Sentences with phrase «pet god or gods»

Not exact matches

Sumerian life at the time was built as most polytheistic cultures are — pet gods, responsible for things like the health of a harvest, the phases of the moon or fertility.

Just look at the «wonderful plan» God had for Paul's life or what is said about Peter and the end of I think the gospel of John..

Peter could not believe that he denied God 3 times - he never wanted to or was his intention!!

(1 Peter 4:8) This is «God so loved the world» kind of love; even though we might be hurt or offended, we love them anyway.

Evil persecutes God and his followers... but can not harm any of God's children or God who is existence - only when evil perverts them individuals or confused them individuals by deceit can then harm mankind when the individual departs from the side of the lord our Heavenly God... San Peter denied Jesus one's or twice but never God himself... not once...

But Peter and John replied, «Which is right in God's eyes: to listen to you, or to him?

As my good friend Peter Lawler would say,» studies show» that students who believe in a «harsh, punitive, vengeful, and punishing» God are less likely to cheat on a test than are non-believers or students who believe in a «loving, caring, and forgiving» God....

Peter did not preach that God would provide hundreds or thousands of different Christian denominations, and that they would teach different ways of being saved.

If governments forbid public worship or preaching, or command lying or adultery, it is, as Peter said, better to obey God than man.

It means to see the suffering we go through (whether we want it or not) from the perspective of Christ, Paul, Peter, and countless people who suffered for the sake of their faith and offered their suffering to God as a sacrifice on behalf of others.

Like Peter, most of us have had some sort of transforming interactions with God (or feel we have).

Aside from 2 Timothy 3:16, another key text is 2 Peter 1:21 which indicates that men of God were moved, carried, or driven by the Holy Spirit to write Scripture.

Peter's point is valid in the context, but I don't think we can say that just because God is not restricted by time, this means that God doesn't comprehend time, or that God doesn't care that we struggle with how long His plan takes.

In a meeting a few days later with thousands of journalists, the pope reminded his rapt audience that the Church can not be understood, or reported on, as if it were simply another political agency; the Church has to be understood from the inside out, as «the holy People of God making its way to encounter Jesus Christ,» without whom «Peter and the Church would not exist or have reason to exist.»

1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not REDEEMED with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying: «You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have REDEEMED us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, Revelation 14:3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty - four thousand who were REDEEMED from the earth.

Or, will they choose to please humans rather than God and withdraw themselves from Paul as Peter withdrew from them?

His conversation with God sounds pretty much just like a conversation He might have with Peter, or Matthew, or John.

Catholics teach that since apostles have the ability to speak and write the Word of God, and since the Pope is the successor of the apostle Peter, then anything the Pope says or writes is without error and is equal to the Bible.

Judas who did not repent, but instead hanged himself or Peter, who bitterly repented and restored of the love intensly coming from the Creator and Redeemer of the world toward his unbelievable bitter denial of friendship to a much superlative gracious God!

His own pet proof of «why there almost certainly is no God» (a proof in which he takes much evident pride) is one that a usually mild - spoken friend of mine (a friend who has devoted too much of his life to teaching undergraduates the basic rules of logic and the elementary language of philosophy) has described as «possibly the single most incompetent logical argument ever made for or against anything in the whole history of the human race.»

I shall do this under a few headings but very briefly — for further explanation the reader may wish to consult such books as my own Lure of Divine Love (Pilgrim Press and T. and T. Clark, 1981) or Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968).

God can not lie and if Christ was making a guess, He would have said that Peter would probably or possibly deny Him or that Judas would probably or possibly betray Him.

Peter is given the key to the kingdom of heaven so he can open it and bring people into the kingdom of God, or into the reign of God.

However in spit of our arrogance God never gives up on us and never ever says, «your a lost cause» or «your a waste of space» Peter asked how many times (in a day) should we forgive, seven times?

I appreciate that it may be hard for some to come to terms with this, but in the light of the most basic and central Christian gospel, the message and achievement of Jesus and the preaching of Paul and the others, there is no reason whatever to say, for instance, that Peter or Paul, James or John, or even, dare I say, the mother of Jesus herself, is more advanced, closer to God, or has achieved more spiritual «growth», than the Christians who were killed for their faith last week or last year.

Are we like God's pets, swatted if we shed on the furniture, or chew on his loafers?

(1 Peter 3:21) He refers to the spiritual washing or purification of the soul accomplished by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God at the moment of salvation.

Through this contrasting imagery, Peter is showing that he understands the imagery and symbolism of the flood event, and that God was not causing or sending the flood, but was doing everything He could to rescue and deliver people from it.

When Peter writes about calling and election, he is referring to our «vocation» or «job» within God's family.

Gary: To do a thing apart from His Spirit is just self works: It is not in and by The Faith of the Son of God: Paul said; he lives by the Faith of the Son of God, that comes with the in workings of the Holy Spirit: Even as Paul says; follow me as am of Christ: This was Paul commission: Little Children I labour in birth again until Christ be formed in you, this takes us from self works into the in workings of the Holy Spirit, that we too are conformed into the image and likeness of Christ, as Christ is formed in us: Even as it was with Peter's commission, Peter when thouest is converted convert thine brethren: But we can see many left Jesus and Paul when it can time for the strong meat to be had: So too is it in each generation: The great falling away, that only the faithful remain: Thank - you Gary; In Jesus name Alexandria: P.S. if Peter or Jesus or Paul would stand here today in your presence and speak forth what they spoke forth then, would you truly receive them??? Now it is the Christ in us that comes forth to minister the Words of the Lord through others as they: That is why Christ is not divided, those of the same Spirit will know because we speak the same things in and by His Holy Spirit:

In Matthew (16:17 - 19) Jesus blesses Peter because his confession comes from God, not from man; and he declares that on the rock (either of the confession - revelation or of Peter himself) he will build his Church, against which the gates of Hades will not be able to prevail.

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).

«We can not validly commit ourselves without reservation to God's loving providence unless all things are completely subject to his power».25 In reply, one might cite an article in which Peter Appleby concludes that the religious attitudes of trust, love, awe, gratitude and repentance presuppose a personal deity, but not a necessary or omnipotent being.26 Process theologians have held that it is God's goodness, not his power, which justifies reverence and worship, though presumably a totally impotent deity would evoke pity more than respect.

They can say your pet is spying on you for their god and they know all about you and have burned your soul already or something.

God is Growth and Maturation and Forward God is not shrinking or regressive or stagnant or stuck God is not infantile or Peter Pan or backward

Finally, two or three very recent books may be mentioned which are valuable as attempts to state Christian belief in terms of the conceptuality provided by process - thought: John B. Cobb's A Christian Natural Theology, Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World, and F. H. Peters» The Creative Advance.

Second Peter 2:1 is the closest we come to a designation of «heresy» as a doctrine or teaching condemned by God with the consequence that those who believe it are condemned to eternal damnation.

If a human toddler is wiser than a planet of stone, but there are probably billions of planets inhabited by sentient beings, how can anyone assert that we are the «center of the universe,» or god's pet species?

This preaching of the kingdom, or reign, of God was continued by the early church: by Philip (Acts 8:12), Paul and Barnabas (Acts 14:22), Paul alone (19:8; 20:25), the writer of Hebrews (1:8; 12:28), James (2:5), 2 Peter (1:11), and John the Revelator (1:9; 12:10).

Before Peter was ready to share his faith with others, God had to teach the self - righteous disciple that he must not call unclean or common what God counts clean (Acts 10:9 - 16).

So asking whether we will have sex in Heaven or whether our pets will be there is really asking what kind of God we serve and what his best intentions are for our eternity.

Try looking at 2 Peter 1:5... or how about THE ENTIRE BOOK OF PROVERBS and King Solomon, son of King David, who was foretold to be a very wise king and ruler, and believer in God.

THE BIBLICAL PATTERN FOR CHURCH IS THIS: Every Christian should gather together to hear the Scriptures and worship Jesus together with other believers weekly (see Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Acts 2:42; Colossians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Romans 16:5; Acts 20:20; James 2:2; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 37:17; Psalm 92:13) It is also good to meet for smaller groups of Christian community in each other's homes regularly (see Acts 2:46) It's good to have leaders overseeing the work and needs of each local church — this is the Biblical pattern — not all of us are called to church leadership, and so we should submit to, and serve whoever God has called to lead at the place we find ourselves (see Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - 13; Philippians 1:1 b; Ephesians 4:11 - 12; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Peter 5:1 - 2; Acts 20:17;) If there are believers who are unable for physical reasons to attend a church weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their own home.

Connect deeply with a trusted other: a person in your life, a pet, or an entity (God, your higher self, a deceased loved one, etc.).

I have no pets and I have no kids.I am looking to get to know a single or divored male who is honest, has a job, car and own place, loves God, is not here to waste my time with games, or lies.

Part of this is having the Brendan Fraser character in «Gods and Monsters» or the Peter Sarsgaard character in «Kinsey» or the Daniel Brühl character in this, the person who falls under the spell of someone and then has to break away.

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