Not exact matches
The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important
than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by
God into a simple
solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).
You will run into trouble whenever you parcel out
God's Word, rather
than understanding the Bible as a progression of revelations and
solution to the human condition, with the common thread and purpose of Jesus Christ running throughout from beginning to end, to further the glory of
God.
The Reformed love each and every one of those terms, but we think applying them to words other
than God's is no real
solution to the universal problem of interpretive authority — a problem from which not even the Roman Catholic Church is exempt.
If we choose
God, we will become part of the
solution of the world's problems rather
than part of the problem.
I would imagine a
god powerful enough to create such an environment would be able to think of a
solution other
than the one you offer.
So they came up with the neat
solution of stating that
god's time is somehow different
than ours and that «today», «day» and «this generation» don't really mean what the usually do.
For Kierkegaard there is no «
solution» to this paradox, other
than the greater paradox of the
God - man, who, without ever making the leap into sin, became sin for us, i.e., accepted his human solidarity with us, so that in him we might be reconciled with
God through the Atonement.
Trustees reject
solution of Sunrise Children's Services president: «I would rather homosexuals see the love of
God through us
than be denied employment by us.»
It's a humbling thing when one discovers,» I'm part of the problem rather
than the
solution»; that I am mischaracterizing
God.
The Christian counselor knows that there is no final
solution of the ills of life other
than through faith in
God.
Too often, we've set up money as our
solution rather
than God.
The second
solution is to say that the Old Testament accurately depicts
God, and since the
God of the Old Testament appears to be so radically different
than the
God revealed in Jesus Christ, the only logical conclusion is that they are two different
Gods.
If the liturgy has been hurled at us like a stone — an obligatory stone — for too many years, the
solution is not to transform it into an action dependent upon our participation as a prerequisite for its meaning, rather
than a response to
God's meaning already present.
From this it follows that the origins and
solutions to the problems in your marriage should primarily be informed by the Word of
God, rather
than by science, psychology, culture, or reason.