Sentences with phrase «other than god»

who would know other than God, how much more came with that, when you opened your heart to your readers, and the faith you came to, and that has enriched all of our lives.
Sony Santa Monica are a great studio and deserve to work on something other than God of War all the time.
Everyone's favorite funnyman Steve Carell is at his hilarious best as junior congressman, Evan Baxter, whose wish to «change the world» is heard by none other than God (Academy Award ® winner Morgan Freeman).
If you were to ask my friends to describe me, they would say that I love meeting new and interesting people, love the outdoors, love living on the edge, love traveling, and above all, love and appreciate my children more than anything, other than God of course!
«Nobody knows the future other than God; and to dictate what the future will be is not within man's purview.
«And I think unless you are in every single person's house and room and you sit in their shoes every day, you don't have all the information, you don't have the knowledge, and it's nobody's job — as far as I'm concerned — to judge, other than God.
Evolution, even of the galaxies and the stars and the planets, is nothing other than God's patient luring of all that is into newly emerging fulfillments of possibility.
We shall see that whatever violence transpires when God withdraws and turns people over to suffer the consequences of their sin is carried out by agents other than God and is carried out of their own free accord, just as when Jesus bore the judgment of sin in our place.»
Alyosha instantly recognizes that Ivan's imagination was groping for the profoundest of all truths — that nothing other than God's self — emptying love can answer bitter unbelief.
The writer complains that his people have been mastered by Lords other than their God, and though they have suffered like a woman in labor they have not been able to bring forth new life.
According to Griffin, metaphysical principles describe the nature of God and the relationship of God to the world rather than being imposed by a reality» other than God.
«Held to too tenaciously,» Weiss writes, «the view would prevent Whitehead from affirming that there were any beings, other than God, which actually persist.
It must be true, for example, that at the point when God had not created the world, there was nothing other than God alone.
Presumably, when God had not yet created the universe, there was nothing in existence other than God.
The exclusive, or at least central, object of prayer is God himself, according to Augustine, Nolite aliquid a Deo quaerere nisi Deum, (Sermons, 331.4) «you shall ask of God nothing other than God Himself,» a saying quite similarly reiterated by the Persian - Islamic mystic, Sa'adi.
This is not true of any individual being other than God.
Indeed, it was no other than God nor God than it.
Thus the historical realm is characterized by a purpose which is nothing other than God's incredibly cherishing love, shared with His creatures and moving through their free decisions towards a great end.
For God can apparently be none other than a God of Adventure.29
But the Bible teaches that other than God, there is no higher priority in a person's life than their very own family.
If he wants anyone other than God to love him, he needs to change his behaviour.
«We're such a wealthy, spoiled culture that we feel like we have a right to fly on airplanes,» says Fulwiler, author of «Something Other than God,» which details her journey from atheism to Christianity.
But this super-God would have to be an actual entity, contemporaneous with each member of the series, always active, never coming to a stasis — in short, this super-God would be none other than the God for whom we have been arguing.
Prayinng to (or trusting) anything or anyone other than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is a waste of time and energy and will only lead to anxiety and violence.
But as important, and even crucial, as it is to appreciate this difference, the God implied by faith and justice necessarily implies at least some world of creatures other than God, even as any such world of creatures necessarily implies this one and only God as its sole primal source and its only final end.
Rather, the evil is the result of finite choices other than God's; but it is taken up and made the best of in God's own subsequent events.
In Jesus» view this new humanity will have no center other than God, and it will be God's gift, yet not a «cheap grace `, but gift as human task.
Idolatry is about being centered in something other than God.
For while God could not exist without the world any more than the world could exist without God, what God necessarily implies is not this world or that (since any world, unlike God, is merely contingent rather than necessary), but only some world or other — or, as I put it before, that the class of all individuals and events other than God not be an empty class.
And so, too, with respect to interaction with others: whereas any individual other than God interacts with some others only, God interacts with all, not only acting on them but also being acted on by them.
In this respect, the existence of the world, unlike that of the self, is strictly ultimate; and the concept of «the world,» understood as referring to the necessarily nonempty class of realities other than God, all of whose members exist or occur merely contingently, is strictly correlative with the concept of «God.»
Such intelligence can be none other than God's.»
And what is interesting here, I think, is that while the standard view of omnipotence does not appear to entail that beings other than God are devoid of power, it does entail that the exercise of power on the part of any finite being is importantly conditioned, i.e., it is contingent upon God's willingness to refrain from exercising some power of his own.
God is king not only of all the earth but specifically «over the nations»; the «shields of the earth,» i.e., the means of defense of earthly realms, are none other than God's very own property (Ps.
«21 He remarks that if «I» here refers to a definite subject other than God, then another subject could know its nonexistence.
Or better put, God is thus working, because «grace» is nothing other than God in action and not something added onto or used by the divine reality itself.
Actual entities other than God are temporal.
There is no place for purposes as causal agents, or for God other than the God outside the machinery.
These self appointed prophets are unfortunately influenced by something other than God with the result that you will find yourself casting pearl before swine.
The truth is what will result from your mind and heart but to think you need to Lisen and Read and ask who know if you didn't know... May God Guide and bless all in faith of God Almighty Allah the One and onoy creator of all creations the God of all (Jews / Christians / Muslims) who worship no one other than God alone and follow the roads leading to learn the truth nothing but the truth, so help me God.
This theory posits that God is not the only force in the universe and all evil originates in wills other than God.
Praying to someone other than God would be blasphomy.
The New Testament teaches that each LOCAL body of believers is to be separate from other bodies, with no common leader other than God and Jesus.
We may be in danger of inventing «a god» other than the God of the Hebrews, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus; our God and Father.
In The Humanity of God, Barth stated — with a curious reference to his former characterization of God as the «wholly other» — that his eyes had been opened «to the fact that God might actually be wholly other than the God confined to the musty shell of the Christian religious self - consciousness.»
If there are any beings other than God, then they must have at least some minute amount of power.
Jeremy, Where do you get the idea that someone other than God has the ability to utterly destroy someone's soul?
What would be the purpose of this, other than god digging on the smell of burning flesh?»
As far as I'm concerned Judaism and Islam at least hold that anyone other than god isn't a god, but just a prophet (which makes them monotheists)
No, it's not, I'm saying this from personal experience, I have at times turned from God and every time I do, I always try to satisfy myself on something, and every time I try to satisfy myself with something other than God, I remain unsatisfied.
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