Sentences with phrase «basic idea of god»

And while so many understand the basic idea of God as a Shepherd, there are far too many weary, aching, exhausted sheep to show any evidence that we have collectively allowed our lives to be restored in any meaningful way by the all - too - familiar Shepherd.

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1) everything is made of energy 2) energy CAN NOT be created nor destroyed 3) energy merely changes from one form to another; matter / energy conversion 4) if energy can not be created nor destroyed then it remains a a constant 100 % 5) energy will always remina constant for ALL ETERNITY, thus the universe either recycles itself, or never stops exsisting 6) you «idea of a god» violates the basic laws of the universe, thus he can't exsist because we do.

This response leads us to believe that God has no idea of what these basic principles are like.

With the widespread loss of belief in God as law - giver, the idea of being morally bound or obliged — as if this or that verdict on your action hangs in the balance — loses its basic meaning, however much it might retain its compelling psychological effect.

When you turn the light of reason on the basic of idea of god needing a sacrifice of his own son to allow himself to forgive, it becomes just as ridiculous as condemning homosexuality.

If your god is real, why hasn't he inspired every sincere seeker to at least understand one or two basic aspects of his existence right, such as the idea that there is only one god as opposed to multiple gods?

The basic idea of a Non-Violent view of the atonement is that God did not want or need the death of Jesus in order to offer grace or forgiveness of sins.

Religions have had millennia, yet there is still no consensus on even basic ideas like the number of gods that exist, much less any attributes they might have.

Beyond the power of anachronisms to conceal, this word moves through the Bible correctly representing in its altering significance the progress of the Hebrew - Christian idea of God and of the basic conditions of approaching him.

It is entirely possible, and has always been possible, to be an atheist as a Boy Scout, if you can accept the basic idea of a moral something - or - other to which we should hold ourselves accountable, as long as you are comfortable calling it God at least as a metaphor.

But behind Lincoln's understanding of history was his idea of a God «who at times seems to want to frustrate the Statesman» (John Diggins, The Lost Soul of American Politics [Basic, 1984]-RRB- Lincoln «doubted that man could ever grasp God's will and therefore believed that human action would always be estranged from divine intention» (p. 330) Lincoln divined that God is both hidden and revealed.

The idea of a trinity contradicts the most basic tenet of Judaism — that God is One.

The basic ideas in the meaning of hell are alienation and separation from God by persistent rejection of him, the tighter forging of the chains of sin as we misuse our freedom, and the loneliness, remorse, and inner turmoil which are sin's worst punishment.

This manifests itself not only in the way in which Aristotelian notions of the «unmoved mover» or neo-Platonic ideas of «being - subsisting from - itself» have been taken to be the proper definition of what is meant when we speak of «God», but also in liturgical language where all too often the basic concept implied or (as most often seems to be the case) affirmed is the utter immutability of deity, along with the rigidly legalistic moralism which it is suggested should mark those who claim to «obey» the divine mandates.

Presumably, if the idea of God is to be even minimally significant, some sort of religious experience is necessary.16 This appeal to religious experience is itself a qualified one, since Hartshorne is prepared to argue that positivism can not exhibit a coherence in its basic life principles that is comparable to a theistic position.17 So he operates in general on the assumption that the crucial issues involved in man's attempts to conceptualize God can and must be adjudicated by a rigorous analysis and criticism of the various views of God which are logically possible.

The two most basic ideas in this hope of the «parousia» are that the redemption of the world does not require the destruction of creation since creation is not itself evil, and secondly that redemption must come from God since every human action remains with the contradictions of sin.30

The basic idea behind soul sleep is that when a person dies, they do not immediately go to heaven to be with God, but enter into a state of unconscious limbo.

We have become accustomed to the idea that what God asks of us, the great basic teachings of our lives, and the great responses required by God are somehow accessories» as if we can take them or leave them» as if they are just trinkets for those who choose to accept them.

Barth's basic position was that the «theme of theology» is «God's revelation», rather than any given concepts in the history of ideas.

One is the belief in progress.4 The expectation that life gets better for most people as time passes has been widespread since the 18th century.5 A basic source of the confidence in progress is the Biblical idea that the Kingdom of God will come at the end of time.

This is an insight that is perhaps best expressed again in the words of Cardinal Ratzinger, this time in 2001 writing in America magazine: «The basic idea of sacred history is that of gathering together, of uniting — uniting human beings in the one body of Christ, the union of human beings and through human beings of all creation with God.

It was in such a situation of complexity, suffering and oppression and denial of basic human rights and humanity that one martyr, our contemporary, Dietrich Bonhoffer, came up with the idea or faith reflection that «only a powerless God can help».