God speaks to the world through its fullness and its roughness as well as from its particularity and its religious traditions.
Not exact matches
Your hate filled judgments have no place in any
world christian or otherwise and perhaps your
God grows tired of all of you pretending
to speak for him / her / it while passing judgment on generally good people while pretending that a religion created by fallible men has all the answers.
«In many and various ways
God spoke of old
to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days He has
spoken to us by a Son, whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the
world» (Hebrews 1:1 - 2).
God sees forward into eternity and wants
to speak to how He's going
to redeem the brokenness in our day, week, month, or year as part of His plan for the
world.
As much as you want
to speak out against religion, that is the effort you should spend on truly considering your place in
Gods world.
Not just in how I describe the
world, but in how I
speak to my wife, how I interact with neighbors and strangers, how I talk about
God, how I treat my daughter, how I describe my work.
I understand how you feel about this issue, the book Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
speaks about how the Jews run the
world from the back seat, but just like in the Old Testiment many failed
God, but His promise was
to them and He will return
to them first and we will walk with Him and them.
Admission
to this
world requires not a denial of
God but a discreet silence about Him, unless one can
speak elegantly of how very much one regrets His death.
If we are
to speak of being chosen, of being among
God's elect, it is
to say that, like Abraham, we are chosen for the sake of
God's plan that the nations of the
world come
to enjoy the blessing of Abraham (which is exactly how Paul describes the effect of
God's redemption of Israel through Christ in Galatians 3:14).
God is
speaking to them through dreams and visions and drawing them in love and grace out of the dark
world of Islam and into the light of His Son.
Ford
speaks, it is true, of a divine «temporal freedom,» but this freedom wholly derives from the divine nontemporal decision and thus amounts only
to the temporal emergence of a nontemporal freedom: «
God's temporal freedom is exercised in his integrative and propositional activity, where he fits
to each actual
world that gradation of pure possibilities best suited
to contribute
to the maximum intensity and harmony of his consequent physical experience» (IPQ 13:376; my emphasis).
I am stating that I KNOW that
God spoke with The Prophet Joseph Smith, restored the Truth that had been lost from apostacy, and that we have been taking that message
to the
World ever since as we have been commanded
to do.
No: it is the reason we can
speak of
God's total presence
to the
world.
She says she heard
God speak to her about the need for blind spiritual eyes
to be opened in the Western
world too.
God is already
speaking to them, I believe that with all of my heart: most of my job in teaching them
to pray is showing them how
to listen
to God's heart for them and for the
world.
Cardinal Ruini
spoke of «false interpretations» of cosmic and biological evolution which «contribute more than a little
to a purely naturalistic understanding of man» and which also lead
to «the denial of the existence of a personal
God distinct from the
world» and the denial of «the transcendence of the human subject, made in the image and likeness of
God».
Again Scripture says: «In many and various ways
God spoke to our fathers by the prophets of old, but in these last days he has
spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the
world.»
As
to scientific proof I am glad you agree objective proofs are limited
to the material scientific while Jesus
speaks to the things of
God which are not the things of this
world.
It was a long way down from the kingdom of
God that the Bible
speaks of and the «City of
God» as Augustine envisioned it
to the
world of the proletarian vanguard.
«
To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright in Scripture and the Authority of God, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings.&raqu
To speak of
God's Kingdom,» says Wright in Scripture and the Authority of
God, «is thus
to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings.&raqu
to invoke
God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power
to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings.&raqu
to deal appropriately with evil in the
world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon
to remake the world, Israel, and human beings.&raqu
to remake the
world, Israel, and human beings.»
The minister is fond of saying that
God speaks to the church through the
world, but how is the Word of
God going
to be available
to the clergy if they do not listen
to anybody through whom
God might
speak?
But
God has been
speaking in secular ways
to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the
world in which they live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new»
world.
As we find ourselves in a new
world, we must remember
to speak love and truth, always using words filled with
God's grace.
Rather than being mute and numb in response
to the advent of a
world in which the original name of
God is no longer sayable, the Christian can live and
speak by pronouncing the word of
God's death, by joyously announcing the «good news» of the death of
God, and by greeting the naked reality of our experience as the triumphant realization of the self - negation of
God.
For this reason, some Lutheran theologians prefer
to speak of «orders of preservation,» taking into account what
God is doing
to sustain the
world under the conditions of sin, even using means sin - laden themselves, such as war and capital punishment,
to fight against still more serious attacks on the goodness of
God's creation.
We may
speak of the fundamental universal structures of life as orders of creation because
God continues
to create these possibilities of existence in spite of the fact that we live in a
world of sin and death.
That the «brethren» or leaders of the church do nt just
speak for
God, but
speak plenty of their own rubbish that is for our «salvation and stuff»... I removed the religious blinders and found a wonderful
world that is not plagued by guilt, remorse, doubt or fear that I may not be doing what
God wants me
to do.
It is only when one loves life and the earth so much that without them everything seems
to be over that one may believe in the resurrection and a new
world; it is only when one submits
to God's law that one may
speak of grace; and it is only when
God's wrath and vengeance are hanging as grim realities over the heads of one's enemies that something of what it means
to love and forgive them can touch our hearts.
After carefully reading the Quran and examining it based on his many years of study, a leading American theologian has concluded that via the holy book
God is
speaking to all human beings around the
world, a voice that, in his astonishing book, he said he tried
to transmit
to readers and students, as well
to himself,
to deepen his understanding.
It
speaks of
God's fidelity
to a
world frozen in its own infidelity.
You can be all close
to God and spiritual when
God is the only person
to talk
to, but I think it
speaks more
to your faith
to walk everyday in the real
world with your spirituality intact.
He says, «For in the Eternal, properly
speaking, there is neither anything past, as though it had passed away, nor anything future as though it were not as yet, but whatsoever is, only is».7
God, therefore, must have implanted all at once the seeds of things which are later
to become in the
world:
It seems that if we are
to speak of
God as cause of the
world we must mean something more by the term «
God» than that he is cause.
«
To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.&raqu
To speak of
God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus
to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.&raqu
to invoke
God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power
to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.&raqu
to deal appropriately with evil in the
world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon
to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.&raqu
to remake the
world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true
God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture,
God was equipping his people
to serve his purposes.&raqu
to serve his purposes.»
In the chapter in Adventures from which I shall quote, Whitehead is
speaking of the contribution of early Christian thought
to the developing understanding of the nature of the
world's relationship
to God.
It may be that, more and more in the new
world, men may find they can
speak of the deepest reality of their experience without any need
to use the
God - talk inherited from our fathers.
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.
To speak about God the Holy Trinity in the midst of the modern world, we have to speak also, in part at least, about human philosophical knowledge of God, about God's simplicity, eternity, immutability, infinity, and so o
To speak about
God the Holy Trinity in the midst of the modern
world, we have
to speak also, in part at least, about human philosophical knowledge of God, about God's simplicity, eternity, immutability, infinity, and so o
to speak also, in part at least, about human philosophical knowledge of
God, about
God's simplicity, eternity, immutability, infinity, and so on.
The Christian is being challenged
to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «
God», he is
speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged
to the old
world, and which is no more relevant
to the new
world than goblins and fairies.
tf: Did you once consider that maybe the reason it appears we
speak out more against your
god than other
gods is because it is your
gods believers that seem
to be at the center of so much in this
world??? I don't see Pagan's standing on street corners or attempting
to use their holy books
to deny equal rights.
If
God was completly removed we would not have such an intellectual book
to even believe in...
God can
speak through man and many predictions that were in the bible came true already... How can men that have no back grounds of science or physics and basic understand of the
world and how it works be able
to come up with half the stuff in the bible... Really hard
to come up with the figures when your just a fisherman or even a king... Only explains
God even more
In an inscription from 9 C.E. found in Asia Minor, Caesar is
spoken of as «our
God» and as a «savior» who brought «peace» throughout the earth, and whose birth was «good news»
to the
world.
God is always active, is always
speaking, is always involved, is always answering prayer, and is always working
to accomplish His will in the
world... even when He is not having people write about it.
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.
And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian
god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the
world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true
God.Now Muhammad never try
to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden
to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't
speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer
First, it would be consistent with Whitehead's own methodology, in this way
to make
God the chief exemplar for the understanding of process everywhere else in the
world, Secondly, and more importantly, it might help
to correct the unfortunate tendency even among Whiteheadians subconsciously
to regard actual entities as atoms, minisubstances which are, so
to speak, the building blocks of the
world process.
What it means
to be made in the image of
God may become clearer if we take a look at our most distinctive traits — those that set us apart from the sub-human
world and prompt us
to speak of «the human soul» or «the human spirit.»
It is of this freedom - in - dependence that Paul
speaks when he writes: «All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death, or things present, or things
to come; all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is
God's!»
Perhaps it would be helpful
to speak of the primordial, consequent, and superjective ways in which
God relates
to the
world.
We may
speak of
God as superjective in that, as a unified actual entity, he is present
to and immanent in the
world, luring it toward greater intensity of experience.