Sentences with phrase «between gods»

Yes, we have run frantically back and forth between the gods of the «up and out» and the «down and in,» like Hagar searching desperately for water among the hills of Mecca, even as the infant Ishmael's kicking heels opened the clear - flowing spring of Zamzam in the sands of the valley.

But if there was a contest between the gods weighing out their «good» and «bad» traits.....

«When reality was not interesting enough for him, he simply made up delightful and often plausible details as he went along,» writes Mike Wilson in his 1997 biography The Difference Between God And Larry Ellison (God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison).

= > There is no necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil, life and death all in accordance with the plan of creation for the salvation of souls.

Akira is so stupid that she can not distinguish between God's rights and the rights of a lousy human being, even an extreme criminal.

There is also one mediator between God and the human race, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself as ransom for all» (1 Tim 2:5 — 6).

Job is a good story, but where did the authors get the dialogue between God and Satan except in a dream, or a «vision»?

Thus a love duet between Hercules and Virtue from a secular cantata becomes a meditation on the love between God and the soul in the Christmas Oratorio.

Heroes in mythology were daemons who people thought were the bridge between God and man.

The constitution of the relation between God's revealed law and universal moral law is an intellectual operation that will be conducted differently not only by the respective religious communities themselves, but by adherents of particular theological and philosophical tendencies within those communities.

It is observed that every heresy is a truth that has lost its balance, and at present, as well as in the past, flirtation with heresy and heresy itself have attended much thinking about the relationship between God and his creation.

Part of the OT was structured as a treaty between God and His people.

Most people can't handle it, and like Bildad, Zophar, Eliphaz, and yourself, they build some quid - pro-quo mechanism between God and themselves and posit bad things and good things in that context.

The relationship between God and man, with which theology (Jewish or Christian) is primarily concerned, could now only be postulated if it contributed to the elaboration of ethical theory Moreover, the only divine - human relationship that this new anthropocentrism would tolerate was between a postulated deity and the human individual.

Until that time, the relationship between Jews and Christians, viewed from either side, was one whose ultimate meaning could be located only within the overall covenantal relationship between God and his people.

But what if the very contrast between God's will and God's intellect is a false one?

The Bible contains a lot of interesting stories, talks between people, between God (Jesus) and people, wisdom (proverbs), prophecy (revelation), words of salvation (the 4 gospels, the epistles), historical data, like dates, locations, names of people involved in the stories, parables, reports about miracles, Jesus did, songs, prayers, psalms etc...

as Soren Kierkegaard said: «there is a qualitative, infinite difference between God and humanity.»

Now, when I talk about the relationship between God and man, I'm referring to how he relates to us.

God commands Hosea to take Gomer, a prostitute, as his wife to draw a larger picture of the relationship between God and Israel, asking Hosea to create a story within his own life.

Commemorating its anniversary, Rabbi David Rosen, of the America Jewish Committee, recently said that Nostra Aetate «took us from a situation where the Jewish people were seen as cursed and rejected by God, and even in league with the devil, to a situation now where popes say it is impossible to be a true Christian and be an anti-Semite, and that the covenant between God and the Jewish people is an eternal covenant, never broken.»

Psalm 90:4 - 6 shows the contrast between God and the life of man: «For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

Some would theologize that the church is Christ's body, and that Christ is the mediator between God and people, so those in Christ would be in the church, and to be outside the church is to be outside of Christ.

The struggle is between God himself and Satan.»

Hart distinguishes between God as defined by the classical religious traditions and the gods who decorate the pantheons of most of the world's religions.

The covenant relationships between God and His people are similar to the type of relationship that exists between a king and his subjects.

Dalahäst I make both selfish and selfless decisions according to my own will, so I really don't see how you can divide your own so evenly between God and yourself.

Some would theologize that the church is Christ's body, and that Christ is the mediator between God and people, so those in...

The Hebrew Bible puts pride as the central source of separation between God and man.

When we remember this, and read about the crucifixion of Jesus in light of the first Passover, the contrast between the God who delivers and the destroyer who kills could not be more clear.

The difference between God and the ruling doc.uments of this country is that God is not overly concerned about the happiness of men on earth.

The teaching of universalism is that there will be salvation or universal reconciliation between God and man because we are all God's children and that the Bible teaches that all men will be saved.

The book of Hebrews affirms the connection between God's presence and our contentment and says, «Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, «Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.

«One of the best verses ever written is the dialogue between God and Abraham on [Bob Dylan's] «Highway 61 Revisited,»» he says.

@Anglican, With respect, how do you tell the difference between God being everywhere and God being nowhere?

The theological notion of creation is to express the relationship between God and the whole reality.

But there is only one mediator between God and man and that's the Lord Jesus Christ.

In the cosmic war between God and His rebelling creation, the first battle was won by God in Genesis 1 when He pushed the chaos back by His mere word.

Calvinists often argue that if man «contributes» faith to the process of salvation, then man has done a good work to earn that salvation, which therefore makes salvation not a gracious gift of God but a transaction between God and man.

Once we see the mythological imagery of spiritual warfare in the heavens between God and the waters, and we understand from Genesis 1 that from the darkness and chaos of the water, God is seeking to bring beauty and order, we are then in a position to understand Genesis 6 — 8.

If I were forced to choose between God as temporal and God as pure act (or as a timeless singular actual entity).

• The Bible speaks of two distinct and parallel covenants, one between God and Israel, one between God and the church.

This involves the rapport, not between God and actuality, but between God and the universal.

In [his book] The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, it is apparent that he knows his Bible, and he treats the figure of Jesus with compassion, as a victim of a power struggle between God and the Devil.

Jesus did not stand in the way of a God who sat there saying» oh ok I'll let them off then» he stood between a God who is fully prepared to smash all of your faces in had it not been for Jesus taking that punishment for us.

What is being planed for the long run and who could be or made to look as the only beneficiary out of such acts separating between God believers and igniting fires for achieving long wars in the name of Religions and only to prove that religion is the headache and mother of all crimes.

it promotes a kind of disconnectedness between God's people and His work.

As the term «totality» implies, the distinction between the whole and all others (or, as Whitehead also says, between God and the world) is one of inclusiveness.

The Bible is the record of that developing relationship between God and his people.

Monogamy reflects monotheism (Christians might say the relational in the Godhead) and also the covenant between God and Israel.