Sentences with phrase «divine persons from»

Or, seen from the opposite perspective, creation (and with it all of human history) is a partial expression of the exchange of love between the three divine persons from all eternity.

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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.

(Psalm 14), and Paul wrote «For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.»

That's the religious bullying that impacts a person's life - not a T - beam recovered from a crime scene that Christians believe is divine.

Denying the divine origins of the human person, our government has withdrawn the law's protection from unborn children in the womb» the most absolutely innocent and defenseless members of our human family.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

able to create the universe in his divine ability, but can't stop someone from drinking a six pack of mickey's and plowing into an innocent person killing them.

Buber contends that the fact that the Holy Land is also inhabited by another people (as it always has been, from biblical to modern times) should not be an obstacle but instead is a challenge to embody that divine call in the modern world.

There are all sorts of ways even ordinary people can BS a «resurrection» — and besides, Lazarus was raised from the dead, and no one claims he was divine.

and in the first part of Acts (chapters 1 - 12), and even with the main body of Q. For Mark, Jesus is no longer a prophet, mighty in word and deed before God and all the people»; he is from the beginning of his ministry the anointed Messiah, the Son of God, and by his calling and divine destiny the heavenly «Son of Man.»

Exile is a move to that realm where divine liberation can begin to take on meaning, because it springs from the longing of a separated people.

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,

The Caliphate or Imamate in Islam is not based on a heavenly sanction which gives the Caliph power from God to rule the nation; he has no divine authority which makes it the duty of the people to obey him at any cost.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

With entire unconstraint Jeremiah found thus in solitary prayer immediate entrance into the divine presence and, sensitive, poetic spirit though he was, lacerated by national calamity and individual rejection, he was accustomed to go out from this interior resource to face the world again, having heard Yahweh say to him, «I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen wall... I am with thee.»

Instead, both in the suffering of the Holocaust and in the triumphant Jewish return from exile, he saw the call of a radical new Christian task: «to see the Jews as God sees them, to love them as He loves them, to understand their place in the divine plan for Salvation according to the theological vocation of God's people.»

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 aroundFrom 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 aroundfrom death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.

As Christians, we are glad to assert that the commandment to have no other god, when allied to the gospel, liberated us from the divine ancien régime; or that this same commandment must be proclaimed again if modern persons are to be rescued from the superstitions of our age.

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.

I'm no biblical scholar, but this is addressed in Romans 1:20 «For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.»

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.

What seems to be lacking in his exposition is an explicit equation between process in God and community, such that the community life of the three divine persons is understood to be a process, partly identical with the process of human history but also partly distinct from it.

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).

Out of the mind and faith of prophetism a fourth member in the meaningful scheme of Israel's history was added, a second act of divine redemption from chaos, redemption by return again to the land, redemption by the reconstitution of the people Israel.

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.

«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.

20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse» ---------- Is that to me?

From the great flood, to the drought inflicted on all Israel because of the sins of King Ahab (I Kings 17), to the great wind that killed Job's children, the weather was assumed to be explainable by reference to God (or gods, in other religions) and to divine pleasure or displeasure with people.

It is also why the insistent human belief that justice for all people and deliverance from oppression and servitude is met by the divine Love that labors for precisely such justice and freedom.

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse - Romans 1

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.

In his significant work Christianity in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianity.

Orthodox Christianity has customarily moved from an account of Christ's person (fully divine, fully human) to his work (revealer of the Father and reconciler to the Father).

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.

The parables which best illustrate the divine initiative that stems from the yearning love of God for every person, whatever one's moral status or station in life, are the trilogy of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost boy, ordinarily called the prodigal son.

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.

What has been claimed as revelation from a divine source of knowledge is in fact the product of human creativity, stretching back over a very long time and involving countless people.

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Vatican I emphasized the divine character of the papal office and made it seem distant from average people.

20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Somewhere along the way, some people got tired of arguing about what God really said, and who really was «hearing from God» or not, and so they decided to organize and categorize all the various forms of divine revelation, and create a hierarchy.

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.

Paganism, at least, believes in a natural law, and it is an easy jump from there, says C. S. Lewis, to teach people the divine law as recorded in Scripture and revealed through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To be the answer for people whose most deeply felt need was release from sin or escape from the evils of the world — people whose common sense was different from ours — it was fitting that Jesus should be sinless and divine.

First, we must remember that in Scripture, and especially in Pauline theology, Jesus Christ is the ultimate elect one, and individual people become elect, not through an eternal divine decree from God, but by joining with Christ by faith.

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.

Michael struggles to restore divine justice and defends the People of God from his enemies, above all from the enemy par excellence, the devil.

Even those who were foreign and not even from Judaea recognised the outpouring of divine love emanating from the person of Jesus as Bartimaeus did.