It is then forced in freedom to choose either to postulate a fundamental nothingness or absurdity in existence, thus denying intelligibility and destroying itself, or to transcend itself toward
the infinite God of love who has made Himself known through the finite, visible structures of this world.
Not exact matches
Granted, therefore, that
God's
infinite conceptual valuation
of pure possibility may justly be termed «free» since it is «limited by no actuality which it presupposes (PR 524), yet the temporal integrative activity
of his consequent nature, whereby he
loves particular occasions
of the actual world, may also be called «free,» though in a somewhat different sense.
I agree with you Keith totally because
Gods love is
infinite and supreme because every attribute
of God is complete, perfect,
infinite and supreme.
God's (
infinite) perspective is so much greater than that
of the sum total
of humanity that, yes, faith is required; a faith and trust in
God's
love for each
of us, no matter how desperate our current situations may seem.
Observer, you can call
God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal
infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose
love within overflowed to create man in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose
of destroying evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.
This will require spreading our own evangelical creed: that we are not disembodied subjects but fleshly icons
of the invisible
God; whose worth comes not from extorted approval
of our personal choices but from His
infinite, undeserved
love.
It only when we begin to understand the
infinite love and grace
of God toward us that the power
of sin loses its hold in our lives.
God goes on in this vein for most
of four chapters, describing the wonders
of creation and the mighty power,
infinite wisdom, and
loving providence
of the Almighty.
By
loving the ordinary people we (the Christians) underline the message
of the gospel that
God delivered his Son for our sins and raised him from the dead for our justification, which is a message
of infinite love.
When you and I are not at one with the source
of life and
love and the
infinite ground
of being that we call
God, then inevitably we are not at one with ourselves either.
He should also send us back to the
infinite grace
of God in Christ which changes every condemnation into pardon, or rather which sets every condemnation within the
infinite love of God, who punishes to three generations but who pardons to a thousand generations.
Like me, I trust that as you also will come to to an understanding
of God's
infinite love, grace, and forgiveness.
They have been led, often unwillingly, to affirm that
Love in its infinite capacity for relationships and its profound participation in that in which it is at work, is the very nature of God himself; they have found in that love the clue to God's way of working in the wo
Love in its
infinite capacity for relationships and its profound participation in that in which it is at work, is the very nature
of God himself; they have found in that
love the clue to God's way of working in the wo
love the clue to
God's way
of working in the world.
«Laws
of peace, of love, of unity, Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.&raqu
of peace,
of love, of unity, Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.&raqu
of love,
of unity, Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.&raqu
of unity,
Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.&raqu
Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient
infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one
God, one Law.»
The special logic
of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages
of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things
of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality
of being in
God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity
of flesh and form, recognizes all
of creation as a purely gratuitous gift
of a
God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity
of a world created and redeemed purely out
of God's «pleasure.»
If we are trying to revive our lives and get on track with
God, there is nothing better than a sense
of God's unconditional acceptance,
infinite love, and undying grace.
We never took the time to show them the
infinite love and forgiveness
of God which
God has shown us.
would get them criticized and yelled at by people and would get no approval by fictional heroes like batman, I'd say that for all
of God's omni - benelovence and
infinite love,
God could really come
of like an antihero, especially in the old testament.
If
God was truly
of infinite love, he would overlook the foolishness
of a frail human mind and
love them afterwards anyway.
Here is echoed the heartbreaking desperation
of all saints and sinners alike, whose prayers for themselves and those they
love seem to bounce back from the ceiling or from an
infinite, empty space or from wherever
God seems absent.
There is no conflict between the justice
of God and the mercy
of God; both spring out
of His
infinite love for His children.
God creates the world
of Jesus, the world conformed to his
infinite love for his Son in the joy and light
of the Spirit; he thereby also wills his goodness in all his creatures infinitely, which is to say he wills this world for eternal union with him in
love, and he wills that we should become partakers
of the divine nature.
As a group, Christians and others may come to understandings on
love or compassion or certain universal concepts... but even they wouldn't say that the «
god» they know is exactly as they describe him... in part because you can't have that kind
of universality without also haveing the humility to know you only have partial comprehension in the face
of an
infinite, and ultimately unknowable,
god.
Of course, this does not mean that God has a body that can be visualized, but that he is a God of infinite wisdom, goodness, mercy, and lov
Of course, this does not mean that
God has a body that can be visualized, but that he is a
God of infinite wisdom, goodness, mercy, and lov
of infinite wisdom, goodness, mercy, and
love.
There is no lust in christ but just an
infinite source
of the
love of the spirit that's pure and delightful.Marriage itself is a concession to the weakness
of our present being.
God designed woman as the companion of man with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds of sin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were slaves of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chri
God designed woman as the companion
of man with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds
of sin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were slaves
of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out
of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit
of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chri
god is
love and life to us.When I cried out to
God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chri
God to save me from this nature,
God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chri
God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted
love of christ.
The path toward victory is not through beating yourself up every time you fall, but through coming to know and understand the
infinite love of God for you.
This - in all its many flavors - «churchianity» appears sometimes good in its higher aspects, but never good enough for its denial
of the
infinite God who is
Love by its affirmation
of hell.
The message
of Christianity is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions
god's
infinite love.
It would be more in accord with the spirit
of myth to regard man as just one element in an
infinite universe — even the New Testament does so in clear and classical language; it says, not «
God so
loved mankind», but «
God so
loved the world».
God is creator
of heaven and earth, a
loving God concerned about human beings — the children
of God who are
of infinite worth in his sight.
But we can not deduce from
God's
infinite love that all men will receive the benefits
of that
love.
This series
of emails will give you hope for your future and reveal to you the
infinite love, grace, and mercy
of God for you.
As assistant novice mistress, she was able to form the young postulant nuns in her own Little Way, encouraging them to respond to
God's
infinite love for each
of us.
David Hart has noted that there is a long theological tradition, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, that «makes no distinction, essentially, between the fire
of hell and the light
of God's glory, and that interprets damnation as the soul's resistance to the beauty
of God's glory, its refusal to open itself before the divine
love, which causes divine
love to seem an exterior chastisement» (The Beauty
of the
Infinite, 399).
He knows that
God willed this world as it is, for otherwise it would not exist, and that even what is merely «permitted» is only permitted as a factor in something divinely willed (and not merely permitted), and that what is willed can and must be hoped for, not only as the revelation
of God's justice but also as the revelation
of his
infinite loving kindness to man.
In the growth in knowledge and
love of God, Israel develops as a religious and cultural reality deeply ingrained with the fundamental insights
of God as the one creator who is
infinite love itself and holds all things in being.
If the disciples catch one single person out
of the clutches
of the devil and help bring that person into the
loving arms
of God the Father, that catch alone is
of infinite and eternal value.
It is Jesus Christ who by his atoning death and vicarious
love reconciles a fallen human race to the
God of infinite holiness and mercy.
Scripture was used to support the idea
of a
God of absolute power, thereby obscuring the biblical conception
of a
God of infinite love whose power was manifest in his suffering and humiliation in Jesus Christ.
For when our life expresses the image
of God and is in touch with the
infinite, life - giving, self - fulfilling
love of God, when
God is the source and goal
of our deepest desire, then and only then do we children
of God live out creation's purpose.
You believe that your
god will cause anyone who does not accept your Iron Age stories to suffer a penalty an
infinite times worse than the death penalty (burning forever in excruciating torture) simply because
of their healthy skepticism, yet maintain that
god «
loves them».
Being constantly reminded on the one hand
of the
infinite gap between one's own limited talents and vision and the perspective
of Almighty
God, and on the other
of the radical equality with which
God judges and
loves the human race is a healthy counterweight to the flattery
of the world and the smugness that comes with success.
Instead, just seek to know the unconditional and
infinite love of God as revealed in Jesus Christ.
«
God, out
of His
infinite love for us, stoops down into our deceit and death, and covers our tracks with His blood» I think that is His mercy.
The early church witnessed to the
infinite scope
of God's unconditional empathetic
love.
You believe that your
god will cause anyone who does not accept your Bronze Age stories to suffer a penalty an
infinite times worse than the death penalty (burning forever in excruciating torture) simply because
of their healthy skepticism, yet maintain that
god «
loves them».
Cuz we know
God, in his
infinite wisdom, decided that man should not eat during daylight hours during this particular time
of the year to show how much you
love him / her / it.
May our
God of infinite love be with Jesse as he continues to heal, with you and your wife as you care for him, with Shirl as she struggles with the call to compassion that is on all
of us and especially those in the health care professions, and with all
of us as we search for ways to deal with adversity in healthy ways.
But in the light
of Christian revelation we are led to believe that the boundless, and perhaps initially terrifying abyss
of mystery is in fact the consequence
of an
infinite God's own humble and
loving self - withdrawal.
It seems that the proponents
of a
god of infinite love can not tolerate that.