Sentences with phrase «hand of god as»

Not exact matches

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

«Hand of God,» the TV debut of filmmaker Marc Forster («Monster's Ball»), will star Ron Perlman («Sons of Anarchy») as a powerful judge who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart.

So it had better be good and not some second hand or half baked notion as he also famously wrote, «I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.»

«When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.

Too often, as well, believers will label something as being «in God's hands now» when they are entirely capable of doing something about it, but don't have the motivation to actually do it, see?

Christians, on the other hand, believe that we will be in the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ solely by our faith in Christ and what He alone did by dying on the cross and rising again on the third day, so we believe it is a free gift of God and it doesn't just come after all we can do as Mormons believe.

And these followers make a large demographic of political votes in a country that loves to start wars and elect politicians who will be «guided by the hand of god»... excuse me as I am affected by these people... their practices cab affect me

But we... with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God» 2Corinthians 3, Hebrews12)

And since we are not owners but merely caretakers of this world and its people — its Wealth is neither ours to Keep OR to Give — as the hands and eyes of God in the world we simply care for the Creation of which we are a part.

In short, God allowed Israel's destruction as a judgement against their faithlessness; then almost 2000 years later, Man decides to recreate it in some misguided sense of justice due to the suffering the Jews felt at the hands of Nazis.

On one hand God is a behemoth of dirty done deeds against much of humanism's dispositions while on the other hand God shows little to practically no love to all our civilizations» ongoing trials of which we steadily reshape as the needs arise.

The best we can do is to remember the mystery that God chooses to call * us * to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (a person whom Kerry neglects to mention in her heartfelt, but incomplete, accounting of the role of the Christian chaplain), and our job is to point the way to him; but this, and I think Kerry would agree, is best done through our loving actions and not, as the professor or «Nancy» above might suggest, through our fancy words, theology, or persuasion.

Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

Certainly not much is said about defending the land from God's enemies as the Hebrews, for all their military might in killing women and children, always seem to get their asses handed to them when a professional army of men invades.

on the other hand, atheists can not prove the concept of god as wrong.

The mythical friend Gabriel was the mythical friend of Jesus the Messaih accompanying him all time as per the Quran readings... this mythical friend is the right hand for God and was sent to nearly all messengers of God to deliver teachings from God to his messengers and Gabriel is the only Angel that has minimum number of wings reaching the sixth heaven as a limit... as per my readings and narrow knowledge... Reality you are playin with fire here show respect even if you are agnostic about all as you are only human and do not know the unknown of see the unseen or touch the untouched or feel the unfelt because even when you are alone you are not alone.

So while as a Christian, I am not rejoicing over bin laden's death, I am assured that his death happened at the hands of his judge, Almighty God.

But the voice that tells Abraham not to lay his hand on the young boy is a messenger of YHVH, the four letters that Jewish tradition identifies with the embodiment of God as the Transformer and Liberator from Egypt.

It's a simple story, but one that beautifully captures the heart of the Easter story: a God who enters our winter world as a child and, on a tree, with nailscarred hands and feet, brings the spring so that we too may join him in his own garden one day.

The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.

But on the other hand, people have «cherry picked» to state that God hates one group over another and as a young believer someone once pointed out that Psalm 14:1 can be taken out of context to say «there is no God.»

You mean as part of what it means to make sacrifices the greatest of which being God having to make the greatest sacrifice of all that unlike Abraham who was at the last minute spared from having to make the sacrifice of his beloved son Isaac, God on the other hand due to his love for all of us imperfect beings had to actually sacrifice his beloved son.

Genesis, on the other hand, portrays the One God who has created all that which surrounding people worship as the divinities of nature.

As Jephthah charged into battle with his countrymen behind him, filled with «the Spirit of the Lord» (Judges 11:29), he made a promise to God: «If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering» (v. 30As Jephthah charged into battle with his countrymen behind him, filled with «the Spirit of the Lord» (Judges 11:29), he made a promise to God: «If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering» (v. 30as a burnt offering» (v. 30).

On the other hand, God is calling these communities, and each of us as members of them, to participate in the salvation of the world God loves.

«Because the «Evil One» wants us to fail, there is a temptation to claim this territory as our own and guard it — not as a gift from God but as the work of our own hands».

Those put the matter correctly who hold that the punishment of hell will consist in this that the godless will wish to escape the hand of God but will find it impossible to do so, as indeed Paul indicated (1 Thess.

It only has authority and only makes sense as the written record of God's Word handed on through the Tradition of God's People in the Church.

Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, «For we also are His children.»»

Ann Lee, who founded the movement known as Shakers, said of her conversion, «I gave my heart to God and my hands to work.»

There can be no doubt that God makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»

In this framework, play does not fit easily within our present anguish, so Moltmann defines it as that proleptic experience of the future which is in God's hand, and our mission of liberation on behalf of that future.

I, on the other hand, presuppose that God can not be evil; that goodness and being belong inextricably together or else there is no ground for basic trust... Even Calvinist Paul Helm, a leading evangelical Calvinist thinker, agrees (as I show in my book) that «goodness» attributed to God can not be totally different from every understanding of goodness (and love) we know of.»

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

We all will have to taste death and then raise on that day for accountability and there will be family reunion in heavens and outside of heavens where no one wish to be... what a great loss for the one who would be reunited outside of the heavens like the people of Noah who did not believe in him, people of Lot did things that they were not supposed to do, pharaoh with his army and many more... on the other hand Noah with the ones who believed in him, Abraham and his family who are submitted as Abraham submitted to The One God Almighty, Lot and his daughters and many more...

As our subst.itute, «He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness» (1 Peter 2:24); «He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God» (Hebrews 10:12; cf. Ephesians 1:7; 4:32; 1 John 2:1 — 2).

John Cobb, on the other hand, denies that «Whitehead without God» has coherency, at least as presented by Sherburne, and the two Whiteheadians carry out their debate in issues of this journal (PS 1:91 - 113, 2:277 - 95, 3:27 - 40).

The Office of Readings for the solemnity of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one of St. Augustine's sermons «de Ascensione Domini,» in which the learned Bishop of Hippo takes as his text Colossians 3:1 - 2: «If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God.

Rather than staying becalmed in the sacristy, the sanctuary, and the presbytery, the clergy of his day, he urged, should lead a demanding, Gospel - centered life of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the sacraments, nourishing their people with the tangible realities God had entrusted to human hands as pathways to the Trinity: the Bible and the Eucharist.

The new life in Christ, the consequent transformation of all their hopes and expectations, the sense of fresh power to achieve the hitherto impossible, the vital awareness of the change which had been effected in their relations with God, the confidence of sin forgiven and of restoration to divine favor, the «joy in the holy Spirit,» and confident looking forward to great events still to come, and soon, as the result of Christ's exaltation at God's right hand and of his promised coming as Redeemer and Judge — all this lies behind the choice and the use of technical terms or concepts borrowed, first of all, from current Jewish messianism.

When it comes to living life and loving others, God is not as concerned with the cleanliness of our hands or the perceived purity of our words, but with the attitude and motivation of our hearts.

On the other hand, we have a conception of God as both morally righteous and supremely loving.

JW, You keep saying «out of nothing» as though it is impossible and on the other hand claim that it is only possible for your god, but logic dictates that if a god can just exist, so can a singularity.

In the Easter experience the disciples were assured «that God himself had intervened with almighty hand in the wicked and rebellious activity of the world, and had snatched this Jesus of Nazareth from the power of sin and death which had risen up against him, and installed him as Lord of the world.»

I'd much rather spend my life believing, living my life as if there IS a heaven as a reward, having the comfort of thinking that God will be there when I draw my last breath, and being comforted with the thought as I watch the world go to hell in a hand - basket... and not be aware after death that I was wrong because, as Hawking says..

After one has made whatever personal inventory and commitment one desires, it may be helpful to repeat in a relaxed mood some short, meaningful phrase such as «God is love,» or «In thee I rest,» or «Be of good cheer,» or «The peace of God, which passeth all understanding,» or «Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.»

The post is so full of historical inaccuracies, theological problems, and contradictions that it's hard to know where to start, but I want to make clear from the get - go that my response to this post should not be seen as an attack on Tim Challies himself, (who I respect and like), but rather a response to the general belief that God's presence is limited to the pages of Scripture and that all forms of contemplative or experiential spirituality should therefore be dismissed out of hand or regarded with suspicion.

On the one hand, we could assert that the meaning of terms as applied to the finite and to God is univocal.

Tradition is no longer a taboo word and traditional forms of prayer are once more being rediscovered and recognised as a treasure store and a priceless patrimony handed on to us by the saints of God across the ages.

To show Christ as an actual historic person on one hand and on the other hand as the Son of God, as He had announced Himself to be.