«What
kind of God wants me?»
Not exact matches
A steadily increasing number
of people will
want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any
kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome
of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by
God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more
of it.
The problem is that very few people what to have this rational discussion — they
want to have an emotional arguement and play a game
of «my
god is better /
kinder / bigger / badder than your
god.
let alone the
god they present, one who could have created any
kind of world he
wanted, like an author who has complete control over what shows up in a fictional work; why would
god then giddily create / allow so much pain and evil?
God so loved the world He gave His son Christ... I would not
want my last hours on earth to be filled with only
kind words, but also with the truth
of salvation thru Christ... because
of God's gracious love.
When she
wants to look at porn or masturbate, she and
God have a
kind of conversation, and the desire passes.
Also, it gets
kind of annoying when people imply that you need to believe in
god to be a good person or
want to do anything for the betterment
of society.
«We're not trying to make a chimera just because we
want to see some
kind of monstrous creature... We're doing this for a biomedical purpose... I don't consider that we're playing
God or even close to that.
You
wanted to argue that this couldn't be true, but not simply to respond with a
kind of leaden literalism —
God really is in his heaven and really sits on a throne.
Allah, or Yahweh, or Christ, (whatever anyone
wants to call
God) I do not believe, would require that
kind of kil ling.
Did
God give us the
kind of book He
wanted, or did He give us a book that we would have to make into the
kind of book we
wanted?
This
kind of love sees what is good and true and
of God in others and
wants to build that up, take it further and deeper into the life
of God and even challenge people to relinquish what is spiritually harmful to them.
God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (
kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the
God - cave
of the Holy
of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who
wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.
You don't need to believe in a certain
God and follow all the rituals and rules to still
want to be a part
of some
kind of community that shares your morals and values.
I
want in this article to explore a sacramental vision, a
kind of «seeing beyond», that is empowered by faith in the
God - man who reveals the transcendental attributes
of beauty, goodness and truth
of the Godhead.
Of course I was skeptical because of my past and seeing all the people who were either decieved or really didn't care about really knowing God but saying they did... but seeing the genuine ones that really had had their lives turned upside down and went through all kinds of hard situations but something was different about them that made me want the peace and love they had, that's what led me to become a Christia
Of course I was skeptical because
of my past and seeing all the people who were either decieved or really didn't care about really knowing God but saying they did... but seeing the genuine ones that really had had their lives turned upside down and went through all kinds of hard situations but something was different about them that made me want the peace and love they had, that's what led me to become a Christia
of my past and seeing all the people who were either decieved or really didn't care about really knowing
God but saying they did... but seeing the genuine ones that really had had their lives turned upside down and went through all
kinds of hard situations but something was different about them that made me want the peace and love they had, that's what led me to become a Christia
of hard situations but something was different about them that made me
want the peace and love they had, that's what led me to become a Christian.
What
kind of freedom would it be if
God just destroyed Satan when Satan used his freedom in ways
God didn't
want?
So far all this may seem but a metaphysical rendering
of the biblical doctrine, but St. Augustine
wants to establish his conception
of the being
of God by answering many questions to which the Platonists have given their
kind of answer.
When I read this, about 15 years ago, I was stunned that
God wanted His people to use the tithe to celebrate with our families and to help the less financially «properous» people (instead
of judging them) I had such mixed feelings,
of freedom and joy in
God but also a
kind of betrayal from what has been taught, almost to scare us.
The fact that he
wanted the Catholic church to worship him and have a holiday after him is reflective
of MY POINT that he is motivated by a
god - complex, and not any
kind of «christianity».
You
want a cute little babe in a golden manger, a fair and
kind teacher, a glorious resurrected Christ now seated in the splendor
of heaven at the right hand
of God's throne.
In recent years the belief in hell has waned among Protestants partly because
of the difficulty
of locating it in space but more from the conviction that a loving
God would not
want to condemn anyone — even a hardened sinner, to say nothing
of a
kind and highly moral person who is not a Christian — to endless torment.
I don't
want to take that so literally that we assume
God will go around collecting swords and bending them, but this
kind of passage does seem to indicate that our creations which we meant for destruction,
God will transform somehow in the new city.
I applaud you for your courageous actions and willing to follow your heart and play the
kind of music
God wanted you to play.
the belief on the existence
of the devil was concieved by theologians
of the past thousands
of years, there was no other way
of explaining the bad experiences
of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the
kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part
of the learning process that
God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part
of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part
of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality
of the universe ahead
of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part
of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point
of not believing the practices
of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part
of their learning process.
sure you might point out that people killed one another throughout history over their beliefs and what
kind of God would
want that?
Your mind
wants to live forever so we invent all
kinds of everlasting
gods get it??
I
want the
kind of faith that moves mountains precisely because it is small: small enough to need, small enough grow, small enough to surrender to a
God that is much bigger than it will ever be.
I hear stories
of God's compassion and kindness and it makes me
want to be
kind to others.
God wants you to look at these four soils, and the various areas
of life to see what
kind of soil you are.
«A lot
of times in church we don't
want to talk about those
kinds of things because it's uncomfortable, but there are so many people in church who need to have that dialogue with
God that I had.
All
of that is religious prayer, which is not the
kind of prayer
God wants.
For a good portoin
of my life I
wanted to believe in some
kind of a «
god» or «higher power»
of some sort.
«My understanding is that
kind of God that loves everyone and
wants everyone to live a joyful life.»
It's because
God, in part,
wanted His life to model a new
kind of thinking and living.
Looks
kind of like more picking and choosing
of what we
want to see as from
God.
But mostly, I caution against it because you will be denying yourself the possibility
of knowing the
kind of all - out, no - holds - barred love I believe that
God wants us to experience in marriage.
I
wanted to give my kids some
kind of foundation — some method / rubric / structure for relating to
God.
When we engage in the activities
of the church — worship, prayer, service — we are shaping ourselves to be more the
kinds of people
God wants us to be.
However, they were not the
kind of vine
God wanted.
If we show by the choices we make and the
kind of life we lead that we do not
want to be with
God in all eternity, then we do not have to be.
or, in the context
of faith «what
kind of person does
God want me to be, and how can I take some small step in that direction?»
No aspect
of our lives falls outside this imperative to ask Longley's apparently newly discovered question «what
kind of person does
God want me to be, and how can I take some small step in that direction?»
That doesn't mean that I am going to attribute to that person the weight
of God in everything they say, but I would be foolish to ignore
God speaking because I
want to hear it from a certain
kind of person.
They must be, mustn't they, if one gives the
kind of meaning to the word «
God» that I think all
of us would
want to give?
i
wanted to be like some
kind of cool monk who could get his face bashed in and then rise from the floor to give a calm and witty monoluge that that would slay the anger
of my oponent and touch him with the love
of god.
I honestly wouldn't
want to worship that
kind of God.
It is an opportunity for us to prove to
God (and ourselves) what
kind of people we really
want to be.
Who
wants to hear about the complicated details that add up to making Elizabeth the
kind of woman who after years
of wondering if
God hears her, if
God cares for her, If
God has even cursed her, can still name her child, John; «
God is Gracious.»
And the question is, are you the
kind of person who even
wants to be around
God, to be in His unfiltered presence?