Not exact matches
As for the
way we hear
God other than reading the bible, it is in our mind with a clarity not matched by any
human person on earth.
Human technology has a long
way to go before evening trying to match what
God created.
It is not a political football but a
way to live and only
God can transform the
human heart.
a) that the bible is an imperfect
human representation of
gods word b) that the bible is a mixture of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible was created in a
way that people would understand at the time and intended to be updated d) that a pure message was corrupted intentionally by evil
humans or spirits
The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this
way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty
God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the
human race to eternal suffering.
if the first pair would nothave sinned they would still be here and all
human kind would know is the
ways of almighty
God and existing on a paradise earth — wich still is comming.the reason he didn't destroy Satan immediately is because he posed a Question as to almighty
Gods right to sovereignty..
I am not above anyone as a Catholic, I am simply a
human who believes that
God is there for me when I need him, but also that
God and Jesus, along with all of their followers have provided me with the tools I need to function in my life without
God by my side every step of the
way.
God using evolution to create shows
way more time and dedication to the emergence of
humans, but of course the fundamentalists know best and claim to KNOW that genesis was meant to be 100 % literal despite gaps and missing pieces translating from a very simplistic language into English.
Second: The Creation tale is simply a
way for early
humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from
God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «
Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old
ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe
God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.
After reading several of the posts on the «interpretation of mythical texts into a book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant words»... to get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a book that he / she / it wanted to have in print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the
way it is... it is a «
human» construct... only
humans could mess a book up that badly...
gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum
I feel everyone should sip $ 11 coffee's at trendy coffee shops, listen to underground acoustic music, care more about polar bears than
humans, wear black framed glasses to look really kewl and smurt, jog in place at red lights, drink Pabst blue ribbon, hate
God, and be ironic.It's the kewl and smurt
way to be.
God takes two people and joins them into one — in a
way that Jesus says
humans don't have the authority to separate.
He is vengeful because
humans are vengeful and
humans created
god in their own image — Not the other
way around.
Over the 42 years (and more) of being fascinated with the reality of
God, I've explored the
human experience in
ways I'm not proud of, and had to come to grips with very primal realities that all
human beings face, especially self - regulation, care and contribution.
No... essentially,
God is the collective wild imagination of a bunch of scientifically ignorant
humans who lived thousands of years ago and had absolutely no understanding of the world around them, so the only
way they could possibly accept the
way things were was to invent something that controlled any natural mechanism they didn't understand.
Here you feel
humans can take it upon themselves to say who should have kids and here you are, deluded, conceited and playing
God to tell Mike not to, by the
way, my mom raised me to be highly respectful to women and I continue to strive for that every day.
Hans Urs von Balthasar has insightfully traced the
ways in which the identification of
God, creation, and
human consciousness strongly shaped both the theistic and atheistic streams of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Romanticism.
Indeed they do tend to be other worldy but at the same time — wise to the
ways of the world and are no less
human than what
God intended.
In other words, IF
God wanted it that
way, and IF
God designed the
human race... he really screwed up the numbers, didn't he?
im so sori this had to happend to eddy yet he is only
human and only a man and it has nothing to do do with
god and
gods word im sori he has to be the example to the world that this is not the
way but this is the life he has chosen if it is true he should have known wat happends in the dark will come in the light his bad yet
god is a forgiven
god just cuz you sit in church do nt make you saved just like sitting in the garage do nt make you a car.... - smile
God has set a narrow, specific yet plain
way of salvation (faith in Jesus alone) so only honest
humans who honor
God can make it to Him.
-- «I guess your church doesn't teach that
God favors charity work, or treating your fellow
humans respectfully in any
way.»
Can the
human mind please
God in such a
way, that we can ask angels to hold up bridges.
I wouldn't call Spenser a greater poet, but he saw the
human condition and our often - anguished journey toward
God in a richer, more humane
way than Milton did, who at the end of the day was more interested in ideas than people.
I guess your church doesn't teach that
God favors charity work, or treating your fellow
humans respectfully in any
way.
God is real and the only
way to experience his presence is by suppressing the
human follies which this article so blatantly manifest.
And thus it has been ever since: All of us must «come down to the level adopted by
God himself in his Incarnation — the level of poverty, crib, flight...» Yet in lowering ourselves to the lowliness that
God himself assumes in taking on a
human nature, we remain who we are: Some are intellectually gifted and rich in the world's goods; others are impoverished in various
ways.
People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in
human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended
God in some
way, and so on.
I find meditation, and compassion for self to be conducive to what you talk of with loving
God and mankind — sometimes in mysterious, unfathomable and transcendent
ways, encountering the power to open up men and women to each other and
God in love peace justice and
human dignity.
It makes me wonder if there is primitive life in the universe that worships
gods in the same
way many
humans do.
Since your
god supposedly created this world, the creatures populating it, the
ways the world works, and EVERYTHING else that is our cosmos — how can WE, as
human beings, be responsible for the advent of «sin»?
So if you have a triune
god who is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the
human manifestation of father / son
god — then Mary is arguably the mother of
god and in that
way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history of the transformation of the triune
god in heaven to the triune
god on earth and of course the few days when the triune
god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.
So, salvation clearly comes from another
way, otherwise why would
God even create
humans and put them in these areas?
First, Griffin himself acknowledges that the Plantingan can only allow the occasional violation of
human freedom, and there is no
way for us to know to what extent
God has profitably violated
human freedom already.
In his typical humanistic, ethicomystical
way of thinking, he points to a belief in the «evolution of
human spirituality» where «the higher this development in the individual is, the greater his awareness» of
God» (Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, by Norman Cousins [Harper & Brothers, 1960], pp. 190 - 191).
Any
human could be called upon by
God to aid Israel in some
way.
it seems that many of us want to create a
God in our image, we seem to say, «if I was god, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attribut
God in our image, we seem to say, «if I was
god, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attribut
god, I would do it this
way» well, we are not
God and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attribut
God and just because our
human nature doesn't like some of
Gods attributes.
One could see continuity between the
way God worked in gradually bringing life into being in all its complex forms, including the
human, and
God's continuing work in
human history and in our lives at present.
In this
way, by the most shocking of theological twists, we learn what
God is truly like only after we have learned what a
human is truly supposed to be.
He once again sent the wind to push back the waters into their designated places, to dry out the land so that
humans and animals might once again have a
way to fulfill their
God - given task of filling and subduing the earth.
Paul is making a contrast between the
ways of
human beings and the
ways of
God.
The good news is that
God's eternal plan included a
way to right these wrongs without destroying
human freedom and even to deepen the glory and beauty of love.
To me the most ironic of all are the ones who think
God wanted a
human blood sacrifice, and the only possible
way to get on
God's good side is to acknowledge that.
The whole of
God's
way in the world can not be written on the small screen of one
human heart.
The Bible is
God's message communicated in a very
human way.
So there had to be a
way for
God the Son to truly take
human nature as his own but without being created as a new
human person, because he is
God in Person.
I mean, maybe what
God did was to reveal that, in a
way,
human beings are kind of divine.
Could
God's incarnation as
human be his
way of saying we're together, we're united, we're one?»
It is important to see that to identify
God in this
way is not simply to identify
God as an aspect of
human experience.
It is a
way of loving in which nature works through grace to restore the love in
human relationships to
God's original intention.