Sentences with phrase «powerful god caused»

So an all - powerful god caused a virgin to bear a son so that he could be sacrificed to wash away human sins that the same god caused us to be born into.

Not exact matches

Let's face it, the belief that an infitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.

This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.

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.

Further, when bad things happen — and they will — we may believe that our lack of faith caused this harm or that God isn't powerful enough or compassionate enough to protect us.

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?

Now God is powerful enough to save whoever he wants yet allows those who would cause a little one to stumble to go ahead and trip the little guy up.

The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own physical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.

The belief that an infitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.

Finite Godism: Finite Godism says that while God was the «first cause», He is not all - powerful because evil exists and He can do nothing about it.

I will pray for him cause he is a powerful man of God, God can still us him but he must humble himself.

At first I thought my Friend, God, was very powerful; but as I looked at the evil in the world, I knew that the God whose love I had felt would never willingly cause or allow such senseless suffering.

Even though Job himself recognizes God as «all - powerful» (42:2), God's «power is limited by human freedom... God's love, like all true love, operates in a world not of cause and effect but of freedom and gratuitousness.»

if God is offended by something, and God is the All Powerfullest of the All Powerful Sky Pixies, then God is perfectly capable of expressing God's Own Displeasure by causing a rain of aircraft carriers and rabid weasels to fall upon the offender.

62 Kaufman's ringing conclusion is that the «first cause» of the universe itself «is no abstract, empty concept of God but God's all - powerful love.»

In such a case, there would be no heaven for believers, no hope for life after death, no cause to believe that God was all - powerful or perfect.

He sets out some traditional beliefs - that we have an all powerful, loving and knowing god - who gave us free will - but he's ultimately in control (both the prime cause, so in terms of cause - effect and foreknowledge there can be no free will, and with the ability to intercede at any moment, which is the reson for intercessionary prayer).

The short of it is, if god is all powerful, all knowing, etc. then yes, god knew these things would cause problems.

For almighty God..., because he is supremely good, would never allow any evil whatsoever to exist in his works if he were not so all - powerful and good as to cause good to emerge from evil itself.177

In other news, storms and other natural disasters are caused by the actions of powerful, capricious gods.