Sentences with phrase «divine purpose for»

This destiny is seen as the consummation of the creation and as the realization of the divine purpose for the world.

Yet in the absence of any comparable witness to the intensification of divine purpose for man this historical recital is indispensable.

Just as a commandment is best fulfilled when a Jew understands why God gave each commandment the way he did, so the Jews» chosenness is best lived for — and died for — when we understand the uniquely divine purpose for which God chose us.

There was a divine purpose for it.

The result is a decisive exhibition of how things are meant to be — for even if humans had not sinned, this would have been the divine purpose for humanity.

In the Whiteheadian interpretation of reality, these initial aims proposed by God are not capricious nor due to inscrutable divine purposes for his creatures, but are relevant aims toward maximizing the intensity of experience which is possible from the particular perspective of each concrescing occasion.

We do not know what effect such prayers will have, but we do know that all generous prayer is valued by God, and while God always does the best that can be done in every circumstance, we may cherish the thought that God also can use prayer of that kind for furthering the divine purposes for good, though it may be in a way past human comprehension.

Not exact matches

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

Will congregations that seek to rout sexism by reaching for inclusive language be energized by that pain for a divine purpose?

I now wish to argue that conformity with the divine telos may, for purposes of ethical deliberation, be translated into what I call the maximal happiness principle: so act as to maximize happiness — and, by implication, in the long run.

That is how Mark ponders and wrestles with and finally solves the problem: Christ had to die — it was the divine decree — but Christ voluntarily accepted his death, as «for many»; and the characters in the tragedy all express, the events in the story all serve, this one overmastering purpose.

If there is an eternal torment, it would have to be created by God for the express purpose of punishment, and only by His divine omnipotence would anyone ever be contained within.

If Christians believe that there is a divine plan for everyone and that everything has a purpose in that plan, then all of them should believe that every move of every player in every game is part of that plan.

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.»

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

For they are expressions of the divine purpose as well as the means of developing the human spirit.

For purposes of brevity, let us simply take up the problem of medieval painting and sculpture, and ask if God - images here play a significant role, and, more particularly, ask if we can here discover a significant relation between God - images and Christ - images, a relation reflecting a uniquely Christian apprehension of the evolutionary movement and transformation of the divine process.

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

Perhaps pursuit of the maximal human creativity should be constrained by the following principle of environmental respect: A purpose that reduces natural creativity relative to some alternative for the decision in question is a violation of the maximal divine good unless the purpose is required in order to maximize human creativity in the long run.8 All implications considered, I expect that maximizing human creativity itself includes adherence to this principle.

Virtually all previous representatives of the modern natural law tradition, including Grotius and even Hobbes, had in some way or other related natural rights to divine power or command, which served as the source for the directives of natural law notwithstanding that these did not derive from a divine telos or comprehensive purpose.

By refuses to evolve, the Catholic Church is as good as denying the possibility of continuing divine revelation which, when viewed in a certain light, is as good as saying God is dead to humanity for all intents and purposes.

Human potentiality is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal instrument open to employment by God but with full human freedom retained — adequate for the divine purpose.

Each of us is an «unfulfilled capacity,» made with and for a purpose — or, as our process conceptuality requires us to put it, «being made...» The Christian would say that we are thus being made toward the image of God, to reflect, and personally (and socially) act for, the divine Love; and the deepest intentionality in us is in the direction of finding genuine fulfillment in fellowship with God.

Obviously my prayers for the departed will not be effectual in persuading God to do what already God must be doing — remembering them once they have been received into the divine life and employing their human accomplishments for the furthering of the divine purpose.

This certainly is for the best; nothing could be more splendid, nothing more rewarding, than the confident assurance that we matter to God and that he is both able and willing to use what we have done, and hence what we are, for the further expression of the love which is the divine nature and purpose.

It is, therefore, an act of astonishing courage scarcely short of divine command that the prophet offers a reason and purpose for waiting: God will bring the reward of superabundant blessing.

In this sense, as we can see, there is deep truth in the medieval saying tota vita Christi misterium crucis — «the entire life of Christ is the mystery of the Cross» — because, as the apostolic witness testifies, Jesus gave himself at all times and in all places and with all those who met him, as One obedient to the divine Father's purpose for him.

It assumed that a conception of God suitable for religious purposes would align the divine purpose with human good.

If, for our purposes, Cotton Mather can stand as a kind of archetype of Puritanism, with his very considerable impulsive energy kept in tight control and consecrated with meaning by its service to the divine plan, Benjamin Franklin may serve, as he has for so many others, as an archetype of the worldly American.

The divine aim to call forth civilizations whose meanings and purposes are at one with God's purposes - for - them and whose histories accord with the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only where individual human beings, citizens of those societies, act and believe in ways transparent to the ways of God.

His purposes for institutions are in this sense akin to his purposes; for other inanimate or nonhuman portions of the creation, They are: necessary conditions instrumental for the fulfillment of human aims and of the divine aims for human beings.

Christians for whom the divine purpose requires a political community that fashions and draws out our common humanity are summoned to join in the search for appropriate ways to regulate the role of money in political campaigns.

Thus he says: «For the purposes of his «demythologizing» program Bultmann defines mythology as «the use of imagery to express the other worldly in terms of this world and the divine in terms of human life, the other side in terms of this side.

So soon as only a few years had passed, say three or four, this division in the originally indivisible experience must have insensibly taken place in their minds, for they were intercalary years, so to speak, not provided for in their first calendar of the divine purpose.

For they held firmly to a divine purpose and process in history.

We understand by the Logos or divine creative Word the sum totality of all God's specific creative purposes for all creatures.

Each new event rests back upon and is an expression of, while it also provides genuine fulfillment for, the originative and final purpose which is divine — in one sense, even the «evil» occasion has this reference, although God is not «responsible» for it.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

Angels can directly and unambiguously accomplish the divine purpose, for in theory they lack the creaturely freedom that so distorts the course of history.

For the present, however, the point is that the quality of the Spirit, and hence our criterion for knowing whether any given spirit is indeed to be linked with the Spirit of God, is for Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the worFor the present, however, the point is that the quality of the Spirit, and hence our criterion for knowing whether any given spirit is indeed to be linked with the Spirit of God, is for Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the worfor knowing whether any given spirit is indeed to be linked with the Spirit of God, is for Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the worfor Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the world.

The Qur» an instituted the fast during the month of Ramadan as training in piety and patience and an opportunity to express thankfulness for divine blessings; the Prophet added the requirement that alms be given at the end of the fast of Ramadan as an act which is an additional means of accomplishing those purposes.

Cobb recognizes that his account goes «a little beyond the confines of description of Whitehead's account in Process and Reality in the direction of systematization, «10 but he is prepared to defend his interpretation in detail.11 What is important for our purposes is the fact that the involvement of God's consequent nature in divine persuasion renders that activity intensely personal.

God's directive provides an initial aim for this process of integration, but unlike the efficient causal influences, that aim can be so drastically modified that its original purpose could be completely excluded from physical realization in the final outcome.4 Insofar as the occasion actualizes its initial aim, the divine persuasion has been effective.

There has been no revelation from on high: the moral requirements of Christianity are not divine commands, but human constructs generated from epigenetic rules for the purpose of securing survival and reproduction.

Such knowledge is good and true so far as it goes, but its very variety and its wide diffusion make it impossible for it to be used as giving a determinative disclosure of the divine nature and the divine purpose in the world.

I have now finished studying «Genesis 1 — 11: A Real History of the Ancient World» facilitated by brother Tim Patterson whom God has brought to our lives at a time as this for divine purposes.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that this teaching and instructing can be done much more effectively in the parish house, in the church hall and the like, at sessions specifically arranged for the purpose, rather than in the course of divine worship.

Rather, it is a unity derived from principles of community and canon; from the memory of the community of Israel; and from Israel's understanding of its past and its present (and its future) as time and event given ultimate meaning only in terms of critical divine activity for critical divine purposes.