Sentences with phrase «god stoops»

In this cry, we catch something of the depth to which God stoops in Christ; He comes fully into our humanity, our sin, and, perhaps, even into our despair.

And, as if none of that was enough, God stooped down onto the earth and clothed himself with flesh and bones.

God stooped to become one of us, and took our sin upon Himself, so that He might be both the forgiver and the forgiven.

When we think of God stooping, we think of a God who is so far above us, He is almost beyond reach.

Boyd says that out of self - sacrificial love, as seen in Jesus on the cross, God stooped or accommodated to human sin and failures.

My short answer to this question is that, whenever we come upon portraits of God that, to one degree or another, fall beneath the beautiful, non-violent portrait we are given in the crucified Christ, we should assume that the revelatory content of these portraits is, to this degree, not found on the surface of the portrait itself, but in what faith can discern happening beneath the surface as it beholds God stooping to bear the sin if his people.

Over and over we are told that God stooped, accommodated, or allowed certain things to happen because the people were not ready for something better, different, or more godly.

The cross reveals God to us only when we look past the surface appearance that reflects the ugliness of our sin and discern in its depth our gracious God stooping to bear our sin and take on this ugly appearance for us.

Not exact matches

(Rev 19:13) Though God is not subject to time or decay, living forever (Ps 90:2), and is outside the realm of physical existence, he «stoops down to look on heaven and earth.»

Surely God would not stoop to employ the lowly earthbound categories of ancient cosmologies or descend to the language of common appearances!

This tension is almost inevitable because of the terrible transcendence of Dostoevsky's God, too transcendent to stoop to an Incarnation, unrelated to man, approachable only by an extreme denial of nature and sense.

«God, out of His infinite love for us, stoops down into our deceit and death, and covers our tracks with His blood» I think that is His mercy.

His approach takes seriously the «human dimension» of Scripture and sees it not as an unhappy condescension but as a mark of God's love and of how far He will stoop to commune with His people.

The one person, Jesus Christ, both true God and true man, stooped into our littleness to draw us up to the greatness of life eternal, which is not this life infinitely extended but is the very life of God.

... Love in God's fashion is indeed outrageous and a scandal because it does stoop and condescend to what, by lesser standards, it need not.

Let us all walk in love.Before you call anyone a heretic, first be humble enough to listen.Let us avoid the habit of digging up stories in order to discredit one party and to give weight to what we say.These stories may turn out to be empty rumours.We shouldn't stoop that low.Before anyone says God told them things, they must make sure it is consistent with God's infallible word.

Though he was divine by nature he did not snatch at equality with God but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

In giving freedom to His creatures, God did not limit His own freedom, and therefore «stoop» to our level, but rather, was true to the character of love.

In this light, I suggest we should read Scripture always asking, where else might we find that God is revealed not by how he appears on the surface, but by what faith can discern as we look past the surface to discern God humbly stooping to bear the sin of his people?

The incarnation of God is not the stooping of God; it is the relating of God, which He has always done.

If Jesus, in His entire life, reveals to us what God is like, then we can not say that God «stooped» to become human, but rather that since the incarnation reveals what God has always been like, then God has never stooped, but has always been with us.

Even the word «stooping» seems to imply that God is «up there» above us, and He «stoops» down to our level.

As God incarnate, He did not stoop to join humanity, but continued in His loving relationship with humanity in a way that we could more fully grasp and understand.

While I agree that the image of parent stooping to look a child in the eye and talk to a child on his or her level is helpful when some people think of how God interacts with us, I also think that this image or idea does some damage to how it is that we humans actually think of God.

Yet, in doing this, God reveals his true nature, for as we look upon the God - forsaken, guilty - appearing criminal on the cross, we know that it was God who voluntarily stooped an infinite distance to become this for us.

And this means we should read Scripture with the awareness that God has always been willing to stoop to bear the sin of his people and take on appearances that reflect the ugliness of their sin.

God, in Jesus, did not stoop to become this, but revealed to us in Jesus that this is what He has always been like.

But when we humans turned our back on what God desired and wanted (a loving relationship with each and every person), God did not accommodate us, or stoop down to let us have our own way, or even withdraw from us so that we were abandoned in our rebellion.