Sentences with phrase «divine persons came»

In the new metaphysics that developed as the Church wrestled with the revelation of God's character in Scripture, the communion of divine Persons came to be understood as a «primordial ontological concept and not a notion which is added to the divine substance or rather which follows it.»

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I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

I gradually began to see that Christianity is not about solitary seekers after truth who just get together once in a while for a chat: other people are very much part of the divine scheme of things — even scripture has come down to us through the agency of other people.

Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.

And the everlasting love that God has for God's covenant people, articulated throughout the Old Testament, comes to fruition for Christians in the embodiment of divine love manifest in Jesus Christ.

(c) 5:82 [and] thou wilt surely find that, of all people, they who say, «Behold, we are Christians,» come closest to feeling affection for those who believe [in this divine writ]: this is so because there are priests and monks among them, and because these are not given to arrogance.

If you are a person of faith, and you ask what causes wind, and the answer is wind comes from the divine, you are willing to accept that as an answer.

The divine essence, Pannenberg maintains, may be better described in terms of the incomprehensible field or spirit, which likewise comes forth as the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.

With all the evidence, religious people ought to be intelligent design (I mean god - guided evolution by this) supporters at worst, though I would hope that after some serious thoughts on the moral paradoxes induced by belief in the «divine» people would come to their senses.

Then love divine is addressed as «Almighty» (the first person of the Trinity) and asked to come to deliver us and to «let us all thy life receive.»

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

During Advent we remember that the One sent by the divine sender defied his people's expectations when he came poor, humble and lying in a manger.

As the Good Book has warned, there will come an age when people just will themselves choose confusion more than what is right and morally just to preserve their sinful ways instead of seeking the One they need to perfect them as a human person with dignity as a divine image of noble and holy existence, instead do de - basing themselves out of a healthy and happier existence even on earth.

God asks them to speak in his name in order to instruct his people about the true nature of the future: a coming judgment and divine deliverance.

The problem, then, for Israel, just as for us, is not how she came to believe in the existence of the divine, but rather how her experiences shaped that belief and how her people supported it when they had arrived at some sort of intellectual self - consciousness.

The separate representation of the Son, who comes for baptism; the Dove descending from heaven; and the divine Voice makes the distinct persons of the Trinity clear to our imagination.

While the prophets were announcing these great messages of moral responsibility, of impending doom if these were evaded, and of the hope of divine deliverance of the faithful remnant through the coming Messiah, the political fortunes of the people were anything but such as to nourish this hope.

From this creative will comes a human nature taken from Jesus» human mother that is personified by, exists in, is «enhypostatised» by the divine person of the Logos.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

I propose as that definition, realizing that it would probably exclude some of those already discussed, the following: The sacred book contains writings that purport to have been produced under divine or extra human inspiration or impulse, and which have come to be recognized by a substantial number of people as the basis of their religious faith, since it is regarded by them as the authentic revelation of God to them and to the world.

The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts (Mk 2, 8; Jn 2, 25; 6, 61)-LSB-... thus] by its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal.

But later, after the time of the creeds was passed, it came to be considered orthodox to think that Jesus selfhood or person or «I» was only divine.

During the Enlightenment, more and more people came to think that belief in divine supernatural intervention in space and time was incompatible with modern science.

Over time, these manifold and varied uses of the term — divine, secular and religious — all converged, and both God and man came to be signified by the very same term, person.

We also find a kindred spirit in some of the prophets, where the faithful obedience of nonhuman creatures to the divine will is contrasted with the faithfulness and perversity of men: «Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord» (Jer 8:7).

Israel came to acknowledge that the span of the divine reach was not limited to Israel but extended to all peoples.

For the Christian community of faith, the divine promise to be with his people is uniquely fulfilled in Jesus Christ, in whom God has come down to fill the void in our lives.

What I can't understand is people saying that nobody can come in & do better than him, really??? what if he dies today, he has no divine right to manage Arsenal.

The State APC chairman who admitted that their coming to power in Kogi State was divine in 2015 said the party has no reason to fail the people.