Sentences with phrase «god knew about the people»

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You feel that the other examples can not be compared to your god because you don't believe in them (I know few people seriously make claims about unicorns, etc.).

I do know enough about God's love that hell is not what most people believe.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

Anyone who knows anything about Billy Graham or his life's work should know that he is about offering people the information about God's love and that ultimately, it is a personal decision.

I think it's a clever trick to make people (young people generally) who don't know much about science to think you have to be on one «side» or the other (God's side or Satan's side?)

I will no longer discuss with them or listen to them tell me how homosexuality is «an abomination to God,» about how homosexuality is a «chosen lifestyle,» or about how through prayer and «spiritual counseling» homosexual persons can be «cured.»

In the old testament God is an insane, vengeful, jealous, murdering entity that makes Christianity seem violent, bloody and insane... just as the Muslim faith appears to people who know nothing about it.

So when you use your post as a bashing tool against God's people, and mock Christ's resurection from the dead as a comparison to creepy, ungodly, demonic «Halloween» practices, you only show your immaturity in putting your foot in your mouth about things you know nothing about, and your words are of no more value then empty, silly ranting.

I have to tell you though, some of religious folks would be a very bad people if it wasn't for the «fear of god» as they already don't know anything about logic.

No... the reason many people will wind up in Hell one day, is because they didn't think God important enough to think about.

They talk about their families because that is what really matters in a person's life... that is thier true legacy and their only real immortality... most people, I am fairly sure, know deep down that god is a fairy tale, a cushion, and that death is truly the end... what this very excellent young woman heard from these dying people makes perfect sense... death is a time to end the bs and look at and reflect upon what was real and important in that individual's life

I don't know all that much about God, but I know this is the root of the problem with religious people.

I care for the elderly and have also seen this when people die... the people I have taken care of cared more about the people they were leaving and seeing those who had died before them, than any need to be told God was there... people with faith KNOW He is

If God exists, then he / she / it knows all about this person's life.

If that professor is still around, I'd love to know what he must be thinking about that student who seemed to know more about how to get people to talk about «God» than he ever did.

Yes, finally someone who understands and speaks publicly about this matter to let people know they're not crazy, they're guided and blessed by God.

Religion is about forming a community and supporting each other, but I could not be that hypocritical to pretend I am anything but a normal person, loves his kids, and knows there is no god.

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

The claim was a simple thing to do in ancient times because scientifically ignorant people still did not know why the sun rose and set and why the seasons changed and why lightning and why thunder and why earthquakes and why disease and why just about anything... so people all thought that a god or gods controlled it all.

I know someone is thinking, What about the Old Testament instances where God smote people with sickness and plagues?

So I guess what I'm trying to say is this: there is a right way for religious people to help those around them come to know and follow God, should they so desire, but yelling at them about fire and brimstone is not really acceptable or in good taste.

But you should at least be honest and know that one who believes in the forensic science of origins of life has to have as much faith in the person asserting the theory as one has to have believing God was the witness to the event and told man kind how the world came about in simplistic terms.

There is a scripture in the new testament that says «God is the same yesterday, today, and forever» Mormons do nt spread lies about other churchs they say is you want to know if the church is true the only person you should ask is God himself and he will answer that question for you...

For myself, I know that when I did it, I was trying to get people excited about God and about «coming to church.»

It was not about him, but about God and God's plan to create a people who know and serve God.

There's no worries among believers about most people not worshipping God because we already know that.

What does any person know about God besides what others have told them?

As an aside, why are there so many people who «know God» but believe different things about him?

There is no theory of God, just a peculiar hope of some people that there is something about the Universe that knows they are here and cares about them.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

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 loll

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

«God» has laid down rules of conduct and even about desire that people know they do not observe.

They know that he is known as a personality, and even talk sometimes about whether or not their friend could be the Messiah promised to God's people.

A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.

We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the conversations of our communities, we pray for our friends, we make meals, I write posts and articles and books about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk about the people we know.

It says nothing about a person who got saved and then later decided to live in unrepentant sin and tell God that they no longer believe in him and don't want to go to heaven.

I know some Christians that think the decision about who goes where is actually up to God and that God is not limited or constrained by what some people 2000 years ago happened to write down on paper or what more recent people read into those words.

And I don't go to church, but I do know for a fact that people go to churches and talk about zoning laws and other non God related stuff, all the time.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

If your God gave you science then it's revealed that what people knew about gays in the past was false and based on ignorance.

People that do nt know the Lord would think that way, read the bible then u will know what God is about, God cares about your soul in the name of Jesus, he wants to save your soul from hell if u would surrender your life to him and live for him, he is not concern about no football game or worldly things, he wants u to come to him and get saved thats what God is about, learn of him read the Holy Bible.

Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

When Moses first encounters God on the mountain, he wants to know why God has waited 400 years to do anything about the slavery of his people.

I will readily admit, however, that there is much I do not know about how God works among other people or how He will judge the world.

Why do nt people say that saying that you hate religion but «love god» IS religion — assuming you know what «god» is enough to «love» him / it is assuming you know things about the unknowable = RELIGION!

Many no long just don't believe in God, but rather get so worked up about the faith of other people.

(Ibid., p. 239) Theology does not consist of the describing of beliefs held about God by a designated group of persons but of the affirming about God and creatures in their relation to God of that which it has been given to the church to know.

From the statement of Jesus in John 3:3 about people not being able to see the kingdom of God, it would be difficult to know what Jesus meant.

Now I know Nonesuch or some other persons don't want me talking about God because God is not real to them.