Sentences with phrase «idea of god out»

I'm a little newer than you in my journey away from organized religion and while I may get to where you are, I'm trying not to throw the entire idea of God out the window along with organized religion.

Even if he doesn't actually exist, as we atheists suspect, they still love the idea of a God out there, interested in and protecting them.

Not exact matches

I'd like to add to that the idea that as a Christian we may be tempted to flee day to day problems by imagining that God will lift us out of it all, or prayer will make it go away.

Have those misconceptions about the Law given to the Jews clearly explained and find out why God allows suffering and where the idea of a hellfire really came from and what the truth is that leads to eternal life.

There are some really screwed up, horribly painful and or stressful diseases and disorders out there, and I find it unsettling that a possible presidential candidate is worshiping this disturbing idea of god.

The concept of God did not spring out of thin air - intelligent humans created him and then thousands of years later used the idea to explain what they did not understand and / or like about evolution.

You can't throw out the other half of the gospel just to make it fit your idea of God as a loving father.

For crying out loud — why would ANYONE bother following the ideas of bronze - age people who all thought multiple gods created a small, flat Earth sitting at the center of a tiny universe rotating around it... daily.

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.

With all the emphasis on creation or evolution coming out of the first few chapters of Genesis, we often miss some of the most important ideas about our humanity and how God created us (not physically, but spiritually and psychologically).

Tom Wright, also on film, pointed out that the imago dei of Genesis 1:26, 27 had, as background, the idea of a god's image being placed in a temple.

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

I can't even read the NIV anymore now, because of verses like Ephesians 2:8, which make it sound like faith is the gift of God (a Calvinist idea), when, as you point out, the whole salvation package — really, the work of the cross for us — is the gift of God.

Through relatable stories, practical ideas, and careful application of God's Word, Generous Love equips readers to break free from the shackles of self - absorption and discover how much sweeter life can be when we reach out to bless others with the unconditional love of Christ.

It goes against my pride and my preconceived ideas of how God should act and carry out both love and justice.

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.

Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

Using a few verses out of context from Malachi only proves another commenter's idea on manipulation (read Malachi and hear God's real dissapointment).

The old ideas never completely died out, but gradually the term «calling» faded from common speech and with it the idea that in work one labored in the first instance for the glory of God.

A Reformed theologian I highly respect, the Reverend Carol Howard Merrit, has a fantastic little piece on this idea of God being for us that I encourage you to check out.

The idea of progress comes out of the sense of imperfection, as does the idea of God as transcendent.

This need not contravene the idea that God in some way creates the world, though it will suggest that God creates «out of chaos» from a beginningless past rather than creating «out of nothing» from a finite past (McDaniel 1989a, 36 - 37).

that is how the idea of gods came about to begin with, out of ignorance.

This only proves how much failed you are from challenging the contents of the Quran and all you managed to do is making accusations with out a slightest idea of what you are talking about never even cared to take the beauty and leave out what you think of as beast rather than letting out all... but what the use of me talking to a brick of wall that has no religion faith that we can consider as a candle light to guide you to the straight paths to God..?

In fact, that takes the entire idea out of the hands of the indivdual and therefore makes it meaningless to God.

The essence of the «Neo-Monastic» movement is the revolutionary idea that we can replace the social order from the inside out; The essence of the «Emergent Church» is that we are not bound by the failures of the historic Church even while we can be empowered by its successes; The essence of Scripture is that we are all called to love God and love all God's children.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

Now please explain why the only way out of solipsism (a philosophical idea, not a fact) is to accept that god exists and is good.

Unless we extend our idea of authenticity to include not just our fears and failures but also the vital and real changes that God orchestrates in our lives, we miss out on the complexity of the Christian walk.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

Based on this idea of the church as a family, Richard Jacobson goes on to talk about church elders as facilitators, on how to carry out conflict resolution within the family of God, and a whole host of other related topics.

Darwin ripped the heart out of one of the God of the Gaps arguments (i.e. we don't know how complex life forms arose, therefore the Judeo - Christian god did it) but Hubble showed that the whole idea of there being any cosmic importance to planet Earth is naked parochialism to the highest mathematical degree possibGod of the Gaps arguments (i.e. we don't know how complex life forms arose, therefore the Judeo - Christian god did it) but Hubble showed that the whole idea of there being any cosmic importance to planet Earth is naked parochialism to the highest mathematical degree possibgod did it) but Hubble showed that the whole idea of there being any cosmic importance to planet Earth is naked parochialism to the highest mathematical degree possible.

In Kierkegaard's earlier works are found the germ of some of Buber's most important early and later ideas: the direct relation between the individual and God in which the individual addresses God as «Thou,» the insecure and exposed state of every individual as an individual, the concept of the «knight of faith» who can not take shelter in the universal but must constantly risk all in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation, the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's life.

«God» can not arise, only the image of God, the idea of God, and this also can not arise out of the human but only out of the meeting of the divine and the human.

Churchmen seemed to have no ideas at all on the subject (6) The earliest form of Christian marriage was a simple blessing of the newly wedded, «in facie ecclesiae» — outside the churches closed doors — to keep the pollution of lust out of God's house.

If the idea of revelation, is to have any relevance it must be essentially a present experience of God's coming to us from the future, and not simply a set of stories dragged out of the past.

Mike, not me has just used your abhorrence at the idea of carrying out an act that his god specifically commands as an argument that you have instilled in you an objective sense of right and wrong... of which that same god is the source.

When the different Church councils met and fleshed out a theology that balanced the idea of his being both fully God and fully man, I don't think they were suggesting he was fully God while on earth in the same way as God the Father.

I shall emphasize this awareness as God - given, not self - generated: but in our present experience God works in and through our thoughts and aspirations — inspiring new ideas, certainly, but building these upon the foundations of previous ideas, not out of a vacuum.

In his significant work Christianity in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianity.

Then and now a problem with his idea that the confessional differences could, in the mysterious workings of God's left hand, be instrumental to unity is that today's heirs of the confessions coming out of the sixteenth - century division, notably Lutheranism and Calvinism, are not very confessional or, if confessional, not very interested in unity.

Although Whitehead's idea of God functions as an element of metaphysical analysis, it grows out of experience.

Those with Ph.D's from many leading seminaries today come out with the idea that Jesus Christ was not really God's son, was not really born of a virgin, did not really die on the cross, did not actually rise from the dead, and that everyone is going to heaven if they just try to be good enough.

Yet our uncertain ideas of extrasensory perception provide an analogy to Israel's thought at this point; for God had, as it were, extensions of his personality so that he could reach out into many places.

The idea is not so much to pray to God for help in finding a way out of an alcohol problem; it has more to do with humility — «cleaning house» so that the «grace of God can enter us and expel the obsession.»

From the beginnings of the Bible to the end, the advance in the idea of God was extreme: Beginning with a territorial deity who loved his clansmen and hated the remainder of mankind, it ends with a great multitude out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, worshiping one universal Father; beginning with a god who walked in the garden in the cool of the day, it ends with the God whom «no man hath seen... at any time.&raqGod was extreme: Beginning with a territorial deity who loved his clansmen and hated the remainder of mankind, it ends with a great multitude out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, worshiping one universal Father; beginning with a god who walked in the garden in the cool of the day, it ends with the God whom «no man hath seen... at any time.&raqgod who walked in the garden in the cool of the day, it ends with the God whom «no man hath seen... at any time.&raqGod whom «no man hath seen... at any time.»

«Occam, and following him Biel, thought out the idea, without precedent in tradition, that justification, properly speaking, consists only in the acceptance of man by God, and that this acceptance in itself is independent of any change in the person justified... that God could also «justify» the sinner and leave him in his sin.»

The film surely rightly points out that this very speculative idea that our universe is just one of a very large number just makes the cosmos bigger, without thereby removing the apparent need for the sustenance of God.

I don't mind reason # 1, but it's reason # 2 that I continuously ask myself, why bother preaching Jesus to them, why do I even bother showering the love of Jesus to those that continuously spits out rubbish and vile to the Man who never fails to soothe my pain and wipe my tears dry every night — who has NO IDEA of the beauty and heavenly love of God, NO IDEA of the anger and pain the Almighty went through in the Old Testament, NO IDEA of His heart and the love that He is capable of, NO IDEA of the meaning of the Cross and the things that were nailed to it, NO IDEA of what they're saying at all.