It is the obedient embracing of a promise by
God given to the world first through Israel and then through Jesus Christ and the Church.
Not exact matches
The ceremony was held at Newfoundland's
World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, where Rev. Sean Moon prayed for «a kingdom of peace police and peace militia where the citizens, through the right
given to them by almighty
God to keep and bear arms, will be able
to protect one another and protect human flourishing.»
In his book, Angry White Men, which came out in 2013 but seems even more relevant now, Kimmel surveys the growing rage among neo-Nazis, gamers, right wing talk radio hosts and men's rights activists who define their masculinity and manhood in terms of dominance and power and who believe in their «
God -
given right»
to rule the
world.
Now if everyone else involved would think, and pray for the peace that only
God can
give, the
world could get down
to business... helping our neighbor... that is, loving our neighbor.
Even though we are not trying
to reconcile scriptural prophecies with the message of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, the principle outlined in Acts 17 by the Bereans
gives us hope that
God can lead us through the discernment process in our information - saturated
world.
And in the end you, who do nt believe in
God, stand before a very real
God to give an account for your eternal life... One thing about media is that media mostly announces the bad things that go on in the
world, barely the positives.
sam stone
Given we are made in the image of
God our core «DNA» (as evidenced by 98 % of the
world population) knows there is more
to this existence than chemical reaction on organic matter.
OTOH, disregarding denominations, 33 % of the
world population believes Christiantiy in one form or another, where Jesus was born of Mary, with
God using the Holy Spirit
to form him within her, and Jesus using the Holy Spirit later, dying on the cross, and then
giving the Holy Spirit
to the Apostles after ascending
to heaven.
Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The
World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you
to come against them as they have their own trials
to overcome, therefore; no names
given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am
God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going
to be shocking, but because
God does not inform you of a thing, means
to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?
With good reason, millions of people around the
world believe that learning about
God and obeying him
give meaning
to life as nothing else can!
Moreover, if heaven is more like a restoration than a recreation of the
world, then
God must have
given material bodies the potential
to become one with him.
The problem for the religious is this: you
give to a child a TRUE understanding of the natural
world, and impart them with a TRULY scientific perspective, and they WILL see that
god almost certainly does not exist, and that religion is a fairy tale.
God so loved the
world He
gave His son Christ... I would not want my last hours on earth
to be filled with only kind words, but also with the truth of salvation thru Christ... because of
God's gracious love.
perhaps
God has allowed the suffering
to give those of us more fortunate the opportunity
to show and share
Gods grace and mercy
to them.Maybe we are supposed
to love Lucas like
God loved us when He
gave us full capacity.instead of finding fault, maybe
God trusted mankind enough
to think that we would or could do something for the Lucas» of this
world, maybe we are
given the trust
to heal the sick, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, love the unloved, if so how are we doing?i got room for improvement how about you rational?
Jesus
gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if
God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down
to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness,
to be reserved
to judgment; 5And spared not the old
world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the
world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample
to those that after should live ungodly;
By chapter 11, even after
God has purged the
world with a flood, we see righteous Noah's wayward descendants once again impressed with their own
God -
given ability
to shape culture and seeking
to replace him with the work of their own hands.
And since we are not owners but merely caretakers of this
world and its people — its Wealth is neither ours
to Keep OR
to Give — as the hands and eyes of
God in the
world we simply care for the Creation of which we are a part.
Matthew Crouch, Jan Crouch's son and the current President of TBN, said: «Those who battled for the Kingdom of
God knew her as a fighter - someone who didn't
give up, someone who fought relentlessly
to get the Gospel around the
world.
So my question
to you even before it gets
to that point is the same as I have
given to others, first why do you hate
God so much and second what are you afraid of by switching your faith and it is by faith that you believe there is no
God to a belief that
God does exist he sent his Son Jesus
to the
world to redeem you from your evil and hateful ways?
Yet, Heidegger is even less congenial
to Christian theology than Kant, for in an important sense Christianity is anthropocentric: «
God so loved the
world that He
gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»
And as for the question of why are their bad things going on in the
world and why
god does not fix them or help, the answer I would
give would be too ask
god and the way
to do that is too pray (don't worry praying is like Facebook, you post on
gods wall and wait for a reply)
Our boundedness by Christ
gives us the framework, center, vision and mission: We are the body of Christ, gathering around Jesus, dreaming His dream of the Kingdom of
God and sharing His mission of living it (in unselfish service
to our neighbour), preaching it and modeling it before a watching
world.
I pray that
God does this and
gives all non-believers a chance
to ponder His existance and see this
world for what it is.
I don't necessarily believe in
God but I think it's important for people that aren't well off in this
world to have something
to believe in and
give them faith.
For
God so loved this
world He saw fit
to send His first born of the «elementals», (Being
God's Sons)
to give hope where little hopefulness was found.
Harold Kushner writes of restful reflection: «In a
world where not everyone will do great deeds or achieve great success,
God has
given us the capacity
to find greatness in the everyday.
The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of
God in the paramedics that made them
give their lives
to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving
God, whose mercy enables healings
to take place across the
world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.
The son who
God gave would grow up
to become a carpenter - turned - itinerant preacher with a heart of compassion for the people the
world had trampled as it fed its scarcity fears.
Just another way «Christians» can
give into the
world and still pretend
to be serving
God.
And, you will find they are all working hard
to live up
to God's standards, free of false teachings, having true love for their brothers around the
world, living in peace even today, not willing
to join anybody's army, nor join political parties but respectful of national governments and authorities, law abiding but
God's kingdom interests come first, carrying out the
world wide assignment
God has
given them.
20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing
God, they glorified him not as
God, neither
gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves
to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible
God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore
God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of
God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
And
to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known
to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far
to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this
world dispensed those truths
to humanity and that
to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due
to God restoring those truths through revelations
given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.
There was no evil here, but
God gave to man the responsibility for this
world.
Having received grace from
God, through Jesus, we ought
to be the first
to give it
to the
world in a thousand small ways every day.
I do believe we were placed on this life on this
world of both good and evil in order
to know first hand what goodness and happiness really is since how can you know what happiness is without also experiencing misery, or knowing what sweet is without knowing the bitter, and ultimately, hopefully we would choose through our own free will
to follow the teachings
God has
given us.
Could the story of the Fall be an allegory for the origins of humanity's tendency
to sin based not on «original sin» but on the freedom
given to humanity in Genesis 1 and the responsibility
given in Genesis 1
to govern ourselves and this
world as free agents, not puppets or childishly dependent on
God?
Their
worlds are characterized by powerlessness, and so they seek not a meaningful word about
God, but a powerful word from
God — not
to give God a place in their
world but, on the contrary,
to overcome their
world and bring them into
God's
world, a new
world of justice and liberty.
But when Adam and Eve sinned, when they fell
to the temptation of the serpent, they forfeited their dominion over the earth, and
gave that authority
to a different «
god of this
world.»
... Instead of simply waiting for
God to unveil the new heaven and new earth, [the Next Christians]
give the
world a taste of what
God's kingdom is all about — building up, repairing brokenness, showing mercy, reinstating hope, and generally adding value (pp. 59 - 60).
For us
to come into this
world to undergo
God's test it had
to be through Adam and Eve, and that could not have happened if they were in a state of innocence and had not eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and because of that we are brought into this
world for a limited time as mortals and while as mortals we take the test
God has
given us
to see if we are willing
to follow
God and not simply made
to follow
God.
Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity
to grow and
give the
world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of
God.
When Senators Leverett Saltonstall and Edward Kennedy, both from Massachusetts, presented a bill in the Senate
to give public recognition
to God through requiring the post office department
to cancel all postage with the words «For
God and Country,» Century editors replied: «If the nation really wants
to give public recognition
to God let it abandon its unjust crushing of the aspirations of little peoples in various parts of the
world» (April 6, 1966).
Another condition of us being in this life
to experience a
world of both good and evil is that we go through this life for a limited time only, and that for us
to obtain the greatest happiness that
God can
give us, it can't be done if were all dead without any means
to overcome death.
God still revealed his Word through holy souls, raising up the his chosen People
to give the
world hope of healing and salvation.
Stop making Jesus a hippie who accepts everything in the name of love and portray the Jesus shown in the bible: the Son of
God who came
to fulfill the law, die for our sins, love the people of this
world enough
to show sinners that they were sinning, and
give us the ability
to live freely and eternally if we ADMIT our sins and live in a Christlike manner.
It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life
given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this
world god).
And it is only
God's
to give, for it is based on the recognition that it is not our task
to make history come out right or
to save the
world — through either our bombs or our peace — because, in Jesus Christ, history has already come out right.
Our churches and popular Christian media frequently
give the impression that knowing and following Jesus involves simply reorienting our desires from the
world around us
to God — thereby finding he fulfills us completely.
I do think that Jesus took away the sin of the
world, but I do not think that the righteousness of
God is automatically
given to all.
The Broken Way then showed how
to live
given to God & the
world through the brokenness of everyday life.