Sentences with phrase «god uses all of these things»

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I mean, a philosopher or scientist can talk about any of the things Christians talk bout without using the «wrapper» (transcendence, god, truth, love, etc.), which begs the question, why talk about these things through Christianity at all?

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.

I know even some believers are offended by some of the things I write, but to them I'll simply say this: the Word of God is the most powerful thing that exists - both the written word and the Living word; and it's time to start believing God and to take hold of the ident.ity that He has given you and live and use that ident.ity Lance Wallnau calls it the «believers edge» which unfortunately only 8 % of the body of Christ ever gets into - that rare realm that individuals mature to the place where they have the power to co-create with God and bring the future into the present.

So when you use your post as a bashing tool against God's people, and mock Christ's resurection from the dead as a comparison to creepy, ungodly, demonic «Halloween» practices, you only show your immaturity in putting your foot in your mouth about things you know nothing about, and your words are of no more value then empty, silly ranting.

This is the thing: when you start to hit 28 or 30, everything starts to divide, and you can see very clearly two kinds of people: on one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find God and themselves and their deep dreams, people who know what works and what doesn't, who have pushed through to become real live adults.

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.

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Hgod you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

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.

So many of us are used to the kind of prayer where we tell God things He already knows, as if Jesus needs a reminder kids are dying in Sudan.

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.

Oh no, the criteria I use to reject the existence of god I have used very successfully against any number of nonexistent things like vampires, unicorns, big foot and UFOs.

The thing about science is it does provide the answers to most of the mysteries we use to give god credit for.

It is sad how people use religion to say and do mean things, and they do it in the name of god.

chris «Personal experience» has been used over the centuries as evidence for lots of things including fairies, UFO aliens, leprechauns, mermaids, ghosts, and... yes... all of the other gods and goddesses we've worshipped as well.

I believe that its important to see inner wisdom and the council of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying to himself / herself «why do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the gifts and skills they have».

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Ramanuja used the body - soul metaphor to indicate the sense in which God is the inner director of all things.

Of course, the church should endorse the use of such things as they will cause a substantial portion of the population to invoke god's namOf course, the church should endorse the use of such things as they will cause a substantial portion of the population to invoke god's namof such things as they will cause a substantial portion of the population to invoke god's namof the population to invoke god's name.

The same reasons BC condemns the readers and contributors to this forum — that we think, question, use our own God - given intelligence and reasoning skills, don't accept the easy answers, and are accepting of differences which create no harm — are the very things that make that notion quite bizarre.

I call this the King Cyrus argument, that God's used imperfect people in the past, that [the president] is sort of this King Cyrus figure — that God may be using to do some really good things.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

We tell each other how each other's book has changed each of our lives and how God is in the business of miracles, of using obedient yeses from the weak and unlikely to do the impossible, and how heat like this does crazy things to our hair.

«Each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms... Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God's words; if help, let it be God's hearty help.»

Surely, a God that is supposed be all things that are good would not refuse one of his children for using the most important gift from God and that is the ability to think.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

It spoke of all the things in the Old Testament, that God set aside for Himself or for His use.

While I agree that the Bible doesn't teach that God's blueprint is for a one - pastor system only, I know that God can still use a church with just one pastor, as there is no such thing as a perfect church, and God obviously uses hundreds of churches all over the world to spread His Word, and to serve others.

Second, a consistent acceptance of process generalizations about how things go in the world can provide the material for the radical reconception, of what can be affirmed about that reality greater than humankind or nature — about God, to use the traditional word for that reality.

Without the use of personal, agential metaphors, however, including among others God as mother, father, healer, lover, friend, judge, and liberator, the metaphor of the world as God's body would be pantheistic, for the body would be all there were.25 Nonetheless, the model is most precisely designated as panentheistic; that is, it is a view of the God - world relationship in which all things have their origins in God and nothing exists outside God, though this does not mean that God is reduced to these things.26

We use the word «praise» with respect to people and things as well as with respect to God; so it is useful to start by recalling what praise is and does generally, leaving latent just now the application of praise to God.

Lots of Pagans I know worship Eastern Gods, and use Native American Ritual Techniques, but if they wanted to focus exclusively on those things they would join a Shinto Temple or petition the Lakota tribe for membership.

But it is also a human word: the human beings who wrote it were also true authors.8 The scriptures therefore share to some extent in the nature of the incarnation: they use human things as the means for God to communicate with us humanly.

Theistic Evolution (TE) «evolution is the means that God used for the creation of all living things on earth.»

In other words, if the church has lost its purpose, the best thing may be for it to give up its facility and let somebody with a purpose use the space for the glory of God in a new congregation.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

The only thing inside of you is your brain and the chemicals it uses when you have a spiritual thought doesn't mean your god actually exists.

Don't let others make you feel inadequate or insecure — live this life — this stage of life where God is willing to use you now for amazing things.

That phrase is not used here in the law about male homosexual acts It is not one of the laws against things that are identified as a toebah to God!»

Where in the Bible does it say God can't use evolution to create and / or change species of both living and non-living things?

I think that one of the problems with the organized church, is that it has encouraged in many ways for man to be «god», to use and exploit at will, in the name of us being God's most important thing, and therefore all else is subservient to god», to use and exploit at will, in the name of us being God's most important thing, and therefore all else is subservient to God's most important thing, and therefore all else is subservient to us.

NOWHERE has it been shown that God is using an ACTUAL Creature... again God is using things that people KNOW... they knew of MYTHICAL things like dragons... they knew that other religions had drgaons... they were aware of them having dragons in their myths... God simply chose to use that to make a point... show me WHERE it says it was an actual creature...

In the middle of the last century, the German New Testament scholar Rudolf Bultmann opined that people who had learned to use an electric light switch could no longer believe that God makes things happen.

Almost all of the people used greatly by God throughout church history have at least one thing in common.

Using own belief to interpret scientific discoveries in relation to God on a belief blog is one of the things what a belief blog is for.

They had simply felt those things, as they had used them, had become an offense to God and he wanted them to get rid of them.

Scoffing against, disproving, demeaning, using unscientific theories to persuade the gullible that the Intelligent Designer, the Lord God Almighty, Creator of the heavens and the earth and all living things on it must take on lots of time and endless energy with atheists.

This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!

in the greater scheme of things, as time was created for us as a means of seperating the day from the night but god, the idea that when God made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years ogod, the idea that when God made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years oGod made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years old.

(1 Corinthians 6:9 - 11) «But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.»