Sentences with phrase «god in a personal way»

She is «bewildered» during times in which President Bush speaks of God in a personal way.

My life has real meaning and knowing God in a personal way is not just a bunch of nonsense (as some people think) it is real.

Not exact matches

Undoubtedly, Jesus still loves us all more than either of us could ever fathom but the only way you, me, we're going to be able to live fulfilled and victorious lives is by accepting God's truths as they truly are in the bible and by leaning on His grace for empowerment to walk in them in our personal relationships with him.

Tyrants who try to subdue Christian nations can not keep them in hand — there is way too much an emphasis on personal freedom and having the conscience responsible to God alone, not a controlled state.

Scientific beliefs can be tested, demonstrated and / or negated; a belief in God is a personal thing that should stay that way.

If you insist upon bringing God into the equation the He, as the only perfect being, is in a position not to have any personal faults to get in the way of His judging us, right?

They are trying to be «personal» in a way that ends up losing the sense that God is a real person who comes to us from outside our own lives.

It's a personal choice and a lifestyle decision: either a) I will live for myself with no regard to my true purpose in life or b) I will live in a way that honors the God who chose to create me in His image.

If Einstein actually said that you have to take it in context with the «God» that he said that he believed in, Spinoza's God, which is nothing like the personal God of Christians, but more like a poetic way of describing the natural laws that govern the universe.

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own.in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own.in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own.In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loIN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

I'm speaking from personal expirence from my encounter with evil and none believers of GOD... Last there is a list which you can draw from to know if a person is possessed but the only way you could know that is to go through it yourself without turning your back on God and keeping God 1st at all times even in the darkest of times....

But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.

We know that throughout the history of the Church such personal relationship has been one of the ways in which the power of God became manifest.

and second, the approach to God by way of animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the sacrifices were always accompanied by supplications, they had competed with personal prayer, had furnished for many people a public substitute for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion with the lament «We have nothing to bring but prayer.»

This is an important issue because Murdoch implicitly acknowledges from time to time that her Good is in many ways less appealing, less satisfying, than a personal God.

and lastly, would you accept God's love if it was delivered in supernatural form in a personal way?

Having spent the last ten years wrestling through some tough questions related to faith, heaven, hell, and salvation, I really appreciate the personal way in which Bell frames the conversation, asking the very questions I was so afraid to ask all those years and proclaiming the same hope I only dared believe — that God doesn't give up on people, that he is ever - loving, ever - redeeming, ever pursuing.

It doesn't take much to figure out that the Deist is merely making up his / her own terms about God; they may come to those terms in somewhat of a logical way, but when you ask them the «hows» about their «faith,» they seem to come back to the «personal relationship» they can not articulate.

For «providence» is a word which tells us of the conviction that God exercises a never - failing and personal control over, even as he unfailingly works within, the events and circumstances of life, molding them and molding us in such a way that his grace and power are manifested in human history and in personal experience.

Although I have my personal belief regarding these things here, as long as I can not offer watertight Scriptural evidence for my confidence, I can only copy and paste some verses which could point to the fact that God meets every human being twice or even three times during his lifetime in order to show him the way he should go and to bring him to repentance.

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.

Sexuality is both personal and communal, a stepping into community to enact God's love in an embodied way.

If this avoidance of personal pronouns is found to be clumsy or fails to give a proper sense of God as a being who is related to us in a personal way, then certainly one is free to speak of God both as male and as female so long as these usages are understood to be metaphorical and not to be claiming gender for God, and so long as the male and female references are relatively balanced.

The major importance of Hartshorne's work in my view» is the way in which his dipolar panentheism indicates the possibility of a concept of God which allows believers to speak of him as an individual, personal reality and significantly to use active verbs of him — like love, create, know, respond — without denying anything that properly belongs to his ultimacy and worshipfulness and without falling into self - contradiction.

I could see a god who caused the universe to begin and hasn't been heard from since, but I don't buy any of the religions that claim a personal god that has interacted with humanity in any way.

It has been used metaphorically and poetically in ways that do not mean «Abrahamic God», or a personal God.

Believe in whatever you want to believe in, this is your personal freedom and your free choice, that is agreed on by my God by the way.

Dr. King comments on the thoughts of Lorenzo Dow McCabe who attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology: If theological reconstruction is to meet the needs of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and religious experience, thought McCabe, then theology must reassess its traditional theistic assumptions in such a way that it can speak of a God who is capable of relating fully to the contingencies of personal life and historical change.

Much less a man of God who is taking the ministry in a personal way, most likely after many years of faithful dedicated service.

To release your will and personal power over to a God, that may or may not even exist is something that I believe often stands in the way for people to progress.

But we have not identified God or perfect being with the totality of things in any sense which prevents him from being personal and free with respect to them; for he is the flexibly self - identical totality, which is so radically independent of its parts (and they, in another way, of it) that it will be itself, no matter how they, as contingent and more or less free beings, develop....

Indeed, faith is especially sensitive to the dangers of anthropomorphism, to the temptation to see God as some enlarged and exalted version of Superman, even though the least inadequate way of talking about God may well be in terms of man's — more specifically, of Christ's — own personal being.

Only a small minority (5 %) of the national academy of sciences believes in a personal prayer answering god — the «Born Again» Christian world view is an antiquated backward way of thinking that only serves to hold back the progress of this country and the world.

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My failure to realize what was happening to my mind sooner, has to do with the fact that Christians are told that they must draw close to God in prayer and meditation, that they should walk with God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to God in prayer and meditation, that they should walk with God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to god for his guidance because he will tell them what to do.

And in that same intimate, personal way he too knows God.

It needs to be noted that two distinct claims have been made here: First, that God is a conscious and self - conscious being; and second, that there is an aspect of God that relates to us in our mode of existence as conscious personal beings, and that we can appropriately relate back to God only in this same way.

«Holloway suggests that the concept of environment is a helpful way in which to preserve the relevance of the subject without losing its realistic objectivity because a subject is inherently related to its environment whilst at the same time distinct from it... We would propose it as a sort of medium between... (the fairly uncritical) adoption of the post-modern subject and... «scholastic rationalism»... If then we further understand the human person as being within a personal environment, that of the living God... We can affrm that human nature is intrinsically ordered to God» (page 4).

Each of us wants to be touched or rescued by God in a way that is touch tangible, directly personal, and inexplicably wonderful.

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So passionate are we about our own personal experiences with the living God, we fail to understand that others experience the Spirit in wildly different ways — experiences that may not look and sound like ours, but are no less God - filled and good.

Prosperity theology has found its way into modern evangelicalism, and it's become a dangerous notion to contend with as we seek to know God more fully and experience Him in our personal lives.

When we do this, we see that it can have various applications in various contexts, but ultimately, it is about helping the values and goals of God take root in our personal lives so that we live and act in way toward others which helps them come to experience God's values and goals in their life as well.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

The belief that our liberties and capabilities are the gift of a personal God has faded almost into insignificance, but now we have a new foundation — in a way both natural and socially constructed — for personal responsibility to other persons.

The Christians, in their way, agree with the classical philosophers that the glory that was Rome is nothing in light of eternity — although by eternity they mean the life beyond death that the personal God makes possible for each particular person.

Griffin does not avail himself of the distinction proposed by Pailin, whereby God's personal attributes are those values which God has in fact chosen for all occasions in this actual world, in either case, however, such personal attributes would be knowable in the same way that his metaphysical attributes are, namely, by way of philosophical inquiry.

Is not precisely the essential difference between natural and secular history on the one hand and the really personal, sacred history of redemption on the other, blurred, if God's action even outside the history of redemption receives a definite predicamental position within space and time, because a definite, precise individual reality in distinction to others and in a different way from others receives a privileged direct relation to God?

We'll first touch upon the graces that God communicates through marriage but only very briefly because this will be developed in a more personal way in some of the other talks.