Sentences with phrase «based idea of god»

If you think an individual story is a reasonable concept to base your idea of a God off of, you're a knob.

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random is a mathematically sound idea where as god is a simple creation of some MAN from long ago to explain the unexplainable of the day... chaos theory is quantum physics 101 and is also based solely on the notion of random events... not to mention quantum uncertainty which is one of my favorites.

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

And, Jeremy, would you please look at topic of commonly - heard ideas that may or may not have biblical basis — one mentioned in these comments — is that God chooses the time of our death.

It is based on the idea, central to Christianity, of the coming Kingdom of God and the second coming of Jesus Christ, and it involves an interpretation of what God requires of man.

It seems all of the questions progressivism answers are based on the idea that there's no God.

It seems that the idea of an inclusive church where people are loved and valued based only on the fact that they are a unique creation of God is threatening to those who thing they alone hold the real truth.

On this basis, he fought tooth and nail against the moderates in the Southern Baptist Convention or any other part of the evangelical world who rejected the idea that the Bible was the Word of God in favor of the idea that the Bible became the Word of God in encounter or contained the Word of God in some way.

It's simple: You don't get to say what marriage is or is not based upon the bible or the so - called word of god (whatever that is... think about that for a minute... unless you speak 1st century aramaic you have no idea what the original writers of the ficto - mythic texts you now presume as the word of god even means!)

Second, if one does not believe in God, any idea of a world based on radically different values seems simply utopian in the negative sense.

This idea is based on the concept of progressive revelation, that God has slowly explained Himself and unfolded His plan and purposes for the world over time.

Berry's idea that we need a planetary socialism — indeed, an ultimate universal socialism — is based on Aquinas's statement that because the divine goodness «could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, he [God] produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting to one in the representation of the divine might be supplied by another.»

The entire book of 1 John is engaged in this idea about good and evil, light and darkness, truth and error, and John is intent on showing his readers that based on who God is and what Jesus has done for all people, we can choose to live in love, light, and righteousness, rather than abide in hatred, darkness, and evil.

You're confused, Demuth.The idea that «everyone is a child of God «has no Biblical basis whatsoever; who told you otherwise?Only those born again in Christ via the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit are children of God in the Bilical sense.If you are going to comment on biblical issues at least get your theology straight; otherwise you sound just as silly as the other God - haters on this blog.

Based on this idea of the church as a family, Richard Jacobson goes on to talk about church elders as facilitators, on how to carry out conflict resolution within the family of God, and a whole host of other related topics.

The aesthetic conception of God in Sufi metaphysics was based on the idea of reciprocal love between God and man.

And third, we intend to evaluate the pragmatic value, in terms of the task of ministry, of Kaplan's idea of God and that of process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.

All of this is based, of course, in ideas of justification by faith, of the priesthood of all believers, of direct access to God's forgiveness and mercy.

The idea of god, and prayer for that matter, is based on fear alone.

On that basis, he contends that «ironically, people by getting rid of the idea of judgment and hell, try to make God more loving, actually make him less.»

It is a decisive element of the Christian idea of freedom that it is not only dependent on God and refers to him as the basis of the freedom of choice, but that it is also freedom before God.

It seems to me that the strongest New Testament basis for hope for society is to be seen in the broad implications of this idea that the redemptive power; of the kingdom of God are present in history.

An internet friend of mine came up with a realization, based on the idea that our lives may be icons, or living embodiments, of our relationship with the Triune God.

to J.W. and fred — i think its rather silly to argue anything as fact if its cleary thought based (i.e. lacking proof / evidence) when asked about the where did we come from or how the universe (whatever) i always answer with i don't know, but then i pose an idea — i state openly thats its only an idea... if any one of you religions folks would simple agree to the FACT that what you BELIEVE is real is REALLY only an idea until proven (much like evolution) then i would find much more pleasing conversations beyond the realm of atheists... but alas, i am still waiting — i found some but most are imovible in there beliefs that god is real, provable, and most def.

For at least Jesus would not have repudiated such ideas, since they are consistent with the typically Jewish belief in God, which in general served as the basis for Jesus» thought of Him.

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

[1][2] It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».

Hume showed that once one accepts the empiricist idea that knowledge of what is not our own experience comes to us only through the senses, there is no cognitive basis for affirming God's reality.

And later, he adds that «to employ arguments in science based on statistical randomness and probability is not necessarily to «oppose» the idea of chance to the existence of God the Creator.»

January 31, 2012 at 9:19 am Report abuse o Chad @hippypoet «god is an idea, such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguably, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so be doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth all based on an idea... how is that different then being delusional?

god is an idea, such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguably, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so by doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth all based on an idea... how is that different from being delusional?

This paper will examine the arguments on each side, indicate what the societal view implies about the nature of God, and suggest an additional argument for the societal view based on the idea of God's freedom and faithfulness which this view implies.

You sciency - types do nt abandon your worldview even though the ancient greek scientific philosophy that we base our western scientific tradition on, arose in a society founded on the belief in 12 capricious anthropomorphic gods, an animistic «universe», and an unshakeable belief in the idea of «fate».

Yes Fred, I will take my personal morality anytime rather than one based one the idea of an infallible god that expects me to excuse the killing of children.

Even though Christians must reject the Modern idea that we human beings are the «makers» of history, the covenantal basis of our faith places upon humankind a participatory responsibility for the unfolding of God's purposes.

If I read the recorded written words of Jesus correctly the reason God had to send a Savior was based on this very idea.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but one thing you seem to be basing this pantheistic concept of the «true» God on the idea that in order to «really» control something it must be a part of / contained within the one doing the controlling.

You became an atheist when you were 10 years old, based on ideas of God that you learned in Sunday School.

Arrogance is reading the Work of God and denying the truth in it when you have no basis to deny it except the thoughts and ideas of other mere mortal talking clay.

I happen to think that you have to work harder to make a case that Jesus wasn't based on a real life person, but that isn't any endorsement whatsoever of the idea that he was a god, or could do anything supernatural.

Hartshorne claims that, since all proofs have premises, Anselm's argument must be based on the assumptions that faith is a real possibility and that the idea of God is free of inconsistencies.

The Movement for Married Clergy believes that advocates for clerical celibacy base their views on notions of cultic purity and an idea that the love of God is more readily accessible in the celibate life.

The whole organization of priestly worship was based on the idea that it was necessary to be holy in order to approach God.

From his obituary, Charles T. Beaird «was a «nontheist,» meaning in simplistic terms that the concept of God was not among the ideas on which he based his beliefs — but that if you did, it was fine with him.»

Lastly, the idea that all «religious» people, by which I assume you mean people who believe there is a God, go to church, that sort of thing, think only with a certain mindset, that is, a non scientific mindset, believing or disbelieving based entirely on blind faith, and never facts, is shown wrong by people like G K Chesterton and especially C S Lewis.

Fred Phelps had founded the «Primitive Baptist» Church, based in Topeka Kansas, in 1955, based on the idea that all calamities that befall the United States are a result of God's wrath for the apparent acceptance of homosexuality in American society.