Sentences with phrase «left hand of god»

It used to be said — although I am told it is incorrect to say it — that when the Creed was translated into Chinese, it was necessary to alter the words so as to have Christ sitting on the left hand of God, this being the Chinese place of honor.

On the other hand, they complain against what Luther called «the left hand of God»: the divine bungling that blotches an otherwise splendid creation.

So much so that Luther had to admit that even Satan is the left hand of God.

And if gods angels can't disobey him how did the left hand of god do it..

They are the work of the «left hand of God.»

Not exact matches

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

Today's Evangelicals leaders need to get back to being preachers of the word like they were called upon to do and leave the judging to the ONLY ONE who has the authority to sit at the right hand of God.

TV gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh has said he will leave ageing «in the hands of God» rather than getting... More

«Incidents like this can happen to any one of us and at any time, and all we can do is to leave everything in God's hands and accept his will.»

Justice is the «alien» or «left - hand» rule of God through temporal powers, while love is the «proper» or «right - hand» rule of God through the Church and the gospel she proclaims and lives.

Lutherans do not expect salvation from what God is doing in the kingdom of the left hand.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

The Exodus narrative — that we were slaves to a Pharaoh in Egypt, and God brought us out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; that a mixed multitude left Egypt with us, which teaches us that freedom is not for us alone — is central to Jewish identity.

Being Lutherans, people who believe that God rules in his left - hand temporal kingdom (through justice) as well as in his right - hand kingdom of eternity (through love), we were not truly escapists, quietists, or non-participants.

When the time came to get the bible into the hands of the masses God used The Church of England which left the RCC in 1534 (maybe you followed the wrong branch) to do it.

I turned the ripe ol' age of 57 earlier this year,,,, Because I have much free - time on my hands nowadays, I am left to consider God and His Majestic Realm (s) He and His generations and Brethren inhabit.

We do not know; we must leave this in the hands of a just and loving God.

On the one hand, Thomas offers an approach to intelligent design that leaves an opening for intellectuals like the columnist Charles Krauthammer, who admits he believes in some kind of intelligent design, but finds himself unable to identify the intelligent designer with any of the gods currently on offer.

Left in the hands of god, both mother and fetus will be in jeopardy.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

Considering the pro-life POV, we are fighting for the well - being of either person to be left ultimately in God's hands.

God made all kinds of people, some stupid and some less so, some left - handed and some not, some attracted to red headed people and some not, some able to sing hymns on pitch and some not, etc..

Leave all of your own evangelical hero complex baggage behind for once, and just go, innocent and wise and open - handed, treat everyone you meet with reverence, and crack open your heart, and worship together, and pray, and make friends, and see what the great I AM is already doing in Haiti, and bear witness to the every - day work of the Kingdom of God.

«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another.»

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and others were and are much taken with Cullman's argument that the confessional divisions of the sixteenth century are the work of God's «left hand,» and the resulting differences must somehow be given the opportunity to play themselves out rather than being «negotiated away» in ecumenical dialogue.

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.

On the other hand, a friend of ours once said «God will not let you leave this place, until you have learned to walk with Him here.»

It is he who has left for us that striking and charming picture of God as a loving father leading his people as though holding the hand of a toddling infant in its first uncertain steps:

There is a part of all of us that is just left scratching our heads perplexed that anyone would do the terrible things they've done, that life would hand out the misfortunes that it has, and that God is somehow sovereign over all of it.

Just as he is not a clockmaker God, neither can I believe that He simply inspired the original manuscripts and then just left the Bible to be shredded by the hands of Man.

Jesus implied that if the Spirit does not convert them to goodness in this life, any judgment of their deeds is to be left in the hands of their creator — God alone.

If we let our right hand stand for God and the left hand stand for man, and then bring the two together, but part them again and again, this broken and temporary union is a fact of all human life.

If God performed miracles witnessed by many that could not be confused with natural phenomena and, these miracles were recorded first hand, and God left a perfect bible that could not be interpreted multiple ways, then it would be reasonable to expect people to believe for thousands of years.

In those catastrophic events brought upon them by the destroyer when they left the protective hand of God, it seemed to them that God was angry with them, that God had left them.

... but since you seem to think that God gets angry, and when I look to see how American Christians (that is, Fox News Christians) treat the least of these, my bretheren, then maybe... MAYBE... I'll change my mind about Christians... or I might just stick to that goats - on - the - left - hand story in that Book written by that guy who claims to be Matthew...

It would be truly horrendous to be in the hands of an all - intrusive God who never left us alone, and who, when it came time to send his messiah, sent one who ruled the earth like some heavenly Mussolini.

I do not deny this god's existence, but this god is not one a civilised man would worship.Can someone explain what it truly means to be benevolent or is it left in the hands of false prophets like these who demonize people in the name of their lord?

In the Book of Psalms, on the other hand, the psalmists also describe their deliverance, although particulars are generally left out, and then quickly turn from their personal experience to the character of God.

Evil proceeds from the fingers of God's left hand.

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

Hbr 6:1 - 2 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Though it is written in the Law of Moses that the husband can divorce his wife with a bill of divorcement, on the other hand it is written, «God created them man and woman; therefore a man shall leave father and mother, and the two shall be one flesh.

So Abram decides to leave the matter in God's hands by letting Lot make the choice of where to live.

The story ends with a vision of the all - merciful God, compassionate over Nineveh and calling his representative to a similar outreach of saving goodwill — «And Yahweh said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that can not discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?»

They leave that role to the poor... Time will tell on their power minds... Wait» till their judgment day comes... Hand of God has struck the hour... Day of judgment, God is calling... On their knees the war pig's crawling..

You will never see the Holy Spirit on the left hand side of God because the Holy Spirit is the power of God.

Some of history's most dastardly deeds have been done by those who claimed to be sitting on God's right or left hand.

Scripture even teaches irony, as when God sarcastically addresses Jonah, who is complaining about the collapse of his bean vine: «Should I not spare Nineveh, this great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that can not discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?»

On the other hand, Bible readers regularly find much that leaves them surprised, shocked, or wondering about how some of these stories (the rape of Dinah and Tamar's seduction of Judah) have anything to say about God's ways in this world.

If, on the other hand, we start with the idea of God as a «serial society,» leaving out the phases of indeterminateness in every link (so that it would become a continuous chain of satisfactions only), it might appear that we had arrived at the same view as above.