Sentences with phrase «how god sent»

Jesus then went on to cherry - pick a text about how God sent Elijah only to widowed, Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers (two of the people Jews hated most), to show that these are types of people God is inviting into His Kingdom.

This, I would argue, is in the spirit of Jesus who in a similar speech talked about how God sent Elijah to a non-Israelite widow and Elisha to heal a Syrian, Naaman.

The tagline for The Nativity Story should be «When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best,» not only because the Christian plot is all about how God sends his only son, but also because the film has all the substance, visual appeal, and excitement of a Hallmark card.

Not exact matches

Such simplicity undermines just how dire things had to get for God to send His only Son to earth.

I don't know how many people here are from Aurora — Co, but some comments are not helping in any way the survivors and families.I respect all religions in the world and I also respect the opinion of those who don't believe in God or anything.But, instead of blasphemy the name of God, send your positive thoughts and energy to those who survived this tragedy.Even though some of you show no signs of good Christians you should show at least signs of good neighbors.You still can be an Atheist and have compassion for others!Don't let the evil be inside you, Aurora — CO needs to heal in peace!!!

How do you know I'm not an angel sent by God to deceive you or test your faith?

What, that god sent himself in human form to earth to live and die, so that he could live again and then rejoin himself in heaven, so that the creations, who apparently have original sin because a talking snake convinced a rib lady to eat an apple thousands of years ago, could choose to believe in Zombie Jesus and if they did they would go to heaven but if they didn't believe in Zombie Jesus they would fry in Hell forever, regardless of how good a life they lived on Earth?

How does Craig get from his hypothetical uncaused cause made of nothing to the bizarro 3 - in - 1 Christian god who becomes his own son and sends people to hell if they don't believe the right unbelievable things about him?

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I submit, if there is no original sin then how or why would God send Jesus to die because people committed an original sin?

If not, then how can we tell which natural elements were sent by God, and which are simply the results of a natural chain of events?

Though we may not always understand why and how sin and suffering enters into God's world, one thing we can know through the crucifixion of Jesus is that God does not send sin and suffering, but rather, is a victim of it along with us.

You are so accustomed to hearing about the wonderful cross, the glorious cross, and how thankful we should be to God for sending His Son to die for our sins, that it is an affront to your theology to hear someone say that the crucifixion was evil.

How could God send someone like her to Hell?

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

God could have sent us an instruction manual called «How to believe in God and Convince Others».

that thought i had... «How could God send someone like her to Hell?

How could God be so loving when he will send millions to hell?

The Bible tells us that Jesus was sent by the Father with Authority; Jesus surprised the people with His Authority and they exclaimed how amazing «that God had given such power to «men».

Once again your se.xual orientation is not my issue, the fact that you preach about how good you are and how true your belief in the buybull is but yet you are being a hypocritew... hope your god delusion sends you to those burning pits (not that either exist but to point out the irony of your hypocrisy and expose you for what you are - a liar; a hypocrite; a poor example of good christard)

It reminds me of how, when Moses asked for God's name, God responded «I AM who I AM... Tell the Israelites you were sent by «I AM,» the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.»

So... how does one «really» know if God is sending an earthquake / hurricane, etc...

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Actually I do think conservatives wonder how a loving God could send someone to hell too, they just believe that it has to be true because they believe the Bible to be literal.

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

As Christians, we don't have to fear changes in our relationships, because the God who never changes sent his Son to walk among us and show us how to love one another better.

The entire Christian story — from the calling of Abraham to the birth of Christ to the sending of the Apostles and into the present — is the story of how God's desire that all people be reconciled to himself (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9) operates through the concrete particulars of human history.

Scott how could you say that have you not read genesis it means the beginning the beginning of the human race the reason why we were created why had to God sent his son we all trace our ancestry back to Adam and Eve.This is relevant to all of us as through Jesus Christ everyone of us has been redeemed and yes the jews are important because salvation came through them Jesus was a Jew or Israelite.

If God can promise that no matter how evil mankind gets, he will not send another flood, then why didn't he just make that promise in the first place before the flood?

If you feel that an eternal torment is too harsh, or that a good and loving God would never send someone to hell, then you've not realized how utterly sinful that sin truly is.

How can you be kind to others while simultaneously subscribe to a God that is going to send them to be tortured forever in hell?

I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz

What is written is what is needed to know and believe what God is like, what God is doing, and how we are to live and function in this world.When man sin against God, he first loves us, that's why he sent his only begotten son that who so ever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

You may be right but Christians should be quick to admit their hypocrisy, how much does God love us that in our hypocrisy He first love us and sent His Son as a Savior who was without hypocrisy and fullfilled the law and allowed us to take on His righteousness as He took on our infirmaties.

God sent His Son to teach us how to live, and he also died for our sins.

they do seem to be a little misled by the cadre of preachers on television whose only message seems to be how to claim a blessing from god by sending a load of money to said preachers....

Or how do we described what we do to people God send us to we deceive, lies, cheat even kill to get money from them.

... you can claim free will and by so cover all of the human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the wave that killed 300 thousand, why create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....

But Nissam, these evangelicals LOVE to stand on the street corners to tell anyone who will listen to them just how much they love God and, oh yeah, make your check out to «cash», send as much as possible, as often as possible because God is LOVE!

Every prophet sent to earth has been here for the purpose of telling us how to get closer to God — not for the purpose of formulating some religion.

I don't know how much more I could simplify it... but I really do need to add that God is the most incredible being I have ever tried to consider, completely beyond my comprehension in so many ways... and I love him, he is the best, especially when he sent his son Jesus to die for our sins.

I believed that the reason God gave us Scripture, and the reason God sent Jesus to this earth, was to tells us how to live «right.»

Rather then use his voice to hallmark the tragedy or tell people how exactly to stay safe / react Beck's sensationalism takes over & he says things like «Its god sending us a message, stockpile food!»

Expanding on Arendt's observations Shriver notes how Jesus began his ministry proclaiming the Rule of God, calling Twelve to be with him and sending them forth to be like the light of the world, the salt of the earth, and to join him in calling whole towns to repentance.

If you are one of the unlucky billions of people who never heard of God, he will send you to hell no matter how good of a person you are.

Furthermore, how do you propose that we are called to service to Jesus, the one who has been sent by God to redeem us, when both God and Jesus have been principle weapons in the oppressive [white patriarchal] arsenal to keep blacks and black women in their appropriate place?