Sentences with phrase «traditions of man who»

The traditions of man who originally conditioned so many to believe themselves to be gay.

One bases it on the opinions and traditions of man who simply got what they believe from other men.

They are thus surprised but bemused when they take part in the Indian Wars and encounter the Native Americans» winkte or berdache tradition of men who dress as women:

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While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

And again, in 2009, in a Maclean's profile of the Bay's new boss: «With her blond bob, grey Alexander McQueen sweater dress, ballsy black Yves Saint Laurent boots, and willingness to playfully tweak tradition, Brooks offers a stylish foil to the sober gallery of white men in dark suits who trace the company's lineage back to 1670.»

This latest scandal is just another bite out of man who should humble himself and know that he will always need our Savior, His Church with Her Tradition, Her Bible and Her Magisterium.

Against those who hold humanity in contempt, I, too, want to declare myself a humanist and join in the most elevated and elevating tradition of a culture that celebrates man as «the crown of creation.»

Instead, we may see them as magisterial figures committed to Scripture and tradition, as men who were victims not of history but of hatred, the worst kind of theological odium.

You miss the mystics of all traditions who are far closer to the teachings and path of Christ than anyone who simply follows a book written by man centuries after he lived.

You go ahead and keep the tradition of intolerance and lack of community, I am going to vote for the man or woman who can make a difference because they know what they are doing and not because they have a belief I don't agree with.

God and Man at Georgetown Prep is warmly recommended for young people, their parents, and teachers who have tired of trivial alternatives to the majesty of the tradition they are called to transmit.

In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of souls.

It reflects the theology of those who thought of Jesus exclusively in apocalyptic terms, and were prepared not only to go through the tradition and substitute «the Son of Man» for his simple «I,» but also to insert appropriate quotations or paraphrases of their favorite apocalyptic texts in order to give his life its appropriate setting — as they assumed — and his teaching its proper interpretation.

Suddenly, reporters and plenty of others who've tuned into the wildly popular «Two and Half Men» want to know about the Seventh - day Day Adventist tradition, which Jones says in the online video he has recently joined, connecting his conversion to his new outlook on the show.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

Some Traditions speak of Angels who guard Hell, some who guard Paradise, some who ask dead people about their beliefs, and some who record all of a man s actions; there is also an Angel who will blow the trumpet to awaken all human beings on the Day of Judgment.

Hindus believe god revealed truths to wise men who passed them on for thousands of years through a rich oral tradition.

All hinge on «men» - Men, who transcribed, passed on the traditions of ancient Isramen» - Men, who transcribed, passed on the traditions of ancient IsraMen, who transcribed, passed on the traditions of ancient Israel.

There is an Assyrian tradition that the wise men who came from the East to visit infant Jesus were from Edessa and that they went to Bethlehem in fulfillment of a prophecy made by Zoroaster in the seventh century BC.

If he knows it and lives in it as the tradition of the great Church he has an authority in the local and the contemporary Christian community which the man who represents only the tradition of a national or denominational or localized community can not have.

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

Moreover, back of this primitive tradition was the life and the teaching of One who had himself lived man's life, under the conditions of growing political oppression and injustice and of the threatened extinction of Jewish faith and worship and of the whole Jewish way of life.

Colossians 2:8... (Spoken by the Apostle Paul) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; Mark 7:1 - 13... (Jesus was speaking) Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him.

«Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex... Tradition has always declared that «homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.»

Some Native Americans have a tradition of the Moon Lodge where a woman in her menses or who has just given birth stays and is looked after by other women until the bleeding is over.

To a Roman Catholic like Romano Guardini, he is one who describes the disintegration of man when he departs from the natural tradition of nation and church.

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.

Only those Traditions are accepted which were revealed to the family of Muhammad and interpreted by Imams and learned men who follow the authority of the family of the Prophet.

The oral tradition he received (and this all helped to make him the civilized man he was becoming) had already created names for the large number and varied kinds of personal forces who made his world such a live place.

To men who live under the authority of the historic Christian tradition their validity is self - evident.

The only man whose work we can trace in the synoptic tradition who ever concerns himself to remain reasonably true, in our sense of that word, to his sources is Luke, and even he does not hesitate to make very considerable changes indeed when he has theological reasons for doing so.

(3) During the period of the formation of the tradition, the first few decades of the Church's life, there were men living and active in the Church who had been eyewitnesses and earwitnesses of the ministry of Jesus, for example, James, Peter and John, the «pillars» of the church in Jerusalem (Gal.

Now, this idea must be used by us to encourage once again the conception of a «historical Jesus» to be found by clearing away later «accretions and perversions» and then to be contrasted with the whole Christian tradition... We thus distract men's minds from Who He is, and what He did.

Presupposing men who are thoroughly trained in the traditions of the Church and completely loyal to the hierarchy, Ignatius wants Jesuits on the spot to make necessary adaptations rather than simply to go by the book.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

In closing to all my Christian brtheren who read this remember the words of warning given to us about such things in the book of Colossians chapter 2 verse 8: «beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit; after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.»

Thus Hartshorne belongs broadly within the idealist tradition.29 At one of the recent meetings of the American Philosophical Association, a young man who stood up to speak identified himself as «the last idealist in captivity.»

As our Lord clearly points out in Mark 7:8 - 13 those who disregard Gods word for the traditions of man.

The New Testament is part of that tradition, not separated from it; therefore, its significance is in reporting the earliest ways, so far as we can recover them, in which Jesus was understood by men and women who themselves were caught up in that tradition and who found (as Houlden notes) «an experience of salvation, of new well - being in relation to God» in their response to the event about which the witness spoke (p. 135).

However, those who recognize the God - given inherent differences between men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and see their importance not only for the proper working of society but for our salvation, should give thanks for the Catholic Church's resolve in adhering to two thousand years of tradition — a tradition rooted in God's good purposes for all men and women.

The field belongs increasingly to those who have experienced the richness and depths of the tradition and who are restive with the something - new - every - week folks who, in Luther's words, have «no more than an itch to produce something novel so that they might shine before men as leading lights.»

It's both tradition and evolution and also the decisions of a series of powerful men, who for their own reasons made the decision to intensify Jerusalem's importance.

(Professor Gilkey has listed five marks of the death of God tradition, and they should perhaps be set down: (1) the problematic character of God and of man's relation to him today, (2) the acceptance of the secular world as normative intellectually and ethically good, (3) the restriction of theological statements to what one can actually affirm oneself, and with this the rejection of certain traditional ideas of tradition and authority, (4) the centrality of Jesus as one who calls us into the world to serve him there, (5) uneasiness with mythological, super-historical, eschatological, supernatural entities or categories.

However, while this may be increasingly apparent to those who devote a great deal of their vocational time to the serious study of those teachings, it is not so apparent to the millions of unsuspecting Christian laity who, having been so taken by the writings of Lindsey, LaHaye, et al., often dismiss those «centuries of Christian teaching» as «traditions of men.»

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

As the tradition is now enveloped in legend, there is no way of discovering the historical circumstances of the call of Moses, but we can be reasonably confident that there was such a man, who led a band of Hebrews in a dramatic escape from Egyptian slavery, and one of the oldest elements in the tradition is a song which celebrates the defeat of the Pharaoh's army in the waters of the Sea of Reeds.

12.10 ff., adding to that tradition the idea that the one who has ascended to God as Son of man will return as that Son of man, and «they» will see him as such and mourn.

It would be a rash man indeed who would attempt to toss away the vast weight of a tradition which insists on the role of Moses as law - giver.

His sermons are miniature masterpieces of Christian doctrine, the refined reflections of a man who has thoroughly mastered the Bible and 2,000 years of Christian tradition....

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 18 forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (AKJV).