The statement of Pl that ?letter kills but the spirit gives life' [2 Corinthians 3.6] has had an extraordinary impact on Christian thought through the ages. It has been read both as affirming the saving power of the new covenant in comparison to the old, and as a key to hidden, ...
6He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. The Greater Glory of the New Covenant 7Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so...
Therapists and counselors say those first 4-8 weeks out of a program are crucial for lifetime recovery. Especially those recovering from substance abuse. Those with alcohol can often go back to the grind, other users can’t take the same hit. It’s too powerful and usually kills them. ...
Having just returned from my first ever trip to the UK, I wanted to share a few interesting observations about life that we noticed as visitors from abroad. This isn’t mean to be a catalog of all the well-known difference between America and the UK, more just a series of random observ...
interesting observations about life that we noticed as visitors from abroad. This isn’t mean to be a catalog of all the well-known difference between America and the UK, more just a series of random observations (many certainly well-known to frequent travellers but new to me as a first-...
When we die, the body’s sensory gates close, but the spirit’s sensory gates swing wide-open. We (that is, the soul, the part that makes you ‘you’) remain aware of what is going on. (Absent from the body, etc. . .) So when you die, the spirit functions much as the body...
But the rich man is cognizant of his life, how he ended up in hell, and those he left behind. His memories of his earthly life are intact: “Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may ...
One can give a bum on the street some money for food. That is a good thing. The bum spends the money on crack cocaine, and then kills an innocent person while under the influence. That’s an evil thing. Both events sprang from your gift of money. Was giving the bum the money a ...
That is when Israel kills a proven terrorist, either after he has killed Israeli civilians or sometimes while he is enroute to kill Israeli civilians. That is very important to understand. What Kofi Annan describes as an extra-judicial killing is also described as targeted assassination but ...
A bad decision-making process kills. If necessary, review the information over and over – often the answer is simply waiting to be found – and if you don’t have to, don’t rush. While intuition matters, and it can be the final deciding factor, intuition is not guessing – it is ...