Sentences with phrase «denying god the power»

Denying God the power to replace this world by another would be tantamount to reducing him to impotence and inactivity.

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They typically denied, however, Jesus» power came from God.

I was dragged back into my faith kicking and screaming, no longer able to deny the power of God in my life.

For me I see evolution the same as you see God not enough proof to say I believe it and see God as how all things started, in my view evolution of man can be true just that it has not been proven where God I can see because there is no other logical explanation for how the matter in the universe came to be from nothing, a higher power for now can be the only possible answer if science was to prove the creation of the universe in some other way I would not deny that truth.

Plantinga does believe that God has the power to create or not create finite, self - determining entities, but he strongly denies that the relationship between finite, self - determining entities and God's control over them is, therefore, not a necessary one.

I'm confused it says they will be gossips conceited unholy haters of good without love self love people in the end times to stay away not even to receive them not even pray for them is that blasphemy then it says they hold firm to a godliness but deny its power but I thought blasphemy they don't hold firm to any godliness but are not drawn by the spirit at all to wan na ask forgiveness even it says god is just and will forgive why I wish he would forgive all things his children suffer over that can't change need to also it says if u can say Jesus is lord the holy spirit is with u right or u couldn't even say those words please someone help I've been suffering

For Plantinga, in agreement with Griffin, strongly differs with Leibniz (and most other classical theists) on the fundamental question of whether freedom necessarily limits God's power — i.e., Plantinga, like Griffin, denies D1.

Second, the anxiety in such a perspective implicitly denies the power of God to create whatever needs to be created.

To deny God is to assume godlike intellectual powers, in and of itself the ultimate act of conceit.

The power that we have denied to God (the power of love) is transferred to what we have made an emanation of our own, namely, the law.

It is to deny the existence of gods and godlike powers.

Being grafted into the Trinity may be stated christologically without denying the trinitarian implication spelled out in later Christian theology: I am defined by the wisdom and power of God revealed in the death of Christ.

To deny god is to assume intellectual godlike powers?

It had to do with denying the authority and power of God.

Mormonism has no authoritative doctrine about how this conception occurred, but placing the origin of at least some aspect of Jesus» body in God the Father seems to deny the traditional teaching that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So Christians, let us follow our atheist friends in denying the existence of this false god of power, money, bloodshed, and violence, and instead call people to believe in the enemy - loving, all - forgiving God who is found in Jesus Christ dying on the crogod of power, money, bloodshed, and violence, and instead call people to believe in the enemy - loving, all - forgiving God who is found in Jesus Christ dying on the croGod who is found in Jesus Christ dying on the cross.

He has a form of godliness but denies the power of God.

This is not to deny the rightness of either corporate confession of guilt in public worship or individual witness to the redeeming power of God.

To accept evolution is asking a Christian to not only remove God from the picture but is asking them to deny the power of God.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 traitors, heady, high - minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

And if they are able to continue to gain power, some day they may even attempt to deny religious liberty to all the «enemies of God.»

Jesus reveals a free God, who is uncoopted and uncontained by those identified with religion This God is free to hear the cry of the outcasts against the guardians of religious society This God is not under the power of Brahman but is free to hear ones against Brahmans and other upper castes and side with the Dalits, who are ousted from the Temples and who are denied the right to study the Scriptures.28

While the principalities and powers of the world, originally ordained to serve God and God's creation, deny the subjectivity of the life, the people and their communities, Christ raises them up to be the subjects of sharing, sustaining and fulfilling the life in the political economy of God.

2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self - control, brutal, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

God cements mankind into society for their greater good, while each, consenting to submit his exercise of the several powers with which he is vested to the cognizance of the whole body, agrees to deny himself such gratifications as are deemed incompatible with the felicity of the rest....

To neglect the world and institutional life is to deny the sovereignty of God over the whole of life, and to practice an idolatry which confines God to our individual existence and limits the Christian life to individual behavior, thereby leaving the world to the principalities and powers.

I'll mention one fundamental one: if in these contexts I take the liberty to outrightly deny that indeed it was God who said, and not some power group with a dirty political agenda, then WHEN and WHY will I accept «God said...», this and that (and particularly more positive, palatable stuff») at face value?

While the classical tradition might deny that God is a substance in some sense, it really has to (and sometimes does) affirm that he is a substance in a sense of a causal agent, and a causal agent must at least have power, a property.»

It is because, for Friday to have the last word, the claim in Jesus» teaching that God's power is love and God's love is powerful is totally denied.

«The persistence of suffering seems to require us to deny either God's perfect goodness or his unlimited power.»

These persons are evidence of the power of the love of God which can operate even when denied a corporate home.

He could try to argue that a God with traditional omniscience would have the power to actualize any of the possible worlds of which he was aware and thus that those FWTs who affirm the existence of such a being really should deny that genuine evil exists.

As long as mankind is what they are, there will NEVER be peace among us, certainly not global peace in any meaningful sense, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either dangerously naïve or pathetically stupid, frankly.Knock the dust off your Bible, Benedict!The great Apostle Paul predicted today's situatio perfectly over 2,000 years ago, and I quote: «But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loversof pleasures rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of religion but denying its power»... (2nd Timothy 3:1 - 5)- Hello!

Why don't you god - teachers show us god - deniers how it's done, seeing as you have the indwelling power of god within you and we haven't that wonder - working power within us?

However, they deny that such freedom has been voluntarily bestowed by God, maintaining instead that every actual entity (including each human) simply does possess some power of self - determination.

We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»

They will praise the power of God and not deny it.

Denying your life story and faith journey denies the power of God in and through you.

Here Joyce also discusses the changes in Tertullian's thinking with regard to the implications of penance, between the treatises De paenitentia, written while Tertullian was still in the catholic church, where «he had expressly taught that full and entire pardon is secured by penance,» and the later De pudicitia, where he «utterly denies the Church's power to absolve from any sin which deprives a man of the sonship of God conferred on him in baptism.»

I am being denied the power to be a joint creator with God and bring new life into the world and instead am regulated to my own special place.

Having been overwhelmed by other nations, Israel had two choices: either acknowledge that their gods had done the overwhelming, and thus deny YHWH; or assert that YHWH himself had overwhelmed his own people, and thus deny the power of the gods of Babylon.

2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self - control, brutal, [a] haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b] godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

But now that Israel had been overwhelmed by these nations, one could only do one of two things: either acknowledge that their gods had done the overwhelming, and thus deny YHWH; or assert that YHWH himself had overwhelmed his people, and thus deny the power of the gods of Babylon.

while Jesus indeed did need to wash and so did the Apostles the dirt on the outside of their body we would be denying the power of God over all life if we did indeed say that disease did have its way with them.

Not that I can ever, as I said, deny Jesus, but that sometimes I think man has written the stories in the bible to suit himself (a power struggle to make us fit God into a certain size box) and I want to find out as much of the truth as I can.

I think it is rather that God energizes, in the same way he saved us, our lives «through [our] faith», which does not to deny God's grace as the impulse to faith but denies our faith any power of its own to energize the life.

When the Sovereignty of God is not recognized, the powers become sovereign by themselves, and thus deny the Sovereignty of the Minjung.

2 People will be self - centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, 3 callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power.

They preached a doctrine that appeared wrong to the Old School Presbyterians because it seemed to deny God's absolute power in determining, apart from any human action, who would be saved and who would be damned.

Because the «government» has raw power over us such power does not establish any justification for their use of that power to suppress or deny God given «rights» or privileges.