Sentences with phrase «god over human life»

For, let it be said, we must look for a Messianic Faith, if it is to be the principle of control and direction from God over human life and destiny.

Messianism and Apologetics The messianic nature of Revelation would therefore be intrinsic to it, if it is to be the principle of control and direction from God over human life and destiny.

Not exact matches

We humans make God contemptible because of our prejudice, taught / learned hate, and our desire to make God over into our image (you know, the cool dad who lives with his perfect family in the cul de sac and belongs to the same golf club you do, etc, etc.).

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

If gods WERE REAL and were any good they would have created humans first instead of all the life that came before... including the dinosaurs that came before and lasted for over 300,000,000 years and are still here today but now we cll them birds.

in HUMAN perspective it seems immoral cause YOU and I are not the judges over someones life... and MIGHT is OT Gods only attribute..

Instead, in the very human act of puffy eyes and hiccuping, of confessions and confrontations, I found God all over again and I was restored to a very real and very holy friendship, to a life without the protective armour.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

I personally don't think Steve was «fair» with all of the biblical accounts of violence, since he often cuts off quotations in mid-sentence, but with all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God, it's hard to quibble over minor details like that.

All worship is now a participation in this «Passover» of Christ, in His «passing over» from divine to human, from death to life, to the unity of God and man.»

For «providence» is a word which tells us of the conviction that God exercises a never - failing and personal control over, even as he unfailingly works within, the events and circumstances of life, molding them and molding us in such a way that his grace and power are manifested in human history and in personal experience.

Some Catholics, going beyond the bishops and the Pope, maintain that the death penalty, like abortion and euthanasia, is a violation of the right to life and an unauthorized usurpation by human beings of God's sole lordship over life and death.

Hauerwas, who teaches theology at Duke, holds these seemingly eclectic commitments together with a Reformed (via Barth) emphasis on the priority of God's Word over any human attempt to think of or live well before God, and a Wesleyan insistence on God's call to complete sanctification in this life.

Jesus» response is not a clear - cut choice of religious duty over family obligation but an expression of the tension of human living in covenant with God.

The primary biblical foundation for understanding family living as caring for the generations is in God's call to human beings in the first chapter of Genesis «to exercise care over the earth and hold it in its proper place.»

Moreover, Luther's own lived experience made it clear to him over and over again that even good theology is imperfect, a human attempt to describe and interpret what God reveals to and through faith in the daily living of it.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

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.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Jesus very clearly has stated that he is the way, the truth, and the life and that there is no other pathway to reach God and never commands anyone to follow the wishes of a human over the commands of God.

God's power «is the power that prevails over the chaos, that sets limits to the onslaught of the forces of destruction and ensures the conditions needed for human life and prosperity... God's power is his «justice» in action,» as exemplified particularly in the Magnificat.48

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

Jesus Christ, is and it will be forever more the unique object lesson of living, the human being not ever, although we may be Christians we don't leave of to sin, for the very her writing she says Aerquémonos confiadamente at the throne of your handsomeness in order to reach forgiving in order to the perpetual help, in as much as not tenemos one God which not it can feel pity for of we, rather one which fué tempting all over, but without sin, according to the letter at the age of Hebrews, and the apostle John she says, whether various hubiere sin, solicitor tenemos in order to with the parent to Jesus Christ the that's right, not ever not any human being it will be the best object lesson not other than The Christ Jesus, nor Buddah bo Mahoma nor none, we don't follow to humanity rather at a God which fué tempting all over but without sin, not ever we owe put her scope in the humanity not other than in the.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

It is rather that the Word and the church will be interpreted to them as God's will for the freedom of man to live a human life, to fight against the demonic forces of his own nature that seek dominion over social as well as personal life, to order his life by structures of love and justice relevant to the conditions of society.

Significantly, the witness of the Church over the centuries has denied the possibility that God is indifferent to what human beings do to themselves and to the life that has been entrusted to them, because every human being must one day account for their actions before their Creator.

This concern arises out of the fact that Christians believe that God, the Creator, is the Lord over human life in all aspects — be it political, economic and social.

Over and over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the Over and over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the law.

Indeed, it is impossible for Christians and churches to be non-political because to do so implies that there are substantial aspects of human life over which God and the gospel have no say.

what a hypocracy, «Judaism places ultimate value on human life» they prefer life of one killer (they called soldier) over thousands of innocent palestians, that proves historical curse of God on sons of israel, they will never get a land on this earth but if get some (that they did with unjustice) will never get peace on it.

i guess we are lucky are parents were not gay or we would not all be here reading this the book allso says free will and ten comanments to live by its not up to us humans to judge when we all die we will know what we did right and what was wrong until then do what you do best to help keep the devil from taking over remember the devil and god have the same powers but only god can give you peace and love bottom line what or who you sleep with is your choice but don't keep rubbing my nose in it do your job and keep the rest to yourself

Pragmatic adaptation of the tradition seeks to make sure that God's rule over human life is still relevant.

And my god, Edith + Eddie is a ravaging portrait of love ripped apart by a system that values power and money over human lives.

The Bad Girls of Film Noir are hanging out in a separate entry (visit them over here) but there are plenty of other releases this week, not the least of which is the Coen Bros.'s A Serious Man (Universal), a serious (and seriously funny) meditation on little themes like the meaning of life and why are we here and how can we know God's purpose, and is as funny, heartbreaking, questioning, trying, exasperating and sincerely inquisitive a portrait of the human condition as you'll find on screen.

The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.

«Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings --[ROTATED: human beings have evolved over millions of years from other forms of life and God guided this process, human beings have evolved over millions of years from other forms of life, but God had no part in this process, or God created human beings in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it]?