Sentences with phrase «christian god character»

If we completely ignore all the evidence we have that supports evolution, just pretend fossils don't exist, just pretend the Earth is only 6k years old and we were created by a higher being, where does it show it was the Christian god character that did it?

Not exact matches

If, as many Christians, Jews and even Muslims believe, they are carved on stone by the very finger of God, and no other writings of such character were commited to stone by Him, then it follows that these Commandments are to be permanent and binding, not temporary.

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

If a fictional character such as god had that power he'd not let so many Christians die at such a young age.

I have no doubts that Christians love this character God, but the question here is whether it can be proved that this character is actually real.

There is actually a turning point where a Christian no longer has that character flaw and is forever thankful to Gods grace.

Yes, in the case of character flaws, it's much easier for a Christian to claim that god made them that way to serve a particular purpose in the body of Christ or that god will forgive their sins.

So, I began to study Calvinism and am flabbergasted that Christians can actually believe God has the kind of character that would send innocent people to hell.

I'm sorry, «Jeff», but there has never been another mythological character interpreted in as many contradictory ways as the Christian «God», therefore your assertion is a falsehood.

Well then I have to hope that «god» is a loving god and not the Christian god that care more about being worshiped than the character of his subjects.

To me it is obvious that Jesus, as the character in the bible, was basically modelled after the Buddha, mcuh of his teaching is in the bible, so «christians» are actually pseudo-buddhists wth a god element thrown in so they can still use god to frighten people with.

So, too, the christian god is a character in a story.

If praise extols the excellence of another, and if praise is the heart of Christian worship, then worship is secularized when the focus shifts from the character of God to the enhancement of ourselves, when theocentrism is replaced by anthropocentrism, however much talk of God remains.

It is time to emphasize the special character of Christian marriage and Christian burial as these crucial passages are celebrated in the context of God's acts in the church.

It helps Christians to see the difference between what God can do and what they believe it is in the character of God to do.

I believe they would see the former as corrupted with certain gnostic beliefs that slander God's character and make Him out to be a liar, while the latter would be seen as so corrupted by paganism that it basically boils down to rude idolatry sprinkled with certain Christian beliefs.

Christians believe that in the Man Jesus there is a placarding before men of the reality of God's character, his love, and his action in the world.

Violence is inevitable, but so far as concerns society it has the same character as the universally prevailing law of gravitation, which is not in any way an expression of God's love in Christ or of Christian vocation.

In God, the Creator - Father, and in Christ, the revelation of the divine character, the first Christians fervently believed, but all this became inward and empowering only when the Spirit entered and possessed them.

If Christians could come to see that we can not understand the saving work of God within us, the incarnation of God in the world, the presence of the Holy Spirit, or the character of the Christian life apart from a doctrine of mutual indwelling that is irreconcilable with atomistic individualism and all its works, we could have powerful leverage to liberate us from oppressive canalizations of thought and practice.

Newt's feet are made of clay too, and character is important, but his past and Christian - born - again life is between him and God, not us.

Since, as well as before my change, my theological thinking centers and has centered in its emphasis upon the majesty of God, the eschatological character of the whole Christian message, and the preaching of the gospel in its purity as the sole task of the Christian church.

The Bible, as God's word, reveals God's moral character and it shapes the morality of the Christian.

Christians, on the other hand, believe that God desires to reveal himself, and would contend that the fact that humans are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:27), even if fallen, provides some basis for some understanding of his character.

So, said the old theologians, God is one «substantia,» one essence and being, but in Christian experience he appears in three «personae,» plays three parts, unveils himself to his children in three characters — Father - Creator; Christ the Revealer; the Spirit, our indwelling Friend and Comforter.

(«The saints» is one of the recurrent designations of Christians, meaning, not persons of perfect character, but members of a community consecrated to God, e.g. I Corinthians 1:2, 3:17, cf. Acts 20:32).

The fact that Christian thought has sometimes been tempted to revert to a doctrine of God more mythological in character than that of Israel, should not hide from us the direction in which the testimony of Israel was heading.

we may legitimately maintain that the Christian way, with its incipient ecclesial character, was founded by the revelatory promise that came to expression in him and his proclamation of the reign of God.

But as we attempt to understand the character of Christian existence in the primitive community, the decisive point is that the personal God was known as inwardly present without loss of the sense of responsible personhood.

Christians are agreed that Christ must be the norm of our human life as well as the revelation of the character of God.

I am a believer in God, and it embarrasses me to see people who claim to have faith do something like this, for Christians already have a bad rep. I have many friends with different beliefs and I don't go trying to shove mine down their throat - what matters is a person's character, and I know wonderful people who are atheists.

There has been much controversy on life after death, hell, the existence of God, the «right religion», the laws of God, the character of God, Christians, and much more.

About 60 per cent are members of churches, but though only God knows how many of these are real Christians, it seems certain that Christian character in any thoroughgoing sense is a much greater rarity.

The Fault in Our Stars affirms a Christian perspective; the characters have unresolved but hopeful conversations about the afterlife, and are comfortable with the language of God and Jesus.

Yet belief in God, even as assent of the mind, is not irrelevant to Christian character.

For God is the center of the Christian world view and the Christian world view ultimately takes its shape and character from the nature of God.

At the very threshold of Christian character stands belief in God as that faith comes to us through Jesus Christ.

Our ways are not His ways... for dealing with things... I think your purpose for stating this, would be to have Christians question God's character... am I correct?

Though the details of Christian living are not neatly charted for us in the Sermon on the Mount or elsewhere, we are left in no doubt as to the type of character and action which God as seen in Jesus requires of us.

«Glee» may feature a gay couple (Kurt and Blaine), a lesbian couple (Santana and Brittany), and a transgender character (Unique), but it also includes the God Squad, a group of Christians that meet in school and struggle with the demands of their faith.

But after years of work on the poetic, metaphorical nature of religious language (and hence its relative, constructive and necessarily changing character), and in view of feminism's critique of the hierarchical, dualistic nature of the language of the Jewish and Christian traditions, my bonds to biblicism and the Barthian God loosened.

For the present, however, the point is that the quality of the Spirit, and hence our criterion for knowing whether any given spirit is indeed to be linked with the Spirit of God, is for Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the world.

Jeremy — I do believe that you are correct in observing that most Christian churches do not have the proper understanding of God's character.

The formal designation can be made easily enough: When we refer to «Jesus Christ,» we are referring to the historical reality about which we were thinking in the preceding chapter — the reality from which the Christian community took its beginning and by which the continuing character of that community has been determined, the reality in and through which the revelation of God, known within the church, took place.

Because preaching presses for a God - determined and Christ - realized ethicality, and because the gift of grace whereby this possibility is bestowed is ensconced in a holy story, the character of Christian preaching is a unique kind of discourse.

Therefore, it is most congenial to the Judeo - Christian sense for the non-spatial character of God.

Process philosophers complain that the dominant philosophical models used in Christian theology employ static metaphysical categories like «being,» «substance» and «attribute» rather than a more dynamic conceptual structure that captures the dynamic character of the Bible's revelation of God.

Does the Body of Christ (the American Church) have an obligation to ignore Tony's «Debacle» (an attention - getting debate being staged) and try to draw Tony and the Christian community back into the deeper issues of lack of character, inability to honor God's authorities, abuse of financial power, church blindness, and using church events as a smoke - screen for evil actions?»

If there is anything decisive for faith in Christian revelation, it is the unsurpassably self - sacrificing character of the God who becomes manifest in Christ.

It is of paramount importance Christians portray accurately the character of the God of the Bible to the world; even more so to fellow believers.