Other creation world acknowledges God far better in their own ways.
Not exact matches
Users can also share their levels with the
world, allowing
others to play their
creations.
What's intelligent about destroying your «flawed»
creations (and every
other living thing that liveth) on a populated
world, rather than killing 2 flawed beings (Adam & Eve) then starting over, AT THE BEGINNING?
However examinations of putting the land animals in the known area is certainly feasible and backed up by
other creation accounts — this was the known
world at the time and the meaning of the text.
The vision is that «people of different faiths... learn from each
other's spirituality» to create «a
world in which the needs of all
creation are integrated with the workings of governments and international business.»
I can not look at the
creations of this
world and see anything
other than the work of God's hand.
Forty - five years after Humanae Vitae, it now seems clear that the invention of the oral contraceptive pill (to adopt one reference point for the broader contraceptive revolution) was one of the three achievements of 20th - century science with truly
world - historical impact, the
other two being the
creation of the self - sustaining nuclear chain reaction and the unraveling of the DNA double helix.
Until then, I just assume that all these religious ideas are the
creation of men who want power over
others in the natural
world - and every day I am more convinced this is the case.
On the
other hand, there's power in learning from careful observations of the
world, when we can understand God through his
creation and the work of his
creation without having to adapt our belief system in order to accommodate the diversity of creativity in storytelling and entertainment.
(Romans 1:20) there was no
other alternative explanation for the
world existing than the various supernatural
creation myths.
While cosmology may mean several different things, the theologian's contribution is concerned with «accounts of the
world as God's
creation,» and, within that broad compass, one specific enterprise especially needed in our time involves «imaginative perceptions of how the
world seems am where we stand in it» (Tracy and Lash, vii) 5 In
other words.
On the
other hand, if God is just and good, the amount of evil in the
world testifies to God's inability to establish justice in his
creation.
He was active early in the second century CE and is well known for having posited not one but two Gods, one represented in the Old Testament and seen as responsible for the
world's
creation, the
other encountered only in the New Testament in the teaching of Jesus and specifically in the theology of Paul.
As in
other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and
other continental Europeans, besides theologies from
other parts of the
world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics,
creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integrator.
We see this in sports, where Roger Bannister's comment about his
world - record race (he was the first to run the mile in under four minutes) has often been repeated by
other runners: «The
world seemed to stand still, or did not exist... «17 And certainly this can be true of the play
world of art, which, according to Gerardus Van der Leeuw, is a new «
creation, a second
world, with its own power.
As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual
world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self -
creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with
other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»
In fact, with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some
other way has to be found to explain time's origin in order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the measure of the degradation resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous
creation in which every species, was present from the beginning, instead of a
world of becoming and growth.
Jenkins, on the
other hand, describes appreciatively theological schools, from the Orthodox doctrine of theosis to Teilhard de Chardin to the modern «
creation spirituality» movement, which one way or another allow humans to share with God in the evolution of the
world to a glorious transformation ¯ although, as Jenkins points out, there's a danger that that could veer off into anthropocentric management.
Whitehead insisted that «this final phase of passage in God's nature is ever enlarging itself» (PR 530 — italics mine), that it is «an unresting advance beyond itself» (PR 531 — italics mine), that «the actuality of God must also be understood as a multiplicity of actual components in process of
creation (PR 531 — italics mine) and that «in every respect God and the
World move conversely to each
other in respect to their process» (PR 529 — italics mine).
I often find it puzzling how the creationists tend to focus almost exclusively on Judeo - Christian perspective, when there are so many
other creation stories throughout the
world and in history.
All Nye is saying is, the future successful development of America and the
world depends on people who understand the distinction, and who can relate to and interact with the natural
world scientifically and objectively, without being constrained by belief in the
creation story or any
other explanation of the
world not supported by facts and evidence.
(Regarding helping
others — Matthew 25:34 - 40) «Then the King will say to those on his right, «Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the
creation of the
world.
Here, as in many
other creation myths, the various parts of the
world are formed of the several portions of the body of the creative being:
Although these essays were written over a span of time and for different audiences, they are held together by K.Cs deep and passionate concern for justice, peace and the integrity of
creation, This is a book that should be read and studied by churches, grassroots people, policy makers, theologians and
others who are seeking to create a
world that is safe for all.
Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as
other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very
creation of the
world.
If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the
creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the
world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing
other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the
other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.
Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the
world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his
creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of
others... and except for... and except for...
Join Micah Challenge along with John Mark McMillan and
other Christian artists as we seek to take care of God's
creation as an act of worship and as an act of compassion for the love of our brothers and sisters around the
world and for the love of our creator.
This contrasts with philosophies that, justifying the existence of evil in God's
creation, would posit it as necessary for the machinery of the
world — in
other words, with all forms of theodicy that merely explain evil away.
He fuffihls his birthright of freedom only when he actually engages in works of cultural
creation and of constructive scholarship, that is, when he makes his
world rather than receiving it ready - made from the hands of
others.
If one asks, what are the possible roads to a
world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized
world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the
creation of a federal
world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and
other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»
But Jobs» adage that people didn't know what they needed until you tell them proved truer with this invention than with any single
other creation of his, and 10 years later, the iPhone hasn't just transformed the
world, it's transformed the way we take the
world in.
But even
others hint at this same idea of
creation from a watery
world.
India never conceived of one single myth of the
world's
creation, as found in the Bible and many
other cultures.
What the biblical understanding of
creation rules out is not any scientific account, but
other interpretive statements, such as «God is nature» (pantheism), «the
world is essentially unreal» (Hinduism), «matter is ultimate» (materialism), or «the
world is evil» (Schopenhauer — and some forms of existentialism).
In seeking to develop a theology of nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate
other images from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love for the poor and treatment of animals as sisters and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of
creation, and the use of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-human natural
world, and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.
For Mark, Jesus of Nazareth became Son of God at his baptism, through the endowment of the divine Spirit; for Paul, on the
other hand, the Son of God was a divine being who existed with God before the
creation of the
world, who became the intermediary cause or agent in the
creation and remained the sustaining principle of the universe.
Create new places to live including off
world on
other planets so that
Creation will be remembered by humans so that humans will experience
Creation and all that
Creation has to offer.
The self is thrown into an incomprehensibly vast
creation, a
world teeming with
other creatures, and
other selves.
So, while those things are permitted in the
world, I don't think that a woman being a doctor to save my life applies to God's
creation order,
other than her PREACHING the Good News, which is what we're ALL required to do, but not necessarily Pastor a flock...
The Bible is inspired in that it reveals what God was whispering to people who wrote Scripture, and to people in
other parts of the
world who were also responding to the revelation which they had received from God (whether it be through
creation or conscience).
Instead of seeing the natural
world as one among the social ethical concerns of human beings, it displays the human race as one species of God's creatures alongside
others, a species with special prerogatives and responsibilities within
creation.
Its pattern is the surrender of self for
others, the acceptance of suffering and death because resurrection and new
creation are in Christ, the
world's reality.2
These glosses called into question the
creation of the
world in time, the role of the senses and the imagination in human knowing, the individuality (and personal responsibility) of the human intellect and will, the immortality of the human composite of body and soul, the role of divine Providence, the simple standard of one truth governing both theology and philosophy, and
other foundations of both Catholic faith and empirical (as distinct from gnostic) reason.
After the
Creation account, writes McKnight, «the entire rest of the Bible, aiming as it will toward Jesus Christ, is about turning Eikons bent on otherness to Eikons basking in oneness with God, with self, with
others, and with the
world.»
Not only «our
creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life» come ultimately through God's working in the
world — even when they come by way of
other men or from nature, the chief (not the only, since created occasions have freedom to be causative agents) causal agency is the divine Love.
Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament
world was a
world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the
creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble
other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..
On the
other hand, the Open view maintains that the existence of a
world depends upon God's decision to create from nothing but that having created this
world, God is bound to this
world by God's love for the
creation (Rice, «Process» 199).
And if evolutionary theory can be accommodated by calling
creation accounts myths, presumably
other aspects of the biblical
world need to be corrected or altered in meaning when confronted by materials from more sources of knowledge than I wish to list.
On the
other hand, the
World is a
creation of gods or supernatural beings; to unfold a structure of the
World is equivalent to revealing a secret or a «ciphered» signification of divine workmanship.