Sentences with phrase «content with the god»

I'm going to be content with the god I got.

The question I often ask myself is how do I need to change in order to be fully content with God as I understand Him.

Not exact matches

However, I was more content and happy to feel and see «God» outside, with the plants and trees.

But if, at this time in our existence, I can't really KNOW something, like the existence of a god, heaven, hell, angels, demons, leprechauns, fairy's, I am content with not knowing.

With Christ, and no God - imposed middle man, each of us has the liberty to overanalyze or to underthink to our heart's content!

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.

But now historical experience, tradition and critical exegesis, together with philosophical and theological reflection on their content and implications, became the privileged medium to discuss the reality of God.

It appears you are unhappy with our right to believe as Americans... I don't wish you any harm, but you must realize that over 80 % of Americans claim God exists and that they are quite content without a belif in ape brothers and fossile sisters.

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

Adam and Eve were not content with caring for God's garden, they hankered for a managerial role.

In the lead up to the convention, Florida pastor Rodney Baker submitted a resolution titled «Maintaining Appropriate Content in Products Distributed by LifeWay Christian Bookstores» for consideration expressing that the convention «expresses dissatisfaction with «The Blind Side» and any product that contains explicit profanity, God's name in vain, and racial slur.»

God doesn't call us to be content with dysfunction but tells us to «seek peace and pursue it.»

It is only when descriptive science grows arrogant, and, not content with describing what lies within its province, makes naturalistic pronouncements which eliminate or belittle God and the human spirit, that Christian faith is affronted.

II, pp. 14 - 15) Christian ideas, however, soon moved too far away from either the practice or the perusal of sacrificial laws as a means of reconciliation with God for the early Christian to be content with such a solution.

So far as I know, this is the only rigorous formal classification (which as formal and a mere classification is beyond intelligent controversy) of possible doctrines about God — except mere dichotomies (e.g., God is or is not eternal, one with all reality, etc.), which are never very helpful because only one of the two classes has positive content.

But God is not content with a miracle in which men have no part at all.

God has chosen the agenda of the text, and we must be content with the wisdom of these choices... The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism.»

This is especially obvious if you view religion as essentially a source of ethical rules for human behaviour rather than theological truths about God and make the techie assumption that content equals rules; then, if all your churches come up with the same rules, they must all be based on the same content, and thus they must ultimately all be the same.

(Bultmannian spiritualizing, for which, if God is the Wholly Other, all these manifestations are just forms of expression with no real content, is certainly quite unacceptable, for why should not the Almighty be free to act in this way too?)

Be content with what you have, and seek first the Kingdom of God.

«The son of man has no where to rest his head», and «having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these things», and» Don't get angry over wicked people», and «Vengence is mine, I will repay, says Jehovah (God, the Father)».

Thanks for trying, Roger, but if Jesus (who is God) was not told by his Father (who is God) the exact date of his own return, I think we should be content with the vague word «generation» and assume it means our own.

«Older generations wanted content and Bible knowledge, preferring to be left to themselves to apply the teachings of the Bible to their lives,» Hahn wrote in Gen Xers After God (coauthored with psychologist David Verhagen).

The culture seeps into the church, bringing with it a religion without commitment; spirituality without content; aspiration and talk and longing, fulfillment and needs, but not much concern about God.

The whole cosmos must everywhere directly communicate with God, each member furnishing its own psychical content its feelings or thoughts) to the Soul» (OOTM 135).

The feelings of happiness, tranquility and content are the result of belief and direct «contact» with God.

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

It follows that God could only arbitrarily and absurdly renounce such possible values by resting eternally content with the beauty actually enjoyed.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

Americans of 1955 practiced «religiousness without religion, a religiousness with almost any kind of content or none, a way of sociability or «belonging» rather than a way of reorienting life to God.

I think the process itself of learning, of trying to figure out the things we can not yet explain is far better than being content with presumptuous answers («I can't explain it, therefore god must have done it»).

In theological terms, this community is the concrete content of the «kingdom of God,» conceived as the totality of settled fact with an eros toward the future.

Beneath the various attempts to articulate the content of Christian faith lies a «vision of reality» with implications for beliefs about God, the world in general, human existence in particular, and even some historical events, especially about Jesus.

But there is a significant passage, the content of which precedes and undergirds Jesus» actions: «Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel.»

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

Sharing membership with a body of fellow believers allows the content of God's promise to insinuate itself into our lives with a depth of penetration that an external or detached standpoint would not allow.

To express this aspect of the kingdom Jesus was content to make use of long - established symbols — a feast with the blessed dead who are «alive to God,» 30 a great assize with «all nations» standing at the bar.31 These are not forthcoming events, to which a date might be assigned.

Like the fire which Prometheus stole from the gods, so does this mean to steal from God the thought which is seriousness, that God is regarding one, instead of which the despairing self is content with regarding itself, and by that it is supposed to bestow upon its undertakings infinite interest and importance, whereas it is precisely this which makes them mere experiments.

Among the Hebrews, the whole content of the taboo system was identified with the demand of God embodied in the covenant.

This is in part a pagan view which is content with a merely human measure and properly does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God.

At least a Christian has faith that God created the universe and they are perfectly content with that.

He is the God who does not rest content with having 99 sheep in the fold, but continues to seek the one who is lost, and rejoices when he is saved (Luke 15:3 - 7).

If you are going to deny the content of the historical confession of the Christian church, as you have done repeatedly on this blog, and now on the eve of the day on which the church commemorates the «incarnation of the word», God with us, Emmanuel, not an insignificant percentage of said church under persecution, hardship and threatening circumstances trying to worship, I would consider it more forthright, if you called yourself something other than «Christian» because that really does imply a historic confession.

As I look over the last couple decades of my life, it is when I am studying, teaching, and writing about Scripture that I feel most content, most fulfilled, most at home, most connected with God and with who He made me to be.

His explicit language and content may not be «safe for the whole family,» but with each song Chance gives listeners the image of a man working his way toward God the best way he knows how.

But it is not necessary to await the outcome of a long debate before one arrives at the conclusion that whatever else is true about these relations, the identification of the Scriptures with God is an error, a denial of the content of the Scriptures themselves.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, «I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.»

Gerald O'Collins, who certainly agrees with the new accent, observes that the personalist way of looking at revelation as God's self - disclosure does not exclude the possibility of framing its content simultaneously in the form of statements of truth.

Indeed, it might be said that we shall be less excellent Americans or Britons or Frenchmen, less admirable members of the human race as a whole, if we are content with an object of devotion less than Almighty God himself.