Sentences with phrase «than an authority who»

Then start with Christians — they believe their morality is based on a system rather than an authority who simply says «do what I'm telling you!».

Not exact matches

Instead, women who have high «job authority» — the ability to hire and fire others, and to influence others» pay — show more signs of depression than women without such authority.

Authorities said they arrested 46 people, including a group of military veterans who had to be carried out and a man who climbed atop a building and stayed there for more than an hour before surrendering.

«It is commonplace for federal authorities to directly contact Twitter and ask for assistance, rather than going through formal channels,» said an activist who has helped get numerous accounts disabled.

Authorities have described Baratov as an «international hacker - for - hire» who hacked more than 11,000 webmail accounts from around 2010 until his March 2017 arrest and used the money he made — roughly $ 1.1 million at about $ 100 per hacking victim — to finance a $ 650,000 home and fancy cars, including a Lamborghini and Aston Martin.

Women who have this same ability — also called «job authority» — are not happier than women who don't.

I just wished the old SEO companies who have tried to reinvent themselves as content marketers would spend more time helping their customers «invest» in building audiences and authority through their content, rather than promising them short term returns on their efforts.

Both the Jewish leaders who demanded the crucifixion of Christ and the Roman authorities who were more concerned with their careers than justice were practical atheists.

Orthodox priests serve as guides along the path of life — and are not viewed as authority figures who are meant to be «holier than thou».

WE ARE GIVEN AUTHORITY... we don't scream God take this devil out... WE TELL THEM TO COME OUT... WHEN A COP ORDERS U TO STOP WHAT HAPPENS IF U DO NT???? DEVILS KNOW THE DRILL & MUST COMPLY... THEY ARE WAY MORE CUNNING THAN A NON BELIEVER... BUT NOT MORE CUNNING THAN THE BELIEVER WHO HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO NOT BE DECIEVED.....

The only difference now is I'm choosing to overcome through the authority of His name, and would have never been going through this if I didn't search consolation through a drug rather than the Holy Spirit who is the Only Comforter.

If there's no objective authority that compels you to abstain from alcohol, then subjectively, your choice to abstain is universally no more or less compelling than one who chooses to indulge in alcohol.

By coming to know the total presence of God in the Incarnation, Blake and every radical Christian is liberated from the God who is wholly other than man, and likewise liberated from the authority of a heteronomous law and an autonomous Creator.

Our desire to learn and gain answers outside the Creator who put that thought and desire within us is nothing more than our trying to be our own authority and answer.

And how can Professor Schlesinger argue for the authority of «our deep seated preference» on secularist grounds with any more weight than the many more Americans who would argue for them on religious grounds?

She quotes Stephen Ozment, a Reformation historian, who contends that «never has the art of parenting been more highly praised and parental authority more wholeheartedly supported than in Reformation Europe.»

For justice is done in the particular case, and until tried in the courts, abstract principles have no more authority than the people who declare them.

Phil, I had no problem with your first post, til the very end where you said, «Our desire to learn and gain answers outside the Creator who put that thought and desire within us is nothing more than our trying to be our own authority and answer.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

Sacramental and governing authority traditionally vested in the clergy needs to be shared in a more profound way with members who are more than simply clergy helpers.

I recalled that the last time I looked at the book, more than ten years ago, I felt embarrassed by the naïveté and piety of the young writer who sought to authorize her insights and proposals by quoting numerous theological, psychological and sociological authorities.

because we have been trained to be distrusting of «authority» figures who aren't better than us.

This is a problem that can be corrected by those evangelical process theologians who are genuinely immersed in scripture rather than distinguishing themselves by their objective statements about biblical authority.

Furthermore what you've already quoted above over and over again is that Lenin and later Stalin were two such communists who enforced atheism to consolidate power, the specific targeting of religious folks was so they can bring the proletariat to them rather than let the masses have a separate authority figure.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Nor is she merely voicing the customs of the tribe — at least not if we are to believe Aristotle, who seems a safer authority on the Greeks than our contemporary skeptics.

I and other advocates lost a lot of friends and important connections... people who obviously wish to align themselves more with the church, authority, leaders, and success stories, rather than victims.

It had greater power and authority than other books, and as such, could only be entrusted to those who were trained in how to read and understand it.

Yet we in the West should strive for humane borders in which travelers and immigrants of all backgrounds are treated with respect by state authorities, and valued as human beings with great potential, rather than dismissed as faceless hordes — or, in Hitchens's words, «countless persons from who - knows - where.»

What can hardly be denied is that Archbishop Nichols is a good deal more inclined to support the authority of Rome than once he was; and it is not only The Tablet which has observed the shift with some scepticism: he was until very recently (and perhaps still is) regarded by many in Rome as one who in Birmingham behaved as an orthodox pope - supporting prelate should in order to get to Westminster.

It was embarrassing because he who baptizes generally has greater authority than he who is baptized, and they had to admit that Jesus was baptized by John, not the other way around.

«The first community, in order to affirm that Jesus was more than one of the prophets — that his authority had a certain finality or absoluteness about it not found in others — had few options left to it but to tell the story of Jesus in such a way that his authority would become apparent and would confront other hearers, as it had confronted those who had witnessed it, with the necessity to make up their minds — to declare themselves for or against Jesus.»

Because clearly you are the authority on Christianity and the millions of other people who believe differently than you are wrong!

As a Christian for more than 20 years, I am tired of men in «authority» who manipulate and distort the Word of God.

No lesser a Christian than Martin Luther understood our predicament: Anyone, he wrote in ìOn Temporal Authority, î who tried ìto rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and the sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword» or the need for either»... would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds.î I do not believe that Hauerwas sees America's enemies as harmless, tame, and gentle creatures.

As far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!

Pauline scholar Neil Elliott, chaplain at the University Episcopal Center in Minneapolis, wrote in Paul and Empire that within the rhetorical structure of Romans «these remarks have an important function: to encourage submission, for now, to the authorities, rather than desperate resistance» that would endanger Christian Jews in Rome who were recovering from earlier imperial violence.

Resistance is real, as is the fecklessness of many who are entrusted with political power and who are threatened by any authority other than their own.

By the way, I said «the one» rather than «him» simply because of the translation I was using when looking at this: «But I will show you whom you should fear: fear the one who has authority, after the killing, to throw you into hell!

It's a very sobering thought to wake up one day and discover that you've spent a considerable amount of time misrepresenting the very One who held all power and authority — yet choose to rule by loving rather than «lording».

We pronounce blessing on those who believe as we do and judgment on those who do not by the authority of God; but is that divine authority the authority by which Jesus spoke and taught: We believe that God is always on our side and not on the side of other; but is it not possible that God of Jesus may sometimes be on the side of other rather than on our side?

Nor had the claim to absolute religious authority ever been accepted by all Christians and there remained a majority of theologians who considered that the papacy was of human rather than divine provenance.

And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).

She assumes that the abortion license is guaranteed by the Constitution, and it therefore follows that anybody who does not affirm that license is «obeying» some authority other than the Constitution.

This subject deserves better than the court of political correctness, whose authority, advocates of homosexual marriage hope, will prevail until the law is voted on — a tribunal they defend by means of disqualifying caricatures against anyone who dares to question their project and their motives.

so now a player who hasn't played in the epl more than a few minutes and is by all measures young is meant to be an authority on who is best or whatever you're getting at?

It seems that Alexis is having problems with the Spanish tax authorities who claim that they owe him more than 3 million Pounds, and are taking steps to reclaim their money ahead of a massive court case.

The international swimming authority, FINA, wrote the Irish Amateur Swimming Association (IASA) in January and warned that any swimmer who is unavailable for out - of - competition testing more than two times faces suspension.

As a result, the builders not only saved money, they also drew praise on the construction method from no less an authority than Philip H. Rhodes, a brilliant marine architect who normally favors the more traditional approach.

A role which I believe the Spaniard is better suited to more so than the Belgian youngster, who once again let the game go on around him without stamping any authority on the play.