Sentences with phrase «well as the prophet»

The president of the church is respected as a hard worker as well as prophet, seer and revelator, and his counselors manage to work together as an effective administration.

(Besides Moses, two other dominant figures of relatively early times, Samuel and Elijah, combine in themselves marked qualities of priest as well as prophet.)

The sage is inspired as well as the prophet.

But with the rise of allergy issues and environmental awareness, the food world comes up with more creative ways to feed the growing demand for those with allergies as well as prophets of vegan and plant - based lifestyles.

Not exact matches

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..

Let's put it this way, reality took hold and I realized that what you believe is your own personal choice, however, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Mohammed, Buddha and the many other deities and prophets out there just want us to live our lives as good people.

There are great banquets and richly decorated temples in Scripture, as well as kings anointed by prophets.

Another 21 % (IIRC) of the world population says they believe Jesus, but only as a minor prophet, and they reject the Holy Spirit as well... and instead they believe Mohammed and a god they call Allah.

About Jesus the son of Mary... yes in the Quran he is mentioned to be the Prophet and the Messenger to the children of Israel... he is mentioned as well to be the Messiah... he was the spirit and the word of God on earth...

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.

The first verse of Hebrews strikes me as a good definition of creative incarnation: «In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways» (TNIV).

You see muslims getting into an uproar because their prophet Muhammad was depicted... but they believe Jesus was a prophet, as well, and do NOTHING when He is depicted and ridiculed by the world.

Central to their belief system is that God still reveals truth to modern - day LDS Church prophets, as well as to individuals — Mormon or otherwise.

As Eugene Peterson writes in Run With the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best: «We don't become whole persons by merely wanting to become whole, by consulting the right prophets, by reading the right book.

Hence, we have Agabus, the wandering NT prophet (and Barnabas and Saul, the best known of the prophet / teacher combos called to wander for a time); as well as the Pillars of the Church in Jerusalem.

They quoted the prophets to reveal that salvation had always been intended for all people, and Israel had been «chosen'to produce the Redeemer and bring this good news to all the world — not to be the only recipients of God's favor, as their false teachers proclaimed.

Mankind was [of] one religion [before their deviation]; then Allah sent the prophets as bringers of good tidings and warners and sent down with them the Scripture in truth to judge between the people concerning that in which they differed.

The writer who goes under this name has left us some of the most magnificent poetry in the Bible — poetry which is largely free from the archaic obscurity of some of the earlier prophets, and can be enjoyed for the power and range of its imagery and its richly embroidered language, as well as for the sublimity of its thought, which touches, probably, the highest level reached anywhere in the Old Testament.

Not only the words of the prophets, but also the actions that make up Old Testament history, foreshadow the action as well as the thought of the New Testament.

As he gained a strong and well - organized following he went further and claimed that a true Muslim must believe that he, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was a prophet.

they perform a kind of limping dance, and as Elijah taunts them, their wild performance reaches its emotionally uncontrolled peak when they «cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out upon them» (I Kings 18:28) Noon, Baal's best and strongest hour, passes, but the prophets of Baal — note the language of the text --» «continue to prophesy» (vs. 29) The R.S.N. is forced to interpret: «they raved on.»

we do in our worships pray and say grace for prophets Muhammed and Abraham as well as all believers.

Lest this should be taken as a wholesale rejection of Hadith, Sir Sayyid advocates closer scrutiny of the Hadith relating to the personal habits and social circumstances of the Holy Prophet, as well as the Hadith bearing on political and administrative matters.

At the same time he maintained that he was still a follower of the Prophet of Islam and a non-lawgiving prophet, and since he brought no new law and adhered to the law of Islam as interpreted and codified by the jurists, he claimed to be a good Prophet of Islam and a non-lawgiving prophet, and since he brought no new law and adhered to the law of Islam as interpreted and codified by the jurists, he claimed to be a good prophet, and since he brought no new law and adhered to the law of Islam as interpreted and codified by the jurists, he claimed to be a good Muslim.

Amos in the middle of the eighth century reflects the common definition of «prophet» as denoting professional association, down to this time deemed necessarily neither bad nor good.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

As often happens when prophets speak, closely following on the heels of the good promises comes what we perceive as baAs often happens when prophets speak, closely following on the heels of the good promises comes what we perceive as baas bad.

If this film - maker is Egyptian, then the Egyptians have a right to put him on trial under Islamic law for not only his highly negative portrayal of the prophet Muhammad but for doing an image of him as well violating Islamic law with whatever consequences are in store for him.

In the Quran you will find all that Moses said all Jesus said and all other prophets said, read it believe in it and pray following any prophet you want but do it as the book here says and hope you with that become a better community than Muslims if God permit

Together with the opening line of the Letter to the Hebrews («In ancient times God spoke to man through prophets and in varied ways, but now he speaks through Christ, His Son...»), as well as many other biblical texts, this passage reveals to us a startling truth.

Devotees of the sacrificial system are well represented, as we have seen, but with catholic inclusiveness, like a true hymnal, the Psalter gives large place to the attitude of the prophets:

That original Islam is only hinted at in the Qur» an and the Hadith, which were written years after the prophet Mohammed had his mystical experience — just as the original precepts of Christianity are minimized and only obliquely presented in the New Testament and its «authorized» translations, interpretations and commentaries, which were written over many years, well after Jesus» ministry and Paul's mystical experience.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Many of the Psalms ask this question, and the prophets as well.

The Gathas, which are today found interspersed throughout the Yasna, 1 constitute the oldest as well as the most important part of scripture, for here are preserved, more than anywhere, the authentic words of the prophet himself, Zoroaster.

This is The teachings of the Prophet on how you and I should treat our Non-Muslim friends and neighbours on a day to day basis as well as how to government should treat a Non-Muslim citizen of a Muslim state.

Hebrews 1:1 KJV God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

God knew of Jeremiah's doubts about his own ability to serve as a prophet, and so indicated to Jeremiah that God knew him better than Jeremiah knew himself (Marston and Forster, God's Strategy in Human History, 232).

After God says that He has known, set apart, and ordained Jeremiah to serve as a prophet, Jeremiah basically says, «But God, I am not a good speaker!

The Qur» anic account of Moses and his mysterious companion is undoubtedly, the source of Muslim traditions about Moses and al - Khidr.49 Traditionally the mysterious teacher has been identified with one al - Khidr.50 The accounts of al - Khidr, the hidden saint - instructor abounds in Uwaysi hagiography as well.51 Ibn «Arabi includes this tradition of Moses - al - Khidr to support the idea of the superiority of the knowledge of the saints over the prophets.

We find extensive use of this kind of Divine attribute in the Torah and the books of the prophets, as well as in the praises offered by the prophets and the pious.

One can clearly see the Prophet's respect for a pluralistic society, including Judaism, as well as Christianity.

Hayward and Peck are in top form, but the best performance might be Raymond Massey's as the fiery prophet Nathan, whose intensity lingers over the picture even when he's not onscreen.

The extended and most bitter indictments in the three largest prophetic collections9 as well as the sweeping, often ferocious, denunciations in Amos, Hosea, Micah, and the later Isaiahs10 make it clear that no distinction existed for the prophet between the rebelliousness expressed in social - economic - political malpractice on the one hand and cultic - religious - theological deviation on the other.

No doubt much of the expropriation of the land by the rich was legal, but the prophets saw that wealth could corrupt the judgments made in the law courts as well.

What would you choose as the most appropriate title or titles for Jesus - good man, prophet, teacher, Son of God, savior, Lord, Son of man?

We must not forget the words Jesus took from the prophet Isaiah as the definition of his mission: «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.

He is best described as a prophet, a mystic, and an ascetic, and even among eighteenth - century Quakers, he was something of a purist.

In Hebrew literature the sent often comes as the prophet, who brings words of consolation to the oppressed and promises of better times from the sender.

Mohammed, who had the highest appreciation for Jesus as the greatest of God's prophets before the revelation of the Qu» ran, might well have become a Christian.