Sentences with phrase «by god purpose»

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This is why atheists that have extrapolated the facts of biological evolution into a world view of purpose for existence (that is unsupported by the facts) clearly have a false god.

It doesn't and didn't deserve damnation, at least not from anyone not named God, and especially not from remarkably un-peaceful «peace» advocates who seem to find their moral purpose in life by clinging ever more tightly to deluded notions of «empire» the further we get from their hoary 1890s Leninist (See Songbook # 5) provenance.

It is in this context, a context decisively shaped by God's redemptive purposes in Christ, that we can join with St. Francis of Assisi in hymns of familial and filial piety toward nature.

According to Acts 17:31, the apostle Paul said that God «has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed.»

We have been created expressly for the purpose of loving God and being loved by God.

Oh, by the way, its just a story written and edited by men with a purpose, Its not the word of God.

Atheist reject the idea of a god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance at all of a god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a god doesn't exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a god was proven to be true.

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

The concept of god with some tribes in Australia and the Americas differed yet the majority had worship outside of the known physical man which was the prime purpose of God as written by the major religiogod with some tribes in Australia and the Americas differed yet the majority had worship outside of the known physical man which was the prime purpose of God as written by the major religioGod as written by the major religions.

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

The reason why Christians don't believe in evolution is because they believe god created every animal for a purpose, as can be demonstrated by the delicate balance and hierarchy of life.

We can «liberate the human spirit» and achieve the «purposes of God» only by loving our neighbor as ourselves, with God's help.

When you read through the Bible chapter for chapter one will get a broader view or the full context about what happened, maybe where it happened why it did happen and for which purpose it happened but: «All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:..»

Therefore, if you believe you've been chosen by God for some purpose, that purpose is for the blessing of others.

In the Whiteheadian interpretation of reality, these initial aims proposed by God are not capricious nor due to inscrutable divine purposes for his creatures, but are relevant aims toward maximizing the intensity of experience which is possible from the particular perspective of each concrescing occasion.

Violeta John 1:3: «In the beginning there was one God, who had reason, purpose and a plan, which was, by its very nature and origin, divine.

All of the suffering, inconvenience, and discomfort caused by the decree of Caesar was actually the loving hand of God working things out to accomplish His purposes in His own way.

Teaching from the pulpit, for example, that God willed Adam and Eve to sin, that cancer is predestined by God, that prayer doesn't cause anything to change in the world, and that evangelism has no purpose since sheep are sheep and goats are goats?

If by God is meant a Being, supremely conscious, all - knowing, all - powerful, completely self - sufficient, who determines all things by divine moral purpose, the answer is again No.

If the purpose of existence was something other than what God established by creation then you and I are in the same boat it does not happen to be the Ark..

The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence of divine beings, divine activity in history and nature, the purpose and destiny of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»

The story of the raising of Lazarus is prefaced by a statement of its purpose: it is not only for the glory of God but «that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it» (V. 4).

If by God is meant a conceptual construct used within a certain linguistic frame of reference for the purpose of arousing religious emotions and ethical sentiments, in solemn assemblies, the answer must again be No.

This very act is a blessing for us as we are drawn into the life of the Blessed Trinity and our own lives are conformed little by little to God's purposes, shaped by his grace and guided by his providence.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

First, she upholds the Reformer's root metaphor for sin as «unfaithfulness» or the opposite of «living according to God's purposes by accepting God's grace.»

Urban Eagles teaches them that God has a plan and a purpose for their lives by pointing them to Jeremiah 29:11: ««For I know the plans I have for you,» declares the Lord, «plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Wink argues that the Powers were originally created by God for good purposes and functions within the universe, but through the fall, their purposes have been perverted.

I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and bear witness... to whom I send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

The moral law also was fulfilled by Jesus (he died in my place for failing the moral law), but we Christians now want to live in light of the purpose for which God made us.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

It is no surprise, then, that at the beginning of this discussion of Israel's purpose and privilege within the plan of God, Paul mentions the fact of Israel adoption by God (Rom 9:4).

Some may wish to use it as an historical book; after all, it is a collection of writings bound up together in one volume, telling us of the way in which the Jewish people came by God's self - disclosure to a deeper understanding of the God they worshipped and a more adequate conception of his purpose for his «chosen» race.

The ultimate purpose of the whole death - of - God system is to justify a certain kind of behavior on the part of Christians in relation to society — a kind of behavior that is dictated by conformism to the modern world.

If there is an eternal torment, it would have to be created by God for the express purpose of punishment, and only by His divine omnipotence would anyone ever be contained within.

But for that reason the God has reserved it to himself, this unfathomable grief: to know that he may repel the learner, that he does not need him, that the learner has brought destruction upon himself by his own guilt, that he can leave the learner to his fate; to know also how well - nigh impossible it is to keep the learner's courage and confidence alive, without which the purposed understanding and equality will fail, and the love become unhappy.

More important and more basic than that, it is because God's own purpose of self - expression does not there expect and provide for such adequacy as was achieved by him once for all in human regard, when by his prevenient preparation, his concomitant grace, and his effectual action he was «made flesh» in the person of Jesus Christ.

As believers, our lives should be marked by our ultimate purpose of building God's kingdom.

I don't know... there's no record of him following the temple laws regarding sacrifices, or encouraging his followers to do so, presumably because he fulfilled the purpose of the sacrifices that were commanded by God...?

• Teleology or purpose: Males are created by God to hold authority over females.

«to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the Called - Out Ones of Christ to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord».

However, through the mercy of God and to the praise of his glorious grace, the mystery of his purpose in Christ is upheld by the Son, who takes upon Himself the burden of healing and reintegrating our broken nature and vindicating the glory of God in creation.

His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.»

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

The text indicates Paul's belief that they are relevant to persons, 1) who share a new life in fellowship with Christ, 2) who are open to and are guided by God's Spirit, and 3) who live with an expectation that the Christ event includes a final fulfillment of God's loving purpose.

Each significant relationship is ordained by God for a specific time, place and very specific purpose: making us more like Jesus.

The Primary Purpose of Sex and Marriage: Procreation Holloway's rooting of the purpose of sex in the Incarnation is a unique argument in favour of the conclusion articulated by the tradition and by many contemporary orthodox Catholic scholars, namely, that the «primary reason for the existence of sex in human nature in the intention of God is for children&Purpose of Sex and Marriage: Procreation Holloway's rooting of the purpose of sex in the Incarnation is a unique argument in favour of the conclusion articulated by the tradition and by many contemporary orthodox Catholic scholars, namely, that the «primary reason for the existence of sex in human nature in the intention of God is for children&purpose of sex in the Incarnation is a unique argument in favour of the conclusion articulated by the tradition and by many contemporary orthodox Catholic scholars, namely, that the «primary reason for the existence of sex in human nature in the intention of God is for children».

Our purpose in this chapter is twofold; first, to understand why Christianity with its positive view of the goodness of the creation has come to a crisis in its understanding of sexuality; and second, to consider a theological view of sexual existence which sees its place in life which is fulfilled by the love of God.

actually there is no free will, because we humans is part of god, our conciousness is his.therefore everything we do has a purpose only beyond our immediate comprehension or understanding.the problem lies in our concept or belief of the absoluteness of the philosophy of science, which by itself is part of gods evolutionary process, atheists has this mentality, but since they are part of the process so its gods will through us.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences