Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him.
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.
And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.