Sentences with phrase «existence god gifted»

No wonder we've made such a mockery of this existence God gifted us.

Not exact matches

LOL: The Christian perspective is that God does indeed exist, and because of that, all human beings (including the ones who deny His very existence) are still endowed with some of the gifts He's given us — such as some capacity to reason, create, and love, though all imperfectly.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

In our mundane existence, we know God only partially, and the gifts of the Spirit appear to be more promise than fulfillment.

If the radical self - assertion which makes it impossible for man to achieve the authentic life of self - commitment is identical with sin, it must obviously be possible for man to understand his existence altogether as a gift of God.

We can know and be sure about God's existence from the evidence of creation, but to know God personally and grow in relationship with our creator, we need the gift of faith given to us in Jesus Christ through the Church.

Every moment of our existence is a gift from God.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

He reserved his deepest faith not for America but for the world as he saw it, on the theological assumption that the ordinary and everyday — the most mundane elements of human existence — are a gift from God.

Israel's present relatively ordered existence is the creation of God out of former disorder and is to be understood and accepted as his creative gift in fulfillment of his free promise to the patriarchs.

Work and play are positive gifts from God, though Qoheleth always tempers this awareness with his recognition of humankind's ambiguous existence and God's inscrutable ways.

God's perfect love and goodness is perfectly compatible with those persons who refuse the gift of salvation and immortality, but whose ongoing existence is defined by an ongoing rejection of the very God of love in whom they continue to «live and move and have their being.»

I believe that texts like the one from Revelation 14 cited above give us reason to believe that even those who reject God's gift of salvation and the glorification that entails still remain in conscious, embodied existence.

In such a framework, we can have «Christ without myth,» where he is understood as «the final reality of God's love that confronts us as sovereign gift and demand in all the events of our existence.»

For example, the causal argument is not really a demonstration of God's existence, but a statement of the experience that everything which exists comes as a gift and thus suggests the question concerning the ultimate sources of being.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

As to the third postulate, that of the existence of God, we respect its character as postulate, that is, as a theoretical proposition dependent on a practical exigency, if we tie it very directly to the first through the second: if the postulate of immortality deploys the temporal - existential dimension of freedom, the postulate of the existence of God manifests existential freedom as the philosophical equivalent of the gift.

If ever there was an opportunity in human history for the reconstruction of faith, for the self - disclosure of the Incomprehensible Transcendent source of being as God, as wholly loyal to his creation, as redeemer of all the promises given with the gift of existence itself, then it was at this point where faith in him became incarnate.

And finally, the awareness that our existence and whatever we have are God's gifts, and whatever control we have over the world is a delegated responsibility — in which, to use the Genesis phrase, God has made us to «have dominion» over the things of nature — ought to give us a wider, deeper sense of stewardship.

not sure i said this before or not, i have been on cnn.com for over a year — anyway — i have been going to random churches, temples, really place that worships any form of the of abraham and others — i have yet to get anywhere but where i started from — which is what i am, what i am meant to be, and what i was... only this has been gained — gained is a gift of a word for i knew all of this before i started and so i view my time as wasted only for this the reason of getting somewhere — i did meet many great people with great views but all required the very real existence of god which was something lacking and why they had a constant failure yet what they called «keeping the faith» att itude type results... something was missing or missunderstood — your take?

It is not something already present because of having been inaugurated by Jesus in his own person as the Messiah.24 It is the supernatural, superhistorical gift of God to him who responds affirmatively to God in the ultimate — even eschatological decision of his own existence.

Man must build his existence upon that which is beyond his control and available only as God's gift (ubi et quando visum est deo), upon a world which is transcendent by being basically future, and present only as the eschatological miracle, the gift of transcendence.

Moreover, the Christian conviction that our «happiness» is the gift of a God who determines all existence through the cross of Christ requires a radically transformed understanding of happiness, the virtues and friendship.

To sum up: God loves me into moment - by - moment existence, never giving up on me, never being defeated by what I do with God's gifts or what the world does to me in opposition to those gifts.

It may seem bizarre, both to those who are religiously gifted and to those who deny the existence of God, to suggest that faith in the God of our ancestors can be a substitute for faith of one's own, but if the closest one can come to God is through what was fashioned in His Spirit, it is still sufficiently humbling.

Here members of the local community lead a fairly simple existence where the dawn of each new day is perceived as a gift from the Gods.

What a sweet and simple reminder of the meaning of my existence... and the one consuming desire of the heart of God: to love and let myself be Loved in this life that is a Gift.