Sentences with phrase «of god complexes»

Additionally, Spielberg contemplates all sorts of God complexes with the introduction of Pre-Crime's director Burgess (Max Von Sydow) and the program's creator, Dr. Iris Hineman (Lois Smith).

He has no respect for anyone because of his god complex.

You have some sort of god complex, and are not as smart as you think you are.

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Bonus material: In November I moderated a debate between Smith and Dave McClure of 500 Startups at Web Summit titled «Do entrepreneurs need a God complex to drive innovation?»

I think we are too quick to depersonalize this and miss that we are talking about complex individuals who are trying to figure out, like all of us, what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God and yet have a whole intact personal identity which can include same - sex attraction.

God is an adult version of any kid's imaginary friend so let's not get carried away by complex meanings here; it was just a bunch of ignorant people listening to a great movie director rambling for 12 minutes.

Even in classical theism, the question of whether God is «above the law» is deeply complex and quite possibly aporetic, since if God has a nature, it seems to follow that God is dependent on that nature.

God created Adam as a mature man, he did the same with the earth.how old is a mature earth?billions or trillions of years.a science maxim, things go from order to disorder.yet the complexities of man (DNA) and the earth (water) became complex over time.more than doubtful.

To talk about odds of it happening and not happening are irrelevant, sorry if you think the odds are so astronomical that its impossible, keep in mind that you feel better with infinite regression, the most illogical fallacy there is (that god created this universe and then god had to have a creator, because lets get real, you're supposed to have me believe that a creator so complex that he can create the universe just appeared?

It was Christ who encouraged the fair treatment of women... God who commands us not to neglect the poor and to feed orphans and widows... God who insisted that field owners leave part of the crop behind to be picked up by hungry gleaners... God who said men should not take advantage of one another by charging interest... Christ who attacked the Pharisees for their rigid thinking and superiority complex toward Samaritans... How are my values inconsistent with the teachings and actions of God?

IF you were to look at creation it - self and how complex and in order things are surely after a few days of thinking about it you would have to say there must have be a creator in all of this stuff going on??? there is to much out there to say it all happened by chance or accicedent... you do nt have to go past the moon or the nearest planet to see what im talking aobut i will pray that God will reveal him self to you and you too can see what im talking aobut... you can emial me if you like randytherealtor7 at yahoo com

Not being able to look directly at the face of God is not primarily to be taken literally, but is, rather, metaphorical of the fact that the Universe is too rich (too numerous in its moving parts), too complex (as in chaos / complexity), too unpredictable for us to contemplate as a whole.

The world is full of many complex things which occur naturally & without any aid or suggestions the supernatural being involved, the only reason you opt for the «god did it» excuse is b / c we do not have a comprehensive understanding on how life originated, but we do have many sound hypotheses.

Also, if you believe that God created them, you must also concede that he warned Adam & Eve not to make certain choices, but gave them freedom to do so, and that the consequences they were warned of have come to fruition for both them and all their progeny, and that sin hurts more than just the sinner, and so our lives (all of us) become increasingly more complex and painful with each new sin introduced, such that the choice to do right is often painful for us, which is not as it should be, nor as God would have it, but as we have made it.

Or are captured by the fact that we meet in a downtown L.A. club called the Mayan, defined by the thousands of pagan gods that cover the entire complex, and label us an emerging church.

But I want to respond to people throwing out examples such as: The human body is too complex to have formed from evolution or where did the universe come from, both must have come from god because none of you can explain it.

Process philosophers in the tradition of Charles Hartshorne propose an account of God as changing from moment to moment, and therefore as internally complex, internally affected by events in the world, and essentially dependent on other nondivine realities.

As David Griffin states: «If the world is an actual creation, and not simply a complex idea in the divine mind, or simply aspects of modes» of God, then all - powerful can not mean having all the power» (GPE 269 - 70).

L'Engle challenges us to imagine a God that is bigger, the creator and sustainer of a universe that, as modern science is revealing to us, is much more mysterious and complex than we generally suppose.

God imagined the entirety of creation in eternity past before He ever spoke the first «Let there be...» of His epic story, creating every micro and macro part of His infinitely complex, undeniably beautiful and «good» creation.

It's important for our kids to see us engaging fully in the complex struggle of what it means to pursue being God's light in the world, which includes our home.

One becomes a savior - complex Mud Runner when one can't stand the time involved for growth, when one can't trust the faithful process of first the dying and then the rising, when one's wildly afraid of broken things, so there's no trusting that God's redeeming things.

Rather, the two would come together in a cosmocentric, immanental model of transcendence: God the creator of the evolving, incredibly vast and complex universe understood as the divine «body.»

The biblical God establishes laws, rules, codes of conduct much more complex than I laid out for sure, but the point remains the same.

The pictures of the king and his realm and of God and the world as God's body obviously suggest very different replies to these enormously difficult and complex questions.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

The Word of God is complex, deep and spiritual.

In an evolutionary perspective, however, the issue of evil is so complex that to say that evil has its origin in God means something very different from what saying this means in nonevolutionary theologians such as the above.

The primary problem with my former attempt to explain the violence of God was that it was incredibly complex.

From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with life gradually emerging after billions of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate universe we see today.32 To think of God as the creator and continuing creator / sustainer of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.

In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

If the world is viewed as a complex machine, then the correlative doctrine of God is likely to be that of a creator who stands outside of his creation.

An entire industry of books and films has blossomed in the red soil of the American Christian persecution complex, with the first «Gods» Not Dead» installment caricaturing and vilifying atheists and the second set to expose liberal efforts to «expel God from the classroom once and for all.»

The complex substance is a unity of being because a «thing» is what God knows it to be -LSB-... T] he Being of God -LSB-...] as Pure Act is the only sufficient reason for the unity and entity of every form of being, and the overall unity... of Nature.»

The first set is this: It is re central to a complex set of other practices, such as practices of collecting and maintaining excellent to the extent that the conceptual growth is guided by an interest in God for God's own sake.

Then the organic complex will have been constituted of God and the World, the Pleroma — the mysterious reality that we can not do better than call simply God, since although God might dispense with the world we can not regard it as being wholly an accessory without rendering Creation incomprehensible, the Passion of Christ meaningless and our own struggle uninteresting.

Barth's theological output concerning the reality of God, especially in his vast, multi-volume Church Dogmatics (1936 - 1962), is rich, verbose, complex, and complicated.

Only God can resolve this sin - guilt - suffering - death complex, and Christians believe, however their interpretations may vary, that «God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself» But quite apart from this act of reconciliation it is most important to realize that Jesus declared categorically that reconciliation with God is an impossibility without reconciliation with man.

«It is the mind of God which imposes ontological unity in multiplicity upon the formulations of complex being.

Needless to say, as we have seen previously, the capacity for novelty is minimal, even negligible, in many actualities, thus, presumably, their responses are more in accord with the divine call than those of more complex creatures; the greater the degree of complexity, the greater the capacity to misuse freedom and refuse or diverge from God's call.

Their trouble, he says, is that God gave them reason to guide them to the complex truths of faith, but they abused and disregarded this gift.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

In the strange and bewildering complex of human willing and action, God moves through lure and attraction to bring the greatest good out of the confusion of human events.

Many faiths are thick; that is, having the faith means not only loving and trusting in God but also believing a complex and rich set of historical, theological, philosophical, and moral claims.

As the Christian thing concretely present, a congregation is a complex of practices comprised of bodily and mental acts regarding ourselves, our neighbors, our shared social and physical contexts, and God.

I urged in chapter 7 that Christian congregations be viewed as complex sets of practices ordered to the enactment of worship of God in Jesus» name.

The whole complex or «cluster» of concepts referring to intentions, attitudes, and tendencies are attributed by Hartshorne to «momentary selves» manifesting a God in process.

As for eternal damnation, hell, and all that — it's far too complex for me to weigh in... I think hell exists for those who separate themselves from God, but we know from the Book of Acts that Christians were having themselves baptized in the name of the dead.

The existence of DNA is not evidence for God; it is simply evidence that it is possible for complex molecules to form in this universe.

The disturbing selections — which, to give the editors full credit, are faithfully green - lettered — suggest that the whole idea of «God's care for creation» is far more complex than our usual pieties indicate.