Sentences with phrase «own idea of god»

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

Seriously, I have the utmost respect for Professor Hawking, he's always been one of my few hero's in life, but so is MY idea of God.

Atheists are the biggest advocates of the idea of God after believers.

Not only does this idea solve the problem of predestination and free will but is much more in line with the idea of God.

There are some really screwed up, horribly painful and or stressful diseases and disorders out there, and I find it unsettling that a possible presidential candidate is worshiping this disturbing idea of god.

According to Max Domarus Hitler promoted the idea of God as the creator of Germany, but Hitler was not a Christian or conservative

KC, that is one of the convenient things about the idea of god.

1) everything is made of energy 2) energy CAN NOT be created nor destroyed 3) energy merely changes from one form to another; matter / energy conversion 4) if energy can not be created nor destroyed then it remains a a constant 100 % 5) energy will always remina constant for ALL ETERNITY, thus the universe either recycles itself, or never stops exsisting 6) you «idea of a god» violates the basic laws of the universe, thus he can't exsist because we do.

I wonder how much we all push our idea of God on others?

It's sad that people who hate the idea of God have to come on to a belief blog and tease and put down people who love God.

You can't throw out the other half of the gospel just to make it fit your idea of God as a loving father.

Thanks for making it, reminded me why I started questioning the idea of God in the first place.

Atheist reject the idea of a god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance at all of a god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a god doesn't exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a god was proven to be true.

It's the 0.001 % of them who hold rallies, blow themselves up, and go on television / radio (in the case of Fox News, start their own network) who HATE the fact that there are those of us out there who do not accept the idea of God or Jesus or Allah and think it is unacceptable.

I've tried to explain how ridiculous the idea of God's mysterious secret master plan is, and I always encounter the same response.

We all approach the text with an idea of God in our minds, even if we don't believe in a god.

I think Paul is hinting the Spirit of God will lead people into the ideas of God (from the whole Tanakh) and they don't need mind themselves with Jewish rituals (ie: circumcision — then I would also say — for that matter atonement — which is a Torah ritual).

Maybe your idea of God boils down to just your better nature?

The idea of god does not meet their criteria, so they disbelieve in god.

I don't believe my idea of God boils down to just my better nature.

Hold the very idea of God to the highest standards.

It's time we left behind all these silly, nonsensical ideas of gods and religion if we are to move forward as a species...

It's ok to not buy into the Christian ideas of god and what not, but to spread lies in order to further justify your lack of belief / hatred is just wrong.

It amazes me how many people are on here mocking the idea of God, and mocking beliefs that others hold sacred.

Zero facts support the idea of a God.

Almost every idea of God offered by philosophers and theologians was an exception to the respective philosophical systems and not their primary exemplification — here I agree with Hartshorne.

It would be absurd to try to reject Nicolas Cusanus» idea of God as «coincidentia oppositorum» because of the inconsistency of this idea.

Rejecting god is not the same thing as letting go of the idea of god.

Jones concludes that for many, the idea of God inevitably becomes meaningless.

So if there is a God (I'm guessing from what you say you are comfortable with the idea of God) then God is above our ideas and words then not matter how glorious our thoughts these are not the Truth is what David posits.

When you turn the light of reason on the basic of idea of god needing a sacrifice of his own son to allow himself to forgive, it becomes just as ridiculous as condemning homosexuality.

So the story proceeds, in a vein of pure imagination, stripped of all puerile fancies, to evoke the idea of a God who «spake and it was done».

The actual situation has been that by the time the encounter with Buddhism became important to Western thinkers in the nineteenth century, the traditional idea of God was already losing convincing power.

If you doubt the idea of God, dude, it's cool.

Tom Wright, also on film, pointed out that the imago dei of Genesis 1:26, 27 had, as background, the idea of a god's image being placed in a temple.

God took me through a period of deep disillusionment in my ideas of God and Church in order to be able to use me.

Since those process categories have been connected with ideas of God inspired by the Bible, process theologians believe there is a chance in the twenty - first century to bring the long separated parts of human understanding into a new, coherent relationship.

Although, according to Keen, we can not claim any sure knowledge of God, theology can nevertheless use the word God to serve an indispensable function 36 We need to remain hopeful if we are to maintain our sanity, Keen asserts.37 Thus the idea of God can function to unify our needful affirmations about this unknown source - affirmations of «the trustworthiness of the mystery which surrounds [our] existence.»

But, as a «seeker» of truth which your seem to be, what would happen if you for a moment let go of the idea of god, a higher power, and heaven?

The focus of the Gifford Lectureship on natural theology rendered fully appropriate an expansion and enrichment of his previous work on the idea of God, although this remained a very small part of the total task he set himself.

From the Enlightenment onward the idea of god or gods has been entirely discredited.

The idea of God's hand being directly involved in nature is far more believable than the virgin birth, the ascent of Christ, or the rapture.

The idea of god or gods is a leftover from the Paleolithic Era.

I think you should have the right ot counter it with a statement criticizing the idea of God and prayer in public meetings or schools or any gov» t led group meeting.

Its incredible the simplistic idea of a god to explain everything.

The Jews, therefore, outgrew the original narrowness of their tribal ideas of God, not only, as we saw in the last chapter, because of a new extensiveness of vision in the direction of an international faith, but also because of a new intensiveness of experience in the direction of an individual faith.

Now, thanks to his technology, man has acquired power, has got rid of his guardians and of the idea of God's fatherhood, and at the same time has acquired a new, a rational and scientific mentality.

His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

The Old Testament's early idea of man in his social relationships could be inferred on a priori grounds from the early Biblical idea of God.

Holding to evolution as the origin of the world and all that is therein makes good philosophical sense if and only if you reject the idea of a God... or even of gods.