Sentences with phrase «in god idea»

Cooperman: I still fail to see how atheists are fools for not believing in a god idea that is completely non-empirical in nature.

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Suddenly, I'm living in the old folks home, trying to do something like god knows what, to get something off the ground, not having any idea what we were doing.»

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

The literal idea would be something like, «Absolutely spirit in His essence is God.»

But spouting the idea that god created and designed everything in an environment such as NASA means that you are intentionally suspending rational thought, and in this kind of environment that seems, to me at least, unacceptable.

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

You want your ideas, your tastes to be celebrated, instead of having a humble, submissive attitude in order to be part of what God is doing.

You may RATIONAL in regards to the [irrational] ideas of «God», but that does not prevent you from being IRRATIONAL about other things, including your POLITICAL IDEOLOGY and desires for POWER and wealth.

Seriously, I have the utmost respect for Professor Hawking, he's always been one of my few hero's in life, but so is MY idea of God.

So god thought it was a good idea to create the earth mature, and put tons of fossils in the dirt for kicks?

belief in god means you do nt look further, scientific theory means you try and disprove yourself to find a better understanding when you have an idea

Not only does this idea solve the problem of predestination and free will but is much more in line with the idea of God.

Plenty of others in their region already had the ideas of heaven, hell, resuurection after 3 days, sun gods, etc., etc., etc..

In such works as Idea of a Christian Society, After Strange Gods, and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, he turned away from firmly embedded nails and toward goads.

@brad, you can't destory an idea, but a building or group of people that have power can be dismantled... islam and christianity and judism are all beliefs... a.k.a. just thoughts of god, ideas of an afterlife in heaven or hell... such things are impossible to kill... sadly

Forget the man in the robe, (i have no idea why but as a child i always thought God had a robe and a turban).

And seeing God's love reflected in our life and relationships with others is wonderful — but the way she speaks sounds dangerously close to pantheism, the idea that God is some sort of general force of love.

Do you have any idea how many Doctors, Scientists, Engineers, and many other well educated people believe in God?

I have no idea why some believe that in order for God to exist, Satan must exist, and vice-versa, but one is not a prerequisite for the other.

I know what the book «Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus» says, but not only was it poorly researched, but the idea in the title itself, since men and women both originate from God, is unscriptural.

Although he often expressed this vision obliquely, he was relentless in his criticism of those who despised faith as an anachronism: «I am not afraid to say that a devout and God - fearing man is superior as a human specimen to a restless mocker who is glad to style himself an «intellectual,» proud of his cleverness in using ideas which he claims as his own though he acquired them in a pawnshop in exchange for simplicity of heart....

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

Where exactly (to throw a log on the pyre) did mankind arrive at the idea that a «day» for God (in whatever form one chooses) equates to a «day» for thee and me?

But I would love to speak my peace about what I have learned in my faith with the church — but maybe God has «cut the strings on that idea»?

But no matter what the commercialized idea of Easter is, to Christians it is still regarded as a holy day to remember the salvation God extends to all who believe in and accept Him.

Will they be open to the idea that the God they have faith in may not actually exist?

actually the antichrist and satan succeeded in persuading the people with one idea, the idea of (the human god).

Thanks for making it, reminded me why I started questioning the idea of God in the first place.

Anyway, people can get the idea to look it up themselves if they want to see more names of scientist who believe in God....

Chris: Darwin was fearful of his big idea because he still believed in the existence of the Christian god, and was extremely uncomfortable coming up with something that went against a literal interpretation of the creation story (I think.

These ideas are echoed in the «prosperity gospel» — characterized by the belief that God wants to bless His people, that He wants to give us tangible rewards such as riches and success and that we claim these rewards by exercising our faith in obedience.

Since I've now demonstrated that Atheism is NOT a belief in «no God» then your entire idea of Atheism is a «religion» falls apart.

I have a better idea, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin were not religious people (Deists, believers in a distant God).

When I talk to God in prayer, I am talking to something deep within the fabric of my own being and asking for a better way, a better idea, and intuitive thought rather than to have some trivial thing of substance delivered to me on a platter.

But when I mean freedom — I mean in it in the way «each of us relate to God» — and I think we have to be open to the idea this is gonna be a lot different from person to person.

There are plenty of simple ideas in scripture, and God is simple in many ways.

Not only is explicit in challenging the idea of the locus of God's activity being in Israel and with its people, but it is also very anti-temple.

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.

They try to force their religious ideas on everyone else through legislation, like trying to force children to pray to the Christian god in school, force the teaching of creationism nonsense in the schools and denying a woman's right to choose.

These are in no way original ideas or thoughts from Calvin, simply the reiteration of the biblical writers expression of the sovereignty of God.

We all approach the text with an idea of God in our minds, even if we don't believe in a gGod in our minds, even if we don't believe in a godgod.

The reason is that we are not gods, and so we can not providentially arrange for people to hold the ideas and engage in the behaviors we prefer.

This view may be argued for in various ways: — first: by appeal to logical laws and metaphysical necessities; — second: by appeal to the existence and nature of God; — third: by appeal to causal determinism (Causal determinism is the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature)

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

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.

Perhaps god doesn't like a bunch of mindless sheeple, and lets in only people who think for themselves and live honest and compassionate lives because they think it's a good idea, not because they fear eternal punishment.

I have no idea where it is hidden... You can ask God about them in the next life.

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.

It is the idea that one doesn't believe in a god.

I don't know whether the latter exists but I'm trying to reconcile the idea of self - described atheists believing in a God.