Further, given the foundational nature of the Noahic covenant — a re-creation, as it were,
out of the chaos of water — the death penalties in Moses, mutatis mutandis, draw on and apply more expansively the justification for the penalty God articulated to Noah.
And yet there is the possibility that forms of order may gradually be teased
out of the chaos of indeterminacy.
Out of the chaos of the uncreated, unloved, moribund slaves, Moses was given to bring into existence a created people, loved of God, and living to fulfill his purposes.
How do we get order
out of this chaos of connections?
Out of the chaos of everyday living, a way of being able to make sense of what's happening in their lives.
Not exact matches
British Airways, TAP Portugal and SkyTeam Alliance (Delta, KLM Royal Dutch and AirFrance) are also trying to get you
out of the post-election
chaos, offering affordable international flights.
As residents sought to secure last - minute flights
out of the dangerous Category 4 storm's path, airlines faced accusations
of trying to capitalize on the panic and
chaos by price gouging.
«Consumer spending is the pump that will drive us
out of the current
chaos.
And somehow, each day, the resilient ones make order
out of total
chaos, just as most start - up CEOs do each day.
Having just wrapped up their three - month stint working
out of Techstars» New York City - based office, the entrepreneurs that make up the tech accelerator's graduating class know a thing
of two about staying productive amidst
chaos.
The banks also would be excused from submitting plans called «living wills» that spell
out how a bank would sell off assets or be liquidated in the event
of failure so that it wouldn't create
chaos in the financial system.
Out of the
chaos and horror and trauma
of the Yonge St. rampage, we must create a memorial to honour the victims, writes Royson James.
But as financial firms ponder whether to move or expand an existing subsidiary outside the U.K., as TD Securities intends to do, non-financial companies say this
chaos presents an opportunity since they may be able to capitalize on other global companies scrambling to shift their resources and people
out of the U.K. or take advantage
of other dynamics at play.
Given the
chaos around the Times, though, he's got a new to - do to add to his list: Figure
out the economics
of buying any
of the many available newspaper company assets across the region.
Out of this
chaos ride two possible heros to save the day: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
Sheep bleat and men scream as the
chaos roars and the Lord Jesus Christ beats the holy living shit
out of the bankers and their whores and livestock.
It takes more faith to believe that than to believe in the One who created special designs for life
out of the
chaos and has given us the internal desire to have meaning beyond our physical bodies.
I am so sick
of hearing and seeing the word «miracle» thrown around when 1
out of many people survives some horrible tragedy, whether caused by man or the
chaos of natural phenomena.
Dreher is not wrong to alert us to the destructive power individualism and unbridled desire exert on the social fabric, but he would do even better to recognize that, by God's grace, new forms
of order manage to emerge
out of the apparent
chaos of social fragmentation.
French writer and thinker, Rene Girard claims that this prejudice or scapegoat mechanism within us all, is the result
of the
chaos that eventually breaks
out within a communal mimetic desire system.
But there is a groundswell toward opting
out of crazed consumption and breaking free from the anxiety and
chaos it creates, so people can tell a better story.
I am glad that such news did bring you together with fellow New Yorkers as they (and we, the world community) struggle to make meaning
out of the
chaos acts
of random terrorism and blatant aggression bring.
I should also point
out that King frequently uses Christianity as a manifestation
of evil /
chaos, as in the mother in Carrie, the evil warden in Shawshank, and many other examples.
In this post, I point
out that the world is full
of chaos.
We see the freedom
of the Spirit moving in ways we can not predict, we see the nurturing power
of the Spirit bringing order
out of chaos and renewing the face
of the earth, and the «energies»
of the Spirit working within and inspiring human beings in their universal longing for and seeking after truth, peace and justice.
That is, they were all about the «
chaos of competitive avarice» that, according to John Kenneth Gaibraith, had been ruled
out in the corporation
of the 1960's.
plus the fact that there are over 40,000 versions
of christianity
out there, showing a high level
of chaos induced by trying to interpret the bible, it makes a lot more sense that Satan inspired the bible.
I have faith in the human ability to grasp meaning
out of chaos, to forge determination in the way
of nihilism, to love, to hope, and to give a damn about the feelings
of others.
20 In a very real sense, it is the «given» upon which the Demiurge worked his «rational» activity
of bringing order
out of chaos.
Reaching back to the original biblical understanding
of creation involving the increasing emergence
of order
out of chaos, Keller writes:
God is called upon not as a unilateral superpower but as a relational force, not an omnipotent creator from nothing, imposing order upon
chaos, but the lure to a self - organizing complexity, creating
out of the
chaos.59
Some begin to find patterns
of living that lead them
out of chaos and meaninglessness.
In an especially astute bit
of exegesis, Hays points
out that the story
of Jesus walking on the water (6:45 — 52) does not recall Moses and the Exodus sea - crossing but rather the peerless God
of Job 9:4 — 11, the Lord
of creation who triumphs over
chaos.
This need not contravene the idea that God in some way creates the world, though it will suggest that God creates «
out of chaos» from a beginningless past rather than creating «
out of nothing» from a finite past (McDaniel 1989a, 36 - 37).
In fact the probably
of evolution being true has the same probably
of an hurricane hitting a junkyard and
out of the
chaos a 767 Jumo comes into existence.
In this moment the form is broken and life is summoned to new creation
out of the
chaos.
May we be ever - cognizant
of the spiritual battles taking place day in and day
out, and not be found hiding from the
chaos, but instead, raising a battle cry.
Considering the
chaos, destruction, death wars, faster spread
of disease, murders, slavery, attempted genocide... all justified by belief in the bible... 40,000 different versions
of christianity, with each person interpretting it differently... clearly
chaos (a tool
of the devil) then you see all
of the things that are flat
out wrong... it becomes clear
It didn't solve all our problems as a family,
of which there were many, or guarantee order
out of chaos.
But there is always the possibility that order will be brought
out of this
chaos.
The same study found that eight
out of ten people believed that «everything that happens has a purpose» — an apparent substantiation
of the claim that people want to shield themselves from
chaos by imputing order to the universe.
But deep within him grows and endures the readiness to go
out to meet the naked
chaos armed with nothing but the magic
of his inborn direction.
Rather than bringing «order
out of chaos,» what the process may bring is «
chaos out of order.»
Out of the mind and faith
of prophetism a fourth member in the meaningful scheme
of Israel's history was added, a second act
of divine redemption from
chaos, redemption by return again to the land, redemption by the reconstitution
of the people Israel.
This latter stage rejects transcendent values and slides into decadence and
chaos,
out of which is born a new ideational culture.
It is sufficient that God should mean to us the sum
of the animating, organizing forces and relationships which are forever making a cosmos
out of chaos.
But whether
out of nothing or
out of primal
chaos, God called the world into being.
We're bringing order
out of chaos, beauty
out of emptiness, something
out of nothing, and so we're glorifying Creator, we're reflecting Creator, we're testifying to Creator.
When drowning in words words empty words, I will put my back and my hands into real work, finding the gift
of doing things,
of making things,
of creating things,
of healing things,
of feeding people,
of bringing order
out of chaos even in small ways.
God created order
out of disorder, cosmos
out of chaos, and God can do so always, can do so now — in our personal lives and in our lives as nations, globally.