Sentences with phrase «god of a particular people»

A vision arises from a careful reading of the context and the work required by God of a particular people with a particular identity.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

Not exact matches

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.

With that in mind, the prophetess as God's voice, as judge, as apostle, as leader has precedence in the scriptural history of God's people as far back as at least Judges and as recently Acts, to saying nothing of those who have been recognised as particular saints since then (although I'm not RC I don't deny there are people worthy of particular honour).

The Bible is full of stories of God interacting with His people in particular, and the human race in general.

Christians actually get angry when people don't talk about their particular version of god before they die.

This is just another example of a command that God gave to Israel people in that particular situation.

A lot of people on here seem to want to have the corner on Christianity via their particular political brand, but are you guys on God's side as much as you presuppose He's on yours.

It may well be the case that God so respects the «humanity» of each particular individual that he will seldom, if ever, override those decisions which are significant in an individual's own life history, even if the actualization of such decisions will negatively affect large numbers of people.

It can be argued, however, that to minimize the miraculous and thereby conclude that what occurs in nature in relation to particular persons can not be controlled by God alleviates the problem of natural evil only up to a point.

Sean Doherty of Living Out (and my conversation partner later in this article) has reflected that: «People can have a particular sense of shame and wanting to hide this from God... I think secrecy is common in lots of parts of the Church.»

Naturally, when you preach a sermon like this to a group of people who think God hates filthy Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers, and that God's ultimate goal for such people is to kill them and send them to burn forever in hell, you will not be the most popular teacher that this particular audience has ever had.

In particular cases, however, God makes clear through a miracle effected by the prayers of a particular saint that this person is in heaven.

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The whole story about some god punishing a person for all of eternity for not believing in your particular brand of religion might scare a child enought to believe but most adults are way past such a silly concept.

God's call is addressed to a particular group of people.

Meticulously well - researched, carefully written, and beautifully delivered, the sermon highlighted why the eunuch's interest in the writings of Isaiah were of particular significance to his own life story, illustrating the inclusive and deeply personal love that God has for all people.

The Puritans, in particular, were determined that their people should be able to read and write so as to understand the meaning of God's Word.

Whoever alleges that the Qur» an is the product of a particular people, or a special age, or a limited aspect of human life is a disbeliever in Islam and in God's Book.

Further, he insisted, a congregation's particular story, because it draws from a treasury of narrative elements available to all groups of people as they struggle for survival and meaning, is its channel to participation in the worldwide mission of establishing God's shalom.

Locating the special call of Abraham in terms of cosmic evolution, and its whole series of unique moments of novel development, may help soften the scandal of particularity involved in the special call of God to a particular people to bear witness to the divine promise to the cosmos.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

All this means that the Church will often have conflicting understandings of what it means to live as God's people in a particular location or cultural setting.

The label «atheist» simply denotes people who do not believe in any particular idea of a god.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

The call of Abraham may be seen as a special instance of the breaking in of God's promise to the universe within the texture of a particular people's existence.

If a particular deity, like the God of Israel, says, «Only build one place of worship» then this God wants it to be difficult for His people to come worship Him.

Yes, in particular, it is LUDICROUS that this «god» «chose» an arrogant people in a Middle Eastern desert at a time when there was no internet and when those people thought the world was flat and consisted of the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding lands (i.e., they had NO IDEA about the «New World», Antarctica.

I may not believe in any one particular religion, and I certainly don't believe in god, but even I believe that most religious people have common sense enough to avoid the type of hystaria that doomsdayers espouse themselves to.

When we say, then, that Jesus proclaimed the eschatological Kingdom of God, we mean that he proclaimed the final and decisive activity of God in visiting and redeeming his people; no particular form of this activity is necessarily implied and no particular accompanying phenomena must necessarily be present.

Ultimately, the question of whether or not masturbation is healthy for a particular person springs from the question that governs all good discernment: Does this action help me love myself and others more fully and freely, and does it allow me to love God more deeply and with more of myself?

The particular and circumstantial expression of revelation underlines the truth that God has entered into actual history and has made himself known to particular people at special times and places.

In the one case it is the principle that, in each of a series of succeeding ages, God has tested his people in terms of their obedience to a particular form of his revelation; in the other, it is the proposition that God's salvation is divinely initiated and established, that it is the same salvation throughout the Bible, and that it is the notion of covenant which articulates this.

When God chose to incarnate himself in human form and Jesus accepted his God - given mission, this incarnation occurred within the stream of a particular history, the history of the Jewish people.

All of it is true and inspired by God but there are certain texts that things the people did that were fitting for that given time frame and to that particular audience.

As a mechanical engineer which would include using math and physics principles to help with the design of a product with a particular function; I challenge you now; that when you can create a living person with all your intelligence and not use a woman to do it; I will be happy to listen to you... until then, I believe that God the Father and Son and Holy Spirit worked together in 6 literal days and rested on the 7th Day and Santified and Hallowed that day.

You and your God and all that believe like you can have full reign for all eternity in your particular conceptualization of your afterlife but here on Earth we like people to be treated equal before human law.

For Paul, God's will to harden is no longer a part of His direct relation with a particular person or generation.

Strings like, «There is something wrong with you if you don't speak in tongues» (a very unBiblical one that), you must have a full submersion baptism because the last baptism you had wasn't wet enough, you must sing naff choruses or it means you do nt» want to worship God, you must believe that the vast majority of people that have lived on earth are damned to everlasting Hell, you must not say anything controversial, you must not be too intellectually assertive if you're a woman, you must do as we say and believe as we say, you must force yourself to be attracted to people with a particular set of genitalia or be lonely and unfulfilled for the rest of your life.

Well, those particular cherry picked lessons aren't too bad, though they ring hollow when married to the doctrine of an all loving god torturing people for all eternity just because they doubt his existence or simply believe the wrong doctrines about him.

That's convenient — rely on a particular image of this version of «god» for so long, which by the way is depicted this way on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, until people start realizing it's nothing more than another version of Santa, then simply move the goal posts by suddenly claiming «Huh?

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

And certainly the resurrection of one particular individual in advance of this could indicate this person's importance or merit in the eyes of God.

A conference of mainly African theologians, held in Ghana in December 1977, said in its final communiqué: «The God of history speaks to all peoples in particular ways.

In one case the thinking and experience of the people produced a written record of God's dealings with the Jewish people in particular.

To show how tyrannical any country that aimed at achieving perfect justice — even at the expense of family, friendship, and the self - consciousness of persons born to love other persons and die as particular persons — would be, Socrates turned the rulers into gods and most people into animals to be controlled.

I don't know of a more profoundly failed position, or a more poorly defended one, than the assertion that a particular God is real, alive, and intimately involved in the lives of people.

The Christians, in their way, agree with the classical philosophers that the glory that was Rome is nothing in light of eternity — although by eternity they mean the life beyond death that the personal God makes possible for each particular person.

Hebrews 11/12 makes it pretty clear that the criteria which marries the whole message is faith in God's promise of redemption, which leads us to live a particular way in relation to people and creation.

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.