I interpreted them as one entity: a poetic combination of plant close - ups
with human flesh.
One article I found even suggested that pozole was ritually made
with human flesh (1), but that is not how it is made any more (at least I hope not!).
Barbaree and Vaglenov rubbed pig skin on the tainted surfaces to mimic contact
with human flesh.
The Christian Word appears in neither a primordial nor an eternal form; it is an incarnate Word, a Word that is real only to the extent that it becomes one
with human flesh.
Not exact matches
If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete
with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for
human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.
«One reason I hate the term «robo adviser» is that
with our model, every client gets a dedicated advisor, a
flesh - and - blood
human being.
Compared
with «pure» robo - advisor competitors like Wealthfront or Betterment, Adaptive Portfolio will be relatively tightly integrated
with help from
flesh - and - blood
human advisors.
It is precisely now and only now, when in the starving regions people are eating
human flesh, and hundreds if not thousands of corpses are littering the roads, that we can (and therefore must) carry out the confiscation of church valuables
with the most savage and merciless energy, not stopping [short of] crushing any resistance....
Only the true word of god, the one that became
flesh, Jesus, shows us how god really is and how to see and deal
with the
human / error sides of the bible.
To be sure, the Word became
flesh, identified
with us, was tempted in every way as we are, knew the common
human condition of suffering and death, and in that identification provided us
with not only an example but an intercessor who understands our infirmities.
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was
with God and the Word became
flesh, so yes, my Deity was
human and understand our weakness, though He was without sin.
Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing
with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of
human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.
Consequently, if it is not possible for him, psychologically to surround each being
with that particular, overflowing affection which characterizes our
human love, at least he can nurture in his heart that generalized but none the less real affection for all that is which will cause him to cherish in each thing, over and above its surface qualities, the being itself — that is to say, that indefinable, elect part of each thing which, under God's influence, gradually becomes
flesh of his
flesh.
Sometimes we all need a little practice
with figuring out what we really want — not in terms of our «ideal spouse» but a real
flesh - and - blood
human.
A friend and I have been discussing this exact text,
with the angle that the «garments of skin» were indeed
human, that before, Adam and Eve were something between the fallen
human flesh form, and the union of Divine they were invited to partake of.
There would be certain consequences that come
with the act of procreation, namely, a deeper union between the couple: «spiritual and sacramental love, joy of possession, and the fulfilment of
human, complementary vocation in one
flesh, all taken up to God», [5] as well as a natural organic pleasure such as accompanies the proper functioning of other humanacts (like eating and drinking).
This, of course, is not to say he is not rightly esteemed truly
human, a man of
flesh and blood
with the peculiar Biblical force of that phrase; indeed it might be claimed that the very stress laid on the limited character of his experience makes us more vividly aware of the reality of his
human nature.
R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that
human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless perfection and fellowship
with God in our
flesh.»
That's because my sister, unlike your Jesus, is real — a 3 - dimensional,
flesh - and - blood, living, breathing, real - world
human being,
with a life, preferences, substance, and history.
K. Wilson expresses it is as follows:» Christian Dalit theology does not forbid Christian Dalits from working
with non-Dalit authentic Christians, the renascent Hindus, the reformed Muslims and humanistic forces from various other faiths and ideologies, on a common
human platform and thus hasten the process of establishing a
human and humane culture which is why the Word became
flesh.
There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly
human, bone of our bone and
flesh of our
flesh, living a
human life under the same
human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree,
with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure
human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.
Our reaction toward the prospect of eating
human flesh or having sexual intercourse
with our parents transcends, in its violence, any rational justification we may subsequently give for our views.
«The Incarnation of God the Son signifies the taking up into the unity
with God not only of
human nature, but in this
human nature, in a sense, of everything that is «
flesh»: the whole of humanity, the entire visible and material world.
As
humans in a broken sinfilled world we often struggle
with «The Desires of The
Flesh» found in Galatians 5:16 - 26, which are: «Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY sins as Jeremy states over and over in his mes
Flesh» found in Galatians 5:16 - 26, which are: «Now the works of the
flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY sins as Jeremy states over and over in his mes
flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are
human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY sins as Jeremy states over and over in his message.
It is a claim that God's grace is mediated through the material: in the incarnation, God became
human flesh and dwelt among us; in the Passion, it was Christ's body that was crucified; in the Eucharist, Christ is truly present in the elements of bread and wine; as we partake of these elements, approaching the altar
with our bodies, eating and drinking, we become the very body of Christ; and in the eschaton, it is this very materiality of creation that God will transform and glorify.
Conservatives cherry - pick those passages that support their conservative view of God based on their conservative ego, and vice versa, where liberals are concerned... and there is NO way to ascertain which is true, except on a wholly subjective, personal level, thus it will never be proven objectively, since Spirit, by it's very nature, has absolutely nothing at all to do
with the
flesh and whatever seems to be happening on this earth, because Spirit is completely opposite, and therefore invisible to the naked
human eye, being of the mind only, and therefore unprovable.
The Jesus I grew up
with was a
flesh - and - blood
human being who turned conventional religious and cultural assumptions upside down and inside out.
When God walked in
human flesh, he walked into unclean Samaria to talk
with a «bad» woman, he associated
with publicans and sinners and met the accusation of being a winebibber and a friend of the untouchables.
What kind of God is this, that trifles
with the lives and
flesh of
human beings in order to win a bet?
The fall of Adam and Eve, the covenants
with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking of the divine word through the prophets, the birth of Christ in
human flesh, the life and death of Jesus, the experience of the resurrection, and the history of the Church, the expectation of the final events and the established reign of God in love and peace — all this is the Biblical understanding of what God has done, is doing, and will continue to do for the judgment and redemption of the world.
Since therefore Christ suffered in the
flesh, arm yourselves also
with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the
flesh has finished
with sin), so as to live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by
human desires but by the will of God.
A problem that started in Genesis when Bene elohim took on
human flesh, cohabited
with women and formed these half -
human hybrids (Genesis 6).
perfect God and perfect man, composed of a rational soul and
human flesh; equal to the Father
with respect to His divinity, less than the Father
with respect to His humanity.
The Christ of the Gospels, and the Christ of the Church's faith, is One who is indeed truly
human, in every respect and without equivocation; but he is also One who is truly divine — pictured first as Messiah, sent from God and coming again from God
with power and great glory; pictured soon as the Word of God, as God Himself, made
flesh and dwelling amongst us.
As God's «word became
flesh» in Jesus Christ, the promise of creation was restored and
human beings experienced the possibilities of dialogue
with God and
with each other.
Only so can the priest challenge more intimately, and love
with a depth not subject to the veto of family jealousies those who, to speak in an analogy
with Christ, are born through baptism «not out of
human stock, or urge of the
flesh, or will of man, but of God himself».
«The Incarnation of God the Son signifies the taking up into unity
with God not only of
human nature, but in this
human nature, in a sense, of everything that is «
flesh»: the whole of humanity, the entire visible and material world.
«Lacking a coherent picture of what a good
human life looks like, we have filled the gap
with quantified measures that tell us little or nothing about how far
flesh - and - blood
human beings are flourishing in all aspects of their experience.
Having become accustomed to expecting the holy in the undistinguished form of
human flesh, he now looked upon every ordinary detail
with more than usual attention.
Corollaries to these notions were that embodied
human beings are intrinsically evil and must undertake severe ascetical practices to «free» the soul from its carnal prison; that marriage and the getting of children is evil; and that the Catholic Church,
with its bodily sacraments and its doctrines of «the resurrection of the
flesh,» not to mention its rich and worldly ways, is a principle of evil.
Just as Jesus took on
human flesh with all its weaknesses and limitations, so also God, in the Old Testament «incarnated» Himself into the affairs of humanity
with all of our weaknesses and limitations.
This will be given in a way that fits in
with man's nature and through the Incarnation God shows us how: His Son becomes man and He relates to us through His
human nature, and this includes the
flesh, since this is an intrinsic part of our ability to relate to others and also to God.
We believe that throughout history God has invited
human beings into friendship and communion
with himself, culminating in Jesus Christ, who is God revealed in the
flesh.
If God is willing to put on
human flesh in order to communicate to us, why wouldn't he be willing to speak
human languages — complete
with human literary devices and
human words and
human cosmological assumptions — to communicate?
But when He came in the
flesh, He wanted to fully understand what it was like to be
human, and so He had to give up certain aspects that would interfere
with being
human.
It is important to note that Jesus» blood, which ushers in the New Covenant, is what reconciles Gentiles to God as they never had a relationship
with Him: Ephesians 2:11 - 19 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the
flesh, who are called «Uncircumcision» by the so - called «Circumcision,» which is performed in the
flesh by
human hands — remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
It has not been and is not different in the New Covenant where, from the time of the disciples» association
with the Word made
flesh to the moving present, Word and word are not merely confused; sometimes the
human word is given the authority of the divine Word.
The Word always comes
with human accompaniments - until in the fullness of time, the Word became
flesh.
We would do well to look toward a different tree: not that of the knowledge of good and evil, falsely tempting us
with a leap toward divine independence, but the tree that was built into a cross, on which God in lowly
human flesh took the penalty for
human sin and evil.
When we first meet Queen Morgause, the half - sister who will seduce Arthur
with a charm made from a «long ribbon» of
human flesh, she is ritually sacrificing a cat to preserve her beauty.