Sentences with phrase «divine persons experience»

Hence the three divine persons experience no contradiction in always thinking and acting alike.

Perhaps the best way of thinking about this is to distinguish between the loving unity that the three divine Persons experience, on the one hand, and the loving unity that defines God's eternal essence, on the other.

Not exact matches

The whole divine - human experience of God's taking on human nature in one person is an exemplar of suffering that works itself out in multiple dimensions of obedience.

People are reaching for an experience of the divine.

Too often people go to church to be scolded rather than to experience the liberation of the divine.

People may have a true experience of the divine but may misinterpret its significance.

When we remember who the real actor is, we feel humbled; but we also experience, like Gregory, a sense of relief: itis Jesus, not we, who leads his flock, heals the wounds of sin, and raises up the people to divine union.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

Even so, Indian experience suggests that some people are, even during a person's lifetime, willing to regard their teacher as «divine».

To the spiritually sensitive person, this loss of a sense of divine companionship is an acutely unhappy experience.

Although we have focused on Jesus» divine status, for many people their experience of him as Saviour is more significant The World Council of Churches in its basis, which has already been mentioned, says it is a «fellowship of Churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour».

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

Even those who can claim to have had direct, personal experience of the divine must somehow interact with persons who can not make or even understand such a claim.

3 In the only passage from The Problem of Christianity where the doctrine of the Trinity is discussed at length, Royce does not make clear whether he affirms an ontological triunity of persons within the Godhead or simply a distinction of divine persons within the religious experience of the believer (PC 135 - 39).

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.

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

The «fence - sitting» is often just evidence that people are ACTIVELY thinking about the inherent conflict of the human experience, between the human and the divine, rather than completely committing oneself to an all - encompassing concept beforehand.

By postulating the existence of two natures in this one person, the Doctrine of the Incarnation allowed one to say that the suffering of Jesus as reported in the Gospels was experienced by the one human - and - divine person through his human nature, which avoided a run - in with the prevailing wisdom of the time.

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 humble person who arises as a result of this regenerating experience has a good chance of being a mediator of the divine grace and presenting the gospel in its full dimensions to the social order.

Here «incarnation» does not refer so much to the actualization as to the embodiment of divine aims in the lives of people, whereby the very abstract aims conceptually entertained in God's primordial experience are transformed into concrete possibilities or effective lures for our action and self - understanding.

Even more important, we now have an explanation for the types of religious experience that led people to attribute their thoughts to divine revelation.

But although the God of Israel was identified with the one God of all monotheistic religions, divine self - revelation through the history and experience of the Jewish people had given this God, as we have just noted, a special quality.

Since nobody has a device capable of intercepting and decoding divine, psychic messages, these people's experiences are no more or less credible than the «divine revelations» given to Abraham, Moses, John who wrote Revelation, Mary Baker Eddy or Joseph Smith.

I want to rescue it from static categories and defenses for it as some sort of intellectual thing that's either right or wrong, and I want to reclaim it as people had experiences and they wrote some things down and when you engage with their experiences there's always the chance you may find something of yourself in them — and that to me is divine.

The person is a contributor to the divine life and also enjoys the beauty of the experience which he or she contributes to God.

Because of his own experiences of growth, reconciliation, and healing, he has a confidence in the power of the divine forces in every person which makes these experiences possible.

Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.

11 In God's covenant with Moses and, through Moses, with the people of the exodus, the being of God acquired «an explicitly personal character» 12 that countered anthropomorphizing tendencies «primarily through the experience of the infinite superiority of the divine nature to all merely human attributes and capacities — an experience which marks every encounter with the divine in the Old Testament.»

But here is the plot of the enemy of human souls, the Deceiver of this age: he has numbed the hearts and consciences of so many people of this generation, so that they have lost their abilities to experience this divine love and longing... And so, because they have lost this divine ability given to them by God, they scorn and ridicule those who have it, making themselves into to blind beggarly fools......

My experience with people that I have personally known has ALWAYS been that those who demand that the Bible be the highest level of divine revelation, the very word of God, sometimes literally from the mouth of God, are quick to point out where their Bible (usually their English translation, but not always) proves X.

Jim's correct God provides many divine opportunities to bump into people daily and experience the unexpected.

«What such people seek,» writes Pagels,»... [are] insights or intimations of the divine that validate themselves in experience — what we might call hints and glimpses offered by the luminous epinoia.»

What people are seeking, she says, is a personal experience of divine power.

Therefore, the self that Jesus experienced throughout his life was a moment by moment integration of the human and divine in his own person.

Some persons of long experience in silent worship can move to meditation upon God and communion with the divine Spirit without any external devotional aids.

This was its linking belief in God with belief in posthumous careers for human persons, in spite of the fact that, in the Book of Job for instance, although the divine existence is there taken for granted, there is not a whisper about Heaven or Hell, or about posthumous rewards or punishments, or any other prolongations of a person's experiencing after death.

But only a participation in the «inner life» of a community puts us in a position to experience and confess these events as moments of divine fidelity to the covenantal promises that comprise God's relation to our life as a people founded upon these events.

A sacred relationship is a relationship in which we are inspired to see the divine in another person, to experience oneness through the union of two.

It is typically understood as the inner experience a person has in regard to or in relationship with the divine, sacred or transcendent, or with what provides meaning to that person's life.

Some people experience visions of the divine or gain a profound insight into their own psyche when they have these sorts of out - of - body drug experiences: All I got out of mine was an absurd Mario Tennis winning streak.

The typical Pinterest experience is geared around simplicity, showing users recommendations from the get - go based on a variety of tools built to divine what your interests are based on the content you peruse and the people you follow.