Sentences with phrase «god revealed himself to the world»

I'm sure you can find Jesus (i.e. aspects of the mysterious God revealed to the world) in the Torah, the Dharma, etc....

Not exact matches

The plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in order to reveal his Father's mind to the world.

Note the clues to this triune intuition in Vincent Van Gogh's revealing letter to his brother Theo: «I feel more and more that we must not judge of God from this world, it's just a study that didn't come off.

Disastrous events will continue to happen and even worsen as long as the world calls on the name of «Jesus» and on the names (Yahweh, Jehovah, YHWH, Allah etc) taught by the religions and not on the true name of God in the Bible (that Jesus failed to make known) that was revealed by Teacher Evangelista in http://www.thename.ph

The issue is that Christ revealed God's high ethics, and we feel not able to apply this ethics in our world of selfish commerce.

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.

It was in a period of philosophical and religious ferment, when the pagan gods failed to offer answers to the problems of ordinary life, that Christ came into the world and revealed God's salvific plan to all of mankind.

You have openly revealed a profound unwillingness to even study the issue God loving Christians all over the world have held up to the standard of God's love and found views like yours to be lacking.

They quoted the prophets to reveal that salvation had always been intended for all people, and Israel had been «chosen'to produce the Redeemer and bring this good news to all the world — not to be the only recipients of God's favor, as their false teachers proclaimed.

At the same time I came to realize that history presents that aspect of the world of our experience which, according to Jewish and Christian faith, reveals God's presence in his creation.

Vatican II, in his view, inaugurated a two - way dialogue in which Catholicism not only listened to the world's hopes and anxieties but also proposed to the world a Christian humanism: the «passionate love of God for all humanity, made visible in... Jesus Christ, crucified and risen,» that same Christ who fully and uniquely reveals to humanity its incomparable dignity and high calling.

God still revealed his Word through holy souls, raising up the his chosen People to give the world hope of healing and salvation.

«scientific advances have sometimes been so rapid as to make it very difficult to discern whether they are compatible with the truths about man and the world that God has revealed.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

I basically asked, «If Jesus truly reveals God to us, then what sort of God should we expect to find in the Old Testament and how can we understand what is going on in our own world when such terrible things happen all the time?»

Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to offer others the gift of ourselves.

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

The Scriptures contain much that is true, very much, but in the light of your present teaching, you know that these writings also contain much that is misrepresentative of the Father in heaven, the loving God I have come to reveal to all the worlds.

God is revealed as acting carefully, lovingly, to bring forth the world and humankind.

War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «victims of wanton aggression.»

Of course, you have to believe in God as He is revealed in Jesus Christ, or else you may end up believing in a god that acts like Hitler, and seeing the world through that lens will not be helpful for anyboGod as He is revealed in Jesus Christ, or else you may end up believing in a god that acts like Hitler, and seeing the world through that lens will not be helpful for anybogod that acts like Hitler, and seeing the world through that lens will not be helpful for anybody.

Here, we do not wont to hold that God must reveal itself ad extra, but that the internal reference of God to everything that is not God is of a relational type, i.e., essential for world events and their nexic connections beyond the difference of God's «nature» and «will.»

Many liberal Christians, on the other hand, are essentially deists; it is their view that after having created the world and revealed the divine will in its structure and the laws of nature, God can not be looked to for further intervention.

But creation reveals that God is also what he is everlastingly by a free decision to create the world, so that not everything that is true about God is due to the necessity of his very nature.

Life, for the early Church, was spiritual warfare; and no baptized Christian could doubt how great a transformation — of the self and the world — it was to consent to serve no other god than Him whom Christ revealed.

Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal himself, and to declare that his will unto his church; and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing: which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God's revealing his will unto his people being now ceased.

«51 Since a world, in which God reveals Godself as an eschatological event, is of almost apocalyptic nature, no one can claim to know any given rule or any world - law that God has to follow.

When we have become intellectually mature enough to give up childish notions of divine intrusions and rescue expeditions, even with respect to Jesus himself (about whom we speak in the next chapter), and to trust in God who is revealing the divine self as actively energizing within the world, we shall be able to have a more soundly based and more credible view of the divine reality.

The command to have no other god but Him whom Christ revealed was never for Christians simply an invitation to forsake an old cult for a new, but was an announcement that the shape of the world had changed, from the depths of hell to the heaven of heavens, and all nations were called to submit to Jesus as Lord.

If God has not even revealed to his own son the date the world will end, I doubt he has revealed it to Harold Camping.

Could it be that in using the scapegoat imagery, God was not only giving Israel a way of escape for their own violent tendencies, but was also revealing to them (and us) what He Himself was doing about the violence of Israel, and indeed, the violence of the whole world?

This article says it best: «If God has not even revealed to his own son the date the world will end, I doubt he has revealed it to Harold Camping».

and QUOTE: «If God has not even revealed to his own son the date the world will end, I doubt he has revealed it to Harold Camping.»

Paul's parenthesis has so far explained why he is a prisoner, what the plan of the mystery revealed to him was, and how he individually was called by God to preach to the world about this mystery, Jews and Gentiles.

God has done his Job to create the world and reveal him to us.

But the existence of God would easily be provable should God decide to reveal himself to everyone in an undeniable way, which he supposedly does to individuals and will do to the whole world upon Christ's return, according to Christian belief.

We look for ways to reveal the scandalous grace of God to the world, raising questions about justice, righteousness, forgiveness, and love.

God is revealed to the world through the body of Christ (specifically through the love the body's members show one to another).

Non-Christian music helps us hear the groaning of the world as it waits in expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.

Only if the Christian Movement is able to demonstrate, concretely in deed and word, how Jesus Christ reveals the radical world - commitment of a God who is (as Paul reputedly said on Mars Hill) «not far from every one of us,» will it manifest biblical faithfulness in the multi-religious and multi-threatened world that is and is coming to be.

In this case one would be saying that God acts in the world by revealing to an agent things about the past world of the agent of which he or she is unaware, but which may have an impact on the agent's future.

Blood fueds was the way of the world until the messagers of God was revealed and brough guidence to mankind

Such terminology reveals a tendency to view church as a function and a place, rather than the people of God who follow Jesus into the world.

But the eschatological scheme of the apocalypses had been profoundly disturbed by the fact that the Messiah had come and the Kingdom of God had been revealed, while yet this world continued to exist, and the people of God were still in the body.

«The cross, which stands at the centre of the Christian world view, reveals both the seriousness of human sin and the purpose and power of God to overcome it.

Western Christianity has become more deistic than theistic and Scriptures that reveal a metaphysics of Divine Transcendence and a deterministic legal agenda rather than a love story of God's relationship with the people S / He has chosen to prepare to become sacraments of Divine Love in the world.

The cross reveals to faith the self - sacrificing of God out of whose limitless generosity the world is called, but never forced, into being.

He may prefer to state it differently, as in «I commit myself to the ground of being,» or «I look on the world and myself as under the authority of the creator - God revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.»

God, they thought, had to do more than the Scriptures revealed, in order to even out the injustices of this world.