Sentences with phrase «god things rather»

Something that I really feel are God things rather than coincidences.

Not exact matches

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

God's causing all that is does not mean that God changes «nothing» into something; rather, were God's not causing a thing to be, that thing would not exist at all; it would be absolutely nothing.

HAA, and that's the crux of it, that there are multiple witnesses saying mostly the same thing, that the history is fine, but if they mention what is typically called a «miracle of God», that it instantly becomes trash, rather than history.

Those things are not proof of any god, rather proof of how beautiful our world is.

As Albert the Great, medieval philosopher, scientist, and teacher of Thomas Aquinas, remarked: «In the natural sciences we do not investigate how God the Creator operates according to His will and uses miracles to show His power, but rather what may happen in natural things on the ground of the causes inherent in nature» (In I De caelo et mundo, tr.

It's only in the last century that people have tried to make the Bible fit their beliefs rather then align their life with what the bible says, and look at the results, the world is in turmoil and on a downward spiral out of control and this article is a good example of trying to make God's word an excuse to do every wrong thing there is real good reporting.

Have you ever 2Timothy3: 1 - 5 It speak about in the last day critical time hard to deal with will be here.2 men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power, and from these turn away.God speak of these thing occurring in our day.

Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

For all things are yours; * Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

We are all fine and need to focus on being human rather than the play things of gods..

rather than just a law / rule / commandment... certainly... Jesus says The greatest commandments are to love God and love others, for the law and the prophets hang on these two things..

In an earlier writing Milosz had shown himself to be aware that this was the key insight of Job, even if, in the poet's version of the story, God says things that are rather more severe than anything to be found in the book of Job.

The effect of such radically transformative grace, according to the Augustinian tradition and the young Luther, is that the heart loves God above all things for His own sake; in Augustine's terms, we come to enjoy God and use created things for God's sake, rather than attempting to «use» God for the sake of created enjoyments.

When I talk to God in prayer, I am talking to something deep within the fabric of my own being and asking for a better way, a better idea, and intuitive thought rather than to have some trivial thing of substance delivered to me on a platter.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

On the contrary: The Mind of God is rather a reappraisal of reductionism (its sweeping generalizations about the nonexistence of things like the mind and the soul) and a most refreshing if also sober assessment of the limits of mathematics and the physical theories it supports.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

Christians do not then force others to believe anything, but rather go to their homes as Jesus commanded his genuine disciples to do, seeking to discuss, reason and hopefully teach them about our Creator, Jehovah God and his kingdom, for Jesus said just before he ascended to heaven: «Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations... teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.»

God's promised fulfillment includes, among other things, the image of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage in the business of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?

People who chase after other things rather than God will soon find that the bubble has burst, that what they hoped would be sweet turns bitter, that a fulfilled feeling turns to emptiness, victory turns into defeat and glory into shame.

I am not crediting God, but I'd rather have a doctor who believes in something bigger than us all, than a cold atheist who doesn't have hope, or pray and isn't driven by anything in life other than a selfish belief that he is the most intelligent thing in the universe.

Though we may not always understand why and how sin and suffering enters into God's world, one thing we can know through the crucifixion of Jesus is that God does not send sin and suffering, but rather, is a victim of it along with us.

I would rather «safely» keep things as is, instead of trusting God through the transition.

One thing I have to say in ending is that I've done rather wrong things in my life, and God presented himself to me.

We do not think of His acting as an occasional intervention coming from the outside, but rather as the transcendent creative activity of God who alone makes it possible for our world to «hold together» and to rise, in accordance with His plan, step by step higher, so that really new things appear in it and finally man appears in it.

However Käsemann1 also drew the inference from his own divergent position: «Jesus did not come to proclaim general religious and moral truths, but rather to say how things stand with the kingdom that has dawned, namely that God has drawn near man in grace and requirement.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could think otherwise about how God the Father and God the Son felt about the consequences they would have to pay for our sin as somehow being a rather jolly thing to do.

Rather, coming to understand God involves two things.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

A Journal entry in 1843 reads, «The most important thing of all is that a man stands right toward God, does not try to wrench away from something, but rather penetrates it until it yields its explanation.

Saying thank you means we are doing two important things: choosing to look at the good things in our lives with gratitude rather than only focusing on the things that aren't right; and acknowledging that everything we have comes from God.

Once this creative activity is thought of in the analogy of person rather than the analogy of things, it is possible to understand that God's creative activity is a call to the creature to create itself.

Concerned primarily with categories proper to «things,» theists have traditionally stressed God's liberty of indifference — God's perfection as an incommunicable supposit rather than as person in outgoing self - relation.

Am not anti-Christ nor Anti-Jewish just like all Muslims am a monotheist so must be rather Anti-Polytheists & Disbelievers... but believe me it is not hatred but rather pityness for the innocents and hardness towards the wicked transgressors... Guess that is all about it unless few of our brother got the message wrong!?! Since we learned from the Quran verses that there will be in paradise from the Jews, Christian and others from other beliefs... and since God forgives any thing else other than to assign for him partners as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...!?

God has made time and made all the things of this world how amazing is it that those that would try to distort the Bible would do so to alleviate their own guilt rather than embrace the word so that it would do what it is supposed to do.

Any way until now there is no old or new things are as it is but rather divided among it self... but I pray to God they would keep the unity in their hearts, minds and souls for the sake of God and Yemen.

The first and most important thing to notice about this text is that even if God did elect or foreordain Jeremiah, it was not to eternal life, but rather, to be «a prophet to the nations.»

He taught about finding delight in God rather than the things of the world.

Partnership in mission implies a willingness to collaborate with Latin American churches in the fulfillment of the mission God has given them rather than doing things for them, as Protestant mission boards have too often done.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

My imaginations could not let me think past few things I read and know about God but in an attempt to invent God I would rather put the play this way; putting a light bulb on a center of table with little particles of crystals scatter all around the light bulb that the light shine so bright it reflects the crystals scattered on the table.

I believe in God and don't believe in the six - day thing (rather think that the six days may have been God days, more like a billion years each or something), but I don't mess with the folks who believe... Let them be.

Furthermore, it could also be argued that when Paul says the natural man «does not» receive the things of the Spirit of God, «nor can he know them,» he is not referring to an inherent inability to do so, but rather to an antagonistic mindset that refuses to seek the truth and understand these things.

DH «I am in favour of recovering the biblical understanding of shaming in the sense that «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» 1 cor 1:27... as an encouragement to anyone who is a victim (and therefore considered weak in the eyes of the world) that there is a greater power to call on in order to shame... any person in a position of power in the church that is using their power to oppress rather than serve... Does that help or hinder?»

Rather than blame God for every bad thing that happens to us and to our world, lay the blame where it really belongs, at our own feet.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

It is therefore at its best more inclusively Biblical rather than evangelical only; it is directed indeed to sinful men who need to be reconciled to God but also to men who need in all things to grow up into mature manhood in the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and who are to interpret to others the meaning of Christian faith.

Classical theology has typically responded to this difficulty by alleging that, since all things other than God depend on God for their existence, their relations to the divine knower are constitutive of them rather than of God.

The knowledge of faith, rather than relying on the outmoded theories of knowledge where the mind merely represents external objects, is participatory; the act of contemplating the things of God partakes in God's own Trinitarian activity.