Sentences with phrase «god like job»

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It's funny, I was chatting with god the other night, you know about girls and money and basically life in general, and then from out of no where god was like, «Yo, Chuckles, I have a job for you, it's very important that you do it, I need you to go and vote this upcoming election and I need you to vote for Rick Perry, he seems a little crazy, but don't worry, he's all good in my book».

And God, like He did with Job and Elijah, speaks in a different tone of voice — a bigger picture, steady and non-anxious voice.

We do believe Joseph Smith was a prophet, just like Moses, Noah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Abraham, etc. were prophets whose job was to teach about God and Jesus Christ.

It is also our job to help people to come to peace about God and their relationship with Him, to see that His authority is not like the authority they've seen practiced here on earth.

On both counts, the Bible was far ahead of its time, for the Author of the Bible is the «One who is stretching out the heavens like a fine gauze», Jehovah God, who revealed this to both Job and Isaiah.

Athiests, like anyone in need, turn to God and religious organizations to fix their problems, their alcoholic problems, their marital problems, their cancer problems, their health issues, their job problems, their drug problems, their x-husband problems, their x-wife problems, their money problems.

At a later time, within a different intellectual tradition, the author of Job poses in a dramatic fashion the difficulty of believing in a god like the Yahweh of the exodus.

Becareful not to be self righteous like Job which was why God allowed satan to do what he did to work out the self righteous mindset!

It breaks my heart, like Job, that even though I kept believing and trusting and even offered up my own life in order that my loved one be healed, God chose to ignore my cries.

Like the assent of Job to God's cosmic majesty in Archibald MacLeish's J.B., gentling God «the way a farmhand / Gentles a bulging, bugling bull,» Mary's consent subtly recasts the story of power.

In the book of Job, God looks just like Jesus.

With only three characters in the Old Testament are prayers like this associated — Moses, (Exodus 5:22 - 23; Numbers 11:11 - 15) Job, (Job 10:2 - 21; 13:24 - 14:6) and Jeremiah — and in each case not doubt but assurance of God is in the background, and the very intimacy with which the soul bares its complaints and carries on its struggle in prayer is testimony to the utter genuineness of the experience.

In the worst times of my life I find: a. the divinity within me makes my troubles less crucial b. comfort in Bible stories like that of Job c. patience to work for better times d. God blessing me in new ways

When we find ourselves in an undesirable situation, such as a job we don't like, God will use these experiences for our good and for the good of His Kingdom.

Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»

Furthermore, much like John the Baptist, Jesus was critical of some of King Herod, and I believe that if Jesus has been given the opportunity to vote for a new king, Jesus would have voted for someone who would do a better job of obeying God's law, upholding biblical values, and protecting the innocent and weak.

Satan is a real entity it was satan that wanted to afflict Job and God allowed it why his issue was not that he struggled with sin he was morally a good man what he failed to see is the same problem we all struggle with.Is that our hearts are wicked we can not in our own strength be righteous as all have sinned and fall short of Gods ideal which is his son.Job realises his mistake and repents and God pours out more grace on Job by restoring what he lost.Satan has power but is not like God who is sovereign he rules all pricipalilitys and powers satan has to bow his knee to God and his son.

Well the President's job is to serve money, not God, as you republicans so often like to point out when you chant «Job's Job's Job's!!&raqjob is to serve money, not God, as you republicans so often like to point out when you chant «Job's Job's Job's!!&raqJob's Job's Job's!!&raqJob's Job's!!&raqJob's!!»

It's great that your friend got a job, but at least how you presented it, it doesn't sound like god gave him a job or even moved his resume to the top of the pile, but rather after applying for many many jobs, especially being out of a job for years that's a lot of job applications, one would happen to strike gold, hardly seems to me that god or specifically your prayers had anything to do with his success.

«I don't like the answer that God gives in Job,» he replied.

There are entire chapters that we subsequently discover are wrongheaded (like the speeches made by Job's three friends, for example; at the end of the book, God gives them all a good telling off).

They have moved beyond religious frontiers to the frontier — which no thinker, however, brilliant can ever cross — to the meeting place of the human with the Divine where we find ourselves like Job speaking of things we do not understand, of things too wonderful for us to know and where, in God's mercy, we may experience the reality of the One God whose glory passes our understanding.

Well, in Job Satan kinda acts like God's XO, there to scrutinize God's decision - making.

Like Job he experiences God's nearness in his suffering, and like Job, too, his suffering has a super-personal meanLike Job he experiences God's nearness in his suffering, and like Job, too, his suffering has a super-personal meanlike Job, too, his suffering has a super-personal meaning.

Like God told Job, we weren't there, and He is bigger than our little minds can grasp.

I like to think of it as God, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, Zoroaster, etc.... are all up there betting on who loves them more (We know god does this already in Job so it's not too much of a stretch) and each one is like, «I bet if I kill a shi.tload of people they'll still love me, see PGod, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, Zoroaster, etc.... are all up there betting on who loves them more (We know god does this already in Job so it's not too much of a stretch) and each one is like, «I bet if I kill a shi.tload of people they'll still love me, see Pgod does this already in Job so it's not too much of a stretch) and each one is like, «I bet if I kill a shi.tload of people they'll still love me, see POW!

If you don't see what sublime love it was for God to browbeat Abe into gutting his kid like a fish, make Job eat caca quesadillas, and send his only baby to be whipped to ribbons, speared in the bladder, and tortured to death by a bunch of drunk Italians to pay off the debt we all owe for something none of us did, you're just nuts...

He is wrong, however, when Christians, like Job, envision how God's very presence demands systemic change on earth.

Like Job, when we suffer we catch a better glimpse of God:»... then in my flesh I shall see God.»

As I prayed and thought, I remembered Job (that I obviously didn't like for your same reasons) and thought — as it's considered the oldest book of the bible, could it be a parable of warning from God that satan would corrupt the OT for people to believe that God is not just?

Is the author of the Book of Job is making fun of a popular view of God in order to show us that our God, the God of the Bible, is not like this at all?

Like I said, if God had to test Job to some other end or if He had to cause Job injury for some greater good that couldn't be understood, the story would be different.

But even if God had known what Job would choose, it does seem a tad bit like he is toying with him.

And they must have chuckled with delight at the storyteller's artful repetition in 2:1 - 3 where God behaves like a forgetful potentate unable to recall the job description of his own appointee!

If a second - rate science fiction script editor can dream up something like that, then I think we have to suppose that Almighty God could have made a better job of it, had it suited His purposes.

Even though Job himself recognizes God as «all - powerful» (42:2), God's «power is limited by human freedom... God's love, like all true love, operates in a world not of cause and effect but of freedom and gratuitousness.»

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

If he really on the night of his betrayal spoke the prayer «Not as I will, but as Thou wilt,» these words expressly deny the justice of God and signify silent submission to God like the words in the poem of Job.

I just wan na say weather what proof you have or evidence every religion book, scriptures, and testamony might know how the world will end but does nt know cause if everybody knew what day it was going to happen they would do all the things that people are doing following this man like quiting jobs and all that because in the bible under «THE CALL TO READINESS «it says God or jesus does nt want you to worry about when the world will end but the do want you to keep busy and continue to work hard JUST LIKE GOD DID TO CREATE the world so i do nt think noone should buy into this and it shouldnt be advertised cause thats not what GOD or JESUS would want because when he rises unexpectedly key word unexpectedly his joy and his welcoming would be him nknowing that the creatures aka as us humans have been following his will and working harlike quiting jobs and all that because in the bible under «THE CALL TO READINESS «it says God or jesus does nt want you to worry about when the world will end but the do want you to keep busy and continue to work hard JUST LIKE GOD DID TO CREATE the world so i do nt think noone should buy into this and it shouldnt be advertised cause thats not what GOD or JESUS would want because when he rises unexpectedly key word unexpectedly his joy and his welcoming would be him nknowing that the creatures aka as us humans have been following his will and working harLIKE GOD DID TO CREATE the world so i do nt think noone should buy into this and it shouldnt be advertised cause thats not what GOD or JESUS would want because when he rises unexpectedly key word unexpectedly his joy and his welcoming would be him nknowing that the creatures aka as us humans have been following his will and working hard!!!

Although your current job may have once seemed like a good idea, if you now feel as though it's not allowing you to serve a higher purpose — to expand God's Kingdom — then you may have found yourself asking, «Is this what I should be doing?»

Let the tinies learn what it looks like to be a person, made in the image of God, working — no matter if our work happens on computers or at the laundry or on the job site or the classroom — as unto the Lord.

So long as one's job is an honest, serviceable one in which one is doing the best he can, it is a divine calling, and one should endeavor like Brother Lawrence to «practice... the presence of God» within it.

OFC's like myself, have always believed that it was the job of Christians to promote God.

Satan did tell God that we human can not be perfect like God want the perfect exemple is Job story.

These churches say things like, «It's our job to preach; it's God's job to save» and «People are destroyed from lack of knowledge, not from lack of food» (alluding from Hosea 4:6).

God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.»

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

But even if He chooses to put me through tribulations like Job, God will still be God: the forever faithful One.

God and Jesus are lies perpetrated by lazy no count faith leaders who don't want to get a real job and who depend on ignorant idiots like you to support them.

Religion seems like God's job, serving as deity to people.