Sentences with phrase «god establishes a power»

God establishes a power - sharing relationship with humans.»

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«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

establish the substance of God as shown in the Bible to be the eternal state ----- The bible, and any religion, is 100 % unecessary to have a notion or belief in «God», or a higher spiritual / creative power.

Furthermore, if the magistrates had no power to enforce forms of worship and to prevent insidious beliefs from arising, how then could a holy commonwealth, pleasing to God, be established?

The gospel proclaims the victory of Jesus Christ over sin, death, and the power of Satan, and inaugurates hope that ultimately and fundamentally God will establish his rule over all his enemies and ours.

Armed with this faith and the certainty of Christ's victory over death, they established the church and became flaming witnesses to the love and the power of God in Christ.

Yet when God is interpreted in this fashion, the consequence is that such a negative attitude towards novelty and change is given augmented power and those who think in this way consider their own established interests divinely approved and heavenly sanction given to their own rejection of developments which would call these interests in question.

Furthermore, we have said that it is the Christian claim that in Christ and through His power, there is effected that which men have otherwise found to be impossible, no matter how much they may have sought it — the possibility of a full and selfless offering of human life to God, in consequence of which a free communion is established between God and man in Christ.

Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements (Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pp. 13 - 14).

But what we have established so far is that the exercise of power in history, the expression of the interests, vitalities, and wills which belong to us as human beings, and even the participation in the inevitable conflict of these interests and vitalities, are not in contradiction to the real human good which is the earthly content of our life in the love of God.

If the Church is to demonstrate the Gospel in its life as well as in its preaching, it must manifest to the world the power of God to break down all barriers and to establish Church's unity in Christ.

But he is not made known as Son of God in reality until he is established in power, until it becomes clear that such a character of trust and loyalty is indeed in complete harmony with the nature of things.

Authors in this camp clearly establish the view that the power of evil is limited, and that the power of good (or God) is the absolute authority which sets the limits.

The starting point is the appearance of One who asserted that he came to announce and inaugurate the kingly rule of God in such a way as to actualize the hopes of the people of God, make effective the liberating promise and power of God, establish men — by his life and teaching and deeds — in a new relationship to God and to one another.

[3] Thus, the purpose of the hierarchy is not to establish ranks of power, but it exists to unite all things with God and conform them to Christ.

It was Jesus» own resurrection, establishing the certainty that God was victor over sin and death, that did most to assure the early Christians of immortal life through his power.

26) «Thou dost establish counsel on a rock,» and goes on to say that the powers of evil can not break into God's fortress.

When we accept our members in their weakness, illness and dysfunction, and offer them strength and the opportunity for health and hope, we proclaim our faith in God's redeeming power and establish a basis for faith in each other.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

Moreover, until the day when the kingdom of Christ is fully established, there is in the political world no universal mediator of God's rule, and we may therefore have both theological and political reason to prefer a pluralistic world with many centers of power and sovereignty.

The criterion for determining the relationship to the powers is the extent to which God's creative, liberating and serving power is evidenced in their actions, and the extent to which equality is established.

The powers of the world are just as threatened by God's power to heal bodies as by God's power to establish social justice.

Apparently these four episodes are put in sequence as variations on the theme that this is Israel's glorious hour only as it is God's glorious hour; that the word of Israel (that is, her overt, apparent nature and function as a people) becomes established against insuperable odds by the Word of the Lord (God's communicated or revealed nature and power and purpose) in mutually responsive interaction.

In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

Because the «government» has raw power over us such power does not establish any justification for their use of that power to suppress or deny God given «rights» or privileges.

Similarly, they did not merely say there should be separation of church and state; rather, they actually separated them by (1) establishing a secular government on the power of «We the people» (not a deity), (2) saying nothing to connect that government to god (s) or religion, (3) saying nothing to give that government power over matters of god (s) or religion, and (4), indeed, saying nothing substantive about god (s) or religion at all except in a provision precluding any religious test for public office.

The uniqueness of Muentzer's proclamation was his insistence that the community of the faithful must prepare the world for the rule of Christ by establishing a theocracy in which princes renounced their titles and power for the sake of a visible equality before God.

The fact that he cost more than pretty much established internationals under the pretence that he is one for the future, shows me that Wenger has a lot more power than you make him out to have; For god sake Virgil Van Dyk cost 3 million less and is only 3 years older.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

She shifts the power dynamic immediately establishing dominance by remarking that the only thing holding her back from ripping his tongue from his throat is that God had given her a sign.

«As a woman deeply rooted in my Christian Faith I have established Channel of Peace Counselling Association as a way to bring the healing power of God into my scope of practice.