Sentences with phrase «against loving god»

None of this changed Paul for or against loving God, but did put more weight on the «love God» side.

Not exact matches

Now I am not against teaching about giving, but I believe it is a gift from God to us to be able to give, and I believe if the love for God and the love for people are taught, giving will happen — giving for the right purposes.

But you can't love God while you're sinning against Him.

Judas was not to become a martyr because of the way the apostles wrote about him in the Gospel - they saw through the eyes of men, and Judas was unable to redeem himself before he died a natural death, dying instead loathed, hated & driven to suicide for his deed against the Son of God, Jesus, whom he had Loved so much.

You can love God while sinning against Him, isn't that the point of Confession and penance??

Jesus came to bring Love to mankind.A mankind who desire to sin against God.

Look, if god / jesus is all - loving, he won't hold it against me for using the brain he gave me to think.

The problem with Observer's comment is that if God suddenly appeared before Atheists it would go against His nature of love.

You are making statements against one that we love even though you do not know God.

It's the twelve tribes against the world, find your tribe in Revelation 7 of the 144,000 and the new Jerusalem is in Revelation 21:12 God is love, do you love grace and truth.

On one hand God is a behemoth of dirty done deeds against much of humanism's dispositions while on the other hand God shows little to practically no love to all our civilizations» ongoing trials of which we steadily reshape as the needs arise.

So why has not every christian that says they believe in god, love and Jesus been marching in the streets every day for the last 10 + years against the 2 wars we've been fighting in?

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.

So why has not every god dam christian that says they believe in god, love and Jesus been marching in the streets every day for the last 10 + years against the 2 wars we've been fighting in?

If I thought it was God who killed my father when I was twelve, and some of my best friends before I was 20, if it was God who had people kidnap me, slander me, threaten to kill me, and turn loved ones against me, then I would have a hard time trusting God, if He was like that.

Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing Satan loves, obviously from Martin's comments because it gives haters and ignorant people ammunition to argue against God and church.

But my puerile conclusion from all this was that if God was so great, so loving and wonderful, then God wouldn't hold it against anyone who didn't know if they believed in God — and so what difference did it make?

And it is because Jesus loves the man with the withered hand, and because he loves God and his kingdom, that Jesus is angry at those who would obstruct compassion and plot against his life.

The love poetry of this period of Indian literature is characterized by a deep longing for communion with God.13 The other side of the reaction against the rise of Shankara's Advaita Vedantic thought was a more philosophic one.

While it took me some time to work through the theology around it, once I accepted it as loving there was no further doubt in my mind that I could never go back to believing that God was against that love.

I don't know how to raise them in the faith in any other way than this: God is good, God is Love, God is for you, never against you, and when you want to dance, darling, wave your flag and spin, let the wind of the Spirit move through you.

Rather than ignore them completely, we must acknowledge their presence but at the same time acknowledge that they have already been defeated and pray in the Spirit against their schemes against us, our friends, our church and this world and most importantly to love everyone like God does, especially if we think they are either demonically oppressed or possessed.

Can anything hold up against the fury of a God who wants you free, wants you restored, wants you to see that you are loved loved loved.

Once I accepted it as genuine love, I had no choice but to accept that God, who is love, would not be against me expressing that love and would in fact help me to walk in that love.

An example of God's love is like a child who rebels against his parent, gets into trouble, the parent again shows love for the child, the child then realizes how much the parent loves him / her and then tries to be a better person.

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

«But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?»

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

Shouldn't the sin of rebellion against God be repaid with a deprivation of God's Law, the greatest expression of His own particular love for the Jews?

And John, the beloved disciple wrote, «If anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

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.

So it is the persistent refusal to repent, and accept God's grace and love that keeps hell going, not His determination to keep sinners there against their will.

Furthermore, Wesley argued (against Reformed doctrine) that Christians could enjoy entire sanctification in this life: loving God and their neighbors, meekness and lowliness of heart, abstaining from all appearance of evil, and doing all for the glory of God.

It seems that we are so used to writing against things that we can not articulate well to the culture what God loves and what He has lovingly designed for our good!

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.

In the treatment of the relation between justice and love, in which «God turns against himself,» there is something of the «paradoxical» way in which God exercises his sovereignty.

«Insofar as God is a lover, He must also be a sufferer when His love comes up against the No of sin.»

Hate is then noticed in Cain against his brother because his brother Able loved God.

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.

Being egalitarian doesn't mean being against traditional gender roles; it means being for the many roles through which women can bring glory to God and love to their neighbors.

Measure the decision to not support World Vision against this teaching of Christ himself and tell me if it's hypocritical or not ««Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.»

«Sin» is doing anything against the will of God, I.e., if you believe God isn't down with the man love, it's a sin.

I'm guessing, as Willow implies, that you are subconsciously rebelling against an image of a threatening, fearsome, judgmental, vindictive and hurtful god, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were bogod, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were bogod; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were boGod is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were born.

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.

Also He.ll really makes no sense when you think about it theologically, it directly goes against the whole «loving god» bit that believers are quick to say.

The theology was not simply off, but set against God's nature, name, and essence being love.

If we are full of holy impatience, living in faith, hope and love of God and men, if we always hope against hope, then the Church, too, will become what she ought to be.

But if God truly does have a violent and bloody side then Jesus was being deceptive, for nowhere in His life or ministry did He reveal God as someone who goes to war against His enemies or commands the genocide of people who do not love or obey Him.

The realization that God loves Hitler as much as S / He loves Mother Teresa goes against the grain.

But it does, by the grace of God, manage to discover enough glimmers of meaning to continue to labor joyously despite great trials, hoping against hope, looking for significant ways to let the «least of these» know how much God loves them.