Sentences with phrase «old god ideas»

And sometimes, your old God ideas sneak into your post (not here though).

Not exact matches

Suddenly, I'm living in the old folks home, trying to do something like god knows what, to get something off the ground, not having any idea what we were doing.»

Do you have any idea what Christ meant when He told the Pharisees, quoting the Old Testament,» God desires mercy rather than sacrifice»?

«For God and Country» is a VERY old idea.

It is easier to defend the idea that the bible is not the word of god, but simply a history of human thought and just as we discard old scientific ideas when we have new information, we discard old philosophical ideas.

In this post I continue to look at an idea for why God appears violent and bloody in some Old Testament texts.

You may not know this, but lots of god believers actually point to an old book, which was obviously written by people promoting a religious idea, as proof of what their god said.

Haunting because we can be sure the 19 - year - old King had little idea how much he would have in common with Jeremiah, but hopeful in seeing clearly that he, like Jeremiah, would «be carried forward by the secret assurance that this business was not his business but God's.»

The Old Testament's early idea of man in his social relationships could be inferred on a priori grounds from the early Biblical idea of God.

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind: the idea of a distinctively intellectual love for God is an old idea in Judaism and Christianity.

The old ideas never completely died out, but gradually the term «calling» faded from common speech and with it the idea that in work one labored in the first instance for the glory of God.

For in the Old Covenant such as it appeared in history there was much that was right and willed by God, but there were also a great many errors, wrong developments and depraved ideas, while there was no permanent infallible authority to separate the two.

in the greater scheme of things, as time was created for us as a means of seperating the day from the night but god, the idea that when God made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years ogod, the idea that when God made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years oGod made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years old.

Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.

He spent SO much time in The Crucifixion of the Warrior God (most of volume 1) defending the idea that the crucifixion of Jesus should be our guiding lens through which to read the entire Old Testament, including the violent portions of the Old Testament.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

The idea of being sons of God recalls the ancient Semitic idiom used in the Old Testament to indicate belonging to a particular species or group of any kind (Ps 8:4; 90:3).

The idea of God as the Shepherd of Israel is almost a commonplace in the Old Testament.

If we are to have a profound religion, we may indeed throw away our old, childish, anthropomorphic ideas of God, but we may not throw away God and leave ourselves caught like rats in the trap of an aimless, meaningless, purposeless universe.

I don't mind reason # 1, but it's reason # 2 that I continuously ask myself, why bother preaching Jesus to them, why do I even bother showering the love of Jesus to those that continuously spits out rubbish and vile to the Man who never fails to soothe my pain and wipe my tears dry every night — who has NO IDEA of the beauty and heavenly love of God, NO IDEA of the anger and pain the Almighty went through in the Old Testament, NO IDEA of His heart and the love that He is capable of, NO IDEA of the meaning of the Cross and the things that were nailed to it, NO IDEA of what they're saying at all.

The Old Testament prophets present God's expression of justice, you and Jeremy have your own idea of what «love» is and that it precludes that expression of God's justice explained by the prophets.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A clear and helpful explanation of the development of key ideas within the Old and New Testament including the idea of God, man, right and wrong, suffering, paryer and immortality.

In an older day, insurance policies used to express this idea when they spoke about natural catastrophes and other such happenings as «acts of God.»

The revelation of God in Christ is not the imparting of a new idea of God; it is a fresh unveiling of the Reality to which ideas, new and old, with greater or less adequacy, apply.

It's all quite thought - provoking... as are my other crazy ponderings about God being bi-polar with His grandiose violent behavior in the Old Testament and somewhat paradoxical catatonic tranquility in the New or my atheist son's idea that God, if he exists at all, certainly exhibits traits of narcissistic personality disorder.

My fancy 100,000 word answer turned out to be little more than a long way of saying, «I have no idea how to reconcile the violence of God in the Old Testament with the self - sacrificial love of Jesus Christ in the New while still maintaining a conservative view of inspiration and inerrancy.»

It may be impossible to demonstrate that Christianity contains a new idea of God — every element in the formal Christian conception can be found, at least implicitly, in the Old Testament — but even an «objective» outsider will recognize that in Christianity the reality of God is experienced in a new way.

Many will tell you that you will get drunk if you don't find god, but the truth is I have seen people stay sober by having large displacements of old ideas with new ones.

This idea has been robbed of it's force by the silly caricatures like Peter as comical gatekeeper and people floating on clouds holding harps, and God as an old bearded fellow sitting on a big chair..

After one reads Nietzsche's fevered discourses about the creation of new values that would need to take place once people realized that the God - idea is fiction, the ethical prescriptions he endorsed end up sounding at best like a juiced - up version of the old values.

I am besieged, not with the presence of God, but with old memories, plans for tomorrow and next year, things I must do, people I need to talk to, ideas about new projects, and on and on and on.

So, of old, as the Hebrews elevated their idea of the character and omnipotence of God, they found the apparent inequities of life not less but more bewildering.

«Yule» is not a god's name, per se, it's probably an old germanic word for an idea akin to «spirit».

Todays scientists do scoff at such an idea and they have renamed an old fling to call these «elemental gods as being atoms putting to bed the ancient Theological philosophers» understandings.

As in the Old Testament, therefore, the idea of God had been progressively formulated, not so much in the light of philosophic disquisition as in the light of his mighty acts for Israel, from the deliverance out of Egypt to the least and latest sign of his effective control over human affairs, so in the New Testament the idea of God was centered not in a concept but in a deed.

It is not easy for a Christian to be objective and just in describing the difference between the ideas of God in the Old Testament and those in the New.

There is something remaining in the vacated space, and perhaps the idea of one's historical perspective or point of view can be used to rebuild the old notion of faith as assensus and fiducia before God.

The fact, for example, that the idea of God in the Old Testament never entirely escaped the bondage of nationalism can easily be overstressed and misunderstood.

The same applies to the idea that man's life is forfeit in the sight of God, and that he accepts another life in place of our own — which in the last resort is the meaning of sacrifice in the Old Testament.

Unquestionably something new had happened to the idea of God, not only absent from the Old Testament but contrary to some of its strongest predispositions.

The direct effect of this in freeing monotheism from the Old Testament's constricting particularisms was great, but perhaps even more important was its indirect effect: it opened the idea of God in Christian minds to the influence of all the theologies of the Greco - Roman world.

In the first instance they themselves were Jews, devoutly familiar with the Old Testament's ideas of God.

When it is said, therefore, as it commonly is said, that the New Testament simply takes over the Old Testament's theocratic idea of God, wide areas of fact are forgotten.

Nevertheless, when one passes from the Old Testament into the New, one does move into the presence of fresh ideas about God and experiences with him.

You became an atheist when you were 10 years old, based on ideas of God that you learned in Sunday School.

But now, with key new scenes of Roberta Sparrow (aka Grandma Death) and chapter headings to correspond to the fictional textbook in the movie (The Philosophy of Time Travel), Donnie Darko is organized in such a way that new and old audiences can get a better idea as to what's happening in this rich tale of a young man and his personal search for God.

Can't remember if he specifically said Kratos going to Nordic mythology or just God of War, but it's an idea as old as God of War 1.

You berated potential customers and thought you were a gaming god who could splash your name on old worn out ideas and make them great again.