Marbaniang, Domenic

ἐν ὁμοιώματι σαρκὸς ἁμαρτίας (Rom 8:3 BYZ) in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom 8:3 NAS) Albert Barnes: "That is, he so far resembled sinful flesh that he partook of flesh, or the nature of man, but without any of its sinful propensities or desires. It was not human nature; not, as the Docetae taught, human nature in appearance only; but it was human nature without any of its corruptions." Zodhiates, Word Study: homoíōma ; gen. homoiṓmatos , neut. noun from homoióō (G3666), to make like. Likeness, shape, similitude, resemblance. It is important to realize that the resemblance signified by homoíōma in no way implies that one of the objects in question has been derived from the other. In the same way two men may resemble one another even though they are in no way related to one another.... .... In Rom 8:3, "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness [ homoiṓmati ] of sinful flesh, and for sin, ...

"Faith is the foundation..." (Hb.11:1, SLT) The empirical philosopher, whose method is chiefly inductive in nature, fails to understand faith. For he sees the faith of God as impossible and the explanations of a theologian appear to suffer faith to die the death of a thousand qualifications. Such is the case illustrated in the Parable of the Invisible Gardener by John Wisdom. Antony Flew, in his agnostic period, analysed the parable in the following empirical terms: Let us begin with a parable. It is a parable developed from a tale told by John Wisdom in his haunting and revolutionary article "Gods." Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, "Some gardener must tend this plot." The other disagrees, "There is no gardener." So they pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener is ever seen. "But perhaps he is an invisible gardener." So t...

Ref: The Republic Gymnastic is for the body, and music is for the soul. Gymnastic as well as music should begin in early years; the training in it should be careful and should continue through life. Music includes literature and literature can be true or false. Therefore, censorship is necessary. When modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them. The music style must be more narrative than imitative; the artist, willing to imitate only the good and virtuous. A song or ode has three parts--the words, the melody, and the rhythm. The melody and rhythm must depend upon the words The State must not allow mixed styles that create confusion. The State must banish melodies that express lament and sorrow, and also banish instruments such as flute for promoting such melodies. Thus, only the lyre and harp are allowed. When a man allows music to play upon him and to pour into his soul through the funnel of his ears sweet and soft and melancholy airs, and his whole life is p...

Title : Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World Edition : First Copyright : Copyright © 1992 by Edythe Draper MARRIAGE A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. -French Proverb A good husband makes a good wife. A good wife makes a good husband. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen (1887–1948) A man too good for the world is no good for his wife. - Jewish Proverb A successful marriage demands a divorce; a divorce from your own self-love. -Paul Frost (1938– ) A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. -André Maurois (1885–1967) A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement. -Ann Landers (1918– ) A wife is not a guitar; you can’t play on her and then hang her on the wall. -Russian Proverb An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. As you would have a daughter, so choose a wife. -Italian Proverb Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. -Matthew Prior (1664–17...

Sometimes philosophers have been misunderstood. It could be because the philosopher's communication was vague. It could also be because the philosopher didn't use Ockham's razor and multiplied terms unnecessarily forcing reviewers to impose the razor, with the result that what needs to be cut is not cut and what was essential is taken out of the equation. But, it could also be because the reviewer was too much in a hurry and his choice of sample writings and quotes intepreted in light of his hypothesis of what the philosopher might be meaning committed the fallacy of hasty generalization (even if his critique of the philosopher was voluminous). Whatever, it is an unfortunate sight when one observes that a scholar may have misinterpreted another scholar and the other scholar is alarmed that that is not what he meant. Some philosophers give rise to various conflicting schools of interpretation; to quote an example, the left Hegelian and the right Hegelian schools that emerged...

Sundar Singh (1889-?) was born into a Sikh family in Punjab. At that time, the British were ruling over India and Christian missionaries ran English medium schools into which many well-to-do families sent their children for education. Sundar Singh was sent into one such school. Sundar hated reading lessons from the English New Testament which was read as a daily textbook in the Mission School where he went. Of course, at the beginning he did like the teachings of Christ; but, he abhorred the fact that the New Testament was given too special a preference. When Sundar was 14 years old, his mother, who was a model of piety for him, died. Sundar's life was shaken. He began to grow bitter against Christianity and the teachings of Christ. In a rage of anger, one day, while he was in his early teenage years, he got hold of the English New Testament and set it to fire  (Later, after he had came to know Christ, he grievously mourned this act as a grave sin). But, Sundar had no peace in his...

Girolamo Zanchi (or Jerome Zanchius) was an Italian Protestant Reformation clergyman and educator. (Check profile at Wikipedia , Theopedia ). Following excerpts are from Chapter 24 of his book, Confession of the Christian Religion. True Churches of Christ ...those churches we acknowledge for the true churches of Christ in which first the pure doctrine of the gospel is preached, heard, and allowed of, and that so allowed of that there is no place nor hearing for the contrary (Matt. 28:19-20).... The Church as Apostolic ...we acknowledge that from a perpetual succession of bishops in some church, I say not any manner of succession, but such a one as hath had joined also unto it, a continuance of the apostles' doctrine, it may rightly be showed that that church is apostolical [apostolic]. Such a one as was once the Church of Rome, and the succession of the bishops thereof, even to the time of Ireneus, Tertullian, Cyprian, and some other, so that they were wont not without reason to ap...

Simplified from the Works of James Arminius, Vol.2, Disputation 8: On the Perspicuity of Scriptures The Bible has the quality of letting its thought be clearly understood through its words to all who are ministered to according to the good providence of God. This quality of the Bible is called the perspicuity of Scriptures. The Bible has this quality because God, the source of Scriptures is both wise and good and has not failed to clearly and perfectly communicate His thoughts. Also, the ones for whom the Scriptures are given cannot be saved without the knowledge of what God has revealed in the Bible. Of course, this doesn't mean that everything in the Bible is equally clear to all persons alike; but, there are a few things, as for example in the epistles of Paul, that "are hard to be understood" and "the gospel is hid, or concealed, to them who are lost, in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe." But those senses or meanin...

It is not too much to say that all real growth in the spiritual life— all victory over temptation, all confidence and peace in the presence of difficulties and dangers, all repose of spirit in times of great disappointment or loss, all habitual communion with God— depend upon the practice of secret prayer. Every one of us would confess that we believe in prayer, yet how many of us truly believe in the power of, prayer? Why are many Christians so often defeated? Because they pray so little. Why are many church-workers so often discouraged and disheartened? Because they pray so little. Why do most men see so few brought “out of darkness to light” by their ministry? Because they pray so little. Why are not our churches simply on fire for God? Because there is so little real prayer. We may be assured of this—the secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer. Surely there is nothing so absolutely astonishing as a practically prayerless Christian. We are never so high...

Stage plays also captivated me, with their sights full of the images of my own miseries: fuel for my own fire. Now, why does a man like to be made sad by viewing doleful and tragic scenes, which he himself could not by any means endure? Yet, as a spectator, he wishes to experience from them a sense of grief, and in this very sense of grief his pleasure consists. What is this but wretched madness? For a man is more affected by these actions the more he is spuriously involved in these affections. Now, if he should suffer them in his own person, it is the custom to call this “misery.” But when he suffers with another, then it is called “compassion.” But what kind of compassion is it that arises from viewing fictitious and unreal sufferings? The spectator is not expected to aid the sufferer but merely to grieve for him. And the more he grieves the more he applauds the actor of these fictions. If the misfortunes of the characters--whether historical or entirely imaginary--are represented so...

But what was it that delighted me save to love and to be loved? Confessions, Book II. Ch.1:3 Trs. Albert C. Outler The works of the flesh are... adultery... The fruit of the Spirit is love.. (Gal. 5:19,22) Love is the fulfillment of the law. (Rom 13:10) [If I] have not love, I am nothing. (1Co 13:2) We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through large puddles, along the one road leading from the camp. The accompanying guards kept shouting at us and driving us with the butts of their rifles.... Hiding his mouth behind his upturned collar, the man marching next to me whispered suddenly: “If our wives could see us now! I do hope they are better off in their camps and don't know what is happening to us.” That brought thoughts of my own wife to mind. And as we stumbled on for miles, slipping on icy spots, supporting each other time and again, dragging one another up and onward, nothing was said, but we both knew: each of us was thinking of his wife. Occasionally I looked at...

Clarifications The Quran does oppose a number of heretical views about God and Jesus that were in circulation during the 6th century AD. Following are some clarifications of what the Bible doesn't say and does say about God and Jesus: The Bible doesn't teach Tri-theism or the doctrine of three gods. But, the Bible very clearly teaches about God as One in Three Persons: The Father, The Word, The Holy Spirit. The Three don't make up three different deities. There is only One God. The Bible doesn't teach that Jesus is the biological child ( walad ) of God; but, that He is the only eternally begotten Son ( ibn ) of God. He is ibn even before the world began because Jesus is the Brightness of God's Glory and the Express Image of His Person (Heb.1:3). Verses Quoted from Marmaduke Pickthall's Translation of the Quran. And verily We gave unto Moses the Scripture and We caused a train of messengers to follow after him, and We gave unto Jesus, son of Mary, clear proo...

CHARLES Finney’s Power from on High documents miraculous incidents of supernatural results in ministry in his life. Finney emphasizes on the need of the power of the Holy Spirit for any spiritual results in modern day ministry. The story of his experience has an electrifying effect: I was powerfully converted on the morning of the 10th of October. In the evening of the same day, and on the morning of the following day, I received overwhelming baptisms of the Holy Ghost, that went through me, as it seemed to me, body and soul. I immediately found myself endued with such power from on high that a few words dropped here and there to individuals were the means of their immediate conversion. My words seemed to fasten like barbed arrows in the souls of men. They cut like a sword. They broke the heart like a hammer. Multitudes can attest to this. Oftentimes a word dropped, without my remembering it, would fasten conviction, and often result in almost immediate conversion. Sometimes I would fi...

Kama-1, Kamayani. Jai Shankar Prasad मैं देख रहा हूँ जो कुछ भी वह सब क्या छाया उलझन है? सुंदरता के इस परदे में क्या अन्य धरा कोई धन है? Is my vision of all I see a shadowy snare? Or, the veil of beauty has some treasure unaware? Kama-2 "यह नीड़ मनोहर कृतियों का यह विश्व कर्म रंगस्थल है, है परंपरा लग रही यहाँ ठहरा जिसमें जितना बल है। This world is a play theatre of nesty pleasant works, The governing principle is that the strongest remain on earth देखा तो सुंदर प्राची में अरूणोदय का रस-रंग हुआ। Behold in the beautiful east the joyous blushing of the dawn!

Raja-niti refers to the politics of party and power ("raja" means king and "raj" means rule). It is the common word used for "politics" in India. In contrast to it, the Sarvodaya philosophers, especially Vinoba Bhave, in the Gandhian line promoted what they called as "Loka-niti", i.e. the politics of people. For the Gandhians, centralization of power in any form (dictatorial or "democratical") is a threat to swaraj (self-rule). "...any state, with separated and strongly developed organs of legislation, execution, and judiciary in well organised large societies, cripples the free-play of individual's faculties and curbs his initiative by enlarging the regions of state control. Progressively it attains the position only next to air in its all-pervading nature. No matter whether such government is an elected representative of its people or a dictatorially established one against the will of the people, it unfailingly produces the ...