Theologians like James Packer and Clark Pinnock are correct in arguing that the Bible must be read as a whole, coherent organism, for it is not
only human words but also God's Word.
The danger is that we see
only the human words and do not find the true actor within, the Holy Spirit» (p. 189).
Only the human word brought by one who commits himself totally to it.
Not exact matches
Make it abundantly clear through
words and actions that you are devoted to the community, and most likely you'll be amazed at the rash of new clients that will be willing to work with you because not
only are they interested in your product, they like and respect you as a
human being.
In Ultron's own
words, «I was designed to save the world,» but the robot ultimately concludes that when it comes to
humans, «there's
only one path to peace: your extinction.»
According to a Harvard Business Review study, women in emerging markets reinvest 90 % of every dollar earned into «
human resources» — their families» education, health and nutrition — compared to
only 30 to 40 % of every dollar earned by men.2 In other
words, Kiva's loans have helped countless families and communities in over 80 countries escape a vicious cycle of poverty.
Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early
humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods
word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is
only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.
After reading several of the posts on the «interpretation of mythical texts into a book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant
words»... to get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a book that he / she / it wanted to have in print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the way it is... it is a «
human» construct...
only humans could mess a book up that badly... gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum
im so sori this had to happend to eddy yet he is
only human and
only a man and it has nothing to do do with god and gods
word im sori he has to be the example to the world that this is not the way but this is the life he has chosen if it is true he should have known wat happends in the dark will come in the light his bad yet god is a forgiven god just cuz you sit in church do nt make you saved just like sitting in the garage do nt make you a car.... - smile
These with Alcohol or drugs are the key works of the devil...
only now when seeing and realizing the evil it brought among humanity into losing the real meaning of the
word «
Human» it self among
Humans...!!!
Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «
Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the
only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew
word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.
Only the true
word of god, the one that became flesh, Jesus, shows us how god really is and how to see and deal with the
human / error sides of the bible.
To be sure, the
Word became flesh, identified with us, was tempted in every way as we are, knew the common
human condition of suffering and death, and in that identification provided us with not
only an example but an intercessor who understands our infirmities.
Only Amber could so beautifully and rightly write into the parts of our
human experience that usually defy
words.
In Romans, Barth said that the
Word of God can be uttered
only when the predicate Deus revelatus has as its subject Deus absconditus31 The vast ocean of so - called reality that is the profane world of a completely autonomous mode of
human existence has left the island of the sacred completely submerged.
That was all I said and meant but you are trying to frame me with
word not said by me and I know why it is about shutting me up for good never mind may God make your curses blessings for me since he alone knows what's in my heart for all
humans in love of God
only.?!
By one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished by the coming of the
Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed
only in the
human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeing.
In confining God's revelation to the written
word, sola scriptura theology not
only cut itself off from much of the rich trinitarian thinking since Nicaea, but limited revelation to the exigencies of
human salvation.
The Christian
Word appears in neither a primordial nor an eternal form; it is an incarnate
Word, a
Word that is real
only to the extent that it becomes one with
human flesh.
Finally, as Blake envisioned, it is the
human body of Christ who negated the God who is present in the memory of the past, and
only when the Christian has wholly been delivered from remembrance and recollection will he be open to the
Word that is fully incarnate in the present.
To those impatient political enthusiasts who talk loudly on how futile and impractical religion must always be, and who are bent on legislating
human equality into existence, Kierkegaard offers a
word of counsel, «
Only that which is religious can with the assistance of eternity press the equality of men through to its ultimate conclusions: the reverent, genuine, unworldly, true, the only possible equality between
Only that which is religious can with the assistance of eternity press the equality of men through to its ultimate conclusions: the reverent, genuine, unworldly, true, the
only possible equality between
only possible equality between men.
These
words are addressed to Jesus, and we must not fail to notice that the transcendent Creator and Judge can be identified as the ultimate ground of selfhood
only at the moment when an immanent and totally
human Jesus can be named as the divine Creator and Redeemer!
It is
only because God utterly transcends history that his free decision to become a
human being in time is also a decision of grace: «Far from implying a distance between the
Word and the world, the
Word's distinct manner of transcending the world implies a distinct manner of intimacy with the world.»
«36 And, even in the case of the types of events which are uniquely adapted to becoming special acts of God, i.e.
human words and deeds, the specialness is still due
only to
human doing.
We also forget that the
Word of God can be adequately understood and interpreted
only in its vital relation to our present
human situation.
Isn't it a shame that
human nature, being what it is, has special
words for people who act in truth and kindness, showing courage for others instead of
only self - righteousness or self - preservation?
The
only «way out» is to state in some fashion that the bible is not literally true, which opens up the «
word of God» to
human interpretation, I personally think that's perfectly rational, but I'm guessing most fundamentalists would disagree.
(Luke 2:41:51; 4:16 - 30; Acts 7:54 - 60; 27:9 - 44) A glance at some of the parables found
only in Luke shows how deeply we are indebted to him for
words of Jesus that go to the heart of
human relations — the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, the Pharisee and the Publican, the Rich Man and Lazarus.
It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as
Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the
only biblical story where a
human being gives God a name.
The problem of reconciling
human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is
only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the
word «love,» and look on things as if man were the centre of them.
As a physical object, the Bible is never
only the
word of God, but comes mediated through the
human hands of publishers, translators, editors, and booksellers.
Along similar lines, physiologists believe that the
human eye is capable of distinguishing among more than six million hues, and yet the fact that we typically use
only about a dozen
words to describe colors suggests that we see them much less richly than we are capable of doing.3
Human beings have a duty to respect
words as bearers of life, and hence to use
only words that symbolize what is true and right.
There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly
human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a
human life under the same
human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate
Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure
human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not
only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.
Though illuminating, they seem less histories of a stable and intelligible idea than etymologies of an inconstant but imperishable
word — a verbal phoenix that re-arises
only to migrate, becoming the label for yet another irreconcilable theory of
human individuation.
Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will
only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain by reacting and not by
words and cries since
words and cries seem does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of
human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?
Young men and women today feel themselves challenged to identify themselves with the community and institution devoted to the service of God rather than with an ideal; the
human need of which they are made aware is one that
only the community can minister to; the
words through which they hear the
Word of God addressed to them are likely to be the
words of the Church.
Though the
Word breaks out into the daylight of consciousness
only with the birth of persons and
human history, faith allows us to discern a great promise even in the very earliest moments of the cosmic adventure.
The German - American thinker Paul Tillich, who died
only a few years ago, believed that the Christian faith could
only be rightly understood when it was recognized as providing the «answer» — not of course in
words or propositions but in the reality which is behind such statements — to the «problems» which are posed by
human existence as such.
God's
Word must remain a fleeting spoken
Word, inscribed
only in the
human heart.
This relationship becomes luminous and unquestionable
only when the
word is spoken by a witness — that is, by one who explicitly makes the connection between the divine and the
human word.
Vergote shows that John of the Cross is therefore suspicious of
words which could come
only from
human beings: «Many people talk to themselves as if somebody were really there,», he says.
The
word bara (create) is used
only three times; for the creation of heaven and earth, the creation of the first animals (the fish and the birds) and the creation of man (i.e. the big bang, the creation of life and the creation of the
human soul).
Contrary to this evidence of reality as seen, God continues to act toward
human beings
only through the
word; that is, through proposal and discretion.
Here is the fundamental difference between the
Word of God and the human word: God's Word is not just a sound which flies away and disappears, a meaning grasped one instant by the listener's mind only to fall into oblivion afterw
Word of God and the
human word: God's Word is not just a sound which flies away and disappears, a meaning grasped one instant by the listener's mind only to fall into oblivion afterw
word: God's
Word is not just a sound which flies away and disappears, a meaning grasped one instant by the listener's mind only to fall into oblivion afterw
Word is not just a sound which flies away and disappears, a meaning grasped one instant by the listener's mind
only to fall into oblivion afterward.
Quite specifically, since God creates and governs through his
Word, and the human being is the image of God, called by God to subdue (govern) and have dominion (command), he can only do it by the same means; that is, the w
Word, and the
human being is the image of God, called by God to subdue (govern) and have dominion (command), he can
only do it by the same means; that is, the
wordword.
Not
only in texts but also on buildings the elaboration of the visible
word became a major art form, especially as representation of the
human figure was not allowed lest it lead to idolatry.
Israel had abandoned the gods of ancient man in favor of the YHWH who addressed them in history, and now in the Israelite
human scene there appeared a man who not
only spoke the
Word of God but who embodied it in flesh and blood.
The Incarnate
Word took to himself sinful flesh (which Bonhoeffer defines
only as «
human nature» or «our infirmities and... our sin «49) and thereby sought to create a community of followers.
If God now does not exist nor act except in existing and acting men, then faith is
only another
word for
human consciousness.