Sentences with phrase «of god figure»

With no evidence for anything they believe a religion's followers put forth one or more unprovable theories involving some kind of god figure.

Of course she should recall that man has been making up gods since his brain began to wonder about his surroundings and has been changing the characteristics of the god figure, adding and or discarding according to the times and knowledge available.

Not exact matches

Thank god someone finally figured out the real issue with the future of newspapers: company name.

Osteen's personal wealth, and his advocacy for a theology that glorifies material possessions as a sign of God's favor, have long made him a controversial figure in church circles.

Now, I can dig deeper and deeper using god, in some sort of fashion, or even in a very minimalistic manner, meaning, god only intervened by causing the big bang, the rest, we have figured out.

I mean if I were to reconcile the two in favor of religion, I would simply say that science is just our method of trying to figure out how God (or whatever) defined reality for us.

«At his funeral, Calvary Chapel's Chuck Smith eulogized Frisbee as a Samson - like figure; that being a man through whom God did many great works, but was the victim of his own struggles and temptations.»

It doesn't happen that often, and I'm sure there's a crowd of people behind me that I've somehow turned off to Jesus inadvertently — but slowly, through these kind of experiences, I'm figuring out how to love people well, and I'm continuing to learn how to love God more in everything I do.

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.

You have carved a figure of God in your mind.

Only infantile humans who seem to need some kind of invisible «father figure» gravitate towards this ridiculous fantasy called «god»!

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

Like a beaten puppy, you may find yourself afraid of God because you assume He is just like the other authority figures in your life.

you cant put your finger on it, cant smell it, or taste it, but your soul will rejoice, if you have one left... this is your connection to the world, to the universe... nothing else really matters at all... we see all of this creation, and we've got the math and science to figure out a tenth of it, but if we cant realize that it was put here ultimatly out of love, and saved by the love of ONE true God, then we are blind even to that tenth... God is great, and may he bless you athiest, muslim, christian, jew, gay, whatever... God is Love, but rest assure He is also our Judge, the Judge of our hearts, hope you get them right.

Separate from greedy self - serving religion, which is obfuscating any valid discussion on the scientifically high probability of an intelligence we humans could rightfully call «extra-terrestrial,» I would guess physicists would add God to your list of probability figures as follows:

The jealous malevolent bully of the bible (God) couldn't figure out a more efficient way to deliver his conveniently literal one minute..non - literal the next message?

Also, it sounds like someone got upset by their college professor, and now since they have a CNN blog they figured they would soundoff on them because they are «successful» in the sight of the liberal (theologically) media, where «god» is anything we desire.

In the last century, one of those messiah figures was Haile Selassie (1892 — 1972), King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, who is revered as the returned messiah of the Bible, God incarnate, by Rastafarians.

The idea of Jesus arose like so many other religious and mythical figures, particularly Classical Greece, and just as the Greek gods were revered and accepted as real, so too is this Jesus Christ figure.

«The hard work is to figure out how we live as a beloved community, as the human family of God.»

The Mexicans had a very nice god called Quetzalcoatl, «the mysterious Christlike figure of indigenous tradition.»

If i was Hawkins, i would be a bit more toughtful, and look deep into his own huiman condition and accept he «s a living miracle granted by virtue of God, or, in scientific terms, Anti Matter, so, as to try and figure out why is he still alive, and what is his real mission on earth.

Perhaps that confuses more than clarifies my position but I'll be the first to admit that I have not yet found the clarity that I seek and yet I would rather be where I am now than in the blind certainty of previous years when I thought I had it all figured out but was in fact wearing blinders that made it easier to look straight ahead but caused me to miss out on so much of the beauty of God all around me.

I have been enlightened by the life and wisdom of Gandhi, but I have not experienced intimacy with God through the Hindu Tradition, although I recognize that Krishna is a Christ figure and have no doubt that there are Hindus that have spiritually experienced the intimacy with God that I as a Christian have experienced.

Sorry, sky wizard is apparently a more technically correct description of the Christian god mythical figure.

Listen: there may or may not be some force that created the universe... we haven't figured that out yet... but it is not this god of bronze age foolishness that is so concerned with what people do while na.ked and so concerned that we praise him all day long and tell him how wonderful he is and so concerned with suppressing science and so concerned with meting out punishment and so concerned inanities like what you can eat and what days you can work on and what cloth you wear and who you can marry.

Lets just «assume» that there was goign to be an end of the world by some «god» figure, don't you think it would want to do it by surprise and not have some bozo spreading the word before it happened?

Every little he lost a little more of his vision and every day he tortured himself, trying to figure out what he was doing wrong that God would ignore him so.

Fundamentalists must turn religion into a conspiracy theory: any fact or figure, however simple or reasonable, not in accordance with the story must be part of a conspiracy by sinners, a trick by a demon, or a test from a god.

At some point they met reason and figured out it was all a bunch of hokum with no more reason to believe in it than any other god or religion.

And how does the so - called god - figure receive his / her / its cut of the profit?

In [his book] The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, it is apparent that he knows his Bible, and he treats the figure of Jesus with compassion, as a victim of a power struggle between God and the Devil.

Why does God have to tell you people everything... maybe he wants you to figure out on your own that these aren't the days of the flood any more, there are plenty of things to eat besides killing one of his defenseless creatures.

Some people seem to think they have every doctrine figured out down to the smallest detail, but are lacking in the greater things — love of God and neighbor.

Taylor writes: «God is not the ground of being that forms the foundation of all things but the figure constructed to hide the originary abyss from which everything emerges and to which all returns.

Although Wise Blood is chock full of the sort of «large and startling figures» that O'Connor relished, there is a sense in which Motes's journey hits the reader a little too close to home, challenging our sensibilities about who God is and how God is at work in our lives.

I call this the King Cyrus argument, that God's used imperfect people in the past, that [the president] is sort of this King Cyrus figure — that God may be using to do some really good things.

It was the intimate connection of God with the historical figure, what we call incarnation, that causes us to refer to Jesus as the Christ.

So we curled on the bed together and I told this small person trying to figure out how to be human about my love and about God's love, about how we live within this love in these moments of challenge.

Agatha, James, and nearly all of Hassler's figures suffer chastisement or worse for their failures, and nearly all are championed in this splendid work, testimony to God's tender mercies.

In European society today, thank goodness, anyone who dishonors the faith of Israel, its image of God, or its great figures must pay a fine.

He is not just a figure of first - century Palestine who shows perhaps the perfect way to live, or who fully realises human anthropology, or a man potently orientated to God.

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Pere Teilliard de Chardin, a figure - head in the unfolding of a new cycle in the life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity of his scientific vision but also by his love, his immense love, of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority of men are blind to: the constant presence of the Creator.

So you can't figure out the moronic nature of an all - powerful God getting involved in footlball games while ignoring, for instance, the slaughter of 20 children?

At the end of the day, even a figure like Thomas Carlyle, whom Taylor sees as part of the problem, retains the emphasis on divine immanence and God at work in the people, primarily through the hero who moves history forward.

They figured that if people didn't act like them, look like them, and believe like them, they were under the curse of God and were fit only to be destroyed.

But this does not mean in the least that in some evident way historical events are a plain figure of the will of God, as, for example, in Gesta Dei per Francos, or Bossuet's Explication de 1 «Histoire Universelle.

To say there is no evidence for the real existence of the most discussed figure in history denies the unique manner in which Christianity came about (a claim that God came in the flesh conveyed with real life details, etc).

«Worshiping the god of reason» is a figure of speech implying that logic and fact are the standards by which an individual forms opinions.