Sentences with phrase «love frees man»

By so doing, love frees man from himself as he is.

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Here goes: God, who is love, created man with a free will.

Based on what you said, god doesn't do anything in the affairs of man at all because that would interfere with peoples free will and make those that saw him interact love him because then they know him.

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.

Men like Eric Schmidt think that free markets and free love are by no means irreconcilable.

When, however, the same sin says, Be independent; don't be a slave of old codes; all the world loves a rebel; show the stuff you are made of by breaking free from cramping restrictions which keep your native instincts down; be a man!

Love is the fulfillment of the law, and therefore the forgiveness of God delivers man from himself and makes him free to devote his life to the service of others (Rom.

It makes a man free from himself and free to be himself, free to live a life of self - commitment in faith and love.

Bringing to mind the loving heart of the Mother of God, she successfully frees a possessed man through fervent hugs and ardent prayers, receiving on her person the physical scars of the demon's violent lashing out.

Something that bible man who has all the answers, everything figured out that he is compelled to tell you so you will be free because he loves you.

To bring about a universe in which God's love can attain its fullness in man's free response, all the forces of nature interact.

Time, history, and freedom make a difference because through them God reveals that he is a living God in man's future waiting for man's free return of self God wills to be a lover responding to man's free return of love.

We know he did not reject the necessity of grace, but thought of it as leaving man free for co-operation with God.15 But Augustine has always been given credit for having preserved the essential Christian doctrine that God's grace is necessary to give to man what he can not give to himself, that is forgiveness, and the empowerment of his will to love God and his neighbour.

Not long after his summer blockbuster Free State of Jones came out, Matthew McConaughey explained to The Daily Beast that his character «had a moral code rooted in the Bible and the Declaration of Independence: Love thy neighbor as thyself, and all men are created equal.»

If you were God everything would be right and everyone would love everyone and nothing bad would ever happen and the deficit would be eliminated and all the men would be good looking and all the women strong and all the children above average and a chicken in every pot and free beer on Fridays and we'd all like it whether we wanted to or not.

One can see this metaphysical scheme behind the words of Mason and Jefferson in the two acts of the Virginia Assembly quoted above: «that all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.»

He created man as a free being because He wished to be freely known, willed, and loved.

Second, and more important, he ignores that Christ taught us that we have free will and that we should love our fellow man including our enemies, a teaching that promotes peace between nations.

The spiritual man can only love when he is freed from the necessity to love, that is, when he knows himself already loved in his self - preoccupation.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

And when we recognize ourselves for who we are, and the different strengths and abilities God has given to us as men and women, we are then free to use those strengths and abilities to love, serve and honor Him.

But if a man believes in the omnipotent, omniscient and loving God his life will be destiny in an even deeper sense: for it is wholly borne by the power of God without which nothing, not even man's own free act, can exist; his life as a whole and in all its details is always lived before the omniscient God of love.

How in this case man can be said to be free is one of the paradoxes which Niebuhr holds defies rational understanding.11 But if we accept the paradox, while we may say there is an ideal possibility that we could assert our human will to power in history without sinning and thus bring in the Kingdom of love, this is no actual possibility.

In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctification.

In every free act God is experienced non-explicitly, but truly; and what is meant by God is only experienced in this way, namely the Whither (incomprehensible by knowledge and will) of the one original transcendence of man, which consists in knowledge and love.

Men who love Him who first loved them, who reply to Him who first addressed them, in free acknowledgment, in faith.

But beyond this the will to give freedom to all men signifies something deeper: The original free decision of all in the will of love, in the un-conditional respect for others and so forth may be the same also if the free persons express themselves in contrasting objectivations.

True, Scripture presupposes rather than enlarges on man's freedom of choice, and its explicit theme, especially in the New Testament, is the paradox that man's continuing responsible freedom is enslaved by the demonic powers of sin and death and even by the law, and that it must be freed to the love of the law by the grace of God.

Man is free in order that he might love.

John Paul II wrote of this in Familiaris Consortio: «Man, who has beencalled to live God's wise and loving design in a responsible manner, is an historical being who day by day builds himself up through his many free choices» (34, my emphasis).

But, on the other, «Love is what God does in order to make man free.»

For what this truly and blessedly means is that God can not be less than man, endowed with personality, freedom und love, and that the mystery itself is free protective love, not an «objective order» which one can, after all, possess (at least in principle), and against which one could ensure oneself.

He offers healing through words of forgiveness, so this man may find free access to the love of God that will carry him through all of life — a wholeness that a dysfunctional body can not deny him.

If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.

«A man's free - will, indeed, avails for nothing except to sin, if he knows not the way of truth; and even after his duty and his proper aim shall begin to become known to him, unless he also take delight in and feel a love for it, he neither does his duty, nor sets about it, nor lives rightly.

A young man may coerce a girl to go through the motions of lovemaking: what he can not do is to force the girl really to love him, responding to him as a free human person and participating gladly in the enterprise we call lovemaking.

He also gave man a free will to chose to love his Creator or not to love his Creator.

I love the whole spirit of Christmas; The Christmas story from the bible is beautiful and so is the whole St. Nick (Santa) story and they both touch my heart... if you only want to love the jolly old elf because he gives toys to children then that is certainly your right... because we live in the land of the free... Peace on Earth and good will toward men (and women)... no matter what you believe.

Some see Jesus as a very good man who preached love but had no supernatural origin, or as a man who understood human frailty and psychology and hence was able to free others of psychosomatic blindness, etc..

we teach him kindness love and the belief that it through G - d that all things are possible and thus we should be greatful... beyond that I expose him to church so that when he is a man and has free will w / the ability to reason that he will have someone other than me to turn to in time of need and celebration.

its not about what he created but what man out of free choice has chosen to do with it, because they have chosen ally themselves with something other than christ's love.................. their own flesh, or powers and principalities (world and satan).

I know of a man who had the spiritual gifts of evangelism, service, and creative communication, the heart desire to travel and be on the open road, the ability and knowledge to work on motorcycles, a fun - loving and free - spirited personality, and the life experiences of riding motorcycles.

The command is, you must love; the will is called to action, that is, the man is addressed, with the implication that he is placed by God under the necessity of decision and must decide through his free act.

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

The dark reality, of course, is that it is not free choice at all when women must convince men to love them and must convince themselves that they are more than just «used goods.»

«There is real and genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced of a truth, or of what he holds to be a truth, and when he at the same time recognizes the right of those who deny this truth to exist, and to contradict him, and to speak their own mind, not because they are free from truth but because they seek truth in their own way, and because he respects in them human nature and human dignity and those very resources and living springs of the intellect and of conscience which make them potentially capable of attaining the truth he loves, if someday they happen to see it.

It is evident that it is religious duty and holy, as becomes Christians, that when your people have bought them from the Greeks themselves, for the love of Christ they set them free, and receive gain not from men, but from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

Society's obsession with making everything safe and risk - free has left Western man with nowhere to channel his natural love of adventure, danger and challenge.

I've only just popped bananas back into my baking repoitoire after they went up to $ 16 / kg here in Australia with the QLD floods some months ago, thankfully they're back down to $ 2.98 / kg and so I've stocked up ready to have some black bananas to use soon, the glaze sounds amazing, my man would love that lemon kick, although I must admit I did enjoy the caramel icing I just poured all over my most recent banana cake... can't wait to try this gluten free!

I love that the gingerbread men are free from refined sugar and have little fat content.