Sentences with phrase «god or gods purpose»

= > Correct, but Einstein's and Spinoza's beliefs do not change the nature of God or Gods purpose for creation any more than yours or the Pope's does.

Not exact matches

Could this God that stirs emotion in us, good or bad, stir for a purpose?

You yourself have failed to express a better plan or purpose for existence than that which God has made clear.

You said, «What is the purpose of seeking God or discrediting God (in your case) that is so important that mankind has done so since first recorded history.»

Belief or non belief in God matters not as to purpose if there is no purpose for existence.

In short all I said was purpose was either onto God or onto self.

As Augustine argued in the City of God, the fall of the eternal city, or any city on a hill, does not mean the failure of history's purpose and humanity's flourishing.

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

Rom 9:11,12 For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth; It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

People without any temporal horizons — without any historical purpose or vision of the future — grow enervated and decadent, and they begin to follow strange gods, who promise them meaning.

Whether trials come through our poor decisions or God just simply allows them, they are there to serve a purpose.

Atheist reject the idea of a god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance at all of a god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a god doesn't exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a god was proven to be true.

In a country in which the vast majority of citizens pray and believe in God, it surely matters, for purposes of legitimation of power and authority, whether or not God and the Bible, the highest authorities and sources of ideals known to those citizens, are invoked to legitimate political authority.

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

Our human nature does not include an ability to know what to change or «cook» to attain God's purposes.

It's a personal choice and a lifestyle decision: either a) I will live for myself with no regard to my true purpose in life or b) I will live in a way that honors the God who chose to create me in His image.

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

«We're not trying to make a chimera just because we want to see some kind of monstrous creature... We're doing this for a biomedical purpose... I don't consider that we're playing God or even close to that.

Even back during my most fundamentalist / evangelical / pentecostal years I felt that, rather than being for the purpose of entreating God to intervene in circumstances or change others, prayer was a way to draw strength, comfort, courage, and wisdom for dealing with those circumstances.

When you read through the Bible chapter for chapter one will get a broader view or the full context about what happened, maybe where it happened why it did happen and for which purpose it happened but: «All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:..»

But not because these are commands for us, but because we see the wisdom in what they did or didn't do in carrying out the plans and purposes of God.

If the purpose of our existence were to learn to know God, return to God, or some such thing human history would be nothing like it is.

Yes, in the case of character flaws, it's much easier for a Christian to claim that god made them that way to serve a particular purpose in the body of Christ or that god will forgive their sins.

And that doesn't begin to touch on the notion of God allowing (or causing) bad things to happen or refusing to intervene in horrific circumstances for some mysterious higher purpose.

It is the religiosity from church growth books, membership duties, vain promises that our Savior rebelled against in His day as Son of God, Son of Man, Let scripture super exceed any of mans futile attempts to be purpose driven, or a «church Member»

----------------------------- Romans 9:11 - 14 — for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls, it was said to her, «The older will serve the younger.»

Only then can it connect with the Gospel which will both affirm what is godly in a particular culture but also critique and challenge what denies God's purpose for humanity or for the world which he has created.

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

God can use the Chaldeans for his purposes, or not.

Sex finds its purpose in God in that sexual union is a symbol or a sacrament of union with Christ.

It was authority, not for flaunting or power, it was authority for servanthood, for the purpose of giving life and freedom, for the purpose of invitation to God's way of life, and his Kingdom ways.

First, she upholds the Reformer's root metaphor for sin as «unfaithfulness» or the opposite of «living according to God's purposes by accepting God's grace.»

I love Allah and everyone I swear I want to see everyone who reads this in heaven, don't get mad do me a favor and please just like we Muslims respect ur book respect ours, go and find a Quran translated in English and read read at least the first 10 pages then listen to a reciter his name Is sheikh al maher al Miakli, then ask ur self why am I hear if u will not sacrifice for god (Allah) s sake why did he Jesus say or sins our forgiven and let us do whatever we want here without purpose and give us heaven.

Much better to say there is no God or, as Abraham Lincoln did, «The Almighty has his own purposes,» than to flatter ourselves with knowing what those purposes are.

Since it is about the election and rejection of Israel for God's purposes, many believe that Romans 9 teaches that even after we receive eternal life, if we fail to live according to God's purposes, we either lose our eternal life or we prove we never had it in the first place.

Even if evil and suffering is a teaching tool, an all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

Christians believe god has a purpose or a plan.

You ate that cookie because it was delicious, not because it brought glory to God or helped fulfill some «purpose».

In so doing they were convinced that God had disclosed or manifested the innermost divine character, nature, and purpose.

To impute purpose to God is no dishonesty in Whitehead; for he finds no real or possible thing that is not in its degree of simplicity or complexity endowed with subjective aim.

It is not for this or that special purpose or point of view that God is unsurpassable.

We are beginning to see that the vast purpose of God can never be confined to individual salvation or to the welfare of any particular race or nation, or even to the necessarily restricted physical life of human beings on this planet.

I don't know... there's no record of him following the temple laws regarding sacrifices, or encouraging his followers to do so, presumably because he fulfilled the purpose of the sacrifices that were commanded by God...?

• Epistemology or knowledge: God has revealed, through Scripture, that males and females share dominion, leadership and authority in accomplishing the purposes for which they were created as individuals.

• Teleology or purpose: Males are created by God to hold authority over females.

Or was it through the dark and mysterious purposes of God who is surrounded in darkness?

God himself is not above allowing suffering or even creating suffering for his own purposes of bringing us closer to him or simply to mold us into a better person.

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

The underlying meaning of the Hebrew noun might be, then, «an announcer,» or «the one who announces» the purpose and activity of God.