Sentences with phrase «of divine purpose»

You will release patterns that hinder positive movement, self - expression and fulfillment of your divine purpose.

The sense of imperfection leads to a concept of divine purpose.

This is because the Bible contemplates man as morally responsible within the framework of the divine purpose.

If God's action is identified in terms of his intentions, the cosmic drama can be interpreted as an expression of the divine purpose.

What is at stake, in my own conviction, is the seeing that it is not so much beyond, as it is in and through, «the flaming ramparts of space and time» that redemption, re-integration, and the fulfillment of the divine purpose of love takes place.

It is too bad that some zealous theologians have tried to argue that this self - realization has been made (by those who talk in fairly secular terms) a substitute for the fulfillment of the divine purpose.

Once that response has been made, it establishes a new situation permitting the intensification of divine purpose.

This destiny is seen as the consummation of the creation and as the realization of the divine purpose for the world.

Yet in the absence of any comparable witness to the intensification of divine purpose for man this historical recital is indispensable.

The intention of divine purpose and meaning was frustrated by pride, by the rejection of given order.

Our discipleship, which often has tended to be moralistic in a legal sense, also needs to be reconceived so that love has the preeminence, rather than the coldly moralistic interpretations of the divine purpose so often taught the past and even today hanging on in many supposedly Christian circles.

What he presupposed was (a) the truth of the ancient revelation, (b) the final arrival of that stage in the accomplishment of the divine will which the prophets had predicted as coming to pass in «the latter days,» and (c) the validity of his own insight into and declaration of the divine purpose and commandment.

A note which permeates biblical thinking, in contrast with the cyclical or static views often found in other faiths, is that all history moves toward the fulfillment of a divine purpose — toward an end in the double sense of both finish and fulfillment.

So soon as only a few years had passed, say three or four, this division in the originally indivisible experience must have insensibly taken place in their minds, for they were intercalary years, so to speak, not provided for in their first calendar of the divine purpose.

These impel them into full and busy lives in the light of a divine purpose whose extent remains finally unknowable.

Therefore the tradition has spoken insistently of judgment — or to use perhaps a better word, appraisal — both moment by moment and at the conclusion of every human life, with a further appraisal made when the entire created order is evaluated in its contribution or failure to contribute to the advancement of the divine purpose in the world.

The preacher can now use the story to make plain to his hearers that the event of Jesus Christ is indeed on a genuinely human level; like all the rest of us, Jesus had to grow and develop in his awareness of the divine purpose in the world.

Obviously my prayers for the departed will not be effectual in persuading God to do what already God must be doing — remembering them once they have been received into the divine life and employing their human accomplishments for the furthering of the divine purpose.

To postulate the truth of the second alternative — that is to say, to accept that in terms of the divine purpose the two impulses are one — is to define in its essentials, and in all its splendour, the attitude of Christian humanism.

Thus a sense of divine purpose along with a religious experience growing out of hope is generated.

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

For they are expressions of the divine purpose as well as the means of developing the human spirit.

The structure of the divine purposings can be analyzed apart from any presumptive claim to private knowledge of what God's purposes in fact are.

The history of Israel assumes such religious importance because it proved to be the arena of a very dramatic intensification of divine purposes, generating both the expectation of the Lord's anointed and the awareness of God's involvement in the suffering of the world.

Once, however, God is conceived as exerting his power directly, or by means of heavenly creatures wholly subservient to his will, the actual deployment of historical forces becomes irrelevant to the realization of divine purposes.

Not exact matches

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

We are confident that the Lord is watching over His gospel and over those who have been called by the gospel, and we are sure that the forces of hell will not be able to thwart His divine purpose.

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

In the Whiteheadian interpretation of reality, these initial aims proposed by God are not capricious nor due to inscrutable divine purposes for his creatures, but are relevant aims toward maximizing the intensity of experience which is possible from the particular perspective of each concrescing occasion.

I now wish to argue that conformity with the divine telos may, for purposes of ethical deliberation, be translated into what I call the maximal happiness principle: so act as to maximize happiness — and, by implication, in the long run.

The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence of divine beings, divine activity in history and nature, the purpose and destiny of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»

Further, it is this intensity of the divine propositional feelings which most contributes to their effectiveness in achieving the divine purpose in the world.

The very stated purpose of this blog of Jeremy Myers is to present the redemption of God as the divine plan.

In this way, women would first be given an empowering script about divine grace that secures their personal identity, affirms the goodness of their embodiment and sends them forth into the world with renewed agency and purpose.

If there is an eternal torment, it would have to be created by God for the express purpose of punishment, and only by His divine omnipotence would anyone ever be contained within.

If Christians believe that there is a divine plan for everyone and that everything has a purpose in that plan, then all of them should believe that every move of every player in every game is part of that plan.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

How can Christians speak of about the purposes of God — hence, in some way, God's nature — when we have no knowledge of the divine timetable.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

How can Christians speak about the purpose of God — hence, in some way, God's nature — when we have no knowledge of the divine timetable?

For purposes of brevity, let us simply take up the problem of medieval painting and sculpture, and ask if God - images here play a significant role, and, more particularly, ask if we can here discover a significant relation between God - images and Christ - images, a relation reflecting a uniquely Christian apprehension of the evolutionary movement and transformation of the divine process.

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.

Doubtless the Bible tells of many miracles, but the basic point of each story is that God is the living God who works to accomplish the divine purposes.

Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.

Perhaps pursuit of the maximal human creativity should be constrained by the following principle of environmental respect: A purpose that reduces natural creativity relative to some alternative for the decision in question is a violation of the maximal divine good unless the purpose is required in order to maximize human creativity in the long run.8 All implications considered, I expect that maximizing human creativity itself includes adherence to this principle.

Virtually all previous representatives of the modern natural law tradition, including Grotius and even Hobbes, had in some way or other related natural rights to divine power or command, which served as the source for the directives of natural law notwithstanding that these did not derive from a divine telos or comprehensive purpose.

But again, and even with the possible implication of divine judgment in the death of Rachel, we see the repeated motif of the Jacob cycle: the tension between sin and divine grace, the expression of faith that Jacob - Israel is saved and redeemed only by the will and purpose of God (35:5), and finally the repetition of the promise and the blessing, and the second account of the changing of Jacob's name to Israel.

The story of Jacob is supported only by divine grace, only by divine intention and purpose.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.