Sentences with phrase «god these men decided»

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> What he did is no different than what the Council fo Nicea did when they created «The word of God»... no??? Men decided and wrote what they thought the word of god was... present christians faith is based on thiGod»... no??? Men decided and wrote what they thought the word of god was... present christians faith is based on thigod was... present christians faith is based on this..

Now men who know more than God [sarcasm] decide they don't like that saying, and it doesn't fit in their thinking, so off they go and write books and develope a following of other people who don't like the truth of what Jesus said.

Hardly, after man came up with then disregarded as utter nonsense the previous 10,000 or so gods in existence, we decided not to jump on the current bandwagon claiming salvation for the believer and damnation for the rest... Pray tell, what became of all the people who had never the chance to hear of his words / deeds after he came and died?

However, those teachings are no longer viable as man has decided that those teachings by God are not ethical thus man is more ethical than gGod are not ethical thus man is more ethical than godgod.

In short, God allowed Israel's destruction as a judgement against their faithlessness; then almost 2000 years later, Man decides to recreate it in some misguided sense of justice due to the suffering the Jews felt at the hands of Nazis.

Just like in abortion and euthanasia; that is man deciding, not God.

Your god finally changed his mind in the mid 1800's and decided that black men should vote too — but not any women.

If there is a God and there is just as much for as against, But lets say there is a God and he made everything Including you and He gets to make the rules because lets face it hes a lot bigger then you, So unfortunately he only wants those who believe in him based on the information given, Lets look at the facts based on the Book,, Some of his own angels turned on him and they see him every day... That had to hurt, So he decides With man he only wants those with the faith to believe based on His book and faith found thru the holy spirit, If you refuse to believe then he cant use you, cant trust you, so he will choose to toss you aside, Hey I understand It ai nt fair, Your important, Your Smart, But unfortunately hes bigger then you and he has the Juice, You either play by the rules or wait and see what not believing leads too.

So your god is so fragile that he lashes out at a single man that decides he wants to maybe see what else is out there?

And so I have decided to go to Jerusalem, where God was seen as man and spoke with men and to adore the place where his feet trod» (p.104 - 5) These examples bring the characters — and by extension, their history — to life.

A man at the end of his rope decides to hope against all the odds, to remember the Rock when he feels himself to have been left in the dust: «For I shall again praise him, my help and my God.»

Both held that God, not man, decides who will be saved.

As god, man decides who lives and who dies.

For most men cling to this world, and do not muster energy to decide wholly for God.

However, there is a certain point when time ends and all men have finally decided either to love God or reject him, when every knee will bow either because of love or because they are forced, that eternal suffering as a sentence on mankind is questionable in my mind.

After the fall of man, God lifted that protection over us because we had decided to step away from God.

How are you so certain those are the words of god and not just some men who were on a power trip and decided that making up stories and fooling people was as easy way to earn some fast cash and make people worship you?

Moreover, a man can never absolve himself and decide with certainty whether his daily sins which he must acknowledge do not hide a radical No to God, even though he hopes that they do not exclude him from the kingdom of God.

I wish people would accept that the «Bible» is not gods word neither was it wrote by god but by men who put what they decided they wanted as rules for everyone else to run their life based on, every thing from what type of fabric you can wear at the same time to what you can eat on certain days.

In the story of Sodom, in Genesis 18, God had ALREADY decided to destroy the city BEFORE the attempted rape of the angels — which incidentally was perpetrated mainly by heterosexuals since ALL the men of the city were involved, and we know that throughout history, gays have only represented about 10 % of the population.

Of course man is all powerful, depending on the culture and the multiple gods, it is man who decides what powers they have in their culture.

Some group of clergy who met back in Nice on several occasions over 1500 years ago because they couldn't agree on the nature of God, and that was causing such a rift in the church established at the time that they had to put it to a vote to decide what doctorine to follow, and then ended up excommunicating anybody who didn't believe that man had the right to decide the true nature of God?

What is should read is that» man has decided without evidence that god «created»... all the rest is equally man created ideology based on what MAN DID NOT UNDERSTAman has decided without evidence that god «created»... all the rest is equally man created ideology based on what MAN DID NOT UNDERSTAman created ideology based on what MAN DID NOT UNDERSTAMAN DID NOT UNDERSTAND.

Believing there was a God, and knowing the truth could be found in the bible (remember all those quotes) I decided to by pass the middle man.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.

I am perpetually fighting against straw men in this blog, where so many act like the OT Israelites just got bored, and decide, out of the blue to make up «scape - goating» to engage in genocide in the name of God.

Hmmm, well let's see Cheddar, (if that is your real name), since the men in the story decided to give credit to God, who are you to deny?

Paul, in contrast to Jesus, represents a decided turning away from the Biblical conception of the kingship of God and the immediacy between God and man.

As Ogden indicates, this can be expressed in nonmythological language: «Jesus» office as the Christ consists precisely in his being the bearer, through word and deed and tragic destiny, of the eternal word of God's love, which is the transcendent meaning of all created things and the final event before which man must decide his existence.»

We decide our eternal destiny through the choices we make before God and man.

Maybe Man decided it meant everyone, cause that sounds a lot nicer, but God has a different idea.

I believe In God, i don't believe any man has the power to forgive me, that is for God to decide.

Nietzsche wrote that as soon as Man decided that he had invented God and began to interpret God's word, then God was dead and was killed by Man.

In the fourteenth century, a man named John Wycliffe decided that God's Word should be available to all people, and so he translated the Bible from Latin into English.

«I believe it is the letter of the law that brings death, meaning the law passed down to Moses from God... Tell me, who decides what part of the Bible is of God and so infallible, and what part of it is of man and so fallible.

It was not that he decided to deny God and choose man and his freedom, (This is how Berdyaev reads Ivan, and he is prompted to describe Ivan's brain - fever as the necessary result of choosing freedom without God.

One thing seems to be noteworthy: even the true freedom of choice, that is the freedom which consists not only in the absence of external compulsion but in the fact that man must freely decide about himself, and which is, therefore, a demand rather than «freedom» — this freedom becomes evident only in Christianity, because only there each individual is eternally valid (in the personal love between God and man) and hence must realize himself in perfect responsibility and thus in freedom.

Now, if a man decides he is going to start killing people and moves forward with that thought and commits murder after murder - is it not the duty of a just and loving God to protect those people who cry out to him for help from this evil man?

In response to God and man, each individual must decide how to divide his time, how to use his power, and how to channel his work toward constructive ends.

You said, «In short you just want man to decide morality not God.»

The morality that you think your god decided, was in fact decided by men.

It therefore lays before men, as few NT books do, the necessity to decide for or against God.

Cuz we know God, in his infinite wisdom, decided that man should not eat during daylight hours during this particular time of the year to show how much you love him / her / it.

LinCA In short you just want man to decide morality not God.

Instead of the Power whom man obeys and for whom he decides, he knows only the law of his own spiritual being, and the idea of God becomes «the irreducible coefficient of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

«It would be a strange freedom that would leave man neutral, able equally to choose, decide, and act rightly or wrongly» (The Humanity of God, p. 76) The sinner is not free; the sinner is a slave of death, and death is the termination of all decisions, be they free or enslaved.

The Rapture will be a real event, but MAN can not interpret the day or hour only God decides when Jesus is to return.

Whoever you decide to vote for in this election, be sure you have made the decision with a heart set towards pleasing God, not man.

We are a «becoming,» we are also a «belonging,» since we share in the common human life — «no man is an island entire unto itself,» said John Donne in a famous passage — and what we decide affects others and also affects God.