Sentences with phrase «god as»

Because Jesus cherry - picked the Old Testament to present God as non-violent.

An adoptive mother named Linda discovered this embrace of God as she struggled to care for her son.

Most preferable, I believe, would be the pronoun «it,» but this leads to some very awkward locutions, awkward only because we are so ingrained in thinking of God as having gender.

This is the greatest country in the world because we were founded with God as the foundation and political correctness has destroyed us.

23I call God as my witness — and I stake my life on it — that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

«Humility is before God as well as before people,» Joyce says.

One possible counter argument that many christians generally do not contemplate (although objectivelty just as possible) is that there is a monotheistic god as you say but the thing is that he does nt want you to believe in him... and thus being an atheist grants you access to the «heaven».

If I were forced to choose between God as temporal and God as pure act (or as a timeless singular actual entity).

The rest of the 69 renderings of verses do not mention an «exact» location for the whereabouts of the True KIngdom of God as Luke17: 21 does so affirm!

Process philosophers in the tradition of Charles Hartshorne propose an account of God as changing from moment to moment, and therefore as internally complex, internally affected by events in the world, and essentially dependent on other nondivine realities.

Think of God as a relationship, if we could not relate to God, then we would not be with God anyway.

He seemed to talk with God as a man talks to a friend, or a Father.

On what basis do you demand everyone see the same image or that you should be entitled to see or experience God as I have?

Even late in the 20th Century, fundamentalist inst / itutions still opposed miscegenation «Although there is no verse in the Bible that dogmatically says that races should not intermarry, the whole plan of God as He has dealt with the races down through the ages indicates that interracial marriage is not best for man.»

Some consider God as a myth, a figment of one's imagination, outside of reality.

As he explains, «The real presence effected in the Eucharist that is celebrated on the earthly altar is, as the liturgy indicates, a presence in and with Christ in heaven, where he stands before God as our great high priest.»

It would be absurd to try to reject Nicolas Cusanus» idea of God as «coincidentia oppositorum» because of the inconsistency of this idea.

Of course Deism holds to the belief of God as the creator of the universe.

Long ago, Edgerton noted that the Gita's theism «differs from pantheism... in that it regards God as more than the universe» (4:149).

Whitman and Dewey, writes Rorty, «wanted that utopian America to replace God as the unconditional object of desire.»

Such a move undermines the very notion of the land as the embodiment of God as «place.»

It asks us to address God as a function.

His being our husbandry may well regard God as having a firm footing in our conceptions of childbirthing beyond mere genetic understandings!

While you serve the same God as the Jewish people, their practices are not the same as ours, nor are we expected to live the same as them.

Man will never prove or disprove the existence of God as long as they are alive.

Many years ago, I told my congregation they should get just as excited about God as they do for their favorite sports team.

We have seen firsthand that people who rely on God as the owner of their money are more confident, more content and more free in their finances.

The brunt of Walker's evidence falls upon his appeal to God as the God of all.

Your own beliefs suffer if measured against those criteria — show how a god created the universe and show how you know it is your god as opposed to the thousands of others.

In order to know God, we really have to be pure as a child, so we could be in tune in feeling and receiving God as a form of energy.

There is a deep cleavage between those who agree with Whitehead in describing God as a single actual entity, nontemporal in his primordial nature and everlasting in his consequent nature (the «entitative» view), and those who prefer with Charles Hartshorne to regard God as a personally ordered temporal society of successive occasions (the «societal» view).

Ezekiel Garragut imagines God as a fierce force rather like himself, a dark diviner of souls who delights less in rewarding the pure with bliss eternal than in sinking sinners in an excremental hell.

I am a member of several 12 step groups and a very important part of recovery is God as we understand him!

Following my lead, Pike's diagrams naturally lead one to think of God as a power plant, upon which many autonomous systems draw their current.

it reminds me the way Michael Frost (and many others in other words, like NT Wright, Bonhoeffer, and even Ellul) explain the kingdom of God as being some kind of a «trailer» for the Kingdom that is coming, and christians would be already living the the Kingdom reality right here in this world, where it seems to the eye that there is no kingdom of God at all.

The AA program seeks to reverse this catastrophic farrago by rewriting the mental pathways of the addict using his residual spiritual notions to restore God as the ultimate witness to his behavior, coaxing him to live again in harmony with his given nature and natural limits.

Augustine arrived at this insight not by studying the world scientifically but by reflecting on the basic datum of the Christian faith: the doctrine of God as informed by the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

The potentcy inthe words are key so tha people should be able to get as close to the meaning and voice of God as they can get.

When Whitehead experimented with the notion of God as a timeless actual entity, this was, strictly speaking, an arbitrary disconnection of principles.

In some recently published research on American pastors losing their faith, none talked of missing God as a person.

Do we hold up the word of God as a filter, blocking out every scene that does not contain a scriptural equivalent?

Most classical theologians do not object to the characterization of God as a divine male, but most process theologians, as well as all feminists firmly reject this characterization.

religion is what man created to control the masses using God as the rod....

For both systems God as efficient cause must remain actual.

This strength comes to us from God as we exercise and train and discipline ourselves.

Then you might understand that Christian god as described in the bible is not loving, doesn't give a hoot about human suffering, and in fact does not exist.

Typically this process leads to a characterization of God as a being so advanced, powerful, immortal, and not subject to the laws of time, matter, and space that his followers can make up any excuse they choose to address questions, since nothing about their god (or gods) can be subjected to any kind of objective verification or scrutiny, just like everything else in the religion.

Fifth, perhaps the most difficult theological question of all is the issue of our understanding of God as it relates to sexual dualism.

As David Griffin observes: «Although traditional theism insisted verbally that God is incorporeal, it in effect regarded God as a ubiquitous Superman» (ER 104).

However, if one reads the story carefully, Job, his wife, and his friends all clearly acknowledge God as the source of Job's woes.