth to a Blockbuster Story.

No God wrote any bible as the bible is simply a book of compiled stories written by people and the bible was actually written 300 years after the birth of Jesus (if he was) and the reality is most American ministers, priest, etc could have never read the first bible since it was written in Greek and changed over, and over, and over again.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

The birth of Krishna who is Hercules in Greek mythology has the same birth story as Jesus.

Christmas is about the birth of a person called Jesus in a book of old stories.

GodPot The story of Abraham revealed one mans dedication and trust in God which resulted in the birth of a Nation which God promised to bring through to the promised land.

Some of us were not bathed from birth in a sea of bible stories or threatened with hellfire forever if we do nt believe or shamed into believing.

1 A virgin birth The Koran affirms that Jesus was born of the virgin Mary in Surah 19, which tells the story of Jesus» birth.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Even in Matthew and Luke, which begin with stories about his birth and identity, his baptism is the inception of the main narrative.

I had turned my son's birth story into an anecdote and in so doing, I had lessened the power of our experience.

Again, while many Christmas carols and stories seem to indicate that Joseph and Mary entered Bethlehem late at night while she is in the middle of birth pains, and he frantically knocks on doors seeking a place to stay, the text says nothing like this.

The Seminar reported its findings on the «Birth & Infancy Stories» in The Acts of Jesus (1998) and in a thematic issue of Forum (NS 2,1.

The New Testament birth stories appear to walk a fine line between the crass pagan versions, such as Plato's conception by Apollo, and the Hebrew accounts in which an infertile womb is somehow made fertile by divine decree, such as Sarah's conception of Isaac.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

It conveys the opposite of glorious birth accounts in mythology and fairy stories.

The Gospel story finds fulfillment and a new beginning in the birth, life, miracles, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

He was repeating the old story: the first birth of all peoples in God's image, stamped with reason and able to see each other as a neighbor, to be awakened in the second birth» in water and fire» of Christian charity that brooks no injustice.

The stories of his birth are found only in the first two chapters of Matthew and Luke, both written near the end of the first century.

In this companion article to God's Way of Acting by N. T. wright, the author thinks the birth stories of Jesus are metaphorically true, though not historically factual.

The story of Jesus» birth is not just about the past, but about the internal birth in us in the present.

Those of us expecting this familiar Christmas story are surprised when we hear Matthew begin abruptly with, «Now the birth of Jesus took place in this way.»

Perhaps, as we hear again the story of Jesus» unconventional birth, we may be open to God's salvation appearing in new and surprising places.

Perhaps in the story of Jesus» unconventional birth (born of Mary yet conceived by the Holy Spirit), we get our first inkling of miracle — that in Jesus God comes to all of us.

The story toes not begin with the birth of Jesus in the Bethlehem stable nor with his conception in the womb of Mary nine months earlier.

For example the birth of the three divinities, Amaterasu, or the sun goddess; Tsuki - yomi - no - Mikoto, the moon - god; and Susa - no - Wo - no Mikoto, the Impetuous Male was, in one of the stories, simply the result of an agreement between Izanagi and Izanami.

While the birth stories of Jesus say he was born in Bethlehem, later bits of the gospel have people talking about how he's from Nazareth.

In effect, a chrismon serves as a word picture, telling the story of Christ's birth with its decorations.

Like the story of the birth of Jesus where all the baby boys in Bethlehem were slaughtered?

Since I am working from a collection of Jesus» sayings, I have to abstain from the narrative part of his biography, the stories of his birth, healings, Holy Week, and Easter, for, as we will see, they are not in the Sayings Gospel Q at all, or at most, present in a very indirect way.

What our authors are saying through all this structure of imagery is that the obscure birth of a child to a carpenter's wife was, in view of all that came out of it, a decisive moment in history, when something genuinely new began, and the traffic of two worlds was initiated, to be traced by the discerning eye all through the story that was to follow.

Symbols and images of this kind cluster thickly in the scenes of the «Christmas story» which in Matthew and Luke is the prelude to their account of the public career of Jesus: visits of angels, prophetic dreams, the marvelous star in the east, the miraculous birth greeted with songs from the heavenly choir, all the appealing incidents so familiar in the appropriate setting of Christmas carol and nativity play.

While in its simplest version, the Christmas story is nothing short of spectacular, learning the details surrounding the birth of Christ has made me appreciate God's love for humanity that much more.

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

This was expressed in the story that angels sang at his birth of peace on earth (Luke 2:14).

Just as there are no birth stories in Mark, so also the author could have ended his Gospel with the passion narrative if he had so wished, particularly in view of the theological emphasis which runs through the Gospel.

Birth stories told by women who were active participants in giving birth often express a good deal of practical wisdom, inspiration, and information for other wBirth stories told by women who were active participants in giving birth often express a good deal of practical wisdom, inspiration, and information for other wbirth often express a good deal of practical wisdom, inspiration, and information for other women.

Positive stories shared by women who have had wonderful childbirth experiences are an irreplaceable way to transmit knowledge of a woman's true capacities in pregnancy and birth.»

I'll write about how the Apostle Paul himself never shied away from the metaphors of pregnancy and birth, finding rich parallels in our stories for life in Christ.

Most readers unobsessed with literalism find that these stories say very little about the mechanics of birth, but a great deal about the dimensions of faith in threatening circumstances.

It may also be noted in this connection that the story of Jesus» birth in Bethlehem which Luke adopts had apparently taken form before this belief emerged.

And to hundreds of millions the most radiant day of all the bright and dark days in the story of mankind is that which saw his birth — no wonder an earlier and more imaginative age made it a day of weird unearthly beauty, when a strange star hung low above the city of David and a multitude of angels broke with sudden glory the silence of the dawn.

The change is anticipated in the story of the star which announced his birth.

Now that so much data is available to make the unexplained less frightening... and that the historical record has shown that most church doctrine was made up and that even the Jesus birth story / son of god born of a woman etc etc has been recycled in numerous different religions for over 4000 years... preaching Faith in a fairy tale is a losing proposition.

Birth of a Nation tells the story of Nat Turner, a slave and Christian preacher who led a rebellion in 1831.

In the New Testament, the crucial reference to any kind of handicap is the Johannine story of the man blind from his birth:

Whether Jesus was miraculously born is a question the Bible does not clearly answer for us; for while there are beautiful stories of a virgin birth in both Matthew and Luke, (Matt.