Sentences with phrase «god by the limitations»

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What we do know about all claims for God's existence, and supposedly inherent qualities, is that they are all indelibly stamped by the fears, wants, prejudices, errors, and limitations of their obviously human authorship.

@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.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

The whole church needs help in avoiding the depersonalization of God as we seek to overcome the limitations imposed on our Christian experience by male - oriented language.

This aim is given to the occasion to determine its limits by the principle of limitation which transcends every temporal occasion and which Whitehead calls God.

It is natural to assume that in God's case the limitations imposed by men's spatiotemporal perspectives disappear.

This is God as the principle of limitation and the organ of novelty who achieves these ends by his ordered envisagement of the realm of eternal objects.

All our thoughts, intentions and actions must be buttressed by the kind of humility that acknowledges our limitations as well as our incredible possibilities from God's point of view.

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

Already in the earlier books it is clear that God functions as principle of limitation by ordering the eternal objects.

We are no longer tortured by the dreadful limitations of man's life on this planet, and while as lovers of God and lovers of man, we are bound to do all that we can to spread the invisible Kingdom here on earth, we know that both the foundation and the fulfillment of that Kingdom lie beyond the confines of our present situation.

The human imagination, battered and torn by our fears and limitations, comes from a God who asks us to see ourselves and our world in a new way.

Again, the unspoken assumption is that what is important in the differences between religions has nothing to do with how close their theological descriptions of God correspond to reality, either because those differences don't exist or because they are impossible for us to judge, differences too subtle to be detected by us, lost in the «noise» of our human limitations, personal history, genetics, and so on.

By trusting in God (as hard as that has been for me), I have come to see that grasping a single simple truth as God allows me works best for me — namely that God is complete love and complete mercy and forgiveness without limitation.

'' be transformed by the renewing of your mind» indeed and any thoughts we have about God are not God yes, and these thoughts have human limitation.

Rather, in my view, they are most faithfully engaged with as a collection of books written by fallible human beings whose work bears the hallmarks of the limitations and preconceptions of the times and the cultures they lived in, but also of the transformational experience of their encounters with God.

Although we have been really invigorated by refreshing or learning for the first time some of what has been seen in scripture, we still come up against the limitations of our thinking and the lack of lots of explanation which God has not revealed (as per Job).

Time to take my place as a «creature» again created by God and recognize my limitations, and humbly pray for the Great Physician to work this tragedy out for His glory.

But even this limitation does not suffice to explain the creative fact of a synthesis of actualities conforming to a standard; there needs to be a limitation of antecedent selection, the ordering of possibilities of actuality and value by God (SMW 256, cf. UW 100f).

[Brightman's] notion of the Given as an intrinsic limitation of God's power, a passive element in his activity, analogous to sensation and emotion in us, can be defined and defended only in the context of an adequate analysis of what is or can be meant by «passivity,» «sensation,» etc.; and the exploration of such concepts taken in their most fundamental or general senses, as they here must be, can only amount to a metaphysical system whose defense is not merely empirical, since the very meaning of «experience,» «facts,» etc., will have to be grounded in this system.54

I don't care if you're for baptism by emersion or apple juice, are you aware of your limitations as you stand before God or holding up you're homework expecting an A +?

Whitehead's assertion that God exemplifies the categories is not an assertion that in his relation to actual occasions he is bound by all the limitations that govern the relations of actual occasions with each other.

The limitation of Hume's principle introduced by the consideration of the Category of Conceptual Reversion... is to be construed as referring merely to the transmission from the temporal world, leaving God out of account.

God does not work by persuasion alone only because of a divine decision to do so, as in a voluntary self - limitation, which could in principle be revoked from time to time.

To identify God with one of the images that is thus produced is to allow the image to conceal the imageless One, and this means a limitation by man of the fullness of his dialogue with God.

However, Brunner does not regard the Christian theological doctrine of God as interdicted by this limitation of the competence of reason.

If he takes seriously his limitation of the source and norm of Christian thought to God's self - disclosure in the encounter with Jesus Christ, then he must restrict the corpus of theology to a discussion of Jesus as Person and of what happens to man when faith is awakened in him by the encounter.

They must rather admit that divine noncoercion is an unfortunate metaphysical limitation, a limitation which God can attempt to overcome only by attempting to persuade us to coerce in those situations where this would accomplish the desired ends.

Niebuhr considered the relation of agape to the struggle for justice to be as profound a revelation of the possibilities of God's grace and the limitations imposed by man's sin as any facet of existence.

Niebuhr felt that the struggle for justice reveals the limitations of sin and the possibilities of progress by God's grace in society.

The authors of Christianity gave them a god with no limitations of any kind, so they can make up explanations and answers limited only by their imaginations, and none of it has to be testable, verifiable, or consistent with any evidence.

In God's letting - be of the world by humble self - limitation, there is established the probability that there will be a plurality of (relative) paths toward the one Absolute.

By becoming man, did the Son of God undergo a creaturely limitation in his divine powers?

But if God's aim at beauty explains the limitation by which individual occasions achieve definiteness, then in its continual adaptation to changing circumstances it must involve propositional feelings of each of the becoming occasions as realizing some peculiar satisfaction.

But if, as I hold, God can function as principle of limitation only by entertaining a specific aim for each becoming occasion, that aim must take account of the actual situation in the world.

The claim is that, in order for the process of actualization to be possible at all, «antecedent limitations» must be applied to the multiplicity of possibilities, and these are carried out in the «conceptual envisagement» of the total multiplicity of eternal objects, or ideal forms, by God.

(And God knows that he — along with the limitations provided by the other data from which a new entity originates — can bring about the repetition of certain abstract characteristics, or there would be no «order of nature.»)

Just maybe God has set this human existence up in a way that all the world prays to a different Savior or «God» not knowing who he is But all the prayers — whether they come from Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, and the diverse christain beliefs of Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Evangelicals et al all end up going to the same Savior or God — and when we get to the afterlife, the Savior — God — Messiah — will reveal himself and greet us by saying - you were all praying to me and did not know it was I becasue of your human limitations

Given the natural limitations of data recall, you are actually a bit of a dunce, by the standards of the gods.

In many ways, direct and indirect, this limitation of the Hebrew god to his own geographical demesne is revealed in the early documents of the Bible, as, for example, when Naaman, the Syrian, healed by Elisha, carried «two mules» burden of earth» from Israel's land back to Damascus, that he might have, even in a foreign country, some of Yahweh's soil on which, standing, he could worship the god of Israel.

The characteristic evangelical distinction was that God's limitation by the world was based upon God's choice to be self - limited rather than upon the metaphysical necessity of the world.4

That no similar limitation beset the Charles H. Mason Theological Seminary, established in 1979 by the Church of God in Christ (largest of the dominantly Black classical Pentecostal bodies), can be attributed to the circumstances of its origin as part of Atlanta's Interdenominational Theological Center - a cluster of schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools.

In this unchanging form it must be indifferent to how this beauty is attained.16 But if God's aim at beauty explains the limitation by which individual occasions achieve definiteness, then in its continual adaptation to changing circumstances it must involve propositional feelings of each of the becoming occasions as realizing some peculiar satisfaction.

For Whitehead, God first functioned as «the principle of limitation,»... In Process and Reality, the eternal objects are organized together and given their respective «relational essences» by the primordial or non-temporal activity of God.

There is a question, however, about what limitation Hartshorne believes is imposed by the initial dependence of the argument on the idea of God derived from the faith and the self - understanding of the believer.

Cobb says,»... the way in which God functions as the principle of limitation is by ordering the infinite possibilities of the eternal objects according to principles of value.

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