Sentences with phrase «god means absolute»

Kierkegaard understood that the death of God meant absolute despair and hopelessness.

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Being a theist means believing a god or gods exist... in fact it's an absolute requirement.

If by God is meant the Ground of Being, the Essence of Being, the Absolute, the Weltgeist, and all similar expressions, the reply is still No, for according to Schweitzer such terms «denote nothing actual, but something conceived in abstractions which for that reason is also absolutely meaningless» (The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949], p. 304).

One after another the state constitutions had declared that, as North Carolina's put it, «all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences» (V: 71) The state constitutions indicated that the right of «free exercise» was meant to be absolute, at least to the point of not «disturb [ing] the public peace or obstruct [ing] others in their religious worship» (Massachusetts, 1780, V: 77) Equally straightforward was the opposition to «an establishment of religion.»

Justin Martyr lifted up the Logos of God as the means, or bridge, by which an absolute and unchanging deity can have relations with the created order.

Christ, the absolute Word of God, has come in the flesh and reconciled, that means united) the world to God through his death

without implying the answer, so the very structure of reason, its very meaning and drive toward ultimate truth, implies the existence of God as Absolute Truth, as the very Ground of reason.

True, I was the man in whom the Word of God had made humanity his own; but because of this absolute nearness I was also more exposed than anyone else, I could experience more poignantly what it means to be a man, who is not God.

It is not clear what a relationship based on absolute otherness or separation would mean especially in the relationship between God and the believer, which many describe as a relationship of love, worship and intimacy.

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holinessabsolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holinessAbsolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

This means that the fulfillment of these eight prophecies alone proves that God inspired the writing of those prophecies to a definiteness which lacks only one change in 1017 of being absolute.

The notion that deity is the «Absolute» has meant that God is not really related to the world.

This meant the abandonment of worldly pleasures and the absolute denial of selfishness for the sake of God.

To answer this question they invoked the notion of tsimtsum, by which they meant that the absolute God, whose being fills all being, withdraws from a certain region, which is thus left with the divine being thinned Out in it, and in this thinned out region man [the cosmos] exists.»

He will not see the Church as an armed camp standing opposed to the camp of the evil one, both on an equal footing and equally powerful and equally absolute, both simply comprised within the unrevealed will of a God who fundamentally has remained silent about the ultimate meaning of this drama.

This means that God can anticipate each and every one of a virtually infinite number of possibilities as though each and every one was an absolute certainty.

Nazi racist ideology has its roots in hindu, pagan Egypt, ancestral home land of Saxons, meaning tied to or forged with essence, meanings god's, subcontinent never was part of hindu denial of truth absolute but hinduism, racism was imposed by force by hindu's, criminals of Egypt and Persia on nomadic population of subcontinent by declaring themselves to be god's, while native's of Europe were slaughtered to extinction by hindu Gaul's, criminal self centered after they were defeated as hindu, deniers of truth abolute Pharaoh's by the king's of Sudan.

The latter provides meaning through combining concepts which the former would regard as logically inconsistent — for example, that Absolute Reality be known as both «being» and «nonbeing,» as «here» and «not here,» and as «God» and «man» (Emptiness [Abingdon, 1967], p. 81).

It means the absolute master and owner of any person or thing, it is the word used for the Roman Emperor; it is the word which in the Greek OT is used to translate the name of God.

In our continually fluctuating experience no such absolute identity obtains from moment to moment, but in God's one unfettered envisagement of all possibilities, the absolute identity from moment to moment means that in our normal language it is a single unchanging and eternal act.

A well - meaning Christian will say: «But Jesus is the truth, the absolute truth; the Bible teaches that salvation is only in and through him and that he is the sole mediator between humanity and God!»

It is only secondarily to be understood in its meaning of an absolute ruler, with all the unfortunate implications that has for man's relation to God.

«One of the metaphorical meanings of «death of God» is the end of all absolutes in the spiritual life, so not even the death of God can be treated as an absolute,» he wrote.

That doesn't mean that I will claim with absolute certainty that there isn't a god.

I mean, their belief system is generally based on faith that there is no god, even though there is no proof for an absolute materialist universe, which is as much a statement of faith as a religious persons» Note I am agnostic and find both extremes goofy.

Promoting the false «trinity «doctrine fantasy, Luke 11:13, Matthew 16:16 & 17, and promoting reverence toward statues, crosses, pictures and dead «saints» instead of teaching that true worship means absolute obedience to the word of God.

The Rev. Gilbert Tennent in 1740, presuming to warn against «The Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry,» bowed in passing to accepted Presbyterian doctrine by asserting that of course, «God, as an absolute Sovereign, may use what means he pleases to accomplish his work by.»