Not exact matches
Ogden's own view is to look upon God as Process, as a social
reality that interacts with human persons in a relational way, and
who is temporal and historical because he grows, matures, evolves and becomes, while at the same time being God because he is likewise infinite,
eternal, unchanging and immutable.
But what chance does the Father have to appear as a God of supreme loyalties and divine ideals in the souls of men
who give little or no time to the thoughtful contemplation of such
eternal realities?
a
reality... so there really is no «nicer way» physical death isn't nice... it isn't all good stuff... with the exception it is the vehicle for thos of us
who believe in Gods Promises to
eternal life..
Brian, Well I suppose I do have a fear about what these fantasy beliefs can do to cause trouble all over the world, as if we don't have enough with real problems of political ills, poverty, diseases and natural disasters; but mostly I am repelled by so many, like eaglemt and the huge number of others like him / her,
who preach hell - fire and
eternal torment for those
who don't regard their unproven beliefs as
reality.
Just as Christ in his concrete historical
reality (and not only as the
eternal Logos of the world) is the salvation of all men, even of those
who lived before his time, through hundreds of thousands of years of an immeasurable, toiling history, obscure and unintelligible to itself, the same applies, mutatis mutandis, to the Church.
These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and conservative thinkers
who accent the «five smooth stones» by which the Goliath of secular humanism is to be slain: substitutionary atonement, Christ's imminent return, the
reality of
eternal punishment, the necessity of personal assurance of salvation and the truth of the miracles.
Then, freed from its downward tendency to the finite, it can effect the dynamism towards the God of
eternal life
who, in his innermost
reality as communicable and as communicated, is the goal and end of man's supernatural vocation.
Even for those
who believe in the Christian possibility of
eternal life, death is still a
reality and still stings.
The word Son here refers to the
eternal Word of God, the divine Self - Expression,
who in much Christian discourse has been called «the Son» — although some of us regret this because it tends to confuse things when a term appropriate to Jesus as humanly God's Son is applied to the divine
reality itself.
Baptism doesn't give us
eternal life, but is simply an outward symbol of an inner
reality that is true of all
who believe in Jesus for
eternal life.
Therefore, God is that actual entity
who gives
reality to
eternal objects by including them within himself.
For those
who know this
reality of
eternal life, there is no denying it.
Anyway it is the first game, but back to
reality for all those
who thought we were going to win the league or were contender... Same old Arsenal (and Wenger) not bringing the players we need and gambling on guys like Welbeck (sh*t player), Wilshere (
eternal hope, but will never be top) and more of the same Wenger craps!
Eternity is pretty much as the name describes: he is
eternal, an abstract
who is omnipotent and he represents all of time and
reality.
She was an
eternal friend and activist
who dared to turn dreams into
reality.
When I was the age that many kids today are
who are playing games like GTA and COD, I was never allowed to play nor see anything that was age rated for adults because my parents felt I needed to learn about life first and to know the fine line between
reality and fiction and right and wrong, I never got to play my first adult rated game till I was 17 and had proven that I was mature enough to not copy anything from the game, that game was
Eternal Champions on the Mega Drive, fun game, but tacky.
The wind industry is a lot like Peter Pan — the
eternal child,
who will fight, kick and scream to avoid the stark
reality of adulthood.
I don't have the benefit of long experience to know whether this is just hope springing
eternal or this overdue notion actually has a shot at becoming
reality; those I've spoken to about it
who do have that long experience are... well, they're not counting their chickens.