Well sure... it means we are HUMAN, and
function in the way God designed.
Not exact matches
I am not above anyone as a Catholic, I am simply a human who believes that
God is there for me when I need him, but also that
God and Jesus, along with all of their followers have provided me with the tools I need to
function in my life without
God by my side every step of the
way.
We see this a lot
in the gender debates, especially among those who suggest that the only
way a family can truly honor
God is with a husband who
functions as the family breadwinner and a wife who
functions as a stay - at - home mom to their 2.5.
But
God has been speaking
in secular
ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and
functioning of the world
in which they live; he is at work
in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.
If they are defined
in a theological
way, how
in actual practice is this school's goal to educate persons for «ministerial
functions» related to its overarching goal
in some
way «to have to do with
God»?
On the other hand, if the concrete
way this school does «have to do with
God» is ordered to education for ministerial
functions, is it not then
in practice using «having to do with
God» for a further, ulterior purpose («educating for ministerial
functions»), thus corrupting its proper theological character («having to do with
God for
God's own sake»)?
This
function of the will, though it is the responsibility of a person, is not meritorious
in any
way, for faith is not a work (Rom 4:5), but is simply being persuaded or convinced about what is true, which,
in the case of eternal life, is being persuaded that eternal life is the free gift of
God to all who believe
in Jesus for it.
The emphases
in counseling on respect for the orderly cause - effect sequences
in the world of the psyche and on the necessity of a person's growing
in his responsibility for his own inner life can help to counteract any tendency
in spiritual healing to
function in ways which encourage magic or the temptation to shift the total responsibility to
God.
The answer is that theology is a very human, and very important, enterprise; that grasping and assimilating what
God has done and continues to do is not something that can be engaged
in passively but is a challenge to everything any of us possesses; that the separation of theologizing from what the minister and the church try, fallibly but authentically, to hear of the Word of
God in specific situations from some alleged and remote theology is bound to be blasphemous as well as mistaken; and that the one
way to hear the Word of
God, if it contains the Protestant principle, is to submit our
functions to concrete self - criticism.
My answer to this question is that I find it impossible to give meaningful content to the idea of a subjective aim derived from
God which will
function in the specified
way.
In contrast to the foregoing, our contention will be that the «natures» of
God can better be understood, not as distinguishable parts, but as
ways of indicating various interdependent modes of
functioning by the whole actual entity,
God.
By this he meant that for a great many people the whole
function of their faith is to provide them either with a keen awareness of what
God does for them and
in them or with a
way of escape from the real facts of life.
The
way God functions in these essays should lead to fresh consideration of the relevance of these objections.
But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism
in a militant and fundamentalist
way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition
in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons
in community, and all natural and social
functions as sacramental means of communion
in the purpose of
God.
His good creation was not intended to
function this
way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom
in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of
God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction
in its wake.
The church has never identified
God with Jesus
in such a
way as to raise questions about the continuance of
God's
functions of sustaining the creation independently of Jesus.
The
function of ethical religion is to translate this idea of
God into a
way of life that would result
in a successful synthesis.
Instead, the terms seem to refer to the role or
function of someone who is being used by
God in a special
way to carry out
God's will on earth.
But you have to come
in the right
way, which is through the front door, for only
in this
way will the guests be properly attired to live, serve, and
function within
God's Kingdom (See Capon, Kingdom, Grace, Judgment, 464 - 465).
The object of theological inquiry is constantly
in danger of being reduced to the «name»
God and the
way it
functions to orient human life.
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never
functions in such a
way that human responsibility is curtailed, minimized, or mitigated.
Having a proper definition of church is absolutely necessary if we are going to
function the
way God wants
in this world.
26 For this reason
God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural
function for that which is [r] unnatural, 27 and
in the same
way also the men abandoned the natural
function of the woman and burned
in their desire toward one another, men with men committing [s] indecent acts and receiving
in [t] their own persons the due penalty of their error.
However, two points remain at which
God seems to
function in presenting eternal objects to actual occasions
in a
way radically different from that
in which they present eternal objects to each other.
Because creation ostensibly ended with the biblical era, we who follow are not considered a part of the ongoing creative process, but are to
function as the custodians of religious dogma and ritual, oblivious of Christ's words, «You have a fine
way of rejecting the commandments of
God,
in order to keep your tradition!»
There is another
way to conceive of our life
in God, but it requires a different worldview — not a clockwork universe
in which individuals
function as discrete springs and gears, but one that looks more like a luminous web,
in which the whole is far more than the parts.
In many ways this is like the vision of Diotma in Plato's Symposium, but because the Good is personal within Christianity, God (or the Good) is not just the Beloved, but can function as a Love
In many
ways this is like the vision of Diotma
in Plato's Symposium, but because the Good is personal within Christianity, God (or the Good) is not just the Beloved, but can function as a Love
in Plato's Symposium, but because the Good is personal within Christianity,
God (or the Good) is not just the Beloved, but can
function as a Lover.
Their
function — and it is an honorable though a humble one — is to serve as stepping - stones on the
way toward the only society
in which man can find a true satisfaction for his social nature; that is, a society which, so far from usurping the place of
God, has
God himself for its principal member.
In order to
function the
way God intends, you must understand your core identity.
In the way that substance functions in Spinoza's ethics, I believe «God» is a central concept the analysis of which gives us a clear model to observe how basic structures relat
In the
way that substance
functions in Spinoza's ethics, I believe «God» is a central concept the analysis of which gives us a clear model to observe how basic structures relat
in Spinoza's ethics, I believe «
God» is a central concept the analysis of which gives us a clear model to observe how basic structures relate.
Just
in case his readers construe this as being a human
function, Upadhyaya qualifies the extra-mundane character of this teaching: «Jesus Christ claims to have given to mankind the completest possible revelation of the nature and character of
God, of the most comprehensive ideal of humanity, of the infinite malice of sin, and of the only universal
way to release from the bondage of evil» (Ibid.)
fred... yes fred, i have a better
way — but you sir, i have no need to keep this conversation going, for you are terribly thick headed, and beyond brainwashed by religion... you claim to believe the bible and what is has to say yet allow for me to be a di - ck to
god without fear of recourse or any form of punishment from
god — back
in the day, i would have been smoted, now you losers claim that he will just torture me forever
in hell as my punishment — this implies that
god has learned better
ways to
function as
god — whoa, did anyone else just see what i said,
god learned... thats rather un-godly, to learn, being he is all knowing - but your right, i am wrong... jesus christ where did i put my fuk you card, oh
god - dam - nit... i must have thrown it away with all the other garbage i don't use... well too bad.
26 For this reason
God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural
function for that which is unnatural, 27 and
in the same
way also the men abandoned the natural
function of the woman and burned
in their desire toward one another, men with men committing [s] indecent acts and receiving
in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
Cobb says,»... the
way in which
God functions as the principle of limitation is by ordering the infinite possibilities of the eternal objects according to principles of value.
The CDF called on theologians to
function «
in communion with the Magisterium, which has been charged with the responsibility of preserving the deposit of faith» (6), and to offer the People of
God «a teaching which
in no
way does harm to the doctrine of the faith» (11).
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