That same
God gave us language and emotions and a soul, crowning us with glory and honor.
Not exact matches
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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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.