Sentences with phrase «god achieves his purposes»

This history is quite contingent and open - ended in its making, but it becomes the way in which God achieves his purposes in one way or another.

Not exact matches

The view that we must «cook» the world to achieve God's purposes may stem from a confusion of the nature of human nature.

Theological Ethics and Technological Society» (May), is mistaken in his belief that technology will «liberate the human spirit» and achieve the «purposes of God.»

We can «liberate the human spirit» and achieve the «purposes of God» only by loving our neighbor as ourselves, with God's help.

Using our actual talents for God to achieve his purpose takes actual effort on our behalf.

Even if evil and suffering is a teaching tool, an all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

More important and more basic than that, it is because God's own purpose of self - expression does not there expect and provide for such adequacy as was achieved by him once for all in human regard, when by his prevenient preparation, his concomitant grace, and his effectual action he was «made flesh» in the person of Jesus Christ.

the diversity of religious faith through out the world through the ages is just part of gods will, in the evolutionary process of change it is necessary to have multiple variable inputs to achieved a sucessfull synthesis.since all religions is gods will, the purpose of such is beyond our comprehension or immediate understanding but it has a profound meaning and direction

In order to achieve God's purposes, God will in effect «get his hands dirty.»

Many of those who heard Him speak of it were accustomed to think of the Kingdom of God as that which would come at long last, when all the highest human hopes would reach fulfillment, and God's purpose for man would be achieved.

The myth of the divine consummation (found in books like Revelation in the New Testament and suggested by the picture of resurrection, as well as by the «last things») is an assertion that the divine purpose can not fail, that God will take into the divine self what is achieved in the world, and that in some fashion, obviously beyond our imagining, God will be disclosed as all in all.

So, while a God who gives away «say so» can no longer guarantee that he will get everything that he wants, he can guarantee that his over-all purposes for the corporation — the creation — will be achieved.

Thus, Lucifer is fulfilling God's purpose and helping him to achieve what he wants.

[12] In the words of Maximus scholar Panayotis Christou: «Indeed, since man's purpose was theosis, which he was not ableto achieve by his own means, the descent of God to man would be necessary under any circumstance, in order to facilitate man's ascent.

When he proclaims that he always does what is pleasing to his Father (John 8:29) this argues a complete unity of purpose which expresses itself also in a human nature aware that it achieves its fullest stature in doing the will of God.

igaftr, the higher purpose is not religion, but for the good of and survival of humanity, Thats what the God of panthrotheism expects from us, there should be paradigm shift in our teleology or purposefullness of our existence from individualism to holism.One direction in achieving this goal is with philosophy, Marxism did wonders to China and Russian economy, but not to Cuba and Korea,, because they stick to hard core philosophy, China and Russia restored capitalism, but the process of Marxism was violent revolution, I believe that through religion we can more than achieved our goals of unifying the world and inculcate us the tenets of putting humanity to the pedestal of Gods Will.

As the power of the future, God's activity is not only purely persuasive but does not need coercive measures to achieve its purposes» (LG 31).

We can rest content in the reliability of God's promise, while also looking about to discover what will be the instrumentality for achieving this purpose.

This Jewish category of Messiahship was not primarily metaphysical; it did not so much concern the essential nature of the divine missioner as his vocation; it could be applied on different levels — to one conceived as a «son of David» specially anointed to fulfil the divine purpose, or to one conceived as a preexistent being, come at last to earth to achieve God's will.

As the power of the future, God's activity is not only purely persuasive but does not need coercive measures to achieve its purposes.

True church unity is achieved when each person recognizes that all other people have different tastes, desires, interests, and abilities, and rather than see these differences in others as weaknesses to be exploited or flaws to be fixed, this diversity is celebrated and enjoyed as part of God's plan and purpose for the church.

Therefore, if the finite creatures are to be fulfilled, and if God is to achieve his purpose through his self - realization and the realization of his creatures, God must forgive our sins.

In God's care for it, therefore, it finds its purpose and achieves its aim toward beauty.

who insisted that God's real purpose would be achieved through a people whose national life had been destroyed.

An all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

None, however, has the power to undo the work of God, which always triumphs in achieving its purpose.

In the climatic battle scenes, Elizabeth achieves her higher purpose: the wind changes, the Armada is doomed, and it is clear that God has shown her his favour ahead of that Most Catholic King, Philip II of Spain (Jordi Mollà, leader of a nation of cartoonishly villainous Papists).