Sentences with phrase «while only god»

While only God or Colin Lachance knows how much more popular CanLII has become three years hence, our own organization's research into CanLII and other tools (I work for Courthouse Libraries BC) shows that lawyers are both familiar and enduringly curious when it comes to CanLII:

We are in time, while only God is beyond time; just as individual threads can not perceive the whole tapestry of which they are but a part, the nature of temporal order is «hidden from us» (occulto nobis).

While only God can read anyone's hearts, I dare to say that there are countless Roman Catholics who know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, just as there are no doubt (in my denomination) many Southern Baptists who have been duly dunked but are still spiritually dead.

Not exact matches

They do all this while dealing with temperamental writers who think their prose should never be changed and with even more temperamental editors who sincerely believe they are God's gift not only to journalism, but the universe.

Wanting evidence from only one God while claiming you're doing it to validate the lie, well, you just debunked your own lie.

False Christians arn't persecuted True ones are though they even have been persecuted by the Vatican and other false Christians they are under ban in places like NK and Iran and some other places Jesus apostles where persecuted stephen was stoned John the baptist was decapitated Paul was liked in prison for a while you see only true Christians are persecuted how can the richest orinization on the planet claim to follow God and be the richest on the planet and actually persecute everyone else.

I don't often see the «no true scotsman» applied to a «god» and can only say that your expectations, while misplaced, are certainly more sensible than most I've seen.

Exodus 12:12 states that there are other gods, while the rest of the bible makes the claim that there is only one: http://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-oneness-unity-one-god.htm Third, the bible claims that only the father knows when the second coming of jesus would happen.

While you can make a your own god out of anybody or anything, there is only one true and living God, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christgod out of anybody or anything, there is only one true and living God, the Father of the Lord Jesus ChristGod, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ!!!

Ephesians 6:5 - 9 (NRSV) Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

God has clearly chosen to work in ways not immediately obvious to us, and we can only assume that He has done so in order that He might be glorified while the vestiges of racism and exclusion, the failed attempts at revitalization, and the nihilism induced by violence might be put to shame.

Seems like an obvious contradiction to me; something that's only supposed to work as an apologetic against problems with the prevailing God model while, in fact, it works equally well against all the positive aspects of that same model.

The obstacles Odysseus encounters in returning to Ithaca are the result of having offended the god Poseidon, while his success comes only with the assistance of Athena, the gray - eyed goddess.

While he allows that doctrinal debates about Christ and the Trinity are of only antiquarian interest, he comes out for what he calls a «redemptive process» in which good people do not give up on the goal of establishing the kingdom of God on earth.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

It can be plausibly argued that while it might appear that Plantinga's free - will defense is only relevant to moral evil, it actually has significant, necessary ramifications for how God's power can be conceived in relation to nature.

I have known one too many single Christians who have struggled with their relationship with God because they are told that God is only one who could fill all of their longings for intimacy when all the while God made humanity to be in loving relationship with another.

The only way that nature and brahman can be in God while God is not in them, but surpasses both, is for God to include brahman and the world within himself as a part of the whole.

Pike has to acknowledge that both the instructor and the commission have the power to coerce in the weak sense only, while clearly the traditional God must have the power to coerce in the strong sense.

A person who lacks faith settles for the majority verdict — the good esteem of the crowd — while the disciple who has faith knows there is only one verdict that matters: the judgment of God.

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

Isn't it?This was in a recent email newsletter sent by a church from my past: «While you only need to be baptized once, if you'd like to reaffirm your commitment to God we encourage you to participate in baptism....

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this 3 - Part series on how Satan casts out Satan, we learned that Satan uses violent religion to attack and kill the messengers of God, and thus, appear to be «casting out Satan» while in reality, he is only solidifying his own power and influence in the world.

«It is not only while the sacrifice is being offered, the sacrament is constituted, that Christ is truly Emmanuel, «God with us».

While Tillich provides a system to overcome the subject - object dilemma of Cartesianism, he denies that Being - itself is actually increased or decreased by events, i.e., it is not in process, and, therefore, does not share in human adventures.5 Camus» position implies that if there is a God, such a God would be tolerable only if God is involved in the struggle of man's existence.

When God was conceived as caring only for the tribal group, only the tribal group was conceived as worth caring for, while the thought of God as the patron and lover of individuals was inevitably associated with the thought of individuals as clearly visualized centers of value.

Sometimes they are very short indeed: «God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself»; «while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us»; «God set forth his Son to be the propitiation for our sins»; «God so loved the world that he gave his only - begotten Son»; «the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.»

While a novelist's artistry is limited «only» by his own imagination and abilities, God as artist is limited by the lack of sensitivity or concern on the part of the creatures God seeks to persuade.

While I agree that the Bible doesn't teach that God's blueprint is for a one - pastor system only, I know that God can still use a church with just one pastor, as there is no such thing as a perfect church, and God obviously uses hundreds of churches all over the world to spread His Word, and to serve others.

Second, while some think that Peter is referring to believer's baptism because of the mention of water in 3:20, Peter clarifies in 3:21 that he is not talking about the outward washing of the flesh with water but the inner purification of a good conscience toward God, which is accomplished only through the Spirit.

If the Crucifixion does not express and embody a decisive self - transformation of God, then at most it can only give a guilty humanity a temporary respite from the sovereign power of the transcendent Creator, while at worst it can seal a fallen humanity in its abject state of powerlessness and self - abasement, totally repressing every tendency to movement and life.

While Satan's embrace of Jerusalem can only be consummated in death, that death is a final realization in experience of the self - annihilation of God, thereby effecting the forgiveness of sin by the reversal of all solitary selfhood.

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

The good news, the Gospel, is that while God is holy and we are sinners, and sin deserves punishment, God, out of His great love for us, sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die in our place for our sin so that anyone who wants eternal life in heaven with God can simply believe in Jesus Christ for it and it will be given to them.

And at «Communion times,» when the parson is in a tumultuous frame of mind while preparing «not only to receive God, but to break and administer him,» Herbert advises that the parson «throw himself down at the throne of grace,» saying,

If so, this sounds similar to your accusation that God has somehow acted immorally in killing the children for the crimes of the parents only in the ra - pe case, the man gets to walk away while the child is killed.

Those who think God can not mean well toward us because he «sends» us suffering can prove their point only by showing that there is a way to run the universe, compatible with the existence of other real powers than just the supreme power, which would be more fully in accord with the totality of interests, or by showing that God sends us the suffering while himself remaining simply outside it, in the enjoyment of sheer bliss.

While much of it remains a mystery and I do not know how it will all work out in God's economy or in eternity, we know from Scripture that each person on earth is given enough revelation from God to respond positively to Him, even if this revelation is only through creation and conscience.

You are 1000 % sure there is a God, while a man of science would only be 100 % sure there isn't.

The two do not belong together in his eyes, for while punishment, which God in His wisdom has connected with every transgression, is a Good, there is no denying that it is such a Good only when it is gratefully received, not when it is simply feared as an evil.

We have already seen that while God is the greatest power, «that which none greater can be conceived,» God is not the only power, and that divine power always acts persuasively.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

if you recall, God said, «Let us make man in our image AND after our likeness...... yes, every man still bears the image of God and deserves respect, but every man deserves to be pitied for the likeness of God which he has lost and which can only be restored through a relationship with Jesus Christ, who is more than a book, He is the Living Word of God, and any relationship with Him demands an obedience to the Word He represents, thus, how can a man «walk humbly with God» while at the same time rejecting the His very Word?

Undoubtedly a certain insight was promoted in regard to such questions as how the papal primacy and the episcopacy founded by Christ can exist and work together in the Church, how the necessity of the Church for salvation is compatible with the possibility of salvation of a human being who does not belong to it, how in the realm of grace each of the regenerate can depend on every other and so above all on Mary, while there is nevertheless only one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ.

We could argue for the sheer graciousness of the incarnation by grounding our case in the sinful state of humanity, stressing how it is that we deserve only death and how the son of God comes to us «while we were yet sinners.»

The people who believe that the rapture is going to happen — that one day god will «beam up» all those who happen to believe the right flavor of Christianity, and they'll float up into the sky to be with God while the world is destroyed — are only marginally less kooky than the likes of Harold Camping, who set a date on the whole circgod will «beam up» all those who happen to believe the right flavor of Christianity, and they'll float up into the sky to be with God while the world is destroyed — are only marginally less kooky than the likes of Harold Camping, who set a date on the whole circGod while the world is destroyed — are only marginally less kooky than the likes of Harold Camping, who set a date on the whole circus.

Knowing there is no proof of a God makes me know that I won't have to fear when judgement day comes because there won't be that day and the only judgement comes while I am alive.

While most people now take humanism to be opposed to anything religious, Pope Francis was suggesting that the «humanistic spirit» can only survive within a culture that is open to God.

While any knowledge of God must indeed be conditioned by human experience, Ashbrook and Albright actually claim much more than this: that the brain not only patterns our experience of God, but its very structure can inform us of God's nature.

In the soul - body analogy; God's knowledge of the world is transcendent in that it transcends human knowledge of bodily events because God is attuned to all while we are attuned to only our nervous system (and even that knowledge is imperfect).