Sentences with phrase «gods character not»
God gave that help because of Gods character not mine.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
God's character is the source of good reasoning: He can not lie, and He can not contradict Himself.
If, as many Christians, Jews and even Muslims believe, they are carved on stone by the very finger of God, and no other writings of such character were commited to stone by Him, then it follows that these Commandments are to be permanent and binding, not temporary.
I don't pray because I truly feel God is a mythical character invented by a few wild imaginations and the wonderful myth has been perpetuated for 1000s of years by dupes.
Finally, you aren't even discussing your particular God character per se, you use a far more sweeping term, «Supernatural being», which would sweep in the very creatures and beings which you claim are as mythological — therefore, ironically, you confirm the analogy in the very same paragraph where you attempt to discredit it.
As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires.
If a fictional character such as god had that power he'd not let so many Christians die at such a young age.
Israel and the Church are not characters in a larger story called «world,» but rather «world» is a character in God's story as known through the story that Israel is the Church.
The actual issue is not if God exists or not, or if Christ exists or not but the issue is Christ's unselfish character.
He did not take up the cross in order to grow in His relationship with God, to build character or to gain «insights.»
What we can't forget is that these analogies were chosen in order to explain things that are constant (God's character, God's love for the church) in ways that people in those cultures would understyand (gendered relationships).
this is so much more real and fits so much better with the image of a kind and loving god... thumpers would have u believe that god is the angriest, most spiteful, micro controlling, bitter, nasty character ever put out to this world... we must remember that the god thing is supposed to produce caring, inclusion, peace and love ~ not murder, hatred, exclusion and bullying..
Unless you can prove otherwise God is merely a character in a book and, as far as I know, it isn't a crime to speak your mind about a literary character, is it?
I wouldn't say that God is beyond gender; I would say that He comprehends gender, which is to say that both masculinity and feminity find their source in God, that they are both equally valid revelations of God's character, and that they may both be twisted into something that is not God's character at all (through chauvinism and extreme feminism).
God can not deny Himself, and when we pray for things that align with the character and nature of God, and His will, that prayer can move mountains.
Our prayers are not to alter the will of a sovereign God who remains forever unchangeable, but instead, prayer molds our disfigured and malleable wills to be like His perfect will, as well as operating as a means of revealing His character to us through a personal interaction with His word that has been intricately meshed together with our lives.
kermit4jc If God was just the excuse that the Israelites used to do as they liked, who's to say that they didn't just invent this God character for this precise purpose?
If Jesus was God, and God's character is consistent, does it not come down to either Israel's understanding of God was inaccurate, or Jesus was not God?
The only other possibility is that God truly is violent, and Jesus didn't fully reveal this aspect of God, which means that Jesus is not a very good representation of the true nature and character of God.
When you look at the heart of what some Millennials are saying, they want to be god (litte «g»), so they don't have to obey God's commands or submit to His principles, character and lagod (litte «g»), so they don't have to obey God's commands or submit to His principles, character and laGod's commands or submit to His principles, character and laws.
Let me start off by saying, I don't understand the character of God entirely... and anyone who tells you they do is trying to sell you something.
Ford is correct in maintaining that on the occasion of God's dealing with particulars the appropriate aspects of his purely conceptual, nontemporal decision come into being in time as the character of his propositional feelings, but that can not be the whole story of divine freedom.
I can not speak for others but we hold members accountable for character flaws that do not bring glory to God.
Well then I have to hope that «god» is a loving god and not the Christian god that care more about being worshiped than the character of his subjects.
«That's not the point, anyway — the original point is that you don't hate them anymore than atheists hate your «God» character.»
Astonished at the scenario presented by the Inquisitor, one of the characters cries out, «Your Inquisitor does not believe in God, that's his secret.»
That God committed violent acts does not necessarily mean God, as to his character and being, is violent.
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
But the sacred character does not of course increase «the intrinsic likeness of God in... [the priest's] soul» (TPL p. 12).
Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.
Hensley — one of the featured athletes in a YouVersion «The Winter Olympics & the Bible» reading plan — credits God's Word not just with inspiring her athleticism, but also with forming her character.
It's simply preposterous that these ancient Hebrews that you consider to be ever - so holy, prescient, prophetic, wise, and all - around the cat's meow — and guaranteed not to rust, bust, collect dust, bruise, bend or tear, — all of a sudden become «disobedient» and «willful», when they were right there on the spot to witness (or allegedly to easily verify) this «Messiah» / «God» character within their midst.
The words fly by me like scenery zooming past on the interstate: «We also boast in our sufferings, knowing - that - suffering - produces - endurance - and - endurance - produces - character - and - character - produces - hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us» (my hyphens).
Well, I wouldn't bluntly say no because he doesn't believe there's a God, but I would investigate his character and arrogance.
and to those who say that believing in God at worst, costs nothing, well, thanks, but I'm not wasting my entire life ignoring the existing planet in exchange for telling a make believe character how great he is.
«there is one error which can not be remedied once men have made it, namely the failure to recognize the importance of conserving the blood and the race free from intermixture and thereby the racial aspect and character which are God's gift and God's handiwork»
* worship God, who has always been the same and whose character does not change and who is not capricious or abusive or narcissistic.
Unfortunately, those who hear such warnings don't know how to process God's character any more than the failed communicator, for even a good communicator can only relate the truth to the degree he understands it.
I use «lack of proof as an excuse» not to believe in leprechauns, why should it be any different for the mythical character you call «god»??
It's not holy, it doesn't somehow reflect part of God's character and it doesn't bring us closer to him.
Fine, as long as you acknowledge that it is a dream - wishful thinking - and don't claim it as fact, without a whit of verifiable evidence, as is your wont with your «God» character and the accompanying fantasy scenarios.
Even God, I would argue, does not have a completely «free» will, for He too is influenced by the Trinitarian Godhead, by His creation, by His goal to glorify Himself, and by His own character.
Far from being a text which tells people not to talk back to God, Exodus 33:19 is a text which invites people to enter into genuine dialogue with God about His character, actions, and behavior.
Anyway, we have come to the conclusion that YES, God is God and he can do whatever HE wants, but He can never act outside of HIs character, and when we understand God's character is good and loving and compassionate and so on, then we are not threatened by Him doing what he wills, because we know His will is always good.
One should not fight God and insist that he give us his Word in another way, or, as we are more apt to do, rework his Word along theological or cultural prejudices that turn into a minefield of principles, propositions, or imperatives but denude it of its ad hoc character as truly human.
Violence is inevitable, but so far as concerns society it has the same character as the universally prevailing law of gravitation, which is not in any way an expression of God's love in Christ or of Christian vocation.
The upholders of the view that there are contingent elements in God are not arguing that his behavior or character is vacillating and unpredictable.
Based on what I know of God, I don't think it is within the character or nature of God to separate anyone from Him eternally simply because they were unlucky enough to live in an area that didn't have a Bible.
With only three characters in the Old Testament are prayers like this associated — Moses, (Exodus 5:22 - 23; Numbers 11:11 - 15) Job, (Job 10:2 - 21; 13:24 - 14:6) and Jeremiah — and in each case not doubt but assurance of God is in the background, and the very intimacy with which the soul bares its complaints and carries on its struggle in prayer is testimony to the utter genuineness of the experience.
On the other hand, if the concrete way this school does «have to do with God» is ordered to education for ministerial functions, is it not then in practice using «having to do with God» for a further, ulterior purpose («educating for ministerial functions»), thus corrupting its proper theological character («having to do with God for God's own sake»)?