Sentences with phrase «difficulty understanding god»

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May I conclude by saying, unless we know «who the God Of the Bible is»... we will have great difficulty to understand the mind of God.

(Theists, please substi «tute your choice of god for «bigfoot» if you're having difficulty understanding).

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

It is when we begin to think abstractly and conceptually about God's time that it becomes illogical to suppose that God does not become or evolve, or when we apply an unphiosophical view of time to the understanding of the notion of the Fullness of Time that we fall into all sorts of difficulties.

Most importantly, you've pointed out the difficulties of understanding ethics without the involvement of a third party (i.e. God), but from you've done absolutely nothing to support the existence of God.

The confusion in understanding the church's place in God's mission (missio Dei) and the conflicting convictions on God's work in secular history led to the difficulty in identifying what is involved in Christian mission.

The particular resources of contemporary liberal theology that have especial relevance for a Christian approach to our culture's current difficulties are these: (1) the contemporary historical consciousness, (2) the conclusions of biblical scholars regarding Jesus and the Kingdom of God, and (3) the current «process» understanding of God, Which allows a positive relation (but not a surrender!)

We disagreed about God but I understood his difficulty in that subject.

But these are not seen as gods, so we have difficulty understanding cultures that rebel against secularity and continue to maintain religious justification for their violence.

Indeed, some of them are sensitive to the changes taking place in religious thinking, to the uncertainty about many traditional beliefs, and to the difficulty of speaking of God so as to be understood.

Contemporary Christians have great difficulty reconciling their understanding of the love of Jesus with the terrible holiness of God witnessed to in the Old Testament.

I am with you in the difficulty of understanding how God acts in certain portions of the Old Testament.

Whatever my earlier difficulties in understanding the use of the word «God,» I found that if I were to get anywhere with the problems now confronting me, I had to accept myself as a member of one of those two linguistic communities and therefore to speak with them of the God of whom they both spoke.

It is the fusion of these three elements in his representation of Jesus» life and teaching that makes it a matter of the greatest difficulty to distinguish in any particular discourse between what rests upon a deep understanding of the true meaning of Jesus» actual words and what is read into them in the light both of experience and of preconceived ideas as what the Word of God should fittingly proclaim.

I'm still trying to understand God's word to the woman in Genesis 3:16, connecting the difficulties of childbirth, the woman's desire for her man, and her man ruling over her.

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