Sentences with phrase «personal god of love»

The Christian faith because it believes in a personal God of love believes also in the perpetuation of human personality.

Not exact matches

Undoubtedly, Jesus still loves us all more than either of us could ever fathom but the only way you, me, we're going to be able to live fulfilled and victorious lives is by accepting God's truths as they truly are in the bible and by leaning on His grace for empowerment to walk in them in our personal relationships with him.

Often, as in the case of the Christian god, those characteristics, such as «personal, loving» and «merciful» are reasonably falsifiable when considering the available evidence, as well as inconsistent and self - contradictory.

Of course, God has a personal relationship with each of us, but it is the fact that we love one another, help one another, and pray for one another that makes it possible for us to complete our pilgrimagOf course, God has a personal relationship with each of us, but it is the fact that we love one another, help one another, and pray for one another that makes it possible for us to complete our pilgrimagof us, but it is the fact that we love one another, help one another, and pray for one another that makes it possible for us to complete our pilgrimage.

Genesis 1:1... «in the beginning, God...» John 3:16... «For God so loved... «I'm Blind, but now I see...» your personal experience confirms nothing... the patients on the psych unit of my hospital are filled with some amazing claims... just as the Muslim, the Jew, the Buddhist, the Rastafarian make claims of their experience...

I leave feeling non of the loving warmth of Jesus in these churches as I did in my aforementioned personal experience with God.

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

We try to contribute to the renewal of these treasures of salvation in the lives of Gods people through a renewed clarity of understanding of Gods plan of Wisdom and redeeming Love for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern woLove for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern wolove for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern world.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.

There are so many other views on who / what God is, and all they can do is attack the most logically inconsistent one (that there's an all - knowing, all - powerful, all - loving God that personally cares about every detail of your personal life).

This will require spreading our own evangelical creed: that we are not disembodied subjects but fleshly icons of the invisible God; whose worth comes not from extorted approval of our personal choices but from His infinite, undeserved love.

Those who don't fear or love God will unashamedly use ministry as a means of financial gain, and to obtain a personal following.

Joseph Allen's Love and Conflict: A Covenantal Model of Christian Ethics (Abingdon, 1984) connects God's general covenant with humanity to the specific covenant Christians know in Jesus Christ, and to the particular obligations, duties and rights that have to be worked out in political, economic, personal and ecumenical life.

Meticulously well - researched, carefully written, and beautifully delivered, the sermon highlighted why the eunuch's interest in the writings of Isaiah were of particular significance to his own life story, illustrating the inclusive and deeply personal love that God has for all people.

I prefer to avoid the term «objective» in speaking of the Atonement, partly because of its obvious philosophical difficulties and partly because many theologians have assumed that the death of Christ can have objective efficacy only if it is an act directed either towards God, in satisfaction of his justice or in somehow making it possible for his love to operate for the forgiveness of sinners without compromising his holiness, or towards a personal devil in somehow liberating sinners from his clutches.

So why doesn't your «personal, loving» god give it the means to survive independently of its mother?

who breath, sweat, eat, make love, laugh, and die like you can, tell you «I have a personal relationship with God» aka «The Being Who Crafted All OF Reality»....

... If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by His Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus» own teaching to love your enemies and refuse to repay evil with evil (p. 182f).

After one has made whatever personal inventory and commitment one desires, it may be helpful to repeat in a relaxed mood some short, meaningful phrase such as «God is love,» or «In thee I rest,» or «Be of good cheer,» or «The peace of God, which passeth all understanding,» or «Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.»

For Holloway, the Eucharist not only feeds the personal love of God as a living experience, it also engenders love and care for others in the measure that we are conformed to the personality of Christ whom we have received.

Paul thanked God for personal victory over sin, (Romans 7:25) for the church's victory in the proclamation of its faith «throughout the whole world,» (Romans 1:8) for the lives of faithful Christians, (Philippians 1:3; I Thessalonians 1:2 - 8) and for deliverance «out of the power of darkness» into «the kingdom of the Son of his love.»

Fr Seward demonstrates how Newman's understanding of friendship unfolded alongside his own personal development, as he evolved from the young Calvinist suspicious of all «natural affection» to the Catholic priest steeped in the spirit of St Philip Neri, «who in 16th - century Rome drew the young towards the love of God by the winning force of his own personality».

Yet it does not seem likely that her audience is as uniform as all that; and even those readers who do not share this writer's commitment to traditional religion may still wonder whether, if we are going to create our own object of worship, the exchange of a personal, loving God for an impersonal, unresponsive Good is an appealing trade.

His personal times of worship, of being ab.sorbed in God's love for him, changed him from a mere shepherd boy to a lion killer, bear killer, giant killer and finally, a king over Israel.

Salvation became personal, but also universal, displacing me as the center of the love story that God was in the middle of weaving.

Haters are gonna hate, Christians are gonna show love, In spite of personal tragedies, a Christian will turn to God, in whom they will find comfort.

-- Mt 12:34 (also Lk 6:45) Only then, when we are fit to burst with the love of God through prayer, and are filled with personal compassion through listening, are we able to respond.

All of these cases have one thing in common: God's eternal corrective love must be communicated to each one amid widely varied personal circumstances.

Also, I think it reinforces the notion that one must choose between believing in evolution and believing in a loving, personal God - a common myth on both sides of the creation / evolution debate.What do you think?

I'm guessing, as Willow implies, that you are subconsciously rebelling against an image of a threatening, fearsome, judgmental, vindictive and hurtful god, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were bogod, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were bogod; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were boGod is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were born.

The major importance of Hartshorne's work in my view» is the way in which his dipolar panentheism indicates the possibility of a concept of God which allows believers to speak of him as an individual, personal reality and significantly to use active verbs of him — like love, create, know, respond — without denying anything that properly belongs to his ultimacy and worshipfulness and without falling into self - contradiction.

The supreme quality of the personal God whom we worship as Father is love.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

If, however, it's about having a relationship with the God who loves us and created us in His image, then wouldn't each of us have our own, personal, love relationship with Him?

A personal meeting that touched my heart and gave a direction and a new meaning to my existence»), theology («Jesus rose from the dead: not to be triumphant over those who refused him, but to certify that the love of God is stronger than death, the forgiveness of God is stronger than any sin») and his perspective on grace («God's mercy has no limits if he who asks for mercy does so in contrition and with a sincere heart»).

Fox - Genovese's historical survey is even more general, organized vaguely to move from Genesis («male and female God created them»), to a literary analysis of 19th - century novels and the turn to romantic love, to the 20th - century denouement of marriage as a personal choice.

It would be nice if that God were a personal Christian god of love between you and me that could transcend generations, but which could share wisdom from the past to the preseGod were a personal Christian god of love between you and me that could transcend generations, but which could share wisdom from the past to the presegod of love between you and me that could transcend generations, but which could share wisdom from the past to the present.

It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness, love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person, did this service for us, and that he did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.

The care of souls was a matter of personal admonition and consolation addressed to men who needed to apprehend in penitence and confidence the forgiveness of sin, the great love of God extended toward them, so that in life and death, in sin and sorrow, they knew they were in the hands of a holy, loving God.

If God's work is reconciliation, that is, personal restoration of his people to the community of love and the renewal of the «marriage bond», one would suppose that the profoundest insight into the «how» of reconciliation would come from the experience of reconciliation between persons.

One may understand the personality of God as His act — it is, indeed, even permissible for the believer to believe that God became a person for love of him, because in our human mode of existence the only reciprocal relation with us that exists is a personal one.

They entertain personal hopes that it may be averted or that it will work for good in an Israel that loves God, but this affects not at all the uncompromised character of the negative proclamation.

The god of the philosophers sustains the orderliness of the world, but does not give it being in a free act of love, and thus is not personal.

For all who believe in a God of love, justice, and mercy, it will mean constant prayer not only for the victims of the «culture of death,» but also for those who are joined in the great struggle on their behalf, and, indeed, for those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressors.

God is the structure of reality and the power of being which brings about these transformations of human existence, which can be described in personal terms as response to love and forgiveness and in ontological terms as the reunion of the separated.

Personal relationship — loving relationship — is of central importance to this universal God.

There are so many millions of us, but God's love for each of us is personal, deep, and enduring.

God acts upon the human spirit as its connatural environment and prompts an ever greater knowledge and love of himself, thus confirming the bonds of personal relationships between God and man and between man and his neighbour.

What I have learned is about nurturing true self in order to be free to encounter love for God and others as yourself and escaping the clutches of a false sense of self from social influences and less than helpful personal choices.