Sentences with phrase «god on their terms»

Many of the millennials leaving the church, «overall,» want god on their terms.

You only want a God on your terms.

Not exact matches

In terms of a global picture, the EU is even further along than the US by 20 or 30 years, where you wont find a single advanced northern European nation that would for ANYONE that goes on about «God» (unlike the US, which seems to require it during elections)... you'd get laughed off the election circuit.

The term is a symbolic reference to a body of believers who will peacefully and lovingly serve God and serve others, not bring destruction on anyone who is not a Christian.

Read Luke 9 or Matthew 10, and tell me that short - term missions aren't biblical, that Jesus doesn't use discomfort and risk to teach His disciples how to rely only on God.

I saw the empty chair as an invitation — an invitation to reckon with God on your own terms and in your own way.

Unfortunately this comment section has evolved (see I'm using «evolutionary terms») into a debate on whether or not God exists and if religion is true or false, and what religions are right, and who's wrong.

According to Deuteronomy (17:14 - 17), God eventually acceded to the Israelites» desire, but only on his own terms.

the person being voted for by these individuals probably does have the right scientific markings like, no God, abortion on demand no matter how late in term, good in business and stealing (er) expropriating for personal gain, cheating on your mate, etc, etc. 2nd.

Marion also says that the Christian metaphysicians relate to God too much on their own terms and on their own initiative; with this we come to one of the deepest ideas of the book.

It is impossible for any of us, as individuals, or all of us combined to prove God, on the terms that most understand, and in terms of what is humanly possible.

It is so interesting that many folks very dedicated talk of God in terms of a 1 on 1 relationship.

(Isaiah 55:6) Indeed, even the two thieves on the cross on either side of Jesus at His crucifixion found in those last moments where they stood in terms of their relationship to God: to the one, repentant, «today you shall be with me in paradise»; to the other, mocking and indifferent, Jesus offered no such comfort.

So you're too stupid to give some examples on a belief blog that focuses on religion and people who are religious and that they speak about god to give me alternatives to different terms?

You can not invite God into your life on your terms.

If i was Hawkins, i would be a bit more toughtful, and look deep into his own huiman condition and accept he «s a living miracle granted by virtue of God, or, in scientific terms, Anti Matter, so, as to try and figure out why is he still alive, and what is his real mission on earth.

The population that summer was 307,006,550... so in simple terms that would mean that the 24 % equates out to be approximately 73, 681, 572... I think there are more than enough... the difference between an Atheist baseball team and a christian ball team is that we'd walk away, have a beer and pat each other on the back for a job well done, a christian ball team would give credit to their god.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Because trying to motivate people to serve God by using fabricated timelines on Rapture dates and presenting them like a salesperson's «last - chance» sale always produces a short - term yield.

A devastating question if we think of God as an old man in the sky with a long white beard, and (if we think in those terms) we can go still further and ask «why not hide from the irascible old eccentric on the mountaintop when he threatens to burn you alive for all eternity if you don't believe in him?»

Being, to use your term, pragmatic about it, I admit my ignorance and posit that the answers to any and all of your questions have absolutely no bearing on whether or not I believe in a god or gods.

Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent

Building on the Pauline understanding of the male - female relationship in terms of the Christ - Church relationship, Holloway approaches the essential maleness of the priesthood from a consideration of the role that the two sexes have in the plan of God.

You don't have to stick to what others say family is, the same way you don't have to stick with what others say «god» is, or «love» is... so I don't quite get the holding on to some terms / verses / theologies in opposition to what you actually want / believe.

There can be no doubt that God makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»

We can not rely on a god to define the terms of goodness because there is no absolute, unerring record of said god.

Put theologically, the concept of the Kingdom of God needs to be translated into contemporary terms which preserve the tension between immanent historical potentiality (Thy Kingdom come on earth) and transcendent ultimate perfection (as it is in heaven).

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregation.

«The term can refer to theological accounts of the world as God's creation; or to philosophical reflection on the categories of space and time; or to observational and theoretical study of the structure and evolution of the physical universe; or, finally, to «world views»: unified imaginative perceptions of how the world seems and where we stand in it» (Tracy and Lash, vii).

Naturally suspicious of Hollywood's motives, he wrote to insist that God's action on the soul is the key to the novel, which, he said, «deals with what is theologically termed «the operation of grace,» that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to himself.»

Spanning the entire spectrum of creation, whether in terms of sex, politics, or religion, Christians affirm that God is speaking through the law written on human hearts, with individual consciences picking up the signals, either accusing or excusing them, until that day when God will finally judge all things by the criterion of Jesus Christ (Romans 1:15 — 16).

Instead of relying on divine propositional feeling, it seems better to have the nascent occasion simply take over the divine prehending the world, for God is unifying, and evaluating (in terms of his subjective forms) that world in every way which he can.

Instead, this word (like the term for «church,» ekklēsia) refers not to a time and place where believers gather together on a regular basis for singing and sermons, but rather to the activity of God in gathering together a people for Himself to accomplish His will.

On the one hand, we could assert that the meaning of terms as applied to the finite and to God is univocal.

Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the affairs of human life, but specifically in terms of what God has effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of human beings.

But if there is God you should personally seek Him on his terms if He has interveined.

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

you don't want it to be true, and your explanation for your unbelief, which is a verb that you are responsible for healing on God's terms, your explanation is spiritually criminal and narcissistic.

With regard to related matters, Barth preferred the term «constancy» to the traditional «immutability» because of his key emphasis on God's essential freedom but that finally amounts to a distinction without a real difference.

On the other hand, we could state that terms as applied to God are purely equivocal.

What was new was Jesus» understanding that God's claim on the world is to be viewed exclusively in terms of his coming rule.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

The tower and the city are misguided attempts to achieve unity on human terms rather than on God's terms.

The serious, morally passionate Pharisee goes home on bad terms with God.

Once Christians began to reflect on the original proclamation that God raised Jesus and that he was seen alive by many witnesses, they would naturally picture the event of his raising in terms of an empty grave.

That healing comes on God's terms, not ours.

I first want to say that the term genocide can connote the deliberate killing of a large group of people based on ethnicity, race, nationality, etc. and that is certainly not what we have in the actions of God in the Bible.

They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we die so they latch on to a belief that gives them comfort... belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who can't accept that we are in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and die and are not meant or destined to exist for eternity.

It is only by changing religious and secular text which informs such notions for new citizens will this change and finally women will own God on equal terms.

In terms of any formal training on the subject, however, I remember almost nothing beyond a persistent emphasis on the importance of courage — particularly (no surprise in a congregation that annually celebrated Luther's nailing of the 95 theses to the Castle Church door), the courage to resist those who would intervene in one's personal relationship with God.