Oh i forgot, the Bible is written by the spirit of God as he moved
upon men of like spirit... and you do not have that spirit so the words of the Bible are «alien» to you.
They are instead the promise of what man will be when fully transformed into glory and they are the bestowal
upon man of a life into which he is growing and at which he has not yet fully arrived.
There's a certain charm to one day stumbling
upon the man of your dreams in the supermarket, striking up a conversation at the deli counter before falling in love and living happily ever after.
Not exact matches
Bonobos» top keywords show that nearly all
of its customers search for it by name; few people stumble
upon the site while looking for «
men's pants» or «pants that fit.»
In another, a scruffy bearded
man peers through a set
of blinds, his sinister eyes burning in anticipation
of the evil deeds he will inflict
upon the home's occupants — a home he found through a real estate brokerage's website, presumably.
It's our culture, not our libidos, that shapes the way
men act
upon otherwise healthy, run -
of - the - mill sexual desires.
That certain
of the Jewish producers were
men whose influence
upon the popular taste was unfortunate no one, and least
of all the cultivated Jew, will deny.
Men may die without incurring the pity
of their fellows, sharers in great business enterprises from which their capital can not be, or has not been withdrawn,
upon which is left entirely a trust for public uses.
Confidence was destroyed, and a universal panic seized
upon the dealers... The cry
of distress resounded every where, and each
man accused his neighbour.
Romano Guardini had already foreseen this: «The gadgets and technics forced
upon him by the patterns
of machine production and
of abstract planning mass
man accepts quite simply; they are the forms
of life itself.
Upon Summers» departure from the White House, President Obama said, «I will always be grateful that at a time
of great peril for our country, a
man of Larry's brilliance, experience and judgment was willing to answer the call and lead our economic team.»
Once
upon a time, there was a young
man who got his dream job in the financial services industry, thought he could make it big one day and worked hard at it, then got disillusioned and disgusted by what he saw around, and finally quit to live a life
of greater peace and fulfillment, while pursuing his passion in value investing.
Also, understanding in this manner allows the inerrency
of scripture without the error
of man projected
upon it.
Sura (4) 34 «
Men are the vigilant custodians
of women, because
of what Allah has endowed
upon the one over the other, in that they spend from their means.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains
of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald
of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood
upon the world
of the ungodly; if by turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example
of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct
of the wicked (for as that righteous
man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day
of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust
of defiling passion and despise authority.
His further explanation
of this cryptic principle would alienate many who couldn't grasp what they saw as madness: a
man calling
upon them to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
He is, in my opinion, an honorable
man based
upon what we know
of his lifestyle.
Why, he's behaving just like the older brother in the parable
of the prodigal son, «the one who stayed home and toiled with his father and grew resentful when the old
man slew the fatted calf
upon his brother's return.»
Oh gee, once
upon a time, an uneducated Jewish goatherd decided that he needed to make up a story to explain away all
of man's problems.
This book, otherwise a fascinating account
of a fascinating
man, rather reminds me
of how an anti-Catholic accountant would react
upon discovering, to his dismay, that the Vatican Bank is solvent.
As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible,
Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many
of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity
of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt
upon whims and desires.
Not just your god, but all thousands
upon thousands
of gods worshiped by
men throughout history.
Leviticus 20, verse 13 13: If a
man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both
of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be
upon them.
... The practical effect
of the stress
upon «soul competency» as the cardinal doctrine
of Baptists was to make every
man's hat his own church.
GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
Think
of a woman, together with her children, totally dependent economically
upon a
man who is not her husband.
He was a modern Moses, who was called
upon to restore the gospel
of Jesus Christ to its origins, since it had obviously become corrupted with
man's influence (many religions are proof
of that.)
This
man contends that the family
of the Prophet (Peace and Blessings be
upon him) are special, infallible which also contradicts the essence
of this religion.
Now God has manifested in Christ such that the full radiant Glory
of God was
upon Him in Jesus the
man.
For the solidarity which is built, not
upon servility, but
upon the common loyalty
of free
men, is resilient and enduring.
What Hilaire Belloc actually wrote (originally in The Path to Rome, page 106
of the Doubleday - Image ed., 1956, later found in his collected poems, a copy
of which I do not have at hand) was this: But Catholic
men that live
upon wine Are deep in the water, and frank, and fine; Wherever I travel I find it so, Benedicamus Domino.
The specificity
of the verb gives us a glimpse
of a real
man passing sleepless nights
upon his cot.
in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name
of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing
upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values
of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance
of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married
men to have thier own wife, in those days
of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work
of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards
This gets into philosophy -
of - law issues,
of course, but even some imaginable judicially restrained economic - autonomy - is - Locke's - teaching scholars (i.e., really none
of the libertarian con - law scholars I know
of) would be advocating a way
of life, and a pattern
of regular legislation, that centered one's practice
of liberty
upon, well, business -
man, or to speak Republic book VIII, oligarchic -
man, accomplishments.
We are a nation based
upon man's law, not someone's interpretation
of what they think God says.
Natural disasters and tragedy are not a result
of God's action or punishment
upon man.
«It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth
man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth
men's minds about to religion; for while the mind
of man looketh
upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain
of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.»
The same with the second
man... we can say that it appears that he was doing the will
of the Father by loving his neighbor but we do not know what was in his heart
upon his death.
Heeding the words
of Paul — «in Christ there is neither bond nor free, Jew nor Greek, male nor female» — generation
upon generation, impeded often by formidable circumstances, succeeded in strengthening in
men's minds the significance
of the divine order
of the world and, within that order,
of the individual.
About Native Americans: Alma 3: 6 «And the skins
of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set
upon their fathers, which was a curse
upon them because
of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted
of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy
men.»
The rythms
of the liturgy fall
upon my deaf ears and crash against my stony heart year after year, until His word is beaten into the fiber
of my being, and piece by piece, tiny chip by tiny chip, the Old
Man in me dies, and a new man is raised to life in His likene
Man in me dies, and a new
man is raised to life in His likene
man is raised to life in His likeness.
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one
of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies
of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns
upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created
man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for
man's acts
upon man, instead
of honorably placing it where it belongs,
upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
«It is as we feed on the Word and meditate on the message it contains that the Spirit
of God can vitalize that which we have received, and bring forth through us the word
of knowledge that will be as full
of power and life as when He, the Spirit
of God, moved
upon holy
men of old and gave them these inspired Scriptures.»
Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting
upon the word
of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life... there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby
man can be saved in the kingdom
of God.»
«From this it is very clear that the mark which was set
upon the descendants
of Cain was a skin
of blackness, and there can be no doubt that this was the mark that Cain himself received; in fact, it has been noticed in our day that
men who have lost the spirit
of the Lord, and from whom His blessings have been withdrawn, have turned dark to such an extent as to excite the comments
of all who have known them.»
* Mark 10:33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son
of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: * Matthew 12:18 I will put my spirit
upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
It was really eye opening for me — simple insights like the fact that the first wound most
men receive in being circumcised is an intentional act
of violence commanded by God — the goal
of which is to place his mark
upon us, reminding us that we are set apart and specially chosen by him.
Barth gathers the questionings
of his friends into one gigantic interrogation point, and flings down to ethical theory the demand that it base itself not
upon the conscious will
of man but on the uncertainly, though actually, felt will
of God.
The only delusion that occurs is when unregenerate
man looks
upon that born - again child
of God and assumes he has lost his mind when in fact his mind and heart have been liberated.
The image impressed
upon the Shroud is that
of a dead
man, but the blood speaks
of his life.