First, the primordial or
eternal nature of God as the principal of abstraction or originality and the source of the initial aim, and second, the consequent or temporal nature of God in which God, as part of reality, interacts with the rest of reality.
12 In other words, an adequate trinitarian theology can not develop a notion of God's actions in history that is incompatible with its claims about God's
own eternal nature.
As Vilenkin saw it, inflation's
eternal nature stemmed from two competing properties of the cosmic fuel, the gravity - repulsive material that caused the universe to rapidly expand.
The Son's body was not an alien or unanticipated addition to
his eternal nature; it was a revelation of that nature.
I can not just pretend they do not have
an eternal nature.
There is
an eternal nature to most everything he did and said.
But Flournoy claims that the declaration, «In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God» (John 1:1), denotes only the beginning of the physical creation, not Christ's
eternal nature.
My son was leading a service on the Trinity and having talked about
the eternal nature of the Trinity he pointed out that when Jesus called out those words the eternal Trinity itself was broken — for us.
Yet............ for some odd reason they NEVER EVER EVER mention any of the other world's religions who all believe in God, premortal life, postmortal life, creation,
the eternal nature of the human soul, morality, God's justice, atonement, forgiveness, judgment, reward, and on and on and on.
The Christian proceeds, but he can do so only by faith, and he can speak about
the eternal nature of hope only in the language of faith.
What scares me most is people who don't believe in God as they don't perceive any consequences of
an eternal nature and are prone to come up with some pretty off the wall stuff.
In On the Incarnation, Athanasius argues
the eternal nature of the Trinity and affirms that Jesus Christ is not a creation of God the Father, but existed from the very beginning.
Viewed in this light, any appearance of inferiority of the Son and Spirit to the Father merely reflects our limited human condition and does not take into account
the eternal nature of God.
A geologist who has discovered truths about the structure of the earth may be oblivious to the truths God has given us about
the eternal nature of the family.
For they constitute
the eternal nature of God and thus are always instantiated by an actuality.
The author of the letter to the Hebrews reveals
the eternal nature of this one sacrifice of Christ — a work begun in time and carried as integral to the identity of the Incarnate Word forever: «Jesus is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.»
Denis Lenoir's cinematography is beautiful, evoking
the eternal nature of the dance - club scene and yet sensitive to its nuanced changes, how it moved from DIY to corporate.
The eternal nature of the modern book is vastly underappreciated, because the development is so new.
This is where and when the drama of life and suffering ends, you rest in
your eternal nature which is unconditional love.»
Where landscape once revealed the omnipresence of God in the grandeur of
eternal nature, or later documented a moment and place through an atheistic naturalism inspired by Darwin, it has now evolved into a formal device devoid of meaning, save for the individual viewer's personal interpretation.
But that's okay because some of those things are of
an eternal nature: peace, love, and music come to mind.
When I am in touch with that, I feel
the eternal nature of Love and how profoundly it moves within me and within all of us.