Sentences with phrase «purpose of creation as»

Not exact matches

Absent purpose or intent for creation the purpose for your species is the same as that of dolphin, do you agree?

That would, of course, mean the creation solely for purposes of research of human embryos» human subjects who are not really best described as preimplantation embryos.

It is the living fact of their place within the laws and layers of meaning embedded and embodied in creation as set out in God's great purpose which is to be fulfilled in Christ.

It is rooted in the perspective of creation focussed on the Incarnation of Christ as its purpose and fulfilment.

At the core of his system is the idea of the Unity - Law of Control and Direction which presents creation and salvation as the manifestation of a single, dynamic wisdom and purpose that shapes the fabric of every created nature.

But Wright seems to see both as life - giving affirmations of God's love for creation and his undeterred purpose of restoring all things to himself.

The analogy of being is not an analogy of inequality, as if God and creation could be compared even if only for the purpose of demonstrating how dissimilar they are.

In the Bible such constraints are conventionally attributed to «the world» in the pejorative sense of that term, which we may define as the world of the creation reduced by the purposes of any of the forms of selfishness.

«The creation of these stars is for three purposes, i.e. as decoration of the (nearest) heaven, as missiles to hit the devils, and as signs to guide travelers.

The Christian approach would ideally include the desire to uncover and probe the goodness, beauty and divine purpose of creation, as well as an emphasis upon the pre-eminence of love among men and the dire effects of sin on creation in general (see Romans 8.22) and on men in particular.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.

a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, If you believe in Jesus, you are practicing a religion.

The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).

In striking contrast are those who regard advances in natural science primarily as a deepening of insight into the wonders of God's creation, as an opportunity, therefore, to understand better the intricacies of the natural order that allow the purposes of that creation to be realized.

In the meantime, I offer you (and all other worshippers of the natural creation that evidences a Creator whom you have, for all intents and purposes, crucified) the opportunity in print to, as Jesus said, «repent or perish», and to change the direction of your «faith» from trusting in God - hating man (ultimately yourself) and trust in Jesus not religion.

But Christianity contains more positive attitudes as well, including biblical affirmations of the human body — evident in the creation story, the concept of the incarnation and the Roman Catholic notion of the unitive purposes of sexuality.

I am thinking that if we were as consistent with our vision of God's purpose for creation they could not accuse God of poor communication skills.

The evolution of man is built into the order and development of the universe as its purpose, for with man creation passes to a higher order of being.

It has affected how man understands the origin of life (including his own) on this planet, and Christianity has had to contend with, account for, and reconcile its implications with the biblical narrative of creation and purpose as stemming from God.

In the Old Testament, the word EZER appears 21 times in 3 different contexts: the creation of women, when Israel applied for military aid, and in reference to God as Israel's helper for military purposes.

Humanity is seen as the real purpose of creation, the only real object of God's love.

He taught that creation and incarnation both declare «the thing - character of the creature and its general purpose of service to man».16 «Everything in the world is more and more subject to total domination by him and appears as derived directly from him.

Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.

We need to show that God's nature is such that He does not need to come into our world, whilst at the same time the purpose and nature of his creation is such that it does need Him to come into it, not as a natural «potential» of it, but as its actual destiny and fulfilment.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

The experts gaze in dismay at this economic apparatus, their own creation, which instead of absorbing all the units of human energy with which they furnish it rejects an increasing number, as though the machine they devised were working to defeat their purpose.

He is not simply a mental concept devised by man for his own purposes, but rather he is inescapable as the supreme (I repeat, not the only) «cause» in the total process of creation and in every moment within that process.

The purpose of the meeting is described on the conference website: «within the complex and multifaceted issue of the Science / Faith relationship, this event focuses on the possibility of reconcilingin the same philosophical position the «Creation» and «Evolution'thinking, without frst pretending to be a scientifc theory or secondly being affrmed as a dogma.»

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

By contrast, if we acknowledge God as Creator, we can receive creation as a gift and see that «the ultimate purpose of other creatures is not found in us.»

This destiny is seen as the consummation of the creation and as the realization of the divine purpose for the world.

RELIGION = a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency, THAT rules out a Atheist having religion

In today's One Verse Podcast, you will see why we can not read Genesis 1:14 - 19 as a scientific explanation of how the sun, moon, and stars came to be, and you will also learn from the text what three purposes these celestial lights serve in God's creation.

In this episode of the One Verse Podcast, you will see why we can not read Genesis 1:14 - 19 as a scientific explanation of how the sun, moon, and stars came to be, and you will also learn from the text what three purposes these celestial lights serve in God's creation.

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Can we not be persuaded to believe that specks of consciousness on this little planet can not, in all reasonableness, be thought of as accurate critics of the total purpose behind creation?

And in accomplishing the divine purpose, there is complete respect for, and a valuing and employment of, the creation's own dignity and freedom, its responsibility for decisions, and its capacity to act as a genuine cause in the total advance.

God intended equality among men; but «private property, slavery, imperialism, the State itself, appear in post-Fall society as regulations of God to preserve nature, which is always being disrupted by sin».26 Justice thus appears as the rough, necessary, coerced order of human societies which is not wholly antithetical to love, since it serves the purpose of God in the creation and history.

Or, to take a much better illustration for our purposes, one may accept as true the story of man's creation and fall, as found in Gen. 1 - 3, without supposing for a moment that those chapters give us an accurate account of an actual happening.

Christian thought has traditionally, of necessity, defined evil as a privation of the good, possessing no essence or nature of its own, a purely parasitic corruption of reality; hence it can have no positive role to play in God's determination of Himself or purpose for His creatures (even if by economy God can bring good from evil); it can in no way supply any imagined deficiency in God's or creation's goodness.

It is an image of the world as organically related to God who provides the purposes and values of creation moment by moment, yet leaves the creation with its degree of freedom and self - determination.

But maturity demands sexual behavior that is motivated by respect for persons, even in psychoanalytic terms, a significant testimony to the purpose of sex as it is rooted in the nature of man, which is in turn grounded in the reality of creation.10

Again, the insistence on the societal nature of the world, and on man's genuine participation since he himself is organic to that world, illuminates the Christian belief that man belongs to the creation and that the whole natural order, as well as human history and personal experience, is integral to the purpose of God.

We say that Christ is «the key, the centre and the purpose of the whole of human history» (Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, n. 10), as well as unlocking the very meaning of all creation.

As Hartshorne has insisted, God is not made more divine by that satisfaction, but his deity is given a real enhancement and a genuine delight by what happens in creation; furthermore, the implementation of his purposes is made fuller by these happenings.

HA25, if you will read verses 14 - 16 in the first chapter of Genesis, the same first page you are speaking about, God clearly explains that the creation of two «great luminaries» were also for the purpose of serving as signs for seasons, and for days and for years, as well as actually perpetually dividing day and night.

Religion — «a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.»

This was God's action, disclosing his nature and purpose - his nature as Lord of creation, and his purpose to make of Israel a people.

He will lead them to see the inadequacy of their own standards of behavior by showing them God's purpose for his creation and for them as his creatures.