Sentences with phrase «what end man»

Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree (Calvin, Institutes, III.xxiii.7).

«Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree.»

Not exact matches

The man now plucked to run the Bank of Japan and revive the long stagnant economy was a career Ministry of Finance bureaucrat at the time exasperated that the central bank had - as he saw it - shirked its duty to end what was then already six years of deflation.

What some experts are doing is putting up a straw man, pointing to those extreme cases in which some people let the development of the business plan become an end in itself — something that gets in the way of business rather than helping to optimize it.

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

In the end of his apology, Rivera invokes his daughter and implores readers to not be one of those people who reflexively write off the concerns of women who accuse powerful men of harassment: «To all the victims of sexual harassment, direct and indirect, I am sorry for what happened to you.

When asked in an open - ended question what traits society values most in men and women, the differences were also striking.

Warren Buffett likes to say, «What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.»

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

Considering reading about the parable of the sheep and goats, or perhaps the rich man who asks Christ what he needs to do to be saved, or any of the verses that talk about enduring to the end to be saved.

In the end we didn't know his heart, only God did, and in his last breath, couldn't a man so driven by despair at what he had done ask forgiveness from God?

They need to become secular and believe in doing what feels good, adultry, killing unborn babies, men lying with men, and the end justifies the means.

I'm just taking this argument to what seems like a ridiculous end but could, in fact, happen without laws defining «man and wife».

What I really don't understand is how you ignore all the other sign in the bible that are to tell of the end of days and believe a man that has come up with a mathematical equation!

It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city and no man knows what is safe or where it will end.»

But, in the end times, (as we are seeing now), the erroneous, vile, corrupt ways of old men that live at the Vatican and call the shots are being exposed for what they are (Thank God).

«What is often expressed and understood by the term «gender» ultimately ends up being man's attempt at self - emancipation from creation and the Creator.

«Immediately I wanted to compare my hurt to his and prove to him that what I had been through was worse, but in the end, when I heard his story, I was reminded that women can be just as hurtful to people as men.

Moltmann even observes perceptively that for the catechism to pose its question in the way it does (What is man's chief end?)

Thus — speaking as a Christian — I say that while I can not call violence good, legitimate, and just, I find its use condonable (1) when a man is in despair and sees no other way out, or (2) when a hypocritically just and peaceful situation must be exposed for what it is in order to end it.

This is in fact a resurgence in other terms and with other objectives in view — of the error always committed by Christians who intervene in the sphere of human actions to justify them and to testify that in the end man has good reason for doing what he does.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

If I remember correctly, I particularly enjoyed the end of the song, which somewhat graphically described what happened to the wise man's foil — the foolish man — who built his house on the sand.

On the other hand, there were other men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul would live on forever, that the wicked would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up with the doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination (some would be saved, the rest would be damned); and Jerome, who would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what would become the Latin Vulgate and would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching eternal torment.

What is the chief end of man?

Some group of clergy who met back in Nice on several occasions over 1500 years ago because they couldn't agree on the nature of God, and that was causing such a rift in the church established at the time that they had to put it to a vote to decide what doctorine to follow, and then ended up excommunicating anybody who didn't believe that man had the right to decide the true nature of God?

He also has set eternity in the hearts men; yet they can not fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

mama kindless is near the end of her days and not afraid to die a happy agnostic atheist — that's what they call people who don't try to be too know - it - all about deities, but who have enough sense to be hoodwinked by other men.

mama said «mama kindless is near the end of her days and not afraid to die a happy agnostic atheist — that's what they call people who don't try to be too know - it - all about deities, but who have enough sense to be hoodwinked by other men.

If it's a non-issue, then why did Paul write to Timothy warning him that in the last days men would become lovers of themselves, and lovers of money, along with some other things, but people ignore this warning for what it really is, which is a sign post for the end - times.

The men had been meeting for nearly two days oblivious to the surroundings, and would have done so to the end but for a staff member who pointed out what lay beyond the closed doors.

«Let us not forget,» wrote Nietzsche, «in the end what a Church is, and especially in contrast to every «state»: a Church is above all an authoritative organization which secures to the most spiritual men the highest rank, and believes in the power of spirituality so far as to forbid all grosser appliances of authority.

«What knowledge could be of greater importance to the men of our age, and to the various communities of our time,» wrote Buber in 1947, than that «the use of unrighteousness as a means to a righteous end makes the end itself unrighteous?»

And, again like John Paul II, Reagan understood that the Soviet Union was ideologically vulnerable: that a steady, fact - based, morally - driven critique of communism's abominable human rights record would rattle the men in Moscow, expose cracks in the Soviet system, encourage brave dissidents to exploit those cracks, and hasten the end of what Reagan called, perhaps undiplomatically but certainly truthfully, an «Evil Empire.»

The story opened in a swank Protestant church where at the conclusion of the service a poor, unemployed, shabby young man got up and told his story of unemployment to the startled parishioners and ended by saying: «You can't all go out hunting up jobs for people like me, but what I am puzzled about when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing, «Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow Thee,» is what is meant by following Jesus?

that He had defeated death or satan, this crucifixion was a promise that He had to make perfectly clear to His enemy 1st before He could say to the world ALL those who were created in his image, that its done it is finished I did what I said I would do, if you decide you need me, I will be waiting, man talk about patience, and this isnt the kind of patience that your see when people are waiting in line and they arent tapping thier foot, this is called perfect Faith, that comes in trusting and know the end from the beginning, thats HUGE!

The sutra is inexhaustibly rich with deep and fine similes which express this anxious love.10 The wisdom of the Tathagata is so high, his knowledge is so deep, that to the man who is blind, erring, and engrossed in the world it must seem to be absolutely incomprehensible.11 However — and what Mahayana shows to us is the highest reconciliation between God and man — this compassionate love turns to each man with the appropriate means and in unique ways in order to show him that he too has within himself the potential not only of ending his own suffering but also of one day being himself transformed from one saved to a savior, a Tathagata.

But when the individual man contemplates the death that will eventually bring his own historical existence to an end, it threatens him with the annihilation of what he is and what he has been.

At the end of two weeks, the man with the medical training says to the younger man, «I have figured out what it is you have.

He sees politics as «the master art» which must direct «the rest of the sciences», including economics, and «since, again, it legislates as to what we are to abstain from, the end of science must include those of the others, so that this end must be the good for man.»

What God started with Abraham ends with a man who has come to the ultimate dead - end.

they were not emotionally stunted were they - the answer is called === legal black mail ===== THEY GOT MONEY DID NT THEY THEY DID NT WANT HIM IN JAIL - FOR THEN THERE WOULDNT BE ANY === MONEY AN THATS WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT == MONEY === so sad - the young men sold there souls in the end.

There were of course some very important differences between the two men, and one of these was that whereas no one knew what happened to Elijah at the end of his earthly life, it was an established fact that Jesus had been crucified by the Roman authorities.

His life ends on the cross which stands at the edge of history showing man what his spirit ought to be, at the same time that it discloses what man as man can not be.

He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he can not find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Christ has demonstrated the full meaning of what it means to be a man; therefore, he is fully the second Adam, the standard by which God will finally judge man at the end of history.

For only his unity and infinity can create in man that oneness which unites the multiplicity of finite things without abolishing it; love alone makes man forget himself (what a hell it would be if we could not do this in the end!)

And the Doctor runs through what kind of man he could be in a jocular way — a fighter, a lover (winks at Rose), etc. and then ends the scene by launching that guy off the ship into the air for a murderous fall to earth: «No second chances — I'm that kind of man.»

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

«Man needs revelation, then, in order to know distinctly what is his last end.»