Sentences with phrase «god out of society»

There is still sin though, its just like everything else the secular people want any hint of God out of Society.

Not exact matches

Kinda blows your «fear God or society crumbles» theory out of the water.

Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.

In modern societies, Weber argued, the biblical God must compete with worldly gods such as aesthetic experience, material success, nationalistic fervor, erotic pleasure, and the many other forms of self - transcendence and this - worldly immortality that call out to our inner demons.

Your lack of trust in society is based on your belief that with out god you can not be good,, which is nonsense.

you guys have to understand, we as followers of christ (not christians) it is our job to tell you (society) that god exist and that he loves us and is willing to forgive us for the f @ # $ up things we do to each other daily, not prove he exist, b / c he sent prophets through out the ages to do that, some listen (hebrews, muslims) some didn't (pagans, atheis, new agers), then you have those who have had their souls violated (gays) who feel lost and confused.

While most in our «enlightened» Western society would assume we are beyond the actual worship of the gods out of ancient myths, the truth isn't so clear - cut.

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

The accusation that the Church by the masculine nature of the language it has used of God has for centuries reflected and reinforced a patriarchal society, which has shut out female forms of self - representation and seen women in terms of male desire, is hard to refute.

What the church fathers figured out from reading Scripture in its entirety is that God is Himself a «society of love.»

Those who point to God killing in the Book of Samuel and Nubmers need to check out how that society was riddled with $ exual disease because of their worship of Baal.

The question arising out of this experience is not, as in the Reformation, the question of a merciful God and the forgiveness of sins; nor is it, as in the early Greek church, the question of infinitude, of death and error, nor is it the question of the personal religious life, or of the Christianization of culture and society.

CNN: On campaign trail, Romney ratchets ups God rhetoric At campaign events these days, Mitt Romney often says that if he is elected president, he will emphasize the role of God in American society and will not «take God out of the public square.»

Ward examines this question in chapter 8, where he points out that in Judaism and Christianity morality is inspired by a vision of a God of supreme goodness, whose nature is meant to be reflected in human society, and whose final goal is «the transfiguration of the cosmos by a fully realised personal unity with God».

This means that, on Holloway's perspective, they also flow out of the structure of nature and of human society as it is fulfilled in the direct and personal enfleshment of God the Son.

Strip God out and you get survival of the fittest in a loveless society usually at some point with horrific consequences.

It would be difficult to say whether our culture's stress on aggressiveness grew out of an overemphasis on God's power and might or whether the images of God's power and might emerged from a society that valued such strength.

Even without acknowledging God, the atheist in this article feels and knows that it is good to work for charitable efforts like helping the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fight cancer... for by doing so we live out «love your neighbor as yourself» and by following this commandment from God — Jesus Christ's summary of the Law — we experience «God is Love.»

It was brought into being out of the older society of the Jewish people («the old Israel») as the new community («the new Israel») which was responding in discipleship, in love, in worship, and in service to that which Christians believed God had done in Jesus Christ.

They were man man but I am sure God is more than capable of sorting that out (we sure could not) What right do you or society have to deny non biological father and daughter to get married (Woody Allen did it) or twins for that matter

I mean come on... you only see one side of it... a loving God takies the children out of the evil society as part of the plan and gives them eternal life... a society that molested them and threw thenm in the fire, etc....

by the grace of god — jesus may have simply appeared to be anything but the son of god... and thru charm and guise won over the sad and lonely turning humble men into preachers of dreams... he taught them how to look stylish in order to get what they needed while being perfunctory... all the while having the semblance of a godly man doing gods work... for hand outs — lets not forget they were poor, aging people on the fringes of society.

Hence, by its challenge to our favored images of God, especially those that present God as one whose favor we must win by our religious or ethical performances, the subversive, revelatory image of a God who participates in our own shame pulls the rug out from under a society that seeks by way of religion to legitimate its exclusivism.

The pressure of living in a society full of distractions makes it harder for us to work out what is right and wrong, to say no to certain things and saying yes to God.

We have taken God out of our classrooms and out of our courtrooms and almost completely out of our society, we are a society of tolerance now, except for christians who are labeled as bigoted or haters if they speak out against something that is a sin in the eyes of God.

But I will not give license to the lifestyle and equate it with what is naturally better for society, and I will not allow it's moral equivelancy claims in the church door because that is throwning out the law of God.

This is a lie the real motive is to take God out of the US and to completely change the fabric of society.»

But seeing the consequences in our society — two out of every three marriages now end in divorce — I am overwhelmed daily by the love of God manifested in his commandment.

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

If, on the other hand, we start with the idea of God as a «serial society,» leaving out the phases of indeterminateness in every link (so that it would become a continuous chain of satisfactions only), it might appear that we had arrived at the same view as above.

So besides feeling left out, some women also realize that the concept of God as male inevitably supports both the lower status of women and a society whose dominant value is power instead of love.

As Schreiter has pointed out in his reflections on the sociology of theology, [13] such a picture of what it is to understand God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by high specialization and differentiation, like urban societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality of competing worldviews.

In other words, to start from the idea of God as society and then to leave out all phases of indeterminateness, is a contradictio in terminis.

It's interesting how easy it is for society to push anything that represents God out now that the memory of 911 seems to be so distant.

This review stands out: This book will probably have as much influence over future generations as St. Augustine's City of God had on the people who built, over the ashes of the Roman Empire, an organic society we now call Christian Civilization or Western Culture!

If you are residing in a multi-storied apartment, find out whether your housing society has insured the physical structure against acts of God.