Sentences with phrase «actions of a loving god»

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You say god is love, yet consigns people to eternal torture for not believing in him regardless of actions in this life.

But let us take action carefully in order that the sickness of our nature may be perfectly healed and we thirst to come to God out of love for Him and hatred of this life and disgust with ourselves; that is, let us assiduously seek His healing grace.

The best we can do is to remember the mystery that God chooses to call * us * to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (a person whom Kerry neglects to mention in her heartfelt, but incomplete, accounting of the role of the Christian chaplain), and our job is to point the way to him; but this, and I think Kerry would agree, is best done through our loving actions and not, as the professor or «Nancy» above might suggest, through our fancy words, theology, or persuasion.

They might not use the word «mercy» as much as he wants, but they talk extensively about divine love, grace, the sacraments, and charity, all of which pertain to God's mercy, and which they develop into soteriology, the study of the saving action of God.)

Forgiveness and love are the representative actions for the spiritual seed of Abraham perfected in Gods expression of who He is in Christ.

I agree with NP and Brian — we need to extend love to that person — that doesn't mean we admonish their actions — but that we deal with the reality of the situation in a gentle / meek manner (God forbid we ever find ourselves in that predicament — so be merciful).

The action of the fourth phase is the love of God for the world.

Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent

Because one challenges the oppressor with a gentle firmness that underlines God's love even for him, the evangelical practitioner of nonviolence can invite the oppressor to repent and change even while opposing his evil actions.

In the case of Jesus, it could be seriously argued he sought the love of man versus the love of God, just based on his actions alone.

The motivation for holy living has been a process of realizing the Greatness of God, the beauty of following his path in life, and the longing for His fame and glory in my life — the heart that loves motivates the actions... and yes I do get a bit afraid when I transgress His commands.

At least for me, a Christian point of view today takes seriously and centrally the fact that continuation of our present course of action will doom the world that God loves.

Thus, instead of emphasizing aseity, or self - containedness as well as sheer self - existence, as God's essential nature, such theologians give the central place to love - in - action, which presupposes and entails relationships.

Jesus, to his fellows, was the persuasive love of God in action in their lives.

But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.

Jesus defended his actions against his critics by stressing that God's forgiving love was available to all and that the angels of heaven rejoiced whenever a sinner repented.

Christians believe that in the Man Jesus there is a placarding before men of the reality of God's character, his love, and his action in the world.

Naturally suspicious of Hollywood's motives, he wrote to insist that God's action on the soul is the key to the novel, which, he said, «deals with what is theologically termed «the operation of grace,» that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to himself.»

God's knowledge, action, and love are markedly different in the metaphor of the world as God's body.

In great areas of human action man's refusal to accept his finiteness makes him proud, self - righteous, and in rebellion against God; man's selfishness makes him refuse to use his freedom with love toward his fellow men.

Every action can be a holy act, if offered out of love for God.

We accepted the lies of satan ourselves because God has bestowed us with free will.We seek magnification of ourselves in everything as satan did.All our actions are aimed at impressing fellow people so as to derive love and care from them.This hurts other people when we are concerned only with our satisfaction and also, people couldn't love unconditionally without first receiving christ's love (we love because he loved us first).

If we claim to have the truth and to represent a loving God, then our actions and words must contain an overabundance of love and mercy.

In the light of God's action in Christ we can think truly of the love of God only as we see it as forgiveness poured out for the sinner, the grace of God toward the unworthy.

Thank you for posting this Jeremy... I had a major anger meltdown yesterday and raged at God... I'm not proud of myself and while I still feel I was wrong to do this, I'm thankful for coming across your post to assure me that God still understands and loves me even if my actions were far from lovable...

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

God is love in that he can perfectly sympathize with, participate in, the being of his creatures.60 The emphasis is totally on God's receptivity, on his action as Redeemer.

Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.

Ultimately, the question of whether or not masturbation is healthy for a particular person springs from the question that governs all good discernment: Does this action help me love myself and others more fully and freely, and does it allow me to love God more deeply and with more of myself?

I still believe in God and the Divine, but I so rarely see it in practice and in action... it's heartbreaking to realize they harsh judgment and hypocrisy, racism and slavery hiding behind the so - called «word of God,» but I know my own God and my God is a God of Love.

These images and actions are but visible, embodied signs of an invisible promise — «God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.»

Did I intentionally show the love of God to others around me through my actions, words, and life at all times?

God Himself, of course, is always loving and just, but sometimes the human authors of Scripture confused the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ with the actions of Satan in history, and referred to the actions of both as coming from «Yahweh.»

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

Hence we have every right to think that in that dynamic life which is unsurpassable and hence divine there is, not a becoming more divine, which would be absurd, but an increasing capacity for finding occasions through which God may employ, in one way or another, that which is always remembered; and also, in this very action as it continues on in God's relationship with creation, a growing acceptance of those who have contributed to the cosmic enterprise of love at work in creation.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

To think of God as Love - in - act is to say that those who are «in the divine image» are also intended by that God to be themselves lovers - in - action.

We are not to suppose that we are capable in this world of loving our enemies (or even our neighbours), to the full measure in which God has loved us; or of being as completely disinterested and single - minded, as pure of worldly desire and anxiety, and as unreserved in self - sacrifice, as the words of Jesus demand; and yet these are the standards by which all our actions are judged.

God remains always faithful to the divine nature and mode of activity, is always Love - in - action.

What matters here is that the total witness found in the Gospels, as well as in the epistles of Paul, John, and others, is to an activity of God in human existence and through a human activity, through which «newness of life» has been known; God has been seen as sheer Love - in - action, and human existence has been given meaning and value as a potential agency for divine Love in the world and in human affairs.

God's loving action in Jesus Christ is the creation of a new humanity and a new community in history.

A man of a live conscience is in the straight path of righteous and the straight path of righteous is the path of men of God who love and fear their God most in every decision or action or words been said and committed...!!

Hence he became the sacrament of God's love; in him the Action of God, which is the love of God, was decisively at work.

If we rightly understand the point of God's action in the human existence of Jesus Christ and all that his existence implies, then we must say that the Church is the community in which God's active love is both disclosed and released into the world.

God's action is first, since He always loves men and surrounds them with His loving action — but it is genuinely loving action and hence not pressure of a coercive type.

The biblical story is a great symphony, whose opening is the announcement of the major theme, the creative love of God in action, and whose grand finale is the magnificent and triumphant re-affirmation of the same theme.

A self - renouncing God humbly withdraws, and in doing so paradoxically becomes more intimate with us, evoking the response of love, patience, and action.

For all who believe in a God of love, justice, and mercy, it will mean constant prayer not only for the victims of the «culture of death,» but also for those who are joined in the great struggle on their behalf, and, indeed, for those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressors.

But we must be brought to understand that along with such dedication to service or to work, there is another «end» — in the sense now of that which comes when the proclamation has been made and there has been repentance for wrongness, commitment to God disclosed and the divine power of loving released in the originating Christian event, and when the imperative to service has been accepted and implemented in action.

The more our thoughts and actions are compatible with God's loving will and purpose, the more fully he will incorporate them as objectively immanent in one aspect of his nature.21 We earlier emphasized the divine priority in the whole event Jesus Christ: we also thought of Jesus intensifying his obedience to the call of God in each situation that confronted him.