Sentences with phrase «divine persons did»

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God will cause them to suffer in due course, but you know — God just doesn't smite people the way He used to and sometimes one can just get sick and tired of waiting for divine justice.

Just think of their horror of finding out that people just stop when they die, nothing more, and all the divine punishment they so dearly love just does not happen.

Of those, God told one to steal a car and go to Minnesota to receive divine blessings (stopped by police on the way); another was «told» to spend all her money on a plane ticket as there was a grant waiting for her in another state to go to college with (there wasn't, and she had to call relatives to rescue her); another was told to cut himself; another was told to harm people (but only avoided doing this because he called police and was put inpatient).

«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.

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

people really need to study the bible — not for Christianity sake but for theirs - the athiest would like everyone to understand them and used this phrase — But when I explain that atheism is central to my worldview — that I am in awe of the natural world and that I believe it is up to human beings, instead of a divine force, to strive to address our problems — they often better understand my views, even if we don't agree.

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

Although I've read about how God has given people divine revelations through their dreams, I honestly didn't believe...

It did not require each person to proclaim a reading, hold up a banner or do a dance; active participation in the divine work celebrated at the altar meant something deeper for St Paul, as indeed for the Fathers of the first five centuries of the life of the Church.

During his earthly life, did the people of Galilee, or even his disciples, recognize him as divine?

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

We can see only hints of divine beauty, and if some poets or artists seem to have a talent for seeing a particular kind of natural beauty it does not follow that they will also see or appreciate supernatural beauty (for example, in people, liturgy, or scripture).

Concludes Wright: «It is as though... «the word of the YHWH» is like an enormous reservoir, full of creative divine wisdom and power, into which the prophets and other writers tap by God's call and grace, so that the word may flow through them to do God's work of flooding or irrigating his people.»

And why did the Church hold to positions such as dyothelitism — the teaching that the person of Jesus had two wills, one human and the other divine, which seemed alien to the simple text of Scripture?

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.

This does not exclude that this vision is caused by an actual divine touch of the centre of the person (not merely by the visionary's own imagination) and that this touch is correctly translated into an imaginary picture.

I am OK with people that believe that a divine being created the universe, as long as they don't breed.

Now, this might seem nit - picky, but unless you've already had discussions that define «Devine», it can mean different things to different people... and while she said «the Divine smashed the bottle»... that doesn't necessarily in my mind equate with «divine intervention in individual's lives» which was your term.

In any case, he does not conceive the three divine persons as members of a community along the lines which I propose in this article.

Thornton, for example, does not envisage change or development in God, whereas I postulate that the three divine persons undergo change in their relationships to one another as a result of their involvement with their (rational) creatures.

The real issue here is the fact that when speaking about Jeremy Lin or Tim Tebow, you will always hear people say «Oh God is doing divine work in him!

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).

Whether he dealt with women, children, or slaves, whether the persons in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated with «respectable» people or social outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.

In fact children originally said the pledge of allegiance with a Roman (Nazi) salute like people swearing allegiance to «divine» Caesars used to do in the Roman Empire and Italian fascists swearing allegiance to Mussolini:

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.

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?

When the proclamation of the «good news» has ended, there is no conclusion of the matter in a very serious sense the proclamation continues to be effectual as both requiring and empowering a life that is «in Christ» and hence a life in which the believer is to express in all that he or she says or does the reality of the divine Love in which that person is now a participant.

But then the world awoke on September 11th, when 3000 innocent people were incinerated because 19 Muslim men believed that they were doing the divine work of Allah and that they would be rewarded in paradise.

«Therefore when they go there, they think they're fulfilled a divine order, so I don't think it's going to deter people from wanting to go.

«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.»

I do not know to what extent other views of covenant relations of peoples with gods included this element of the divine initiative.

That Jesus was fully human does mean that the actual occasions constituting Jesus as a living person were not in any instance the actual entity God or, if God is conceived as a living person, the actual occasions constituting the divine life.

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.

It will be argued that the divine aims are substantially the same for societies as for persons, and consequently that such qualities as sinful, wayward, moral, and redeemed characterize institutions as truly as they do men.

When religious people stop attempting to codify their religious beliefs into our laws just because they are the majority and think they have some kind of divine right to do so, then they wouldn't need to be bad mouthed.

I do not mean that I believe him to be divine, or that he was without sin, or even that he was necessarily the wisest and best of all people.

One does not «correlate» the Catholic faith to something else, or «recontextualise» the faith to some new cultural condition, but rather one «interrupts» the non-Christian culture with the message of the divine mediatorial office of the person of Christ as expressed so powerfully in the Letter to the Hebrews.

He didn't tell people that they were forgiven «as of Passover the year after next or that they were worthless and without hope until the divine bloodlust had been satisfied.

People like me see that how you worship has more to do with your environment than the divine.

What religiously insecure people like this author cant grasp is that we just don't need a group of collective fools claiming some divine right to humanity.

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.

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.

Then he says, Jesus manifested this divine life in human being as no other person had ever done before.

what about people who don't believe the bible is the divine inspired word of your imaginary man in the sky?

If the divine in him knew something he did not, we are back to two persons.

I don't believe in his divinity, or any divine being, but am open to believing a person by that name existed.

Most people who seek spiritual healing are tired of being told what to do in the material world and are looking for a connection to the divine.

At the same time, honest theists today must recognize that many intelligent and insightful persons look at the world and do not see a divine hand.

However, the pope also said that people who use chemical weapons - as the Syrian government has been accused of doing - will face divine judgement.