Sentences with phrase «act against god»

Though there are many people who consider online dating as an act against God's will, there are also a lot of those who believe that technologies are just a way God uses to make loving hearts join.

Remember that Balaam was unable to curse his enemies, because even in his foolishness he recognized that he could not pray for God to act against God's own will.

For you to say gays relationships are not ok because that is an act against god and my belief, is the ultimate hypocrisy.

By even 1 mortal sin — a fully - knowing and fully - deliberate act against God's law (the 10 commandments)-- you reject God, too, and thereby merit eternal separation from God and punishment in Hell.

Several congregants approached him afterward to say that they, too, felt that they'd acted against God by looking at porn.

Judas acted against God's only - begotten Son.

Humans have brought the pain and suffering of sickness, violence, and starvation upon themselves by their willful, sinful acts against God.

Not exact matches

Unbelief is also an act of utter injustice, a transgression against all of creation and the rights of God's Names.

If I were to slap God in the face (which is basically what any act of rebellion against Him is); God who is infinitely Sovereign, infinitely Holy, and infinitely Just; my crime would be infinitely worthy of death.

This paraphrase is, I know, a parody that is both unfair and unnuanced, but it serves well enough to make the point that to espouse as one's purpose the promotion of the knowledge and love of God is, in our time, an act that runs against both theological fashion and the spirit of the age.

In reality the God's act of creation is over against the power of darkness, formlessness and chaos, perphaps symbolized by the» Babylonian Power.»

The «discernment letter» written by the six of them that night in Dallas, Texas will go down as one of the most ungodly acts against a woman done by men who claim to be of God, progressive, pro-feminist, Christianity 21.

It goes against my pride and my preconceived ideas of how God should act and carry out both love and justice.

My doubt, they conclude, reflects a concerted act of rebellion against God that I can start or stop at will.

These God Damned priests have destroyed the Catholic religion and what's worse is the pathetic Bishops, Cardinals and other clergy members that covered up these shameful acts against our children.

But they do not follow by a special act of divine wrath or retribution; they follow by the reaction of God's loving power against that which violates love.

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.

God has already maligned Himself by inspiring biblical writers to record horrendous acts against people, many of which appear to be on the same level as those crimes committed by men like Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein.

They are the roots of violence and mutual rejection between people; they are both challenged and transformed in encounter with the crucified Jesus, and the «peace» that we may hope for as a result of the act of God in the death of Jesus is something that stands against each of them alike.

For otherwise the Church would have acted against its duty and capacity in a way and to an extent which the theologian can not ascribe to a Church which as a whole is indefectible in the love of God and not only in its truth.

2) You say there act to attempt sex with the angels was an act of dominance against God, and that was the sin.

That phrase is not used here in the law about male homosexual acts It is not one of the laws against things that are identified as a toebah to God!»

Another scientific objection occurs in the judgment of many against the mighty acts of God recorded in the gospel.

Much ecotheology, process theology and creation spirituality go even further by arguing against the traditional split between inert, value - free nature and a transcendent God, and by arguing that God acts in and through the processes of nature, which are reconceived as sacred or spiritual.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

And he did say that the use of violence to impose religion is to act against reason, and to act against reason is to act against the nature of God, for God has revealed himself as logos — the word and the reason by which all came to be and in which all coheres.

Few judgments, however, have matched Runciman's own withering peroration: «the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost.»

But that, too, should not offend non-Catholic Christians, since we can all agree that such a person would be acting against his conscience and his sure discernment of the will of God.

Sin is both rebellion against God and acting against the natural order that God intended.

The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.

I don't think God will hold a grudge against someone because they acted as a «chirstian» rather than read the Bible cover to cover.

God can not act against his nature, and so I believe we can understand all teh stories in Romans 9 in a way that is consistent with love, mercy, fairness, and justice, without having to appeal to the «God is God and I am not» mentality.

I am perpetually fighting against straw men in this blog, where so many act like the OT Israelites just got bored, and decide, out of the blue to make up «scape - goating» to engage in genocide in the name of God.

Even some of the prophets, like Jonah, behaved in ways they knew were terrible acts of rebellion against God.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

Also, when I discuss «if war is wrong...» by «is wrong» I mean is an act that is evil / sinful / against God's ways (right now I'm using those three all as synonymous for these purposes; though we could discuss the theological distinctions between them, they are generally the same enough when trying to explain what I mean by «is wrong»).

If they forget the source of their power, if they rebel against God, if they no longer act as God's deputies, if instead of rewarding good conduct and punishing evil conduct they do the reverse, they must be resisted.

«He who does evil or acts unjustly against himself, then asks pardon of God, will find God forgiving, merciful.

So, in other words, a Godless society would NOT be any better than one with a God under which people with free will turn against and act like... what... Atheists?

The Reformers proclaimed that the sovereignty of God was both a critical word against the world and a gracious act of deliverance.

They implicitly revive the old Manicheistic error postulating the existence of two forces acting against each other: God and an inert matter; in this case, chance and intelligent design.

Kaiser understands God's wrath as an act of love against sin which hurts those He loves.

Or the world can make common cause with perversions of the counsels, against the authentic reign of God, just as widespread Catholic unchastity is cited as justification for enshrining anti-humanism in law via the Affordable Care Act.

It can not be otherwise in a community that lives by the teaching of Vatican II: «Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself.

The cleric would tell such a person that a refusal to participate in these rites was an act of rebellion against God, and the cleric would question and challenge such a person to decide whether or not they really wanted to be part of this religion.

At the opposite extreme is a view of sin which regards it as state of being, rather than as a set of concrete acts, and as a state of being in rebellion against God.

Surely the Church as the fellowship of believers must act in concert against great injustices that violate God's law.

God is not a force acting against our will, conforming it to what he wants it to be in opposition to what we might otherwise have chosen.

Every sin is an act against the eternal love, and causes God's comment: you shall not...!