Sentences with phrase «god chooses leaders»

«We believe that God chooses leaders, and I know that you are qualified to aspire for any position in this party and country,» the former governor told the aspirant.

As a well - educated Jew, Paul knew that God chooses leaders who will carry God's promise into the future.

Not exact matches

Religious leaders free themselves from the obligation of talking about evil, by pretending that it's only a matter of free will and people can choose what they want and the consequences are only personal («between you and God»).

Yet, your devout faith transcends the arbitrary commands of the «leaders» of the Catholic Church, who believe they are the only «chosen» ones with a direct line to God.

Grant you that faith in those fields have greatly diminished, but it's also going to have to take faith to improve our situation, whether it be faith in current leaders or faith to choose different leaders, faith to continue in ones education or to change fields of expertise, and within all the mix it may not even be of help to have faith in God.

Though there were dozens of royal rulers and religious leaders within a few miles of Bethlehem, God chose to make the angelic proclamation to people without power, riches, and authority — to poor shepherds in the cold, dark, night.

The fact that your deity «chooses» certain people should be enough to let anyone see that such a god is as petulant as the leader of a high school clique, and thus imaginary

On Golgotha the leaders mocked the dying Jesus, taunting him: «He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one» (Lk 23:35).

Hey listen up in the bible Jesus chose twelve men disciple not women and yes God allowes woman at time to be leaders or pastors in a church but very rarely he does.

Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts.

First leaders mock him: «He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!»

My small group leaders and then other leaders in the church I grew up going to (which was as relaxed in their preaching as you can find (Presbyterian)-RRB- would confirms this to other high school guys and girls my age that unless he chose to believe in Jesus as the Son of God by the time he died on his deathbed he wouldn't join my Mom and sisters and I in heaven.

It is ironic how an all - knowing god wouldn't tell (oops, «inspire») his book - writers to mention that 2000 years later, when the leaders of the church created as a follow - on to his «chosen people» shouldn't condone child molestation within their ranks.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Do they think God chose Hitler to be the leader of Germany too?

but, I will not pray for God to choose who our leader will be, It is up to us to go vote.

Pentecostals also hold that they are God's chosen people led by charismatic leaders with divine authority.

Ghana's president John Dramani Mahama over the weekend called on Ghanaians to eschew violence ahead of the 2016 elections «because God in his own wisdom will choose a leader for us.»

«Our politics should never be about life and death because God in his own wisdom will choose a leader for us,»» President John Mahama said.

«Honestly, what we can do is to unite ourselves and pray to God to guide us to choose leaders who will lead our party,» Bafarawa said.

His first term alone should tell everyone that, the President is God's chosen leader for this country.

«We are sure God has already chosen a leader after the elections; so we are pleading with President Mahama to accept the results after December 7 no matter the outcome, as has been done in previous elections.»

I have reluctantly and tentatively come to the conclusion that many too many of us, leaders and followers alike, have forsaken God's Creation and have chosen instead to «worship» (to the detriment of everything else in the world we inhabit) a leviathan, the artificially designed, endlessly expanding, manmade construction called the global political economy.