When we talk about prayer, we generally think of a pastor or
godly person saying spiritual sounding words to God.
Not exact matches
How can
people say that Jesus and the Bible are good when over and over again the bible has
godly acts of the utmost cruelty.
Thus
saying that an unconverted
person that loves others in a
Godly way is completely false.
For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a
person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or
saying good to help the
people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is
said to be
godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.
Steve, what I was
saying was that we become more
Godly (or Christlike) * BY * living up to the full potential that God wants for us, which is to fully be the
person He wants us to be.
I am always amazed how readily, and with great relish, all these
godly, holier - than - thou, know - it - all christians are ready to consign
people to eternal flames.In Mark 16:18 where it talks about snake handling, it also
says about baptized believers «and when they drink deadly poison it will not hurt them at all.»
Propagate the natural reading of the account from a version true to the Hebrew (such as nkjv):
godly men marrying women for their beauty producing a generation of ungodly «men of renown;» and lead
people to scholarly sites where they can see what the Hebrew
says and compare the Biblical basis for the various interpretations, such as Who Were The Nephilim, Genesis.6 & Numbers 13 A Fresh Look, by Bodie Hodge at Answers in Genesis.
May the one Universe, in all its
Godly and Satanic manifestations, continue to slightly smile upon us, skewed ever so gently towards life within the confines of natural death, as it has for 14 billion years according to Science, or eternally according to religion, or for 1million + years when humanism
says «
people» 1st appeared, or even for only 5,000 years when Adam & Eve were «created «according to the Bible.
Secondly many
people in Bible are called son of God but aren't taken literally and Jesus himself
said to Jews that because revelations of God come to me only in that sense I am a son of God as early
Godly people were called.
This article is interesting for one point: it's a fulfillment of the scripture at 2 timothy 3:1 - 5 that
says that in the last days,
people will be «having a form of
godly devotion, but proving false to its power».