Sentences with phrase «peoples version of god»

Not exact matches

unlike the empty chair inviting people to invent their own version, the God of Abraham is a real «person» (for lack of a better term), and it's his way or the highway.

God is an adult version of any kid's imaginary friend so let's not get carried away by complex meanings here; it was just a bunch of ignorant people listening to a great movie director rambling for 12 minutes.

If anything, any thinking person who reads the Holy Bible, will come to the conclusion that the best version of marriage is the original one that God created in the Garden of Eden, one man has one wife.

Christians actually get angry when people don't talk about their particular version of god before they die.

God is more like the ground of being itself, not some invisible version of Adolph Hitler that has people killed etc..

Well seeing as only 33 % of people on this planet believe in your version of a god, that means 4.6 billion people (and counting) are going to be burned in hell by your god.

I know religious people will make excuses for their version of god.

When so many people with different versions of God (s) claim a monopoly of truth for their interpretation exclusive of all the others, the logical conclusion is that none of them are right.

Your version of god is yours — other people hold equal views of their own gods 0 or no god at all.

I define my life, it is not defined by some flawed version of an unproven god people asserted 2000 years ago.

«SBNR» people, on the other hand, believe in some undefined version of god for which they have no evidence whatsoever.

Two sentences in the discussion of reason in the earlier version of the report could be taken to support the use of such analysis: «By reason we relate our witness to the full range of human knowledge and experience,» and «By our quest for reasoned understandings of Christian faith we seek to grasp and express the gospel in a way that will commend itself to thoughtful persons who are seeking to know and follow God's ways.»

«While all the versions of the kingdom of the world acquire and exercise power over others, the kingdom of God, incarnated and modeled in the person of Jesus Christ, advances only by exercising power under others.

If one truly believes that people are only saved through one's version of god, then wouldn't any action, no matter how violent, be justified in «saving» those people?

I mean the idolatry that successfully tempts so many religious people into thinking that they possess the ultimate truth of God — the idolatry of the evangelical tradition that equates the words of Holy Scripture (usually the King James Version) with the eternal, life - giving Word of God.

I'd be surprised if you've never had people retort that they don't accept the idea that Jesus was the Son of God but instead some alternative version of a «Real Jesus».

For example, the Yahwist version seems to be present in the story where Moses is elected, chosen, and authenticated by God himself, where Moses is appointed by God as the intercessor on behalf of the people.

If you belief that the version of «your God» is superior to «other God (s)» that people believe in, and that people need to be «saved» by you or «your God, then guess what?

That's convenient — rely on a particular image of this version of «god» for so long, which by the way is depicted this way on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, until people start realizing it's nothing more than another version of Santa, then simply move the goal posts by suddenly claiming «Huh?

Despite this variety, and the common avoidance of the word «atonement,» all these translations agree with the New Revised Standard Version in suggesting that God sacrificed Jesus so that people could be reconciled to God through faith.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOOF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOOF GOD.

Scepticism of some other person's version of «who God is and what He wants us to be / do» is not a cop - out.

========== Atheists are on this board all day every day with one basic message: «people that believe in the God of Abraham are stupid» (the nice version is «people that believe in God are engaging in holding rational and irrational beliefs simultaneously, but we wont call them «stupid»)», and you never see this kind of outpouring of incensed righteous indignation from Christians.

In the more individualistic versions of Christology - soteriology, some make him sole mediato between the person and God.

There are those who see the issue of God's violence / judgement differently: The Old Testament (and the thread of the Old Testament thought that carries over into the New Testament) version of God that sees an angry, violent God who destroys people and tells his people to destroy people.

Your version of god is a flake — it's for damn sure not my god, never was and never will be, if fact the fewer people that believe in your god the better a place the world will be.

As an Atheist, I don't feel morally superior to anybody, that's for the self - righteous religious people — I simply don't think a belief in something as fantastical and unprovable as any version of god is necessary in order for a person to be a good person.

Also, for the record, the OP's handle notwithstanding, when people make modern versions of this argument, they don't cite belief vs disbelief in heaven and hell per se, but belief and disbelief in god as the critical matter, heaven and hell being the pay offs.

Expecting people who do not believe in your version of god to follow that version of laws is ludicrous.

I like the line, «Who wanted to jeopardize congeniality at the table by invoking one version of God, knowing it wasn't another person's higher power?»

After all, he seems not to come from a people that treats the writings of the prophet Hosea with due reverence, but he nonetheless has chosen this moment to perform a symbolic version of the actions of God toward Israel as depicted in the sixth chapter.

It is especially disturbing, when people argue about knowing what «their» (version of) «God» wants, plans, or is going to do.

After one reads Nietzsche's fevered discourses about the creation of new values that would need to take place once people realized that the God - idea is fiction, the ethical prescriptions he endorsed end up sounding at best like a juiced - up version of the old values.

I agree, it was a different time and I believe those people were marking their bodies for completely different reasons... marking to pay homage to false idols and to give praise to these idols... 1 Corinthians 10:31 English Standard Version (ESV) 31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

I am no Scholar but, I believe God has the power to change prophecy the way that he did with Hezekiah, his intentions for a perfect people in the beginning changed due to disobedience so who's to say our men or intended leadership has overall been disobedient, and many women have been forced to lead and in that leading women have been more obedient.We all need each other if my husband was a pastor and I'm his help mate if he for some reason can't teach or preach who else other than myself would be the closest to him.I don't believe GOD changes he's always the same but, he does have the power to make changes and he does not need our permission to do so, instead of debating back and forth over our version of the Bible we should be sure we have the Holy Spirit and real relationship with GOD because he will reveal to us his truths but, please know he's not the author of confusion

«It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors, SPIRITUALITY COACHES and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up» (Canadian Amplified Version 2010)

Religious people make their first mistake when they get into the mindset that one MUST be religious or believe in some version of god in order to be a moral person.

If the only version of God some people know is the one heard in Sunday School, it may come as a surprise for them to realise that viewing God as a symbol is possible within the church context.

It is no accident that Peter introduced his version of the household codes with a riddle — «Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover - up for evil; live as God's slaves» (1 Peter 2:16)-- or that Paul began his with the general admonition that Christians are to «submit to one another out of reverence for Christ» (Ephesians 5:21; emphasis added).

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

I suspect that what prompted this tamer version of the movie was not merely the squeamishness of Aunt Martha and Uncle Harry but the fact that the original film had stirred up a surprising and unintended reaction: it caused some people to question the very goodness of God.

But whereas Alpha offers a somewhat systematic introduction to basic issues — God, Jesus» life and death, the Holy Spirit — from the perspective of a theologically conservative believer (Nicky Gumbel), LTQ offers a collage of persons, stories and arguments which seems to assume an audience of people involved enough in church to have been wounded by its fundamentalist versions.

What I find so funny about it is that most religious persons who pray in their head to their version of God point the finger at atheists and say «You think you are your own God!

Genesis includes two versions of the story of God's creation of the human person.

I easily did feel a little bit jealous and irritated mostly with everything I couldn't have or do but people can / do when I was younger, now I've grown up, thank God, He always help me to always walk in my path, I've always told myself to just do great as the better (or best) version of my old self not as a person I think people will like or want.

It's intimate, as an autobiography ought to be, but co-directors Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud also manage to give it a panoramic scale: While the movie doesn't attempt to be an Iranian history lesson, it does capture the way people's lives can be both drastically changed and yet, in some ways, remain defiantly unchanged when their government subverts everything they believe in, using God — or some version of God — as its chief weapon.

Other shows getting some love include Hulu's departing Difficult People, Netflix's series version of Dear White People and Starz's electric and provocative fantasy American Gods.

Here's what you get for your money: a bastardised version of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - yep, that game from 1994 - two new characters who aren't really new, a god - awful first - person motion control mode, a throwaway two - player co-op mode, a colour editor, online play and that's about it.

Its limited vocabulary makes it perfect for younger readers, in English - as - a-second-language use, or even for longer - term Christians who just want a fresh perspective on the scriptures.This unique scripture version, originally designed to reach people who did not speak English as their native language, uses a limited vocabulary of 850 words to simply and clearly share God's truth...

Let's start with the PS4 first as its now home to a remastered version Kratos's final assault on the Pantheon of Gods (God of War III Remastered), the first PGA Tour game not to star Tiger Woods in more than a decade (Rory McIlroy PGA Tour), a moody first - person mystery (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter), and a surprise remake of a pair of PS3 - era open world games from Activision (Prototype: Biohazard Bundle).