The Lord truly works in
mysterious ways.
Even if you have «exercised free will» it may be chalked up to «god works in
mysterious ways» or «god must have some plan for me.»
Does god work in
mysterious ways?
@David Johnson: It's a sad coincidence made more sickening by people using it to justify the greatness of god and
his mysterious ways.
Religious teachings often DEFY logic and reason (e.g., God is all knowing, all seeing and all powerful and yet He allows someone's husband or wife to die a painful and horrific death from colon cancer)-- that's why the religious sometimes must turn to faith (e.g., God works in
mysterious ways).
But, once you drink the kool aid and buy into the myth, you just have to answer every inconsistency with a nauseating «God moves in
mysterious ways» «God is sovereign» or «we can not understand the mind of God» etc..
The bs od «god (s) work in
mysterious ways is no answer.
Even in love, God works in
a mysterious way.
The god works in
mysterious ways.
They say faith works in
mysterious ways.
God works in
mysterious ways beyond a mere mortal's comprehension.
DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of science» or «evolution moves in
mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.
I guess God does move in
mysterious ways, including convincing pill poppers like Perry, dimwits like Bachmann, and liars like Cain to run for the presidency.
God works in
mysterious ways because he put us all men and women to test and allowed to be tempted by Satan.
i mean, seriously, ALL believers of god readily admit that «god moves in
mysterious ways... and we can't possibly comprehend god's actions».
«god works in
mysterious ways» is the statement religious people say whenever their religion is easily disproved.
That's the best you can do and stop saying everything good that happens is because of god while excusing everything bad that happens as «He works in
mysterious ways.»
Any objection you might make is rebutted in the same manner you attempt to rebut challenges to your view, i.e.
mysterious ways, unknown plan, etc..
Any behavior can be ascribed to this alleged unchanging nature when combined with the convenient explanation of
mysterious ways, unknown plan, and the other horn of the dilemma, i.e. whatever the deity does is invariably good because it is the deity acting.
And when all else fails — «God works in
mysterious ways.
Ah yes... the ol «free will» scam... «the lord works in
mysterious way»... yadda, yadda.
You called me out as being disingenuous when I said «that as time goes on however, I'm finding things that are helping to disprove things previously held as fact among Christians», so I have provided you an example that not only wasn't it a disingenuous statement, but that I've done my homework, on both sides of the argument, and came up with something that no one has been able to give me a response with even either the slightest chance of being possible, or falling back to the old status qua of «
mysterious ways» and «having faith».
Now, in the name of trying to have an intelligent, open, and honest conversation, please don't respond back with the standard, «well, god works in
mysterious way», or needing to «have faith».
There is nothing to distinguish «god's
mysterious ways» from the randomness and uncertainty inherent in the flux of life.
Which proves that God is real, because it's mysterious, and god moves in
mysterious ways.
It does work in «
mysterious ways».
I just want to say that, Yes God does work in
mysterious way to be cliche.
he does work in
mysterious ways..
Maybe magic does not work afterall... or is it that whole «god works in
mysterious ways» fall back position?
Allah works in
mysterious ways, because you would think that if Allah really was all powerful, the South Park guys would not have become rich and successful.
god sure works in
mysterious ways... what a great creator and savior of all humanity.
That is why they must resort to talking about
the mysterious ways in which God works or God's Great Plan.
Oh well, I'm sure he was just working in
mysterious ways and we'll all find out later why it happened and say «Oh, now I see.
«god works in
mysterious ways»..
After all, God works in
mysterious ways.
The Enlightenment's distrust of miracle and mystery has in many ways overcome the Reformation's insistence on God's use of the sacraments in his own
mysterious way to fulfill his purposes.
God uses them in his own
mysterious way in order to give himself to us according to his own will.
Because the more novels and short stories I read, and the more times I feel an unspeakable connection to imaginary characters and their stories, the more convinced I become that every story is, in
some mysterious way, my very own.
For Holloway this flows from the fact that «in
a mysterious way, God has united himself to every man» -LCB- Gaudium et Spes 22), and this unity is also a visible, social reality in the Body of Christ which is the Church.
-- «God moves in
mysterious ways.»
Whenever someone says «God intervenes in
mysterious ways.»
Here was a man who understood that God works in
mysterious ways to bring his will to pass.
God moves in
mysterious ways right?
The people in the West, whose achievements witnessed to the favor of God, are, Ahmad thought, really Muslims in
some mysterious way.
Nevertheless, what an extraordinary testimony to the world about the importance of praying to the one true God and to the wonderful and
mysterious way he responds in reassurance and love to those prayers.
That God is both good and powerful is taken for granted in the black church, and if any inexplicable contradiction emerges, black Christians always appeal to God's mystery, quoting the often repeated lines, «God moves in
a mysterious way.»
If what God done did seems contradictory, then He works in
mysterious ways and it isn't man's place to ask questions.
It was this thought that in
some mysterious way became a living tangible existent.
Hoping for a nice vig from FEMA as well, so let Jeebus work in
his mysterious ways, at least until I can cash the check.
Here he contends that just as Chuang - tzu tried to perceive the nature of reality from the perspective of fish or butterfly, so, too, should Christians seek to transcend the boundaries of history, religion and culture to develop deeper contacts with
the mysterious ways in which God operates.