Sentences with phrase «hidden by god»

I can say nothing is hidden by god but had to learn i am only dust.

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It appears now that the Apostles - the writers of the New Testament who claimed that Jesus was sent by God to be beaten for our sins were hiding from us what really happened to Jesus.

In a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposite.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

2 Corinthians 4: 1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not: 2but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

And just as we can be transformed by an author's words we can be transformed by God hidden presence.

That meant that there is no direct conceptual approach to God, nor from God to human reality, by analogical reasoning, but God's presence is hidden in the particulars of history.

But one awaits the return of the Messiah who died and rose from the dead and is recognized as Lord and Son of God; the other awaits the coming of a Messiah, whose features remain hidden till the end of time; and the latter waiting is accompanied by the drama of not knowing or of misunderstanding Christ Jesus.

As long as we define our relationships by what we shouldn't be doing, we're encouraging people to hide their shadow selves from each other and God as they worry about not being accepted.

A life of importance sees the importance of giving your life away — to the hidden and the unpopular and the children and the forgotten and knowing this will be remembered by God.

«His life is hid with Christ in God;» and «the life which he now lives in the flesh, he lives by faith on the Son of God.»

Our «life» which is «hid with Christ in God» (Col. 3.3) is the transcendent selfhood created by Jesus, and made available to us by him.

Through faith in our saviour we know our sins are forever hidden from God and we are fully reconciled to him and loved by him.

It is an attitude of submission, patience, openness, in the confidence that God is at work in the present; an attitude that determines how the Christian should act with reference both to the future (which is given by God) and to the hidden present (where God reveals himself).

The «graceful man» is the one who has been inhabited by the «dancing god,» that is, life itself; he is the person whose style is serendipitous who finds grace in the most modest and hidden places.

Lord God, my dignity as a man forbids me to shut my eyes to this, like an animal or a child; therefore, lest I succumb to the temptation to curse the universe, and the Maker of the universe, teach me to adore it by seeing you hidden within it.

In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

Drawing on Aristotelian tradition, Aristides wrote: «I perceived that the world and all that is therein are moved by the power of another, and I understood that he who moves them is God, who is hidden in them, and veiled by them.

In fact, Powell suggests, most contemporary thinkers have dethroned Luther's distinction between the Deus absconditus and the Deus revelatus (God hidden and revealed) by stressing how God's redemptive acts in history reveal nothing new about God's intra-divine life, but act to confirm what is eternally true.

Thismea culpa had the effect of splashing cold water all over Christians — and, I might add, showing dishonour to the God we worship: Christianity, despite the «equality» spouted by the NDP andits followers, may be offensive to others, so best to hide it, to not let it see the light of day.

Why do you keep on chanting that your way is hidden from Yahweh, that your plight is disregarded by God?

Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known and from you no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name, through Christ our Lord, Amen.

The second answer given to the questions mentioned above is that God is hidden from man by human sin.

Yet the talk, by putting its question, dares and ought to dare, to remind man, in a way never to be forgotten, that the most ruinous evasion of all is to be hidden in the crowd in an attempt to escape God's supervision of him as an individual, in an attempt to get away from hearing God's voice as an individual.

And the more we see God's truth shining through people that haven't even been purified by Him, the more they will see our fearlessness and our boldness in not watering down what we believe but not hiding our light simply because they don't share our beliefs.

yes but God does tell us that we will have everything we need to know and the mystery will be finished as spoke by the seventh angel as he is about to sound there will be know mystery hidden to a true Christian as the lawless one is revealed also surley God does nothing unless he reveals it to his servants the prophet ’s

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

«But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.»

The prophetic word of Ezekiel, given by God, warns individuals about hiding their own responsibility in notions of someone else's obligations.

Remember, according to Ephesians 3:5, this mystery was hidden for ages and generations, but was made known by the Holy Spirit to God's apostles and prophets.

But I will say and emphasize again: Those who truly know their Shepherd, Lord Jesus Christ, are not proud to admit that any good thing that may be found in them is only by the mercy and grace of God and f their lives are hidden in Christ, their Lord.

Both the predella and the triptych give visual expression to Luther's deep conviction that God, who is hidden and invisible, accommodates God's self to our finite and fallen nature by revealing God's disposition toward us through material things: in the incarnation, in the sacrament and in the Good News of scripture received, above all, through hearing (a material reality, but not visual, to be sure).

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

When the anonymous Christian in Nicholas of Cusa's dialogue «On the Hidden God» is asked by his pagan interlocutor to explain the difference between Christians and pagans, he answers that followers of Christ know they can not comprehend the divine.

It is not that repentance precedes an awareness of acceptance and hence the opening of new opportunities; rather, it is that when one knows through the action of God in the event of Jesus Christ that one is already accepted and forgiven by God the great Lover of the world, one's only response can be, «I am unworthy,» Because I am already and always accepted by God, who is the One «to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid», who knows each of us better than any of us can know ourselves, then I am impelled to see my own inadequacy, defects, failures, and wrongs.

If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the use of coercive measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would seem that to ascribe such a quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial of the point of Christ's disclosure of God.

He was already Messiah as he went about Galilee; for he had been proclaimed the Son of God at his Baptism; the demons had recognized him as divine; the disciples had confessed him to be the Messiah, their conviction voiced by their spokesman, Peter; at the Transfiguration the chosen three «beheld his glory,» to use again the more explicit Johannine idiom, ordinarily hidden but now momentarily revealed; finally even the centurion in charge of the crucifixion had confessed him «a Son of God.»

I had a sense of noesis, a conviction that knowledge hidden from others was being revealed to me by God and that I was chosen to be God's agent.

Yes, for all you Muslim lovers out there, for all you Islamists that would die for your religion, for all you weak lillly livered Muslims that flee your own country to live in ours and swear to its destruction, for all you hipocrites that claim to be in a religion of tolerance and peace but live by your actions of murder and unspeakable horrors, you Iranians, you Afghans, you Pakistanis, you Iragis, you misfits and abhorents of any god, this story of a simple Christian, who is now denied his life because of stupid and educaied cowards in Iran, cowards and murderers who covet children and lust hiding behind a demonic religion, let this man be your true martyr because you are not human and can not touch him.

Your argument is wrong, as evidenced by all the «god - fearing» politicians who hide things and start wars.

That God's providential will for the world is not transparent but hidden from human sight requires that we walk by faith, that we struggle through the valley of doubt as well as the shadow of death.

All of the other pages and articles listed on our website explain the deep hidden mysteries of God and how and by whom this whole world has been deceived as confirmed in Revelation 12:9.

Only by demythologizing can the hidden reality of God in mail's authentic existence be expressed, and of this we may speak analogically.

The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God by Dallas Willard.

What follows is the famous passage in which God says to Moses that he will hide him while he passes by, and that Moses will be able to see God from behind, but no one can see his face.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

Man can not hide from God, he knows the truth and the pictures he sent by phone were enough to have him sit down and receive counsel but he wants to cover it up and make excuses.

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His treatment imposes upon the reader the task of not allowing himself to be deceived by the attempts of individuals and groups to hide their guilt before God by so - called good works.