Sentences with phrase «creation of the world as»

They have their own calendar, which begins with the creation of the world as «Year 1» and then just starts counting.

If, for example, we have been in the habit of thinking of God's total creation of the world as occurring in six days of twenty - four hours each and we learn that the creation stories in Genesis are a prescientific attempt to present great religious truth rather than accurate geology or biology, we fail to hear God speak if we refuse to change our minds.

This involved a rather heavy sense of responsibility and humility: in effect it was seen as partaking of God's ongoing creation of the world as God's junior partners.

Can you imagine God's creation of the world as a sort of book set in type by the printer; everything is in the right place and makes good sense when one reads it; and then while the typesetter is gone, a scoundrel confuses the type.

In the dev diary video below, which was also released today, Chahi describes the inspirations, processes, and even doubts as the original game was under development, and shares original sketches and illustrations related to the creation of Another World as he defines what drew him to a sci - fi setting.

Not exact matches

Gonzàlez incorporated this element as part of his fascination of the dynamic between creation and destruction within the world's natural cycle and today's current times.

The creation of Leap can also be seen as a reflection of the development and growth of the MENA region's entrepreneurial ecosystem - Fadel notes three particular trends that showcase how the Arab world is today a lot more receptive to the idea of its citizens becoming entrepreneurs.

According to History.com, the «first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network,» and the online world as we know it today really did not take on its form until 1990, when Tim Berners - Lee, a computer scientist, invented the World Wideworld as we know it today really did not take on its form until 1990, when Tim Berners - Lee, a computer scientist, invented the World WideWorld Wide Web.

The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a transition for the coal, oil and gas sectors — all of which will gradually be phased out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.

Working closely with industry partners, authorities and local communities, we drill to maintain our position as one of the world's leading exploration companies — whether you measure us in terms of value creation, health, safety or environmental performance.

Blockchains have already been a part of the physical art world for a few years now as a reliable way to verify creation and ownership details.

Professor Chung — Korean Presbyterian, graduate of Claremont and Union Seminary, author of Christianity through Asian Eyes — suggested this theological development as part of her keynote address on the theme of the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Canberra, Australia, «Come Holy Spirit, Renew the Whole Creation.»

Many years ago, I heard someone speaking about how Jesus» life and death absorbed the «shock» of sin and death within creation and how we as His body have been called to a similar mission — the verses which speak of us «carrying in our selves» the marks that we belong to Him, sharing in some small way in His sufferings as we share in His life — it's all part of a realm where the sweet savor of the fragrance of Him is allowed to be evidenced in this broken world.

I remember watching his science videos in elementary school but now whenever I see him on the news talking about science it seems like he is politicizing science (when it comes to climate change) and promoting evolution as the only option to the creation of the world to try and discredit the religious community.

And since we are not owners but merely caretakers of this world and its people — its Wealth is neither ours to Keep OR to Give — as the hands and eyes of God in the world we simply care for the Creation of which we are a part.

A further key move of Rowan Williams and the primates at Egypt was the creation (as mentioned previously at Lambeth) of a «Pastoral Forum,» by which trusted figures from around the Anglican world would be appointed to help warring parties to arrive at agreed - upon solutions.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

You know the world is an amazing creation of God if you don't spend your time trying to demand that God exists today as he did to a civilization 2000 years ago.

It is the sudden burst of divine light as when Helios peaks over the horizon, casting his rays on all creation so that the world glows in the golden haze of dawn, translucent and transformed.

But as Michelle quoted above, the pain and suffering of this world will eventually give way to the New Creation in Christ and then peace and justice will reign.

As David Griffin states: «If the world is an actual creation, and not simply a complex idea in the divine mind, or simply aspects of modes» of God, then all - powerful can not mean having all the power» (GPE 269 - 70).

A degree of critical detachment must accompany Christian affirmation of the world as God's creation and gift.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

The mystery of creation and the history of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

Nor is creation an abrupt act of making the world out of nothing, as later Christians asserted.

But, theologically, the world which modern man knows as «chaos» or «nothingness» is homologous with the world that eschatological faith knows as «old aeon» or «old creation» — both worlds are stripped of every fragment of positive meaning and value.

The man who chooses to live in our destiny can neither know the reality of God's presence nor understand the world as his creation; or, at least, he can no longer respond — either interiorly or cognitively — to the classical Christian images of the Creator and the creation.

Because the doctrine of Creation thus subordinates the world to God, the later Altizer rejects it as a perversion of the incarnational affirmation of the world that is for him now the heart of faith.

While cosmology may mean several different things, the theologian's contribution is concerned with «accounts of the world as God's creation,» and, within that broad compass, one specific enterprise especially needed in our time involves «imaginative perceptions of how the world seems am where we stand in it» (Tracy and Lash, vii) 5 In other words.

Their characterization of the world as God's creation is marked by the reiterated verdict, «It is good, it is good, it is good, it is very good.»

He was active early in the second century CE and is well known for having posited not one but two Gods, one represented in the Old Testament and seen as responsible for the world's creation, the other encountered only in the New Testament in the teaching of Jesus and specifically in the theology of Paul.

As Paul would say, «Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made» (Rom.

In the Bible such constraints are conventionally attributed to «the world» in the pejorative sense of that term, which we may define as the world of the creation reduced by the purposes of any of the forms of selfishness.

This world is about the creation of choice (as the garden of eden shows - 2 trees).

However creation was accomplished, it is all the work of a deity who is the ultimate and finally responsible causative agent; secondary causation, such as we know in our own experience of the world, is derivative from and in every respect dependent upon the first cause.

This fallen world is all too quick to their own detriment to cast aside God as one who is either a fairy tale or an ogre and true ambassadors of the life - giving message and of the God of Creation and the King of Kings MUST do a far better job of understanding the One they proclaim.

As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integratoAs in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integratoas the integrator.

What the Jew as Jew apparently has, and what the Christian has lost if he ever had it, is a sense of the world as creation and only creation, and thereby untouched by the announcement or gospel of total vision or total liberation.

If the death of God has resurrected an authentic nothingness, then faith can no longer greet the world as the «creation.»

Prophets and missionaries are part of the creation as are all created things that we observe in the physical world.

«The term can refer to theological accounts of the world as God's creation; or to philosophical reflection on the categories of space and time; or to observational and theoretical study of the structure and evolution of the physical universe; or, finally, to «world views»: unified imaginative perceptions of how the world seems and where we stand in it» (Tracy and Lash, vii).

As Christians we are called to be distinct from the rest of the world, to model something to the rest of creation.

In traditional terms the concept is expressed as a faith that the God of redemption is the God of creation of the whole world.

On the contrary they held that God had created the Logos first, before creating the world, both as the agent of creation and as the agent of redemption.

On the road to a bolder comprehension of the universe the children of this world day by day outdistance the masters of Israel; but do you, Lord Jesus, «in whom all things subsist», show yourself to those who love you as the higher Soul and the physical centre of your creation.

Because the doctrine of Creation is thus an affirmation of the world, the early Altizer rejected it as a perversion of the apocalyptic negation of the world that was for him then the heart of faith.

If the world is viewed as a complex machine, then the correlative doctrine of God is likely to be that of a creator who stands outside of his creation.

For man, the summit of his creation, God wished it to be an enchanted world, a world where everything, as an imago Dei, can point to the hidden, ultimate and infinite wonder of God's existence and life.

To see in this way is to rejoice and mourn at once, to regard the world as a mirror of infinite beauty but as glimpsed through the veil of death; it is to see creation in chains, but beautiful as in the beginning of days.

Then the organic complex will have been constituted of God and the World, the Pleroma — the mysterious reality that we can not do better than call simply God, since although God might dispense with the world we can not regard it as being wholly an accessory without rendering Creation incomprehensible, the Passion of Christ meaningless and our own struggle uninteresWorld, the Pleroma — the mysterious reality that we can not do better than call simply God, since although God might dispense with the world we can not regard it as being wholly an accessory without rendering Creation incomprehensible, the Passion of Christ meaningless and our own struggle uninteresworld we can not regard it as being wholly an accessory without rendering Creation incomprehensible, the Passion of Christ meaningless and our own struggle uninteresting.