Sentences with phrase «peoples with gods»

I do not know to what extent other views of covenant relations of peoples with gods included this element of the divine initiative.

The minister's training should help him develop expertness in facilitating growth in the relationships of persons with God.

It is precisely the struggle of real people with God's word and, in turn, God's patience and mercy toward them that can, as Hebrews 11 shows, stand as an example for us.

Whenever God's people go somewhere in Scripture, it is so they connect with people, or more specifically, to connect people with God.

They record the inception of the covenant in the calling of Abraham, its establishment under Moses in the giving of the Law, and the vicissitudes, changes and developments in the relations of the covenanted people with their God, before the coming of Christ.

If you drop the books those religions loose what they have become because they have already lost what they originally were, the experience of a person with God.

Procreation is the active, and causal co-operation of human persons with God.

«Obviously, because of what is going on in Christianity and Islam,» Hamilton has concluded, «people with Gods are dangerous.

His words: «The Bible says people with God are in majority.

V2 Singles groups are designed to equip God's people with God's Word so they can make a godly impact in their homes, workplaces, and schools.

Not exact matches

«God not only uses our trails to better equip us to help others, he also brings us the right people at the right time with the right resources so that our impact in the world will be greater.»

Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and famine, with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ.

«When people have our cookies, we don't want them obsessed with, «Oh my God, this cookie is better for the world»,» Tetrick says.

[14:18] Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us live a life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?

Even with all your hate, God loves you anyway, so give God a chance and look for the goodness, love, and compassion of people.

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

If we point people to churches that have a proper understanding (of God and the human) and focus on Christ and what He has done instead of us and what «we do»... then you can have a church with a proper anthropology and you can have honesty and less phoniness and control.

«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

I pray that the songs I write would bring people not only into an intellectual understanding, but a true heart connect with the God who is bending over the balcony of heaven to listen to them sing words that move Him and impact Him.

ER, think for a minute, with God making an entire universe billions of years ago, he's not going to fall over dead after making people.

But you are in love with your belief in God, and when a man loves even an imaginary person, like the Percy Sledge song says, he

I'm about to go preach the Gospel to indigenous people in Mexico, I love Jesus with all my heart and believe that He died for my sins as the Son of God... you think I'm going to hell?!? To which she replied «yes».

Hitler was a devout Catholic, friends with the pope and with a propensity for citing God's special love for the German people.

Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different religion said god would have to throw them out of their old religion heaven and send them to the other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead people than the ones living.

As for the way we hear God other than reading the bible, it is in our mind with a clarity not matched by any human person on earth.

I have met God and know him and so have numerous people other people I have talked to so my rational thought is telling me to go with what I know is true.

Articles like this are a dime a dozen with the same tired excuses for why people want church to be about them instead of about God and Jesus and God's Word.

But broach the subject of the fear of God with the same people and they pull back like they've touched a hot stove.

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.

This is just as true for people with a conservative theology of gender as for egalitarians: we should all be able to agree that, as humans created in God's image, the oppression of women is unacceptable.

Certainly the New Testament talks about the priorities of that churchâ $» Jesus as its sole head and focus, daily encouragement among believers, plural and lateral leadership, open participation, and an environment of freedom so people can grow in him.â $ â $ œLike what I have with Jake?â $ â $ œAnd there will be others God will give you as you simply follow him, â $ John added.

Hardly, after man came up with then disregarded as utter nonsense the previous 10,000 or so gods in existence, we decided not to jump on the current bandwagon claiming salvation for the believer and damnation for the rest... Pray tell, what became of all the people who had never the chance to hear of his words / deeds after he came and died?

There is no god and there is no «objective morality» there is only morality which many people might agree with.

To do that that with false motives is an affront to God and in certain cases condems the person.

God always dealt with people where they were in life not where they would have or could have been.

Friendship, and that includes friendship with God, comes from a deeper level in the human person, deeper than feelings, deeper than logic, from the very essence of what it means to be a person.

I have to say that many of the posts throughout this website make me very happy that I have a church where I can worship God and celebrate His endless love with people of like faith.

Making space for stillness in church — creating a place for people to truly engage with God in the silence — is not natural for us.

There is ample evidence for the existence of God, what you decide to do with this evidence is ultimately up to you, but do not claim that there is none... and I would submit to you that many people believe many things without evidence every single day... but do not lump all people of faith into one basket... I have personal proof that God exists, but proof for me may not be proof for you, some people can see something with their own eyes and still deny it, that is why I said it is ultimately up to you to decide what you believe... there is much evidence both for and against the existence of God, you need to decide which evidence you choose to believe...

But besides that, Pastor Feinstein kindly supplies us with another disqualification: the Christian God is dogmatically asserted to be a person.

----- — Even if you want to believe in God, as most people do, God many of us some pretty good brains to think and analyze with.

We know people with both male and female s.e.x organs are born into this world, so according to your dogma god made them that way.

As a Christian it is my belief that in order to show Christ risen we must embrace everyone and in order to do that we must be able to reach people where they are, and to not have a crisis of Faith in your walk with God is a lie.

I still don't think that I could ever be happy with my «saved» soul in heaven while my family (who may have been good people, just didn't believe Jesus was God) rotted in hell to be tortured forever.

What privilege these people, who converse with a God who answers, allow themselves.

Of those, God told one to steal a car and go to Minnesota to receive divine blessings (stopped by police on the way); another was «told» to spend all her money on a plane ticket as there was a grant waiting for her in another state to go to college with (there wasn't, and she had to call relatives to rescue her); another was told to cut himself; another was told to harm people (but only avoided doing this because he called police and was put inpatient).

So if you believe there is a creator, then you have to think with all these people claiming there God is the true God which one is right?

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

All of those other debates were with people that believe the God of Abraham created this universe and life on it.