Sentences with phrase «other than the gods»

If God takes that concept further, and puts photons in someone's eyes to allow them to see someone somewhere else, what is the difference other than God decided to do it?

There are examples of societal ideals based on principles other than Gods.

Thus, to theists, there is no scenario under which the existence of things can be attributed to something other than a god.

If you start the quest by presupposing God, you'll be unable to end the quest on something other than God.

Do you believe in any creature for which there is no evidence, other than your god?

If a politician expressed a belief in a supernatural force other than God would Christians respectfully decline from commenting?

Ramon wow the Lord jesus said those words... that could never have been thought up by any other than a god so inspiring.

The Reformed love each and every one of those terms, but we think applying them to words other than God's is no real solution to the universal problem of interpretive authority — a problem from which not even the Roman Catholic Church is exempt.

Catholics, Jews and Muslims do worship something else other than God.

Such a definition, of course, applies to no one other than God.

Blessed are the Cheesemakers Christians do not need to put their brains in the trash can because they believe in God anymore than your brain rises above the trash can because you believe in something other than God.

Therefore those who denounce the Creator, and those who worship other than God, and those who disagree with God's legislation as to that which is legitimate or illegitimate are all infidels.

This realization returns us to a classical theological confession: that first and foremost God's creative act testifies to the love of God, to the willingness of God to make and bless that which is other than God.

But we can not think of him as quite other than the gods of the world to which we are accustomed.

Idolatry is making primary and central — treating as the object of ultimate devotion — something unworthy of that status, something other than God.

Has been added to my collection of Chad - bites like this delusional doozy — ... «I dismiss all other gods other than the God of Abraham because the God of Abraham has told me that they aren't real.»

For Hegel, the Trinity is nothing other than God's self - explication in history.

And above all, we should be on our guard against preaching a gospel in which the God who is proclaimed as active in Christ is other than the God who is the Lord of all creation.

26 The only way to hold these two statements together would be to acknowledge that all powers other than God's are not, in the final analysis, real.

Even worse, we might one day find out that praying to saints is exactly the same as worshiping a golden calf - it is blasphemy to believe that anyone other than God hears our prayers, according to the Bible.

The Bible itself says that no one knows the exact time of the end of the World other than God himself.

I had to convince myself through talking with others than God still loved me and God forgives.

In differing ways, with varying degrees of intensity, God expresses the divine self by activity, which, as we shall see in the next chapter, is nothing other than God in the worldward relationship.

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.

Idolitry includes praying to the Saints, Mary, Joseph, or any other person / place / thing / concept / situation other than God.

If you hold anything at all as a higher authority in your life other than God, then He is not really your «God».

All rejection of God is due to desire of something other than God.

Believe that satan exists because he does — the biggest mistake you can make is opening yourself up to the spirit world other than God.

Some may prefer a name other than God; others may deny the category altogether.

Leibniz almost got the point in the very time of the first microscopic perceptions of micro-organisms, but he could not free himself from the mechanical model and so, though he held that every individual at least feels, he did not attribute even the least creativity, originative power, to any individual other than God, who thus had no proper place in the system.

That friend can be none other than God, because only God can be thus «closer to you than breathing, nearer than hands and feet.»

For the sake of simplicity, I shall limit my discussion to actual entities other than God (i.e., to actual occasions).

And don't forget the parting of the red sea, if you want to blame someone other than god.

That can be nothing other than God.

There is this attitude that to express emotion toward anything other than God is illegal.

Thus on pain of admitting something greater or more inclusive than God, we must embrace the remaining alternative, which is that the term to which the God - creature relation is internal is none other than God.

For them Jesus was the Lord, and there was no God other than the God of Jesus Christ.

Classical theology has typically responded to this difficulty by alleging that, since all things other than God depend on God for their existence, their relations to the divine knower are constitutive of them rather than of God.

This guidance does not relieve man of taking and directing his own steps, for it is nothing other than God's making known that He is present.

The basic point is that the doctrine of unlimited power that goes with the classical doctrine of creation does not imply that no being other than God has any power.

«The existence of the created world (or, less question - beggingly, things other than God), and any part thereof is contingent.

It is a contingent fact that anything exists other than God.

There is at least one: since being is power, every being has some power just by virtue of being; but then it is metaphysically impossible that God should have all the power.20 Or to make this an internal argument against the classical doctrine, the conclusion could be softened to read: «If there is anything other than God, God does not have all the power there is.»

The Ash» arites — followers of al - Ashari (873 - 935) a foremost Muslim theologian — held that the attributes «were not God and not other than God.»

Nevertheless it is true that Hartshorne's position on creation, according to which it is metaphysically necessary that there be contingent finite beings, entails that it is not within divine power to bring it about that nothing exists other than God.

This is the phenomenal world; it is all that is «other than God.»

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

Perhaps to appeal to a broader base, they allow that this «intelligence» could be something other than God (an angel or extraterrestrial being, for example).

What I see in there is that our «worth» defined in any other way other than God's love for us that sent Jesus to die for us is... well, «worthless.»

Heaven is nothing other than God, the divine self.