Sentences with phrase «distant god or god»

Then millions and millions testify for gods in the plural... and perhaps for the distant god or gods that abandoned us after an exhausting Big Bang.

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If there is any superintelligence called «God» or «Allah» or whatever, then he could mess up the results of your scientific inquiries (e.g. into the distant past of the earth).

It may be that you are facing a season of emotional doubt: you have encountered disappointments, unanswered prayer or feel distant from God.

Is it better to accept an imaginative picture of God as the distant ruler controlling his realm through external and benevolent power or one of God so intimately related to the world that the world can be imagined as God's body?

The scene shifts to mother and child to mother and child wandering in the unknown — that place where fears overtake us and God seems distant or absent.

I have found that when my focus is on self or others, the Word of God becomes fuzzy and distant.

it should though when you experience something that is without a doubt supernatural, and anyone with intelligence can understand that a revelation or a message that takes a sovereign «person» to translate something in the near, or distant future, it is PROOF, of God, just is the bible is proof of God, as it is His very Word through the direct revelation to the prophets.

God is not distant or angry; he is Love.

Why not any of the hundreds of other creator gods, or the god of some aliens living in a distant galaxy that we've never heard of before?

It has nothing to do with gods or distant abstractions.

So morality (I hate using that word because the concept is really human decency) is actually based in the individual, and imperfectly codified in the cultural; it is not distant or God - based.

Some Further Reflections on the Origins of the Doctrine of the Trinity,» Coakley writes that «it is the perception of many Christians who pray either contemplatively or charismatically that the dialogue of prayer is strictly speaking not a simple communication between an individual and a distant and undifferentiated divine entity, but rather a movement of divine reflexivity, a sort of answering of God to God in and through one who prays.»

After all, based on these perceptions, who would want a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the incarnation of an «authoritative,» «distant» or «critical» God?

We do not mean that God is like the sun in that it is distant and «up there», or in that if you come too close you will be consumed or if you look at it directly you will be blinded.

The fact is, it simply makes sense, to anyone with the most elementary notion of how the Catholic tradition alwaysworked before the distortions of recent decades (which please God, after another decade or two of the current mopping up operations, and the retirement of a few dozen more bishops, will soon be a distant memory).

An exciting new body of research on attachment is adding to our understanding of why we feel «close to» or «distant from» God.

Belonging to the historic Church also means participating in and witnessing to God's continuing activity and revelation rather than locating the time of God in the distant past or future.

God neither intervenes nor interferes God participates, persuades, comforts God is a presence that has to be dealt with either dismissed or engaged God listens and God responds God engages in conversation God is neither distant nor silent It takes time to get familiar with God It is a relationship

A faith that names Jesus either as the Son of God or as the prophet of God must be a backward movement to a disincarnate and primordial form of Spirit, a movement annulling the events of the Incarnation and the Crucifixion by resurrecting Jesus either in the form of the exalted Lord or as the proclaimer of an already distant and alien majesty of God: hence an orthodox and priestly Christianity is inevitably grounded in the sacred authority and power of the past.

As another writer has said, if we were in extreme agony of soul should we pray, «I beseech Thee, O Distant God of Unfathomable Glory» or should we pray, «Lord — HELP!

He knows that either God is dead or that humanity is now enslaved to an infinitely distant, absolutely alien, and wholly other epiphany of God.

When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, raising kids is a challenge, God seems distant, or life is hard, this kind of worship can seem irrelevant and disconnected from everyday life.

Speaking personally, what a relief to discover that the I was not alone in experiencing spirituality this way and to be affirmed that experiencing God as on a far - distant horizon is not bad, wrong, a sign of spiritual weakness, or a conquest of Satan in my life.

But God does elbow his way into King's America — it wouldn't be a recognizable America if he didn't — and when he appears it isn't as a distant, half - glimpsed presence, a philosopher's God or the wan deity of wistful almost - believers.

This god therefore puts out a series of aeons or emanations, each a little more removed and distant from himself.

«When we took a closer look, we found that patients with stronger spiritual well - being, more benign images of God (such as perceptions of a benevolent rather than an angry or distant God), or stronger beliefs (such as convictions that a personal God can be called upon for assistance) reported better social health,» said lead author Allen Sherman, PhD, of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

I am comforted by the reminder in this Lenten season that we do not have a God who is unacquainted with or distant from our suffering.