«They too, are created by the same loving
hand of God which created us... It is our duty to protect them and to promote their well - being.»
I bring with me 172 witnesses that also experienced the same conversion on separate subsequent events and I can attest to their changed lives and new found ability to see
the hand of God which they previously rejected.
Not exact matches
Her company has an all -
hands meeting every month: «I get the engineers to show up at 8:30,
which is an act
of god,» she said.
that thou shalt say unto him, By strength
of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house
of bondage: * Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits
of devils, working miracles,
which go forth unto the kings
of the earth and
of the whole world, to gather them to the battle
of that great day
of God Almighty.
Harriet Beecher Stowe communicated the second in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in
which the slow
hand of providence gives way to a revivalist
God who intervenes and alters.
I am a little astonished at the ease with
which a man who spent so many years immersed in serious theological dispute should suppose himself able to discern the
hand of God at work in our world.
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.
(St. Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right
hand, Come, ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world:) * Acts 16:17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants
of the most high
God,
which shew unto us the way
of salvation.
At most,
god does exist because we find active evidence proving there was some sort
of divine
hand in the origin
of life,
which then leads us on the hunt for more evidence
of that same
gods existance throughout the fossil record and most likely will lead us to prove that the
god of abraham is STILL man - made, but there is some other supernatural power out there.
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.
He has shared a number
of testimonies people have sent him hash - tagging the words «Olowo gbogboro»
which are Nigerian Yoruba words that mean the outstretched
hand of God.
Once you get past their happy faces and
hand shaking and they find out they can't convert you, they do something called, «dusting their feet
of you»
which means that they condemn you to outer - darkness, away from their
god and Jesus because you refused them.
Deuteronomy 15:7 - 8 If there is among you a poor man
of your brethren, within any
of the gates in your land
which the Lord your
God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your
hand from your poor brother, but you shall open your
hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.
18:15, 19 Matthew 21:11 John 6:14 John 1:45 Acts 3:22 - 23 Messiah to be the Son
of God Psalm 2:7 Proverbs 30:4 Luke 1:32 Matthew 3:17 Messiah to be raised from the dead Psalm 16:10 Acts 13:35 - 37 Messiah to experience crucifixion Psalm 22 Psalm 69:21 Matthew 27:34 - 50 John 19:28 - 30 Messiah to be betrayed by a friend Psalm 41:9 John 13:18, 21 Messiah to ascend to heaven Psalm 68:18 Luke 24:51 Acts 1:9 Homage and tribute paid to Messiah by great kings Psalm 72:10 - 11 Matthew 2:1 - 11 Messiah to be a priest like Melchizedek Psalm 110:4 Hebrews 5:5 - 6 Messiah to be at the right
hand of God Psalm 110:1 Matthew 26:64 Hebrews 1:3 Messiah, the stone
which the builders rejected, to become the head cornerstone Psalm 118:22 - 23 Isaiah 8:14 - 15 Isaiah 28:16 Matthew 21:42 - 43 Acts 4:11 Romans 9:32 - 33 Ephesians 2:20 1 Peter 2:6 - 8 Messiah to be born
of a virgin Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:18 - 25 Luke 1:26 - 35 Galilee to be the first area
of Messiah's ministry Isaiah 9:1 - 8 Matthew 4:12 - 16 Messiah will be meek and mild Isaiah 42:2 - 3 Isaiah 53:7 Matthew 12:18 - 20 Matthew 26:62 - 63
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.
Revelation 14:9 - 10... 9 Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, «If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his
hand, 10 he himself shall also drink
of the wine
of the wrath
of God,
which is poured out full strength into the cup
of His indignation.
We try to contribute to the renewal
of these treasures
of salvation in the lives
of Gods people through a renewed clarity
of understanding
of Gods plan
of Wisdom and redeeming Love for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for
handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards
of integrity in both charity and chastity
which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern world.
Either the
God of the Lord Jesus Christ truly is the creator
of heaven and earth, in
which case finally everything from the providential
hand of «I am the Lord, and there is no form light and create darkness, weal and woe, I am the Lord, who does all these things» (Isa.
No human
hands (he means) prepare the weapon by
which the power
of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act
of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.
Hebrew 12:1 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud
of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 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 is set down at the right
hand of the throne
of God.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
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 «word
of Yahweh» took possession
of them with an oppressive and yet exhilarating mastery, in
which a consciousness
of first -
hand dealing with the living
God was inherent.
Although I do not approve
of such punishments
which could go out
of hand and reach any who expresses with drawing or writing but after all still I would not approve with those who draw cartoons and picture films that are intended for the insult or humiliation
of the Holy Prophets, Massengers
of God Almighty and hurting the feeling
of their followers!
On the other
hand, however, the event at Nazareth highlights a form
of union with the living
God which can only belong to the «woman», Mary: the union between mother and son.
Whatever plan it followed, it would seem to be a calamity
which the church need not add to her many other lost opportunities, to allow the cure and care
of the drunkard to fall entirely into the
hands of science,
which admittedly needs all the help that faith in
God can give in dealing with an ill so largely spiritual as the excessive use
of alcohol.
«SBNR» people, on the other
hand, believe in some undefined version
of god for
which they have no evidence whatsoever.
On the one
hand, this dignity consists in the supernatural elevation to union with
God in Jesus Christ,
which determines the ultimate finality
of the existence
of every person both on earth and in eternity.
God rescued our family, delivered us out
of the
hands of radical Christianity
which was definitely a plus when our son came out to us.
On the other
hand, if it's only satan and his demons (all
of which are also
gods creations so....
The prophets, on the other
hand, looked for the activity
of God in specific events, tending to regard history as an arena in
which God «acted».
This was tantamount to identifying
God and evolution,
which had the effect
of insulating the man
of faith from whatever dire effects might seem to follow from the scientist's study
of the process in the immediate data at
hand.
And when the LORD thy
God delivereth it into thy
hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge
of the sword; shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil
of thine enemies,
which the LORD thy
God hath given thee.
«Jesus Christ, our Lord and
God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar
of the Cross to
God the Father, making intercession by means
of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was
handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature
of man requires, by
which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end
of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission
of those sins
which are daily committed by us.»
Or would any person who believes that he has received at
God's
hand an intimation
of the life according to
which he desires to model his own life, could such a man really think
of worshiping the world in this way?
Nay, we must ever recall to mind, (
which I have before adduced from the passage in Joshua,) that he was plunged into the filth
of idolatry; and now
God freely stretches forth his
hand to bring back the wanderer.
The Exodus narrative — that we were slaves to a Pharaoh in Egypt, and
God brought us out
of there with a mighty
hand and an outstretched arm; that a mixed multitude left Egypt with us,
which teaches us that freedom is not for us alone — is central to Jewish identity.
The identification
of death as the last enemy by Paul in I Corinthians 15 reflects the view that man has fallen into the
hands of powers
which must be broken by
God's power.
the proof
of Gods presence in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect
of His will in historical development
of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge
of information and data since the beginning
of history, some analyst believes that in them near future if the Quantum computers
which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at
hand.
Later, Whitehead explains the division
of the
God understanding into the vision
of Jesus
of a loving
God and
God as a ruler, on the other
hand, from
which Whitehead felt deeply repelled (pp. 175f).
With the tendency
of the biblical writers to regard all events as coming directly from the
hand of God, the economic forces
which apparently led to these migrations take on a religious coloring.
When the time came to get the bible into the
hands of the masses
God used The Church
of England
which left the RCC in 1534 (maybe you followed the wrong branch) to do it.
Therefore, Cain knew
God's Way, buy with pride in the work
of his
hands, thought to change
God's chosen Way for his own prideful way,
which BTW, shed NO blood, so there was no substitutionary death.
But on the other
hand if the person hearing the Gospel is religious, hmm then maybe some doctrine is mentioned but the doctrine is to me never associated with a church or denomination, it is the doctrine
of Gods Words as it relates to today in say like our dispensation
which I never mention that word either.
Jenkins, on the other
hand, describes appreciatively theological schools, from the Orthodox doctrine
of theosis to Teilhard de Chardin to the modern «creation spirituality» movement,
which one way or another allow humans to share with
God in the evolution
of the world to a glorious transformation ¯ although, as Jenkins points out, there's a danger that that could veer off into anthropocentric management.