Sentences with phrase «powerful meaning god»

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Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.»

But the victims of terminal illnesses, poverty, and heinous crimes are forced to suffer the consequences as well — while the great and powerful Oz, i mean, God, sits back and watches.

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.

If by God is meant a Being, supremely conscious, all - knowing, all - powerful, completely self - sufficient, who determines all things by divine moral purpose, the answer is again No.

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.

As David Griffin states: «If the world is an actual creation, and not simply a complex idea in the divine mind, or simply aspects of modes» of God, then all - powerful can not mean having all the power» (GPE 269 - 70).

And even stranger, God himself can not change the outcome, and is himself trapped in predestination, which means that God is not all - powerful.

Shelly: «Seriously, if humans have free will then that means they're more powerful than the omnipotent God» — Not sure I follow your logic here.

Moreover, it is clear that this range of meaning was suggested by the association of powerful emotion with heavy breathing, and that it came to include both the passions of men and the winds of God.

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.

The crude superstition of man's prayer as a means of instructing God or altering his intention was overpassed and praying became both congruous with the Christian idea of God and effectively powerful in spiritual result — «Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.»

If God is all - powerful — think about what this means.

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.

Failing to grasp how Paul has made Jesus» human response to God part of God's essential gift to humans means failing to grasp how dispositions of mutual acceptance articulate the form of life possible only because of that powerful and transforming gift.

Their only sin is not believing in god, I mean how petty for something like an all powerful creature in the universe.

Otherwise, there is a power let loose that God can not control, which means God Himself is not all powerful.

I mean, at best he is calling God a liar by knowing something God says can not be known, and at worst says that God didn't have the power to keep it unknown from his (Camping) more powerful intellect.

This means that God's transcendent power is a lure within the hearts of the poor to seek the fullness of life for themselves and others, and a lure within the hearts of the privileged and powerful to identify with the aspirations of the poor, thereby relinquishing our power and privilege.

The cross of Christ was not meant to provide a means of forgiveness for a humanity that is universally condemned for the sins they could not avoid if they had wanted to (doctrine of Original Sin) but God gave his Son as a graphic and powerful demonstration that God forgives any and all, and invites everyone into the Kingdom of God wherein a person is given the Holy Spirit to help overcome and be free from sin.

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.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

Our response to God's acceptance of our lives into his / her life provides a powerful sense of the meaning of life and a profound sense of the intimacy of the human and the divine.

Greek anthropomorphism was fundamentally the picturing of the gods as ideal humans, and this, at the Homeric stage of development, meant humans who were beautiful, wise, and powerful.

God is all knowing and all powerful and all good, yet allows evil to exist, which would either mean God is irresponsible or that he's incapable of stopping evil, which would mean that he's not actually all powerful afterall.

We are simply told that «the Almighty» means «God who is all powerful.»

My hope is that readers will come to the end of the book reminded the Bible — this ancient, diverse, powerful, God - breathed text — is far too complex to be reduced to an adjective, and that womanhood was never meant to be reduced to a list of rules and roles.

He will not see the Church as an armed camp standing opposed to the camp of the evil one, both on an equal footing and equally powerful and equally absolute, both simply comprised within the unrevealed will of a God who fundamentally has remained silent about the ultimate meaning of this drama.

Sure, God's salvation is unspeakably powerful and it is eternal (meaning that it never ends for the faithful) but God does not force it upon us if we decide we don't want it for whatever reason such as the cost of maintaining it is too high.

Alternatively, if the readers see that this concept of God is rejected and can not find a new one to which to relate the powerful images of political theology, they may decide that the meaning of what is said can be clarified without use of this word.

Yes, this means man's natural urges are more powerful than the fear of burning in H - ell forever or angering a God that can see you at any time and can do anything at all to you.

If the Christian god is all powerful, it means He can not be defeated.

He's not mean, He is just and gives people what they want And no, he is all powerful, if He could do it, then he wouldn't be all powerful And again no, he made Adam and Eve (sustained them too) and all our other ancestors thus, no, God gave you life And no, He is constant and reliable and is continually backed up by history and science And no, you're not paying for them, Jesus Christ died and paid for your sins and mine.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

It is difficult to see how he could be wrong in declaring that «omnipotence» can not mean that God is literally all - powerful.

So powerful that Jesus said «Give everything you have away... and follow me» - the true meaning of love of God and one's neighbor: total devotion and surrender to God.

In psychological terms his concept of faith means: if you completely submit, if you accept your individual insignificance, then the all - powerful God may be willing to love you and save you.

Thus, when it is claimed in Christian theological texts that God is all - powerful, this is not meant to imply that God (in Hartshorne's words) «has all the power.»

That's a bit of a paraphrase, but what it really means is God is all powerful (not to mention all loving).

It's a powerful and immediate experience of God that gives meaning and purpose to their lives.»

Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

And would not this limitedness mean that we would be compelled logically to reject the idea of an all - powerful God?

For people isolated by stigma and fear, it's powerful to hear an acknowledgement that this kind of suffering exists, that it doesn't mean God has abandoned them, and that people in the church might be willing to walk through it with them.

However, believing that God isn't supernaturally powerful doesn't mean you have to believe God is powerless, naturally.

Read the Bible with such facts in mind, and see how far from being all - powerful, as many conceive that term's meaning, God is pictured as being.

They call God omnipotent or all - powerful, as though that means that God can do anything whatsoever, that he confronts no limits, faces no obstacles, but has a free hand to do anything he pleases.

Also you mentioned an all powerful God - so then just bc your 3.5 lb brain can't understand what or why an all powerful God did or didn't do something doesn't mean case closed - just means your not smart enough to understand it.

As well, God is able to be be «all - knowing» and «all - powerful» realizing that the terms can also mean that God knows all that can be known and God can do all that can be done.

If God is conceived as all - powerful, as in classical theology, and this attribute is taken to mean that all decisions are God's — that in truth God is the only agent — then the theist must surely deny either the existence of God or the existence of evil.

However, the fact is that God did create the idea of sex as a means of making the union between a married man and woman all the more powerful.

God made us visual, meaning that what we see with our eyes can have a very powerful impact on our psyche.