Lowe's emphasis on the horror of the First World War is certainly right also in the case of Russell, and the difference between him and Whitehead is that Russell was most reluctant to take the further step toward «
a God of love who was not a personal creator but a divine factor in the universe, a Harmony that is always present, not overruling but beckoning and preserving» (144).
There is no pragmatic reason why any of my questions should be answered, why this little life should not be all; but the joyful
God of love who shouted the galaxies into existence is not going to abandon any iota of his creation.
What if you spend all your life thinking your «father» loves you more than the people of the «false religions», and praying to
this God of Love who you also believe is going to punish most of His children eternally for not believing right?
It is then forced in freedom to choose either to postulate a fundamental nothingness or absurdity in existence, thus denying intelligibility and destroying itself, or to transcend itself toward the infinite
God of love who has made Himself known through the finite, visible structures of this world.
Not exact matches
Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet the needs
of people
who are victims
of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and famine, with the purpose
of sharing
God's
love through His Son, Jesus Christ.
I pray to whichever holy name (
God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more
loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under
God, regardless
of creed, away debating over
who's
God is better and discover the error
of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full
of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack
of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind
of debate?
I suppose you voted for those morons
who killed hundreds
of thousands in Iraq because
god loves us.
Even just a kind word or a greeting card to someone
who's hurting can make such a difference in their lives and it makes me feel full
of God's
love at the same time.
For I, the Lord your
God, am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations
of those
who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those
who love Me and keep My Commandments.
It is so sad that Islam is marked today by terrorists that I can tell you for sure they are NOT Muslims by any means; any one
who harms any person or thinks
of destruction to others is simply not a Muslim — Islam = Peace and not hate and those
who practice islam as
God want to be practiced know that
God sai «
Love for your brother what your love for thy self&raq
Love for your brother what your
love for thy self&raq
love for thy self».
And the Christian
God is a lot like Prometheus — a
God who is animated by
love of and pity for man and is willing to suffer for us to be healed or delivered from the misery
of our mortality.
The great thing about Jesus» teachings is that all
of the laws and commandments from the Bible, many
of which you just posted, will be followed by someone
who loves God with all
of their heart, all
of their mind and all
of their soul; and if they
love their neighbor as themselves.
The verse we came back to at the time was «In everything
God works for the good
of those
who love him.»
David... No one
who is
of God loves someone
who is
of the devil.
There are many problems in churches find one with a body
of believers
who believe Jesus is
God's son, the Bible is true, and where they
love one another.
The simple act
of praying
God's Word back to Him can put us back in that place
of prayer, surround us with the truth and promises
of who He is and His
love for us.
Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one
of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all
of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type
of living thing?There sure should be some blobs
of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists
who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in
God, Evolution is such a fools explanation
of the origin
of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to
love your sin and hatred
of the one true
God.
God isn't a child with a magnifying glass pointed at an ant farm, he's a genius teacher
who loves to see the moments
of «eureka» when we finally understand a part
of his work.
By grace and
love,
God offers a proxy to you,
who lived a perfect life as a man, as our representative to repair the fall
of Adam, and
who endured the righteous wrath
of God for you.
And these followers make a large demographic
of political votes in a country that
loves to start wars and elect politicians
who will be «guided by the hand
of god»... excuse me as I am affected by these people... their practices cab affect me
I find it funny how you seem to miss completely the 99 %
of the Bible that reveals a
loving God who is willing to forgive your sins, and provide eternal life to those that only need to believe.
And isn't the relationship with
God, and each spiritual journey going to lead us in different directions — why do we need to judge others
who profess
Love of God, who profess love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as God d
Love of God,
who profess
love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as God d
love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as
God does.
And, I wish people
who have never studied the bible and the qu «ran to stop and learn the truth... both books are telling the same story
of God's
love and they both have been used to kill and enslave people.
Praise
God for his peace and grace for all
who can accept his gift
of eternal
love.
At least we atheists do not have to sort out our conflicting emotions over the paradox
of both coming from a
God who supposedly
loves us.
Because He is a
loving God, the Lord does not damn those people
who, through no fault
of their own, never had the opportunity for baptism.
The covenant at Sinai also begins with a brief historical introduction («I am the Lord your
God who brought you out
of the land
of Egypt») whose explicit purpose is to document
God's gracious intentions toward Israel and to engender Israel's desire to be a faithful servant
who would
love her lord above all other competitors.
The LORD is able to reveal Himself and His truth by His Spirit and His Word without the help
of «clergy», «scholars» and those
who would
love to Lord over
God's heritage.
Free «At least we atheists do not have to sort out our conflicting emotions over the paradox
of both coming from a
God who supposedly
loves us.
Completely twist it: By talking about their families... ACTUALLY THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT angry jealous space
gods,
who actually are
love, except when they are drowning people for ignoring them, or turning people into pillars
of salt...
I see Him as a
loving God who sent His one and only Son to go through the most horrible form
of execution that the world has ever known in order to save my soul.
@Magus07 2:190 - 194 Fight in the cause
of God those
who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for
God loves not transgressors.
He was simply a devoted husband and father, a sincere believer, a humble man
who put his gifts at the service
of the royal family out
of love of God and Russia.
As someone
who has sat by the death bed
of a sister, father and mother, I full heartily agree that those looking into the thin veil that separates the living and dead, think about their
loved ones not
God.
Evil is the absence
of God -
who is total - unconditional -
LOVE.
The fear
of God is the sense
of awe we experience when we're brought face to face with the transcendent (unequaled, surpassing, matchless) splendor and beauty
of who He is and the incredible
love that He has for us.
What gets me is that Christians can
love a
God who would do that or think it's okay and also that they think it makes any sense that this all powerful
God can only manage to save a tiny, miniscule amount
of the people he's created.
How truly well put, stunningly beautiful... not only did you express your experience perfectly but you have offered many
of us
who wander and wonder a sense
of the greater peace through the door
of love and forgiveness... acknowledging the fact that a steeple, a sermon, nor an offering plate are a requirement in finding
God at the heart
of us all...
This is not a justification for the sins we commit or the poor choices we might make, but a reassurance that
God works for the good
of those
who love Him (Romans 8:28).
We should learn from those
who are dying that the best way to teach our children about
God is by
loving each other wholly and forgiving each other fully - just as each
of us longs to be
loved and forgiven by our mothers and fathers, sons and daughters.
To those
who have pride, and
love their own ways, it exposes what's in them, and they run from it... but the humble
of heart, and those
who seek
God, He draws them by His Spirit, and reveals Himself to them....
It's sad that people
who hate the idea
of God have to come on to a belief blog and tease and put down people
who love God.
So from her, and anyone
who embraces this perspective,
love does not and can not exist independently
of God because all
love comes from
God.
For
God so
loved the world, he cursed mankind with bitter labor and womankind with the pain
of childbirth, drowned almost everybody on the planet in a flood, then came down and ra.ped a young girl so she could have his son, so he could make men torture the son to death so they would thank him for being awesome like that, and he'll come back later and kill everybody
who didn't worship the son and send them to burn in agony in fire forever.
You could simply eliminate
God as
love, and then see how all people are the same in the end and thinking
of those
who filled our lives with meaning.
«We trust in
God's
love and mercy for those
who've died but for the families left behind this is the most terrible time from which many
of them may never recover.»
We're doing so because we believe in the
God who does not just have
love — but in the community
of Father, Son and Holy Spirit — he is
love.
I wish someone like you had been with me as I let me sweet husband go into the light and
love of the
God who loved him even more than me.
LOL: The Christian perspective is that
God does indeed exist, and because
of that, all human beings (including the ones
who deny His very existence) are still endowed with some
of the gifts He's given us — such as some capacity to reason, create, and
love, though all imperfectly.
I am rather disturbed that she could
love and worship a
God who, according to my interpretation (or possibly misinterpretation)
of what the bible says, would send me to eternal torment where there is wailing and gnashing
of teeth, simply because I can not find it within myself to believe in him.