Sentences with phrase «god as instances»

In its thematization at the 1983 Vancouver Assembly, the phrase integrity of creation was clear in general implication but lacking in exact definition.2 In meetings of the Church and Society Working Committee, the phrase has come to name the intrinsic value that each and every living being has in and for itself as a creature loved by God, and the instrumental value that living beings can have for one another and for God as instances of an evolutionary and web - like creation.

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HAA, yes, exactly, God called it «hardening Pharaoh's heart» and he did it right after each instance that should have helped Pharaoh to see that God was right... because Pharaoh didn't want to know... so God made sure he didn't believe it... just as he'd started out not believing, he was left with it as it started... no belief.

JUST ONE instance where any god in history has proven itself to be real... oh, and your bible does not count as evidence.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

However, just as religious beliefs have caused some serious problems for the world, I can cite you instance after instance of the love of God (or for love's sake) having driven men and women to incredibly kind acts for the betterment of mankind.

St. Anselm, for instance, puts in his Proslogion what a typically modern reading takes as the «ontological argument»: an attempt to prove, by examining the meaning of the word «God,» the existence of a useful transcendental guarantor of thought, whose existence is itself guaranteed by thought.

For instance, in the case of Moses, when he confronted God in Exodus 32:11 - 13 after God had threatened to destroy Israel for their sins, Moses confronts God and recounts the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to multiply them and give them the land as an inheritance forever — and this was exactly what God intended him to do, intercede for God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousness.

If mercy is the fundamental attribute of God, then it can not be understood as an instance of justice; justice must rather be understood from the perspective of divine mercy.»

And since all parties agree that there are intrinsically possible worlds containing no evil at all, every instance of evil in the actual world must be seen as a necessary, desired aspect of God's perfect plan.

As an actual entity, God is an instance of creativity — the universal substance and material cause.

«God» just makes it up as he goes and when called out on it simply tells people «MY ways are not your ways» or tells someone (Job in this instance) that unless that person can tell God the location of God's secret snow and hail warehouses (I'm not kidding), he, God.

God may instead be understood as an element in every instance of dependent origination.

As has happened so often in the history of the Church, it is when something is attacked (in this instance male / female marriage, a male priesthood, the notion of God as a Father, to name just three things routinely savaged) that deeper insights are perceived and richer truths revealeAs has happened so often in the history of the Church, it is when something is attacked (in this instance male / female marriage, a male priesthood, the notion of God as a Father, to name just three things routinely savaged) that deeper insights are perceived and richer truths revealeas a Father, to name just three things routinely savaged) that deeper insights are perceived and richer truths revealed.

It is possible to think of God intervening in worldly affairs and physical happenings according to two different models: as a constant cosmic string - puller who controls each and every event of any importance (either by causing it or by consciously allowing it to happen), or as an occasional meddler and zapper, limited (perhaps by self - restraint) to intervening in a certain number of instances.

and when in a few instances individuals are referred to as sons of God, it is either Israelites in general (E.g., Hosea 1:10.)

One can, for instance, include many possibilities: We can envision relating to God as to a father and a mother, to a healer and a liberator, to the sun and a mountain.

In the first instance, the Law, affirmed as the fixed and immutable expression of God's eternal will, and spelled out in theological and ethical formulas, was the sole and sufficient guide for man's conduct.

A woman who is held back, minimized, or downplayed is not walking in the fullness God intended for her as an image bearer (for instance, take a look at Carolyn Custis James» excellent discussion about being an «ezer kenegdo» in her book, «Half the Church.»)

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

He answers with exact fidelity to these inward drawings, either by an elevation of his heart toward God, or by a meek and loving regard to Him; or by such words as love forms upon these occasions, as for instance, My God, behold me, wholly Thine: Lord, make me according to Thy heart.

For instance — You can throw as much evidence against a god disproving it... lets say Thor for example... but if someone has faith in Thor... your communication is mute.

atoms... all brought about by the scientific method have evidence as to their the reason why things are the way they are... NOT god... in EVERY instance god has proven not to be what it is... the reason a volcano explodes is not because the wrath of god is upon a community... we understand the process behind the event but we didn't always KNOW that.

For instance, when speaking eschatologically about the nuclear arms race, a preacher would refer to such things as the blasphemy of destroying God's handiwork and the idolatry of the bomb, not simply to a nuclear freeze.

Christian faith, as we have suggested, is not, in the first instance, acceptance of certain intellectual dogmas, but trust in the Living God.

The call of Abraham may be seen as a special instance of the breaking in of God's promise to the universe within the texture of a particular people's existence.

If the God had permitted himself to be born in an inn, wrapped in swaddling - clothes and laid in a manger, could the contradiction have been greater than that the news of the day should be the swaddling - clothes of the Eternal, aye, as in the supposed instance its actual form, so that the Moment is really decisive for eternity!

In general, the death sentence is unacceptable, but there ARE instances where it is condoned by the church, as well as God!

We might summarize the process understanding of God's perfection as the supreme instance of creativity and relatedness.

Boulton believes a practically - oriented understanding of God's providence, for example, would avoid explaining each instance of suffering strictly as divine padeia.

Some people, for instance, regard religious beliefs as propositional truths revealed by God and merely received by humans.

Thus, for instance, deciding ceases to be understandable except as a reduction to these microscopic subdecisions compensated by what I believe to be Hartshorne's general view of the entire process as a collection of particular processes which are part of a general telos manifesting God in process.

If anyone is doubting science's integrity, for instance, we could say, well science has to be as precise and complex as the (supposed) God who created the world it studies.

Likewise, Whitehead's strength is to construe God's being, and ours, as fundamentally in process: I am a new instance of becoming, a new concrescence, at every moment.

He writes: «What the word «God» means can in the first instance according to its structure be described only as a question.

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.

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.

In that instance I am an idolater because I love something else as much, or more than I love God.

In the first instance there could be reasons of a rational logical sort, reasons which challenge the coherence of the concept of God as that concept lies among the other concepts central to Whitehead's speculative scheme.

The revelation of the sacred name in Exodus 3:15 has been misconstrued, for instance, as God's refusal to be named, an indication of the ultimate unnameability of God, rather than God's act of naming himself.

You are applying human characteristics to a divine being, that doesn't work.God is more complex than that, you are running a shell game and calling it reason, you are, in this instance and for the cited reason, wrong.God is not a man, his ways are so far above mans ways, they can not be comprehended.You can not reduce God, and cite that as proof.

To cite one instance among dozens, the Psalmist's desperate sense in his anguish — which in context seems to be over the decline in Israel's national fortunes — that God does not appear to be living up to His side of the covenant is expressed as «Has His faithfulness vanished forever?»

In this instance God is not exemplifying what Whitehead calls «the principle of contemporary independence» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 96); rather, he is treated as an exception to this principle invoked to save the collapse into nothingness of the past.

I take it to be something which, far from being of little value, is in truth of quite enormous value in our attempt to come to some understanding of God's way of securing permanent validity for that which otherwise would be nothing other than an instance of the «perpetual perishing» which patently marks the world as we know it.

We might, for instance, believe that there is a God who holds the same basic values as we do.

Now, with the sort of relief that comes when one moves from thin ice onto solid ground, I find myself taking them still more simply as concrete instances of living give - and - take among men, and between God and man, which both demand and resist logical inquiry.

Yet in each instance, that which the older language sought to express will be present in the preaching, since the event which is proclaimed is both disclosure of God in act and the source of the renewed life that is known within the Christian tradition as «life in Christ.»

The promise of God to Abraham, Israel, and the Church, therefore, may be viewed cosmologically (and not just historically) as a special instance of the general breaking in of God's promise to the entire emergent universe.

For instance, the clear - cut language of the 110th Psalm, the vision in Daniel 7, and the «mighty God» of Isaiah 9:6 all point to Messiah as being God, not in a representative sense or a metaphysical sense but in actual nature.