Sentences with phrase «writing as the prophet»

For this reflection the author of the narration comes to the fore and appears to be related to his writing as the prophet is to his words.

Not exact matches

You've written off all the apostles and prophets in the bible as liars, lunatics and dreamers.

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.

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I wonder what will the religious wackos believe in the future... and the mighty prophet Tom Cruise climbed to the highest tower and defeated the evil Tethans that were holding his virgin wife Kate the tall one and his reign lasted for a hundred years as recorded in the fragments of the magic blue disks written by Sony the inscriber... or... Frodo the saviour..

My favorite Jesus quote is in Mark 1:2, where Jesus says, «as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: «I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way.»

She uses as bases of her arguments the philosophies of «early Christians,» which I feel bears no weight as they were not the prophets who understood and wrote the holy scripture.

However, as James Sanders wrote in Torah and Canon: «The true prophet does not engage in political diatribe to provide a rallying point for a particular course of action... he questions all the powers that be in the name of the one power beyond them.»

But «while the prophets are in a way future - tellers,» writes Walter Brueggemann, «they are concerned with the future as it impinges on the present.»

Among the colleagues and disciples of Sir Sayyid one of the most outstanding was the historian Shibli, who wrote scholarly biographies of the Holy Prophet and of several other religious leaders such as the Caliph Umar, Abu Hanifah, and Ghazali, thus awakening the Muslims of India to a sense of their glorious past.

But some of them say that it is by misinterpretation that we have represented the Prophets as saying such things, while others say that the Hebrews hated us and deceived us by writing in the name of the Prophets so that we might be lost.

Paul was writing to Christians whom he had never seen, but expected soon to see, and he sets forth the common faith which he is sure they already hold — «the gospel of God, (See Mark 1:14 — though the text may originally have read, «the gospel of the Kingdom of God,» as in the A. V.) which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the sacred writings,

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.

Jeremiah, also known as «the weeping prophet,» wrote a book called Lamentations.

He writes that these false prophets, these false teachers, these bringers of divisions, have been redeemed by Jesus their Master, and yet, as shocking as it sounds, they have the gall to deny Him!

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.

At the time of the Old Testament, God's Covenants were in place for His people of the time, as revealed first verbally from generation to generation, then when Hebrew became a written language, by Moses and the prophets, and through all time the intended audience knew as much about their condition and need for salvation as God wanted them to know at the time.

The Bible is a book of lies, written by charlatans with an agenda, and it has been used for centuries as a means to oppress innocent people, ratinoalize bigotry, justify wars, and as a hiding place for false prophets who bugger little boys and defraud little old ladies.

The prophet Isaiah, writing about 700 b.c., predicts Cyrus by name as the king who will say to Jerusalem that it shall be built and that the temple foundation shall be laid.

It was not written by the prophet Isaiah and is often called «Deutero - Isaiah» as a nod to its dubious authenticity.

Now these prophecies were either given by inspiration of God or the prophets just wrote them as they thought they should be.

As I have written elsewhere, your enemy is your prophet.

But since all the historical writings were written by Jewish prophets, it was not uncommon to speak about the writings and the prophets as «the prophets.»

Now let us have a cloose look at modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other flesh.

«The importance of studying parallels lies in providing a check against isolating the Hebrew prophet from his specific historical context as if his text represented a timeless religious literature that floated above all historical particularity,» he writes.

This impact was mediated as much through the Deuteronomic code as through the remembered and written words of the prophets themselves.

First of all, prophet Mohamed, didn't took any thing from your bibel as he was not educated «don't know how to read or write»....

It may be that the omission is due to circumstances which rob it of significance, yet the fact that the older sources in Samuel manifest the same oversight and that one goes on as far as the prophetic histories and then to the writing prophets for indubitable evidence of belief in a common ancestry strengthens the suspicion that things were not what later writers would have us believe.

1 Moslems believe and assert that he memorized the messages as they were given to him, then quickly thereafter dictated them to an amanuensis who put them in writing for him in the exact form in which they were given to the prophet by Gabriel.

Mounting criticism of the church's role as critic of the prevailing order brought John C. Bennet, the professor of Christian theology and ethics at Union Theological Seminary, to write a spirited defense of that role and a challenge to the churches to serve not only as healer but also as prophet.

Study the life and teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith and you can find out as I did when the Holy Ghost confirmed the truth of which I have just written to me and continues to as in our meetings today at church.

Third: The Koran was practically completed as a book during the lifetime of the Prophet, although apparently not written down until after his death.

We have noted that the Old Testament prophet on whom Jesus seems most to have patterned his life work was the one whom he knew as Isaiah, though we may now speak of him as Second Isaiah, since he wrote during the exile and about one hundred and fifty years after the Isaiah of the eighth century.

It is at least as old as the words of a Hebrew prophet, written centuries before the time of Jesus:@ @@

This is a high - water mark of the covenant concept, and of the Old Testament, as the mistrusted and persecuted prophet wrote of the new covenant which would replace the old:

As the Prophet dictated each new passage it was written down by the scribes on anything within reach, on thin white stones, pieces of parchment, wood, leather, or whatever was available.

Furthermore, Paul, viewed by most Christians as a great role model, said, «I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets...» It seems Paul couldn't see the scapegoating either.

At the death of the Prophet the Qur» an was preserved in the memories of the faithful as well as in writing.

During the year following the death of the Prophet no one worried about the written form because there were innumerable oral witnesses among them as living copies of the Qur» an complete in its final form.

Under the guidance of Zaid Ibn Thabit the correct written form of the Qur» an was determined by including only those passages which were verified by two witnesses as having been written down at the dictation of the Prophet and as being in the oral text of the last recital by the Prophet.

Anyway, I think I have written some posts later on in my blog about what you say, that the prophets worked «secular» jobs (and the priests as well) to provide for their families.

Subsequent prophets betray Isaianic influence, resulting from a knowledge of Isaiah or «the Isaianic» as recorded in writing or in the living discipleship or both.

It is so easy to write and get oneself read if one sets up as a prophet of disaster.

This spring Harper & Row will publish her book Performer as Priest and Prophet, written with the late Norman Mealy.

You wrote: Alexandria... As I said before... you MUST accept my testimony that you are a false prophet sent to lead us astray because my words are not my own but the very words of God spoken through me.

In answering this question about relative power among the deities, the early writing prophets moved out into practical monotheism, for they ascribed to Yahweh the successes and disasters even of their foes, and thought of him as in commanding control of all mankind.

From Moses to the prophets to Jesus to Paul, throughout the bible there are stories and passages that, as Jeremiah's scribe Baruch would write, ``... uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow...» I'll call...

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

From Moses to the prophets to Jesus to Paul, throughout the bible there are stories and passages that, as Jeremiah's scribe Baruch would write, ``... uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow...» I'll call them the 10 de-s.

And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: