Sentences with phrase «by angry gods»

People of faith thought that volcanoes were caused by angry gods.

People believed earthquakes were caused by angry gods, not shifting tectonic plates in the Earth's surface.

The whole Genesis story is one of the author's envy at how animals seemed to have it all, including s3x whenever they felt like it, and drew the conclusion that we must somehow have decided to become «civilized» and left our paradise of a jungle and now can not have s3x, etc., because we made a bad choice and were driven out by an angry god for presuming to think for ourselves in complex ways.

Another referred to a water serpent brought by a pet Raven sent by the God Apollo for water, which the hungry Raven falsely claimed to have been attacked when it actually was delayed in waiting for a meal of ripening figs; both were flung into the Heavens by the angry God.

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In the older version the god Enki warns Utnapishtim about a flood to be sent by the god Enlil, who is angry with mankind.

Completely twist it: By talking about their families... ACTUALLY THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT angry jealous space gods, who actually are love, except when they are drowning people for ignoring them, or turning people into pillars of salt...

What could be more horrifying than a god who with the temper of an angry two year old and responds by slaughtering innocents?

«Non-believers» can sometimes be angry when fervent believers believe so very fervently that they insist everybody ELSE believe as fervently as THEY do, and then they want our government to enforce that fervent belief by making our kids pray in schools to your concept of a god.

I appreciate ur grace based article but hope to understand Heb 12 disciplinary action by the Father when / if God gets angry with sin... any insight?

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

I know like all of you here I have been mistreated, rejected, abused verbally, cheated and robbed also by fellow saints, and people of the world too and have become sad, angry, confused and all, but that does not justify me to run away from Pappa God because of what others did.

i love number two because i have been asked so often by people why is God so angry in the old testament but so merciful in the new.

Sure, Jesus spoke about being peaceful and such, but the god he serves (as detailed by the old testament) seemed to be vengeful, jealous, and generally angry when people didn't pay attention to him.

Jesus Christ told him on the road to Damascus that he was going to be used greatly by God, but every time Paul tried to be used by God, all he did was cause problems and make people angry, to the point that even the apostles didn't want him around.

Considering God was really angry again and wanted to kill off the entire human race by the time of Noah (God is an angry murderous SOB, isn't he), it seems obvious that God has a lot less control and ability to see the future than he wants you to believe.

Somehow, though God was angry at us, His anger was appeased by letting us kill His Son?

When the Pentateuch is understood in its entirety, it appears that the message of the Pentateuch is that God was never angry at people and never wanted sacrifices and offerings, but wanted instead a people for Himself who lived by faith in God and with justice and mercy before a watching world.

There is an angry deity in this equation, and it is us, in whose midst God, quite without violence, manifests the depth of his forgiving love by plumbing the depths of, and thus defanging, our violence (Alison, We didn't invent sacrifice).

I've already been told that the big hurricane was caused by God, who is angry about our president being black.

So we have a new Troll named † In God We Trust † Cap'n Sayin Atheism Isn't an Angry God Trust Pervert — the moniker becomes more unwieldy by the day!

If he had not been a truthful man, the Prophet might have used this happening to his own advantage, but instead he became angry and said openly that such thoughts were not right, for the sun and the moon are also creatures of God and it is by His order that they move as they do.

So instead of God being called a bully, we say his judgements are indisputable, unchangeable and everlasting; he is better than us, high and lifted up, all powerful and holy; he is disappointed or sorrowful or angry about our sin; he constantly convicts us by the Holy Spirit; he sends us suffering in order to teach us, discipline us and inevitably bring us in line with his ways; and he threatens us with exclusion from him and his group now or forever in Hell unless we repent and straighten up.

-- the situation is not that an angry God needs to be placated and that he is placated by the blood of an innocent victim (such an idea would have seemed monstrous: after all, it is God who is «setting forth the expiation»; it is God who is seeking to «reconcile the world to himself»), but rather that sin needs to be covered or annulled.

God loves you more than you can possibly know, and while He is saddened by the pain you have experienced from your sin, He is not angry with you about your sin.

In those catastrophic events brought upon them by the destroyer when they left the protective hand of God, it seemed to them that God was angry with them, that God had left them.

God said, his temple reside in you, not some built up church created by angry men and filled with the truest of the blind.

Legalism teaches that we have offended God so deeply that He is angry with us... He even hates us... and so we must try to please and appease God by doing things He likes so that maybe, somehow, hopefully, God will love us once more.

... but since you seem to think that God gets angry, and when I look to see how American Christians (that is, Fox News Christians) treat the least of these, my bretheren, then maybe... MAYBE... I'll change my mind about Christians... or I might just stick to that goats - on - the - left - hand story in that Book written by that guy who claims to be Matthew...

By the way, I don't think that anyone can make God happy or angry.

The disclaimer there at the end is interesting, but I think this was more of a copout by the Professor to avoid becoming the target of angry religious people who feel he might be blaming God for mental illness.

He was a vengeful, angry, and jelous god who by force upheld his laws upon man.

God is jealous, God is angry and we should fear Him / Her / It... and this whole deal about someone paying for my mistakes by letting himself be killed on a cross.

Next, a distinction was made between violence and force: The state is invested with force; it is an organism instituted and ordained by God, and remains such even when it is unjust; even its harshest acts are not the same thing as the angry or brutal deed of the individual.

By focusing your eyes on Jesus Christ and Him crucified, you come to understand that God was never angry at human sinners, and that no blood sacrifice was ever needed to purchase God's love, forgiveness, grace, and mercy.

Superficially one might take this to mean that while a permissive God is indifferent to the fact that the Assyrian has massacred men and ruled by war, he is angry the moment the Assyrian mocks and reviles him.

Whenever I debate a believer, in a calm rational debate it usually devolves into the person defending religion getting angry because he or she can not simply answer any question other than by saying stuff along the lines of, «well our brains are too small to understand» or «god works in mysterious ways» or my personal favorite «God will judge you for you unbelieving ways&raqugod works in mysterious ways» or my personal favorite «God will judge you for you unbelieving ways&raquGod will judge you for you unbelieving ways».

I was treated like the plague by many Christians after my father stepped down and for years that is one reason I struggled to remember the forgiveness of God that I received at the cross as I saw so many Christians get angry at one another because of what my dad did.

By god I never rated Flamini as a footballer since the day we signed him... I was really angry about that because it blocked any DM signing and I took it as another AW trick to deceive the fans... He tries to make his presence by pointing, shouting and fighting... bad positioning, side passing, not needed tackles and unnecessarily yellow cardBy god I never rated Flamini as a footballer since the day we signed him... I was really angry about that because it blocked any DM signing and I took it as another AW trick to deceive the fans... He tries to make his presence by pointing, shouting and fighting... bad positioning, side passing, not needed tackles and unnecessarily yellow cardby pointing, shouting and fighting... bad positioning, side passing, not needed tackles and unnecessarily yellow cards.

Forget the Gods — a cool concept soured by poor writing is enough to make this movie critic angry!

Bronze: God's Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan, by B. Wayne Quist (Brown Books Publishing Group)

Played by none other than All - Star Tobuscus himself (you know, I never even knew the guy existed before this), we'll get to see him guide Crom in his quest to avenge his wife Alena and fight angry gods, demons, and creatures that stand in his way.

Gaia is an angry and jealous god who doesn't respond to sin by distributing harms and benefits evenly.