Sentences with phrase «gods over our history»

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The accounts were given, held onto, and still exist because God made the right choice for who to give them to, over history, they didn't forget him.

And given God existing billions of years, which includes over all human history, that God interacting with others and them not being in the bible, they're the same, liars, lunatics, or dreaming... just so you can reject God and feel good about that choice.

Historian Paul Johnson commented on the advance of atheism in modern history:» Nietzsche wrote in 1886:» The greatest event of recent times — that God is dead, that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable — is beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.»

see what religion does... all in the name of some imaginary sky - daddy, who is nothing but just one of the thousands of «gods» invented by man over the course of human history.

At some point and time through - out history, all religions have been taken over and control by men, not God.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

In addition, the doctrine of salvation has been detached from, and prioritized over, the doctrine of God in a way that is theologically disastrous and inconsistent with the history of orthodoxy.

Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism, the gods of the ancient Greeks, Hinduism, and thousands of other religions man has created over the course of human history all have their own narratives.

thats assuming that the god you believe in is the real god (which in Pascal's case is the christian god)... what if any of the thousands of other gods that have existed over history is the real god?

If there is a God who exists concretely, who endures over the course of human and cosmic history, and who is affected by and affects what occurs in that history, then that God would consist of an ordered series of unit - experiences, each exemplifying the necessary abstract features essential to a divine experience, each experiencing both the divine and the nondivine experiences which had preceded it, and each in turn being felt by the divine and nondivine experiences which succeed it.

The apparent dichotomy led me to reflect on the fact that there seems to be a similar dichotomy in God's way of dealing with his people over the course of history.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!

For «providence» is a word which tells us of the conviction that God exercises a never - failing and personal control over, even as he unfailingly works within, the events and circumstances of life, molding them and molding us in such a way that his grace and power are manifested in human history and in personal experience.

Perhaps the best example in the history of philosophy of metaphysical preference for the power to affect over the power to be affected is Aristotle's God, the Unmoved Mover.

I shared the reservations of Elton Trueblood, who wrote of exclusivism: «Such a scheme is neat and simple, but it is morally shocking... A God who would thus play favorites with his children, condemning some to eternal separation from himself while admitting others, and distinguishing them wholly or chiefly on the basis of the accidents of history or geography, over which they had no control, would be more devil than God.»

Disband the catholic church The days of the Vatican controlling government is over look at there history educate yourselfs god doesn't need your money

The biblical message of the kingdom is eschatological in orientation, for it proclaims God's ultimate lordship over creation, which lordship has already broken into history in the appearance of Jesus.

Systematic Theology can be read as a much fuller account of the vision first put forward in Revelation as History twenty - five years before: Eschatology remains the key theological locus; Jesus continues to be understood as the anticipatory realization of the final reign of God over all things; Christianity is rational, though this claim is somewhat chastened.

We want to know why things happen the way they do, but what we're really asking is, «God, explain to me how you simultaneously see all of human history at once, are guiding it to a redemptive conclusion, while at the same time loving each person individually, yet allowing them legitimate control over their day - to - day decisions.»

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh on The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (Harper, 1957) and various books of essays — the most notable collections in English being Faith and Understanding (Harper & Row, 1969) and Existence and Faith (World, 1960)-- show over how long a period, and in relation to how many challenges, he worked out his own presentation of the Word of God to our time.

Does this mean that no amputee — over the course of history — has had enough faith in your god to be healed?

But there is also a necessary distinction that maintains the priority of the eternal communion of the triune God over that communion's explication in the history of salvation.

In order to settle this issue, our Creator, Jehovah God, has allowed mankind to be ruled by Satan (though most are unaware of it, 1 John 5:19) for over 6000 years of human history to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Satan's way of ruling is a miserable failure and while at the same time to see who will firmly support Jehovah God's rulership.

Try reading Karen Armstrong's History of God for a detailed analysis of how God has evolved, or people's view of God has evolved if you prefer, over history.Either God is changing, or people's views of who and what God is has changed.

sure you might point out that people killed one another throughout history over their beliefs and what kind of God would want that?

Gone was the view of the Fall, of man's sin, of the uniqueness of Jesus the Christ, and of God's final judgment over history.

Besides that, I can not see how any so called loving God can include mass distinction of life, his creations, over and over again in the history of our planet as we know it.

God's lordship over history most clearly denies the «wisdom of the world» in two decisive movements — the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

What about all the other gods, all the other religions they make the exact same claim as you without any proof and history has shown over and over again those gods didn't exist either.

This has played out over all of human history, «what we don't understand, we attribute to a God.»

If you ask the community in general the sworn testimony of 9 billion people over the history of mankind that God exists is accepted by the community.

it is simply an acknowledgement of the innumerable gods that have been invented by men over the course of history.

Over and over again, throughout Israel's history, God sent prophets to speak His Word to the peoOver and over again, throughout Israel's history, God sent prophets to speak His Word to the peoover again, throughout Israel's history, God sent prophets to speak His Word to the people.

When these symbols are taken literally they confuse the mind of the church, distort the relation between time and eternity, and reduce God's ultimate vindication over history to a point in history; for Niebuhr, one such falsification is expressed in the hope of a millennial age.

This prophesy in Daniel 11 vs. 39, tells of how this new strange god with a strong hold, meaning with force, and we all know from history, that christianity was forced by Constantine, and legalized in 311bce, that he acknowledge, and increased with glory, and that will rule over many for gain, sounds like control, and gain to me.As many of these popes, and priest, have so much money, but the flocks are paying for it.

33 But this God whose death Altizer is proclaiming is precisely theism's God, the classic God - image that represents the triumph of power over love, a God «known as transcendent and impassive... a primordial deity who is unaffected by the processes of time and history.»

Over the next several posts, I want to explain the history of the doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture, the passages that are used to defend it, and provide a slightly modified and nuanced approach to the process by which I think God might have superintended the writing of Scripture.

The history of Gods chosen over the last few thousand years shows God continually bringing a remnant through.

Historical arguments between their faiths have rarely if ever been over what to call Abraham's God or who was invoked by that call, and Islamic salvation history is rooted in the conviction that there is a lasting continuity between the dispensations of Muhammad, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and the biblical and extrabiblical prophets.

I don't see atheists waging wars all throughout history over whose version of God is more righteous.

Over 80 % of the country believes in God and we have provided the world with some of the most modern technology in history.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

When God created humanity with the freedom to go against His will, this freedom necessitated the possibility that history would go bad if we went against His will, which is exactly what happened in Genesis 3, and the negative consequences of this decision are felt in Genesis 4 when Cain murders his brother, in Genesis 5, where the phrase «and he died» is repeated over and over and over, and then in Genesis 6 when people become so evil that the destruction of all mankind becomes inevitable and God steps in to save and rescue Noah and his family.

He repeatedly charges me with not paying greater attention to rival interpretations of Barth, especially those (like his) that emphasize God's transcendence over history.

To think otherwise would put the sins of man over the grace of God — and Hitler is hardly the worst guy in history nor the most brutal.

When people start saying they are «talking to God» and worse «doing what God is telling them» then the voices in their head have taken over and history is littered with terrible consequences from people who do things «in the name of God».

Your god is one of thousands invented by humanity over the course of history.

Yet even on these terms it should remain possible for an interpretive community to make a conscious decision to hear the Bible as scripture, to believe in the coercive and constraining force of the Bible's own unique literary construction, and to regard itself as trying to live out the demands of a word and a God that stand over it, in continuity with communities of faith within the Bible and in the church's ongoing history of interpretation.

If it is true that there is more heavenly rejoicing over the lost sheep that is found than over the sheep that have not strayed, God's embrace shows one important sense in which the history that began with the eating of forbidden fruit in the Garden and that will end in the heavenly city is a good one.