Sentences with phrase «idea of god held»

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It's the 0.001 % of them who hold rallies, blow themselves up, and go on television / radio (in the case of Fox News, start their own network) who HATE the fact that there are those of us out there who do not accept the idea of God or Jesus or Allah and think it is unacceptable.

Hold the very idea of God to the highest standards.

It amazes me how many people are on here mocking the idea of God, and mocking beliefs that others hold sacred.

As such, it is never merely the repetition of biblical ideas alone, even for those holding to the sole and binding authority of Scripture as God's revelation.

Holding to evolution as the origin of the world and all that is therein makes good philosophical sense if and only if you reject the idea of a God... or even of gods.

It seems that the idea of an inclusive church where people are loved and valued based only on the fact that they are a unique creation of God is threatening to those who thing they alone hold the real truth.

Either Israel is the chosen people and receives a revelation from God, so that what it holds, transcribes, and transmits is a Word of God and not its own ideas, or Israel is not the chosen people and its ideas and myths and writings are of no more interest than those of the Aztecs or the Japanese.

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

As long as we place some abstract ideas in place of God their criticism holds true.

It is entirely possible, and has always been possible, to be an atheist as a Boy Scout, if you can accept the basic idea of a moral something - or - other to which we should hold ourselves accountable, as long as you are comfortable calling it God at least as a metaphor.

Holding the two aspects of God, relative and absolute, together involves a major contradiction, even with Hartshorne's reworking of the ideas of actuality and immutability.

Toward the end of the article, Baden says, «How, then, do we, who still hold the Bible dear, reconcile our idea of God with God's actions, in the Flood story and elsewhere?».

«4 The reason for the idea is the doctrine of the immortality of truth; holding a correspondence view of truth, Hartshorne feels he requires the unfading everlastingness of all occasions in God to make the notion of truths about the past intelligible.

The idea is this: While the Bible is a description of what people believed, how they acted, the ideas they held, and I would add to this what God actually did and said, it is not a description of how we should act, or what we should believe.

As far as religious availability is concerned, Whitehead held that the idea of an omnipotent God who put all sorts of imperfections in the world was a morally outrageous notion (see DANW 370).

One was the classical idea of the perfection of God, which held that since God was perfect God must be unchangeable (and therefore unaffected in any real sense by the affairs of this world).

Speaking of dishonesty, why do you hold to the idea that free will can be compatible with an omniscient god?

But his teaching about God, both explicit and implicit, altered the balance and weighting of the ideas already held about God in such a way as to change the total understanding.

We could probably hold on to the idea of God, and some of the historical events in the Bible, but beyond that, most of it would probably not be true.

If one must conceive of the universe as an artifact (and how odd that materialist Darwinians and Intelligent Designers both hold that life is a mechanical artifact), then the idea of a Clockmaker God who winds it all up and then departs the scene has a certain plausibility, I suppose.

This is not a simple task because of the almost endless variety of different god - ideas which have been and still are held.

An idea which was long held, and is still held by some, is that God spoke directly through the Holy Spirit to each writer of the Bible in such a manner that the author wrote down with perfect accuracy exactly what God told him to write.

This isn't to say that I reject these ideas in the way that some do (suggesting God has different ways to have relationship with different groups, or holding to some Universalist notion that none of it matters anyhow and everyone will end up with God) but rather to say that I see my role in a more boundaried and limited capacity.

With the same sureness with which he repudiates all apocalyptic or eschatological speculations, he holds fast to the idea that man stands before God under the necessity of decision.

Man's sonship to God is thus a universal truth which holds for man as such, which is essential to the idea of man.

That is to say, the possibility of asking certain questions about God and of holding certain ideas about Him lies quite outside the range of ideas within which Jesus moves.

In reality, Greek thought always regards God in the last analysis as a part of the world or as identical with the world, even when, or rather especially when, He is held to be the origin and formative cosmic principle which lies beyond the world of phenomena For here, too, God and the world form a unity within the grasp of thought; the meaning of the world becomes clear in the idea of God.

We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»

In September, Time magazine organized a debate between Collins and Dawkins which touched on all the crucial issues: the false idea that science and faith should be held as not overlapping; the place of Darwinian evolution in the plan of God; the fine - tuning of the physical constants of nature; the literal interpretation of Genesis; the place of miracles including the incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus; and the origin of the moral law within the human heart.

This idea has been robbed of it's force by the silly caricatures like Peter as comical gatekeeper and people floating on clouds holding harps, and God as an old bearded fellow sitting on a big chair..

delusion - A belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence (or lack thereof to the contrary) until you have tangible evidence of the existence of god, the notion of god remains in the realm of ideas... and thats a factual statement!

What Jesus did was to pick out of the vast treasury of Jewish religious thought those insights which, he said, came closest to the truth about God, and to discard other ideas which he held to be false, misleading, or unworthy.

Firstly the idea that little of scientific consequence occurred during the period due to a mindset that was «darkened» through a belief in God, and secondly that the Catholic Church held back scientific progress in this period for it only to be liberated through the advance of a more «scientific» and secular age.

Or would God actually honor your step to refuse to believe something, even your long - held idea of God, because it offended your conscience?

Can we not imaging that God, both in looking over history through foreknowledge and in creating humankind, put into Jesus the same sort of hopes, dreams, tales and ideas that would fascinate and hold captive the thoughts and hearts of men?

If one holds to the idea of the complete sovereignty of God, does he say that this physical theory is not true, that it can not be true, or that it will be found to be false when more evidence is accumulated?

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

He seems to invoke the idea of natural law more to understand how those who live without the Law of Moses can still be held guilty and responsible before God than as the foundation of moral reasoning.

But the idea that human beings are created by God purposefully, with a special relationship to God, and with special privileges in relation to other creatures, took deep hold on the consciousness of Christendom.

Which is more likely to help a person out of suicidal depression: The idea that God loves you and is on your side no matter what... or the idea that God might love you, but only if you can obey Him completely and hold your life together as He demands?

My hope is that Jesus, The Gentle Parent: Gentle Christian Parenting will release Christian parents from the hold these punitive, graceless ideas have over mainstream Christianity so that they can study and pray and listen for God's leading on their parenting journeys, and I hope that the next generation of children raised by Christian parents will spend their childhood having the concept of grace lived out in their homes and families.