Sentences with phrase «god opens the future»

God opens the future for the human being who responds.

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And as was pointed out, God can review all history of everyone, past or future, their entire lives at any time... yours included... you're an open book, everyone is... past, present and future.

For these, and those who have followed since, to respond to the Spirit of the universe, which is God, is to give up the security of habitual, customary and socially approved actions and to live in terms of a radically new and open future.

«We are seeking to open wounds, yes, but to open them so that we can cleanse them and they don't fester; we cleanse them and then pour oil on them, and then we can move into the glorious future that God is opening up for us.»

It suggested a certain open - endedness that seemed to undergird human freedom of response to the divine initiative by pushing the fullness of God's being ahead to our ultimate future, in the definitive arrival of the eschatological basileia tou theou.

Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last Year's Islamic Open Letter «A Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God, Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence of the role of religion in social life, the opposition of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion of common initiatives for peace»

The biblical message is that in the midst of all fearful events of our day, God is opening up a new future for us.

God gives us freedom to make decisions in an open future.

An open future removes one of the greatest negatives about God not communicating clearly.

in the presence of the president of the United States, to pray that future historians, looking back on our generation may say that in a period of great trial and tribulations, the finger of God pointed to Richard Milhous Nixon, giving him the vision and wisdom to save the world and civilization, and opening the way for our country to realize the good that the century offered mankind.

There is no license for drawing the further conclusion that God exists at a succession of temporal standpoints relative to each of which there is an open future.

For Bultmann, Jesus died on the cross; but he is «risen in the kerygma» or the preaching of him as the unique «act of God» the one in whom the past is overcome, the future is opened up, and a new life in faith by grace is made available to those who will respond to the proclamation.

And is it completely inconceivable that atheistic worldview, one in which God (no longer understood simply as an engineer) opens up the universe to an ever new future, could provide a fertile setting for understanding evolution?

The gift of forgiveness brings new life and hope as it opens up the individual to God's future, but at the same time forgiveness brings with it the sorrow of confession and repentance.

And yet there is a certain sense in which God's not being fully present is what opens up the future to us.

Science and technology are natural allies to this Judeo - Western optimism, especially if we remain open to an eschatological frame in which God works through us in building the kingdom of heaven today, here on Earth — in which the kingdom of heaven is both a future reality and something partially achieved in the present.

(By the way, I prefer to refer to this view as «the open view of the future,» since the most distinctive aspect of Open Theism is not its understanding of the nature of God, but its understanding of the nature of the futuopen view of the future,» since the most distinctive aspect of Open Theism is not its understanding of the nature of God, but its understanding of the nature of the futuOpen Theism is not its understanding of the nature of God, but its understanding of the nature of the future).

By intensifying every present occasion as fully as possible and staying open to what God can and will do freely with it for the future, we contribute to a hopeful future, one that God can effect to the degree our present actions allow.

While God can decide to pre-settle whatever aspects of the future he wishes, to the degree that he has given agents freedom, God has chosen to leave the future open, as a domain of possibilities, for agents to resolve with their free choices.

To expound a bit on this definition, the open view of the future holds that God chose to create a cosmos that is populated with free agents — at least humans and angels (though some hold that there is a degree of freedom, however small, in all sentient beings).

If I had to define «Open Theism» in one sentence, I would say that it as the view that the future is partly comprised of possibilities and is therefore known by God as partly comprised of possibilities.

If God relates to everyone and everything and if God's way of relating is through free, creative transformation, then God's future remains essentially open.

It is significant that there are an increasing number of those who believe that God's life itself must be conceived as having an element of adventure and movement into an open future, else we can not conceive that He enters sympathetically into our human experience.23

We share in the emphasis on God's suffering and we rejoice in the association of God with what makes human beings free and gives them an open future of unrealized possibilities.

Open theism argues that God does not know «the future», either because it does not yet exist to be known, or because God chooses not to know it, in an act of kenosis (self - emptying).

Rather, God knows the extent to which the future is open («may or may not be») and the extent to which it is closed («will or will not be»)(see Shields and Viney).

That people can prepare or position themselves to respond favorably to any future truth of God if they remain open and receptive to the truth God is revealing to them right now (Cf. Vance, Other Side of Calvinism, 347).

God is God of the present for the sinner precisely because He casts him into remoteness from Himself, and He is at the same time God of the future because He never relinquishes His claim on the sinner and opens to him by forgiveness a new future for new obedience.

But if Jesus is the sacrament of God's own reality, as Christian faith teaches, we must conclude once again that the essential content of revelation is nothing other than the kenosis of God that opens up the future to an all - inclusive vision promised in the resurrection.

I don't believe in any gods, but I am glad of the diversity of the historic religions and of the continued diversity of belief today which I think teaches us about humanity and keeps our minds open for future knowledge that may be radically different than we expect.

And he adds: «The incomprehensibility of God precisely in his revelation, means that for the Christian the future is still open and full of possibilities.»

In sum, the life and words of this remarkable man open up the mystery of the future to his followers in such a radical fashion that he functions for them as the very revelation of God.

This God is revealed as one who in the most intimate self - withdrawing humility opens up the future in which God's other, the world, can have its own being.

It would seem then that the only way to purify our concepts of God of the false authoritarianism which can only sanction a suppression of our natural love of personal freedom, is to accept without reservation the image of the defenseless (but by virtue of that quality, radically powerful and creative) God who withdraws any intrusive presence and thereby opens up the future in which alone human freedom can dwell and find nourishment.

Open your heart, release your mind, trust God's leading and begin envisioning your future.

Genuinely prophetic preaching will help Christian communities to discern the signs of these times, and open us in a fresh way to God's future.

The self - emptying God does not stand over against us closing off the historical future to us, but in abandoning such a dictatorial posture, comes over to our side and leaves the future open to indefinite surprise.

We need a totally open future, and the existence of God seems to place limits on this openness.

To state it somewhat abruptly, it is the humility of God that serves to open up the historical future as the arena of promise and hope.

In its portraits of God's revelation in the mode of «promise,» biblical religion gave rise to the experience of history as an opening of events to an always new future bearing a universal meaning for the events that take place in time.

But it seemed to him that the idea of God constituted an enormous obstacle to our need for an open - ended, limitless historical future.

The very fact that our present is so detached from its past, from Christendom, with its corollary that an acceptance of the present demands a negation of Christendom, of the Christian God, can mean that the horizon of our present will open into a future epiphany of faith that will draw all things into itself.

On the other hand, if (as we have just said) our decisions make a difference, if the future is not a «closed future» but is open even for God, then we can see that there are possibilities that can not be realized until and unless there is human consent to that realization.

Opening ourselves to the novelty of God's future requires an active struggle with those inclinations in us that seek security in a settled past or an untroubled present.

I take Plato as on my side in this when he says that in God is both being and becoming, both permanence and novelty, a closed past and an open future, also that God cares about the creatures, thus siding in advance against Aristotle's unmoved mover, taken as the God of religion.14 What moves things is at least «self - moved,» and is soul, including the supreme and cosmic soul, God, whose body is all else than cosmic soul and other than forms.

6 His understanding is that the way God who is love empowers us is by opening us up to future possibilities beyond our current comprehending.

Redemption can follow judgment, if we are alive to the impulses of the Spirit and open to the new future God wills for us.

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