Sentences with phrase «god in this particular place»

Proper work is work that fits with the purpose of God in this particular place.

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I think it's just pretty clear that there's a place of eternal torment laid out in scripture, and you're clearly ignoring it because it doesn't fit in your particular understanding of love or God.

All are inappropriate, partial, and inadequate; the most that can be said is that some aspect or aspects of the God - world relationship are illuminated by this or that model in a fashion relevant to a particular time and place.

Somehow they believed themselves led to this particular, specific place, for in their minds this was the mountain of God.

In this view, God has placed all human beings in particular structures of life such as nationality, race, sexual identity, family, work, or government that in some form or other are simply givens of creaturely existencIn this view, God has placed all human beings in particular structures of life such as nationality, race, sexual identity, family, work, or government that in some form or other are simply givens of creaturely existencin particular structures of life such as nationality, race, sexual identity, family, work, or government that in some form or other are simply givens of creaturely existencin some form or other are simply givens of creaturely existence.

What destroyed my sense of God's reality was not any particular argument but immersion in a world of thought that simply had no place for God.

Yet the decisiveness of the act is partially a function of God's activity, which is in one sense different here than in other places, for the particular ideal aim given here is such as to give particularly apt expression to his being.

It is not by any means the case with all christians, but some certainly have inadvertently and unknowingly (in most cases) placed church attendance / society / culture / leadership and a particular book (the Bible) on the same level as they God they claim to worship.

It is to acknowledge, honor, and esteem the particular place — between the beasts and God — that we occupy in the creation.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

In the same way that the sacred points to the God who is in all reality, so worship — while it may be something we do in a separate time and place dedicated to this particular purpose — must point to a life that is lived towards that which we worshiIn the same way that the sacred points to the God who is in all reality, so worship — while it may be something we do in a separate time and place dedicated to this particular purpose — must point to a life that is lived towards that which we worshiin all reality, so worship — while it may be something we do in a separate time and place dedicated to this particular purpose — must point to a life that is lived towards that which we worshiin a separate time and place dedicated to this particular purpose — must point to a life that is lived towards that which we worship.

Its object is not simply to understand the world but to respond to the power of God which is recreating it... Christian theology is prophetic only in so far as it dares, in full reflection, to declare how, at a particular place and time, God is at work, and thus to show the Church where and when to participate in his work.6

Heath, I covered some of this above, in particular that there aren't separate «places» called Heaven and Hell, but a common experience of God's love, which is like a consuming fire.

Any pattern of thought that in any way abstracts God «himself» from this person, from his death or his career or his birth or his family or his Jewishness or his maleness or his teaching or the particular intercession and rule he as risen now exercises, has, according to Nicea, no place in the church.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

For me it has meant understanding the task of theology as serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

In the pulpit, however, preachers tell the story because God got involved with a particular people in a specific time and place, and that involvement generated a history in which we are privileged to participate by faith, baptism and the common lifIn the pulpit, however, preachers tell the story because God got involved with a particular people in a specific time and place, and that involvement generated a history in which we are privileged to participate by faith, baptism and the common lifin a specific time and place, and that involvement generated a history in which we are privileged to participate by faith, baptism and the common lifin which we are privileged to participate by faith, baptism and the common life.

Certainly we do not think of God as being located in a particular object or place.

It understands that the kingdom of God is not something (or someplace) which we can expect to «bring in» at a particular time or place, but rather something both within our midst (Luke 17:22), and at the same time to be sought (Matt.6: 33), to be seen (Mk.

'' Cult» is not regarded by its adherents as something «quaint» or particular at all; they regard it as the axis mundi, the very connection between God and the world, and that which gives humans their true place in the cosmos.

The sacraments embody and activate in particular times and places the «mystery of God's purpose set forth in Christ before the foundation of the world» (Eph 1.1).

But God ordered his world in such a way that his own work within that world takes place not least through one of his creatures in particular, namely, the human beings who reflect his image... He has enlisted us to act as his stewards in the project of creation... So the objection about us trying to build God's kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one's head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers...» (207).

The setting itself gives the tone for this authoritative teaching: while Luke's account of the sermon takes place on the plain, Matthew has Jesus up a mountain, thus evoking the biblical notion of mountain as a place of divine revelation, and Mount Sinai in particular as the place where God's will for his people Israel was revealed.

But since talk about anything» even talk about God» takes place in a particular language at a particular time, how one engages in theology....

Too many have accepted the popular «neo-orthodox» idea that contemplation and mysticism have no place in the Christian life; on the contrary, they have a real place and an important one; and for those who may be called by God to this particular mode of communion with him, there is a great blessing and a wonderful gift.

I wouldn't want a leader to be standing up there who hasn't reached a place of finding faith in a God who is bigger than this particular tragedy.

With only a 5 % chance in most other places, I doubt your particular god would have found you.

The close association of proselyte baptism with circumcision, and in particular with the prophetic idea of circumcision of the heart led naturally to the view that baptism took the place of circumcision, or that it was the Christian circumcision incorporating women and men into the new people of God, made up alike of Jews and Gentiles.

Those who hear, in the setting of the Church's corporate worship, are summoned, upon each particular occasion, to place themselves within the history which is God's revelation, at the point where it culminates in Jesus Christ, and to lay themselves open to the Word of judgement and of renewal which is spoken there to every human being.

In the second place it still seems to make God monstrously insensitive to the particular suffering of individuals.

For God is God, whatever his particular activity in this or that place and time, or epoch, may be.

Just find a beautiful place in nature and commune to any particular god you think exists and you also save a buck that would go to supporting your shaman and church building.

Such a claim is always anathema to syncretists, because it is a cardinal article of their faith that God would never condescend to reveal Himself in a particular way, at a particular time and place, and to a particular people.

Nor is our cosmic God, while revealed in a particular time, place and life, stuck in the past.

Only through placing the God in particular relationship with the individual did our project go beyond Socrates; but who would dare to appear before Socrates with the nonsense that a human being is a God in his relation to another human being?