Sentences with phrase «own divine purposes»

We are confident that the Lord is watching over His gospel and over those who have been called by the gospel, and we are sure that the forces of hell will not be able to thwart His divine purpose.

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

In the Whiteheadian interpretation of reality, these initial aims proposed by God are not capricious nor due to inscrutable divine purposes for his creatures, but are relevant aims toward maximizing the intensity of experience which is possible from the particular perspective of each concrescing occasion.

Will congregations that seek to rout sexism by reaching for inclusive language be energized by that pain for a divine purpose?

Further, it is this intensity of the divine propositional feelings which most contributes to their effectiveness in achieving the divine purpose in the world.

For they are expressions of the divine purpose as well as the means of developing the human spirit.

Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

The Christian approach would ideally include the desire to uncover and probe the goodness, beauty and divine purpose of creation, as well as an emphasis upon the pre-eminence of love among men and the dire effects of sin on creation in general (see Romans 8.22) and on men in particular.

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

Doubtless the Bible tells of many miracles, but the basic point of each story is that God is the living God who works to accomplish the divine purposes.

Thus a sense of divine purpose along with a religious experience growing out of hope is generated.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.

How can such an insignificant creature, much lower than the angels, possibly accomplish the divine purpose.

A personalistic philosophy of life does not offer us absolute knowledge;... we discover divine purpose in so far as our human purposes are ruled by the New Testament principles of logos and agape - reason and love.

It is a tension between human perversity and divine purpose, between human sin and divine grace.

To postulate the truth of the second alternative — that is to say, to accept that in terms of the divine purpose the two impulses are one — is to define in its essentials, and in all its splendour, the attitude of Christian humanism.

Human potentiality is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal instrument open to employment by God but with full human freedom retained — adequate for the divine purpose.

Obviously my prayers for the departed will not be effectual in persuading God to do what already God must be doing — remembering them once they have been received into the divine life and employing their human accomplishments for the furthering of the divine purpose.

Alston says that we serve God by cooperating with the divine purpose.

The understanding of historical judgment as positive in divine purpose may well be already implicit in Amos (see 4:6 - 11 and the discussion above) But still in the eighth century, it is most warmly expounded in Hosea (see especially 2:14 - 23; 5:15; 11:11) It is a pervasive if often only implicit element in the utterances of Jeremiah and makes possible that stunning declaration of a new covenant with Israel «after those days» of judgment:

The preacher can now use the story to make plain to his hearers that the event of Jesus Christ is indeed on a genuinely human level; like all the rest of us, Jesus had to grow and develop in his awareness of the divine purpose in the world.

Therefore the tradition has spoken insistently of judgment — or to use perhaps a better word, appraisal — both moment by moment and at the conclusion of every human life, with a further appraisal made when the entire created order is evaluated in its contribution or failure to contribute to the advancement of the divine purpose in the world.

The myth of the divine consummation (found in books like Revelation in the New Testament and suggested by the picture of resurrection, as well as by the «last things») is an assertion that the divine purpose can not fail, that God will take into the divine self what is achieved in the world, and that in some fashion, obviously beyond our imagining, God will be disclosed as all in all.

We do not know what effect such prayers will have, but we do know that all generous prayer is valued by God, and while God always does the best that can be done in every circumstance, we may cherish the thought that God also can use prayer of that kind for furthering the divine purposes for good, though it may be in a way past human comprehension.

The result is a decisive exhibition of how things are meant to be — for even if humans had not sinned, this would have been the divine purpose for humanity.

It assumed that a conception of God suitable for religious purposes would align the divine purpose with human good.

These impel them into full and busy lives in the light of a divine purpose whose extent remains finally unknowable.

The structure of the divine purposings can be analyzed apart from any presumptive claim to private knowledge of what God's purposes in fact are.

There was a divine purpose for it.

God is somehow working out a divine purpose in the career of the nation Israel.

Christians for whom the divine purpose requires a political community that fashions and draws out our common humanity are summoned to join in the search for appropriate ways to regulate the role of money in political campaigns.

But ideals have their own power — and, in any event, we are commissioned to seek the divine purpose in the politics of our day.

He clearly wants animals and plants (humans in particular — he says nothing about disgusting parasites) to have been designed by divine purpose.

Just as a commandment is best fulfilled when a Jew understands why God gave each commandment the way he did, so the Jews» chosenness is best lived for — and died for — when we understand the uniquely divine purpose for which God chose us.

Yet it is the Christian's faith that both the goodness and the power of God are dependable and that a divine purpose underlies all existence.

It would not return empty, but would accomplish the divine purpose (Ps.

So soon as only a few years had passed, say three or four, this division in the originally indivisible experience must have insensibly taken place in their minds, for they were intercalary years, so to speak, not provided for in their first calendar of the divine purpose.

A note which permeates biblical thinking, in contrast with the cyclical or static views often found in other faiths, is that all history moves toward the fulfillment of a divine purpose — toward an end in the double sense of both finish and fulfillment.

For they held firmly to a divine purpose and process in history.

At the same time, only with intelligent life can there be any sense of alienation from divine creativity, any awareness of our capacity to thwart the divine purpose by self - centered activities randomly conflicting with one another.

What he presupposed was (a) the truth of the ancient revelation, (b) the final arrival of that stage in the accomplishment of the divine will which the prophets had predicted as coming to pass in «the latter days,» and (c) the validity of his own insight into and declaration of the divine purpose and commandment.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

Angels can directly and unambiguously accomplish the divine purpose, for in theory they lack the creaturely freedom that so distorts the course of history.

Our discipleship, which often has tended to be moralistic in a legal sense, also needs to be reconceived so that love has the preeminence, rather than the coldly moralistic interpretations of the divine purpose so often taught the past and even today hanging on in many supposedly Christian circles.

It required a human life totally open to divine purposing, a life others could completely trust as from God.

The intention of divine purpose and meaning was frustrated by pride, by the rejection of given order.

Yet in the absence of any comparable witness to the intensification of divine purpose for man this historical recital is indispensable.

This destiny is seen as the consummation of the creation and as the realization of the divine purpose for the world.

Once that response has been made, it establishes a new situation permitting the intensification of divine purpose.

The history of Israel assumes such religious importance because it proved to be the arena of a very dramatic intensification of divine purposes, generating both the expectation of the Lord's anointed and the awareness of God's involvement in the suffering of the world.