Sentences with phrase «god became manifest»

Our Christian faith affirms that in a unique way, which prompts our writing of «Son» with a capital letter, the eternal God became manifest in history in Jesus Christ.

We know that throughout the history of the Church such personal relationship has been one of the ways in which the power of God became manifest.

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Of GOD was manifested the Gods and Goddesses, the Sons and Daughters of GOD and thru GOD's Family (Sons and Daiughters) was all Life here created and established thru times» to evetually become mankinds» and womenhoods» lamentations.

We must understand this whole movement as an atoning process, a forward - moving process wherein a vacuous and nameless power of evil becomes increasingly manifest as the dead body of God or Satan; but it is precisely this epiphany of God as Satan which numbs the power of evil, and unveils every alien and oppressive other as a backward - moving regression into the now lifeless and hence ultimately powerless emptiness of the primordial sacrality of God.

Already we have seen that faith can name this movement as the metamorphosis of God into Satan, as God empties himself of his original power and glory and progressively becomes manifest as an alien but oppressive nothingness.

Indeed, the most recent study of them, by E. Jüngel in his Paulus und Jesus, claims that the Kingdom of God actually becomes a reality for the hearer of the parables in the parables themselves, which are, by their nature as parable, peculiarly well designed to manifest the reality of the Kingdom as parable (E. Jüngel, Paulus und Jesus [21964], pp. 135 - 74; cf. J.M. Robinson, Interpretation 18 [1964], 351 - 6.)

Jesus became man (God manifest in the flesh) at a point in time and His death on the cross and His resurrection occurred at a point in time.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

This selfhood that has become omnipotent, with all the It around it, can naturally acknowledge neither God nor any genuine absolute which manifests itself to men as of nonhuman origin.

What happens between God thinking something and it becoming manifest.

Bonhoeffer rejects the two antinomies because there is only one reality, God, who has become manifest in Christ and in the world.31 These antinomies that are reflected in Roman Catholic as well as post-Reformation thought are nonbiblical.

Thus (and Germanus is quite open about this) the prohibition of graven images delivered on Mount Horeb became invalid from the moment that God manifested Himself in the flesh, sensible not only to hearing but to sight.

Thus, if it is true, as has been claimed, that the idea of Christendom and the doctrines of Christian orthodoxy, were not at all what the historical Jesus had in mind when he spoke of the Kingdom of God, we should not be surprised if the continuing stream of cultural influence which he was so instrumental in re-directing should in the future manifest itself in ways very different from the conventional Christianity it later became for a period.

Strategy becomes idolatry, for ancient Israel and for us today, when we make alliances with those who seem to offer strength — the chariots of Egypt, the vassal kings of Rome — at the expense of our dependence on God who judges all nations, and in defiance of God's manifest concern for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed.

If there is anything decisive for faith in Christian revelation, it is the unsurpassably self - sacrificing character of the God who becomes manifest in Christ.

Hence, God's revelatory self - gift could hardly become fully manifest in any particular present.

Because of the overdetermined preoccupation of sin with sarx, God must manifest his love in the realm of sarx before he can become the occasion by which we can be reunited with our own more immediate relation to him.34

For a Christian, the event of Christ is important, m that sense, as providing a clue to «the nature of God and his agency in the world»; the decision made for or against that clue is important, since it is determinative of whether or not life will be lived — that is, man will move towards becoming himself — in terms of the love which is there both manifested and released.

Thus, when Paul found himself in prison, his mind turned not to queries concerning the justice of his being there, but to the uses to which his imprisonment could be positively put: «Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel; so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole pretorian guard, and to all the rest; and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.»

Nature, creation, object, fact, and event then progressively, but ever more fully and totally, became manifest and real as the dichotomous opposites of consciousness, God, and subject.

Most could keep their head above the murky waters, but I drowned in them, my mind and soul became as a vegetable, void of all emotions and life, there are ones that have my testimony when God apprehended me and manifested Himself to me, that I became One with Him in His life: I was a walking zombie and nothing more at that time, a vessel for my master use being cared for by my adult children on disability with a grade 5 education, with ADDHD and dyslexia, I couldn't even spell or string 2 sentences together that made any sense: All that has been done in my life for the last 11 yrs.

However, to Christian faith, the God of revelation who becomes manifest in the humiliation of the cross is disclosed as one who has from the beginning emptied the divine self of any claims to the kind of power and presence that might frustrate the openness of historical existence.

Never before has this consequence become so clearly manifest, because, as we previously observed, ours is the first form of consciousness and experience that has evolved after the full historical realization of the death of God.

While the religious or the ecclesiastical Christian has increasingly become incapable of speaking about damnation, the radical Christian, who has been willing to confront the totally alien form of God which has been manifest in our time, has known the horror of Satan and Hell, and can all too readily speak the language of guilt and damnation.

In Claiborne's telling, God's mercy then progresses in the New Testament, becoming even more manifest in Jesus Christ, and culminating not only in the case for the abolition of capital punishment, but for total non-violence:

God's philanthropia, manifested in the Incarnation, must become humanity's philanthropia.

It is in being himself at peace that a man becomes peaceful; it is in living the love of God that he becomes capable of manifesting that love; it is through his practice of it in his personal life that nonviolence spreads to society.

The Yahwist turned the spotlight not on the sanctuary, but on the human scene of historical event, as the sphere in which the will of the God of Israel became manifest.

Suchocki views God consequent nature as God's prehensions of the actual world and the connections of these prehensions with God's primordial conceptual feelings, such that the relevance of those conceptual feelings for that concrete situation can become manifest.

God's reign is everlasting, but at various times his intervention in history becomes more clearly manifest.

Our own practice of justice, which inevitably includes careful social programs and planning for the needs of the poor, is a necessary condition for God's becoming manifest in our historical and social existence.

In him God's will, God's world plan, God Himself, whom we do not apprehend, but can merely surmise, became manifest.