Sentences with phrase «places himself above god»

No government, or the wealth and security it promises, can be placed above God or his commands (Deuteronomy 6:13 - 14; Daniel 3).

And Sanctorum places himself above God by calling our President filthy names and smearing our President's reputation.

Not exact matches

Man is placing his way above the Way of God.

The appointed servants of these gods the preachers, priests, popes and all the other evil spawn place themselves above us common folk and make similar demands on our labour and our money.

All your labels regarding the gods are all sons of the original God who sits on His throne all alone and beside Himself is ever wanting to be released from the arboreal places high above our celestial cosmos of teetered rationalism.

The aspects of the Pentecostal worldview that Smith notes» especially the radical openness to God and the dynamic presence and activity of the Spirit» were part of our group's worldview, and I will ever be thankful to have taken my first Christian steps within a body that placed the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ above all else.

The signs are clear for the king of the north is afvancing his «god of fortresses» to all nations and will soon place this «high place» above the Mountain of Ggod of fortresses» to all nations and will soon place this «high place» above the Mountain of GodGod.

In Ephesians 1 we read that God «raised him [Jesus] from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named...; he has put all things under his feet» (Eph.

Our power plant God with these attributes, just like the driving teacher above, would not allow such a disaster to take place.

Social status is an irrelevance, a human invention of no spiritual importance; one can not allow the human evaluation of an occupation's importance to be placed above the judgment of God who put you there.

In Ephesians we are presented with a stark reminder of the early church's understanding of the power of the risen Christ, who was placed by God «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

In short, in order to correspond to the new curve of the time - flow, Christianity is led to the discovery, below God, of earthly values, while humanism is led to the discovery, above the world, of the place of a God.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

We note at once that outside the synoptic tradition there is no place in the New Testament where the Kingdom of God is used in the first of the ways noted above, and very few where it is used in the second.

Above all, the Anglo - Americans need a faith that places their achievements under prophetic judgment, encourages them to accept their limitations, and understands that the end of history remains securely in God's hands.

The only hindrance is we often place our own desires above God.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

Heath, I covered some of this above, in particular that there aren't separate «places» called Heaven and Hell, but a common experience of God's love, which is like a consuming fire.

If I say that only in this place are hurts fully healed, sins forgiven, adoption into God's intimate presence promised, that assumes that adoption and forgiveness are to be desired above all other things.

The most just gods Keep thee thy place above the highest saints, Where thou shalt sit, divine, compassed about With royal souls in bliss, as Hari sits.

Will he support the «light of freedom» and the «mark of liberty» that the leader of the free world is placing as the «god of fortesses» above the One True Way of Christ and of the One and Only Creator?

9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Above all, in living the Year of Faith, Benedict wanted the Church and her pastors to recover the courage and zeal «to lead people out of the desert toward the place of life,» toward the God who gives us life in abundance.

If I say that I am right, and everyone who agrees with me is going to heaven, and everyone who disagrees with me is going to hell, I have just placed my interpretation of Scripture above Scripture itself, and placed myself in the role of God as the judge over all humanity.

His idea of God, whether as an immanent being working through natural events, a transcendent being above yet influencing events, or a transcendent - immanent God both related and not related to history, has to be placed within some kind of world view.

Yet indirectly, the stand they took in placing the authority of God above all human powers was to bring upon them the persecutions under Nero and Domitian, and precipitate the mood of spiritual confidence in defiance of earthly «principalities and powers» that is reflected in the book of Revelation and elsewhere.

Let me respond as gently as I can by pointing out, first, that Mary's pride of place among, and indeed above, the saints hasn't been in doubt since the Council of Ephesus, and, second, that anyone who writes as rhapsodically as I do about the Mother of God could more justifiably be accused of Mario latry than of Marian understatement.

That last comment came out all wrong, and it wasn't meant to be directed at Jonathan but a certain type of Christian faith that places the Bible above God.

Above all, in this our time of tribulations, let us not be found guilty of failure in preaching to our people that «there is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of our God, even the dwelling - place of the tabernacle of the most Highest.»

It places pleasure above love, health and well - being above the sacredness of life, the participation of special interests groups in governance above democratic representation, women's rights above motherhood, the empowerment of the selfish individual above any form of legitimate authority, ethics above morality, the right to choose above the eternal law written in the human heart, democracy and humanism above divine revelation — in a nutshell, immanence above transcendence, man above God, the «world» above «heaven».

The freely given and unmerited love of God is proclaimed by speaking of the poor and their needs, their rights and dignity, their culture, and, above all, of the God who wants to place them at the center of the history of the church.3

This transmission of feeling from God to the finite actual entity takes place in the same way and at the same time as the transmission of feelings from previous finite actual entities, namely, through the structured field of activity common to both God and all finite actual entities, as indicated above.

Now, it is right to emphasize the future - oriented flavor of the above verses and exhort believers to place their hope in God's eternal kingdom.

Following Jesus, I strongly believe, does mean marriage between a man and a woman for those who have placed the values of God above political values and the standards of our world.

When men place themselves or the state above God we are in trouble.

Ingest regularly Ephesians 1: 18 - 2:10 which speaks of «His incomparably great power for us who believe» and how His grace makes us «alive in Christ even when we were dead in transgressions, seating us in heavenly places with Christ, far above all other rule and authority, power and dominion...» Receive God's resurrection power to give you the strength to fight this creeping addiction.

This is evidenced in such things as Barth's eschatologically oriented framework of creation, reconciliation and redemption; his focus on promise and hope rather than the present possession of God's reign; the reconfiguration of experience as a determination toward the future; the placing of the divine summons to action — the ethical life — at the summit of each volume of his doctrinal work; and, above all, his refusal to make his theology an apology for Christendom or to give priority to the established church.

When Jesus placed the Great Commandment to love God with all your heart and mind and soul above the Ten Commandments, he introduced human kind to a new dimension of freedom and responsibility.

But giving no place to the notion of prehending God's consequent nature means, I think, leaving unused good opportunities offered by Whitehead's system, not only for understanding the personal experiences mentioned above, but also expressly for the understanding of certain crucial experiences which transcend personality.47

As hard as it is to accept, as crazy as it may sound to the logical, reasoning centers of our brains, it is selfish of us to place concerns of safety for ourselves and our loved ones above God's greater purposes.

As soon as we begin to place our desire for liberty above our desire for God, the goal of liberty becomes our master.

I'm sure the god of music and god of shopping are finger touching above because they don't want you to wear the same quotidien stuff to festivals, the only place where it's acceptable to look like you came straight out of a 60's newspaper clipping.

Or I can place helper characters on the ground and hover above like a god, watching my minions craft forests, villages, castles and more.

Many people seem to think «Growth = God» and they place growth as the highest «end», above life, sustainability, health, happiness, or what - have - you.