Sentences with phrase «god believed in forcing»

So you do admit that God believed in FORCING marriage on people who might have hated each other.

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«No one's going to force you to believe in God.

Well Tom thank you.That is something I actually live by, both here and in real life.I don't really care what one believes but I want each and everyone to really consider it.I don't force Jesus or God onto anyone.I have studied the message of Christ since the start of my reason.It's impossible for one who is forced to believe.

To the religinuts: If by god, you mean the force behind the big bang then most atheist believe in god and we can have a discussion... if you mean that you join dead jesus» fan club and follow his club rules, (which were written by... strangers) you go to disney land in the sky forever....

you believe in a narrow view of a god based on ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings of a supposed son of god you will go to disneyland in the sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware of the possibility of a creative force which created the universe... but that god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!

I'm not forcing any of them to believe in God, but they are wrong that it isn't a person.

> I know this may hit a nerve but i will pray for you whether you believe in God or not and just know there are things that go bump in the night and there is a force of evil just as there is a force of good out there.

God doesn't force us to believe, why should you force others to believe in Creationism or deny Evolution?

Logical deduction prevents them from continuing to believe on their own, but many are force fed the continued belief in God out of their parents own indoctrinated fears.

this system of spiritual beings is a multi-staged hierarchy, which spans 50 dimensions and every spiritual plane attached to these dimensions, with a supreme, male god - being who is above the 50th dimension, and many of these beings pretend to be «good» but are manipulators who impose suffering, and through brainwashing, force, and authority / domination, they condition people to believe that suffering is «good» for a «learning experience» (read the article that is in the link i shared) but i am left wondering why so few actually question this?

The drive toward coherence, I believe, forced him (and later his followers) to reject that notion and to admit that God, as everything else, must be in time, and changeable.

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

Yes, there would be no life whatsoever without the grace of God, but in the same way, God does not force His life on others without them first believing in Jesus for it.

That can seem a cheap way to force someone to believe in God through fear, rather than rely on principle.

Lutherans believe that we experience God's law as the driving force behind the demands that human beings impose on each other as they live in community.

Humans believing in a «greater being / force / god / whatever» is fantastic!

Half of all agnostics actually believe in God, at least in terms of a universal force or Primal Origin, perhaps «within.»

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

Because God respects the choices of humans, God can not force anybody to love Him or believe in Him, and so if a person decides once and for all to separate themselves from God, God must allow them to go their own way.

HOWEVER, when you sit there and complain about people trying to make you believe in God, and throwing religion in your face, which you should rightly complain about no one should try and make you believe anything, you lose all credibility when you try and do the same and force your believe on other people.

Whoever therefore rejects the forces of evil and believes in God, he has taken hold of a support most unfailing, which shall never give way, for God is All Hearing and Knowing.

(In fact I agree with David, it is pointless to try to «prove» God's existence) If you believe that the interpretation of such evidence must be universally accepted for it to be worthy of consideration then I would be forced to simply throw out your conclusions unilaterally.

Those guys get everything the fundie wants; Unlimited oil money, guns, blasphemy laws, a herem of woman, the right to kill anyone who is different, the right to kill and subjugate woman, and force others to believe in your god the way you say they should.

she converted to Catholicism not Christianity and she says she converted because the morals fit her own not because she believes in the trinity... I believe the 10 commandments are a good set of guidelines for the world but I still do not believe in an all powerful being in charge of our «souls»... (if she had converted to Jehovahs witness she would not be saved since to them the holy spirit is a force not part of god thus its blasphemy)..

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

Please notice the kind of God I am talking about here is not some force in the universe as is believed in many of the eastern religions, but rather a God that is a person, and this person is different from that which he created.

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

If you believe in science that is fine but i cant force you to believe in GOD like I do but I will tell you that whether or not you except it or not GOD loves you and cares for you and wants you to believe in him but please think about this John 3:16 - 17 For god loves the world he gave is only son that whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life 17 for god sent not his son into the world to condemn it but through him the world might be saved

The televangelists have used this power to join forces with the political right in order to bring about a nation more in conformity with what its adherents believe to be the will of God, or at least the demands of Christianity.

Personally, I believe the position all Christians of today should be to obey Romans 13 but also believe the lesson taught in Romans 13, that the ministers of God (government) have the right to built an army from among its citizenry to defend our nation against the forces of evil.

Ephesians 1 Revelation 2 Freedom of religion also means that you as Christian may not force me as a Christian to bow to your dogma I believe John is correct in identifying Paul to be false Remember Satan is a persecutor created by God and God does not make mistakes right Jesus was not persecutor.

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

«Everyday life ceases to appear as something manipulated by vast, mysterious forces beyond human control or understanding and becomes a world that is manipulable, predictable, and intelligible... When you can get by happily enough without God, even if you do believe in him, why bother with him at all?»

Cyprian believed in a real literal and vivid hell and in the de Idoloum, he mentioned that Christ and Christian power over the forces of evil is the proof that the true God is the Lord of all things.

Strings like, «There is something wrong with you if you don't speak in tongues» (a very unBiblical one that), you must have a full submersion baptism because the last baptism you had wasn't wet enough, you must sing naff choruses or it means you do nt» want to worship God, you must believe that the vast majority of people that have lived on earth are damned to everlasting Hell, you must not say anything controversial, you must not be too intellectually assertive if you're a woman, you must do as we say and believe as we say, you must force yourself to be attracted to people with a particular set of genitalia or be lonely and unfulfilled for the rest of your life.

The point is is that it IS wrong to force someone not to talk about their god, but that it is ALSO wrong to take money from someone who doesn't believe in that god by force (e.g., taxation) and then turn around and give that money to someone who does to promote their views about that religion (such as funding a memorial with public funds).

THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD AND IT STANDS SURE... THE WORD OF GOD ALMIGHTY HAS BEEN SETTLED IN HEAVEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS WORLD... IF YOU LIKE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, «and i am so happy to tell you that WHETHER ANYONE BELIEVES IT OR NOT... ITS TOO LATE TO CHANGE GODS WORD... IT CAN NEVER BE BROKEN, ITS UNSHAKEABLE... IT DOES NOT FAIL EITHER, hahahahaha, thats when is so sweet... LET ALL MAN BE LIAR BUT GOD REMAINETH TRUE, i would never force anybody or kill myself because the Devil has blinded hearts of men from believing the truth... HALLELUYAH,,,, NO ONE CAN CHANGE GODS STANDARDS, NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And don't give us this «sting of humility» crap if you believe that you are made in the image of a God, the most powerful force in the universe listens to you telepathically, and you are immortal.

The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.

Some believed in a «Creative Force», rather than an immanent God.

As a christian I have the obligation to say I believe in God and present it to someone if they are willing to listen; but not force it on someone.

For van Gogh, to believe in God now meant not that one should believe all the sermons of the clergymen or «the arguments and Jesuitism of the bigoted, genteel prudes,» but rather that there was a God, «not dead or stuffed, but alive, urging us to love, with irresistible force.»

I TOLD HIM THAT I believe in electricity and other forces of nature, but as for a God, if there is one, He has never done anything for me... «Then all of your troubles are over,» says the man and leaves the room (Cathy Burns, Alcoholics Anonymous Unmasked, p. 39; emphasis added).

We don't want to take your beliefs away from you, quite the contrary, we don't really care if you believe in the mythical sky god, what we care about is when you want to force your beliefs on everyone else.

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

In other words, though God may order the events which allows a person to hear the message of the Gospel, and while God gives eternal life and confers the status of sonship to those who do believe, God does not force anyone to believe or restrict others from doing so.

Mormons believe that covenants Jews make with our common God are in force.

Given that evolution is forced to be taught in classrooms, with no proof, I guess I can't see how anyone would leave God, for nothing, especially when they're forced to believe it.

yes but many people are forced into believing becuase they are scared of the alternative this is also wrong, I do nt want to serve a God that wants to change me, I serve a God that knows whats in a persons heart.

If one believes in a Creator God then they must believe that God created arousal and made it to be a an incredibly powerful force in our lives.