Sentences with phrase «other gods of this world»

For example, where the Bible says there are no other gods in the universe (Isaiah 43:10; 44:6,8), they interpret it to mean «no other gods of this world» — which is not what those verses say.

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If people could just follow the teachings for themselves and leave others alone to live as they believe, then the world would truely be a better place where millions were never slaughtered in the name of some one elses god.

I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?

The plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in order to reveal his Father's mind to the world.

If matter is a perfection of God, then God is dependent on matter only in the sense that he is dependent on his own nature, and the world he creates out of his nature is dependent on him, not the other way around.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

Because the angels and inhabitants of other worlds would have served God out of fear — they would not have understood why Satan was destroyed since sin was unknown then.

there is a rule that politics and Belief in God do not mix as one is of the world and the other is Of Goof the world and the other is Of GoOf God.

Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?

The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.

A church that encourages us to be generous, to work for justice, to care for the poor, to forgive others, and see God's love amid a world that still has lots of brokenness and sin.

Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient gods (as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old myths of God and Jesus.

There is, as I see it, a paradigm shift taking place in contemporary Roman Catholic theology away from the classical worldview of Thomas Aquinas and other scholastic thinkers in which the philosophy of Aristotle plays such an important role to a more interpersonal approach to the God - world relationship in which God is thought to be constantly interacting with creatures in the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth.

Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;

For 2 days and 26 pages of site entries people from around the world have thrown anger and curses and hate at each other and at God — and for what??? No arguments have been won, no souls have been won, no peace has been gained, no problems have been solved, no hunger has been fed, no bank accounts have been increased... get the picture?

All the others nations in the world must be taught the truth and humble themselves (Genesis 27:29 - 30) * Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of host:

never another world about «god» I'd love to read about the goodness of humans to each other, love, life, laugh..

As humans created in the image of God we are capable of divine expression even in our pitiful fallen state; even the soldiers in World War 1 had a brief respite on Christmas and walked out of the trenches to greet each other only to return to the trenches the next day and resume killing each other.

I can not look at the creations of this world and see anything other than the work of God's hand.

So my question to you even before it gets to that point is the same as I have given to others, first why do you hate God so much and second what are you afraid of by switching your faith and it is by faith that you believe there is no God to a belief that God does exist he sent his Son Jesus to the world to redeem you from your evil and hateful ways?

All of the other pages and articles will explain how and by whom this world has been deceived as confirmed by the Word of God in Revelation 12:9.

But, we've got more missionaries coming into America from Korea and all other parts of the world because they're seeing more of God in their own country than they are here.

Indeed they do tend to be other worldy but at the same time — wise to the ways of the world and are no less human than what God intended.

When we get close to the other side our focus is directed toward God, and the things of God, yet we are still here, so the connection between this world and the Everlasting becomes clear.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of God in the paramedics that made them give their lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.

Out of theology came any notion of God, in other worlds.

Glorp «Me no believe in God's but all us cave men should be good to each other because being good is it's own reward of safety and security in an insecure world...»

On the other hand, there's power in learning from careful observations of the world, when we can understand God through his creation and the work of his creation without having to adapt our belief system in order to accommodate the diversity of creativity in storytelling and entertainment.

I can't believe in talking snakes, trees that yield knowledge and eternal life fruit, people who lived hundreds of years, a world wide flood that required 2 of every animal be stuffed on a boat, a tower god was afraid might reach heaven, unicorns, satyrs, leviathans that god defeats in battle, zombie messiahs and any other myth I missed.

If everyone agreed to contribute by their own sweat to the gain of the rest of the world rather than standing at the altar lecturing how God will show us «non-believers» rapture, suffering and pain is then worth wondering at that moment, how many other faiths at that moment are saying their God will do the same to you?

considering the teaching of Christ has inspired more wars then any other theology in the history of the world, and the reverence of the god of death destruction and lies i would say their more then justified in any and all war.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

In truth, the bishops of Malta, and other bishops around the world who go about exclaiming that it's impossible to obey God regarding sex, are setting in motion two very destructive ideas.

And thus it has been ever since: All of us must «come down to the level adopted by God himself in his Incarnation — the level of poverty, crib, flight...» Yet in lowering ourselves to the lowliness that God himself assumes in taking on a human nature, we remain who we are: Some are intellectually gifted and rich in the world's goods; others are impoverished in various ways.

A healthier body of Christ will find relief in its excretion of evangelicalism while ingesting a historic Trinitarian - based ecclesiology, taking shape in a visible organism that gathers to worship and serves the other, since its God so loved the world.

But if you insist on your point of view I would expect that you could be one of those intended with such operations agenda to bring religions to fighting each other in this same method world wide reducing God believers on the globe..?

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).

I'm pretty sure the world has advanced enough to know how to live a healthy and good life while treating others well without the «fear of God» being put into place.

it reminds me the way Michael Frost (and many others in other words, like NT Wright, Bonhoeffer, and even Ellul) explain the kingdom of God as being some kind of a «trailer» for the Kingdom that is coming, and christians would be already living the the Kingdom reality right here in this world, where it seems to the eye that there is no kingdom of God at all.

One need no longer ascribe to God the «many forms of systematic suffering and social malfunctioning in the world which continue to oppress Black Americans, women, Africans, American Indians and other social groups...» Theodicy no longer pertains solely to divine agency.

For the God of classical theology is timeless, unchanging, simple, unaffected by events in the world, and absolutely independent of other, nondivine realities.

Process philosophers in the tradition of Charles Hartshorne propose an account of God as changing from moment to moment, and therefore as internally complex, internally affected by events in the world, and essentially dependent on other nondivine realities.

All of the other pages and articles will explain how mankind has been deceived by the spirit of this world as confirmed by the Word of God in Revelation 12:9 and they will also explain what mankind must do to be reunited with God and to be able to understand the Bible.

Funny, to many of us, the church is just as «outside» as any other group, it's one voice in a conversation of many voices that include atheism, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhist philosophy, Muslim, Morman, the thousands of gods in India, the native gods around the world.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

In other parts of the world, atrocities are justified by appealing to Allah or Yahweh or whatever Hindu gods the Tamil Tigers adhered to.

As the term «totality» implies, the distinction between the whole and all others (or, as Whitehead also says, between God and the world) is one of inclusiveness.