Sentences with phrase «upon pain of death»

I was challenged by the tasks of packing lunches and cooking regular family dinners, and my son would not eat a vegetable — any vegetable — upon pain of death.

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the answer to that is the incarnation itself, that Christ would take upon himself humanity and the pains and struggles of the human condition, including the pains of death.

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

Am not sure if you are in the dark or the Darkest of all Darks and only God would judge that and may have mercy upon your soul which is clearly suffering the emptiness in life and would do be in pain after death and again on judgment day but the hardest is when you are to pay your dues in the Hells of Fires where it is said that every time skins are burnt they are replaced with other fresh skins to no end if no mercy from God?

At this point Buddhism presents an instructive contrast to Christianity, for here [in Buddhism] one discovers unbelievably complex systems of meditation centering upon the image of death, but here death is a way to a dissolution of the human condition, and therefore to the abolition of pain and suffering.21

One is called upon not to fear physical death, so as not to lose one's very self, panicked by fear of death (Q 12:4), which is the greatest threat of evil forces, from unbearable pain to dictatorships.

Freud came upon the «death instinct,» which helped to explain the attraction of danger, as well as some of the internal dynamics of repression and self - inflicted pain.

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»