The problem, of course, is that when non-Calvinists disagree with Calvinism, they are not
arguing against God; they are arguing against the Calvinistic understanding of God.
Why do you want to
argue against God, why?
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.
Therefore, the non-Calvinist has just as much right to say «Who are you, O man, to
argue against God?»
When I write about non-violence, people sometimes say to me, You can't
argue against God.
One thing that some people say to me is, «You can't
argue against God.
You must
argue against Gods attributes which just degrades into speculation and a design of a god that fits our vision not the God revealed through all existence.
Those who
argue against God are doing it out of ignorance (not malice I hope because to go there is indeed exceedingly dangerous).
America may have enough Seminaries to teach u how to
argue against God but scientists don't care.
Not exact matches
Fools, you
argue against the things of
God yet can not see that the word
GOD alone carries something greater than the vocable.
Dawkins, in his mediocre opinions in The
God Delusion: -[1] Fails to support debunked assertions [i.e.can't defend his opinions when they are
argued against by real scientists and Theologians!]
It amazes me that many on the left cry out about separation of church and state when
arguing against prayer in school or the words in
god we trust on money.
You raise a very good point that escapes most theists and that is while they
argue against atheists for not believing in their
god, they forget that most of those arguments could be applied to them by somebody of another religion.
Blessed are the Cheesemakers You are doing it again,
arguing your concept of
god against God who in fact exists in form and substance as express
god against God who in fact exists in form and substance as express
God who in fact exists in form and substance as expressed.
Stop trying to
argue with people who have hardened their hearts
against God.
Against these two views, I
argued that the biblical gospel is pretty much everything related to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, including the prophecies about Him, and the ongoing empowerment for life with
God that we receive as believers.
And it is as a shepherd named David said of those who
argue against a Creator, that «in his haughtiness, the wicked man makes no investigation; All his thoughts are: «There is no
God.»
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.
Are we not
arguing that there is a correlation between happiness and obedience to
God (or faith), between unhappiness and revolt
against God, according to the ancient theory debated in the Book of Job?
How can any Christian
argue with much conviction
against capital punishment if
God effects his purpose in such an unwaveringly bloody way?
Just as he did in the garden of Eden, he whispers, «Did
God really say...» (Genesis 3:1) He questions us, confuses us and
argues against us until we are confused.
I wish someone had told that to the Reformers, some of whom were burned for translating the Bible into their native languages so people could read it, who
argued for salvation by grace
against a salvation by works Gospel, who
argued for Jesus as the son of
God, uncreated, instead of just one among many of «
God's» created beings.
Read those books and your thoughts are likely to be more clear and your words more coherent, no matter if you
argue for or
against the existence of
God.
observer You continue to
argue against the attributes of
God as recorded by the Chosen Ones in the Old Testament.
You continue to
argue against the radiance of
God as expressed through Jesus.
You used the common slurs atheists use to
argue About
God and the Bible
against them.
I was not
arguing for the existence of
God... I was
arguing against your declaration that there is no evidence.
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.
Fourthly, if we subscribe to the notion that there is no separation regarding work (viewed as worship — Col 3:17, 23 - 24; Rom 12:1) in the church and the marketplace, why shouldn't Christians (who
argue against receiving
God's provision in the form of a salary) just «trust
God», and reject their employers» salary structure?
They are breathing
God's air all the time they are
arguing against him.»
Some
argue that humanity did have a free will before Adam and Eve rebelled
against God and fell into sin by eating fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Anyone who would
argue with this, man or woman, is in rebellion
against God and not man.
I don't recall anywhere in the article, him
arguing against religion or
God.
I am not
arguing against Sherburne in favor of the view that
God is needed as the ground of the givenness of the past and can fulfill this function.
And if you reply with anything that says that Jesus is a facet or aspect or anything else of
God, then you can't turn around and
argue against mixing
God (s)-- and the theory that Allah, or Yahweh, are other names for the same
God, because you've already by < definition
argued that
God can have multiple aspects — why just the three names for them from Trinity theology?
They
argued that
God, in his goodness, had determined to save mankind, which had rebelled
against him.
They
argued against the despotism of
God as well as
against determinism and fatalism and put their whole trust in human reason, which to them was sacred.
† Christians do not really exist, they just pretend that they believe in
God and
argue with non-religious people while not knowing very much at all regarding Christianity or the meaning of the bible and disregarding half of what the bible says only to strongly vocalize their stance
against the other half of the bible that is
against things that they either do not understand or that do not affect them personally.
When he could not
argue against Karl Friedrich he simply commented, «You may knock my block off, but I shall still believe in
God.
you can
argue against the existence of
God and a spiritual realm, but you can never really prove it.
But a just appreciation of
God's general revelation of Himself should preserve the truth that Christianity has meaning for man precisely because it represents a fulfillment of the knowledge of
God which is made possible through all the things which He has made, Nygren claims, of course, simply to be setting forth scientifically the fundamental Christian motif without
arguing its truth or value
against any other motif.
If you care to apply the proper word (believe) to how you feel about or toward your
god, then we would not even be having this discussion, for why would I
argue against your accurate description of what you believe?
Schubert Ogden, author of The Reality of
God and Other Essays and an outstanding process theologian,
argues against subjective immortality, which he defines in the second sense, as people»... continuing to exist as subjects for the infinite future.
They might
argue even (
against Paul) that doing such things sends people to hell, rather than seeing references to the «Kingdom of
God» or «Kingdom of Heaven» as Jesus used them, as being about out lives here and now and what we might accomplish as we follow Christ (to which a «beneficial» conversation is much more fitting).
Charles Hartshorne2 in The Logic of Perfection and Schubert Ogden3 in «The Meaning of Christian Hope» have forcefully
argued against any subjective immortality, holding that as objectively experienced by
God our lives are wholly preserved and cherished forever.
Against the intellectualism of these ways of knowing
God, Christian thinkers
argued that the knowledge of
God rested on «divine action» and on «
God's appearance» among human beings in the person of Christ.
The book was so well
argued that it is still widely credited, even by non-believers, for successfully rebutting this particular charge
against God's existence.
He
argues against all such theologies in that they attempt to set up a «glory road» to
God, a way of self - reliance toward righteousness and holiness.
Some atheists use multiverse theories to
argue against the existence of
God.
Paul wanted to show that the physical world, and our physical bodies, were not inferior to the spiritual, but were partnered with the spiritual to accomplish
God's will in this world (John
argues against similar beliefs in 1 John).