Sentences with phrase «god acting upon us»

Only faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.»

God acts upon the human spirit as its connatural environment and prompts an ever greater knowledge and love of himself, thus confirming the bonds of personal relationships between God and man and between man and his neighbour.

How does God act upon the world?

Also, in Jesus we see how God acts upon or relates universally to all people.

Christian faith, on the other hand, believes that God acts upon us and addresses us in the specific here and now.

Not exact matches

As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires.

How such a spirit of sobriety expresses itself, not simply in literary or philosophic reading lists, but in platforms and party rhetoric that can resonate with 21st century Americans, I to a large degree leave to others (our Pete comes to mind), even if my turning here to the example of Solzhenitsyn reminds me that faith in God's promises will be necessary to sustain us in the quite possible event that even our grasping and steadfastly acting upon the «most precise» political prudence might yet fail to stop catastrophe.

Aquinas does make a number of statements that sound like the view Cardinal Kasper wants to defend: He says in I. 21.4 that «the work of divine justice always presupposes the work of mercy and is founded upon it,» and that in acting mercifully God is «doing something more than justice,» for mercy «is the fullness of justice.»

In question 21 of the Summa, Thomas writes that «the work of divine justice always presupposes the work of mercy and is founded upon it,» and that in acting mercifully God is «doing something more than justice,» for mercy «is the fullness of justice.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

It was really eye opening for me — simple insights like the fact that the first wound most men receive in being circumcised is an intentional act of violence commanded by God — the goal of which is to place his mark upon us, reminding us that we are set apart and specially chosen by him.

They heard the Word of God spoken here by angels, and they immediately acted upon it.

Which is to say that the path which the individual life must take is one of growth from nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third, by acting upon its discovery.

But when we act upon the violence in our hearts, we make ourselves feel better by blaming God for it.

When natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes come upon neighborhoods, towns, cities, and countries so that homes are destroyed and lives are taken, we call these horrible events «acts of God.»

The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth...».

We place upon our coins «In God we trust,» and by an official act of Congress the words «under God» have been placed in the salute to the American flag.

Humans have brought the pain and suffering of sickness, violence, and starvation upon themselves by their willful, sinful acts against God.

But that took place completely in the name of the God who had acted upon and in Jesus, and who in the future was to act with Jesus even more, as is apparent in the confessions, their Pauline interpretation, and later the Gospels» (227).

In verse 8, we read about how God told Abraham to go on a journey, and Abraham took God at His Word and acted upon it.

As we read the Word of God, and believe what it says, and act upon it, we are living by faith.

The more God acts effectively upon me, the freer I become.

27 Love necessarily involves suffering, which may well occur when one allows the consequence of [223] being acted upon by the other, wherefore Williams wrote of the «suffering love of God»:

Wisest: Ray Hollenbach with «Bring the Script to Life» «Would it be too heretical to suggest that the words of the Bible on the printed page are not really the word of God until we act upon them?

Ogden mentions that every creature is to some extent God's act,» and that each creature has a certain freedom; 46 but he does not make use of this notion to point out that different creatures will be acts of God to different degrees depending upon how they actualize their freedom.

To say that God did not suffer seemed a strange doctrine; yet to affirm it meant that he can be acted upon.

In verses 24 - 26, we are reminded about how Moses took God at His word and acted upon it.

Living by faith is taking God at His Word and acting upon it — even when it makes no sense to the rest of the world.

We may understand why the creation of the cosmos already involves an act of self - humbling on God's part if we reflect briefly upon the theological notion of divine omnipotence.

How does God act in the world and upon it?

That's why it's crucial we keep our eyes upon the truth, read and meditate upon the Bible, pray with humility and ask God for forgiveness and insight into our hearts and His, and act in ways that He leads us no matter what other people do or say.

I hope he can reflect back to those the real, loving, peaceful and understanding God that exists, and not the perceived hateful, vengeful, and punishing god these people in - act upGod that exists, and not the perceived hateful, vengeful, and punishing god these people in - act upgod these people in - act upon.

Your notion of the «given'to God seems close to what I think of as the dependence of God upon the past as the sum of acts of more or less free beings, to whose activity God is passive, since otherwise it would not be real activity.

Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment; for you are a burden to it; the creation groans with you; the creature is made subject to the bondage of your corruption, not willingly; the sun does not willingly shine upon you to give you light to serve sin and Satan; the earth does not willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lusts; nor is it willingly a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon; the air does not willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of life in your vitals, while you spend your life in the service of God's enemies.

Major Jones, in The Color of God, asserts that black theology encourages black folk to be free «from their traditional fear of whites, so that they not only can articulate their feelings but also so that they will act upon them.»

They may object, for instance, to the proposition that God loves the creatures on the ground that it is a strange love which expresses itself by acting as God does, inflicting upon the loved ones numerous sufferings, the well - behaved ones being victims along with the wicked or unkind.

Building his confidence before God upon his faith, repentance and other acts of obedience, he places them in Christ's stead as his grounds of right to the promise and so he demonstrates himself to be of the works of the law and so be under the curse (Colquhoun, A Treatise).

It is in accord with Whitehead's emphasis upon the subjective unity of an actual entity, that an entity acts as a whole, and with the indivisible unity of polar opposites, particularly God and the world.

Then, I like to study how Jesus, who claimed to be the only son of God, acted while upon this earth.

It constitutes the «why» behind God's act of creation: «With unimaginable love you looked upon your creatures within your very self, and you fell in love with us.

Or, in the language of resurrection, they have been «raised up into» God's life, just as through the initiating lures and the circumambient invitations upon which these creaturely events acted there was a «coming down» or (if you will) an «incarnating» activity of God.

i don't care what your desires are, and with whom, if you act upon them then your behavior is considered sinful and unacceptable to god.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

But if God is — that is, if the cosmic Love is inescapably there and not simply a speculation or wish on the part of us men and women and if God is also the divine, worshipful, and unsurpassable One who is concerned with and acts for his world in all its richness and variety, then surely the significant thing for us is to focus our attention upon that One.

Under all variations of form, they continued to affirm that in the events out of which the Christian Church arose there was a conclusive act of God, who in them visited and redeemed His people; and that in the corporate experience of the Church itself there was revealed a new quality of life, arising out of what God had done, which in turn corroborated the value set upon the facts.

When we take God's word and act upon it, we can show women that their worth is far more than a pregnancy test.

The creation at large is not simply a stage upon which the one significant drama, namely human life, is acted out; on the contrary, it is all significant so that the very «stars in their courses» are important and have their place in what God is doing in the creation.

The Scriptures of the New Testament, or in other words, the documents of the New Covenant, are the authoritative record of that act of God by which He established relations between Himself and the Church; and they are the charter defining the status of the Church as the people of God, the terms upon which that status is granted, and the obligations it entails.

God is the life of the universe, immanent insofar as each part acts upon every other, and transcendent insofar as the whole acts upon each part.

It is obvious that a corollary is the recognition that love is always a relationship; and a relationship involves two who are in it — God to man, man to God — in which each of them is not only acting in a causal manner but also being acted upon in an affective manner.