But is
this a Christian name of God?
Indeed, what we have known as Christian language can not dissociate transcendence and God, so the dissolution of transcendence goes hand in hand with the disappearance of
the Christian name of God.
Not exact matches
I'm sure there are plenty
of Christians who are still willing to go against their Lord's teachings and attack people they claim are their
God's enemies when in fact they really are their own enemies and they are just using their
Gods name to mask their vile hatred and wicked hearts.
satan possesss all the postmoderners who try to blot the
Name of God out
of our Nation's Government and the ones that try to silence the proclaimation
of the gospel by attacking
Christians who pray and hand out Bibles and excercise their religion publicly.
Scott I agree with you there are «
christians» like myself who preach and teach the truth and try to restore the good
name of a child
of god
When
Christians or Muslims kill in the
name of their religion, that is indeed IRRATIONAL and the result
of the IRRATIONAL BELIEFS in «
God».
to be a true
christian you have to be understanding to everyone and be there for them and pray for them... not call them
names and make nasty remarks... that is not
of god..
How many people has
christians killed in the
name of god?
I don't know how many people here are from Aurora — Co, but some comments are not helping in any way the survivors and families.I respect all religions in the world and I also respect the opinion
of those who don't believe in
God or anything.But, instead
of blasphemy the
name of God, send your positive thoughts and energy to those who survived this tragedy.Even though some
of you show no signs
of good
Christians you should show at least signs
of good neighbors.You still can be an Atheist and have compassion for others!Don't let the evil be inside you, Aurora — CO needs to heal in peace!!!
Islam is on the rise and going through 3rd world country pains like the
christians did when they killed in the
name of god and ruled with religion.
I'm just tired
of people who say there is no
God saying I am stupid for my beliefs when they act in moronic things and do things just as bad as
Christians do in the
name of what they believe.
the problem with some
Christian is they don't know
god... even just by acknowledging God they'd be a step in the right direction... but then Jesus said many will come and say i saved life on your name and God will respond «I do no know you» your name is not in the book of life those who are and have never separated from the side of god and god's wisdom
god... even just by acknowledging
God they'd be a step in the right direction... but then Jesus said many will come and say i saved life on your name and God will respond «I do no know you» your name is not in the book of life those who are and have never separated from the side of god and god's wisdom
God they'd be a step in the right direction... but then Jesus said many will come and say i saved life on your
name and
God will respond «I do no know you» your name is not in the book of life those who are and have never separated from the side of god and god's wisdom
God will respond «I do no know you» your
name is not in the book
of life those who are and have never separated from the side
of god and god's wisdom
god and
god's wisdom
god's wisdom...
Satan was
of God's first born sons and
Christian gospels have given Him many other
names such as serpent, snake, dragon etc..
There is so much falsehoods under the
name of God that this little test will cause us to think, and the
christians don't want that.
With that being said,
God forbid your a
Christian, in a forum on Satanist using the
name Judas and trying to «tak the **** out
of people» (what ever that means).
There are people
of many
Christians traditions that have been abused in the
name of God.
We might all want to remember that not so long ago
Christians were responsible for massacres in the
name of God.
So at the end
of the day, even as a follower
of the teachings
of Jesus Christ (the
name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to
God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests
of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.
Christians have voted to put their
God's
name on everyones money, add «Under
God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts
of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.
Also, you seem happy to forget the millions who were killed in the
name of the
christian god.
Another epic short film / music video mash - up, «Great
God» finds Carman as both the cool teacher at a
Christian school, as well as a heroic knight out to reclaim the good
name of the medieval church.
As
Christians we worship a
God of many
names.
A true
Christian makes prayer a daily matter (1 Thess 5:17), in which Jesus taught them to pray first and foremost for
God's
name of Jehovah to be sanctified by means
of his «kingdom».
The good news is that Jesus has survived the embarrassing things that we
Christians have done in His
name, as found in the dark side
of the history
of fundamentalism, the messiness
of the religious Right, and even more recently, in folks who burn the Koran and hold signs that say «
God Hates Fags,» all in the
name of Christianity.
They acknowledge the
God of Israel, even though they do not know his
name, just as truly as other
Christians deny him when, according to the Q tradition, they perform wonders in the
name of Jesus while practicing lawlessness.
WE
Christians, believers in Christ (therefore the
name), worship the
God and Father
of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Christians are by no means immune to this — in fact, they're often worse because they find ways to justify their actions in the
name of God.
Tell that to every
Christian or
God fearing person who died do to some religious over-zelous wingnut who harms someone else in the
name of their religion.
It's time we as
Christian's celebrated the holiness
of God by keeping His
name holy.
Please note every Easter I send an email asking we bury the hatchet in the
name of God, and for our kids and because we profess to be
Christians....
If you don't beleive the Bible is the Holy word
of God do what ever you want, but don't take on Christ's
name calling yourself a
Christian and not follow His teachings.
Indeed, when the good faith
of the Jew unveils the bad faith
of Christian belief in
God, the
Christian can become more truly open to the Christ who points to the end
of the old creation, the end
of reality as such, and ushers in that new creation
of total liberation, which no longer can even be
named as reality.
Therefore, when the
Christian acknowledges his own existence in a truly Godless world he must repudiate both the
name and image
of God.
What constitutes a
Christian congregation, we urged, is the practice
of the public worship
of God in Jesus»
name.
What can the
Christian fear
of the power
of darkness when he can
name our darkness as the fulfillment
of the self - emptying
of God in Christ?
Rather than being mute and numb in response to the advent
of a world in which the original
name of God is no longer sayable, the
Christian can live and speak by pronouncing the word
of God's death, by joyously announcing the «good news»
of the death
of God, and by greeting the naked reality
of our experience as the triumphant realization
of the self - negation
of God.
(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred
name in their reading
of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century
Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants
of the
name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels
of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness
of any
god to surrender possession
of his secret
name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.
All the time we're still
Christian enough to call to
God in the
name of Jesus — the very Jesus who warned
of hell where the «worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.»
Then, to add insult to injury, Nycloe Termel, read from Philippians, leaving out any mention
of Jesus Christ, which was the main point
of Philippians 2: Therefore
God exalted him [JesusChrist] to the highest place and gave him the
name that is aboveevery
name, that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongueacknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God theFather.It was a shameless display
of offense to
Christians and Christianity so as not to, apparently, offend anyone else.
He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age
of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere
name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the
name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that
Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a
Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our
gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against
Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.
We take our inhuman behavior; we bless it with religious phrases and religious jargon; then we beat on one another in the
name of God so that Catholics and Protestants feel justified in killing each other in Ireland, and
Christians and Moslems do likewise in Lebanon.
There's a lot
of Christians killing other
Christians, likely in
Gods name.»
Blake
named God as Urizen or Satan at the very moment when he discovered the apocalyptic significance
of the death
of the
Christian God — as witness his first prophetic poem, America.
For example, praising
God by
naming both an attribute and action
of God would avoid the mistaken dualism that sometime creeps into
Christian piety and prayer when divine actions and attributes are separated.
This
god named Mammon — money or wealth — commands the devotion
of so many in our society that we need to ask how we as
Christians can deal with a pagan
god whose worship seems institutionalized in our very economic system.
But is it not also possible that Whitehead's understanding
of God is christological in the sense that it is in large measure an understanding
of what the
Christian specifically
names as Christ?
To the spiritual or radical
Christian, the very
name of Jesus not only symbolizes but also makes actually present the total union
of God and man, and for that reason it likewise gives witness to a concrete reversal
of history, and a dawning apocalyptic transfiguration
of the cosmos.
If there is a «treasury
of the Church» (D 550 - 2,757,1541; Paul VI, Indulgentiarum Doctrina) which consists actually in the active union with
God of all justified
Christians, then this, too, makes it clear that all acts
of those justified in the Holy Spirit constitute the very life
of the Church, hence that the action
of the Church is not the same as the action
of her official representatives or what is done explicitly in their
name.
Historically, the «
christian» religions have destroyed in the
name of «Christ» just to promote the selfish worship
of a fantasy
god.
We do it, by cunning, by power and prestige, by elaborately contrived false witness - we too do it claiming the while that it is done in the
name of Yahweh, according to
God's holy ordinance, even in the
name of Jesus Christ, and
of course because we are a
Christian nation.