Disturbing Divine Behavior by Eric Seibert and God's Word in
Human Words by Kenton Sparks.
I recently read a book called God's Word in
Human Words by Kenton Sparks, which is purportedly an evangelical defense of critical biblical scholarship.
Not exact matches
And
human companies can harness this
by tapping their community of loyal customers to help spread the
word.
Leaders who are guided
by faith, not fear, demonstrate through their actions, not mere
words, what their core values are as a
human being.
That's why he spent $ 50 million of his own money developing the prototypes and testing them in Third World villages, and they work, and we have to get the
word out because 50 percent of all
human illness is caused
by waterborne pathogens.
In other
words, many people people with a low level of assets under management are under - serviced
by human financial advisers.
According to a Harvard Business Review study, women in emerging markets reinvest 90 % of every dollar earned into «
human resources» — their families» education, health and nutrition — compared to only 30 to 40 % of every dollar earned
by men.2 In other
words, Kiva's loans have helped countless families and communities in over 80 countries escape a vicious cycle of poverty.
For while this House may be dragged down
by dispiriting
words and accusations, it is brought lowest
by the talking point and the use of precious time and adult
human beings in business attire to convey scripted banalities.
a) that the bible is an imperfect
human representation of gods
word b) that the bible is a mixture of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible was created in a way that people would understand at the time and intended to be updated d) that a pure message was corrupted intentionally
by evil
humans or spirits
All versions are written
by a
human (and not God) and hard to know which
words are perfectly right or in the right place.
It's the creative
word of
human beings, that has also been edited, translated, transcribed, and continually offered in new and different versions... all by HUMAN BE
human beings, that has also been edited, translated, transcribed, and continually offered in new and different versions... all
by HUMAN BE
HUMAN BEINGS.
in other
words «would i believe in any creatures like
human, trees, stones, idols etc that has not power to live
by itself that are my God (s)?»
So,
by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on
words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «
human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired
by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.
There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real,
human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit
by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your
word, and so forth and so on.
I've been able to accommodate faith and science, at least to a degree
by Paul's
words about our flawed
human understanding and seeing through a glass darkly..
«He was an artist and she would bear his children and wash his clothes and care for him because there lay her immortality, there lay her own contribution to the great effort to speak the truth, to shape
words, to write the novel that
by existing would justify the
human endeavor, an endeavor so clearly in need of justification,» she writes observing Doc Humes» wife.
The loss of traditional, collective, and ritualistic forms of life and the loss of a transcendent horizon are accompanied
by the loss of spontaneous and contingent forms of
human action» what we might call freedom, if the
word had not been so severely abused.
«If God created religion, he could rememdy the whole mess
by making certain each
human he creates has «his
word», and there would be no question which religion is «correct».
Words written
by mostly
by male
humans to try to control the masses - kinda like the letter Jeffs received (in prison) from God.
On the plus side, he makes clear that Christian worship is an encounter in
Word and Sacrament with the living Christ, who is present to the church
by his Spirit and who forms the church as a divine and
human communion.
no matter WHAT version of the Bible you subscribe to, God's
Word is God's
Word ---- What about the fact that it was written
by faulty
human beings?
IF God created religion, he could rememdy the whole mess
by making certain each
human he creates has «his
word», and there would be no question which religion is «correct».
He took into account the audience's ability to perceive in the ultimate sense —
by flinging aside his deity and becoming the
Word, one of us, living in our cramped planet within the limitations of a
human body.
Again, the problem is that «Christ» has connotations that Jesus was divine, whereas the actual
words used, «anointed one» simply refer to any
human called upon
by God to aid the Jewish people.
«the enemy of the
human race... has thought up a way, unheard of before now,
by which he might impede the saving
word of God from being preached to the nations.
But if we mean
by Christianity a hearing of God's
word to
human beings, then it is not comparable to any religion.
The
human predicament is described
by words such as estrangement and alienation.
But Bach, astute student of the liturgy and of
human nature, did not simply end the piece with the last
words sung
by the soprano.
By this
word, in the New Testament as in the Old, the noblest altitudes and attributes of the
human spirit and the saving influences of the divine spirit were expressed.
Those
words seem especially apt to me, for it is indeed
by our imagining,
by what our hearts picture in fear or desire, that we
humans are pushed and pulled in our many directions.
See, many of us have spent years believing that we combat gender inequity
by raising awareness and calling it out, we combat
human trafficking
by raising awareness and calling it out, we combat corruption
by raising awareness and calling it out, and we combat racism
by not breathing a
word.
Or, maybe we are taking this too far... — More importantly, the power in us collectively, the resurrection power of God, the Holy Spirit, the full
Word of God, is much more powerful than
words confined
by the
human constraints of ink and paper.
That was all I said and meant but you are trying to frame me with
word not said
by me and I know why it is about shutting me up for good never mind may God make your curses blessings for me since he alone knows what's in my heart for all
humans in love of God only.?!
As yet, no one has ventured to translate Dasein or Vorhanden, but in order not to disfigure the English translation
by the frequent use of German
words, I have rendered Dasein as «
human life», «
human Being», or even «Being» where its
human character is made clear
by the context.
Many also use 1 Corinthians 2:12 - 13 to defend Inspiration, which talks about expressing spiritual truths with spiritual
words taught not
by human wisdom, but
by the Spirit of God.
The original lie told to Eve
by the tempter was that
humans could «be like gods» if they asserted their free will in defiance of God's
word.
By one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished by the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seein
By one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished
by the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seein
by the coming of the
Word;
by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seein
by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the
human imagination, and were now banished
by a new philosophy, a better way of seein
by a new philosophy, a better way of seeing.
The
words from Psalm 118 «Suscipe me, Domine» (receive me, Lord) are sung
by those making profession as a monk or nun, and the teaching offered here on the nature of vows speaks to anyone who sees their
human journey in terms of vocation.
In the
words of the November 5, 1987 report released
by the respected
human rights organization Americas Watch, contra violations of the laws of war are «so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war.
At sacramental baptism your faith gets confirmed
by God in a way, which can not be described
by human words.
I also know that
humans by flawed default will interpret the
words as they morally see fit, because it is in our nature to judge others against ourselves and our own ethics, beliefs, and morals.
(Men who would be offended
by hearing this from her in person will be happy to know she is dead and her
words are safely tucked away in an essay entitled «Are Women
Human?»)
Christians often argue that, as in
human life the most adequate form of communication is
by personal meeting rather than the written
word, so God's fullest revelation also needed to be a
human life.
On the other hand, it can refer to the act
by which the self constitutes itself as a self; the public acts of
word and deed are just ways of expressing this inner act which corresponds to the more primary meaning of «
human act.
It is essentially a way of faith,
by which man, in whatever generation he lives, is summoned
by the
Word of God to concern himself with the
human scene, for this is God's concern.
While the
words were recorded
by humans, it should be quite obvious that these aren't the musings of mere mortals.
Our Western culture, in fact, is primarily «left hemispheric» in its application of rational thinking to almost every facet of
human existence: science, economics, politics, education, religion, law (the French
word for law, droit, comes from «right hand,» the hand that rules and is controlled
by the left hemisphere).
By combining two Greek
words for feminine and masculine traits, viz., thelis (female, fruitful, prolific, nourishing, tender, delicate) and arrhen (male, masculine, manly, strong), the
word «thelarrheny» can be invented.3 Thelarrheny expresses the view that
humans combine the traits (but not physical sex organs) of both female and male.
According to Bercier, «the highest act of man is not his exercise of reason in discerning the forms of nature» but rather his «responsibility for his own being and identity as it is authoritatively addressed to him
by the Logos»; in other
words, man's special dispensation of reason is for the sake of directing
human nature towards «its most perfect end in man's own right self - governance» versus a liberation from the yoke of that nature.
1 - 12, four of them plural) highlights the contrast.25 In other
words, Paul has introduced his narrative
by stating simply and plainly, «I did not receive my apostleship or my gospel from any
human source, and I do not want to please any
humans.