Sentences with phrase «idea about god»

One problem with Derrida's deconstruction is that his idea about God lends itself to be deconstructed, built as it is on the assumption that God is divided and ambivalent.

I will admit you have real farfetched idea about the God of Bible as portrayed by that same Bible.

I like the way you put that idea about God scattering HIS enemies.

«Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God.

The question, critics will argue, is not whether we're monotheists who have some common ideas about God.

All of my ideas about God suddenly didn't really matter... what mattered is that He was there with me filling the room, my soul, and my spirit.

These religions and their ideas about God are so fundamentally different.

They are using the bible to affirm their own ideas about God, then imposing these ideas on God.

Perhaps the silence of God is a necessary step in our spiritual development, stripping us of our ideas about God so that we might enter into a deeper knowing, an experience of God not as a Being but as Being itself, the ground of all being.

God is not sinful and so does not need redemption in that manner, but humanity has terrible ideas about God, and God wants to reveal Himself to us as He really is; not as who we think He is.

The reason we feel this way relates back to this same belief that we deserve good fortune, and perhaps also to our childhood experiences of reward and punishment, and to ideas about God doling out good and bad fortune alike.

All religions today share a single, common «Ultimate» beyond them all — the set of ideas about God implied by Christian religiosity.

Like most of the rest of the ideas about God in Process and Reality, it was foreshadowed in Religion in the Making.

They think the OT prophets came up with their own ideas about God, but they were deluded.

Some take the chronological approach, so that they begin with Genesis 1:1 and work their way through Scripture trying to piece all the ideas about God into one coherent picture.

As it turns out, Robert Jenson has some pretty innovative ideas about God.

«The constant experience of doctrinal disagreements contributed to a Western tendency to make the Christian experience more about ideas than about heart - driven living faith, more what you think than what you do; more assensus than fiducia, more ideas about God than surrender to him.

Jews and Muslims pray to god as they see god, other non christians have their own ideas about god... maybe there is a good reason for it.

The sailors ask him questions about Yahweh, and Jonah gives them bad theology and bad ideas about God.

Even educated established people have their own insane ideas about gods and goddesses.

We should use the symbol God «functionally,» to refer not to any particular ideas about God «but rather to that reality whatever it might be which draws us on toward full and responsible humaneness.»

Those early believers didn't just share words and ideas about God; they showed a confused world what the giving God looks like.

What struck me, though, was the possibility that I have been missing something big: it is likely that many of those who denigrate religious beliefs aren't drawing just on secular, anti-Christian ideologies, but on liberal Christian ideas about God.

How, then, can the relevance of philosophically formulated ideas about God be denied in principle when theology lacks any clearly distinct categories?

And, if you don't KNOW certain ideas about God, you have no opportunity.

It is for this reason that his ideas about God have struck deep roots through five decades of study.

Many exclusivists assume you must KNOW certain ideas about God in order to be saved in the here and now.

You are being told a whole pack of wrong ideas about God, and it is not helping you.

Eventually, God has to liberate us from our own faith, our own ideas about God, our own (limited) understanding of who we are.

This video / story advocates false ideas about God.

In your own words, a professional blogger should present the facts of the news report, without interjecting his or her own ideas about God or religion.

If God truly is as infinite as we claim, then all the compiled knowledge and ideas about God are nothing more than a speck of insight compared to the infinity of God.

Now in these lectures I propose to ignore the institutional branch entirely, to say nothing of the ecclesiastical organization, to consider as little as possible the systematic theology and the ideas about the gods themselves, and to confine myself as far as I can to personal religion pure and simple.

Of all the repugnant ideas about God in the Bible, the notion that he is a God of war perhaps leads the list (for instance, Exodus 15:3, Numbers 21:14, Psalm 18:34, Isaiah 34:6).

(I should note that right here we have the birth place of the major ideas about God behind Unitarians and Jehovah's Witnesses.)

Calvin understood that doubt was a part of the faith experience, because human nature itself finds ideas about God and His goodness so outside of what we can understand: «For unbelief is so deeply rooted in our hearts, and we are so inclined to it, that not without hard struggle is each one able to persuade himself of what all confess with the mouth: namely, that God is faithful.»

The Gospel of Jesus is much more than a few Scripture verses or a few ideas about God; it is a way of being in the world and living our everyday lives.

While such activity and behavior appears holy and righteous, it really ends up distorting our witness to the world and reveals muddled ideas about God and the church.

In the dominant world view the inclusion of human beings in nature meant that all these ideas about God acting in the hearts and minds of believers became irrelevant.

He goes on to suggest that perhaps our ideas about God correspond to our various positions on the Enneagram.

Nevertheless, when one passes from the Old Testament into the New, one does move into the presence of fresh ideas about God and experiences with him.

I remember the terror I felt when my ideas about God started to crumble.

Deals with Jung's ideas about God and the unconscious, sin and guilt, the psychology of the soul, and the present spiritual crisis.

(3) In its most limited sense «theology proper» (as it is sometimes called) consists of ideas about God's nature and work - often the very first topic for a treatise on systematic theology.

If people aren't asking about it, it speaks to the failure of the communal witness in deeds, not necessarily the explanation of ideas about God, Jesus, salvation, etc..

Have you thought about the possibility that your ideas about your god are a projection of your own state of mind?

I will have to remember that little gem, «There will be other people out there who haven't been brought up with such limited expectations for a book full of human experience and wisdom and varied ideas about God, alienation and redemption through love.»

But regardless of what people think about the book of Job, even those who believe in the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture believe that Job contains some incorrect ideas about God.

A puzzle activity that can be used to introduce the Judeo - Christian ideas about God to KS3 or as revision for KS4.

I try to write towards the literary end of genre to be honest, weaving in my ideas about God and spirituality into the plot.