Sentences with phrase «accusations against god»

I don't minimize pain and suffering and disappointment when prayer is unanswered, but I think we are making uneducated accusations against God without fighting our way into matters of spiritual laws, forces and significance.

A lot of people often make accusations against God and Israel when they enter into the land in the book of Joshua for killing the people who lived there.

Bill Maher is framing his accusation against God with this assumption (held by those «Christians» in his life): that all «the wicked» judged by God in the flood, will also (and so much worse) spend the remainder of their eternal souls in ETERNAL punishment.

Not exact matches

She said the church community should treat the accusations against Long «according to the Word of God.»

Furthermore the Bible categorically states that an angel could not have brought this slanderous accusation against Job in the presence of God:

We have seen how opposition; lying accusations against the upright; and a subsequent rebuke from God, are telltale characteristics of the presence of Satan.

They are the ones who oppose Job, even during his suffering, who bring lying accusations against him, (Job 22:6; 18:5,19; 11:5 - 6), and who are rebuked by God at the end of the matter (Job 42:7 - 8).

Now when he is faced by this accusation, which is repeated a hundredfold by man against God, and which finds an echo in the Bible, God never answers.

This is the God, then, who lets the suffering of man go on, who is deaf to his cry, who does not prevent the persecution, who for some time grants neither deliverance nor answer to prayer, so that one can understand the accusation of man against him, the accusation of the king: «This trouble is from the Lord!»

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

One of the constant accusations brought against the Christian faith by atheists, is that the presence of so much evil is allowed in the world by this «Almighty God» of the Christians.

This can be read both as a forthright advance accusation against the Pharisees as murderers (12:7 - 8), and also as a prediction of the rejection by God of the Jews (verses 9 - 10).

So when something dreadful is done by one person against another I do not think any accusation can be raised against God (the Truth).

His accusers raised a large number of baseless and patently false accusations against Him, then felt that it was necessary to expel His evil from their midst, and they did all this in obedience to the command of God (so they claimed).

The truly intimate God of revelation wishes dialogue with persons, and abhors a religious slavery that in turn invokes the accusation against the divine that we can observe, for example, in the writings of Nietzsche and Sartre.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

To the extent there is a God you have through your false attacks against the Bible led many away from God, by making Christians appear foolish and old stereotypes cause class bigotry, by false accusations you have categorized them as hateful......................

God has had many accusations leveled against Him in the bible, He did nt strike people dead for doing so.

If you make a false accusation to ruin someone's life, and then actually have to accuse someone of rape in good faith (God forbid) you have handed that new defendant's lawyer a great tool against you.