And for the love
of god character development does not mean stat boosting.
What the Old and New Testaments together seem to say is that on their understanding
of God the character of the primordial and the eschatological must be the same; there must always have been in God from the beginning that which is needed for him to be Savior in the end.
I (and others who question the morality
of the God character of the Bible), judge God based on rational grounds.
Dispensations, ultimate sacrifices, fulfillment of laws, all seem to just be rationalizations for nearly complete 180 on part
of the God character.
and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection
of their god character.
God gave that help because
of Gods character not mine.
There, to what may be the delight of many Dragon Ball fans, is hidden information on Dragon Ball GT characters Nuova Shenron, Eis Shenron, and Omega Shenron along with Dragon Ball Z Battle
of Gods character, Beerus!
Not exact matches
For the first time, Kratos is a fully fleshed - out
character in «
God of War.»
God's
character is the source
of good reasoning: He can not lie, and He can not contradict Himself.
Then when you understand just how unreasonable and illogical your assessment
of the
character is we can discuss the reality
of the Word
of God rather than your fictional misrepresentation
of God.
If, as many Christians, Jews and even Muslims believe, they are carved on stone by the very finger
of God, and no other writings
of such
character were commited to stone by Him, then it follows that these Commandments are to be permanent and binding, not temporary.
To Karon: The true Ten Commandments, written by the finger
of God, are a copy
of His
character, and
God's
character never changes.
The
character of god is a reflection
of the people, and the people were immoral fucks.
I suggest to you that only the
God of the Bible has the
Character to produce and govern all these things, since they spring from His very nature.
But she is a person
of good
character, loves
God and is growing in her ability to lead corporate worship.
That totally discredits your legends about Paul
of Tarsus, Doubting Thomas, and quite a few others who have claimed «miraculous» «enlightenment» from this «
God»
character.
Prayer changes things Prayer draws close to the thoughts
of God Prayer builds
character Prayer lights the pathway to
God in the troubles
of life Prayer brings understanding Prayer brings healing Prayer changes things
This «
God»
character gets all
of the rationalized passes for «his» behavior that you all can muster.
if there is a
god that allows all
of this to happen he is one f'd up
character i'll tell you that.
I don't pray because I truly feel
God is a mythical
character invented by a few wild imaginations and the wonderful myth has been perpetuated for 1000s
of years by dupes.
Instead
of investing our thoughts in our worry and letting it grow, we can invest our thoughts in who
God is and a remembrance
of His
character.
This is why I am trying to understand how you and Dawkins both take a work that you both claim to be fiction yet you reject the main
character (
God) as defined, accepted and understood by the writer and the audience
of that day.
Within these pillars
of God's
character, worry loses its power.
The
Character of God changes significantly from the 1st to teh 2nd books — from vengeful and smitey to forigivng and loving.
The
character of God is establishing order, moral codes (they fail to keep) and restraining evil according to their fictional writings.
Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge
of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where
God needs you to develop your spiritual
character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.
This is our choice and
God allows it in order that we can reveal the true
character of our heart (soul).
As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man — using his brain — invented all the
Gods, doing so because many
of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity
of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires.
In the novel «The Book
of Eli» the voice
of God to the main
character Eli Canaan sounds like Orson Welles.
Instead
of trying to make Him out to be something that our / your little minds can only conceive, try reading and listening to what the
God of the Bible says about His
character.
I will keep looking to the bible for a vision
of God's
character.
From one
of our founding fathers: «
God is a being
of terrific
character... cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.»
Today is the best day
of the holiday season so far — my order from richarddawkins.net just arrived, so I'll be able to distribute a Crocoduck shirt and one with the
God Delusion quote: «The
God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant
character in all fiction: jealous and proud
of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control - freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, ho - mo - phobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.»
J.P. Fokkelman says that when we read about
God in the Bible, that He is a
character — a language construct — a creation
of the narrator and the writer.
I believe the incomprehensible perfection
of every
character God has is intensified with a black backdrop like they use for diamonds.
this is so much more real and fits so much better with the image
of a kind and loving
god... thumpers would have u believe that
god is the angriest, most spiteful, micro controlling, bitter, nasty
character ever put out to this world... we must remember that the
god thing is supposed to produce caring, inclusion, peace and love ~ not murder, hatred, exclusion and bullying..
I wouldn't say that
God is beyond gender; I would say that He comprehends gender, which is to say that both masculinity and feminity find their source in
God, that they are both equally valid revelations
of God's
character, and that they may both be twisted into something that is not
God's
character at all (through chauvinism and extreme feminism).
Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father
God's love,
character and nature, the death
of Jesus and Salvation.
God can not deny Himself, and when we pray for things that align with the
character and nature
of God, and His will, that prayer can move mountains.
«The existence
of the physical world reveals the power
of God and insights into His
character.»
I note that in the Bible
God lets man reach the fullness
of character before he pulls the carpet out and that
character can be good or bad.
Religious folks tend to think humans have some kind
of divine
character given to them by
God whereas we tend consider ourselves as members
of the ancient primate family
of life.
Our prayers are not to alter the will
of a sovereign
God who remains forever unchangeable, but instead, prayer molds our disfigured and malleable wills to be like His perfect will, as well as operating as a means
of revealing His
character to us through a personal interaction with His word that has been intricately meshed together with our lives.
I firmly believe that they are being answered as I see fuller revelation every day
of the matchless beauty
of God as revealed in the person and
character of Jesus.
Explorations in Metaphysics: Being -
God - Person By W. Norris Clarke, S.J. University
of Notre Dame Press, 228 pages, $ 19.95 Selected from forty years» worth
of essays by W. Norris Clarke» the Jesuit whose work helped emphasize the «uncompromisingly existential
character»
of Thomas Aquinas» metaphysics» this volume offers contemporary Catholic philosophy at its best.
Most important to me, though, is how I find what is being taught to be totally against the
character of God.
Nevertheless he also writes: «The perfection
of God's superjective aim, derived from the completeness
of his primordial nature, issues into the
character of his consequent nature» (PR 524).
If Jesus was
God, and
God's
character is consistent, does it not come down to either Israel's understanding
of God was inaccurate, or Jesus was not
God?
The only other possibility is that
God truly is violent, and Jesus didn't fully reveal this aspect
of God, which means that Jesus is not a very good representation
of the true nature and
character of God.
When you look at the heart
of what some Millennials are saying, they want to be
god (litte «g»), so they don't have to obey God's commands or submit to His principles, character and la
god (litte «g»), so they don't have to obey
God's commands or submit to His principles, character and la
God's commands or submit to His principles,
character and laws.