Sentences with phrase «own human wisdom»

It has been quite clear all along that you do not have even human wisdom.

«The foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than the strength of Man» 1 Cor 1:25

21 Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.

Since God in His wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

MUCH of scripture IS human wisdom btw.

If mental health enjoys such esteem in Catholic thought and practice, it is only right that the Church looks with satisfaction at the new path being opened by psychiatry... all that Sacred Scripture says in praise of human wisdom is an implicit affirmation of the importance of mental health.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

But when the man refuses to do this, when he does not accept the word as a Word of God, when he takes refuge behind doubt, or eternity, or human wisdom, when this man asks God to wait, then God rejects him, but he does not send him to hell.

True human wisdom, as God's tiny son demonstrates to us, is not in how much we know; it is in knowing on whom to depend.

Many also use 1 Corinthians 2:12 - 13 to defend Inspiration, which talks about expressing spiritual truths with spiritual words taught not by human wisdom, but by the Spirit of God.

To me this picture depicts the fact that most of our Christianity is made with human hands, perpetuated by human wisdom and sustained by lusts for money, power and influence, popularity, and a proper social standing in the community.

However, such an approach does not adequately take into account human wisdom: although one may argue that an individual of superior wisdom may engender respect and thus attain reproductive success, says Deane - Drummond, the fact that many of those who were thought to have wisdom were celibate makes this explanation unlikely.

She now believes: «We're all made in the image of God, and within that image — whether we're Christians or not — there is a certain human wisdom.»

1Co 2:13 When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom.

13 These things we also speak, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by [the] spirit, as we combine spiritual [matters] with spiritual [words].

One fundamentalist pastor I interviewed some time ago said he was much in favor of the study of biblical theology, but opposed the study of systematic theology because the latter presupposed too much about human wisdom.

Paul throws human wisdom out of the window because in fact, to be an effective Christian, we must only rely on God's power.

In 1 Corinthians 2:4 - 5, Paul writes: «My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with the demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but God's power.»

And he maintains that human wisdom is a reflection of Divine wisdom: «the wisdom by which man is expected to control and direct his life reflects the wisdom by which God's laws govern all nature» (REN 30).

that your faith might not rest in human wisdom but in the power of God» (I Cor.

Just as there is a human wisdom that comes with maturity and is the result of the interaction of experience and critical reflection, so there is a theological wisdom that comes with maturity and is the result of the interaction of critical reflection, of experience in the church, of engagement with Scripture, of Christian witness today, and of the testimony of the Holy Spirit.9

that your faith might not rest in human wisdom but in the power of God»...

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

The summa summarum of all human wisdom is this «golden,» or perhaps more properly the gilded, ne quid nimis [nothing to excess], too much or too little spoils the broth.

When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power.»

I watched a pastor preach on TBN a few months ago, and I heard more heresy, worldly philosophy, human wisdom and outright error in that half hour show than I would have received watching almost any other show on TV.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

Human wisdom, an incomparable excuse for all that we are not, under the concealment of all that we do!

The Atonement is not a thing anticipated by human wisdom; but once the truth of the Atonement is accepted by faith, it symbolizes all that man can and can not do.

The schools he founded on the margins of the Roman world were more than retreats or resentful withdrawals — they sought to provide a wholly new intellectual itinerary that synthesized Christian thought with the riches of human wisdom expressed in ancient Greek and Roman letters.

We can not say that God's wisdom is utterly different from human wisdom.

Viewed in light of its aftermath, the Easter event, the cross stands as a signpost on the path to understanding God's true power not in crushing evil but in surmounting its finality in what appears to human wisdom as foolishness and weakness.

It's all politics and showing off of human wisdom that all here seem to crave.

But irony notwithstanding, we must ponder the suggestion that the beginning of moral knowledge or the beginning of human wisdom is, in truth, an awareness of the meaning of nakedness.

Following human wisdom, the wise men from the Orient who were looking for the child went to the palace of King Herod.

The central campus of the University of Virginia, where I am Prof. Wilken's student, is laid out around a central Rotunda, which is itself supposed to be a temple to education generally (that is, to human wisdom).

Should he trust God's word or trust in riches and human wisdom and wealth?

So, Paul plays around with the words: «For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength» (1 Corinthians 1:25).

Previous religions have often claimed to be based on experience or on cumulative human wisdom or on divine revelation.

13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit - taught words.

The concern for theology, not as a particularist discipline but as the search for human wisdom about the wisdom of God in the creation and redemption of man, is manifest in other disciplines besides Biblical studies: in systematic theology frequently, occasionally in Christian ethics, homiletics, religious education and pastoral counseling.

Obviously, it would take more than an article, more than a lifetime, and more than human wisdom to answer any one of these questions adequately.

The Day the Earth Stood Still comments on the dangers of nuclear knowledge without corresponding human wisdom; On the Beach paints a despairing picture of a world destroyed through unbridled nuclear warfare.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

From my perspective as a global geoscience elder, this timely subject is not about animal instinct (for example, the ability of elephants to find water) but about human wisdom, truth - telling and courage.

I was not using sports to model the weather, but to model human wisdom.

Not exact matches

Here, we learn how to prepare for our own end and how to help others transition... Unreligious and truly transformational, this book continues to inspire and provide endless wisdom on the great mysteries and challenges of our human existence.»

With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step - by - step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.