Sentences with phrase «such as the prophets»

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

A pure theocracy, such as the prophets had envisioned and foretold, a state of affairs contemplated by Jesus himself and described in his prayer: «Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» — this was to take the place of «the present evil age.»

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And since a «prophet» is a term held to such high scrutiny, we have all this controversy as to her legitimacy.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

Joseph Smith was just a man like unto all other men who were called to be prophets throughout time such as Noah, Abraham or Moses.

No one ever existed by the name of Jesus in human history, but hinduism, fabrication of hindu's, criminals of hinduism, racism to hind, fool humanity in to gentile ism, slavery of other human as their god, such as King's and their hindu criminal Prophets, criminal fortune tellers, profession of writers of book of hindu Mithraism, savior ism, called Bile.

And also, if the OT prophets were so good, how is it that such a commonplace prophecy, like Jesus's entry to Jerusalem on donkey takes prophetic priority over such major events as the Last Supper or the Foot Washing scene, an event that at least one commentary listed as one of the most important symbolic gestures ever made by Jesus.

There is no such thing as prophets or predestiny.

At this time, I lean towards the «elder» in Paul's writings to be someone that we would call a fulltime pastor / evangelist / prophet / apostle; and further, assomeone recognized as such by outsiders / non-believers.

As he enumerated the tasks of faith, being an apostle came first; being a prophet came second, preceding such essential tasks as teaching and heelinAs he enumerated the tasks of faith, being an apostle came first; being a prophet came second, preceding such essential tasks as teaching and heelinas teaching and heeling.

In the New Testament, besides Jesus, only John the Baptist is praised as much as Mary, yet in spite of her scriptural credentials she has functioned less in my Protestant theology than has John — and certainly less than the Old Testament prophets and such remarkable Old Testament women as Miriam and Deborah.

Building tombs for the prophets could be a sincere repudiation of sins of previous generations, but Jesus does not recognize it as such in his contemporaries.

There will be false Christs and false prophets who will show such signs and wonders as might lead even the elect astray.

When the Prophet was dying, and knew that he would not be present to give such advice, he told the people that they would not go astray so long as they held to the two guides he was leaving for them — the Qur» an, the Book of God, and the example of his own way of life, the Sunnah.

Among the colleagues and disciples of Sir Sayyid one of the most outstanding was the historian Shibli, who wrote scholarly biographies of the Holy Prophet and of several other religious leaders such as the Caliph Umar, Abu Hanifah, and Ghazali, thus awakening the Muslims of India to a sense of their glorious past.

It is forbidden to eat donkeys; beasts with claws such as lions, tigers, wolves, and bears; birds with talons, such as hawks and falcons; animals which the Prophet ordered killed, such as snakes, mice, crows; creatures which the Prophet forbade killing, such as ants and bees; animals judged to be dirty, and animals which live on dirt.

But some of them say that it is by misinterpretation that we have represented the Prophets as saying such things, while others say that the Hebrews hated us and deceived us by writing in the name of the Prophets so that we might be lost.

Matthew's seventh and last woe, Luke's fifth (Mt 23:29 - 3 1; Lk 11:47 - 48), depicts the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees as building tombs and monuments for the prophets and righteous men killed by their fathers, and claiming that they would have had no part in such deeds.

When the question is asked as to whether or not the teachers of other religions, such as the Buddha or Confucius, were prophets, no clear answer can be given.

19:18 - 24 is authentic in suggesting Samuel's integral relationship to such a group, Samuel may have been known as a prophet in his own time.

In the Pauline churches official leaders such as apostles, prophets, and teachers were present, but in the act of gathered worship their role as leaders was muted by the Spirit's urging and prompting of contributions by every group member.

The original message of Jesus, as was the case with all other Prophets, such as Abraham, Moses and Muhammad (peace be upon all of them), was to call the people to worship the ONE TRUE GOD ONLY.

Jesus was attacked as the Seal Prophet was attacked by the pagan and the jews of Mecca for bringing that does not agree with the culture and customs they wanted to live with such as freeing slaves, forbidding the drinking of spirits and all that was mentioned and known about the people Mucca doing before any signs of Islam!

No prophet can claim to bring a final message unless he says things that will have a sound of reality in the ears of victims such as these.

The structure of faith as apprehended within the whole company of the prophets was hardly without its contradictions, but the projection in faith of a final consummation embracing all prophetism's high affirmations is variously and eloquently proclaimed, and such raptured extensions of prophetic faith represent the ultimate words of prophetism.

In desperation, the elders went to the prophet Samuel and asked for a king, such as other people had.

It would be natural to make distinctions between, for example, some men who responded to the prophets» message by taking such action as they could, such as the disciples of Isaiah, and those others who were indifferent and self - satisfied.

Such things might be included here as natural theology (the making of inferences about God from a study of the natural world); the teachings of other great religions — again, to the extent they are compatible; or even the Old Testament prophets, depending on how you view their relationship to Jesus.

By different beliefs such as catholic, protestant, mormons and the list goes on and NO, these are not Jews.Afterall, it is said it would take the end of the Age to go over the House of Israel, the dispered, the lost sheep of the House of Israel.In a parable of the husbandman the Lord finally sent His son after they killed the prophets sent unto them and the Jews knew he was talking of them.

We believe as the Epistle to the Ephesians says that the church is organized of apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists and so forth for just such occasions.

So even if you don't believe in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (whom Ahmadis believe to be the promissed Messiah) according to the prophecies of the Prophet (s.a.w) how can you not believe that the Muslim world has deteriorated to the point that now it is time for that foretold Messiah to come and re-introduce the true teachings of Islam which people have twisted and turned so much, as to give this beautiful and perfect faith such an unbecoming face before the world?

A former Northwestern University professor, he grapples unceasingly with such problems as those raised in «Prophets and Politics».

The prophets, who served as spokesmen for normative covenant faith in this period, had only contempt for such notions of God and God's people.

Ellis cites such religiously diverse prophets as Martin Buber, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Gustavo Gutiérrez and Mahatma Gandhi who command recognition and admiration across the religious divisions.

’14 In popular Jewish thought Elijah came to be regarded as «the ever - present prophet, wandering incognito over the earth, sometimes in the garb of a nomad, to aid in moments of distress and danger, appearing to mystics and scholars to teach them hidden truths, and acting as celestial messenger».15 He was thought to be present at every ceremony of circumcision as the guardian spirit and witness, and on such occasions a special chair was reserved for him.

Nonetheless, the contribution of the Hebrew prophets toward social reform was such as to set them in a class apart.

Islamic purists (those that follow ISLAM as mandated by their terrorist self proclaimed prophet) do not engage in such games that «Islam is of Peace».

Some 26 hundred years ago, the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel prophesied...» just such a nation, north of Israel, as Russia is («Dr. Jerry FaIwell Teaches Bible Prophecy,» Old Time Gospel Hour, 1979).

When the two despondent disciples on the road to Emmaus expressed to the stranger their bewilderment that such a powerful prophet as Jesus should have been condemned to death and be crucified, we are told that the risen Christ «began with Moses and all the prophets, and explained to them the passages which referred to himself in every part of the scriptures».6 The story implies that the Scriptures, when properly interpreted, made it clear that the Messiah was «bound to suffer thus before entering upon his glory» 7 When finally they recognized the identity of this stranger as they shared the evening meal before he vanished from their sight, they said to each other, «Did we not feel our hearts on fire as he talked with us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?»

It is quite otherwise, however, with Elijah, the ninth century prophet, who, according to the Biblical tradition, had been carried up to heaven in a whirlwind riding in a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire.13 Elijah had made such an impression on the men of his own generation as a man of vitality and divine power that he continued to be a living legend.

While the prophets were announcing these great messages of moral responsibility, of impending doom if these were evaded, and of the hope of divine deliverance of the faithful remnant through the coming Messiah, the political fortunes of the people were anything but such as to nourish this hope.

If he had not been a truthful man, the Prophet might have used this happening to his own advantage, but instead he became angry and said openly that such thoughts were not right, for the sun and the moon are also creatures of God and it is by His order that they move as they do.

It is not a correct inference to take Paul's list in I Corinthians 12:28 — first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues — and see all of these as «set - aside» persons performing such functions on a specialist basis.

That is to say, expressionism had the power to communicate forcefully the images and the feeling of the artist; therefore, the great German expressionists, such as Emil Nolde, whose «Head of a Prophet» is one of the most powerful statements of the haunting and mysterious sense for Christ of modern art, evoke in us a response that is not the response of immediate and instant recognition.

So the girl's father read to her some passages from the later Hebrew prophets — such as «What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?»

For even if we hesitate to conceive of Jesus the eschatological prophet, the proclaimer of the will of God and repentance, as an Oriental sage, and if we do not accept such proverbs as characteristic of his message, yet the incorporation of such sayings into the message is an indication of how Jesus» belief in God should be understood.

And it is not just evil sinners who are killed in the name of God, but righteous, innocent victims, such as Abel, Zechariah, and the prophets.

Such manuals as that of Garrigou - Lagrange typically cite Hebrews 1:1 as a scriptural basis for this understanding: «In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» The notion of God's locutio is easily assimilable to that of propositional truth which in turn best suits the interests of apologetics.

Muslims insist that their religion's creator, Muhammad, was appointed by its god as a prophet to spread its worship: Jews do not recognize such a need since they believe the Torah, their god's law, was given to them centuries before Muhammad, and Christians find Muhammad irrelevant since their savior, Jesus, came first.

But the activists, such as the biblical prophets, claim that the life of social concern is thoroughly religious, and they make «doing justice» the very heart of any authentic religious relation to the sacred mystery of God.