Sentences with phrase «powerful loving god»

I think it is far better to believe there is no God then to believe that there is one but one that can't seem to do anything for itself or fix things the way an all powerful loving God as described would.

Actually, the nature of life on Earth makes more sense with a group of malevolent gods who are in constant conflict with each other and don't really care about humans than it does with a single all - powerful loving God.

it just wouldn't be an all powerful LOVING god.

Not exact matches

What gets me is that Christians can love a God who would do that or think it's okay and also that they think it makes any sense that this all powerful God can only manage to save a tiny, miniscule amount of the people he's created.

shouldn't be hard for an all - powerful god that loves us.

It is incumbent upon us to make peace, to love all people, to discern the powerful current of all things moving back to God and participate in this reconciling force that the scriptures say is at work in the world.

Assume god is loving, all - knowing and all - powerful.

Alice Using only «I love my neighbor as myself» is the same as «I love God with all my life» in the effect, rational thought, it produces though it is more powerful but strangely different from «I love my neighbor with all my life» (romantic love) which stupefies.

But to reduce the meaning of the cross either to a revelation of the validity of pacifism or to a powerful disclosure that God is love is simply unbiblical.

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 - 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 - love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).

Dear God, almighty, all - powerful, all - loving creator of the universe, we pray to you to cure every case of cancer on this planet tonight.

What a Powerful and loving God we serve!

There are so many other views on who / what God is, and all they can do is attack the most logically inconsistent one (that there's an all - knowing, all - powerful, all - loving God that personally cares about every detail of your personal life).

It is God's declaration of love to God's new Israel; it is God's naming to supreme accountability; it is God's surprise, visited upon the world of the pompous and powerful.

Yet as powerful as it is to preach about God's presence and enduring love, about looking forward in the midst of suffering, believers will hear this message differently depending on how quickly they are living through the succession of steps on their way to hope.

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.

An absolutely powerful God for whom love is but one attribute among many is neither palatable nor biblical.

Jaroslav Pelikan is more cautious, recognizing that Marcion's God of «simple goodness,» per Tertullian, is characterized by «serenity and mildness» 27 and not by any active expression of powerful love.

It is the powerful love of God in Jesus Christ, putting sin to death and launching new creation.

Therefore the question arises: How are we to move forward to a fresh synthesis of God as Powerful Love that builds on the criticisms of Augustinian theism that we have observed?

Another reason, maybe the most numerous, is some variation to the problem if evil; good God, all powerful God, evil happened to me or someone I love and God and God did not come through, so I bagged on God.

Therefore, God does not love his creation or is unaware of the harm that evil does or is not powerful enough to stop evil.

Dr. Polk reconceives the basic question of the relation of power and goodness by asking what kind of power is appropriate to a loving God, rather than the traditional way of framing the issue as how can a powerful God also be a loving God.

God won't say, okay now I love her just a bit more because, look, she is finally out of debt or thin or powerful or influential or tireless.

That's not weakness — that's strength that only a powerful, loving God can provide.

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.

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.

«But the reality sometimes is that healing in Jesus» name is one of the most powerful ways we can communicate the unconditional love of God, when you're doing it with no strings attached.

My question boils down to: Why would a perfect all loving, all powerful, all knowing god CREATE the VERY ESSENCE of evil, and would that not indicate that god is evil in nature?

In Jesus» message and activity, God's powerful and empowering reign of love is already making itself felt, but only in the midst of ongoing conflict between God's power of love and the forces of chaos widely at work to thwart it.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

It would seem strange that a person could pen such powerful words of love and faithfulness to God in the wake of such a tragedy, but when a person accepts Christ's gift of salvation they are given a joy and peace that can not be described!

So, your all loving, all powerful, forgiving and understanding god is sitting by watching the likes of Ghandi, Anne Frank, Einstein, and untold billions of little children who had the unforunate bad luck to be born in a non-Christian family and be taken before their time get tormented for all eternity?

The missionaries» preaching concentrated on several aspects; access to the powerful Book (The Bible), Christianity as a way to Heaven, the love of God, the need to give up the worship of Satan, the need to remove all symbols of «devil - worship,» etc..

If as imperfect humans, we would condemn that action, why would we think that an all powerful, omniscient, intelligent, loving God would do such a thing to his children?

The image of an angel cradling the loved one as he or she died may be a powerful way to help people think of God's presence.

It is precisely the question of how love is powerful in God, in contrast to traditional understandings of the nature of divine power, that continues to whet the theological appetite.

This is the gift that an all powerful, loving and wise God bestows upon us... What we do with this gift of choice is up to us, will you follow, trust and love or pull away, and withdraw?

There are a gazillion buzzwords out there like «authentic» and «missional» and»em ergent» this or that but really, I have yet to see anything capbable of transforming the politics of power and privelege into, well, into a group of believers living in the world whose love for God and one another is lived in a way so real and so powerful that they become a transformational presence in their community.

«Oh, powerful love of God, how different are your effects from those of the world's love!»

«Love's nature... conquers all powers... Love's nature is... powerful in its activity... In it is all the power of God.»

Technology — «what works» — has become our god, expressed in all the most powerful myths of the most powerful media, while the God of justice and love is relegated to the sidelines of life, expressed in antiquated language and obscure stories lacking both clarity and relevangod, expressed in all the most powerful myths of the most powerful media, while the God of justice and love is relegated to the sidelines of life, expressed in antiquated language and obscure stories lacking both clarity and relevanGod of justice and love is relegated to the sidelines of life, expressed in antiquated language and obscure stories lacking both clarity and relevance.

What we have encountered here, in both Dionysius and Bonaventure, is a turning away from God the powerful to God the loving, without actually attempting any fresh explanation of the relationship between these two facets of God's being.

If God is all - knowing and powerful and loves us, why does God let things like her son's death happen?

This is a God many orders of magnitude more intelligent, more knowledgeable, more creative, more powerful, more loving.

And when your standing before God is stripped of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of plalove of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of plaLove showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of places.

It's a good thing god loves you Tim Tebow and not the people who could actually use his assistance (if he in fact existed, which he doesn't, but hey, continue fooling yourself... its making a lot of people very powerful and rich).

Aren't we much more comfortable with a «Prosperity Gospel» than being nagged about an all - loving, all - knowing, all - powerful God One Who is Holy?

It is a feeling hard to describe, a powerful awareness that you are child loved by the Mother of God.