Sentences with phrase «choose false gods»

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All evidence points to a lack of a will of God that could be decisive, to chose to make truth false.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

They quoted the prophets to reveal that salvation had always been intended for all people, and Israel had been «chosen'to produce the Redeemer and bring this good news to all the world — not to be the only recipients of God's favor, as their false teachers proclaimed.

This is intended to mark the strict separation between the chosen people of God, who is holy, and the peoples who worship false gods.

Modern non-religious man is rebelling against a false notion of God, but his alternative position, unfortunately enough, still derives from a dualism, only that now he chooses man over God.

Again, this resonates of a false - utopia, a time gone, a place gone, or perhaps just not God's chosen people, in that one can aim to achieve but any such attainable goals have limits, the highest beyond reach.So, we should let the word means what it means Again, this insinuates that I am not letting it mean what it means.

Just as no one has the authority to deny Gid's gift to those God has chosen, most certainly neither does anyone have the authority to impose a false facade against and over God's authority, and worse yet falsely label it as coming from God.

This false dichotomy can wreak havoc on young Christians raised to believe they have to choose between God and evolution, and who after encountering evidence in support of the theory, abandon faith altogether.