Sentences with phrase «powerful god for»
An absolutely powerful God for whom love is but one attribute among many is neither palatable nor biblical.
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At Fortune Magazine's «Most Powerful Women» dinner in Palo Alto, Calif., businesswoman Marissa Mayer, who was criticized for juggling a short maternity leave and her new role as Yahoo's CEO, says she has found balance by «ruthlessly prioritizing» God, family and then Yahoo, citing legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.
shouldn't be hard for an all - powerful god that loves us.
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
You also misunderstand what omnipotence (all powerful) means, allowing an enti ty under your omnipotence to do something that is contrary to your desire for them, does not mean God isnt omnipotent.
Webb lacks critical appreciation for the ways in which the powerful can appeal to providence in self - serving ways, convincing themselves that their hold on power is itself a sign of God's favor.
For the Holy Spirit to share His dwelling place with an evil spirit, or to get replaced by the evil spirit, would imply that the evil spirit was more powerful than God.
Unable to deal with that you need some kind of explanation, so you've decided there is an all - powerful, all - knowing sentient being you call God who is responsible for, well, pretty much anything you can't explain with more verifiable causes.
Yes God is all powerful and loving, but he is also totally sovereign and has just reasons for all he does, even if he chooses not to share his reasons with his creation.
In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).
So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical deity who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this deity is all powerful but for some reason can't do anything more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX: God can never regenerate a missing limb)?
How if a god temporarily assuming mortality, suffering a few days, then reverting to being all - powerful for all eternity a sacrifice?
The underlying concern here has vexed theologians for centuries: How can evil happen in a world that is lorded over by a good and all - powerful God?
One powerful way for our kids to experience God's light is seeing me, as their parent — their father — engage them with humility and asking them for their forgiveness.
May God forgive us, his churchpeople, for using our social capital to attract to our churches those who are powerful and rich while we ignore those who might seem a burden — those whose humble worship surely pleases God.
Kudos to Rev. Saturnia for sticking with the prophetic word God had given for that day and not cowering or compromising because it might offend one of the most powerful men in the world.
May God's mighty and powerful peace meet with you as venture to give God your future, once and for all.
For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
We can not remove sin from this world but we can be moved by the love God gave us, in his only begotten Son, to share this love, which is eternal, forgiving, and powerful, so powerful that it can not be removed by, even, the taking of life — for no sooner do you take the life of such young ones away that, in the next moment, they are with Christ.
In fact if there were an all powerful God, he (it) would encompass everything, including all the energy in the universe, leaving nothing for us to even exist.
So you can't figure out the moronic nature of an all - powerful God getting involved in footlball games while ignoring, for instance, the slaughter of 20 children?
Worship is probably the most powerful engine for justice and peace because in it God's call, which stands behind and before us, can not be denied, will not let us rest and drives us into the world on behalf of the downtrodden and the oppressed.
Perhaps I am deluded to believe in an all — powerful benevolent God, but it's the best explanation I can think of for the life experiences I have had and rationally, for that reason unless and until something happens or someone shows me something to give my objective and indefatigable evidence to the contrary, I can't sanely not believe.
Our profound need for a powerful, attractive, imaginative picture of the way God is related to our world demands that we not only deconstruct but reconstruct our metaphors, letting the ones that seem promising try their chance.
No matter what shape our lives take, this is something we can and should aim for — and if we do, God will meet us in new and powerful ways.
We serve a gracious and powerful God who is all about redeeming our mistakes for His glory.
Prayer was a means of alignment and cooperation with God, and its effect was not the substitution of something else for the divine will but the divine will's powerful and transforming release into the world.
God remains «all - powerful, with power over everything that He actually wills or could will,» 23 and Case - Winters [91] notes that, for Barth, power «is still being conceived as the ability to dominate and control.»
«This present darkness» is too powerful for any human solution, yet God works through the human.
«Churches can be the most powerful impetus for justice in our culture on the issue of race if we will humble ourselves before God and one another, if we will repent and pray and work together for justice in a way that brings great glory to our God.»
«And in and through it all, we find the elusive but powerful idea of God's «word,»» he says, «not as a synonym for the written scriptures, but as a strange personal presence, creating, judging, healing recreating» (emphasis mine).
Those who wait, then, live in the faith that the God who created and sustains, who is incomparable, who overturns the plans of the most powerful princes of this world — that this God will do / is doing / has done the restorative and renewing work for child, woman and man.
But power had and still has no ear for truth, so God spoke to Egypt's powerful in the language of power, and the first - born in Egypt died.
Similarly, when the Corinthians demand a proof of his apostolic authority, he solemnly warns them: «Christ is not weak, but is powerful in you: for he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth in the power of God.
An all powerful creator would not make an excuse by putting it back on the people... wouldn't he search for a way to help them understand instead of accusing them of not having faith... trust must be earned by anyone asking for «faith»... an all knowing god would understand this... if no trust... no faith can be had... reading a book does not fulfill even the barest minimum of building a trust which is necessary if you are to ask for «faith».
How irresponsible is that for an all - knowing, all - powerful «god» to give everyone the «only correct answer» after countless generations have already perished without a chance.
Hbr 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Atheists don't preach that that their invisible all powerful god will send people to hell for not accepting their beliefs.
is not a «religious» relationship to the highest, most powerful, and best Being imaginable — that is not authentic transcendence — but our relation to God is a new life in «existence for others», through participation in the being of Jesus.
here is a question for you to ponder; if god is so powerful that he thought the universe into exsistance, why does he need to cause natural events just to deal with a few medelsome humans; why not just blink those he doesn't like out of exsistance?
You say you don't know gods will because to try and think like god is too hard (which for the record I think is a cop out in any debate or discussion about god that I understand you really believe it and are not trying to duck around a question, but to say I don't know, god is too powerful to understand sort of halts discussion from there)
You say you don't know gods will because to try and think like god is too hard (which for the record I think is a cop out in any debate or discussion about god that I understand you really believe it and are not trying to duck around a question, but to say I don't know, god is too powerful to understand sort of halts discussion from there) but you also are saying to speak with him on a daily basis.
Secondly, can you imagine if on gods level he's actually not nearly as powerful as you think he is, it's just he's so much more powerful than you (or at least you perceive him to be) that you give him powers he doesn't posess, I mean you are just taking other people from 2,000 word for it that this is what god is like and sure you pray, but like you said, you just know, god hasn't come down and spoken with you, sent you a note, a vision or any other nonesense.
The redefinition of omnipotence and omniscience provide the groundwork for process thought's unique treatment of theodicy, the question of how the concept of an all powerful yet loving God can be reconciled with the existence of evil in the world.
Their only sin is not believing in god, I mean how petty for something like an all powerful creature in the universe.
He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»
The most powerful, self - sacrificing love is revealed in the Bible as God Himself became a man to die for the sins off the world.The Bible alone reveals the plan of salvation and the conditions that must be met by all to have immortality aand a life that measures with that of Gods.
Further, the spirit world is a powerful reality in Africa... Such a cosmology calls for a Christology that consciously deals with the relation of Christ to God, the relation of Christ to the spirit world and how the Christ, in the context of the belief in spirits stands in relation to Africans in their dependence on God.32
This is a powerful truth for serving God effectively.
«For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two - edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.