Example sentences of "that christ was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not suggest that Christ was irredeemably wicked but merely that , in his humanity , he experienced temptation . |
| 2 | It is to point out that there is nowhere in existence a set of ‘ records ’ which could prove that Christ was either a lunatic or ‘ precisely what He said ’ He was . |
| 3 | You will note that the verb ‘ reconcile ’ occurs five times — that in some mysterious way God reconciled the world to himself and that Christ was the means and the focus of reconciliation . |
| 4 | The year that Christ was born , for example , was duly marked to help the onlooker bridge time long past . |
| 5 | This would mean that Christ was declaring himself to be a thief , for in Zanaki land thieves generally make it a practice to knock on the door of a hut which they hope to burglarise , and if they hear any movement inside , they dash off into the dark . |
| 6 | If she ever bothered to read the so-called ‘ forged ’ New Testament then she would realise that it states very clearly that Christ was a direct descendant of the Jewish King David . |
| 7 | I call ‘ conservative ’ , for the purposes of the discussion in this chapter , Christologies which hold the maleness of Christ to be essential to his nature , and the fact that Christ was male to be central to Christianity . |
| 8 | I believe that the Scriptures speak of God as Father , that Christ was incarnate as a male , that he chose men to be his apostles … not because of social conditioning , but because in the order of creation headship and authority is symbolically and fundamentally associated with maleness . |
| 9 | Parliament ordered his arrest in February 1644 after he clashed at Paul 's Cross with the Presbyterian Cornelius Burges [ q.v. ] , and he was soon in trouble again for preaching , allegedly , that Christ was to be found even ‘ in hogs , and dogs , or sheep ’ . |
| 10 | ( 42 ) If he was small enough to sell his Lord for so little , how account for the remorse which led him to suicide when he realized that Christ was to be slain ? |
| 11 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |