Sentences with phrase «god by humanity»

The Lamb of God is not offered to God by humanity, but is God offered to us to enable a new humanity.

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Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.»

He is guided by Max Stackhouse's definition of religious humanism: «Humanity can not be understood without reference to God; and neither God nor God's revelation can be understood except through the lens of thought and experience.»

For instance, humanity gloats over financial gain, calling it success, but by God's definition of success, the two are incomparable.

-- you are being tested... what you are saying is part of the tests you were created to believe in One God and by using the free will you are denying the oneness of God... this is the biggest test... and so in your daily life... you will see everything on that day and its promise of the Almighty to the humanity... but we just have to be patient and wait till the day comes....

No one ever existed by the name of Jesus in human history, but hinduism, fabrication of hindu's, criminals of hinduism, racism to hind, fool humanity in to gentile ism, slavery of other human as their god, such as King's and their hindu criminal Prophets, criminal fortune tellers, profession of writers of book of hindu Mithraism, savior ism, called Bile.

God being Alpha and Omega (as described in the Bible) knew the beginning and the end yet he concocted this asinine plan of saving humanity by creating a treasonous double crossing angel (Lucifer) and letting him cross the perimeter of Eden to trick Adam and Even into sin and thus their descendants would then require a so called redeemer to save.

In this Christocentric view, humanity is fully participant in an order best described as theonomous, a reality ordered by God and to God.

Classical Christianity provides a more adequate way of «situating» humanity by reference to the God - Man, Jesus Christ.

This is the Christianity I knew as a child... lead by example... represent God through acts of compassion and humanity.

Third, the song of reason's gift by which we understand the uses of nature to preserve and enhance the well - being of humanity» humanity being the part of creation that God became in order that we might become fully God's.

Marine57 writes with the same ardor and certainty felt by every True Believer ™ of every god that humanity has ever worshiped.

What is «different» about the contract God made with humanity, and through us with * his * creation is that it is kept in force by * his * Unconditional Love and faithfulness, not on human performance or fidelity.

therefore even if you wish to say it is brave or not, like all events following the incarnation, they are not accomplished for the sake of God who has accomplished them, but for humanity which may be edified by them.

If there was indeed a «God» I sincerely doubt he would want humanity oppressed by Catholics, Muslims or any other like minded fools.

This doesn't explain God to me by any means but as I said before it gives a little insight sometimes as to how this could begin to make sense, a God trying to establish relationship with humanity.

Strange, strange theories invented by violent, murderous humanity to explain away why not only was it o.k. to kill God in person, but somehow it was a great thing for us.

JUDAISM, Self center ism, pig ism, or Atheism, invented by hindu's pagan's of Egypt by corruption of truth absolute in Torah to Justify hindu pagan Pharaoh's and their hindu pagan Santans, goons as god's to rule over humanity with impunity.

What we read in the Old Testament should not be interpreted as God's approval of such crimes against the human person, but rather we should see how far humanity had to mature, be healed and be guided by God in these times before Jesus Christ's revealing and redeeming work for us.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

But in the very moment of the rejection of God by man, Christ - who is both fully human and fully divine — accepts the rejection and turns to God praying for the forgiveness of humanity «Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.»

That's perhaps why I am so captivated by the incarnation, the metaphor of God drawing near to us through a small baby's humanity, God with us and among us as the truly human.

Considering that Jesus was truly innocent, and was also God incarnate, the crucifixion is, without a doubt, by far the most evil event ever carried out in the history of all humanity.

And considering that Jesus was truly innocent, and was also God incarnate, the crucifixion is, without a doubt, by far the most evil event ever carried out in the history of all humanity.

He is often despised and rejected by men, and is treated as a criminal by some, and if the world could put God in trial, they would most certainly condemn Him to death for crimes against humanity.

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

Already beginning with Franz Kafka, it has been the Jew who has most poignantly unveiled the bad faith of the modern Christian world's belief in God, and no doubt the Jew has most clearly and truly seen this bad faith, because he exists as an exile in the Christian world, an exile whose humanity is negated by the Christian faith and hope.

It wasn't just humanity, or «the flesh», that was ontologically affected by this mysterious and nearly incomprehensible act, but also God in his very being was affected.

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregation.

God's love has [48] been reduced to a stance God takes unswervingly toward the creation and fallen humanity, bereft of passion and particularity, an eternal and unchanging love utterly unaffected by the responses of the beloved.

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

That the mission Jesus sends them on is a reflection of God's own gracious mission to humanity in himself is made clear by the saying, «You have received without payment; give without payment.»

The crucifying impact of sin on the whole human race will inevitably have a devastating impact upon the sacred humanity of Christ precisely because he is - by right, vocation and very ontology - ourfinal and plenary union with God.

God's wrath is poured out upon humanity in the fact that by the very zeal we exert to do our duty and excel in our vocation, we contribute to the dynamics of sin and death in the world.

God continues to order the natural life of humanity by means of the concrete historical structures that impinge on our existence — the particular systems of government, economics, and family that frame our life.

This act, however, by which God created a new manhood out of the material of fallen humanity, is his supreme work.

Once God has ceased to exist in human experience as the omnipotent and numinous Lord, there perishes with him every moral imperative addressed to man from a beyond, and humanity ceases to be imprisoned by an obedience to an external will or authority.

The eternal peace of humanity with God, received by faith on account of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the power of Satan, is dismissed as pie in the sky to be exchanged for the various approximations of peace and happiness that in good times this world also knows about and experiences.

- to affirm - that the essence of Christian life is not focused on sexual orientation, but how one lives by grace in relationship with God, with compassion toward humanity;

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

What is more, God calls humanity to be co-workers with God in overcoming evil, wrong, and sin by our devotion, vigorous effort, and willing response to what we know of God's love and God's purpose for us.

This is now the challenge of modern theologians to develop a religion where Jesus is God, sent by Him to save humanity but most doctrines in the bible must be revised.

The closing pages of Jerusalem record a vision of a coming apocalyptic coincidentia oppositorum, revealing how the final union of God and man will annihilate the God who alone is God by resurrecting him as «The Great Humanity Divine.»

I am, therefore, sympathetic to the attempt to see his divinity in his humanity and find most helpful an influential book written in 1947 by the Scottish theologian, Donald Baillie (1887 - 1954) called God Was in Christ Baillie tried to explain the incarnation in terms of the paradox of grace.

God has to deal with a humanity which can learn to love and be reached by love only through the divine self - giving and suffering.

The small family that is formed by this task offers hospitality to the Lord of all, while God offers all humanity hospitality by inviting us to join the household of heaven.

The capacities needed to apprehend God must be guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present and by God's idiosyncratic reality, not by persons» interests in realizing or fulfilling themselves; but the shaping and transforming of persons» identities this involves will in fact also bring with them movement toward fulfillment of their humanity.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

It is now the history of humanity as lived under the impact of the new faith which is born out of response to Jesus, and through which a new «people» has come into being which lives by the mercy God has shown in him.