Sentences with phrase «offerings to other gods»

And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger

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Also, how do I make sure I can lead others to freedom on my dedication to God to eat of what He offers?

What a simple test you just offered up to us «until I reached the most reasonable conclusion» if you reach any conclusion other than «there are no gods»... well, then we will undoubtedly know whether you are either a liar or just old - fashioned dumb...

Those who choose to follow the landlords (God) direction have been offered to live here permanently, the others will be evicted.

(Isaiah 55:6) Indeed, even the two thieves on the cross on either side of Jesus at His crucifixion found in those last moments where they stood in terms of their relationship to God: to the one, repentant, «today you shall be with me in paradise»; to the other, mocking and indifferent, Jesus offered no such comfort.

@Tacoma: You left out «not the other guy»... As in» it's about offering praise to God for the abilities He gave you» and not the other guy.

It appears to me that the word «offered» would specifically pertain to an Arminian view of salvation (God offers salvation to all but will not force His will upon anyone, hence He «offers» salvation and some choose Him and others don't).

Other than offering us knowledge, and going along with God on poor Job's awful treatment, he seems to have left people alone.

We may easily give up on each other and believe ourselves incapable of the call to holiness; but God never ceases to call us and to offer us his grace, which is «the free and undeserved help that God gives to those who respond to his call» (CCC 1996).

What better education can we offer our children than the shaping of their hearts to love others as we have been loved by God ourselves?

It means to see the suffering we go through (whether we want it or not) from the perspective of Christ, Paul, Peter, and countless people who suffered for the sake of their faith and offered their suffering to God as a sacrifice on behalf of others.

During his sermon at the landmark, Dr Sentamu said: «In this re-designation, God by his spirit is doing a new thing - offering to all who receive it a fresh start with God and with each other in this City of Culture 2017.»

Thirdly, just as Christian scriptures are the gift of the Word of God offered by the Christian community as a record of its faith, so other scriptures can be considered also as a gift of the Word of God offered to Christians by members of other religious traditions.

Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to offer others the gift of ourselves.

And as we offer that to others, we see people how God sees them, and we begin to see God in a new way.

Christ's true wisdom is self - giving, self - offering obedience to God for the benefit of others.

I would imagine a god powerful enough to create such an environment would be able to think of a solution other than the one you offer.

Self - defense, Gods teaching is to offer the other cheek.

«Transgender people enlarge life and our understanding of spirituality and justice and the nature of God and Christian community... we can offer our truth... but it's helpful if other people allow us to do it.»

We all can offer a helping hand to others in their walk and we all take from others what God opens or eyes to seeing.

It's easier (and I find the tendency in myself almost every day) to fall back onto the black and white rules that we're often offered as answer to our struggles instead of doing the hard work of encountering our own desires and longings in relationship with God and others.

We are to offer others the possibility of encountering the mercy of God, and the possibility of learning the truths about right - living that the encounter with the divine mercy affords us.

To arrive at the God of Christian Theism, other evidences can be offered in addition to this more basic one (e.g. aspects of natural theology, historical arguments for the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, alleged special revelation, etc.To arrive at the God of Christian Theism, other evidences can be offered in addition to this more basic one (e.g. aspects of natural theology, historical arguments for the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, alleged special revelation, etc.to this more basic one (e.g. aspects of natural theology, historical arguments for the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, alleged special revelation, etc.).

I am not saying that the bible doesn't contain many examples of telling the faithful to dig deeper, to study more & grow closer to God through the study of the scriptures, but it NEVER says «Go ahead and study what other religions have to offer because it will only give you stronger faith in the bible».

why should man hold a grudge to God when He offers a life of joy... I have never meet a person who lives with joy other than a redeemed follower of Christ!

Celebacy is NOT anti-marriage, it is to give up self and offer your life in the willing service of God and other people.

In the meantime, I offer you (and all other worshippers of the natural creation that evidences a Creator whom you have, for all intents and purposes, crucified) the opportunity in print to, as Jesus said, «repent or perish», and to change the direction of your «faith» from trusting in God - hating man (ultimately yourself) and trust in Jesus not religion.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheist.

Viewed this way, the infinite is, so to speak, separated into two parts: on the one hand, the infinity of possibility which offers an inexhaustible supply of the new, bit by bit, and on the other, God's infinite unification of experience moment by moment.

That insight is nothing other than the understanding that while in one sense God is indeed unalterable in his faithfulness, his love, and his welcome to his human children, in another sense the opportunities offered to him to express just such an attitude depend to a very considerable degree upon the way in which what has taken place in the world provides for God precisely such an opening on the human side; and it is used by him to deepen his relationship and thereby enrich both himself and the life of those children.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.breGods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.bregods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.breGods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

In other words, it offers this book to us as a «revelation» of God.

I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians who walked with Jesus as a man and Pastor who, as it were, was finally offered up as a sacrificial offering to God upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel who then proposed his death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.

Just playing up to God in hopes that He will some day smile upon you, and if other believers offer you some praise for making the effort, then all the better for you as well, right?

In his «self - emptying» Jesus does not see equality with God as something to be used for his own advantage, but as an offering for others.

Purcell has offered a profound reflection on the place of God in the midst of suffering, the illustrations from his own life and those of others giving helpful, concrete expression to the traditional identification of our sufferings with those of Christ on the cross.

It recognized on the one hand that God is just and can not ignore man s sin, but it showed on the other hand how God, in his Son Jesus Christ, had himself borne the penalty of man's sin by dying on the cross, thereby making it possible for God in his justice to offer his forgiveness freely to penitent men.

The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.

This series is for all those leaders of worship who wish to expand their skills as they offer themselves to God and others in worship.

The fact that the loaves are intended to meet the needs of others shows how to truly make an offering to God.

The happiness [the gay friend] is experiencing, just like any other worldly pleasure, is not true happiness and will not last... It can not, because it is not based on God and godly principles... God not only offers the fulfillment that your friend is looking for, but He also has the power to change his lifestyle.

The isolated individual stands alone before God, others offer only the occasion, or so to speak, the stage setting for the moral and religious act.

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while breifly going thru this artical it was makeing my stomach turn, this is just what the devil wants is for doubt and confusion, christianity is growing stronger than ever, souls are being saved and lives are changing every day, and do nt for one minute think any different, or try tp put christians down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone»»

Our historical transcendence depends on God's offer to communicate himself; for our spiritual transcendence is never merely natural but always surrounded and carried by a dynamic of grace that points towards God's nearness; in other words God is not only present as the horizon of our transcendence that ever refuses itself, but also offers himself as our direct possession in what we call deifying grace.

For single people and celibates... it means offering those desires up to God and seeking to channel them in our love and service for others.

Here the Christian faith offers insight concerning anxieties about status in the eyes of others; in the experience of a new relationship to God and man, a person can be freed from excessive self - defensiveness.

As Sacrosanctum Concilium teaches: «By offering the Immaculate Victim, not only through the hands of the priest, but also with him, they [the faithful] should learn also to offer themselves; through Christ the Mediator, they should be drawn day by day into ever more perfect union with God and with each other, so that finally God may be all in all» (SC 48).