Sentences with phrase «divine hand of god»

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When God handed the Promised Land to the children of Israel, most affected tribes fought the divine eviction.

At most, god does exist because we find active evidence proving there was some sort of divine hand in the origin of life, which then leads us on the hunt for more evidence of that same gods existance throughout the fossil record and most likely will lead us to prove that the god of abraham is STILL man - made, but there is some other supernatural power out there.

Unless God himself came down and wrote those words with his own divine hands, those are words of men who believe to have been influenced by gGod himself came down and wrote those words with his own divine hands, those are words of men who believe to have been influenced by godgod.

There can be no doubt that God makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

The new life in Christ, the consequent transformation of all their hopes and expectations, the sense of fresh power to achieve the hitherto impossible, the vital awareness of the change which had been effected in their relations with God, the confidence of sin forgiven and of restoration to divine favor, the «joy in the holy Spirit,» and confident looking forward to great events still to come, and soon, as the result of Christ's exaltation at God's right hand and of his promised coming as Redeemer and Judge — all this lies behind the choice and the use of technical terms or concepts borrowed, first of all, from current Jewish messianism.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

Many liberal Christians, on the other hand, are essentially deists; it is their view that after having created the world and revealed the divine will in its structure and the laws of nature, God can not be looked to for further intervention.

On the other hand, without the dramatic and poetic expression of the reversal in God's love play, when Krishna is conquered by Radha and the divine bows to the human, the full reality that the devotee experiences would not be expressed.

Perhaps the best way of thinking about this is to distinguish between the loving unity that the three divine Persons experience, on the one hand, and the loving unity that defines God's eternal essence, on the other.

He was of «the nature of God;» He shared «the throne of God;» He was «at God's right hand;» He was «God's Son;» He was the divine «Logos.»

On the other hand, finding a unitary principle for the manifold of discreet entities, which includes human experience, is made problematic by a denial of divine relativity because the relative nature of God did at least that unify the world into an ordered and organic whole.

The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.

The myths of Genesis tell us, as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.

As the «outpouring» of the Spirit had come, unsought, in consequence of the life, death and resurrection of Christ, so the «indwelling» of the Spirit was the means by which He continued to form, guide and govern His Church out of the unseen world, where He was now invested with divine authority «at the right hand of God».

God is still that supreme reality who on the one hand maintains order and provides novelty and on the other hand through the process of nature and history secures ends that are incorporated into the divine self (in the divine «consequent nature,» as process thinkers would say), and thus validates and vindicates what is done in the world.

On the other hand, man too is active, but his activity is also in love; he responds freely to the love which is given him and in that response he knows that he is truly «being himself», for he was intended by his creation to be a responding lover and in no sense a marionette pulled by strings manipulated by God — certainly not the victim of the divine coercion.

Though Jesus had not, it is true, announced himself to Israel as the Messiah, and had forbidden the demons to make him known — since they knew him» — and had even commanded his disciples to be silent about their recognition of his Messiahship, nevertheless, at the last, in the high priest's court, he had admitted unequivocally that he was the one who should sit at the right hand of the divine Power (God) and come with the clouds of heaven.

God does not surrender the divine into the hands of.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

As a young man I took God's existence for granted, seeing the divine hand in the grandeur of the stars and the beauty of the flowers.

unless you subscribe to Miller's brand of the Christian faith... then he was only God's hand doling out divine justice against those that killed Jesus (even though that was a huge part of the Plan from the get go).

For Mark, Jesus of Nazareth became Son of God at his baptism, through the endowment of the divine Spirit; for Paul, on the other hand, the Son of God was a divine being who existed with God before the creation of the world, who became the intermediary cause or agent in the creation and remained the sustaining principle of the universe.

On the other hand, the enormity of suffering by creatures on this earth, and perhaps especially the human suffering of the present century, makes it difficult for us to return to any concept of divine omnipotence in which God stands silently and apathetically beyond the world's evolutionary and historical struggles, able but unwilling to intervene.

As the «one relational complex in which all potential objectifications find their niche,» (Process 66) for Whitehead the extensive continuum certainly corresponds to the breadth of vision of the divine primordial nature, even as the space - time continuum as a partial realization of the extensive continuum corresponds to the more limited character of the divine consequent nature here and now Thus, even though Whitehead does not make explicit use of field - oriented imagery to describe the God - world relationship, the concepts are at hand to sustain that line of thought.8

Jesus is the eschatological Teacher, who upon the foundation of the sacred Jewish Law but with special commandments (relating to poverty and obedience) and with divine power leads his followers to the gates of the Kingdom of God; he is now exalted at the right hand of God, and is soon to come on the clouds of heaven» as the judge of all mankind.

On the other hand, they complain against what Luther called «the left hand of God»: the divine bungling that blotches an otherwise splendid creation.

In chiding the historical critics and the subjectivists of his own day (e.g., D. F. Strauss on the one hand and Schleiermacher, his colleague at the University of Berlin, on the other), Hegel assumed responsibility for proving the existence of God and justifying divine providence.

On the other hand, the World is a creation of gods or supernatural beings; to unfold a structure of the World is equivalent to revealing a secret or a «ciphered» signification of divine workmanship.

Diego Maradona decided that only that divine name could sully his otherwise glorious performance against England in the 1986 World Cup, the ever infamous «Hand of God».

«It represents a kind of apocalyptic divine intervention upon Thomas Jefferson's vision of a pastoral, agrarian America built on the rationality of the grid,» Light says, «as if the hand of God was a very displeased claw.»

Apart from this, such conversations are often countered with views about faith in the divine, such that risks associated with life are often left in the hands of God.