Sentences with phrase «attributes of a personal nature»

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Similarly, Baptists hold that «the eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.»

11 In God's covenant with Moses and, through Moses, with the people of the exodus, the being of God acquired «an explicitly personal character» 12 that countered anthropomorphizing tendencies «primarily through the experience of the infinite superiority of the divine nature to all merely human attributes and capacities — an experience which marks every encounter with the divine in the Old Testament.»

An interesting study of christological models has been written by John McIntyre.4 The «two - natures model» (which he takes as a single complex model involving both divine and human natures) has dominated Christian thought, but it has a number of limitations; it is tied to the Aristotelian categories of substance and attribute, and it tends to view the incarnation as the assumption of an abstract human nature rather than the personal individuality of a particular man.

36Many process thinkers attribute this intermediary role to God's consequent nature, because otherwise, in their opinion, no envisagement and / or no provision of specific initial aims would be possible (e.g., Christian, IWM 306 - 308; John Lansing, «The «Natures» of Whitehead's God,» Process Studio 3 [1973), 143 - 152, at 147 - 148; Suchocki, MGWG 243 - 245; Lewis S. Ford, «When Did Whitehead Conceive God to be Personal?»

BookofMatches attempts to connect people based on certain attributes and personal characteristics such as habits, lifestyle, religion, physical fitness, smoking and other things of that nature.