Sentences with phrase «personal god like»

Not exact matches

I think we are too quick to depersonalize this and miss that we are talking about complex individuals who are trying to figure out, like all of us, what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God and yet have a whole intact personal identity which can include same - sex attraction.

the person being voted for by these individuals probably does have the right scientific markings like, no God, abortion on demand no matter how late in term, good in business and stealing (er) expropriating for personal gain, cheating on your mate, etc, etc. 2nd.

(2) Argue from your own personal [mystical] experience, tell them what «God» is really like (3) Confront all God talk: disempower both their and your own bullshit

It's people like you that make me wish that there WAS a personal god looking over everything.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Inquisitor — Yeah, I like how their «personal» god supposedly becomes so indiscriminate when angered, punishing the innocent along with the guilty.

People like you really have to get your head out of the bible; spirituality is about your own PERSONAL relationship with god, not the dogma in some stupid old book

Just like I would not blame all Muslims for the attack on 9/11, I do not blame all Christians for the acts done for personal gain they seek to attribute to God.

Kevin your right personal beliefs and or religion does not belong in law, and I am not saying that what this atheist organization is doing is wrong or anything, I think what there doing is a good thing, I just think this particular message could have been done from a different perspective, this message makes them appear like the self righteous ones, and it might give out the wrong kind of message, instead it should have said something like you believe in god fine, but don't put it in our laws.

Just like people will answer to God himself as well for their personal decisions.

I would suggest that like anyone else, you are a free to make your own «interpretations of events, concerning your personal thoughts of your God» i.e..

If Einstein actually said that you have to take it in context with the «God» that he said that he believed in, Spinoza's God, which is nothing like the personal God of Christians, but more like a poetic way of describing the natural laws that govern the universe.

It was God's personal promise that we would not be assimilated like everyone else.

Our prayers are not to alter the will of a sovereign God who remains forever unchangeable, but instead, prayer molds our disfigured and malleable wills to be like His perfect will, as well as operating as a means of revealing His character to us through a personal interaction with His word that has been intricately meshed together with our lives.

if you have never had a personal experience with God, i can't expect you to understand what it is like.

Until the current deity of choice (The God of Abraham) actually shows himself, I for one will not accept the talking snakes, virgin births, and condemnation of personal freedoms that surround the belief in him — like stoning someone for working on the sabbath, or killing children who curse their parents, or the rules of owning slaves, all concepts clearly stated in the Old Testament.

That coupled with what I observed in a lot of Christian believers, being ordinary people, sinners like I am, yet having faith in God and His redemptive Grace, I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior in a moment of clarity over a prayer.

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

Where Wright is a liberal mainline Protestant, emphasizing liberation and social action, Obama's new circle of pastors includes theologically conservative evangelicals like Hunter and Jakes, who stress God's grace and personal transformation.

The personal transforms our understanding of God, art, history, and politics — Walsh devotes a chapter to each — but also of issues like abortion, artificial intelligence, and cloning.

In my own personal theology, I would say that Sin is like entropy, it is any action or process that breaks down the structure, and especially the relational structure of reality as God meant it to be.

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»....

But that legislation does nt come from a personal faith or a holy text, and they never say its because god does nt like it.

First, to say that God is personal is not to say that God is in all respects just like ourselves.

It's funny how «God's will» continues to look like people's personal agendas.

Like I mentioned before Jesus made it possible, Jesus made it personal between us and God, so that's it, that's enough.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

If you have Superman underwear on, will God take this as a personal challenge and cast you out like he did his first challenger?

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.

Supernatural theism is what you get if you literalize or semi-literalize the personal imagery for God in the Bible, so that God becomes a person - like being.

In the original Hebrew text of the Bible the meaning of the word fool is stupid or uneducated, so since God made everyone and everything he takes it personal when you call someone a fool, it is a reflection on him, like if you were to call someones son a fool, it would reflect on his father, who raised him.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

Crazy people... As god's personal representative, he would like everyone to know he didn't do anything to create any of you freaks.

I would strike up a conversation, then say «you don't know me but I'm a Christian and God is going to share with me about your life» I don't mean simple things like «you have the flu» or «Headaches», but deep, personal things that others couldn't know or even guess.

If he did it would mean in this connection something like thoroughgoing, unbounded, not limited by prejudice or personal interest; that is, the sentence must mean, «Your love must be all - inclusive, as God's is.»

Indeed, the truth of the matter can never be fully explained, for like all personal relationships in their depth and in their strange yet wonderful capacity to enrich our living — of human life with God's life, of men and women with each other — there is a mystery here which we must accept with «natural piety» but which we can never hope to explicate with utter clarity.

Again, I do not mean that we have God zapping in with personal communications like: «John Brown, this is God calling.

Neville i was thinking there have been men that i respected in politics like Nelson Mandala Abraham Lincoln Teddy Rosevelt Winston Churchill so there are exceptions all these people and many more struggled and overcame there own personal demons that is why they were great leaders statesman.That always involves faith believing in something greater than yourself and humility knowing that its not possible in us alone but with God all things are possible.brentnz

So passionate are we about our own personal experiences with the living God, we fail to understand that others experience the Spirit in wildly different ways — experiences that may not look and sound like ours, but are no less God - filled and good.

I've been out of the church for a while but I always felt as though people expected God to show up too much, like God was their personal Genie - in - a-bottle.

Regardless of our personal beliefs about god and divinity, if these actions bring comfort to people at times like these then such actions are not wrong.

It is just that love that can redeem personal identities like Sam's and his father's from their distorting bondage to past events, for it is God's love for them that grounds the worth of their lives.

The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.

How can I be sure that God is working through these editors of the bible to change the words to his liking and not for their own personal gain?

In my opinion, people are free to be as spiritual as they like, and to have faith in whatever god or gods give them personal fulfillment.

I think God may act to destroy whole populations in order to contain the demonic problem (personal view; The problem of demons is much more greater and serious than we would like to admit, and I say this at the risk of being branded an alarmist).

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

While hymns covered just about every subject, those which found particular favor in nineteenth century America were based on a personal experience of Jesus and the gospel, particularly in regard to faith («Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine»), the atonement of Jesus («When I Survey the Wondrous Cross»), confession («Just As I Am, Without One Plea»), dedication («Nearer, My God, to Thee»), following Jesus» example («Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us»), and salvation («Amazing Grace!

In my case, I've had tons of things that have happened to me and He has always been there to help me, but one time I was going through a problem, a big one, and no one knew about it, I don't like to talk about really personal things, but this girl whom I had just met once told me that God told her something and it was related to my problem, I knew for sure no one knew about it, I was in a foreign country alone with my husband, so I knew that it was Him talking to me through her.