Sentences with phrase «god wanted»

If a United States person really felt that God wanted them to come be a missionary in Africa, are there some suggestions you could provide for how they could do it without wasting money?

The reason is because violence is such a huge human problem, God wanted to reveal that we humans are the source and cause of violence.

Although we could still remember Jesus» sacrifice or watch a video of the Last Supper, that is not what God wanted.

«He turned his life over to the Lord and he decided this was God's will and God wanted him to do it,» his mother told NBC.

I used to think that God wanted me to paint the perfect portrait of him, but now I think that just maybe the point of it all isn't who paints the best portrait, but who's willing to sit with the subject long enough to try.

History is full of examples of people causing harm to other people justified by their religious beliefs and their «personal knowledge» of what God wanted them to do.

It is emphasized so frequently, it is impossible to miss what God wanted Paul to tell Timothy.

To me the most ironic of all are the ones who think God wanted a human blood sacrifice, and the only possible way to get on God's good side is to acknowledge that.

«I felt God wanted me to tell him he was up against a creative wall, and God was going to help him push down the wall,» Johnson says.

He believed that his God wanted something else.

Just because it happened in the Bible, does not mean that God wanted or designed it.

I wanted to do something big, while God wanted me to learn how to be faithful in the small.

I suppose if God wanted me to pray for a demon possessed person I would.

That's what God wanted in the first place.

He was willing to do it and he is viewed by believers as being morally correct to follow through with it if he believed god wanted him to.

If God wanted tears to flow, they would be tears, not sewer water.

God, so god being all knowing, knew what Satan would do before Satan was created, so therefore; God wanted Satan to do as he did.

So that means god WANTED to kill the first born.

If God wanted a miracle God would drip blood or make a statue live or something like that, not a trick and not bad plumbing.

If God wanted a slave organization he didn't need to create the earth to have it.

Furthermore, the Bible shows us what people believed God was like and thought God wanted from them.

The hijackers truly believed that god wanted them to drive airplanes into buildings.

then suddenly people have questions for the God they wanted to kick out of their lives..

The extreme Muslims seem to be doing just what God wanted in the Bible before Jesus got him to change the rules.

But God wanted to reconcile us to Himself.

I spent the next few mornings doing the same exercise — reading through Scripture and writing down the things God wanted to be present in my life.

My guess is the rest of the article talks about how he feels god wanted him to run for president.

God wanted someone.

But God wanted to heal me, not shame me.

I was at a crossroads, and honestly didn't know what God wanted me to do.

In other words, IF God wanted it that way, and IF God designed the human race... he really screwed up the numbers, didn't he?

«You killed him, and that's what God wanted,» Peter said, «But God raised him up from the dead, and we are all witnesses to that fact.

Imaginary god wanted him to remain stupid so that he wouldn't be able to think for himself.

Remember, if God wanted polio to be eradicated, he would have done it himself an not needed Jonas Salk...

He said that God wanted a personal relationship with everyone and was not interested in the outer trappings of supposed holiness.

It's still a theological inconsistency of fatal proportions (no pun intended)-- God sets a man along a path aligned with God's plan, knowing the results of God's plan will cause the man to commit a «mortal» sin to end his terrible remorse (which wouldn't have happened were it not for playing his part as God wanted him to do), resulting in eternal damnation, and God allows it to happen?

As to the question you posed about me believing that God wanted slavery, no I most certainly do not believe that.

There were plenty of preachers who taught that God wanted America to strike the Soviets first, killing them all.

I also don't believe that God wanted only men to be in positions of authority within the church, but I also must admit that there are select instructions attributed to God (or at least believed to be inspired by God) in scripture that strongly suggest otherwise.

Years ago, I told God I wanted to be the type of woman who was ready for whatever adventures He brought my way, and He hasn't disappointed.

If god wanted religious people to be in power, Jesus would have ruled the roman empire.

I do not believe that God wanted the Israelites to have slaves, but I also must admit that there are select instructions attributed to God in scripture that would strongly suggest otherwise.

It turns out that God wanted the Confederacy to lose so that slavery would be abolished.

One more question: Do you honestly think that God wanted slavery and that he meant for the Israelites to have slaves?

Additionally if god wanted believers all he would have to do is show himself, and not to individuals, but to everyone at once.

The crowd interrupted Benedict with rousing applause, as he told them that God wanted him to do the same.

I felt that was what God wanted me to do, very suddenly and clearly.

So if Romney would have won, it's because god wanted it so.

The exchanges include Diehl telling the unnamed intern, «God I want you right now,» and her replying, «I wish you could have me right now.»

So it really comes down to one item that atheists reject the accounts for, they don't like what God wants, and that is not an issue for God to change to meet you, but for you to change, to meet him.