Sentences with phrase «god speaking today»
They don't believe that God speaks today.
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Hebrews 1:1,2 God today speaks to us through the pages of the Bible, the written account of his works and his Son.
These churches do not believe that God speaks to man today, why not?
How do they know if there is even a God today if he doesn't speak to them?
If they are inspired by God, please tell me why they should be interpreted differently today than when God originally spoke them into existence.
They don't believe God, or the Holy Spirit, speak to us today.
Speak God's Word today.
Of course, my post in some ways claims to speak as I know what I am talking about regarding how God does or doesn't speak today.
He pointed out that «it isn't always easy today to speak about fatherhood and, not having adequate role models, it even becomes problematic to imagine God as a father.»
'' Today, the (overwhelming majority of Americans)-- including the * overwhelming majority of American Christians * — now believe that when God has something to say He speaks in less dramatic ways, including the still small voices in our hearts and the slightly louder voices of the preachers in our pulpits.»
«Today, the overwhelming majority of Americans — including the overwhelming majority of American Christians — now believe that when God has something to say He speaks in less dramatic ways, including the still small voices in our hearts»
It is an honest introduction to the huge reality of God and his Church, and speaks in a way that is likely appeal to today's generation.
No short supply of those today who claim to speak for God... and probably shouldn't.
In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.
Then I red something like this, that you wrote almost four years ago and it encourages me, because you were speaking to my heart 4 years ago, and today I am here and reading it, because God saw fit to use you through the written word.
I guess reading number 4 it reminds me that with the overuse of the statement «I heard my spirit speak», «God spoke to me today», «I had a word»... reminds me to check all things from the spirit with the Bible.
And, if it can be shown that God spoke to such a people in the past, we can more readily believe that the living Lord of history can come into my life today and transform it by his presence.
The Christian symbols that speak to those realities of negation — cross, apocalyptic, sin, the demonic, the radically incomprehensible, the hidden and revealed God — strike home to me today far more than they ever did before.
Since no evidence exists for any gods all belief in them is unfounded and speaks more to the fear of death which is as alive today as it was at the founding of the belief!
There is no other God in the world who died for our sin and raised from the death and he is still living, I know He is living because I have spoke to him even today.
That hasn't happened, and is unlikely to in the foreseeable future, but that is not to say that God isn't speaking today.
While its sad that many Christians forget this fact in our culture today, bowing into the world and compromising the truth of God for comfort, its also said that some groups are hated for speaking «the truth» rather than displaying the radical love of Christ.
But the real question to explore today is whether we can equally speak of Christ and koinonia in Christ as transcending all religions and able to take root and form within each religion and to undertake the mission of redeeming it of its idolatries and saving its spiritual treasures and values as vehicles of the gospel and the worship of God through Jesus Christ.
What hearing could he gain if he stood in this pulpit today, or in any pulpit in America, and spoke to us now about our depravity and corruption, about our unfreedom and the determination of our lives, about the ineffable gloriousness of God, and about the awfulness of his wrath?
Today's Christian finds it a bitter pill to swallow to be told that he must learn a lesson from the Communist and his secular hope for society, but long ago a prophet of Israel ventured to speak of the arch-enemy, Assyria, as an instrument in the hand of God, and another dared to name a foreign emperor as the very Messiah sent by YHWH.
«We still need good theology... so we do need good theological colleges with well - trained, committed faculty members, able to publish and supervise higher research; where academic rigour is maintained and we continue to discern how God's word in the Bible speaks today.
For this and other reasons the best Biblical preaching going on in the churches today undertakes to interpret the Word of God as a word spoken to Israel and the Church.
-- God is no longer giving persons dreams / visions or speaking directly to them today but he will nevertheless insert thoughts into their minds to guide them.
If this is so, the Evangelist meant by «eternal life» not a temporal existence but «a life which has properly speaking neither past nor future, but is lived in God's eternal Today.
Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.
Speaking of Jesus in this way may seem to make him merely one of many great men, exceptional but not superhuman, not the divine being he is believed by Christians to be; but however his person and nature are understood, I for one can not believe that even in him God acted in any way inconsistent with the same natural laws and operations by which he works today.
There are a number of ways to view the two poles which threaten the unity of every sermon and yet which offer the promise of creativity and the possibility of actually speaking God's Word today.
about the eternal life in God; nor does anything point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition for the achievement of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree with the opinion that where there are no conditions of life worthy of man one can not even speak of salvation today.
But even today, Christian Arabs and Jews, and the Aramaic - speaking Christians of Ma «lula in Syria call God Allah.
One must «speak of liberty, as the youth of today has placed it in his culture, but liberty must always be in relation to truth, as it is truth that produces liberty... [and] one can not speak of God to young people without knowing the culture of today's young people, which is scientific.
Today, the overwhelming majority of Americans — including the overwhelming majority of American Christians — believe that when God has something to say He speaks in less dramatic ways, including the still small voices in our hearts and the slightly louder voices of the preachers in our pulpits.
But we have the ungodly crowd today which is more then happy to quote the Scriptures they don't even believe in, just to silence us who speak God's Word.
A growing consensus among Christians today speaks of God's preferential option for the poor.
Hebrews 1:1 - 2 states that whereas in the past God spoke through prophets, today he has spoken authoritatively through his Son.
But no; this is not to go over to well with the unbelievers, very few believed Jesus and the disciple's spoke forth as the Holy Spirit gave them the words to speak forth, and God is still the same today and they call themselves Christians but they live in unbelief: They truly think that God has changed His ways:
They do not believe God is the same today, even though He says He is, they are now rejecting the Christ in us coming forth, and they say they are Christ - ians: They have made Christianity a Joke because of their unbelief, and that is why religion is hated, because they are not Christian's; to be a Christian is to have Christ in us grown up to be just as He; so we too can speak all the same things, Christ is not divided; even as is written:
Gary: To do a thing apart from His Spirit is just self works: It is not in and by The Faith of the Son of God: Paul said; he lives by the Faith of the Son of God, that comes with the in workings of the Holy Spirit: Even as Paul says; follow me as am of Christ: This was Paul commission: Little Children I labour in birth again until Christ be formed in you, this takes us from self works into the in workings of the Holy Spirit, that we too are conformed into the image and likeness of Christ, as Christ is formed in us: Even as it was with Peter's commission, Peter when thouest is converted convert thine brethren: But we can see many left Jesus and Paul when it can time for the strong meat to be had: So too is it in each generation: The great falling away, that only the faithful remain: Thank - you Gary; In Jesus name Alexandria: P.S. if Peter or Jesus or Paul would stand here today in your presence and speak forth what they spoke forth then, would you truly receive them??? Now it is the Christ in us that comes forth to minister the Words of the Lord through others as they: That is why Christ is not divided, those of the same Spirit will know because we speak the same things in and by His Holy Spirit:
The rabbis» observations underscore this point: God was speaking about the Canaanites back then, and there are no more Canaanites today.
If God in the past has performed miracles, called prophets, spoke face to face with His servants, and directed His church through revelation and divine inspiration, why can not Christians accept that He can do it today?
For Christians the Bible is a living book through which the living God speaks to persons today.
... Leviticus 17:11 «For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement (I do get the inference that bringing other things up, opens up a whole new can of worms every time, so to speak); on the other hand, it is true today that God does not want our blood.
But we may be helped if we can speak of God in a framework that makes sense in today's world.
God could had it been both ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...
God could had creation either ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...
WORLD: I think part of all the facts to consider, are who wrote the Bible, what their level of knowledge was... and how believable to them it would have been... if God spoke to them using the scientific facts we know today.