Sentences with phrase «liberty of god»

On the contrary, we must insist on the complete liberty of God and the mysterious character of history.

By the time I was reading his volume that dealt with this very subject — «Churches that Abuse» (1993), my own studies and experiences had taught me just how right these concerns were and just how often we deny the Apostolic mandate and deny and forbid those things that the New Testament clearly defines as ours in the liberty of Gods goodness and grace.

Not exact matches

«That was honest - to - God college beer money that I gave up to be associated with Cato, so you know about my commitment to the cause of liberty,» he said during a forum at the think tank last year.

He's a Thomist in terms of «epistemology,» which means that he believes that we're, by nature, all about both economic liberty and the truth about the personal, relational God.

Second, the image of God entails that men must be allowed freedom in their own minds («soul liberty») from coercion from other men.

What a Christian buys is servitude in this life, at the cost of his liberty (and often property), to people who claim to be authorized agents of God, on hope of reward that can not be verified until they are dead.

If they knew the nature of God and His ho «liness they world not bo'ast themselves, taking liberties in which is vil» e and le «wd!

If the situation is such that it truly compromises in an irresistible way the liberty of the person, then he is in the grace of God, since the subjective elements for mortal sin are lacking.

But do we recognize that this Light is that of the Word made flesh, of God made man, that is, of a divinity that does not crush the human, but assumes it in all its liberty and weakness?

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

So for me, I am going to consider the driving force of one's decisions, and if it is a faith, then so be it because I love our country and I am proud of the individuals (forefathers) who had the insight to form «one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.»

At the very least, our country was founded on the concept of God given rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

With Christ, and no God - imposed middle man, each of us has the liberty to overanalyze or to underthink to our heart's content!

«God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.»

The Westminster Confession of Faith states it this way: «God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.

The Westminster Confession of Faith puts it this way: «God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of secondary causes taken away, but rather established.»

But if God never fails to promote the greatest liberty for all, then God, by this argument is the God of all which is a God more inclusive than a God «simply» of the oppressed.

when God sacrifices some interests in favor of others, it is always for the sake of promoting the greatest liberty for all.

Their worlds are characterized by powerlessness, and so they seek not a meaningful word about God, but a powerful word from God — not to give God a place in their world but, on the contrary, to overcome their world and bring them into God's world, a new world of justice and liberty.

God» not government» is the only sure guarantee of human rights and the blessings of our liberty.

Most of them report a closer intimacy with God and liberty in their walk with Jesus than they claim they felt when «attending» church.

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prisons to those who are bound [Isa.

The «glorious liberty of the children of God» (Rom 8:21) is the fruit of redemption.

WHEREAS, this year marks the 1,400 th anniversary of the Charter of Medina, a constitutional contract between the Prophet Muhammad, God's peace and blessings be upon him, and the people of Medina, which guaranteed the religious liberty of all, regardless of faith;

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

«The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to provide for those who mourn in Zion — to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.

It is to protect the life, liberty, and property of the individual, created in God's image, from those who would rob him or her of these things.

It is God who finally obtains what he hoped for by means of the liberty of each participant.

The same right to religious liberty that should protect followers of Christ should also protect followers of Moses, Muhammad, Krishna and Buddha, as well as those who believe there is no god to follow in the first place.

Liberals generally are for the killing of babies and other horendous ideas that war against the sanctity and liberty of human beings... Giving men with this kind of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think God desires.

And, so God took a risk, and the creature was subjected to vanity so that ultimately the creature might come into the glorious liberty of the children of God.»

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

Of course, for Protestants, the fate of the United States and the fate of American Protestantism have been deeply intertwined from the very beginning, so adherence to the civic project must stem not simply from confidence that American liberty was generally hospitable to the flourishing of Christianity but from a deep, if inchoate, conviction that the American experiment itself was the political outworking of a Protestant sense of «nature and nature's God.&raquOf course, for Protestants, the fate of the United States and the fate of American Protestantism have been deeply intertwined from the very beginning, so adherence to the civic project must stem not simply from confidence that American liberty was generally hospitable to the flourishing of Christianity but from a deep, if inchoate, conviction that the American experiment itself was the political outworking of a Protestant sense of «nature and nature's God.&raquof the United States and the fate of American Protestantism have been deeply intertwined from the very beginning, so adherence to the civic project must stem not simply from confidence that American liberty was generally hospitable to the flourishing of Christianity but from a deep, if inchoate, conviction that the American experiment itself was the political outworking of a Protestant sense of «nature and nature's God.&raquof American Protestantism have been deeply intertwined from the very beginning, so adherence to the civic project must stem not simply from confidence that American liberty was generally hospitable to the flourishing of Christianity but from a deep, if inchoate, conviction that the American experiment itself was the political outworking of a Protestant sense of «nature and nature's God.&raquof Christianity but from a deep, if inchoate, conviction that the American experiment itself was the political outworking of a Protestant sense of «nature and nature's God.&raquof a Protestant sense of «nature and nature's God.&raquof «nature and nature's God.»

Every structure of life must be examined as to whether it measures up to God's intention for it, whether in its current form it works for the common good in the service of justice, liberty, and community.

But insofar as liberal freedom is atomistic and precludes the claim of others on the property that is my person, the state tasked with securing this liberty will exist to protect me from God's commandments, the demands of other persons, so - called intermediary institutions, and, ultimately, even nature itself.

I think «building for God's Kingdom,» if you'll grant me the liberty of redefining our terms, is synonymous with what you could call creating a culture that reflects God's Kingdom.

Are we ready to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God?

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Our sin makes us feeble and craven, and we long to flee from the liberty of the sons of God; but where now can we go?

Concerned primarily with categories proper to «things,» theists have traditionally stressed God's liberty of indifference — God's perfection as an incommunicable supposit rather than as person in outgoing self - relation.

«I think God is in favor of liberty and justice and He is against oppression, he told the troops, comparing the contra struggle to the American Revolution.

Paul recognized the necessity that such harmony be achieved when he stated that «the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God... because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God» (Rom.8: 19,21).

It may seem somewhat trite to invoke the freedom of creation as part of the works and ends of divine love, or to argue that the highest good of the creature — divinizing union with God in love — requires a realm of «secondary causality» in which the rational wills of God's creatures are at liberty; nonetheless, whether the traditional explanations of how sin and death have been set loose in the world satisfy one or not, they certainly render the claim that an omnipotent and good God would never allow unjust suffering simply vacuous.

Even my very conservative Roman Catholic brother gave me kudos when I said that if nothing else, as a Baptist, my two cherished beliefs were in soul liberty and seperation of church and state... so, if god was there and I was completly wrong not to believe in him, then at least he knew every step of my journey, and in the end my salvation, or lack of it, was between me and god.

Though as God incarnate, He had every right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of His own personal happiness, though He had the ultimate freedom to make His own religion, to say whatever He wanted to whomever, to call crowds of disciples to follow after Him, and to take up all the power and force of the universe in His defense, Jesus instead chose to give it all away.

According to Hartshornean and to biblical theism, then, what may appear to be God's failure to sympathize with the interests of the oppressed is never that; and furthermore, when God sacrifices some interests in favor of other interests, it is always for the sake of promoting liberty for all.

It would be odd if a creature such as man and woman, made in the image of God to be creative and inventive, and made to be provident over our own earthly good, were unable to discover the natural laws of ordered liberty and fruitful creativity.

We are, our civil religion assures us, a God - fearing people, the champions of religious liberty, and in many ways a nation that God has chosen to carry out a special mission in the world.

And if they are able to continue to gain power, some day they may even attempt to deny religious liberty to all the «enemies of God.»

To use another biblical metaphor, our goal is the «glorious liberty of the children of god.