Sentences with phrase «god gave us language»

That same God gave us language and emotions and a soul, crowning us with glory and honor.

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It is absolutely committed to the negative doctrine that there is no divine revelation that delivers genuine knowledge of God; it is absolutely committed to a radically apophatic conception of Christian theology, so that no human language or concept, no product of reason at all, can adequately express the mystery of the divine; and it is absolutely committed to using theology to articulate Christian doctrine given the needs and idiom of the day.
When young Solomon prays for wisdom at the beginning of his kingship — a prayer that pleases God — he asks for a heart that discerns good and evil, using the same language that gives a name to this tree (1 Kings 3:9).
There are many ways in which such language can be given an orthodox construction: If, for example, you take your definition of «justice» from a law textbook (Aquinas likes the Roman jurist Ulpian) or from ordinary political usage, then there's no problem in saying God's mercy surpasses that.
Under pressure from powerful special interests who manipulate the language of «rights» and «freedom» in ways that contradict «the laws of Nature's God,» our atheocratic government now deems itself competent to rewrite the God - given definitions of marriage and the family.
One of the great privileges of parenthood is walking with our children in prayer, I think, because we give them their first language for how they speak with God.
Isaiah 64 gives us the language to cry out for God's forgiveness and beckon God's presence — in our homes, in our churches, on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, in the midst of the violence, materialism, injustice, and complacency that characterizes our present Empire.
The Trinity gives language to our strongest belief that our God is not merely a God of history, performing mighty acts only in Bible times, but a powerful, on - the - move God of the present and of the future.
Once God is regarded as an actual entity, the use of personalistic language follows naturally, for our basic clue to the nature of an actual entity is given in our own immediate human experience.
The global reach, extreme influence, and extreme importance of Christianity is largely due to the fact that the European races, largely Caucasoid, became the world's most dominant races as evidenced by their conquest and colonization of many parts of the world's major regions and because their religion invariably happened to be some form of Christianity, consequently, they gave the greater part of the world not only their languages, their customs, and their ideas, but also their religion including their version of what God looks like.
Then, in the early 20th century, the view that God would choose to inspire just one version of the Bible in any given language was developed, mainly in the USA, teaching that in English, that translation was the 1611 King James.
The language we have inherited from our fathers has already given some kind of content to our use of the word «God», whether we regard ourselves as believers or non-believers.
From the body language with the slouch and depressed look on the face of «God», and the upright position of the woman, it gives the appearance of the woman having the power.
Such a miracle would involve the suspension of the laws of nature at the level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language» of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence of such occasions admits only of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness of the character of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences of such primitive actual occasions.
Many since Kant have doubted whether God, who gave us language, actually uses language to communicate with uswhether, that is, God's «speaking» to people is a cognitive event for them as my speaking to you would be, or whether this «speaking» is a metaphor for some non-cognitive way in which we are made aware of his presence.
You can say whatever you want to... Al Quran teaches that God created human in different nationality, ethnicity, language so that one can interact with other and then HE gave free will to every single one of the human... and every one of us will be held accountable for the using of this «free will»....
Within the Jewish - Christian tradition, this refreshment and companionship is given a supreme and clear statement in the language in which the biblical writers speak of God as the living one who identifies himself with his creatures, works for their healing, enables them to experience newness of life, and enters into fellowship with them.
(4) Humans are neither soul alone, nor mind alone, nor body alone, but organisms compounded of soul - mind - body; in Christian language, «We are made of the dust of the earth and that dust has had breathed into it the life which is given by God
Using more traditional religious language, another person asserted that «we are like co-workers with God to help his will be done; so when we help people to know God, it gives our lives meaning and purpose.»
There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.
While classification freed directors to use explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.
Why did God create humans in different colors and gave them different languages??
Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.
The secret of his success was that he spoke a metaphorical language that was commonly understood in antiquity: Christ, he said, had given himself up for us «as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God
By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.
To believe in Christianity you have to believe that God has an important message for humanity and to give it to us, relies on languages that die out, relies on 40 year testimony from the actual date of the resurrection and relies on faith instead of evidence.
(Matt 12:25) The language of Christianity give full voice to the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah and the request for God's kingdom to come to restore the earth to a paradise, as Jesus said in the Model Prayer at Matthew 6:9, 10.
His explicit language and content may not be «safe for the whole family,» but with each song Chance gives listeners the image of a man working his way toward God the best way he knows how.
This type of confusion is common among people who have erroneous ideas about the origin of the earth and so never bothered to study linguistics... if god gave us ready made language, why bother?
In a rare unscripted moment at the Democratic National Convention this week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote to pass an amendment to the party platform reinstating language that identified Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel and that referred to people's «God - given potential» in its preamble.
When speaking of something language also speaks of itself, pointing to its ground which is taken away from it, and by this very fact given: this is signified when we say «God» even though we do not mean by this the same as language as a whole, but the ground on which it rests.
This is the more strange because the more deeply a concern is loaded with history, the past, things accomplished long ago, the more a church understands herself as a «pilgrim people of God» — that is, called, continuous, on the way, starting with a constitutive deed and living out her life in a hope which is both a given and an awaited consummation — the more clearly the church understands that, the more embarrassing her problem with a flat and impoverished language.
In the language of Christianity love of God and neighbor is both «law» and «gospel»; it is both the requirement laid on man by the Determiner of all things and the gift given, albeit in incompleteness, by the self - giving of the Beloved.
So, in the biblical account the tower of Babel was destroyed by God as judgement about them and then confusing them with giving them different languages so they didn't understand each there for making it impossible to work together to build another tower.
the god of the christians gave his instructions in a language he knew would become extinct.
We're talking other people's language, standing there eye - to - eye with Parthians, Medes, Pamphylians, Romans, Cretans, Arabians, telling them about the wholeness God gives, putting it in their own thought frame, their own symbol system, their own language.
I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.
And why are we giving the culture of Washington new powers of life and death» making ourselves «God's Partners,» in President Obama's language» at a time when that culture has proved itself so vague and so deluded about all the issues of life and death that have come before it: war, and embryos, and the unborn, and the weak, and the vulnerable?
Our sex is gifted to us by God at conception; our pronouns are given to us by virtue of the relationship between sexual difference and language; and our forename is chosen.
I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).
We either defend God - given fixed sexual identity (and in doing so allow ourselves to continue to use sexed language), or we accept mind - based fluid gender identity, leading to gender - neutral (de-sexed) language.
l) «What, in short, is the «mechanism» by which God makes himself known to man, by which the Almighty touches the mightless, by which the Limitless penetrates the narrow confines of the limited, by which Time enters moment, by which the Holy invades the unholy, and the Word speaks in words» Even when this happens, as ultimately it did, as with finality it always does, in the person of Jesus Christ, all the forms and ingenuity of human language are inadequate to give it mechanical explanation.
But rarely it is through being saturated by the word of God — getting it into one's bones until one sees everything through its values, reason, language and worldview — that we are given true freedom from the society around us and no longer need be «blown about by every wind of doctrine.»
Barth's reticence about «Mother of God» language echoes Calvin's reservations, but both theologians embraced without hesitation the teaching of the Council of Ephesus, which acclaimed Mary as Theotokos, the God - bearer, or, as Jaroslav Pelikan renders this term, «The one who gave birth to the One who is God
A choir of dancers, or soloists, trained and rehearsed in a language of liturgical movement, gives form to symbols and expressions, and serves as a vehicle through which God's presence may be apprehended.
What concerns us here is that ministers examine their preaching over time, asking, Am I employing the full range of language that gives witness to the wholeness of God's Word, from rhapsody to reason?
I will concede that giving women formula bags in the hospital is probably rather silly if we are trying to encourage breastfeeding - but I don't think getting formula coupons in the mail or seeing ads for formula (taking the «just like breastmilk» language out is a no - brainer too; of COURSE formula isn't just like breastmilk - if it were, my son would have died, since he couldn't tolerate breastmilk and could only take hypoallergenic formula, so thank god it isn't «just like» breastmilk) is that much of a problem.
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Because of the consistence light you have made me seen in the forex market, I will give you a title in my language Oluforex meaning the god of forex.
This language will be bitterly protested by everyone who believes God gave Earth to man to plunder.
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