Sentences with phrase «ultimate god named»

Not exact matches

We have some quick stories about Abraham traveling around with sarah every where, occasionally screwing stuff in the name of good, almost killing his son in the name of god, selling his wife up the river a couple of times in the name of god, sounds awfully predictable and robot like to me, and yet you have odysessus, a constant lost hero trying to make his way back to his wife penelope and struggling with his own morality, journeys, trials and ultimate success.

These levels are, in ascending order, the material, the living, the conscious and the transcendent: matter, life, mind and God (or however the ultimate is named).

But more than that, Jesus welcomed these outcasts into table - fellowship with himself in the name of the Kingdom of God, in the name of the Jews» ultimate hope, and so both prostituted that hope and also shattered the closed ranks of the community against their enemy.

In the words of Cobb: «The direction is to accept without hesitation or embarrassment the distinction between ultimate reality and God, and to recognize that the God of the Bible... is a manifestation of ultimate reality — not the name of that reality» (Quoted in BPM 120).

The revelation of the sacred name in Exodus 3:15 has been misconstrued, for instance, as God's refusal to be named, an indication of the ultimate unnameability of God, rather than God's act of naming himself.

A truly wonderful sense of the appropriate has guided the inventors of the most terrifying weapons to choose names that evoke ultimate violence in the most effective way: names taken from the direst divinities in Greek mythology, like Titan, Poseidon, and Saturn, the god who devoured his own children.

But it is the unconditioned, which is to say being itself beyond all distinguishing characteristics whatsoever, that alone is man's ultimate concern and that alone can be given the name of God when this word refers not to a symbol pointing on to God but to what is very God and not a symbol.

In those various churches without a God which to - day are spreading through the world under the name of ethical societies, we have a similar worship of the abstract divine, the moral law believed in as an ultimate object.

But if the meaning of God for us is the gift and demand of unbounded love that authorizes trust in this love and loyalty to its cause as our authentic self - understanding, the ultimate whole of reality that we call by the name «God» has to have a unique structure in itself.

But I immediately went on to add that it is the only self - understanding explicitly authorized by Jesus whom Christians assert to be the Christ, the point of their assertion being that it is also the very self - understanding implicitly authorized as the authentic understanding of our existence by the mysterious whole of ultimate reality that they call by the name «God.»

If we already presuppose, then, that the theistic religious language employed by the Christian witness in authorizing faith in God's love as our authentic self - understanding can be metaphysically justified, we can say — as I, in fact, have already been saying — that ultimate reality includes not only the self and others but also the encompassing whole of reality that theists refer to when they use the name «God.»

All of this lies underneath the Hebrew attitude toward the name of God, the God who was mystery, the God who was ultimate, the God who was depth beyond penetration, height beyond perception, the God who was finally unknowable except that he chose to reveal as much of himself as his people could perceive.

Qazar, it is precisely the book that proves that the Christian God is the true God... in order to expand your thinking on this, name the one thing that all peoples of all cultures of all times, will agree on as the ultimate evidence of the true God [keeping in mind that there must always be a faith level because God is all powerful, has all knowledge, all wisdom, is everywhere (not in a pantheistic sense)-RSB- that the true God can give.

Cobb names God as the ethical, historical, and personal ultimate, that is, where this God is a particular actual entity A good case can be made that ethical principles, historical existence, and personhood can not exist apart from the specificity of some concrete and particular being.

If religion is concerned with ultimate Truth or God, it can not but have its implications for the whole of life, private and public, and therefore the fundamental human right of religious freedom should include the right to express religious faith in prophetic ministry in society and politics in the name of justice.

We know that God in His many names is the ultimate judge.

(Religious Language, p. 112) Mrs. Dixon's children were right, because the use of the name Yahweh gave them a personal handle by which they could think about God, but as they grow they will be ready for the further disclosure of the mystery where all that God will say is, «I am I,» which is the ultimate tautology.