Sentences with phrase «more powerful god»

Griffin's point is sole possessor of creative power and unilateral control are nonsense, not that God's power is insufficient to do what a more powerful God could do.

They need to ask if they believe that Jesus is the Son of God or one of many gods that are over many planets that are controlled by another more powerful God.

Hey, after we debate what people in the Dark Ages cobbled together in a book about a ranting, apocrophal prophet from the Middle East 2,000 years ago, lets have another really worthile debate about whether Zeus or Apollo was a more powerful god.

Not exact matches

«We take this step because we know, that in solving the many, many problems and our great challenges, faith is more powerful than government and nothing is more powerful than God,» Trump said.

«We take this step because we know that, in solving the many, many problems and our great challenges, faith is more powerful than government and nothing is more powerful than God,» Trump said at a Rose Garden ceremony.

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

Makes a hell of a lot more sense than an all powerful all knowing god needing to give birth to himself, so that he could sacrifice himself to himself in order to save humanity from the punishment that he condemned us to.

I have 2 myself, I know I'm not more powerful than God.

Yet often it seems that in those times, in those seasons of doubt and pain, we can find God and respond to Him in a more powerful way than ever before.

The deeper you get into a discipline to disprove God's existence, the more evidence you find that he is a powerful reality.

I know I'm not more powerful than God.

I am not a deist, so I never get into these disputes wabout whose god or gods are more powerful, which ones exist and which ones don't.

Is the serpent more powerful than god?

Alice Using only «I love my neighbor as myself» is the same as «I love God with all my life» in the effect, rational thought, it produces though it is more powerful but strangely different from «I love my neighbor with all my life» (romantic love) which stupefies.

More than anyone in my lifetime, Pope Francis has given me a powerful glimpse into the mind and heart of God.

For the Holy Spirit to share His dwelling place with an evil spirit, or to get replaced by the evil spirit, would imply that the evil spirit was more powerful than God.

The answer is that God knows that a story is more powerful than a list.

Unable to deal with that you need some kind of explanation, so you've decided there is an all - powerful, all - knowing sentient being you call God who is responsible for, well, pretty much anything you can't explain with more verifiable causes.

If humans are more powerful than God, why make him the subject of our praise, worship, and devotion?

Or the other guy's god is more powerful.

So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical deity who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this deity is all powerful but for some reason can't do anything more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX: God can never regenerate a missing limb)?

At least, Grandmere, you're acknowledging that, within the doctrine «free will», humans are more powerful than God.

some people almost praise thier religion more than God Himself... I persanally do nt know how people BELIVE that gas just created itself and then exploded even though they did nt see it, but cant belive in an all powerful being because they do nt see Him in a human form.

Shelly: «Seriously, if humans have free will then that means they're more powerful than the omnipotent God» — Not sure I follow your logic here.

there is no logical path that one can take that would lead one to the conclusion that an all powerful creator existed outside of space and time... that claim is nothing more than a god of the gaps argument.

Jaroslav Pelikan is more cautious, recognizing that Marcion's God of «simple goodness,» per Tertullian, is characterized by «serenity and mildness» 27 and not by any active expression of powerful love.

Or, maybe we are taking this too far... — More importantly, the power in us collectively, the resurrection power of God, the Holy Spirit, the full Word of God, is much more powerful than words confined by the human constraints of ink and paMore importantly, the power in us collectively, the resurrection power of God, the Holy Spirit, the full Word of God, is much more powerful than words confined by the human constraints of ink and pamore powerful than words confined by the human constraints of ink and paper.

They are there, but barely hanging on with any hope that God is more powerful than the impotent spirituality that can at times overtake them.

Mankind has invented thousands of god in an attempt to explain the world around him, imagining the world was created by a being much like himself only far more powerful.

[God] didn't help me in the secret garden, and I think he couldn't anyway; I think that whatever I saw that day was more powerful than any bewhiskered prayer - book God, simpering in a white robe: his holy palms held apart, as if He were sizing up a plank.

In short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).

God won't say, okay now I love her just a bit more because, look, she is finally out of debt or thin or powerful or influential or tireless.

Does that make me more powerful than god in a way?

Secondly, can you imagine if on gods level he's actually not nearly as powerful as you think he is, it's just he's so much more powerful than you (or at least you perceive him to be) that you give him powers he doesn't posess, I mean you are just taking other people from 2,000 word for it that this is what god is like and sure you pray, but like you said, you just know, god hasn't come down and spoken with you, sent you a note, a vision or any other nonesense.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Those taken into Babylonian captivity, as well as those left behind, now had even greater temptations placed before them to abandon faith in their God, and to turn after other gods who were clearly more powerful and victorious.

I mean, at best he is calling God a liar by knowing something God says can not be known, and at worst says that God didn't have the power to keep it unknown from his (Camping) more powerful intellect.

Isn't he in effect saying he is more powerful than God by trumping his word?

It is not a bit of a stretch but an act of total blind faith to believe in Evolution Dan, in fact it take more faith to believe in that than in an all knowing, all powerful creator God who said I created all things.

The surprise lies in the word «help» (Hebrew ezer), because the Bible always uses this word for someone who is more powerful; often a warrior or for God himself (Psalm 115:9 - 11).

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

If it were, God would not be sovereign over all; man would be more powerful.

An atonement theology directed towards the assuaging of guilt before God is a powerful gospel — in contexts where God is immediately and almightily real; or where (as we may note more skeptically) a religion is still powerful enough to hold up before its host culture the image of a holy and righteous deity before whom none is worthy except through the appropriate cultic observations.

A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father - figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever.

If we read Romans 3 with this in mind, it becomes «for all of us are terrorists and fall short of the glory of God», and is much more powerful.

It is illogical to assert that an all knowing all powerful God wants / needs / enjoys / requires worship because you are asserting that God wants worshiping infinity plus one more time.

There are others who understand the human situation more in terms akin to those prevailing in certain areas in New Testament days, when it seemed to many men that they were in the control of forces indifferent to their fate and that God, however potentially powerful, was very far off.

They're god is more powerful and can lower gas prices better.

It is like saying that there is a sin more powerful than the Lord's forgiveness, and in turn saying that a sin is more powerful than God.

This is a God many orders of magnitude more intelligent, more knowledgeable, more creative, more powerful, more loving.