Sentences with phrase «other old god»

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Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different religion said god would have to throw them out of their old religion heaven and send them to the other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead people than the ones living.

The problem arises when one picks an old god image and militantly sticks to that description despite other evidence to the contrary.

On of my other favorites is the old «God is testing you» line.

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.

Many other passages and stories about how God used migration and how He ordered Israel to respond to sojourners exist in the Old Testament.

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...

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.

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;

I gave up the concept of God when I was 12 years old because I did a little research and found out it's all a bunch of cr ap taken from other religions before it like Zorastrianism.

We shall live through a long, long chain of days and endless evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials fate sends us; we'll work for others, now and in our old age, without ever knowing rest, and when our time comes, we shall die submissively; and there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have suffered, that we have wept, that we have known bitterness, and God shall have pity on us; and you and I, Uncle, dear Uncle, shall behold a life that is bright, beautiful, and fine.

For example, I refer to the Judeo - Christian god as a sky fairy (although I think I like sky wizard better — it has the whole magic old man connotation to it) but I don't for example, say you believe in any other god.

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.

For some it may mean that «there is an orphaned state required for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, in which a man who like all others is the child of his parents must symbolize with his being and action the present but hidden creation which is not a mere prolongation of the old, but the new creation in relation to which the old has already passed away...» This is, therefore, the first word that must be spoken: of discontinuity between the kingdom of God and any earthly order, even one as significant as the family.

«327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant.

So what you are trying to say is that your god has taken over from all the other 3500 + gods and because some translation of some old bs I am one of his subjects — truly you are deranged if you believe that sh!t.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

«God called me to seek out what seemed like unconventional ways to serve others,» said Watwood, now a 39 - year - old mother of four.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

I realized the other day why I am having such a struggle writing this book on the violence of God in the Old Testament.The reason is because the process of grappling with this issue is requiring me to rethink, rewrite, and redo nearly all of my theology.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

He was active early in the second century CE and is well known for having posited not one but two Gods, one represented in the Old Testament and seen as responsible for the world's creation, the other encountered only in the New Testament in the teaching of Jesus and specifically in the theology of Paul.

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.

Some believe that God used violence in the Old Testament because He had no other choice, and to show that violence never works.

Jesus» proclamation of the Kingdom of God makes incarnate a transcendent Wholly Other, a Wholly Other that radically reverses the believer's existence in both the being and the values of the Old Aeon of history, and makes possible even now a participation in the New Aeon of grace.

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.»

The Old Testament is full of stories of the people of God being punished and suffering for their association with other nations because it contaminated their faith.

On the other hand, there are old and new forms of Manichaean dualism that surrender the structures of this life to the devil, and deny that those structures come from the benevolent hand of God.

Certainly I harbour this nagging fear that one group or other of fundamentalists is correct and being trapped between the Scylla of eternal damnation and the Charybdis of a monstrous God of hell - fire, brimstone and Old Testament genocide.

Abraham, Moses, Isaiah and Jeremiah, and all other Old Testament prophets and saints lived with a vision of God's promised future.

For the Church can not change into something or other at will, arbitrarily, but only into a new presence of its old reality, into the presence and future of its past, of the Gospel, of the grace and truth of God himself.

For Christians, then, to recover and understand the meaning of the command to have «no other god,» it is necessary first to recognize that the victory of the Church in history was not only incomplete, but indeed set free a force that the old sacral order had at least been able to contain; and it is against this more formless and invincible enemy that we take up the standard of the commandment today.

By relating what is written in the Song of Songs to other passages from the Old Testament, and especially to the words of Jesus in the Gospel of John, Gregory is able to interpret the phrase «living water» as life flowing from the divine Word of God like water to refresh the soul.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

He was repeating the old story: the first birth of all peoples in God's image, stamped with reason and able to see each other as a neighbor, to be awakened in the second birth» in water and fire» of Christian charity that brooks no injustice.

Yet even though the differences in usage between Old Testament and New Testament caused some second century Christians to conclude that two different realities were referred to, the apostolic church was adamant, that it was none other than the God of Israel who had spoken to men in Jesus.

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.

On the other hand religion likes to pretend, although we all know it does nt, it clings to old ways because god has seen everything and knows how we should live therefore nothing needs to change.

Whichever of these paths one takes — and there are surely others — we are struggling with the same basic problem, trying to find some solution that will bring the God of the Old Testament into line with our modern God.

But the book is less than half - way finished... and if I can not prove the thesis to my satisfaction, I see no way out of the dilemma about how to reconcile the love of Jesus with the violence of Yahweh other than to say that in some way or another, the Old Testament is wrong in its portrayal of God.

He goes on to mention three possible path, none of which seem very satisfactory, and concludes with, «Whichever of these paths one takes — and there are surely others — we are struggling with the same basic problem, trying to find some solution that will bring the God of the Old Testament into line with our modern God.»

Beliefs in gods and other fictional characters is fine for 5 year olds, but I'm truly saddened that otherwise rational adults can't seem to shed such nonsense.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Early Old Testament: God's presence shows up in burning bushes, rods / staffs, other physical manifestations, and as «strangers» or «forms» different than «just men.»

But even this is rooted in the many Old Testament references to God as being the rock of our salvation and evokes memories of the words in that old Gospel hymn: «On Christ the solid Rock I stand, all other ground is shifting sand...&raqOld Testament references to God as being the rock of our salvation and evokes memories of the words in that old Gospel hymn: «On Christ the solid Rock I stand, all other ground is shifting sand...&raqold Gospel hymn: «On Christ the solid Rock I stand, all other ground is shifting sand...»

It is funny to me that the same people who say that they believe that the bible (and creationism) is God's word, and therefore true, are the same ones that deny the old testament when told that it also says that you can't wear clothes made of wool and linen together, or that Exodus says it is OK to sell a daughter into slavery, and so many other things, that those things don't matter.

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.

Also, at the same instant, some other Holy Ones appeared who had walked with God in ages past, both in New and Old Testament times.

The age old problem of SELF often is manifest in a false identity such as; «we are children of Abraham» (therefore I am righteous), «I go to... «church»» (somehow this «church» makes you something) or «all you say we will do» (the people of Israel saying they in themself can meet God's standard), «I give to the church» (not personally meeting others needs), «I do this program or that program» (though you do not desire to glorify God but rather there is some intrinsic value in doing a program).

Wellhausen, Kraus, Rowley and other Old Testament scholars have shown that the flesh of animals was not intended to be eaten, but to be, first, a sacrifice to God.

Our Father... and you do understand, God that I'm talking about only those believers in you that adhere to the very same doctrine that I do, preferably the ones that got saved in my church and were baptized by my pastor, but not the old pastor because he read the Amplified Bible, thats the our I'm talking about, God, certainly not those from the church down the street, and definitely not those other ones on the next block.