Sentences with phrase «make your case for gods»

If so, she makes the case for God's objectivity (prehensibility) at the expense of its subjectivity.

Last December, on Christmas Day, the Wall Street Journal printed a commentary by Eric Metaxas entitled «Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God».

And I'm still waiting on fred here to make the case for the god of Abraham not being make - believe.

If you have anything, anything at all, that would make your case for gods any more believable, I suggest you produce it.

You believers have had over 2,000 years to make your case for god and The Babble and you, nor any other cult, haven't got one step past «trust me!»

Not exact matches

It's his same old nonsense, and fails to make any case for his crazy god beliefs, just as it did previously.

But that sort of behavior goes on in WAY too many churches for the case to be made that church community is the only place to live out a love for God in service with and for others.

For instance, in the case of Moses, when he confronted God in Exodus 32:11 - 13 after God had threatened to destroy Israel for their sins, Moses confronts God and recounts the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to multiply them and give them the land as an inheritance forever — and this was exactly what God intended him to do, intercede for God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousneFor instance, in the case of Moses, when he confronted God in Exodus 32:11 - 13 after God had threatened to destroy Israel for their sins, Moses confronts God and recounts the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to multiply them and give them the land as an inheritance forever — and this was exactly what God intended him to do, intercede for God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousnefor their sins, Moses confronts God and recounts the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to multiply them and give them the land as an inheritance forever — and this was exactly what God intended him to do, intercede for God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousnefor God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousness.

Unlike Superman whose creation can actually be traced back to a couple of young Jewish men in 1938 for the purpose of providing a sellable fictional story line to Detective Comics, there is no such evidence in regards to religious belief; especially since in this case being that this is about a God who does not want to be made known but who would rather have us develop our faith.

Still, in no way does this even begin to make a case for the christian version of God.

Yes, in the case of character flaws, it's much easier for a Christian to claim that god made them that way to serve a particular purpose in the body of Christ or that god will forgive their sins.

From these two points, Paul was able to make his case for there being a one true God «who made the world and all things in it.»

In Chapter 9, Matthew makes a strong case that being created in the image of God can not uniquely be tied to heterosexuality and points to the Trinity to show that part of being created in the image of God is longing for intimacy and relationship.

The Patheos site does not show replies... somehow, my inbox shows that you are asking Gary to make a scriptural case for one of two items: — that God makes people gay; and / or — that God blesses homosexual behavior.

Having a history of trauma, abandonment or abuse (as was the case for Christian) make it difficult for us to trust others, including God.

Popularization: Once the case is made intellectually, God recruits the artists, musicians, activists and literary geniuses who make intellectual arguments compelling to popular audiences, enabling laypersons to perceive the need for reform.

which makes the case for the coming of the kingdom of God on the timetable laid down in the New Testament.

Encouraged by God's answers, he continues to work down the number, making the case for forty, thirty, twenty, and, finally, ten.

Doug Sloan makes a case for the opposite, but that calls into question the benevolence and omniscience of a god who would send such confusing and conflicting directives to his creations in the first place or for sending such messages that could be «lost» after millemnia of translations.

God allows satan to afflict others biut he sets limits in Jobs case he was not to kill him remember that all things work for good to those who love God does nt mean that bad things wont happen as we live in a sinful world.We can trust him with our lives and in his son we have peace but not without struggles or trails.In our weakness we are made strong.brentnz

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

The lack of evidence for your god makes the case for it exactly as strong as the case for the Easter Bunny.

So, herbie, I assume you are conceding that you can not make a factual objective case for a god.

The fashionable latter term, in any case, should probably be resisted because it makes the assumption that any text that uses «he» for God or «man» for humankind automatically imposes a feeling of exclusion on the women who try to read it.

While granting that there's a lot of church - pushing going around that's creepy, goofy, and just downright wrong, what is it you think the author of Hebrews is doing when he makes a case for continuing in public worship and association with God's people?

Theologians who have quite properly protested against the notion that God was such that he needed to be made friendly and available to his creatures by reason of some event (in this case the death of Christ) which opened up for him this possibility, have failed to see that in this inadequate and often misleading way of speaking, there was an insight of which they should have taken due account.

First I readily and unreservedly grant that Hartshorne has made a powerful positive case for his conception of God as one that (a) is internally coherent, (b) has philosophical merit, (c) has important roots in the practice of theistic religion, and (d) nicely handles some nasty problems.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

He is commending not the dishonesty but the prudence of the man; and verse 9 follows as Jesus interpretation: in your use of money, he says, be prudent and selfish («make friends for yourselves,» that is, by giving generously to others, verse 9); for you can not take it with you, and God is your final treasure in any case.

If you say that a god exists, please, make your case for it, after all, you hold the burden of proof.

Just makes my case stronger for my belief in the One true God.

The first affirmation we are making when we confess that God raised Jesus from the dead is that the resurrection hope which we hold for all men has already become for us a living reality in the case of this man Jesus.

He's also the author of the book Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World in which he made his case for «firebrand» activism.

In our book Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus, John Pattison and I make the case that our local churches are the place where the politics of God's kingdom are beginning to emerge, the communities in which we are learning to seek the peace and flourishing that God intends for all humanity.

In making its case for the assumed superiority of indigenous cultures, the statement invokes the authority of historical fantasist Vine Deloria, author of Custer Died for Your Sins and God is Red.

Having made the case for a generic intelligent agent, however, one may then switch categories from science to apologetics, and propose the biblical God as the best candidate, as Paul did in Acts 17 when he proposed to tell the Athenians the identity of the «unknown god.&raqGod as the best candidate, as Paul did in Acts 17 when he proposed to tell the Athenians the identity of the «unknown god.&raqgod.»

It requires a theological fascism to justify this kind of arbitrary use of power by God; for the view to which Khayyám and Hartshorne object, in the divine case, at least, might makes right.

Yet the best case it can make for keeping «under God» in the pledge clearly empties the phrase of any substantive theological content.

Since such a view can not possibly be defended on the classical view (which holds that God is in all ways absolute and has no relative states), Hartshorne is actually maintaining that the case for God's necessary existence is made by holding that God is in some ways contingent!

Can we make a case for seeing the angels in God's initial plan of creation not just as messengers but as in some way active agents with a specific role in the development of the evolutionary process, a role which he did not withdraw from those who rebelled, in the same way that he does not always or instantly remove bad rulers who affect the development of the historical process?

They will know that whatever may be the real and ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that truth as when we say with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,» or with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again with Christ.»

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

For in that case the assertion of God's sovereignty would be seen as a universal truth which can by logical reasoning be made intelligible to everyone; the miracle would then be regarded as a universally accredited, extraordinary event, from which the conclusion may be drawn that it depends upon a divine cause.

Here Paul is making the case that God's creation serves as an avenue for people to discover God.

In any case, when an atheist blames god for all the horrible things in the world, it's to bolster an argument that the christian god (or any other man made god for that matter) does not exist or else he wouldn't have allowed these things to happen.

In any case, from the moment the people of Israel saw themselves as God's people, adopted by Yahweh not only for special favors but also for great demands, it made a difference that stamped their whole history.

Unless you can make a rational case for the existence of your god, why would it be rational to believe it exists?

I do think that something like this is the case for the fourth chapter of Religion in the Making.7 Having conceived of God as a formative element, Whitehead sought to show how Western theism could be conceived in ways compatible with his notion of God.

Unless you can make a rational case for the existence of your god, why would christianity be rational?

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?