With
God out of the picture, now we have to ask «what in Hell is wrong with human nature.»
If you want to know how taking
God out of the picture effects our lives then watch the DVD «Time Changer» (www, TimeChangerMovie.com).
But with
God out of the picture, every human becomes a «godlet»» with as much authority to set standards as any other godlet or combination of godlets.
I don't want to speak for everyone in saying this, but my view is much the same as yours if you simply take a belief in
a god out of the picture.
If we insist on leaving
God out of the picture, it is no wonder that life should become such a disposable commodity, free to be abused and manipulated at will; something to possess and not to cherish.
Take
God out of the picture, and you may wish to consider the very «lack of defense» and «lack of power» that prompted AAs to say that it meant, «of course,» that they were going to talk about God!
When we take
God out of the picture, we subject ourselves to horrible events.
Not exact matches
When you see the sin
of man poured
out on Christ by man you have the
picture of what sin looks like and does to the holy purity
of God.
Laguardia, who has responded to natural disasters including Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 and the 2015 Nepal earthquake (
pictured below), said: «When I go
out and serve I know that I'm the face
of God in those communities.
Philosophers themselves distinguish between a defense
of the existence
of God (for instance) and an argument for the existence
of God: While the latter actually sets
out to prove that
God exists, the former lays
out evidence which fits the
picture of a
God - created universe.
The sermon is a
picture of who's in and who's
out in
God's kingdom.
Jesus in his ministry came to seek and to save, and in his teaching gave a
picture of God, whose
out - flowing and forgiving love seeks to draw all people to himself.
This simple
picture, however, is more than a little complicated by the fact that Deleuze himself — in his one and only sustained discussion
of Whitehead's philosophy (cf. TE 76 - 82)-- sketches
out the possibility
of a chaosmology within which Whitehead's
God would have a positive, indeed an essential, role to play.
And even if there is generally an improved understanding
of God, to say that this is because
of a progressive divine revelation rather than because
of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is
God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to
picture God rationing
out carefully increased doses
of self - revelation.
Its imagistic character means it stands as a corrective to the bias
of much constructive theology toward conceptual clarity, often at the price
of imagistic richness.11 Although it would be insufficient to rest in new images and to refuse to spell
out conceptually their implications in as comprehensive a way as possible, the more critical task is to propose what Dennis Nineham calls a «lively imaginative
picture»
of the way
God and the world as we know it are related (Nineham, 201 - 2).
«Supernaturalism,» in the sense
of God's making known the divine only by divine intrusions from outside in occasional miraculous acts, is rejected; a
picture of deity as remote and inaccessible is refuted; and the condemnation
of secular activities as a blasphemous denial
of the divine prerogative is entirely ruled
out.
Although I do not approve
of such punishments which could go
out of hand and reach any who expresses with drawing or writing but after all still I would not approve with those who draw cartoons and
picture films that are intended for the insult or humiliation
of the Holy Prophets, Massengers
of God Almighty and hurting the feeling
of their followers!
Let people choose their life, regardless
of your religion, and if you believe in
God, he will sort
out the
picture in the end.
When sinners try to construct
out of these fragments a natural theology that points to the true
God, they succeed only in assembling a
picture of what Calvin called an idol, a deity who is not really
God but only a cheap substitute for the real thing.
Our belief in
God «is built up, rather,
out of a number
of metaphysical moves and claims which, when they cumulate into a full - blown understanding
of reality, and
of the human place in this reality, constitute a theocentric world
picture.»
Same for «Fear
God or burn in Hell», PullthePlugOnAtheism.org billboards, «Islam Rising... Be Warned», and actually «In
God We Trust», «One Nation [Under
God]...» Not to mention anti-science messages by Christian groups, such as «In the begining,
God created...» (with an X'd
out evolution -
of - man sequence
picture), which is just silly.
The outline
of their
picture of God is taken from the Qur» an, but the details which bring
out the main features
of the
pictures are supplied by them, each in his own way.
This overweening confidence grew
out of a theology which had a superficial view
of man's sinfulness, which identified the Kingdom
of God with current political and philosophical ideals, and which
pictured man as having a «spark
of the divine» in him and thus capable
of his own salvation.
This is a
picture of some demonic pagan deity, not the
God whose love and forgiveness were preached by Jesus
of Nazareth, who reached
out first and foremost to those who were sinners.
In this way,
God is sort
of pictured as a being who sucks the human life
out of us and injects us with His own life so that we become less like «me» and more like Him.
His doctrine
of two separate substances, extended matter and thinking mind, each sort
of substance requiring, with
God bracketed
out of the
picture, nothing other than itself in order to exist, rather unceremoniously threw mind, that is, distinctively human being,
out of nature and left philosophy with the hopeless task
of trying to figure
out how a mind outside
of nature, a mind not
of nature, could ever really come to know nature.
It is, as the Jewish and Christian traditions have always insisted, concerned with «right relations,» relations with
God, neighbor and self, but now the context has broadened to include what has dropped
out of the
picture in the past few hundred years — the oppressed neighbors, the other creatures and the earth that supports us all.
But the biblical
picture of God and humanity also includes real interaction: Adam and Eve sin, and
God casts them
out of the Garden; Abraham argues with
God about the fate
of Sodom and Gomorrah» and, in that interaction,
God's agency is seen as distinct from human agency.
It yields to a praxis that actively transforms the present so that it will correspond more closely to the breadth and inclusiveness
of God's vision, a vision in which nothing or no one is finally left
out of the
picture.
Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that
God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related
of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive
Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way
of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver
of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations
of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a
picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work
out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to
God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings
of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without
God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way
of thinking.brentnz
Jesus» inclusive images
of the kingdom and his mission to seek
out those who are lost in order to make them part
of the wider
picture is, to Christian faith, the vehicle
of God's revelation.
Let's think about Genesis, the vivid
picture of God bringing all things into being, all clearly set
out:
God the Creator, and his Word, and the Spirit hovering over the waters.
Thus he
pictures a future in which the maintenance
of distinctions between male and female has largely given way to the cultivation
of androgynous personality aided by surgical and biochemical manipulation (UP 371 - 84); in which the notion
of a substantial self enduring through time (and responsible for its actions) is superceded and «one is freed to be a career
of selves strung
out in time» (UP 390; cf. 384 - 97); in which the worship
of a single all - powerful
God has given way to the experiencing
of a pantheon
of «momentary deities» (UP 397 - 411) 4 Morality in our sense will no longer have a place in Hall's «anarchic» world.
As Schreiter has pointed
out in his reflections on the sociology
of theology, [13] such a
picture of what it is to understand
God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by high specialization and differentiation, like urban societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality
of competing worldviews.
And the artists seemed to delight in them — terrible
pictures of the devil stoking his fires with the bodies
of the damned, tempted for all eternity and never satisfied by the things on which they had made themselves happy, and unhappy, in life; likewise the delineation
of the crucifixion
of the man -
God, Jesus looking
out from a realistic scene
of terrible torture.
The consistent
picture in the Gospels is thoroughly relational: forgiving, unconditionally accepting and loving, sensitive, receptive, responsive, thus enabling others» response to the possibility
of a newness
of life
God offers in each moment, and acting it
out through table fellowship with sinners, the rejects, the despised, the oppressed, the marginalized
of his day.
Take this
God thingy
out of the
picture and what do you have?
... Hi Claryn, apologies for the delay in replying to thank you for your reply:), i used the olive oil as you advised, the dough didn't rise like it looks in the
picture, & that was because my oven malfunctioned, still it turned
out tasting great, i am a novice, getting to know my oven, my ingredients & everything to do with the world
of baking, thank you for all, you shall hear from me again soon, after my next attempt, i can tell you one thing though, dough rising or not rising, i'm so happy & grateful to eat my own home baked bread, love & peace to you Claryn &
God Bless...
i think some people have a short memory, not so long ago we would have lost these kind
of games, do you remember the days when we had the lion, s share
of possession and
god knows how many chances to score without doing so everybody was giving
out, yesterday everybody (including the players) knows we didn, t play well, had one chance and scored, we need to look at the bigger
picture every team is going to have blips the season is a long one, look at liverpool they reminded me
of us they drew a blank having missed loads
of chances!
This task gets students to cut
out pictures of God, stick them in their book and then explain why, for some theists, they may represent
God.
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Many games have done this in the past with some famous examples being
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