Sentences with phrase «human father»

If you think of human fathers in relation to their newborn children, the difference in intelligence, experience, capabilities, etc are off - the - charts... BUT... eventually, that human child can equal or even exceed the mental, physical etc status of their parent.
People have varying kinds of experience with human fathers and, as soon as one speaks of God as father, some are sure to project upon God the dependency, fear, hostility or resentment that has marked their relationship with their earthly father.
de Assis says the next step in this research is to see if the same associations regarding breast cancer risk hold for daughters of human fathers who are overweight around the time of conception.
Also that when Jesus said to call no man Father it was because he knew we'd mess it up with our human concept of hierarchy — and, in our minds, impose harsh, top - down characteristics on God based on those exhibited by human fathers.
Friedrich Nietzsche expressed the point most provocatively: «As a father, God does not care enough about his children: human fathers do this better.
Since God is seen as a «father,» our perception of our own human fathers can dictate our view of God.
«Taken at face value, our data can be explained by gene flow from modern humans into Neandertals,» most likely from modern humans fathering children with Neandertal females, says Pääbo.
And he made human fathers and he gives us the example of good fathers so we can understand the kind of secure relationship of love and protection he offers to us.»
I.e., perhaps the work of forming an idea of human fathers actually should take a cue from ummm, I du n no, God the Father (He is still around, z theory and this post («of course, you're misunderstanding it — I really am trinitarian») notwithstanding).
The challenge was how to explain this from - ness without violating the same - ness, which they did by declaring that the Son was begotten — but not in the way that human fathers beget or generate their earthly children.
Eventually Buddy learns the truth about himself from his elf foster father (Bob Newhart) and that his real human father (James Caan) is a publishing executive in New York but also a man on Santa's «bad» list.
Caesar did experience pain and suffering, but the love from his surrogate human father let him retain his faith.
curiosity as a game where you play an octopus trying to pass as a newly married human father of two.
Something more challenging than dodging bullets in a war could be trying to convince your family that you are a normal human father and not an Octopus in Octodad.
Whether «Father» is a metaphor, simile, analogy or name, the term can not create meaning without some degree of association with human father - child relationships.
Meanwhile she all but gives her own human father (Billy Burke) the cold shoulder in spite of his best efforts to reach out to her.
Still others would prefer to speak of «Father» as a revealed name for God and encourage Christians not to confuse their experiences of human fathers with their experience of God.
A similar trend likely exists in human fathers, to the point some researchers think elevated levels of vasopressin in dads helps explain why they tend to be more tactile and stimulatory with infants as opposed to soothing and comforting (as is more typical with moms).
Somehow the omnipotent being that created the universe and all its potential life forms is male, often has a big full beard, and behaves like a human father.
122:1.1 Joseph, the human father of Jesus (Joshua ben Joseph), was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, albeit he carried many non-Jewish racial strains which had been added to his ancestral tree from time to time by the female lines of his progenitors.
The Bible traces Jesus» genealogy back along both his mother's and human father's sides.
If He is Father God, why would He act in ways that no human father would act?
What if I prayed to God as Father and found out that God really was who I was afraid God the Father was and that God rejected me as my human father had as a child?
For years and years I couldn't call God Father in my prayer because my relationship with my human father was so painful.
The human father has tended to aim at the sort of control in the family that the Heavenly Father is thought to exercise over the world as a whole.
The point when I realized I had to do something about this barrier coincided with the moment I realized I had to do something about my relationship with my human father, whom I had not seen for years.
This is supported by the analogy of a human father, who would not give his son a stone if asked for bread, or a serpent if asked for a fish, or (Luke adds) a scorpion if asked for an egg.
If a human father behaved that way, he would be found guilty of murder.
One is also bound to wonder if a neutral historian could possibly end up as Meier does in leaving the question open whether Jesus was conceived by a human father.
The absence of the human father leaves space for God to intervene directly.
Would any human father threaten his child with eternal torture for disobeying him or for rejecting him as their father?
John 8:39 - 41 is doubly interpreted: on pp. 81 - 82, 160 Redford favours the view that the verses obliquely refer to a charge of Jesus» illegitimacy (and thus awareness of birth without a human father) while on p. 137 that view is rejected as «highly imaginative.»
We would not tolerate for one second a human father who behaves in such a sick, sadistic manner, so I don't understand how Pastor and other Christians are able to overcome the cognitive dissonance of excusing this same behavior in their God?
In the virginal conception of Jesus, there is no human father.
Only with the division of the sexes, and only in the case of the Virgin Birth, when there is not a human father, is there space for God to directly determine Mary's fertility and unite this un-personified human nature immediately to the second person of the Trinity, the Logos.
Would any human father toss their rebellious child into a cauldron of fire to watch them writhe and scream in torment... forever??
But Mary's fertility is not determined by a human father.
In the normal process of human conception, the human father completes or determines the fertility of the human mother and a human person is conceived.
Now the Christiian right has ended up with Jesus having a human father.
Like a father, but far beyond any human father in wisdom, power, goodness, and understanding love, God brings us into existence, disciplines us to live as we ought, forgives us when we go astray, and loves us enough to help us to go forward to more victorious living.
Jesus being the Son of God is not the same as a human father having a son.
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