Sentences with phrase «god body good»

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As a gay believer, I am quite convinced that the original plan of God was not homosexuality... that it wasn't the original «design» (a simple inventory of body parts does well to illustrate this point).

This is a matter of what is the best way that our actions can glorify God with our bodies.

how brain that is in your body works zillion times better than a super computer, u can never deny of a genius God who created that brain.

Each step in this retreat from the body reinforces the Gnostic claim that God cares only about the soul, that what is right and good and holy transcends the body, that the created order is no order at all.

He spoke to me through one of my oldest best friends (who by the way is also completely non-religious; it was although God took over his body and voice to speak with me) and delivered so many messages over a period of about 2 hours that my mind feels like it will explode.

God is doing something about all the destruction of this world, and has a solution — Faith in His Son Jesus Christ will get you forgiveness of all your sins, eternal life in an immortal body, and everything good you could ever imagine, both now and in heaven.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&raWell aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&rawell as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Yes Christ may well have been the very 1st son born before the earth was made as it now is and yes Christ came to this world to prove to his father that he (Christ Jesus) was who he was by dying and going into his dead body to where his father did reign to show to his father that his very first mission to establish all the ways and means needed to keep the nasty from ever anymore to be but only the ruled over within the confining constraints of all celestial cosmologies everywhere to be so known by God Almighty!

At least you are in somewhat of an agreement that one's body may well be a «temple» of God!

The use of your body in athletics is a recognition of God's good creation of the human body.

The humane and Christian view, however, sees the human person as including a spirit which needs a body as a complement and mediator to fulfil his destiny as a traveller to God, the Ultimate Good, through the goodness of the material cosmos.

«The Christian vision of the human person made in the image of God with a spiritual soul as well as a body is of central importance.

Is it better to accept an imaginative picture of God as the distant ruler controlling his realm through external and benevolent power or one of God so intimately related to the world that the world can be imagined as God's body?

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

Surely God has a plan and a purpose for his Church as a corporate body as well as for the individuals who make up that corporate body.

The notion has tantalized many, including Tertullian and Irenacus, and though it received little assistance from either Platonism or Aristotelianism because of their denigration of matter and the body (and hence did not enter the mainstream of either Augustinian or Thomistic theology), it surfaced powerfully in Hegel as well as in twentieth - century process theologies.22 The mystical tradition within Christianity has carried the notion implicitly, even though the metaphor of body may not appear: «The world is charged with the grandeur of God» (Gerard Manley Hopkins, 27).

I think the «temple» of our bodies is so important to God, because He is not only desirous of dwelling with and in us in Oneness in Spirit, but in flesh and Body as well.

The suggestion, however, that God cares about the world as one cares about one's own body, that is, with a high degree of sympathetic concern, does not imply that all is well or the future assured, for with the body metaphor, God is at risk.

For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.

They will need to learn that the body of Christ is of great faith - building benefit from the cradle to the grave, the Word of God is not just a book full of good ideas to live by, Jesus isn't just a good friend to have in a pinch — He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life — the only way to the Father and eternal life.

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

However, I believe that there is a notion in process philosophy by which one could, using the same self - body analogy, more adequately explain what would constitute a «special» act of God, and thereby better explain how Jesus could be God's decisive act.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

You know dayum well no body is saying there could never been any evidence for God, just that no credible evidence has been provided.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

Well, he said that cancer was the weapon, but that her body and life here on earth wasn't what Satan was aiming for... it was her faith in God that he was after.

How did God made the human body work so well from things us humans can't make ourselves from scratch like how we can create computers, iPhones, etc that work well too?

The largest Pentecostal body, the Church of God in Christ estimates its total membership at 3 million, and there are uncounted numbers of persons affiliated with less well - known church groupings and thousands of free - standing congregations.

And yet this dead revolutionary inspired monotheistic Jews to believe that he was God and worthy of worship - so much so that they were willing to die for a historical fact that would have been easy to disprove (note that Crossan needs the dogs to leave no evidence of the body as well).

Beautiful buildings in which to worship are not meant as gifts to the world but as offerings to God; offering not the mediocre but only the best, it is a material offering, just as we try to offer the best body (which is called by Him His temple) to Him, the difference being that He builds up in us the best temple in which to reside, Could more people have been fed with the money spent on building a church or a cathedral; maybe.

-------- Oh love is good, but how about::::::::::::::::::::: It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

And we were designed by God, not Steve Jobs, for human bodies to work well produce sperms and eggs both needed from two different humans to create one, and be creative too like God is and make iPhones.

«Human bodies were designed by God» which would only go to show that God wasn't very good at what He did.

Though incidental to the present topic, I can not resist the temptation to comment that if the universe is the body of God, this is the best of reasons for believing that though God is spatially extended, he could not be literally (physically) either male or female.

The problem with the dear Reformed brethren (and sisters) is that they can speak much and wax poetically about the majesty of God, the drepravity of man and the gospel, as a Topic (filling many libraries), but don't actually give you the good news: you, yes, you, my body and blood shed for You.

God cements mankind into society for their greater good, while each, consenting to submit his exercise of the several powers with which he is vested to the cognizance of the whole body, agrees to deny himself such gratifications as are deemed incompatible with the felicity of the rest....

There is a ministry belonging to all Christian people as participant in the Body of Christ; as the Good Friday prayer puts it, «every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry» is to serve the purposes of God in Christ.

With this in mind, preachers of the «good news» needs always to remember that in their proclamation of that which in Christ God has «determined, dared, and done» (in Christopher Smart's compelling words) they are speaking not just for the contemporary Church but for the whole body of faithful people.

Know full well that your Gods; Whom are within your templed bodies can no longer be the One's who rule with impunities and subvesionalism!

I believe this is so wrong those people who cheat should go to hell and those people who stay faithful but love have fade they have the right to divorce is good not the other way around so your saying cheating is okay so many people do suicide cause of cheating but divorce is bad / divorce to save your partner from getting cheated from you I think god on this is so wrong and should send them straight to hell cause they are going to continue to cheat and divorce people should be forgiven cause they didn't hurt no body and nobody did suicide

With these practices, we can begin to embrace the gift of God's very good creation — our bodies and the Earth.

But Pauline and Johannine theology advertised something new as central to the Good News: the flesh is redeemed, the body will see God; the risen Christ is not just a redeemer, he is an exemplar, the first fruits of the eternal harvest.

I think keeping ideals in mind is very good to keep us humble and hungering for more, but the risk is that people then appoint themselves apostles and church planters to the body of christ global and defend their expression of church as touching on gods purpose more than anyone else.

The Universal Foundation for Better Living, founded in 1974 by the Rev. Johnnie Colemon (who came out of the Unity church), believes that «Everything that exists, or ever will exist is pressed out of the body of God (God - Substance) in different forms of manifestation.

But the value of the nursing breast as a symbol of God's provision might need to be reconsidered in our own time, a time in which the technological capacity for, and interest in, objectifying women's bodies contributes to eating disorders among young women as well as to rape.

While the details of our eternal life with our glorified body, with each other, and with God are necessarily sketchy at best, it is clear that some thought has been given to Bernard Williams» concern for boredom.

And third, the way of love is to put the emphasis on a positive respect for one's body as the temple of God's spirit, on one's money as held in stewardship from God for constructive uses, on one's mind as needing to be kept clear and vigorous for God's service, on one's spirit and all one's social contacts as best finding active expression with «relaxation and warm fellowship» through channels that require no artificial stimulation.