I'm sorry to break it to you, but it's proven WHY people believe in
God in religious contexts.
Not exact matches
Verses 5 - 8 describe more of this
religious leader's pride
in the
context of what his end will be: «By your great wisdom and traffick have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches: therefore thus says the Lord
God; because you have set your heart as the heart of
God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you... they shall bring you down to the pit.»
Hence, he didn't want to express the denial of the existence of
God in the cultural
context of his time and due to his sincere sensitivies to those around him who he loved and were
religious, but he personally did not believe
in a
God and certainly had abandoned Christianity or any religion for that matter.
It is questionable whether Whitehead would have ever introduced «
God» to his metaphysics if he had not been convinced of the
religious, i.e., non-metaphysical, meaning of the notion of
God.2 Whitehead consciously developed his cosmology
in the
context of an «immediate comparison with the deliverances of
religious experience» (RM 87).
In another context we have said that the nature, intensity, duration, and organization of a religious group depends upon the way in which its members experience God, how they conceive of and communicate with Him, and how they experience fellowship, conceive of it, and practice i
In another
context we have said that the nature, intensity, duration, and organization of a
religious group depends upon the way
in which its members experience God, how they conceive of and communicate with Him, and how they experience fellowship, conceive of it, and practice i
in which its members experience
God, how they conceive of and communicate with Him, and how they experience fellowship, conceive of it, and practice it.
In that
context it was meaningless to think of the «
religious»
God who solved the unsolved problems.
The relevance of this discussion of the self
in the
context of the problem of faith and reason stems from the basic
religious intuition that reason is not free to know
God because of its corruption by sin and that the seat of sin is somehow
in the self.
Put these attitudes
in the
context of a
religious environment and you can multiply the fervor about a hundred times, for the will of the parents translates into the will of
God.
Therefore,
in proclaiming the Kingdom of
God in our
context should mean taking seriously the cultural and
religious symbols and traditions which embody their vision of life and wholeness.
Used
in a
religious context it meant the care of the
gods, and there were many
gods in their pantheon.
God creates the possibility of new life
in each nation's
religious and cultural
context (Isa.
A helpful
context for issues of
religious authority is given
in James Packer's book «Fundamentalism» and the Word of
God.
This definition also comes from a
religious context,
in which the union of a man and a woman is
in front of
God.