This is one of those books that makes me go deep into my own beliefs about love, along
with Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis, All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks and Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships by Meg - John Barker.
Not exact matches
Thanks for your ideas I
love them, also agriculture investment can be nice like tomato hothouse
with half the produce for the grower and the sales profit for the grower The genocide
against the international Japanese community some 2 million in the European Union at least can break the world economy and leave the One Sunrise War for True Japanese Survival the only alternative
Spread the
love Litecoin has been following up
with the latest trend in the market which means that LTC is trading up in the green
against the dollar...
Thiel had funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit
against Gawker after it published a video showing the former professional wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, in a sexual encounter
with the wife of a former friend, radio host Bubba the
Love Sponge.
Many of the folks she once had a prejudice
against have been the ones to surround her
with loving support.
If you are aware that Jesus specifically spoke just to the israelites and many of his various parables were meant for israelites, then you would know the «having an open mind» and «turning the other cheek» and «
loving one another» was also just for jews and he was totally fine
with killing non-jews, fighting back
against non jews and being completely closed minded when it came to other religions.
I will continue to attempt to achieve things in my life
with music that means a lot to me, but that's going to be
against the counterpart of just enjoying and
loving every moment of being alive.»
The problem
with Observer's comment is that if God suddenly appeared before Atheists it would go
against His nature of
love.
I am not sure what you mean by «
love» but I'd encourage you to discuss this
with a true servant of faith, rather than continue in rage
against what you oppose.
But as you mentioned
with # 2 and # 4, there are biblical passages that offer support for
loving, redemptive, discipline and for controlled anger
against sin.
Our
love of the past conflicts often
with your plans for the future; our
love of order does not show up on abstract statistics; our tendency to look to each other for affection and support stands
against a minister's wish to obtain emotional support away from the small church.
And it is because Jesus
loves the man
with the withered hand, and because he
loves God and his kingdom, that Jesus is angry at those who would obstruct compassion and plot
against his life.
The
love poetry of this period of Indian literature is characterized by a deep longing for communion
with God.13 The other side of the reaction
against the rise of Shankara's Advaita Vedantic thought was a more philosophic one.
I pray for the courage to hope again, to push back
against the darkness
with hope and
love together.
In the poem «Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,» Wendell Berry's mad farmer warns
against the
love of «the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation
with pay,» a life which makes one «afraid to know your neighbors and to die.»
We must set
against this rather daunting prospect Teresa of Avila's seemingly casual description of prayer as «simply a friendly and frequently solitary conversation
with him who, as we know,
loves us.»
In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's
love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go
against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers
with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.
Shouldn't the sin of rebellion
against God be repaid
with a deprivation of God's Law, the greatest expression of His own particular
love for the Jews?
The problem
with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy, which leads to the commission of sins
against the law of
love, which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other laws.
In great areas of human action man's refusal to accept his finiteness makes him proud, self - righteous, and in rebellion
against God; man's selfishness makes him refuse to use his freedom
with love toward his fellow men.
So long as we embrace marriage
with the same standards as any monogamous,
loving heterosexual relationship there should be no barrier
against us.
Measure the decision to not support World Vision
against this teaching of Christ himself and tell me if it's hypocritical or not ««
Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and
with all your soul and
with all your mind.»
«Sin» is doing anything
against the will of God, I.e., if you believe God isn't down
with the man
love, it's a sin.
When Rob Bell released
Love Wins, a book that made a compelling biblical case
against the exclusivist theology that all non-Christians will be condemned to eternal conscious torment in hell, the Southern Baptist Convention released a resolution that stated: «Being troubled, even deeply troubled, by the implications of the biblical text does not give us a reason to abandon the text or force it into a mold that rests comfortably
with us.
Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type of Christian for white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in
love with Mitt Romney the Mormon, of which most of these churches have preached
against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type of doctrine.
... Trusted God was
love indeed, And
love Creation's final law; Tho» Nature, red in tooth and claw,
With ravine, shriek'd
against his creed.
I'm in a relationship
with a nonbelievers which my family and society are totally
against it but I really think he
loves me.
The preferred Eastern Orthodox understanding of hell, one
with profound patristic pedigrees, defines hell as something self - imposed, a condition of the soul that freely refuses to open itself in
love to God and neighbor, and that thereby seals itself
against the deifying
love of God, thereby experiencing divine glory as an external chastisement.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes
with sword, turns families
against each other, those that
love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not
with Jesus, you're
against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence
against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Yet in spite of the fact that the Jewish people have struggled endlessly
against their election,
with the most disastrous consequences for themselves and for the rest of humankind, the divine election remains unaffected because it is an unconditional one, based solely on God's
love.
Christians standing
against the LGBT movement has nothing to do
with not
loving gay people.
God can not act
against his nature, and so I believe we can understand all teh stories in Romans 9 in a way that is consistent
with love, mercy, fairness, and justice, without having to appeal to the «God is God and I am not» mentality.
We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing
against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he
loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson
with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.
God is
against xenophobia and homophobia and pretty much any phobia that deals
with people for God calls us to
love those who are different than us, not fear them.
And Moses» terrific anger
against the idolaters signifies that he threatens them
with castration — the punishment for
loving one's mother.»
Dear Jeremy I want to know that we all know that god is very
loving and forgiving he will forgive every sin except one and that is blasphemy
against the holy spirit and god can even forgive murder then why not such a sin that can be forgiven
with in half an hour by an average human then why the punishment is really much worse eternal damnation?
It is this picture which confronts us powerfully
with the choice for or
against God and
love, this understanding which serves as our focus, our compass, our Christ.
Rose aligns Taylor
with «many theologians» of the modern era who «set faith
against dogma and
love against doctrine.»
«Atheists» have no proof (
love that word in this topic)
against God and still believe in nothing
with the same amount of dedication and blindness of the «christians», getting their fuzzy feeling from chiming in about how much they «know»
against God.
Their sense of reasoning about unconditional
love appears to be non-existent when compared
with ongoing prejudice and discrimination
against others.
He
loved the legalist in me as He
loved the rebel who, honestly, didn't want to rebel
against God, but
against a disease - causing religious system
with its spiritual abuse and
against those who once abused me sexually.
Feel sorry for those and my heart feels for them and wish them guidance to God and true peaceful belief brings
love and mercy to humanity which is losing it meaning every day
with what's happening all through the world because of disrespect, loss of morals, discrimination, unexplained hatred
against nations and religions?!
If God is conceived differently than tradition has presented and elevated, if the transcendent God is simultaneously the immanent God who is perennially
with us and not over
against us, if God's being is first
love, after which power comes to be defined within the implicates of
love, then such a God would be one whose death truly would be mourned.
An unrepentant morning person, I signed up for 7:50 classes and, even though it went
against his natural night owl tendencies, he woke up early just to eat breakfast
with me: then
love looked like 7:20 in the cafeteria, black coffee in hand.
As the sent church of God we must
love the people in the world
with the
love of Christ expressed in words and deeds, while hating the broken and sinful systems of the world that war
against the Kingdom of God.
In
love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts
against each other or to fight in war
with each other but are to become as one or wallies
against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!
Sexual looseness is repeatedly condemned; husbands are urged to
love their wives; marital fidelity even when «unequally yoked together
with unbelievers» (K.J.V.) is counseled though warnings are given
against assuming voluntarily such a relationship (I Cor.
For what this truly and blessedly means is that God can not be less than man, endowed
with personality, freedom und
love, and that the mystery itself is free protective
love, not an «objective order» which one can, after all, possess (at least in principle), and
against which one could ensure oneself.
It is not always understood by the American section of the Christian revolt that a considerable section of the so - called German Christian movement, in which the confusion of gospel and nationalism prevails, had sources in just such a reaction as its own
against an individualistic, profit -
loving and capitalistic civilization, and
against the church in alliance
with that civilization.
For me, watching people get away
with all kinds of horribly abusive things and not speaking
against it and stopping it... is not
love.