Sentences with phrase «god than matter»

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And polls suggest that the country is no more Christian in belief than in practice: half of all Danes say God doesn't matter in their life at all.

sam stone Given we are made in the image of God our core «DNA» (as evidenced by 98 % of the world population) knows there is more to this existence than chemical reaction on organic matter.

If it's the matter of god, then you're dealing with something other than atheism considering atheism focuses on religion, not the matter of whether god exists or not.

In the United States more than 70 % believe in a purpose onto God and only 1.6 % (atheist) believe in accidental intelligent life that formed out of inorganic matter.

@fred, «In the United States more than 70 % believe in a purpose onto God and only 1.6 % (atheist) believe in accidental intelligent life that formed out of inorganic matter.»

And he could be serious about his faith, as well: In reply to Garry Wills» claim that «being Catholic always mattered more to him than being conservative,» Buckley responded, «If he meant he has a higher loyalty to God than to civil society, then the answer is obvious: God has to be preeminent.»

The simple fact is that if matter can neither be created or destroyed in a normal chemical reaction than how does the «god» come up with something out of nothing... remember matter CAN NOT be CREATED or DESTROYED, so if this god follows the normal physics and chemistry than it could not have created the universe either... it just exists b / c it exists..

Johnson was a sincere moralist and a devout Anglican and could give no more credit to Hume's rejection of the reality of values and of God and the soul than he could to Bishop Berkeley's denial of the reality of matter.

No matter our faith community we can tend to «reduce» the Bible to much less than what it really is, God's revealed Word to mankind.

To believe that God created a mature universe and that everything was designed is actually easier to believe than to believe that everything just happened by chance, that matter just appeared from nothing and that present DNA was not designed.

Blessed are the Cheesemakers You should more impressed by the fact you just expressed Jesus to be of form and substance more like God than scientifically provable organic matter that existed and is falsifiable.

If there is no God and the universe is a chance result of some great accident, then we are nothing more than bundles of chemicals and nothing matters.

God's (infinite) perspective is so much greater than that of the sum total of humanity that, yes, faith is required; a faith and trust in God's love for each of us, no matter how desperate our current situations may seem.

What matters more than politics, however, is being faithful to God's intentions for us in marriage.

In fact, rather than matter being a burden and a drag upon the spirit, it is man's incarnate nature that is the very reason for God's personal Incarnation.

So Sheetiron, no matter what kind of atrocities God commits in the Old Testament, they can all be brushed aside with «Well, he's smarter than us, so he must know what he's doing»?

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

«God loves you, no matter who you are or what you've done» sounds much better than «you're gonna burn in a lake of fire if you don't change your evil ways!»

If God is based on the same stuff as Jupiter, Horus and Baal, than he's still a myth no matter how much later believers needs and «understanding» develop him, right?

This is not just a matter of property rights; as Creator, God can be trusted much more than the creation that is marred and deformed by sin and selfishness.

In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.

This function, which is God's giving of an initial aim to each new occasion, is more like the individual creation of each human soul than the single act by which matter was created.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

And if my suspicion that the move to immaterialism originated in the embarrassment of elite theologians over the scandal of the incarnation is even partly correct, then nothing could be more important for how Christians experience God than to think again about the metaphysics of matter.

Functional faith is the acceptance that the truth of God's principles are of greater benefit to me than to remain clinging to those feelings and emotions of my carnal nature which oppose them, no matter what they may be or how strongly I «feel» about them.

I would tell every single person out there that there is nothing more precious than the promise of God, and nothing more important to strive for, nothing too hard to give up whether it is sin, or pleasure, or gold, or a job... nothing matters but loving God and loving that person in the way that God says.

Even if you can't bring yourself to call it «God,» it is undeniable that the cause, whatever it is, must be transcendent and preexistent, as it had to have existed before everything else in order to have caused everything else; it must be immaterial, as its existence preceded the existence of matter; it must be intelligent, as evidenced by the complexity of the universe it caused; and it must itself be uncaused, existing necessarily rather than contingently.

I trust the reliability of my own god - given gray matter and the quality of my own recipes far more than that of others with their own agendas and power trips to play out at the expense of others.

Take an intro astronomy class and they can explain in basic terms (using basic concepts in math and physics) how time unfolded and what conditions were — and subsequently why «magical bits of everything» formed in to matter than led to the birth of the dinosaurs... It's ok to open your mind; and perhaps even God was the cause of the Big Bang.

No matter how weak you may believe it to be, it is far stronger than any evidence for a GOD or gods, of which there is none.

«Success» was a matter of using well one's own talents and opportunities fully in God's service — a question of excellence relative to each individual, rather than a matter of merely accomplishing more than others in a certain group.

If you do nt believe in God, how can you argue that goodness REALLY matters any more than badness?

He differs from Buber, however, in that he is less concerned with our relation to God than with the generic relation of God to creatures, relation in the end is for him an objective matter — I - It rather than I - Thou.

This certainly is for the best; nothing could be more splendid, nothing more rewarding, than the confident assurance that we matter to God and that he is both able and willing to use what we have done, and hence what we are, for the further expression of the love which is the divine nature and purpose.

That is, when men had learned to understand God as a person and his will as a body of moral teaching, they continued to recognize his supreme importance for human life, but his actual present effectiveness became a matter of belief rather than of immediate apprehension.

But God is greater than man, in so far as the matter, which he fashions, though it did not exist previously, he himself creates.»

And rather than make a simple request that God heal you, and then leave the matter with Him, some of the teachers say that we should demand healing, since it is our right.

I don't know why God did it this way, but He somehow wired women to be more in tune with spiritual matters than men.

His doctrine of two separate substances, extended matter and thinking mind, each sort of substance requiring, with God bracketed out of the picture, nothing other than itself in order to exist, rather unceremoniously threw mind, that is, distinctively human being, out of nature and left philosophy with the hopeless task of trying to figure out how a mind outside of nature, a mind not of nature, could ever really come to know nature.

As a matter of fact, the existence of God gives Ivan far more agony than his nonexistence ever could.

What makes this and parallel statements in other writings problematic is that some of the very concepts that Hartshorne classifies as «literal» are elsewhere implied to be matters of degree rather than of all or none and are even said to be «analogical» when applied to God.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

No matter how challenging the endeavor has made things on occasion, pursuing justice has brought me closer to the heart of God than ever before.

«We speak on this subject very cautiously and diffidently,» he writes, «rather by way of discussion than coming to definite conclusions... We suppose that the goodness of God will restore the whole creation to unity in the end... If anyone thinks that matter will be utterly destroyed, it passes my comprehension how all these substances can live and exist without material bodies, since to live without material substance is the privilege of God alone... Another perhaps may say that in the consummation all matter will be so purified that it may be thought of as a kind of ethereal substance... But only God knows.»

Reinhold Niebuhr, writing in these pages nearly 50 Easter seasons ago, reflected on these matters: «The whole creation groaneth and travaileth; and if God is love rather than power, it follows that He gains his victories by pain rather than by force.»

They were man man but I am sure God is more than capable of sorting that out (we sure could not) What right do you or society have to deny non biological father and daughter to get married (Woody Allen did it) or twins for that matter

Interestingly, rather than cause us to sin more, this knowledge that we are fully loved by God no matter what begins to cause us to sin less.

He writes, «Every man, no matter how innocent he may be, owes God more than his life; and so, although these persons do not will it by any explicit act, yet they perform an act that is owed, since all men are obliged to give their blood and their life whenever God's honor demands it.»