Sentences with phrase «false idea of god»

To envisage God in physical form, though it may be a useful step in childhood or for the beginner, if persisted in encourages a false idea of God and is a deterrent to inner spiritual fellowship.

Not exact matches

My assumption is that a book from God would dispel some of the ignorance of his followers who had totally false ideas of the earth they lived on.

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

What's really humorous is fred's insistence that we all must «agree» with him and his idea of what god said for our society to work and for people to be happy and free, when that's patently false.

Yes, the false understanding that we are completely blind about God is spiritually just as pernicious as the false understanding that we can know all about God, or that the whole idea of God is ridiculous.

It wasn't until towards the end of the Roman Empire did we come up with the idea that a single god governs everything and all others are simply false gods.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

Just another example of why believing in a false god is a bad idea.

When we remember that there are two kinds of forgiveness, one which is unconditional and freely given to all, and the other which grants release and deliverance from the enslaving power of sin, we see that this idea that God does not forgive ongoing adultery is false.

He argued that the traditional idea that God is able to unilaterally decide the events of the world is «not even coherent enough to be false» («Philosophy» 86).

That idea is only contrary to the church's false claims of being the «New Israel,» replacing and superseding God's covenant relationship with the Jews.

Perhaps it is necessary to rid ourselves of the false theological ideas we tend to accumulate about God through our experiences over time and blind us to the Immanent Divine Reality.

He measures God by the standard of his own false gods and personal ideas.

So when i say repent then remove your arrogance of the idea that you deserve heaven and acknowledge that you are deserving of death and you are not worthy to inherit the kingdom of heaven or even the next breath you take as long as you pledge to the United States of America or any (false gods) and live under the rules of Satan which is sin then you will not inherit eternal life.

If we import into our thinking ideas about rewards and punishments, as these are commonly understood, we turn God into «the ruthless moralist» who, as Whitehead once remarked, is one of the false «gods» that men have worshipped to their own frightful hurt.

In September, Time magazine organized a debate between Collins and Dawkins which touched on all the crucial issues: the false idea that science and faith should be held as not overlapping; the place of Darwinian evolution in the plan of God; the fine - tuning of the physical constants of nature; the literal interpretation of Genesis; the place of miracles including the incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus; and the origin of the moral law within the human heart.

What Jesus did was to pick out of the vast treasury of Jewish religious thought those insights which, he said, came closest to the truth about God, and to discard other ideas which he held to be false, misleading, or unworthy.

To say, therefore, that Jesus took the Jewish idea of God at its best but had no new idea of his own presents a false antithesis.

A first point seems to me to be this: to overcome [the] false idea of man's autonomy as an «I» complete in himself, whereas the «I» is fulfilled in the encounter with the «you» and «we»... It is fundamental to recover a true concept of Nature as the Creation of God that speaks to us... and also of Revelation: recognising that the book of Creation, in which God gives us our fundamental orientation, is deciphered in Revelation, which is endorsed in cultural and religious history, not without mistakes, but in a substantially valid manner, to be further developed and purified anew -LSB-... fostering] openness of the «I» to the «you», to the «we» and to the «You» of God.

If one holds to the idea of the complete sovereignty of God, does he say that this physical theory is not true, that it can not be true, or that it will be found to be false when more evidence is accumulated?

It means the end of false harmony which is founded upon the realm of the common... There is no need to justify, we have no right to justify, all the unhappiness, all the suffering and evil in the world with the help of the idea of God as Providence and Sovereign of the Universe.3

Why waste valuable time you could be spending doing something else or being with those you love instead of following around false ideas and imaginary beings... Your chances of being abducted by an alien are 100 % more likely to happen than meeting something called «god».