Sentences with phrase «god means the rule»

It seems clear enough that the kingdom of God means the rule of God over his world (especially over man, his supreme creation) and the assurance of God's presence and support that requires of us reciprocal obligations.

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Hmmm, maybe God established this set of rules for a particular group of people at a particular time and it isn't meant to be taken literally by us today.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

Everybody needs rules and laws... If not we would not be any betternthan animals Just because you do nt want to be told what to do; do not mean there us no God.

To the religinuts: If by god, you mean the force behind the big bang then most atheist believe in god and we can have a discussion... if you mean that you join dead jesus» fan club and follow his club rules, (which were written by... strangers) you go to disney land in the sky forever....

Yes Christ may well have been the very 1st son born before the earth was made as it now is and yes Christ came to this world to prove to his father that he (Christ Jesus) was who he was by dying and going into his dead body to where his father did reign to show to his father that his very first mission to establish all the ways and means needed to keep the nasty from ever anymore to be but only the ruled over within the confining constraints of all celestial cosmologies everywhere to be so known by God Almighty!

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

We don't say there are six types of Theists, we focus on the Religions, and that is what is missing — a modern Religion / Belief system for Atheists — as Atheism does not mean without rules, just about whether God exists or not.

you mean like living your life hating your family and killing those who worship other gods dude Yahweh is a lair he will doing anything to rule all worlds beware his crocodile tears,..

To multitudes of people today independence does not mean Socrates, facing death and saying, «Men of Athens, I honor and love you, but I will obey God rather than you»; it means, «The heck with old rules!»

Does not the New Creation (Eternal Recurrence) of Zarathustra parallel the New Creation of Jesus (the Kingdom of God) insofar as it shatters history, dissolves all rational meaning, and brings to an end the rule of Law?

Through sanctification we begin to understand what it means to live under the rule and reign of God, and we begin to see other people as God sees them, and ourselves as well.

If we're looking for the way to get God to bless our sexual lives, the solution to the problem of what it means to be a sexual being, we're only going to come up with false rules and standards, ways of being that force some people out and others in, models of holiness that may work for one season of life but fall apart in another.

It would be much easier if he didn't have to play this game with himself... I mean... he knows the outcome before the game even understand he does nt even tell us the damn rules... what kind of a god plays by rules that only he knows and doesn't even tell us... probably because he already knows the outcome... its like playing cards with a stacked deck and he; s the dealer laughing at us all because he has all the aces... I hate gods who do that.

I applaud those of you who refuse to rule out the possibility of a higher intellect... This does not mean we believe in someone else's God... But to rule out the possibility is unintellectual and just shortsighted... no different from the ultra nutjobs... Einstein believed in such a higher intellect as well

Does that mean he was a demi - god who ruled for 125 years and took a trip to the Underworld?

First, the Kingdom means the sovereign, righteous rule of God in a redeemed society — that is, in a society of persons who accept God's rule and endeavor to live in obedience to his will.

Our inability to prove that god does not exist (our inability to break a fundamental rule of logic) does not mean that god exists!

By «canon» I mean the body of teaching that God gave to be a rule of faith and life for his church.

Contrary to all outer appearances, they are fortunate, because God's rule means taking care of them.

What does it really mean, to seek God's rule?

What the New Testament does do is to portray the gracious message of an open access to that same God whose depth of accepting love is seen on a cross and whose presence in the life of that crucified one is designed to call forth from us the same awe, reverence, and obedience to those rules of life through which we find the fullness of life, the depth of love, and the meaning of our own humanity.

«Kingdom of God» does not mean an earthly utopia or a just social order; it is God's sovereignty or rule, breaking in now, and shortly to be fully revealed.

In reflecting on the relationship between story and the rules of the game, Brian Phillips writes: What that means is that, if we care about the sport as a story, we have to hope that the people in charge of running it do their jobs just badly enough to ensure that the Hand of God....

My hope is that readers will come to the end of the book reminded the Bible — this ancient, diverse, powerful, God - breathed text — is far too complex to be reduced to an adjective, and that womanhood was never meant to be reduced to a list of rules and roles.

It goes without saying that when we read that God speaks, it does not mean at all that he pronounces words and that he has a vocabulary and follows syntactical rules.

I mean rather that God encourages all acts that are in keeping with the rule of love.

That's when God's way can feel unattractive and we might be tempted to call Him oppressive and mean — just full of rules and limits.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

The word «saved» in Luke is closely related to participating with God in the Kingdom of God, which means, allowing God to rule and reign in your life.

In stating in summary fashion the Christian conception of the Kingdom of God we are not pretending that we can see perfectly what this means, nor are we saying that we can arrive at a formal principle which can act as a rule by which all Christian value judgments can be simply made.

For the ancient Hebrew sages «kingdom of heaven» was a spiritual expression meaning the rule of God over a person who kept or began to keep the written and oral commandments.

First, the kingdom means the sovereign, righteous rule of God.

The kingdom means the righteous rule of God — a rule in which God is both King and Father.

In its most elemental meaning the kingdom of God means kingship, the just, righteous, and loving rule of God over his world.

You believe that once you are a god of your own world, you with your heavenly wife will create spirit children that will then fill the earthly bodies of human on your own particular planet that you rule over... meaning that you are already (in certain terms) better than the God that created this plangod of your own world, you with your heavenly wife will create spirit children that will then fill the earthly bodies of human on your own particular planet that you rule over... meaning that you are already (in certain terms) better than the God that created this planGod that created this planet.

This also means that there is only One Identifying Way to recognize who this Creator God is... and this way is Jesus Christ, the Son of the Creator Father, the coming King to rule man according to the One True Way of Life.

This prophesy in Daniel 11 vs. 39, tells of how this new strange god with a strong hold, meaning with force, and we all know from history, that christianity was forced by Constantine, and legalized in 311bce, that he acknowledge, and increased with glory, and that will rule over many for gain, sounds like control, and gain to me.As many of these popes, and priest, have so much money, but the flocks are paying for it.

And judging him the way you are, by your own book's rules, means that your god will then judge you by the same measure.

Jesus meant by the «kingdom of God» simply the rule of God in so far as it was and could be realized by men living under the normal conditions of human life.

These men and women are trying to advance the rule and reign of God in new direction to new people with new means.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

The word Messiah means «anointed one» and refers to an expected God - appointed agent who would come one day to implement in one way or another the rule of God on earth, ushering in a new age in which the powers of evil would no longer hold sway.

By Church, first of all, we mean the subjective pole of the objective rule of God.

Some may not think this is a big deal, but when you have people who want to seek God, and they see this faith that has so many scandals and rules imposed upon it, it can mean the difference between someone who finds God, and someone who exhausts themselves trying with disappointment.

god doesn't come down and su ck your di ck... everything after conversion is the same only with a sense of meaning... basically, you lack an ability to adjust outside the age of reason so you require a «god» that replaces your parents as the rule maker and enforcer... wow, thats sad

This means that the rights of the slaves will be protected and the rule of God's justice will be established.

But if Barth meant what he said about God's rule, it would seem that only with automatons could such a God ever be reconciled.

Without proof that their, or any, god exists, and that what they claim is the word of some god is actually true, any discussion about what a holy book means is merely the hacking over of the rules to the world's oldest fantasy role playing game — heavy emphasis on fantasy and game.

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then