Sentences with phrase «god over nature»

Although this book is not part of the Protestant Bible, it does show that in a setting in which matter is held to be virtually eternal, the biblical understanding of God as Creator leads naturally to a creatio ex nihilo position since the alternative compromises the sovereignty of God over nature).

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Was humankind created by God in a rush of divine power, or did we evolve over time with only nature to take the credit?

Your lack of concern over our lives and atrocities against us teaches us well the nature of the one true God.

Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's love, character and nature, the death of Jesus and Salvation.

Describing its author's life up until his conversion to Christianity, the Confessions grounds Augustine's individual, mutable life in the unchanging nature of God: «I entered into the depths of my soul,... and with the eye of my soul, such as it was, I saw the Light that never changes casting its rays over the same eye of my soul, over my mind.»

I've written over 150 articles on everything from free will to the nature of God to the reason why we suffer.

So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical deity who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this deity is all powerful but for some reason can't do anything more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX: God can never regenerate a missing limb)?

Over time religions have resorted to characterizing God is increasingly abstract, incomprehensible, and not subject to the laws of time and nature.

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.

God does not work that way although God has full power over nature as with the flood.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

• Epistemology or knowledge: God has revealed, through Scripture and nature, that males are to hold authority over women the whole of their life.

This creativity is itself an ultimate that can not be traced to a cause transcending itself with the exception of its formal determination which arises in the creature from God's «primordial nature» but which the creature again freely takes over.

Nor were animals and the forces of nature to be bowed down to by man as in pagan religion; rather man, as a rational being made in the image of God, was to exercise dominion over them.

Accordingly the «other world,» the Kingdom of God, is not conceived as a universal metaphysical entity, as a finer, higher, more spiritual nature over against the earthly nature.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

Christianity has been subject to much recent criticism for its acquiescence — even encouragement — of the exploitation of nature, said to be based on the verse in Genesis where God gave man «dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth» (Genesis 1, 26 AV.).

He wants to be over God, studying God like some process or characteristic in nature, that he can control.

Partly to provide a way of conceptualizing God's transcendence over evil, and in part for other systemic reasons which we need not cover now, Hartshorne is forced to introduce a dualistic account of the divine nature.

Some group of clergy who met back in Nice on several occasions over 1500 years ago because they couldn't agree on the nature of God, and that was causing such a rift in the church established at the time that they had to put it to a vote to decide what doctorine to follow, and then ended up excommunicating anybody who didn't believe that man had the right to decide the true nature of God?

If such a source (or sources) exist, why is there such confusion and disagreement over the nature of this god and what it wants?

God created Adam — and Eve — an adult, he was a fully grown man at one - day - old, and gave him the human nature (passed on to us) of growing fully over nine months in the womb and 18 - 21 years or so after birth.

«No public access to the knowledge of God through nature» brings us back to the current argument over intelligent design.

Love is God's conquering force over God's people and those who despise and hate God's chosen by Godly loving kindness will He allow the unloving nurtured natures of the prideful to remain...

Geraldine here we see satans tactics to gain control over our lives and he uses pride as a means to control us if our hearts arent submitted to God we get lured into sin or our need for success or to please others or impress others of our worth.Being born again means to have our new identity in Christ we turn away from our old nature and take on his nature or identity.In the process we are redeemed through the blood of Jesus and our lives are transformed so we become as he is.

He regards the world as given over to the power of judgment until the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ brings mercy and redemption, and he regards man as by nature vile and as incapable of receiving pardon from God until the advent of Christ.

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.

Orderly and dependable forces in God's world make possible man's security and mastery over nature — but never wholly, for accident and disease come in their wake and wait to be conquered.

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.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

We can not, say the Southern Presbyterians, disguise the fact that the radically different nature of the Kingdom of God sets it over against the kingdoms of this world.

15.13), a God with «future as his essential nature» (as E. Bloch puts it), as made known in Exodus and in Israelite prophecy, the God whom we therefore can not really have in us or over us but always only before us, who encounters us in his promises for the future, and whom we therefore can not «have» either, but can only await in active hope.»

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.

Though not directly stated anywhere, Peter Enns appears to be a proponent of the idea that the Bible is a library of books written by various authors from various theological perspectives, who are in dialogue with each other over the nature of God and what the human response to Him should be.

And this, it will be observed, is carried over into the concept of the nature of God: God utters his judgments upon cruelty and inhumanity.

G. R. Driver comments, «As thus interpreted, the poem depicts the introduction of the youthful Baal as a god of fertility into the Ugaritic pantheon and the establishment of his supremacy, under El's suzerainty, over all the other gods, exercising power over earth as god of rain; for rain is the ultimate source of the life - giving water which is essential to the whole of nature, however it may be distributed.»

I TOLD HIM THAT I believe in electricity and other forces of nature, but as for a God, if there is one, He has never done anything for me... «Then all of your troubles are over,» says the man and leaves the room (Cathy Burns, Alcoholics Anonymous Unmasked, p. 39; emphasis added).

Tanner begins with an extended discussion, stretching over three chapters, of human nature as oriented from the beginning by grace to the image of God, the second person of the Trinity.

The notion of God as the principle of the limitation of possibility was the first version that Whitehead developed as to the nature of God, but this concept was considerably modified over the course of the next three or four years.

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.

If God's control over the world is absolute in that it is independent of all creaturely contingencies, then God's activity may flow directly from his unchanging nature which was deemed wholly necessary and self - sufficient.

Jesus — so it is thought — completed the decisive modification in the concept of God from the personified power of nature, the power over what is, to the «representation of the ought - to - be as the power of love.»

Specifically, Wolterstorff declines to mention the pitched debate over the import of the multiple allusions Paul makes in Romans 1 to Genesis 1 - 3, allusions that suggest that «nature,» as Paul understands it, isn't simply «what is common in Paul's day» but rather what is given in God's creation itself.

So, even if the universe has the nature of developing over 13.7 billion years, and Earth over 4.5 billion years, God made it all happen (jump start) during the days of Creation!

Over and over we are told no one really knew God, no one saw Gods true natOver and over we are told no one really knew God, no one saw Gods true natover we are told no one really knew God, no one saw Gods true nature.

Keith the verse go and sin no more is a choice the choice is the giver of life Jesus or go and sin no more change the word sin for death.Its our hearts it chooses to sin because it likes to sin thats our nature and the word is clear that our hearts are deceitfully wicked.How do we overcome by admitting our weakness and asking the holy spirit to help us.That is how i have been able to break sins over my life personally i am powerless in the flesh and i freely admit that but i have the spirit of God at work in my life who is able to raise me above my weakness in him.He empowers us to do that so when you feel weak tell the Lord and ask the holy spirit to help you.The more you rely on the holy spirit the more you walk in the spirit and the less influence sin has over you.brentnz

And finally, the awareness that our existence and whatever we have are God's gifts, and whatever control we have over the world is a delegated responsibility — in which, to use the Genesis phrase, God has made us to «have dominion» over the things of nature — ought to give us a wider, deeper sense of stewardship.

From the beginning of creation, God has always been love and through Jesus» ability to forgive sins and his power over nature, God's love is revealed to the world, what has always been is now radiated by a seemingly insignificant carpenter from Nazareth.

Irenaeus therefore made a distinction between the image of God which is man's distinctive endowment of reason, his dominion over nature, and his creaturely dignity; and the similitude to God which is faith, hope and love, that is, the full and righteous relation which man is supposed to enjoy as God's creature.

There was a beginning so there is Creator who is perfect in power and wisdom, having power over nature therefore everything is under submission to the One who has power over nature and by definition that is God.