Add in a faction of
old gods calling themselves the Polytheistic Alliance, seeking to rid the entire world of both angels and demons for their benefit, and it's up to you to decide what is right for yourself, for humanity, and for the otherworldly conflict.
Not exact matches
* * * Built on the Rock the Church shall stand, though earthly temples be closing silenced are voices of evil men, but
God's voice still is
calling... Calling the young and old to rest, calling the souls in darkness to Himself, calling to life everl
calling...
Calling the young and old to rest, calling the souls in darkness to Himself, calling to life everl
Calling the young and
old to rest,
calling the souls in darkness to Himself, calling to life everl
calling the souls in darkness to Himself,
calling to life everl
calling to life everlasting!
The questions is whether or not people are willing to see
God as an
old man in a robe with who creates essence out of nothing, or if people are willing to see
God as the «creative» event that occured, a so -
called actual essence of energy that was the over-all reason why we are here now.
When and if you get
old and feeble just remember you can't
call on
God to take you because you don't want to believe in him or can you.
The Norse
god Loki exists in the from of a salmon, mare, seal, fly, even an
old woman
called Þökk therofore he exists.
But, in the end times, (as we are seeing now), the erroneous, vile, corrupt ways of
old men that live at the Vatican and
call the shots are being exposed for what they are (Thank
God).
On the contrary, it is a matter of fact that
God's gift and
calling will never be regreted (the
Old Testament Covenant of
God with Israel remains valid for ever, despite of the rejection of the gospel by Israel).
----------------------------- Romans 9:11 - 14 — for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that
God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who
calls, it was said to her, «The
older will serve the younger.»
«
God called me to seek out what seemed like unconventional ways to serve others,» said Watwood, now a 39 - year -
old mother of four.
By explaining away the violent portrayals of
God in the
Old Testament, or by
calling such evil actions as «good,» we are trying to get
God down off the cross.
Again, the Christian religious practice of going back to the
Old Testament to relive the archaic events Yahweh performed on his people, a practice which was commanded by both Yahweh and Christ, is really a
call for the people of
God to move forward and continue the march toward the Promised Land.
The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so -
called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the
Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of
God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.
I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year -
old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that
God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so -
called «Calvinist resurgence.»
But since the way
God behaves in the
Old Testament looks much different from the way
God behaves in the revelation of Jesus Christ, the chronological approach to learning about
God leaves us with what Greg Boyd
calls a «Janus faced
God.»
In the
Old Testament and the New Testament, since they didn't have the Bible, a prophet would often be
called upon to give a prophecy about the future, or perform some sign or miracle in order to prove that they were truly from
God.
We easily regard as the defeat and regression of the Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a state which has always existed, even in the so -
called good
old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope and love of
God and men.
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.
They will now share both his power and responsibility, offering the
call to repentance and the good news that
God's grace can wash away the
old life and put a new one in its place.
For example, they will sometimes
call the
God of the
Old Testament a baby - killer, murderer, genocidal maniac, homophobe, etc..
The command to have no other
god but Him whom Christ revealed was never for Christians simply an invitation to forsake an
old cult for a new, but was an announcement that the shape of the world had changed, from the depths of hell to the heaven of heavens, and all nations were
called to submit to Jesus as Lord.
----------------- Romans 9:11 - 13 — for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that
God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who
calls, it was said to her, «The
older will serve the younger.»
And by the same grace, sinful men and women could learn to
call this Jesus the Son of
God, a step beyond what they knew of sonship from the
Old Testament — when Israel had been named Son of
God (Exod.
Given the fact that he spoke ancient Aramaic, Jesus probably
called God by an
older form of the word «Allah.»
I have no issue with believing
God created life and then there was evolution, which was guided by
God if you are religious, I just have huge issue with ignoring scientific fact that there is this thing
called evolution and that the earth is more than 10,000 years
old.
If we are completely honest with ourselves (and with the
Old Testament text), I think the answer we give to the question «Is it wrong to
call God Allah?»
In the
Old Testament
God said His name was I Am in the New Testament Jesus
called Himself I Am, much to the annoyance of the religious Jews.
Whether death comes upon us in youth or
old age, suddenly or after prolonged illness or decline, one whom
God called by name is gone.
From the
Old Testament to the New Testament,
God continually
calls us to justice, to love, peace and mercy and, above all, to accompany the marginalized, foreigners, widows and orphans.
They're actually from the biggest selling rapper in the world - 29 year -
old Kendrick Lamar Duckworth: «I feel it's my
calling to share the joy of 16
God, but with exclamation, more so, the FEAR OF
GOD.
The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from
God to this
old world of sin and death, being the prophetic
call to sinful men to turn to
God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.
If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years
old because
God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically
calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.
So... some
old men, living two millennia ago, whose ignorance by today's standards was towering, and who wrote about
god without putting their own names to it, but demanded that those words be believed, notwithstanding, have collectively written a book we
call the «Bible,» and we're all supposed to bow down and believe it.
I will let Paul respond to your question: «And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad — in order that
God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who
calls — 12 she was told, «The
older will serve the younger.»
This deceit of Islam has to be spoken about and make common knowledge that Mohammad is not a messenger of
God The Almighty from the
Old and New Testament if he was the next step for Christians or Jews who believe in
God The Almighty would
God the Almighty teach his followers to kill their wives, mothers, sisters and brothers or fathers and
call this honor.
This is what is
called «temptation» by the faith of the
Old Testament, a faith which takes the over-againstness of
God and man more seriously than does any other.
Jesus» teaching reprimand the corrupt uses of falsely justifying violence / killing and the evil in our nature that seeks violence for it's own sake, but He does not remove sound established theological truths and teach that
God as we understand Him in the
Old Testament (the one He
calls Father) is false.
That is how they understood the Jesus teaching and
call of
God in the
Old Testament.
In realism, hell was a dump in Jeruseleum,
called the valley if Hindon, Jesus (Which was an
old day Jimmy Swagert) did the sermon on the mount, up in the heavens (on top of the hill away fromthe dump, the dump smelled like fire and brimstone (Sulfur), and nobody has ever heard
god talk to them, if you do then you are schizoid!
i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a
god of any kind... if there was a
god, why would such a so
called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of free will is an
old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by
god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!
Rick the more i think about it we are to live as overcomers not strugglers since the day i decided to turn away from the sin that was controlling my life i never fell back into
old sinful patterns not once, was i tempted many many times.The Lord will work in our lives one area at a time he needs us to give him full control so if an area is taking control we do need to hand it to him so he can change us.How do we do it immediately we say Lord you know i am weak but in you i am strong i leaned on him and overcame time and time again.We all have areas of weakness that we struggle in so do nt feel bad.Struggling is us trying to do it in our own strength before this process i was so stubborn i refused to let
God help me i wanted to do it in my own strength and so it was a roller coaster ride in my christian walk if the day went well i was on a high if it did nt i would would be down.Not any more now when things do nt go to plan i still thank the Lord and when it goes well i thank the Lord.Because i know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.The main area he is wanting is our hearts he wants all our heart not only some until we come to that place we will continue to struggle in our faith.The only reason to tell you this is not to boast because of what i have done in myself because i have nothing to boast about but if i did i would brag that Christ has empowered me by his holy spirit to be an overcomer just as he would want you to be.As Christians we are all
called to be overcomers more than conquerers.Make a decision today to turn all your hearts to the Lord to acknowledge the areas you are holding onto that are controlling your flesh life hand them to the Lord and walk according to the spirit and not the flesh and he will give you the victory.That can be a reality starting today merry christmas everyone and may the new year be an exciting one as we put all our trust in Christ our Lord and savior.Brentnz
The relationship between the search for unity in faith and the engagement in the human struggle lies through an insight as
old as Isaiah 42:6 — that
God's people are
called to be in the world as a covenantal sign of the yet - to - come unity and fulfillment of humankind.
To
call such contingencies «blessings of
God» too blatantly suggests to me a very capricious omnipotence or a finite deity who has managed to exert a bit of benevolent influence in this particular instance — and either way I am back with my
old problem.
To warn of exile, to judge human illusions, and to
call for hopeful return to trust in
God's shalom was the prophetic task in the
Old Testament.
The poem revolves round the struggle of Yam - Nahar (
god of seas and rivers), Baal (
god of rain) and Athtar (
god of springs, wells, and perhaps irrigation channels) as they each lay claim to the vacant post of viceroy to the kindly
old god of heaven
called El.
Altizer holds that Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet who proclaimed and enacted the dawning of the Kingdom of
God, and that there is a comparable dawning in modern thinking which
calls for a transformation of and a break from the
old aeon or
old world.
So it seems to me that for those of us who
call ourselves Christians, but who also have used the brain that
God gave us to conclude that the planet is more than 6000 years
old and that the actions of Noah and his family saved all the then living things — that we can retain faith in a
God who would not joke around with Abraham just to test him.
There's an
old joke: When you talk to
God, we
call it prayer, but when
God talks to you, we
call it schizophrenia.
My book was
called When
God Pled Guilty, and I was basically arguing that just as Jesus took the sins of the world upon Himself on the cross, so also, somehow, the violent portrayals of
God in the
Old Testament is
God taking the sins of Israel upon Himself through the testimony of inspired Scripture.
Whenever the word of
God is proclaimed, whether in the
Old Testament, New Testament, or to us today through the events around us we are
called to make a decision.
«
God had appeared in flesh in the
Old Testament» I
call B S Give the chapter verse in the
Old Testament where
God appeared in flesh