Not exact matches
The six days of
creation are
about the six thousand years of
human history, that end in the 7th thousandth year of Jesus return to the Earth and the promised rest for God's people.
What is «different»
about the contract God made with humanity, and through us with * his *
creation is that it is kept in force by * his * Unconditional Love and faithfulness, not on
human performance or fidelity.
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Creation itself (
humans, animals, the universe, declare that there is a «Creator»» I asked my dog
about God and he said «Arf.»
In his communication through
creation, his Son and the Bible, he gave only enough evidence for those with faith to follow the deductions to truth
about him, but yet without defying
human freedom.
These matters include God, Jesus, the church,
creation, salvation, and so forth, but they also include questions
about how these beliefs are related to the
human and natural sciences.
Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it's really important that one accepts that... new scientific research has taught us... that the
human embryo is not as unique as we thought before... We do have to think differently
about the «unique quality of
human embryos» in the way that Peter Saunders is saying... The miracle of
creation... may have to be explained somewhat differently... Our
human brains are given to us by God... to better the life of other
human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so be it, lets do it.»
Is it because all that blather
about the unconscious flatters
human beings that they're the deepest mysteries in
creation?
In this view, Judaism is fundamentally
about a divine -
human partnership, a covenant, in which the divine partner increasingly cedes power and responsibility for
creation to the
human partner.
For example, Genesis» «7 days» of
creation isn't 7 days, or 7 ages, but an allegory
about human nature as rational (Days 1 & 4 symbolized by the sun, moon, & stars), sensate (Days 2 & 5, symbolized by birds & fish), and physical (symbolized by plants and land).
Is it really likely that when the Romans heard Paul's words
about creation being «subjected to futility» in 8:20 they «could well have thought
about how imperial ambitions, military conflicts, and economic exploitation had led to the erosion of the natural environment throughout the Mediterranean world, leaving ruined cities, depleted fields, deforested mountains, and polluted streams as evidence of this universal
human vanity»?
Our fathers and mothers in faith before us sensed that
human marriage was an example, a
human analogy for the union which the Creator sought to bring
about not only among individual men and women but throughout the whole
creation.
With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask
about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for
human well - being and the well - being of the wider
creation.
The distinctive thing
about human beings is that they are meant to be partners in His covenant and to represent the Creator, in the person of His Son, to the rest of
creation.
In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same - sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of
human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate
creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of
human import worth thinking seriously
about.
Engaging in this kind of thought experiment is great, because it forces us to think
about the physicality of the coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of
human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.
I asked Dyer a few questions
about the relationship between
human creations like the iPhone 5 and the coming New
Creation.
We never have seen anything pop into existence ever, everything we see or build starts with some type of
creation from some creator whether it be from
humans or whatever, not one single example of anything would prove otherwise, so going
about everyday life feeling confident that everything just magically popped into existence without a magician really takes a lot more faith than what I have.
You talk
about an abundance of
human creations in the new heaven and new earth.
When
human beings break their covenant with society by exploiting the labor of the worker and refusing to do anything
about the social costs of production — i.e., poisoned air and waters — the covenant of
creation is violated.
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.
It is this double - quality — disclosure and release of God in the
human creation — which explains why there is in Christian understanding an attempt to interpret or define who is the One
about whom the proclamation is made,
GOD, the creator and the
Creation's Allness is no respecter of Celestially made
humans that know little to nothing
about the three base cosmologies which are fractal, celestial and cellular.
Further, he said, «Global climate change is
about the future of God's
creation and the one
human family.»
Caring
about God's
creation is
about caring for
human life as well.
And,
about the killings, assume for a moment that God in the old testament is the only God of the universe, the creator and wanted their
creations to live in His love (that's why we're created) and He's in charge of where the souls of every
human beings would end up when they die.
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you
about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the
creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we
human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing,
human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....
Again, Genesis is a
human - crafted notion
about creation.
Human sexual differentiation is the foundation within
creation that God builds upon in order to bring
about the Incarnation.
Similarly, Charles Birch of Sydney spoke on «
Creation, Technology and
Human Survival» and told the Assembly that our goal must be a just and sustainable society; and this demands a fundamental change of heart and mind
about humankind's relation to nature.
At the same time, a persistent reflection on this central image may be able to explain, to some extent at least, why Christian theology has arrived at so many dead - ends in its ruminations
about mystery,
creation, suffering, and
human freedom.
But God ordered his world in such a way that his own work within that world takes place not least through one of his creatures in particular, namely, the
human beings who reflect his image... He has enlisted us to act as his stewards in the project of
creation... So the objection
about us trying to build God's kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one's head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers...» (207).
Therefore, among the central identifying characteristics of the followers of Jesus would be involvement in the struggle effectively to bring
about the Kingdom of God, «on earth as it is in heaven,» where freedom, fellowship, justice, responsible love reign and where people live as brothers / sisters, equitably sharing the resources of God's
creation and being accountable for their own
human future and that of the created world.
The important question
about the story of man's
creation and fall is whether we believe what it is trying to say
about God and man and
human history.
By assuming themselves a life of evangelical poverty, combined with orthodox preaching
about the goodness of
creation and the
human body, the Dominicans undercut the preaching of the Cathari.
All the science that
human knowledge has reached
about the
creation of the universe, heavens and Earth is nothing but a drop of water out of an oceans of knowledge that
human science yet not has yet reached!!
In the first place, the fact of intercession and personal petition as part of prayer implies that there is a certain «open - ness»
about the
Creation, so that genuinely new and different things may be accomplished in it if
human wills are aligned with the Will of God.
All these show that ours is a historical context conducive, not only to inter-religious but also to religion - ideology dialogues on building a common body of insights
about being and becoming
human - a dialogue in which Christianity can make a contribution from its idea of reconciliation of humanity and the
creation of a Secular Koinonia across religions, cultures and ideologies.
I wondered when we would know better how to help children more widely in schools and homes to understand their feelings, and when we would be able to help parents understand theirs, so that the boys and girls now growing up might know not only
about tanks and bullets but
about the most powerful of all weapons for both good and evil — the
human feelings that propel us, if we do not understand them, into hating in place of loving, into killing instead of
creation.
Any god who cared
about what
humans thought of him wouldn't dare allow the
creation and spread of the bible; ergo, the god of the bible does not exist (unless he is a trickster purposely playing head games with us as a colossal azzhole might).
In reply, however, I asked Hick: «Why is [the deception involved in the deliberate
creation of epistemic distance], which has resulted in most of the evils of
human history, acceptable, whereas the deception
about freedom, through which all those evils could have been avoided, would be unacceptable?
Returning to nature symbolized a despair
about history and its possibilities for fulfilling the deepest longings of
creation and of
human existence.
The concern for theology, not as a particularist discipline but as the search for
human wisdom
about the wisdom of God in the
creation and redemption of man, is manifest in other disciplines besides Biblical studies: in systematic theology frequently, occasionally in Christian ethics, homiletics, religious education and pastoral counseling.
Uncertainties
about God,
creation, the gift of femininity and masculinity, and the destiny of
human life to live eternally with God, leave men and women adrift in knowing how to arrive at their own perfection or fulfilment.
For even if we may worry
about fallible
humans waging unjust wars, the
creation of machines capable of deciding their own actions in (or out) of war is at least morally questionable.
As opposed to
human creations like the page numbers in this magazine, I'm now talking
about numbers that are basic properties of our physical reality.
Their
creations included a miniature
human brain and a scaled - up heart of a baby chicken, both printed to
about the size of a quarter.
It was a controversial interpretation for many, as it contradicted religious beliefs
about human origins; the short, stocky limb bones and the skull's oversized brow suggested an ape - like ancestor that did not fit in with the biblical idea of God's
creation.
The Revenant, his latest cinematic
creation, is a brutally effective drama
about the power of the
human spirit that was filmed in some of nature's harshest conditions.
Glascott spoke
about Chekhov's
creation of flawed
human characters, her's was a bored, frustrated, neglected woman who behaved disgracefully and that all the characters in The Duel are both likeable and unlikeable.
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about the dignity of
human persons, loving one's neighbour and respecting
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