Sentences with phrase «god ideas it contains»

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On this basis, he fought tooth and nail against the moderates in the Southern Baptist Convention or any other part of the evangelical world who rejected the idea that the Bible was the Word of God in favor of the idea that the Bible became the Word of God in encounter or contained the Word of God in some way.

However, since the gospel is about way more than just words and ideas, and also contains instructions on how to live life as a member of God's family, it might be best to include some sort of element of «proper living» in the translation of euangelistēs, such as «one who lives the gospel.»

24 For Plato, the world can only contain copies or images or Imitations of God and the Ideas which he contemplates.

It may be impossible to demonstrate that Christianity contains a new idea of God — every element in the formal Christian conception can be found, at least implicitly, in the Old Testament — but even an «objective» outsider will recognize that in Christianity the reality of God is experienced in a new way.

His word is not an idea, nor a body of ideas, nor a book containing ideas: God's word is God's deed, it is not man's commentary on God's deed, nor man's commentary on his human experience of God's deed.

Unlike some of his academic - level books (such as The Resurrection of the Son of God), this book contains almost no footnotes, scholarly discussion of Greek words, or involved critique of ideas from other scholars.

The earlier idea, in which God was simply alien to the creation, turned God into a static being, with whom everything was «already made»; hence prayer could have no real effect and its practice was nearly impossible — how can one address oneself to self - contained and self - sufficient being with any hope of being heard?

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

Gingerich's idea of responding to Sagan in a series of his own was unfortunately never funded, but God's Universe contains much of what he would have told a television audience.

Hartshorne's writings, however, contain other ideas which suggest that God's providential role in the world is richer and less coercive than can be gleaned from the foregoing account.

While Genesis contains wonderful insights into the relationship between God and the creation, it simply does not contain scientific ideas about the origin of the universe, the age of the earth or the development of life.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but one thing you seem to be basing this pantheistic concept of the «true» God on the idea that in order to «really» control something it must be a part of / contained within the one doing the controlling.

It is the Word of God only in so far as it is a word which happens on specific occasions, and not in virtue of the ideas it contains — e.g. the mercy and grace of God (however true these things may be).

But regardless of what people think about the book of Job, even those who believe in the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture believe that Job contains some incorrect ideas about God.

Einstein once said that «God does not play dice with the universe,» voicing his disdain with the idea that quantum particles contain intrinsic randomness.