Sentences with phrase «man has the purpose»

The free man has no purpose here and means there, which he fetches for his purpose: he has only the one thing, his repeated decision to approach his destiny.

Not exact matches

Considered a classic Christmas movie, «It's A Wonderful Life,» stars Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, a man who dreams of being more than he is and believes he has no purpose in life.

The purpose has been to put his own loyal men into all the government positions, consolidate his own power, reward his supporters like any good political patronage system would.

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

God's purpose has not changed for man.

According to Acts 17:31, the apostle Paul said that God «has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed.»

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

The concept of god with some tribes in Australia and the Americas differed yet the majority had worship outside of the known physical man which was the prime purpose of God as written by the major religions.

«If I felt that prayer existed for the purpose of changing the mind of God, then I would never pray, for how could I presume to interfere with the sovereign and holy councils of Almighty God... Men do not frustrate the plans of God, but rather it is God who frustrates the plans of men.&raqMen do not frustrate the plans of God, but rather it is God who frustrates the plans of men.&raqmen.»

Atheists deal with what the physical world delivers, so they might not have any sense of something bigger than man and have no ultimate purpose.

Certainly not because we can always appropriate their work for modern theological purposes, but for this reason: «We remember it, as a man remembers the profound intuitions he had as an adolescent.

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.

If there is indeed a soul or purpose for man that is greater than self (animal) evolution would point towards something greater not something less than or limited to the purpose of an ape or a plant.

You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your lifeMan is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your lifeman has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your lifeman made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...

Had the occasion to spend time with a number of men yesterday, discussing the stages of a man's development — and how God uses pain and wounding as a tool to shape us for his service and purposes.

Everything Man makes has a purpose.

It is thought that one of the purposes of the sons of God in having children with the daughters of men was to pollute the human race so that the Seed of Eve could not come and crush the serpent's head (Gen 3:15).

Everything Man makes has a purpose behind it.

But nevertheless God purposes to be gracious, when a sinful man flees to the very God from whom he would otherwise have to flee in feat of judgement.»

And if my eyes were more filled with tears than those of a repentant woman, and if each tear were more precious than a pardoned woman's many tears; if I could find a place more humble than the place at his feet, and if I could sit there more humbly than a woman whose heart's sole choice was this one thing needful; if I loved him more sincerely than the most loyal of his servants, eager to shed the last drop of his life - blood in his service; if I had found greater favor in his eyes than the purest among women — nevertheless, if I asked him to alter his purpose, to reveal himself differently, to be more lenient with himself, he would doubtless look at me and say: Man, what have I to do with thee?

He created humanity to occupy the throne at his right hand and to read the book of the future, and he has determined to bring his purposes to fruition only through a worthy man.

Thus messages have been revealed again and again with the one purpose of guiding man to perfection.

The man should try to find a time machine and go back to 1896 because he has no purpose in todays world.

Our only hope is in his using us, in all our weakness, for the fulfillment of his great purpose, that men may have «life in him.»

But there is great salvation in proclaiming that God in Christ has accomplished the purpose for which man was made, and through which his weakness and failure, his sin and shame, are overcome.

We know that religion, at the very least, has been manipulated by man to serve the purpose of man, and should therefore be questioned.

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

But at least he has enough true light by which to live, and he has powerful and indeed exciting clues to the meaning and purpose of life and to man's ultimate destiny.

So it has to be asked what purpose He has for making serious occurrences coincident with various acts of man.

One would almost think that the West had only just had news of that victory, as it had just learned of the conquest of Jerusalem, and that the purpose of the company of statues that now was mustering in the glimmering recesses of cathedral porches was to reveal to men as living presences the figures of their collective dreams.4

The differences between men and women, and the part these play in God's plan and purposes, are greater and more significant than we had perhaps hitherto supposed.

Philosophers may argue whether physics and biology can definitively demonstrate the existence of God, but proof of the negative claim — that God does not exist or that men have no God - given purpose — is certainly beyond the competence of scientificreasoning.

Christ came among men with a simple ministry of teaching whose main purpose was to confirm that the kinds of ways in which God had been understood in Natural religion, and the very language used to express those insights, were broadly right.

The Christian approach would ideally include the desire to uncover and probe the goodness, beauty and divine purpose of creation, as well as an emphasis upon the pre-eminence of love among men and the dire effects of sin on creation in general (see Romans 8.22) and on men in particular.

For our purposes, the most satisfactory definition would be: Christianity is the total life of the community of men and women who respond to what they know about God — along with their neighbors, who are caught up into the social movement or process we call «the church» (however this may be understood)-- in terms of the socially remembered event of Jesus Christ.

The purpose is simply to expose what I've noticed to be recurring assumptions about what it means to be egalitarian, assumptions that do not reflect my own views as someone who believes men and women should work together, without hierarchy, to grow the Kingdom in the home, church, and world.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

But yet, the fact remains that in man's «common» experience, in those very human and historical — and sinful — limitations we know so well, we have the right to find in parabolic fashion creaturely representations of that which God is, and that which God has done, and that which God purposes to bring to pass in and for and through and with and to this his world and the men and women whom he has placed in it.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.

Buber suggests that the young man needed a human presence that would convey a sense of purpose.

I do indeed believe, but I believe as one of a great company of men and women, from many ages, of all races and classes, rich and poor, simple and learned, who in one way or another have been drawn to find the truest key to the meaning and purpose of human existence given focal expression in Jesus Christ.

This hope, however, lays an obligation also on the authorities of the Catholic Church to be critical of themselves, to respect the conscience of every man which is responsible directly to God, and to avoid anything that may give the impression that the exercise of this ministry may have other purposes than the preservation of the one faith.

I find it amusing to watch men who have yet been able to create anything from nothing, sit around and try to use their limited logic in trying to understand the reasoning and purpose of GOD who has the ability and knowledge to create dirt from nothing.

In the meantime, I offer you (and all other worshippers of the natural creation that evidences a Creator whom you have, for all intents and purposes, crucified) the opportunity in print to, as Jesus said, «repent or perish», and to change the direction of your «faith» from trusting in God - hating man (ultimately yourself) and trust in Jesus not religion.

The tendency is evident already in Augustine: since our true home is the Heavenly City, the City of Man (the political world) has no higher purpose but to enable compromise regarding the necessities of mortality.

Gods came to set the captive free.God is always in control he calls the shots not Satan he is in control his motives and purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for good and he always has a plan.It is spiritual lesson from a real life situation.I am jumping way ahead here but at the time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family when you read later because of his testimony the next time they visit years later to those towns many people are saved because of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to God be the glory.brentnz

Your god very clearly killed infants for a very specific purpose and reason — I think the method would be irrelevant, but nice attempt at a straw man.

A wise man (who was religious and clearly though I'd be be better off finding belief in God) told me that all I HAD to know about God for the purpose at hand (sobriety) was that I wasn't him.

I will let Paul respond to your question: «And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad — in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls — 12 she was told, «The older will serve the younger.»