Sentences with phrase «god thing instead»

As long as people believe in a god there will be people whose «personal knowledge» of what that god wants will drive them to harm others, and that's why atheists tend to be down on the whole god thing instead of just letting you folks do your thing without comment.

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I was thinking this the other day, when a lot of the Facebook executives get on Twitter and feel victim - y, they're doing their victim - y dance right now a lot of the time, and at one point, Boz, Bosworth, when he said, «Maybe people will die,» that memo, and instead of being like, «Oh god, we really have to be more mature about this,» their thing was, «We can't talk now.»

You are right, it is the same thing — neither one of us know the answer, but instead of stopping and giving up and saying «its god», science's job is to keep asking until it finds an answer.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

The only thing that actually dies is my attachment to something that's actively destroying me and others, along with my will to cling to it and the pseudo-faith that clinging to it will better serve me than clinging to God instead.

Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

endevaouar, If you would refrain yourself from fretting, and talk TO God, instead badmouthing Him, maybe He would draw close to you and explain some things to you.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

I've seen the extra heartache that comes with plowing ahead and doing things my way instead of waiting for God's way.

Kevin your right personal beliefs and or religion does not belong in law, and I am not saying that what this atheist organization is doing is wrong or anything, I think what there doing is a good thing, I just think this particular message could have been done from a different perspective, this message makes them appear like the self righteous ones, and it might give out the wrong kind of message, instead it should have said something like you believe in god fine, but don't put it in our laws.

The only things that points to any «god» are lazy, underdeveloped minds like yours that just want to conveniently fill in the gap with «goddidit» instead of tracing cause after cause backward to the beginning with provable, empirical EVIDENCE.

Talon, I applaude you for your literary talents but instead of wasting them on foolishness, try spending that time studying the bible and you'll find out some things you may not be aware of about the God you so quickly slander.

Basically what that means is if you don't stop doing these things, God says, «Okay, is that what you desire instead of desiring me?

Now, instead of having to rationalize one thing after another I have one answer that answers every single question: There is no god.

Instead of resisting change, we need to plead with God to rip out the old and decaying, and replace it with His new thing.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

To know that certain things trigger us, to know that what we can bear and what we can not, to know who is safe and who is not, to know where we are treasured and cared for instead of viewed as liabilities, to know what we experienced was real and it was not our fault, to know we are not forgotten by God, to know our unsurpassing worth and belovedness.

I would rather «safely» keep things as is, instead of trusting God through the transition.

And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God - knowing men of other generations.»

The idea that we are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but instead spiritual beings on a human journey, and we can sense and know all kinds of things about God through Jesus.

While he held high the host and chalice of the Eucharist, and knelt before them, elsewhere people simply felt they had no need for God, and gave their hearts instead to other things - material goods, sex, food, holidays.

It's not an indictment of things gone wrong; instead, it's evidence that you're taking care of a God - given gift on a regular basis, before things go wrong.

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

Instead, forgiveness of sins and eternal life have always been dependent upon one thing, and one thing only: the grace of God.

The only difference is that the condition to enter Paradise is different in Islam as compared to what you are saying and that is Belief in one True God i.e. the Creator of all things instead of believing in the creation itself like Jesus.

Why would god leave such confusion if he didn't want people to take what they were capable of understanding, instead of insisting everyone believe the exact same thing, when it wouldn't have the exact same relevance to them?

Don't be shocked when your mind whispers things, or when stuff just pops in that you don't like, it's just your flesh, but instead continue to trust not those thoughts of the flesh, but what God says in His word.

It baffles me as to why we do this, especially when it seems to me that Jesus makes a point of telling us that He is what God looks like, and in the Gospels, Jesus never kills, goes to war, or tells anyone to do such things, but instead to love and forgive our enemies.

Realize instead that God loves you completely, and anything we decide to do is a natural outflowing of that love, not because we should or must do these things, but because in the Father's love, we can.

Instead, the gospel proposes a worldview in which men and women are the children of God, and where human growth and development is a far more important goal than the possession of any power or thing.

You believe that Faith is a good thing and prayer, you are stuck in a harmful situation like a plane going down, you start praying to God because prayer is good instead of actually taking steps to try to prevent the plane going down.

God didn't call me to succeed in making sure everyone agrees with my way of seeing things but instead to be faithful to Jesus.

Instead, you are part of an ever - growing, rapidly - expanding, Spirit - led, worldwide movement of God to show the world that in Jesus Christ, a new day has dawned, a new creation has come, and that all things are new.

Simon certainly needed all these things, be as a true disciple, he chose to listen to the teaching of the Word of God instead.

I understand the analogy, but people walking off a cliff and people headed toward eternal separation with God are two very different things, and when God sought to rescue humanity from eternal separation, He does not choose to yell at us, but instead chooses to love and serve.

All the things people praise God (s) for (food, health, nice weather, a good crop etc) are attributed to him instead.

Every bit as clueless as Adam and Eve 6,000 - 800,000 years ago choosing the shinny thing instead of God.

The reason for this transition, Luke indicates, is not because God has now «chosen» the Gentiles instead of His other «chosen» people, the Jews, but because the Gentiles were more open to hearing, considering, examining, and accepting the things Paul preached to them, while the Jews are more set in their traditional ways and beliefs, and so are less willing to consider that they might be wrong.

In that tradition, instead of thinking of God as a persuasive power who acts as a kind of lure toward which things move, which was Aristotle's conception, Aquinas and others adopted the understanding that God creates by being the ultimate efficient cause for the world.

The whole letter is essentially a theological dissertation explaining to the Jews that they are wrong, that Christianity would be a sect of Judaism (as it was seen at the time), but that God was instead doing a new thing and that they were now to live by the Spirit, not by the law.

The general idea is that there is as much proof for a deity they call the «Flying Spaghetti Monster» as there is for a loving, Triune God (or any other deity), so they «worship» an imaginary, spaghetti - like thing and conclude their prayers with «Ramen» instead of «Amen,» which is admittedly clever.

The movement of our love toward all these things, though they go by the name of God or gods, is the way of our idolatry; it is the movement toward the many away from the One, toward the partial instead of the universal, toward the work of our hands rather than toward our Maker.

Instead, God wanted Pharaoh to recognize His sovereignty over all things.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

One guy, in particular, was speechless when I described how God wanted us to let go of our desire to «make things right,» instead of trying to get back at or injure those who had wounded us first.

Sadly the consequences of our sin remain we are forgiven but everything does nt snap back how it was.What God does do for us in rom 8:28 all things work together for good to those who love the Lord.So instead of remaining in our guilt and condemnation Jesus sets us free to walk in righteousness and holiness so that the consequences of our sin actually work for our good rather than our destruction.So what was intended to destroy us is used to give us life hope and a future.brentnz

Yet God calls us to look forward — to see the new things that He is doing in our life rather than to dwell on the old; to focus on hope, healing and potential instead of wasting our life on regrets, judgment and unending analysis.

One thing that has always stuck with me is that during my first re-enlistment, my career counsolier at the time told me that during the Oath of Re-enlistment, that I can Instead of saying «I Solemy swear,» during the Oath that I could Affirm, And instead of So help me God, I could just say, «So Help Me» Looking back on that it Got me thinking, this must be a fellow Atheist sience I haven't been informed about it during my Instead of saying «I Solemy swear,» during the Oath that I could Affirm, And instead of So help me God, I could just say, «So Help Me» Looking back on that it Got me thinking, this must be a fellow Atheist sience I haven't been informed about it during my instead of So help me God, I could just say, «So Help Me» Looking back on that it Got me thinking, this must be a fellow Atheist sience I haven't been informed about it during my last 3.

Instead when a person marries... he takes his sexual desire, and he does the same thing with it that we must all do with all our physical desires if we would make them means of worship — 1) he brings it into conformity to God's word; 2) he subordinates it to a higher pattern of love and care; 3) he transposes the music of physical pleasure into the music of spiritual worship, 4) he listens for the echoes of God's goodness in every nerve; 5) he seeks to double his pleasure by making her joy his joy; and 6) he gives thanks to God from the bottom of his heart because he knows and he feels that he never deserved one minute of this pleasure.