Sentences with phrase «god values each person»

God values each person in himself, and as a participant in the creative history of the world.

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«For Chinese people, Google is not god, and even if it puts on a full - on show about politics and values, it is still not god,» said a front - page commentary piece.

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.

With Christianity, although the reincarnation aspect seems to have purposefully removed so that people do not become «lazy» in search of God in this life time, the practical and strict rules governing functions in this life (hard work to lead a prosperous life, improving moral values, etc) are appealing.

God only wants the best for us but we in our hard hardheadedness, wrong values and wrong persons to call on for help, we mess up out lives.

Only people devalue what God gave infinite value.

What holds more value to you: the words of your religion's founder and most prominent followers -LRB-- words that came straight from God), or laws that constantly change with times and are decided by people who don't follow your religion?

(2) I value people because they are people — I don't need god stories to make that happen.

We both were and I am a deeply committed conservative Christian who looks at all persons of value and importance to God.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

Once a people view themselves as their own highest authority, whatever they most value becomes their god.

He wants us to look like us, but to live in the way that He lived, with His values, His goals, and His approach to God and people.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

So someone who dies while fighting actively for justice and righteousness of a community or for a group of people has to be considered a real martyr today Those who lay down their lives for those values of the kingdom such as truth, justice, love of God and love to the poor can be considered as martyrs.

«One of the main things our chaplains do as we draw alongside people is to give them and encourage and affirm both their own value and the value of the tasks and work that they do in God's sight.»

It seems that the idea of an inclusive church where people are loved and valued based only on the fact that they are a unique creation of God is threatening to those who thing they alone hold the real truth.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

But when you pray, spend time thinking about what I value, what I have instructed you, how I lived my life, the kind of example I provided, the people I hung out with, the goals I sought to achieve, the relationship I had with God.

What if God wants to teach you the value and life found in committing to one person forever, not the exhausting pursuit of searching your entire life to find the perfect person?

Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.

Because ultimately, it is not just about getting people in heaven, but about helping them live lives in accordance to values of the Kingdom of God as well.

Tacia that is true one of my favorite verses is if we love him we will obey him thats how we express our love for him he does nt want sacrifice he wants obedience but not out of fear of judgement but because we love him with all our hearts and want to do all we can to show that we appreciate what he has done for us.The woman who offered the few mites gave everything she had the rich people gave out of there abundance.Big difference it wasnt the value it was the attitude she gave her all to God and God honored her.The verse that comes to mind that sums it all up that we are to love the Lord with all our hearts mind soul and strength and love our neighbours as ourselves.brentnz

It automatically becomes a serious offense to injure or exploit other people, not because of some vague humanist values but because God has done man the unspeakable honor of identifying himself with the human race.

You learn to value the person before your eyes or ears or nose cause you to categorize them and then you can start talking to me about «reaching people for God.»

From what I understand, evangelicals also value the biblical witness to the ministry of Jesus and bringing people closer to relationship with God.

The initiative is aimed at helping people «understand the true value and significance of the liturgy as an essential part of growing closer to God».

3) The Bible presents mankind as being made in the image of God, therefore each person carries priceless intrinsic value, despite their intellect, education, ethnicity, marketability, or physical beauty.

Some people endorse the value of the decalogue, while denying the truth of the story of Moses and the reality of the God who spoke to him.

From Genesis, God modeled how He values people when He made us as the Imago Dei (Genesis 1:27), and then when He was finished, He called us «very good» (Genesis 1:31).

After the president's alleged intervention, the platform was changed to include this sentence: «We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God - given potential.»

Whether the phenomenon is called the death of God, the modern disenchantment of the world, the loss of a background of value or the failure of an ethical attitude toward nature, Western peoples» sense of a moral order to which they can, may or must conform has diminished.

Yes, the image of God in man raises the dignity and value of all people, regardless of their different beliefs or behaviors.

Taking at face value the unproven preached out by people who sell the word of God as their day job.

Mental health values in religious practices are realized as by - products of participating as the spontaneous celebration of life and of experiences of depth relating to God, other persons, and self.

The age old problem of SELF often is manifest in a false identity such as; «we are children of Abraham» (therefore I am righteous), «I go to... «church»» (somehow this «church» makes you something) or «all you say we will do» (the people of Israel saying they in themself can meet God's standard), «I give to the church» (not personally meeting others needs), «I do this program or that program» (though you do not desire to glorify God but rather there is some intrinsic value in doing a program).

The god in the OT is a direct result of a desert warrior culture, when he did these great smitings at first, people in that culture admired power and warrior spirit so no one could care less about the atrocities that god committed because those were valued traits in those days.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness, love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person, did this service for us, and that he did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.

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Under all variations of form, they continued to affirm that in the events out of which the Christian Church arose there was a conclusive act of God, who in them visited and redeemed His people; and that in the corporate experience of the Church itself there was revealed a new quality of life, arising out of what God had done, which in turn corroborated the value set upon the facts.

At the Cross we can also see that He is not a respecter of persons - that all persons are of equal value to Him — for all must come through this same «door» (faith in Christ) to be accepted by God.

Belief in the worth of the individual is in part based on an understanding of the value of persons to God.

The fact that the Bible lends itself to competing interpretations should be cause for celebration rather than dismay, for these competing interpretations among people of faith who love and value Scripture help bring us into relationship with one another and with God.

Hartshorne argues that people (and other things) contribute»... value to God which he would otherwise lack.

The divine aim to raise up persons whose goals and values are identical with God's goals - for - them and whose actions are complementary to the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only in so far as social ends and cultural traditions are also in harmony with the divine.

At least in such moments Jesus» weighting of values — his perception of the relative importance of things and persons, of the self and others, of motives and actions, of past, present, and future — was from the perspective given in his prehension of God.

If the disciples catch one single person out of the clutches of the devil and help bring that person into the loving arms of God the Father, that catch alone is of infinite and eternal value.

Surely the person who is both rational and loving contributes more value to God than one who is rational and full of hate.

It celebrates the value and dignity of the human person made in the image of God.