Of those 13, probably 6 were atheist, 3 were wishy washy and 4 did belief
in a god of some sort.
I am an non theist and I do believe
in god of sorts... I believe there is a force that has created the universe or that is the universe itself... BUT!!!! Believing god chatted with people thousands of years ago and told them to bring out a book, and to put in this book that if you believe the mythical story they wrote... you... and you alone will get to spend eternity in disney land in the sky... and if you don't..
Not exact matches
Now, I can dig deeper and deeper using
god,
in some
sort of fashion, or even
in a very minimalistic manner, meaning,
god only intervened by causing the big bang, the rest, we have figured out.
Others believe that just because people die tragically, that
in and by itself is some
sort of virtuous way to go, that will enti - tle them entry into
God's Kingdom.
Tom, Tom, the Other One
God allows his «Chosen Ones» to engage
in all
sorts of immoral behavior.
Now believing
in a
god should require
of an inquisitive mind some
sort of proof.
I am just pointing out that IF there were a
god with even
sort of the resume Jehovah has been said to have, ie omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, and if this
god somehow cranked out a human son, that son wouldn't act like the drunken alpha ape described
in Revelations.
What I think Jerry was hoping for was that the Atheists here stop reacting
in a reactionary
sort of way and start stating their position on their own two feet;
in other words, come up with proof
of their claim «there is no
god».
The most generous and sacrificial people I know have all had some
sort of experience
in which
God birthed compassion
in them through exposure to the poor while on a mission trip.
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.
Your church is a haven for those who want a deeper relationship with
God without becoming one
of «them» (Think pukey pollyanna Christians with a pasted on smile who declare with Jesus
in your life everything is wonderful...
sort of like the cartoon you posted today).
But that
sort of behavior goes on
in WAY too many churches for the case to be made that church community is the only place to live out a love for
God in service with and for others.
@Don, yes I understand that they can not hate
God if they don't believe he exists
in the first place, but I believe they do and use being an «atheist» as a
sort of cover to push there ant - Christian agenda.
First I want to say that I'm not saying Atheist is a religion
in a bad sence or to try and produce some
sort of shame only that it falls under the definition
of a religion and wondering how it would change your feelings \ view
of Atheism even if everybody considered it a religous view, if it's something you believe to be true (that there is no
god) what does it matter if someone labels it as your world view?
However
in a
God context what
sort of Peace is he talking about?
At most,
god does exist because we find active evidence proving there was some
sort of divine hand
in the origin
of life, which then leads us on the hunt for more evidence
of that same
gods existance throughout the fossil record and most likely will lead us to prove that the
god of abraham is STILL man - made, but there is some other supernatural power out there.
Repentance should bring about the blotting out
of our sin (Acts 3:19) but since Christ hadn't died or risen yet when Judas killed himself, maybe it was a godly repentance — maybe he was offering his life to
God — we don't know whether his suicide was
in repentant hope & some
sort of ill - guided atoning effort, or the result
of depression, selfish pride, or whatever else...
Even though it forbids the undialectical confidence
in God's mercy that Luther later came to teach, it nonetheless allows the sinner yearning for
God under the cross a
sort of paradoxical assurance, a sense
of being at least
in the appropriate place before
God, which sustains the heart and enables it to endure to the end.
The Priests
in Jesus day were blasted by Jesus for adding all
sorts of conditions and restrictions onto that which
God commanded.
In my mind I can hardly fathom the existence
of God, but I also can't fathom all
of creation existing by some
sort of freaky big bang.
Many races believe that it was created by some
sort of god, though the Jatravartid people
of Viltvodle Six firmly believe that the entire Universe was,
in fact, sneezed out
of the nose
of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.
In a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposit
In a
sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns
in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposit
in his afflictions the saving hand
of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposite.
I stopped believing
in any
sort of god long before I thought that religion was a bad thing (except that its claims were likely false).
The same
sort who is sitting up
in heaven feverishly micromanaging (as if
God even cognitively functions like humans) the affairs
of men
in order to» keep up.»
I see it as a
sort of a concession I'll have to make if I don't have the faith to find contentment
in my
God alone.
As I suggested
in the review, this
sort of more modest claim would be orthodox, and consistent with the traditional view that only pure perfections pertain to
God's essence.
Sort of caught
in the tension between believing and not believing, being angry at
God and not knowing if I CAN believe
in God.
The Son
of God thingy has all
sorts of modern special effects
in the promo, suprising they didn't film
in 3D, jesus rising from the tomb right into the theatre.
I point this out because even if JPII has been beatified sooner and may be canonized sooner than people
in the past, it doesn't mean that he actually becomes a saint sooner, or gets any
sort of «preferential treatment» from
God.
Some
of them are religious sinners and probably suffer from all
sorts of spiritual blindness to their own sin, and how they mistreat others
in the name
of God.
As with the apple - tart, then,
God's love for this particular occasion is really his love for this
sort of occasion inasmuch as the occasion instantiates one
of the abstract patterns valuated
in the primordial nature.
But his insistence that» [t] he envisaging creativity, the continuum
of extension, B's anticipatory feeling
of C, the disjunctive plurality
of attained actualities, the multiplicity
of eternal objects, and the primordial nature
of God are all alike involved
in the creation
of C's dative [i.e., purely receptive] phase» (326) would lead one to believe that some
sort of objective medium must he present to facilitate the transmission to the new occasion
of so many non-objective factors
in its self - constitution (e g creativity, the anticipatory feelings
of B and other past occasions, the multiplicity
of eternal objects, the divine primordial nature, etc.).
As we read the Bible, we learn how
God worked
in generations past, what
sorts of endeavors the people
of God embarked upon, and how these endeavors turned out.
So if these
sorts of texts guide our understanding
of the tenth plague, we must not look to the death and destruction
of the firstborn sons
of Egypt as a proper indication
of God's activity
in this event, but rather, we must look to the blood
of the lamb.
So it is helpful to give people some ideas
of the
sorts of things that can be said
in conversation with
God.
God did not authorize this
sort of hierarchy
in His Church.
I'm not a «church hopper,» but we did have to leave our old church, and I believe
God sort of picked us up and plopped us
in our new one.
Right, just because it's
in the bible and the people who commited some
of those acts were not only never punished but still considered
Gods faithful servants, shouln't be any
sort of quide on what the bible allows.
What
sort of lucrative ability did your
god give you that you didn't have before you believed
in it, Chard?
I don't know what
sorts of «punishment»
God might have
in store for people after death, but again, using Jesus as the guiding principle, I highly doubt that
God is going to torture people for all eternity by burning them
in fire.
We kill our babies before they are born, we teach
in our schools that
God did not create the world, we allow same sex marriages, we tolerate all
sorts of heresy
in the name
of love.
With this general understanding
of God's participation
in becoming, it should be possible to make some statements
of less than metaphysical generality which have to do with
God's aims for particular
sorts of occasions.
God did not make us this way as some
sort of test, but because he wanted us to be
in his own image and likeness.
Although Wise Blood is chock full
of the
sort of «large and startling figures» that O'Connor relished, there is a sense
in which Motes's journey hits the reader a little too close to home, challenging our sensibilities about who
God is and how
God is at work
in our lives.
Sensual addiction
of any
sort attacks the spiritual life and the experienced joy
of communion
in God.
I call this the King Cyrus argument, that
God's used imperfect people
in the past, that [the president] is
sort of this King Cyrus figure — that
God may be using to do some really good things.
Scripture is full
of examples
of people who committed almost every
sort of sin, and yet by every indication, were still forgiven by
God and will spend eternity with
God in heaven.
A vital church family, beamed down by the effect
of God's Word as a
sort of fifth column
in that land
of cool exteriors and quiet despair.
Yeah, that
sort of makes the whole thing supernatural, and yes that requires evangelicals to see the fruit
of the Spirit and the «mere Christianity»
in believers
in other denominations (and none), but I'm just naive and stupid enough to think
God can do stuff like that.
But paying attention to the prophets
in this season reminds us that the
sort of waiting and preparing that
God calls us to as citizens
of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all
in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision
of peace on earth.