Might backfire cuz Staff won't know
which open man to throw to...
In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act
which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.
Not exact matches
The one holding the record for the best
opening weekend is the worst Spider -
Man movie, and the most emo one: «Spider -
Man 3,»
which earned $ 151 million.
Worse, I couldn't defend my
man,
which meant Linton had to rotate and leave Ralph
open,
which meant Linton had to watch Ralph dunk.
That puts the Sony Pictures film on pace to swing to a $ 120 million
opening, short of the record - breaking $ 151 million debut of 2007's Spider -
Man 3 but according to Variety topping even the sunniest expectations for the film,
which stars 21 - year - old actor Tom Holland in the title role.
Wolfe died in 1997, but the
man in control of his estate says Led Zeppelin ripped off the
opening chords to Spirit's song «Taurus,»
which Wolfe wrote.
It will join the park's previous Iron
Man Experience,
which opened last year.
It would be nice to say the world can now put the fiasco that was Spider -
Man: Turn off the Dark behind it, but unfortunately the settlement
opens up a new world of opportunity for the producers, such as potentially taking the show to Vegas,
which should please co-writer Bono.
... younger women have outpaced
men in college - going and college graduation,
which have
opened doors to higher - paying jobs, often in male - dominated fields.
This typically comes in the form of either a bearish reversal bar (such as a bearish engulfing or hanging
man candlestick pattern) or sharp
opening gap down,
which signals the short - term bounce is losing steam.
Deuteronomy 15:7 - 8 If there is among you a poor
man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land
which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, but you shall
open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.
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.
Such a development would fall outside the whole moral history of humanity that, whatever the diverse legal forms, has never lost sight of the fact that marriage is essentially the special communion of
man and woman,
which opens itself to children and thus to family.
Then Jesus looked up to heaven, gave a deep groan, and said to the
man, Ephphatha,
which means, «
Open up!»
The central point for Paul is a divine and supernatural action manifested as a historical fact, or a complex of divine actions
which open to mankind a salvation prepared for
man.
It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been
opened for all
men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience
which God in Christ evokes from them.
Cross and resurrection form a single, indivisible cosmic event
which brings judgment to the world and
opens up for
men the possibility of authentic life.
(Galatians 2:20) At every point, therefore, faith means to Paul that vital self - committal to Christ
which so
opens the life to him and appropriates his spirit that by it
men become sons of God.
The human consciousness is dependent for its vitality, interest and development on keeping
open at least some of these channels,
which are the only means of contact
man has with the world around him.
Man finds himself only by
opening and entrusting himself to others and hence his self - interpretation
which, if correct, is religion or at least some form of belief, can also happen only in the risk of this intercommunication.
The text on this plate is saturated with apocalyptic imagery; it
opens with a vision of the sun and moon leading forward the «Vision of Heaven & Earth,»
which is immediately followed by an apocalyptic epiphany of Jesus as the Son of
Man: «And the Divine Appearance was the likeness & similitude of Los.»
The only futures
open to post-Christian culture are conscious nihilism, with its inevitable devotion to death, or the narcotic banality of the Last
Men,
which may be little better than death.
Pelagius seems to think of
man as having a «neutral» nature in
which his freedom has an
open choice for or against God.16
«For these
men the term «monogamy» simply doesn't necessarily mean sexual exclusivity... The term «
open relationship» has for a great many gay
men come to have one specific definition: A relationship in
which the partners have sex on the outside often, put away their resentment and jealousy, and discuss their outside sex with each other, or share sex partners.
Well according to the Bible,
which is the word of God as he breathed it and therefore not
open to interpretation, He made
Man in his image so he must be a
Man.
God is not only disclosed in him, nor is revelation confined to «biblical times»; but Jesus is the supreme disclosure
which opens my eyes to God in the present, and while remaining a
man who lived in a particular historical situation, he will always be the unique focus of my perception of and response to God.
If there is among you a poor
man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land
which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall
open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need....
The same writer says on page 38: «Jesus is the supreme disclosure
which opens my eyes to God in the present, and while remaining a
man who lived in a particular historical situation, he will always be the unique focus of my perception of and response to God.»
Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an
open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features
which only after the Fall of the first
man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.
Nevertheless, the possibility is also
open to Catholic theology to conceive these statements as historical aetiology, that is, as statements
which man made from the standpoint of his later experience of the history of salvation and perdition in his relations with God.
Rightly understood, and with the reservations of
which I have already spoken, the concept of existence in this sense is not
open to any objection: it simply means
man standing before God in judgment and grace.
In this way it was that they were taught that most cruel of sacrifices, a custom they always practiced after that,
which consisted of cutting
open a
man s chest in order to tear out his heart and offer it to their idols.11
A very caring and generous (real
man) just FUNDED AND
OPENED a large cancer center in my city that will save the lives of many poor, middle class, and rich,
which WILL provide jobs to many people and not just doctors.
The power of the resurrection was the establishment of the faith that in Jesus God's Messiah has appeared with redemptive power, and God's Holy Spirit is present to bring
men into the new life for
which Jesus has
opened the way.
Of the three spheres, our life with
man «is the main portal into whose
opening the two side-gates leads, and in
which they are included.»
He who meets
men with a double glance, an
open one
which invites fellowship and a secret one
which conceals the conscious aim of the observer — he can not be delivered from his sickness by any talent that he brings to his work, for he has poisoned the springs of his life.
The author of the Fourth Gospel, at the point at
which he is about to launch Out upon his account of the public career of Jesus, tells his readers what they are to look out for: «You will see heaven wide
open, and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of
Man.»
However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by
which the just
man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through
open gates into paradise itself.6
This means that primitive
man does not feel «isolated» in the Cosmos, that he is «
open'to the World
which symbolically is «familiar» to him.101
We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» and within «the understanding
man has of himself in accordance with
which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand
open to the incursion of supernatural powers.
The «therapeutic»,
man - centred mentality
which has infected much moral thinking since the 1940s has become a dogmatic insistence that the only really harmful thing is «repression» and that children willbe more healthy, the more «
open» they are about sex and sexual activity.
Religion is often described as the healing of an alienation
which has
opened between
man and his world: this is true; but we may not forget that it is religion
which has brought about that alienation.
By excising the requirement that Christian marriage be a «a lifelong union between a
man and a woman,» along with the Augustinian tradition's second good of marriage, offspring, from the list of «purposes for
which it was instituted by God,» marriage would be defined as
open to same - sex couples whose sexual unions are not biologically fruitful.
What we can do is to discover in human experience those social, economic, political, and cultural conditions
which may
open the way for the life of free
men under God.
This freedom
which is Christ and
which he gives is appropriated by the
man who obeys the call to this freedom in faith and through the baptism
which is its expression, submitting himself to the event that
opens the prison of the world; namely the incarnation, death and resurrection of the Son.
And that stone
which had been set on the door rolled away of itself and went back to the side, and the sepulchre was
opened and both of the young
men entered in.
What is decisive is whether we are or are not
open, within the imposed limits, to the loving, the receiving love, the life in love,
which will make us into authentic
men whose very authenticity is in their «becoming in love».
It is to speak of those happenings in human history
which have so
opened our eyes, and so transformed our minds that the disclosure of God to
man has taken place.
Sometimes — and this is more in accord with what has been said in this book — it has been urged that every access to divine reality (however this may be conceived)
which has been
opened to
men and women is nothing other than the working of the Self - Expressive Activity of God
which in Jesus, as we are convinced, is given focal statement in human existence.
God's self - sacrifice founds and communes with the «self - sacrifice» of
Man which the
Open Letter places centre stage.