Sentences with phrase «biblical idea of a god»

The Old Testament's early idea of man in his social relationships could be inferred on a priori grounds from the early Biblical idea of God.

But in Beyond Humanism and elsewhere he expresses the idea that the new conception of God is not only philosophically superior to that of classical philosophies and theologies, it is also theologically and religiously more adequate in that it is much more compatible with the Biblical idea of God as love.

Maimonides» attempt to expunge anthropomorphism thus can not be reconciled with this biblical idea of a God who showed an impassioned love for one particular human being and his descendants.

It was a controversial interpretation for many, as it contradicted religious beliefs about human origins; the short, stocky limb bones and the skull's oversized brow suggested an ape - like ancestor that did not fit in with the biblical idea of God's creation.

Not exact matches

These are in no way original ideas or thoughts from Calvin, simply the reiteration of the biblical writers expression of the sovereignty of God.

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

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.

As such, it is never merely the repetition of biblical ideas alone, even for those holding to the sole and binding authority of Scripture as God's revelation.

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

In so doing they reject a biblical conception of God and the idea of obedience to God as the chief form of religious action.

We believe «pro-life» is more than a bumper - sticker slogan; it's an ethic rooted in the biblical idea that all human beings are created in the image of God, and are, therefore, of immeasurable and equal worth in the eyes of their Creator.

I think the biblical writings written by men were canonized and catalogued by men... men of their times... and that they had, each one separate and different... ideas of God that they wanted to communicate... and that this served their political, social, cultural, and religious ends, etc..

So we can affirm the truth of passages like Psalm 143:2, that before God there is no one who is righteous, without having to add to this core biblical idea the unbiblical concept of total inability.

For instance, a hypothetical public high school teacher who advanced New Age ideas and attitudes under a neutral or secular wrapping would be far less vulnerable to legal challenge than would be a teacher who spoke of God by name or who expounded on the biblical foundations of Western thought.

And indeed, as theologian Charles McCoy emphasizes in discussing the biblical idea of covenant, God is always faithful (CCE 355 - 375).

The biblical concept of holiness is equivalent to the idea of being whole, and so should our understanding of ways we can participate in God's work of justice, both in our local communities and in the global community.

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It is related to the idea of conversion, the turning from evil to good, from self to God, which is close to the heart of the biblical message in both testaments.

Buber's work of Biblical interpretation, accordingly, is principally devoted to tracing the development of this idea from its earliest expression in the tribal God, or Melekh, to its sublimest development in «the God of the Sufferers.»

Well, this argument states that while the Bible accurately records the thoughts, actions, and ideas of the various Biblical authors and the people to whom the various books were written, these thoughts, actions, and ideas may not actually be the thoughts, actions, and ideas that God endorses, nor the thoughts, ideas, and actions that we are to copy.

Since Shaddai and El Shaddai appear frequently in Genesis and Exodus in many familiar stories, the idea that the biblical God is chiefly characterized as almighty became deeply entrenched in the imagination of Christendom, especially in the West.

Niebuhr developed his biblical view of man under the idea that man is both in the image of God, and a self - venerating sinner.

He finds all philosophical ideas of God resistant to the Biblical understanding of a God who acts selectively in history.

In the case of King Saul (the biblical narrative of preference for those on the «less supportive» side of the support - oppose the president spectrum), the scripture is clear that God wasn't thrilled about the idea of a monarchy in Israel at all, but did indeed choose Saul to be the man to occupy it (1 Samuel 8:1 - 22).

In «Deity, Monarchy and Metaphysics» Williams explains Whitehead's moral and metaphysical objections to the coercive God of classical theology.102 In its place Whitehead proposes an idea of God consistent with the biblical insight that «the highest goods are realized only through persuasion.»

Scripture was used to support the idea of a God of absolute power, thereby obscuring the biblical conception of a God of infinite love whose power was manifest in his suffering and humiliation in Jesus Christ.

Which ends up being subjective in practice, as any number of Christians will draw upon their own combination of biblical, traditional and intuitional ideas, with vastly differing results, but all equally believing that these ideas came directly from the Spirit and represent the only «true» morality of God.

So yes, we do have biblical support for the idea that God sometimes uses relics of his Saints to convey His healing power.

What is striking is that reflection coming out of life experience and Biblical study in communities that have taken for granted the reality of God converge so far with the ideas of God that come from those who have wrestled with, and proposed alternatives to, the dominant philosophical views.

The «pathos of God» (as contrasted with the concept of the «impassability» of God), according to the Jewish biblical scholar Abraham Heschel, is the central idea of prophetic theology (Merkle, 494).

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.

The Biblical idea of the final end envisions a community of persons united to each other in mutual love and to God in loving adoration.

The biblical idea of revelation as God's promise has both auditory and visual overtones.

But the idea of pilgrimage reminds us it is a biblical concept that geographic space — just a car ride or plane flight away — can be imbued with God's presence, which is why God can tell the Israelites essentially, «Meet me in Jerusalem in spring.»

The idea that ten percent of a person's paycheck is a biblical mandate by God is what my book questions, and it also provides answers about the so - called tithe that many have never realized.