Sentences with phrase «divine person who»

He remembers in that connection the divine person who, far from insisting on his rights, completely surrendered them for others; and before he knows it Paul is launched on the greatest christological statement he makes anywhere.

Apart from Christ, who is an eternally existing divine person who took human nature, a human being is a human person and what makes someone such a human being is the human soul.

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I really get a good laugh from people like this who try to discredit the faith of those who CHOOSE to believe in God and in a divine creator.

«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were written by human beings without any kind of «divine inspiration» regardless of what you read in them... written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.

The Catholic Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - style.

Point of fact — Whether you believe Jesus was divine or not, he was a historical person who did exist.

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...

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

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.

I think Jesus was some guy who did a lot of good things, but people got carried away and started believing he was divine.

This someone will be sent by a higher, divine power who has seen the people's affliction...

Chalcedon was responding to people who thought that way and who said that Jesus» nature was not human — only divine.

At the end of the day, even a figure like Thomas Carlyle, whom Taylor sees as part of the problem, retains the emphasis on divine immanence and God at work in the people, primarily through the hero who moves history forward.

Silver and his project manager, Thomas Coleman, recently released a study proposing six different types of nonbelievers - from strident atheists to people who observe religious rituals while doubting the divine.

What was meant by the signs of the times is not clear, beyond the general implication that any person who observed and understood what was going on about him would not need any other sign from heaven to attest the divine mission and authority of Jesus,

He affirms that the personal subject is the second person of the Trinity, who unites to his divine nature an impersonal and unfallen human nature consisting of both body and soul.

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.

(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.

From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child of God and turn to my own plans of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt into something new like having again been moved from death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.

Why should we, as well - fed, privileged people who live in lavish conditions compared to many in the world, plead for divine intervention?

A third position was taken by the Nestorians, who not only held that there were two natures in Christ, but that there were also two distinct persons, the one divine and the other human.

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.»

It is not as if divine Persons are mere masks of God; they are who and what the divine True Self actually becomes, for us.

Minute by minute, the existence of Israel mocks the pagan gods, the divine beings who rise out of the consciousness of all peoples but which are gentile gods because they are deifications of humanity and the forces of nature rather than the true, living God of Abraham.

But it's my prayer that more of the Church in the West would sit up and notice that this is a divine opportunity to share the good news with people who wouldn't otherwise hear it.

There are some persons — both theologians and laymen — who object to saying bluntly, «God is a person,» To them, such a statement seems to detract from his divine majesty and to make him too much like ourselves.

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.

The fact of the matter is that religions — all of them — are made up of groups of people who believe they have a divine knowledge of and connection to a god.

I would agree that people can ostracize those who are considered possessed and think of it as divine punishmet.

Some peoples have a memory of a long migration before reaching their permanent home, very much as in the Old Testament is recorded the migration under divine direction of Abraham who went out, he knew not whither, and his descendants.

Does not every spiritual tradition recognize that care for others is respect for the numinous in every person, as well as a manifestation of the divine within the one who cares?

Because we believe in divine presence, power, and authority, we know that we should plan our way, making wise, informed decisions about every aspect of life, including voting, but we must also conduct ourselves like those who believe that their God is faithful and true to his promises for his people and his plans to renew the world.

Another point about the common tradition that requires note if we are to make progress toward sorting out the relation between authority and office is that, within it, authority is a term that is applied in a proper sense only to persons, either the divine Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's persons, either the divine Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's persons who act on God's behalf.

For Mark's «theological idea» was not so much the present reality of the divine person, the exalted Lord of his community, nor yet was it the glorious and unique historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, but the mysterious, half - divine, apocalyptic «Son of Man» who had lived incognito upon earth, died, and risen again.

From the beginning of Paul's mission the church gratefully recognized that God who worked especially with the people of Israel, the family circle of the Messiah, included the rest of humanity in the divine plan.

Where the prophet thought of himself as an individual addressed by God, who then communicated the divine message to his people, he eschewed the idea of Spirit possession.

«So it did not endear or derive people's applause Who broke biology's embracing of divine final cause, As did Darwin of Down when he tried to undo it And picture a world without telos tied to it.»

In traditional Western thinking, people derived the virtue to obey the law because God, the Supreme Lawgiver, issued it through the king, who ruled by divine right.

have you ever thought that maybe hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and floods were already happening and the people who wrote the Bible just wrote about them to scare us that its God's divine justice?

«They have been injured by the lack of compassion shown by some, who cling to a small number of disparate and disputed verses that exist in pockets of the Bible, and claim a divine rejection of gay people».

First, when we believe in divine revelation, the primary person whose testimony we accept is God himself, who is the truth and who can not err.

Jesus is regarded as the Divine Wayshower who, having fully realized his own divine nature, can guide each person to a realization of the Christ — the presence of God — within her or himself.

Christie, people who require a divine, judgmental being and the fear of eternal damnation in order to treat their fellow inhabitants with kindness and respect, scare me — and obviously the inverse thought scares religists like you.

Not given to rancor, she implored divine mercy for both friend and foe, praying (in The Fruits of the Spirit [Lougmans, 1956]-RRB- «not only for the innocent people of Germany, but also for those who have brought this evil and misery on the world.»

Most people who claim to be Christian don't have a clue what it means and don't understand what they claim to be divine scripture.

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.

I can say that as a person who lost a grandparent to a treatable illness after he joined a faith healing sect, & also as a person who exhausted all medical efforts before receiving the divine mercy of a real miracle.

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.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

Heck, even David Koresh and Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite must have been somewhat divine, considering all the people who died because they believed.