Sentences with phrase «god over his creation»

This is one side of the picture; in its theological aspect it emphasizes the absolute authority of God over His creation, and in its ethical aspect suggests a deterministic theory of man's actions.

I paraphrase, but for Del Noce modernity (and especially late modernity) is predicated upon the attempted elimination of every form of transcendence: the transcendence of truth over pragmatic function, the transcendence of the orders of being and nature over the order of historical construction, the transcendence of the civitas dei over the civitas terrena, the transcendence of eternity over time, the transcendence of God over creation.

Not exact matches

You assert that God gave humans dominion over all the plants and animals — therefore, Man is the predilect object of God's Creation.

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Either that or God has relinquished control over his creation in order to allow Satan to tempt, kill, maim, seduce, and otherwise bring evil into a world where it is neither welcome nor wanted.

If man is not the predilect object of Creation, then why did God give us dominion over the entire planet?

At the end of the creation account, God gives dominion over the earth to mankind — the pinnacle of His creation.

God has allowed over 6,000 years to pass since the first man's creation, but also has an «appointed time» to remove all bad conditions in the near future and make way for a paradise earth for «meek» ones.

In reality the God's act of creation is over against the power of darkness, formlessness and chaos, perphaps symbolized by the» Babylonian Power.»

«And if God is sovereign over His creation, how can He bear no responsibility in all of the violence He allows to take place?»

whether or not she created herself, or another god created her; creation is what is most sacred because we are a part of her and any go who harts her or teaches dominion over our mother should not be revered, but loathed

The story of the creation is not the tale of the start of the world, bot it is the story of the victory of the God's Garden over the jungle of chaos and domination.

No human hands (he means) prepare the weapon by which the power of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.

Genesis, over against this viewpoint, affirms (1) that there is only one God; (2) that this God is not identified with or contained by any region of nature; (3) that the pagan gods and goddesses are not divinities at all but creatures, creations of the one true God; and (4) that the worship of any of these false divinities is idolatry.

Humans are elevated over the rest of creation by being formed in the image of God.

God speaks words of pleasure over God's latest creation just as God spoke words of pleasure over each new item in the litany of creation way back in the genesis of all things.

It's not about God manipulating creation like a puppeteer, but of ruling over creation, like a wise King.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

The assumption was on the part of the religious that what we do not understand must be the work of a god — except that over the last few centuries we understand more about creation — big bang, evolution, etc. which shows those creation stories to be incorrect.

If in such moments we would listen to the wind in the trees, the waves curling on the beach, feet crunching in sand, and the song of the mockingbird as the evening sun sets, we would surely hear creator God singing hymns over us, his creation.

In the creation narrative, men and women were both given an equal responsibility to bear God's image, have dominion /» rule» over creation, and be fruitful.

He is a good, omnipotent, omniscient God, who remains in control of His creation, over which He will pronounce ultimate judgment.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

In an especially astute bit of exegesis, Hays points out that the story of Jesus walking on the water (6:45 — 52) does not recall Moses and the Exodus sea - crossing but rather the peerless God of Job 9:4 — 11, the Lord of creation who triumphs over chaos.

The biblical message of the kingdom is eschatological in orientation, for it proclaims God's ultimate lordship over creation, which lordship has already broken into history in the appearance of Jesus.

God empties (kenosis) Godself of privilege, advantage and power over creation and becomes available, accessible, answerable and liable for the conditions of sin.

Pannenberg asserts that the deity of God is connected to God's demonstration of lordship over creation.

I believe that no one does the math — the logic of math is in favour of creation over evolution — «random chance» aka evolution is mathematically to astounding to believe — Alfred Hoyles number don't lie... and dna is a code — random chance can not create a code sequence nor can random chance ever improve itself... just think about it — mathmatically speaking there is a god or creator or creators of the code for life.

They might say, opposing the DNA research, that we ought not to «play God» or, favoring it, that God has given human beings «dominion» over the creation.

He understands the kingdom of God as the glory of the Trinity demonstrated in God's rulership over creation.

And the term «Lord» has been interpreted like the word «king» as an analogical description of God's rule over creation, rather than a stand - in for the unpronounceable name.

If by God's «glory» we understand a majestic court scene in which God is seated upon a great throne, lording it over the creation and gloating in his divine magnificence, then the phrase suggests ideas that are the exact opposite of the «Galilean vision» of the Love which is self - giving, gladly receptive, utterly ungrudging in generous openness to all that occurs in the created order.

His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.

This eternal significance, this meaning which transcends all human meanings, is the sovereign act of creation through which God speaks to us and brings us into being, an act which is completely «over our heads» — beyond our powers of rational understanding.

Besides that, I can not see how any so called loving God can include mass distinction of life, his creations, over and over again in the history of our planet as we know it.

If this implies that God has always «had a world» in which there is divine activity, that does not mean that the creation is «necessary» to God, as if the divine existence could not be conceived as transcendent over and unexhausted by what goes on in that created order.

These assumptions, which have their origins in a theologically motivated rejection of a classical understanding of God and creation, lead by an easy path to the view that human beings fully realize themselves by producing concepts that give us mastery over limitless possibilities — first mastery over nature, then over ourselves.

The Tabernacle, the prototype of the Temple, with authority and validation to be taken over into the Temple, is then in fact the creation of God, through the instrumentality of Moses.

In my view, its quite a leap to go from a prediction about how an individual will respond to a question over the next several hours to the conclusion that God knew every decision of every person who would ever exist before the creation of the world.

This rouses God's ire, and the waters of judgment rise in a universal flood, as if God intends to wipe the earth clean, starting over again with a new creation.

It is true that militant images are employed to portray the victory of God over every evil force in creation.

It all started with God and the creation of the earth, and then started over when Jesus died for the world, yes that means even the athiests.

The Hebrew poets have not missed the connection between God's victory over chaos in creation and the dividing of the sea in exodus.

Certainly such notions were widespread; every primitive tribe the world over has attributed some sort of creation to its god — which is only another way of saying that it was wrestling with the first of the three great problems of which we have spoken.

Here was NathanL's list: the Bible is the Word of God Jesus is the Word of God Jesus is the God - man Jesus is the Son of God, the Messiah, the Lord over all creation Jesus died for our sins and rose from the grave Jesus will return

It's not the belief in God, it's the church that is impeding my belief in a God that is not some sort of cosmic policeman, or one who sends his weak, fragile creations to hell for an eternity over a metaphorical loaf of bread.

Genesis does not, however, reflect philosophically on this signature; by depicting the act of creation and the result — a magnificent paradise well stocked with its birds, fishes, cattle, and so on, not to mention creeping things, a veritable kingdom over which the man and the woman reign in the peace of an integral nature — it simply shows that God's abundant goodness has been poured out, that his own nature has been «mirrored» somewhat as a mountain is mirrored in a clear lake.

The same principle applies to dominion over the earth; when God gave us dominion over the earth, he did not intend for us to destroy his creation.

Pursuing this distinction brings us face to face with the non-interventional character of empowering love: It is the way of such love not to cancel out the bad, but to absorb it within God's very own being, and never be prevented from bringing forth the possibility of new creation over and over again.

It seems clear enough that the kingdom of God means the rule of God over his world (especially over man, his supreme creation) and the assurance of God's presence and support that requires of us reciprocal obligations.